Jon Talks With Steve Kerr: The Nicest, Whitest Man in Basketball
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Steve Kerr thinks he’s here to talk with Jon about his career, speaking out on social issues, and the racial and political dynamics of the NBA. And he does get to talk about those things, but not before enduring Jon’s pleas for him to coach the Knicks. Staff writers Jay and Henrik offer some color commentary as well.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Jay Jurden, Henrik Blix, Steve Kerr
Executive Produced by: Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos, Zach Silberberg
Sound Designer & Audio Engineer: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Chelsea Devantez
Elements Producer: Kenneth Hull
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Anne Bennett, Deniz Çam, Harjyot Ron Singh
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you been working on your Steve Kerr impression? |
| 0:02.0 | I think. |
| 0:04.1 | No, Henrik has. |
| 0:05.5 | No, I did. |
| 0:07.6 | You used to watch a Steve Kerr shooting instructional video |
| 0:11.2 | on YouTube. |
| 0:12.1 | Oh my God. |
| 0:13.3 | To work on my jumpsuit. |
| 0:14.1 | What's the one thing that you remember from that video? |
| 0:16.5 | So there's a guys who their motion starts |
| 0:19.2 | like at the top of their jump |
| 0:20.4 | and there's guys who like their whole body gets into it |
| 0:22.4 | and he's a whole body guy. |
| 0:23.4 | Whole body is old school. |
| 0:24.2 | If you watch the old 40s and 50s, |
| 0:26.5 | they never shot the shot from their knees. |
| 0:28.8 | They would bring it up and roll it. |
| 0:30.6 | And then it was years later where guys would be like, |
| 0:32.9 | you know, I'm strong enough to hold the ball up by my head. |
| 0:36.7 | Because we got rid of polio. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | In the 60s, once we got calcium in our diets, |
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