Make My Day Episode 10: A Perfect Villain with Zach Lowe

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

ESPN Senior Writer and host of the Lowe Post podcast Zach Lowe competes to cheer Josh up! Zach outlines his dream plan for owning an NBA franchise in a game of Hoop Dreams. We hear how he'd make his billion dollars and the lengths he'd go to to give his team a competitive edge. In the end, Zach sets the Make My Day all time high score and wins $100 for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, just like Starlee Kine did last week. Plus, pep talks for terrible pickup basketball players and parents of only-children! Donate to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman. No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:10.0	The world is a bad place, and we try to make it a little more fun for about half an hour every week.
0:14.4	The way it works is I play a game with one guest who is guaranteed to win because they're the only contestant.
0:18.8	I assign them points for every question I ask based on how much they cheer me up specifically. The winner and only contestant at the end
0:25.1	gives a pep talk to cheer up the person of their choice or the group of their choice, because
0:28.6	this isn't all about me, it's just mostly about me. They also win a $100 donation to the cause
0:34.1	of their choice. My guest today is a senior writer for ESPN and the host of The Low Post,
0:38.9	my personal favorite basketball podcast.
0:40.9	Welcome to Make My Day, Zach Lowe.
0:42.7	I'm thrilled.
0:43.6	I'm so excited to have, I need the same distraction.
0:46.1	We all need some fun, some good times.
0:49.1	Thank you.
0:49.6	Thanks for being here.
0:50.9	How are you holding up covering,
0:53.2	at the moment we're recording, there's no
0:55.0	basketball happening, but you're still reporting on podcasting on basketball. How are you holding up?
1:00.8	Yeah, everyone, all my friends who don't really know how the sports business works are like,
1:04.6	wow, you must have nothing to do. Are you working out five times a day? Or you, you know,
1:09.0	like, no, I'm super busy. And like, whether the NBA comes back or not is a big story.
1:13.7	We all just, we were just talking about how we've been living in the 90s.
1:16.2	And I wrote a bunch of Bulls, 90s' content that was super fun to write about.
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