Live from SXSW: Jordan vs LeBron, and a Discussion on the Sports Media Industry | Recorded 3.9

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Sports, Music, News

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Sportico stage at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Bomani Jones discusses his recent Twitter debate surrounding Michael Jordan and LeBron James, after Gen Z basketball fans tried to argue Jordan couldn't go left. (1:50) Then Bomani gives his point of view on the current landscape of sports media; why the athlete podcast space is currently over saturated and why there's a wide gap between professional talents and athletes, when it comes to hosting podcasts. (14:25) And finally, our IYHH segment (36:40) and live audience questions. (46:21) . . . Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: https://hoo.be/righttimebomani Support the Show: PrizePicks: Daily Fantasy Made Easy! Visit PrizePicks.com/BOMANI and use code BOMANI for a first deposit match up to $100! Download the Viator app NOW and use code VIATOR10 for 10% off your first booking in the app. Go to LIQUID IV.COM and use code BOMANI at checkout for 20% your first order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the right time a wave sports and entertainment original presented by Picks. My name is
0:14.2	Boermani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for
0:17.6	watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us. Give us five stars. You only give us four stars I'm inclined to believe.
0:24.4	You are a hater and thanks to everyone here at Austin at South by Southwest joining us.
0:29.2	Sean sitting here actually with me on the camera this time?
0:32.3	Yeah we we do the show remotely, Bo's in New York,
0:35.2	I'm in LA, so this is a very special, I think moment.
0:38.6	But also, you know, thanks to all the people at Sportico
0:40.9	for the hospitality and we're just excited to be here.
0:43.0	Yeah and Sean's here for like the 48 hours of my life that I have felt older than I have ever felt.
0:48.9	The most recent part of feeling older than I've ever felt we go to dinner last night.
0:53.2	You gotta understand man, I'm not saying this as a flex, it's just an understanding of who I am.
0:57.2	I graduated from high school when I was 16, I graduated from college when I was 20, like I've
1:01.5	been like the young person everywhere I went. We went to
1:04.5	dinner last night. It was six people there and not only was I the third tallest.
1:09.1	I was the... How was that? Four years older than everybody yeah it was a lot of
1:15.0	thirty-nine's and then and then you why you say it like that oh I was the youngest so I was just
1:20.8	I was just I was just drifting off into the shadows but it was everywhere like it was that it was to the point where I was really having to make to like ask the question of myself of can I afford to make this reference and will anybody know what it is that I'm talking about. The when you found out you were the oldest, the wind in your sails kind of just disappeared.
1:37.0	Well, yeah, and then it got worse because y'all just kept talking about it.
1:41.0	Like it then, it then became the subject was the fact that I'm the oldest person.
1:45.9	And again, a good four years over every single person that was there.
1:50.8	That's a full high school or college term.
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