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The Skip Bayless Show

First Take

The Skip Bayless Show

West Coast Sports Broadcasting

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.5915 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Skip Bayless details the early days and launch of "First Take" and why the plug was almost pulled on the show that set the footprint for what would become Undisputed on FS1. Skip goes on to discuss why he's offended by the Wemby//LeBron debut comparisons and addresses whether he's a "delusional" Cowboy fan. Undisputed returns August 28th on FS1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm relentless can you feel this I'm going all in it's time to cash in one moment in time

0:08.8

let's get at this be tremendous relentless I'm relentless Be tremendous. Relentless.

0:14.0

I'm relentless.

0:20.0

Here we go. This is the Skip Baylor show, episode 72. As always, this is the Unundisisputed everything I cannot share with you during

0:37.0

undisputed which will return with nuclear force on August 28th on today's

0:44.3

today's show I will tell you what to me anyway are several

0:50.0

astonishing stories about my early days in television and how close we came

0:55.8

to there being no first take which would have meant there would be no

1:01.1

undisputed which will return on August 28th.

1:05.0

Today I will tell you what I was in awe about and what I was scared about as I watched Victor Wymbonyama's two-game

1:19.7

NBA debut in the Summer League. Today, I B. in detail why I'm just a sucker for these summer blockbusters I'm there and as

1:37.6

always I will answer several of your provocative questions including one about,

1:42.8

would Michael Jordan have been good at debating?

1:46.5

No.

1:47.6

I'll answer that in just a moment.

1:49.3

First up, as always, it is not to be skipped.

1:54.8

Did an interview over the weekend with the athletic for a story about the early days of first take.

2:08.4

The story that's now out on as they say the news stands. You can call it up and read it if you so choose. I was blessed to be a pretty important part of the rise of that show and of the TV

2:18.1

debate genre in general I was in the eye of those storms.

2:24.4

I bring this up now because the writer who interviewed me

2:27.3

over the weekend, Stephen J. Nesbitt,

2:30.0

asked me a lot of good questions.

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