Talking Michael Jordan with Wright Thompson & Danny Parkins

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week senior writer for ESPN Wright Thompson joins former boss Chad Millman to talk Michael Jordan and the greatness of the '90s Chicago Bulls. Years ago Thompson wrote one of the seminal articles portraying Jordan's tortured life post-basketball. Today, as a highly-anticipated documentary series covering the '98 Bulls is set for release shortly, he shares his thoughts on everything from Jordan's evolving views of his own greatness, to Kobe Bryant and the timeless appeal of the Bulls' starting lineup music. Later in the show, Chad is joined by fellow Windy City native Danny Parkins, preeminent Chicago sports radio host at 670 The Score, to talk Bulls, debate the next Chicago sports champion, and why growing quarantine facial hair is always in fashion. Plus, Parkins shares the simple, generous way he's been making an impact online in the last few weeks. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the Action Network network I am Chad Nomen chief content
0:14.6	officer of the action network a very special podcast today later on in the show
0:20.0	we're going to bring in Danny Parkins co-host of McNeil and Parkins the afternoon show in Chicago on 670 to score.
0:28.3	He was also a co-host of You Better You Betts, the Betting F focused show on radio.com which I appeared on during the NFL
0:36.6	post season more importantly Danny is doing one of the best things anyone with a
0:41.6	platform can do raising money on his own for victims of COVID, people
0:47.1	who are out of work, people struggling to feed themselves, their families, recovering.
0:51.9	It's ridiculously easy what he's doing. We should all be taking part.
0:55.4	He also happens to be massive Chicago sports fans. But first, this week ESPAN is launching its
1:01.5	massive documentary series
1:02.9	about Michael Tori.
1:04.6	My guest right now, Wright Thompson, ESPN's
1:08.2	award-winning senior writer.
1:10.6	Seven years ago, you wrote a story about Michael Jordan turning 50 it doesn't seem like
1:14.8	it was that long yeah it doesn't you were my Boston you weren't the chief
1:19.3	content officer of the action network so It's a long time ago.
1:22.8	I was your boss then, and here's how good I was
1:24.8	at being your boss and identifying stories back then.
1:27.5	Your story came in late in the closed cycle of a magazine
1:31.8	and we had no idea when it was coming in we had no idea
1:34.9	it was going to be any good so we had budgeted two pages for the story and we
1:39.7	figured like if it came in like at the last second we try to cobble together you know
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