PTFO - How Muhammad Ali’s Grammy-Nominated Comedy Album Changed Everything

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Float like a butterfly, sting like... a standup comic? Sixty years ago, long before the current golden age of smack talk, a 21-year-old Cassius Clay was nominated for a Grammy, for what should be considered the first diss album — a poetic, heavyweight takedown of Sonny Liston in the lead-up to their epic 1964 title bout. Andscape's Justin Tinsley tracks how this forgotten record led to the name Muhammad Ali, to national conversations around Black Muslims, to Ali protesting the Vietnam War, even to the birth of hip-hop... and the prevention of tooth decay. Further reading: The Grammy-nominated Cassius Clay (Andscape) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	Hey, aren't you Mahama Ali?
0:09.0	Yes indeed, that's who I am.
0:12.0	Wow! the greatest!
0:15.0	Right after this ad.
0:16.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. That was
0:34.0	terrible.
0:38.0	just keep this part in.
0:39.0	It just did it late this part in.
0:40.0	Try it, try again.
0:42.0	Alright here we go. That was slightly better.
0:44.7	Slightly better.
0:45.8	I could talk shit about your clapping ability
0:49.6	for a very long time.
0:50.4	Well don't.
0:51.4	But it reminds me of what we're here to talk about today, which is that this is allegedly, Cortez, the golden age of talking shit.
1:00.0	Yes, it is the golden age of talking shit. You know what I think of when I think of that?
1:04.8	I have a guess. It involves the real housewives of Salt Lake City, of course it's.
1:09.2	Because on the reunion lake... I can't believe you're starting with this.
1:11.9	Actually, I can. Of course I can't believe that. You said trash talk. I can't believe you're starting with this. Actually I can, of course I can't believe.
1:13.4	You said trash talk, I'm bringing you the goat trash talk right now.
1:16.5	Her name's Monica Garcia.
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