Charles Barkley

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

NBA legend Charles Barkley became addicted to movies as a rookie, when he'd sneak into theaters to escape the limelight for a couple of hours. By the time he changed careers from baller to broadcaster, he was a bonafide film buff, with strong opinions on all kinds of movies. In this hilarious episode, Sir Charles talks to Ben Mankiewicz about the similarities between a film crew and a basketball team, the secret to hosting Saturday Night Live, and the courtroom classic that never fails to make him laugh. Films Mentioned: Space Jam Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi A Quiet Place All the Way* The Beekeeper Jaws Arsenic and Old Lace It Happened One Night Gladiator Any Given Sunday Die Hard Live Free or Die Hard My Cousin Vinny A Bronx Tale Pulp Fiction Malcolm X The Karate Kid Stripes Taps Taxi Driver Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Ten Commandments Ben-Hur In the Heat of the Night Brian's Song Field of Dreams The Sixth Sense Dirty Harry Rawhide *Available on Max as of 01/21 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I love going to the theater.
0:02.8	Number one, the popcorn.
0:04.8	You've got to have the popcorn.
0:06.5	And I tell you what's really funny.
0:08.6	There's nothing worse than going to a theater that has shitty popcorn.
0:12.1	That ruins the whole experience.
0:14.4	Yeah, totally.
0:15.3	I became like an expert on which movie theaters to go to on who had the best popcorn.
0:22.6	That's a thing of beauty. Charles Barclay is so much more than one of the greatest players in NBA history.
0:28.6	Sure, he's an 11-time All-Star, but he's also a five-time Emmy winner.
0:34.6	And now we can add to the list, movie theater popcorn connoisseur.
0:40.3	Barclay got his start in the NBA at 21 in 1984, the fifth pick of the draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
0:49.3	Barclay quickly became a star and developed a reputation for speaking his mind.
0:55.7	His rough, almost combative playing style, along with his bad boy persona,
1:00.7	made him one of the league's most popular players.
1:03.9	In 1992, Philadelphia traded Barclay to the Phoenix Suns.
1:08.5	In his first year there, he won the league's MVP and led the
1:13.3	sons to the NBA finals. He won gold twice at the Olympics, first in 1992 as part of the dream team
1:21.6	alongside Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scotty Pippen, and Michael Jordan. The Dream Team went undefeated.
1:29.8	In 1996, Barkley appeared as himself in the granddaddy of all basketball movies, Space Jam.
1:37.7	After retiring from the NBA in 2000, Barclay went into sports broadcasting.
1:44.0	He's arguably better at that than he was at basketball.
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