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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Director Rob Ford and Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza on “Goliath,” a three-part documentary series examining the life, career and impact of Wilt Chamberlain

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Episode 316 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features director Rob Ford and Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza on Showtime’s three-part documentary series examining the life, career and impact of Wilt Chamberlain. The film makes its Showtime debut on July 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. In this podcast, Ford and Espinoza discuss why this was the right time to explore Wilt Chamberlain’s life and legacy; how the project was conceived; the research that goes into this kind of examination; using AI to recreate Wilt’s voice so he could narrate his own story with archival footage provided by the Wilt Chamberlain Estate; the narrative of how Chamberlain was portrayed during his playing years and why that should be reexamined; his claims of having sex with 20,000 women and how that was approached in the film; his years in Kansas and how that impacting him; how Showtime and Ford will determine success, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.

1:29.4

My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week, but one topic. We have Rob Ford and Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza. Rob Ford is the director of Goliath, a three-part documentary series, which examines the life, career, and impact of Will Chamberlain.

1:33.9

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I thought it was fantastic. It will begin to stream on Friday, July 14th, on demand for all Paramount Plus with Showtime

1:44.1

subscribers, and then it makes its on Paramount Plus with Showtime subscribers.

1:45.0

And then it makes its on-air debut on Showtime Sunday, July 16th at 10 p.m.

1:50.3

Eastern and Pacific.

1:51.6

And then episodes premiere each Sunday.

1:55.6

And so Rob Ford and Stephen F. Spinoza are my guests.

1:59.1

And we go very, very deep into the film in terms of why was this the right time to explore Will Chamberlain, how the project was conceived, the people that they wanted to talk to, and they got approvals from Will's family, they got people that Wilth was very, very close to throughout his life. And then obviously some major figures, including people Will Played with like Pat Riley, Billy Cunningham, Kevin Garnett, whose company is one of the producers of this film, talks about Wilt's Impact. And then, you know, some journalism types like Jackie McMullen, Bob, Bob Ryan, etc.

2:37.4

I should mention Jerry West as well as really, really good in this film.

2:40.3

It is, it is superbly done, and I think you're going to enjoy this conversation, just how, like, one of these really high-end docs in sports gets put together.

2:52.6

So Rob Ford and Stephen Espinoza coming up on the sports media podcast.

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