This is the Dream Team Tapes, a diversion podcast's original series in association with IHeart Radio.

This is the story of the United States Olympic basketball team that won gold in Barcelona in 1992,

known worldwide as the Dream Team.

Millions of Americans own a personal computer.

If you're one of them, you can now glimpse the future

with nothing more than a modem, a phone line,

and a few dollars a month.

That little mark with the A and then the ring around it.

At?

See, that's what I said.

Katie said she thought it was about.

Yeah.

Oh.

But I've never heard it.

I've never heard it said. I'd always seen the mark, but never heard it said. And then it sounded stupid when I said it, violence at NBC. So why did I choose to open episode three of the Dream Team tapes by making fun of Brian

Gumbull, Katie Couric, and Elizabeth Fargus, all of whom are infinitely more famous than I

on a 1994 episode of the Today Show? Beyond the fact, of course, that it's a lot of fun.

Now, let me note that the first time I had a flip phone,

I got 37 calls before I found out you had to actually flip the phone open to answer them.

So maybe I'm not the guy to be making fun here. But I have a point. Twenty-eight years after

the dream team began to be put together, one of my most vivid memories was how, for one

of a better word, quietly it all came together. That's the only description I would give to the

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