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Theres an electricity to his voluminous output, equal parts chaos, anarchy, and sheer energy.
You get the sense that he just wants things to be better than they are.
Both productions make their debuts this week.
Between the popularity ofBinge Mode and winning an Emmy forNBA Desktop, your options seemed pretty open.
What drew you to Crooked Media?
And the more I thought about it, the more perfect it seemed.
So youve gotTakeline, a sports podcast with Renee Montgomery, and a video series calledALL CAPS NBA.
Will you be working on anything else at Crooked besides sports?
Were going to do those things in a way thats singular to Crooked.
The brand is going to be the same.
How do you balance staying up to date with everything at once?
Then well record, and that will take about an hour, maybe an hour and a half.
Then the video team goes away and starts working on the first cut.
Thats when Ill transition to NBA games.
Im on the West Coast, so that probably starts around four oclock.
Then I would go to bed.
You have a reputation for having mastered the art of the take.
Give me a peek at the take-making process: Do you usually write your takes down?
How do you typically conceptualize a take?
I attempt to go to the theoretical edge of what that take actually is.
So, somewhere between surreality and reality?
Right, something like that.
Its like the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House on the same plane.
They should not have let him do that dunk.
obi, randle, and obi’s dad all could’ve been injured.
that was too much risk.
Is that a ridiculous stance?
But also, I do kind of believe it.
Whats your relationship with that feeling?
You know, before the pandemic, I strongly believed that all of this doesnt matter.
Sports are obviously a construct.
And I guess Ive come to recalibrate what I feel is the value of sports in society.
We live in this extremely polarized world, right?
Were divided economically, were divided by who has the privilege to not go into a public workplace.
Thats the one place Im most likely to engage in a conversation with someone who directly disagrees with me.
Culture is a reflection of what society thinks is valuable and worthwhile, right?
Theres something worthwhile in thinking about the vast world-dominating popularity ofEndgame.
Sports is worth consideration in the same way.
Lets wrap up with a question aboutBingeMode.
You just finished your run on that podcast last month.
When you look back on your work there, what are you going to remember the most?
I think the way people responded toBinge Modewas such a surprise.
Its an incredible blessing.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
