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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

“Air” review: Nike’s historic pursuit of Michael Jordan

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Amazon Studios offers up an all-star telling of how a young Michael Jordan (and his mom) were convinced to sign a game-changing deal that created maybe the most iconic footwear in sports history.

Dean Saddoris joined us for this one. You can find Dean on IG @deansaddoris.ck and at caffeineandkilos.com

Listener resources: More about Air on IMDB.

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Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) https://www.instagram.com/silentmikke/ and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). https://www.instagram.com/thejimmcd/ Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Long time no see. I know. With Dean Sadoras, caffeine and kilos. Was there any movies? Maybe

0:44.9

there's no good movies. You know, I was shocked about how quick this one went to prime.

0:49.9

I was stoked when that's called. That's cool. The deal was it was originally just going

0:54.6

to go to prime. I saw that. Then they realized it had some potential. Amazon, like every other

1:02.8

streaming service is trying to figure it out at this point. They made this one, right?

1:06.0

They're still trying. That's where I met when I saw that. When it was starting up, the

1:10.0

intro, it was Amazon, Studiants, whatever. I was born and decent.

1:15.0

You could be pretend to start off this show. Really? You got Nike in your blood. We're

1:20.2

on the same era too. I mean, I was born in 88. Yeah. Yeah. This is like what?

1:26.0

84, 83. 84 is when he was drafted. The 84, 85 was his first year. And then obviously

1:35.2

the success was over a night. Yeah. Yeah. If you read the title, we're talking about air,

1:40.2

the story. You got them. Do you do a lot on purpose? I didn't even think about it. I

1:45.5

should have. I'm an idiot. The story of Michael Jordan came to Nike. Yeah, I just threw

1:49.4

them on. I didn't even think. Yeah, I did it on purpose. Yeah, you got the real ones.

1:53.2

I got the pink boys. 2015's version. Yeah, but the iconic Chicago. Chicago one.

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