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David, what's on your mind today?

I was listening, you know, I hate to pull back the curtain for those that don't want to

have the curtain pulled back.

I don't want to see Oz and his underwear or whatever, but I was finally listening to

your interview with Bill Walton and I didn't get a chance to talk to you better on the

air.

So I was saving it from when we got here.

Am I was I wrong when I was listening to it and occasionally checking the time on my

iPhone or was your, did you ask one question that then led to a 45 minute monologue?

Like is that, was that pretty much what that interview, how that interview started off?

That is absolutely right.

And the first question was we were doing a revisit of David Halberstam's The Breaks of the

Game.

And my first question was Bill, how'd you first meet David Halberstam?

And then I had all these questions laid out here on my Google Doc.

It was going to take readers through and all the stuff, you know, what kinds of questions

are the ask?

Where did he interview you?

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