Introducing: Death At The Wing, from Adam McKay

Death on the Lot

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, History, Documentary, Film History

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Death at the Wing tells the story of a generation of rising basketball stars who fell victim to the forces that defined Ronald Reagan’s America. Hosted by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession), the first two episodes of DEATH AT THE WING arrive March 31st. From Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the early 1980s, America was undergoing a rapid and dramatic change.
0:09.0	Wealth to the top 1% was exploded.
0:12.0	Cable TV was appearing in everyone's house. And in the middle of it all, the
0:17.7	NBA was finally taking flight.
0:19.7	We rock the baby to sleep and slam. Don't. But along with this explosion of success came something else.
0:27.0	Limp I came to Boston, he did his press conference and then he went back and
0:31.0	party with some friends and didn't make it
0:33.5	until the next morning.
0:34.4	It was just absolutely stunning.
0:36.2	I'm Adam McKay.
0:37.3	I've been a basketball fan my entire life.
0:40.3	I was actually with Ricky the night he passed.
0:43.2	Everybody just stunned and couldn't believe what had happened.
0:47.4	And I've always wondered why it was that during the 1980s and early 90s.
0:53.0	So Benji was having a bad day.
0:55.1	I never thought that I was going to be in a position to use a gun.
0:58.8	So many rising basketball talents died. And then, you know, they die, it becomes almost like mythology.
1:07.8	And as we started to dig into it, we found connections and a much bigger story than I ever imagined there would be.
1:16.0	This is a series about basketball and politics, about rim rattling dunks and economics, about fast breaks and fast. about
1:23.3	raddling dunks and economics, about fast breaks and fail policy.
1:26.7	It's about an American decade that I still think to this day we don't fully understand.
1:32.2	The 1980s, the beginning of the Reagan
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