NBA/Tech/China podcaster Andrew Sharp is here to “see where the takes take us,” and I love where it goes.

* Is Andrew buying or selling the future of BlueSky?

* The Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight

* What is Netflix’s sleazy strategy with this sort of live event?

* Andrew explains how the NBA made way more TV money while in viewership decline

* What’s driving the NBA viewership drop? Andrew wrote a list

* Are we excited about Inside the NBA coming to ESPN? Are there downsides?

* Has the vibe shifted such that Charles Barkley can talk about San Antonio women?

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Great podcast, if we do say so ourselves…

* Did Ryan lose his life savings betting Kamala Harris on Kalshi?

* The French polymarket whale who bet on Trump using the “neighbor method”

* Has the election inspired a vibe shift in sports media?

* The Ben Strauss argument that FS1 is more woke than ESPN

* The “Democrats need a Joe Rogan” trope

* Is the “Dem-friendly Rogan Bill Simmons”?

* Is Shannon Sharpe the Dem-friendly Rogan?

* The sports journo exodus to BlueSky and why it won’t work

* I don’t think the shift to the right among Zoomers has much to do with “incels”

* Inflation or culture war: What settled the election?

Nick is back, and candid as ever. This was a wide ranging conversation, as it always is, covering sports, media and political subjects. I wonder which aspects might get aggregated…

Topics include but aren’t limited to:

* Nick says our guy Freddie deBoer is mad at him.

* I just bow down to the Kansas City Chiefs now. It’s easier.

* Has the analytics movement devalued winning?

* How does Nick feel about having a different politics than a lot of Kansas City Chiefs fans?

* Would Nick have traded another Chiefs Super Bowl for his Bears pick working out?

* How does Nick feel about having a different politics than Chiefs players?

* Is politics any kind of proxy for how good a person is?

* The NBA is flush with TV money, but is it struggling as a product? Do they need Nick’s reforms?

* The MLB has some juice right now. Can baseball be made into a national sports talk show topic?

* Can you hate your co-host and do a great sports show in the modern age?

And much more…

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