The Jim Jackson Show: Spike Lee

The Rich Eisen Show

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Please check out other RES productions: Overreaction Monday: http://apple.co/overreactionmonday What the Football with Suzy Shuster and Amy Trask: http://apple.co/whatthefootball The Jim Jackson Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-jackson-show/id1770609432 No-Contest Wrestling with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-contest-wrestling/id1771450708 -------- Die-hard Knicks fan Spike Lee joins the show to discuss his New York fandom and legendary filmmaking career. Spike reveals which movies were most impactful to him, why he thinks Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of our time, what has been the key to his success, and will he live to see his beloved Knicks win the NBA Championship. Jim reveals to Spike how Phil Jackson used one of his films to motivate the Lakers during their 2006 Playoff series against Phoenix. Additionally, Spike reveals who he wanted to audition for the role of Jesus Shuttlesworth in “He Got Game” before Ray Allen was cast and how the movie was originally scripted to end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome, another edition of the Jim Jackson Show.
0:11.7	You can follow the show, of course, at Jim Jackson Show on IG, also YouTube.com
0:18.0	slash Rich Eisen's show or wherever you download your favorite podcast.
0:23.3	Another beautiful day, a little rainy in L.A., but another opportunity to come and speak to the audience to my good friends.
0:32.0	But listen, I wanted to talk about this near the end of the year.
0:35.1	March Madness is around the corner, getting ready for Big
0:37.5	East Tournament, Big Ten Tournament, ACC tournaments, and then roll it into, you know, March
0:44.0	Madness, which is by far one of the best times of the year. Sometimes I wish I can go to Vegas
0:50.8	just to watch it, but I'll be calling a lot of the games for T&T this year.
0:55.6	So make sure you tune in to that.
0:57.5	But one thing I wanted to say about this year, and this is the open,
1:00.6	and we're going to go into my other stuff,
1:02.0	is that this year feels a little bit different in college basketball.
1:06.8	One, because of NIL, two, because of the transfer portal.
1:10.6	Three, the SEC has kind of dominated college basketball, not college football,
1:16.1	college basketball through the course of the year, Texas A&M.
1:19.6	It was Tennessee, Auburn, Alabama, teams of that nature, even Kentucky up in there.
1:25.6	But it feels different because you don't have, even though Duke is right there.
1:29.7	Duke, I think, has a chance to really do something special because of the size they possess,
1:35.3	because of the coaching, but also they have an NBA player, an all phenomenal player with Cooper Flagg.
1:41.7	But it just seems like it's more wide open, because you just really don't know.
1:45.4	And the part of that is because of the transfer portal.
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