Don't Be Good – Be Great
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Michael revisits his high school days in New Orleans to tell the story of Billy Fitzgerald, the baseball coach who changed his life; and makes the case for the old-school, tough- love coaching that many parents find hard to take these days.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, this is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, director, swimmer, and I love films. |
| 0:14.0 | Come join me on my podcast, Films To Be Barried With, where I invite a special guest over, I tell them they've died, then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. |
| 0:23.0 | What films scared them the most? What made them cry the most? |
| 0:25.0 | The most, etc. At the end, they pick a film to go and their coffee and take to heaven. |
| 0:29.0 | Like, death, and movies. |
| 0:31.0 | Listen to Films To Be Barried With, with Brett Goldstein on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | The Global News Podcast from the BBC World Services. |
| 0:42.0 | What's been happening? |
| 0:43.0 | Who's involved? Why it matters? |
| 0:45.0 | What might happen next? |
| 0:47.0 | I think what the Global News Podcast does really well is pick stories about places that surprise people. |
| 0:54.0 | They try to overturn expectations. |
| 0:56.0 | New stories that perhaps you won't have heard anywhere else and the things to look out for in the future. |
| 1:01.0 | The Global News Podcast helps you catch up with our restless world in your own time. |
| 1:06.0 | Search for it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 1:12.0 | Early 1965. |
| 1:14.0 | Harold Svester was a 16-year-old basketball star in a segregated New Orleans school system. |
| 1:21.0 | He played for St. Augustine High School. |
| 1:24.0 | They were the best high school basketball team in Louisiana, at least the best in the league for black kids. |
| 1:30.0 | They never faced the white kids, so no one can actually say who was the best. |
| 1:34.0 | But the priests who ran St. August were pushing for integration. |
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