Nerder She Wrote: Sam Amick and Joe Vardon on Jordan Bell, LeBron Health, Lakers-Luke Walton, Wade
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🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Nerder She Wrote with Dave DuFour, Sam Amick and Joe Vardon.
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Produced by: Jade Hoye
Rundown:
Welcome Sam and Joe
Why The Athletic is the place to be
The importance of Podcasting
How it's different than writing
Jordan Bell suspended
Should LeBron shut it down?
Will he play over the summer?
Lakers future moves
Luke Walton future
Front office not all on same page
Ty Lue make sense?
If not Lue, then who?
Jason Kidd making it too obvious
Phil Jackson? Just kidding.
Dwyane Wade is ballin
One more year?
Old man game is strong
Podcast names for Sam and Joe show
The Influencers
Joe's political background
Obama stories
End
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the back-to-back podcast. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Thursday, and that means Nerder She Wrote. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm your host, Dave DeFore, and this week I've got special guests from the athletic, Sam Amick, and Joe Varden. |
| 0:27.8 | Guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Back to Back Podcast. |
| 0:32.4 | And feel free to welcome us to the Athletic. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to the Athletic, Dave. Thanks, thanks. No one's ever called me special before, so I appreciate that. Well, you're only special this week. So, like, when you're back next week, you don't get any of that treatment. You're going to have to do the intro. We're going to make you guys work. Well, all I can tell you is we've already been on the phone for a half hour teaching sam |
| 0:55.0 | how to plug in his microphone and i am now hungry and need to shave again so joe this is a professional |
| 1:00.8 | podcast we have to act like we didn't just spend 35 minutes talking to each other about what we're |
| 1:06.5 | going to talk about that's that that's the rule i just got a visual of Joe trying to eat while shaving, which is going to be tricky. Don't try that, buddy. Do you have to use, I think for that, you have to use like an electric shaver instead of like shaving cream. That's fair. Yeah. Shaving cream like falling on pizza. That's, that's a visual I don't want to see. It's also, it'll be eating, it'll be a pork chop, |
| 1:28.8 | which I guess I'll have to eat holding the bone, uh, leftovers from the Maverick, uh, Texas, |
| 1:34.7 | uh, brosury, uh, in San Antonio last night. So, hey, that's a great restaurant, actually. Like, |
| 1:41.0 | I love that spot. Yeah. I, you know. It's amazing that I'm here in town in San |
| 1:46.6 | Antonio and you didn't invite me out for any kind of drink or dinner. But yes, I did enjoy that. |
| 1:52.2 | I had to work last night. I had to do the Daily Ding, which you guys that are listening should all |
| 1:57.1 | subscribe, rate and review the Daily Ding, wherever you listen to podcast. |
| 2:01.3 | But, yeah, I was doing the ding last night. |
| 2:03.7 | So I was at home, you know, locked in a room watching basketball. |
| 2:08.5 | I see, well, I ordered for both of us and ate for both of us. |
| 2:11.8 | So it should be good. |
| 2:12.9 | There you go. |
| 2:13.3 | I like how that sounds. |
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