Welcome back, the et ceteras, episode 3. kick the show off with some pretty big names, pretty mysterious guys in a weird way and we're off to a great start. This week we're putting a little bit of a different twist on it. We're focusing on something that's very near and dear to both of us for

different reasons that's Slam magazine. Kay this episode comes off of a conversation you and I have where you told me that

SLAM is more important to the culture than Sports Illustrated in ESPN.

Can you explain to everybody why you feel that way?

Yeah, Slam was so important to us because it was just all basketball.

You look into Sports Illustrated, ESPN magazine,

they gave you a variety of sports, but it's somebody who just wanted to take in basketball

content, you know, Slam was that magazine for.

So from kids all way up until now made us feel

it feel a part of the game.

Yeah, I think, you know, this is like the magazine era

and we talk about it a little bit here where

how we kind of had to seek these out and for us we had the

source and later we had X X X X L it has a weird synergy with Slam and they're actually related we find out in this episode

So these things were like you know we swore about these we had these all over our house

We put these pictures on our wall. These were just part of our existence and for you as a hooper, you know, obviously you

wanted to be in this and then once upon that time I was a hooper but then later, you as a journalist it represented something else a whole

different significance so I'm with you I mean I know in my life I've had way more

slam magazines than I've ever had Sports Illustrated and

cared about who was on the cover more and who they covered in the coverage so

it felt like a good place to go for this and again it's a little bit different

we're not talking to the singular

...