Hey, what's up? It's Gustavo, and today we've got a new LA Times podcast that just launched, so we got to hype it, you know?

It's about basketball, television, history, and magic. Enjoy.

Ready for the promise letter. It's showtime.

It's showtime. I don't know why basketball can't feel like that.

To me, Dr. Bus, you do.

So I don't know if I told you this, but before I was a journalist, I was a historian.

Which means when I'm doing my work as the TV editor at the LA Times, I kind of have a

soft spot for period pieces, which is kind of why winning time, this new HBO show about

the 80s, L.A. Lakers, struck me as the perfect subject for a podcast. I mean, one, it's set in our backyard. Two, it's about this

iconic NBA franchise. And three, it's about a transformative period in American life.

There's just one problem. What's that? I don't know shit about basketball. Okay. Well,

that's why I'm here. Right, exactly. You're my basketball guy, literally a basketball guy as in a professional player.

Yeah, exactly. Thanks for saying that. You're my TV guy. And I'm glad that my decades of professional basketball experience have finally paid off.

I'm glad you're here. And I actually really do feel like the balance of our expertise is what is

going to make this podcast fun to do. That's how teams work. We're a dream team. Like the dream team?

I mean, I wish, but we're close. Okay. This is kind of perfect. TV expert, basketball expert,

TV show about basketball.

Now we'll be able to join forces to explore really every aspect of the Showtime phenomenon.

Because as we're discovering, it isn't just about what they brought to the encore play.

And it's not just about the culture that they created and that embraced them. It's about both those things together. People both in L.A. and around the

country are going to watch the show winning time. And they're going to have all these

questions that they're going to Google about like, who's Jerry Buss? Who is Claire Rothman? Why did the

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