Right Thompson, what is your relationship with the Grateful Dead's Music for you personally?

Well, I was in a van on the way to the Appalachian Trail at a trip organized by Alpine Camp for Boys,

so I would have been 14, 15.

And one of the counselors was playing American Beauty, the cassette. And I was like, what is this?

And like lots of people, especially teenagers living and what Bill Clinton calls rural

obscurity, the idea that there was this culture out there that moved across the world and traveled like gypsies or like wanderers or

trumidores or whatever the teenage me just loved that. Until 1995, they were Taylor Swift.

I mean, it was the biggest summer tour, both in terms of sort of counterculture scene of the people following the band around and the commerce of it.

I mean this wasn't like an underground thing.

I mean they were selling out big, big, big venues.

And so the best way to think of it is culturally

every year from say 1986 to 1995 they put on the arrows tour.

I ask you that because you

because you've just worked on this E-S-P-N films project with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey

Hart and in the film Mickey repeatedly says, the quote,

he who knows the rhythm knows the world.

Rhythm is one of the ordering principles of the universe and one of its greatest mysteries.

He who knows the rhythm knows the world.

So can you explain what any of this has to do with sports?

The intersection with sports is, you know, Mickey Hart's best friend in the world was our

late colleague Bill Walton.

And so they used to sit around and talk, you know, what if you replaced announcers with drums?

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