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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Malcolm Gladwell

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell joins Dan for a trip through his greatest curiosities around sports and social change in America including his new podcast "Legacy of Speed" about the 1968 Olympic protest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.6

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0:14.7

you sign up.

0:16.0

That's code Dan, only a Draft King Sportsbook.

0:19.0

This guy doesn't like it when I call him a modern day philosopher.

0:21.8

I don't know if we're allowed to have any of those anymore.

0:24.0

We call them comedians, but regardless, I've enjoyed his work for a long time.

0:28.6

And what I especially enjoy Malcolm is the discerning choices you make now on where it

0:33.0

is your curiosities lead you because you could basically find yourself anywhere, but it

0:38.5

seems to me with your choices that you're following your curiosities.

0:42.2

So when you devote yourself in a six-part podcast series to the legacy of speed, and thank

0:47.3

you for joining us as always, what is it that you're trying to accomplish?

0:51.0

Why is it that you're following this particular fuse toward the explosion?

0:54.9

I, you know, the whole series is based on, it's the story behind that iconic photograph

1:00.1

of John Carlos and Tommy Smith on the victory stand in the 1968 Olympics.

1:05.6

Tommy Smith won the 200-in-a-world record time.

1:08.6

John Carlos was third.

1:09.8

I remember that photograph as a kid as I'm sure you do too.

1:14.7

And I always, you know, I was a big track and field fan at the time, but it was more than

1:18.7

that. It was like it somehow symbolized an entire era in the civil rights movement.

1:25.8

And I never knew the story behind it.

1:29.1

And you know, I've gone my whole life with that image of my head without knowing what

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