FreeDarko Presents: The Disciples Of Clyde NBA Podcast

 

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Dan is joined by Rafe Bartholomew, author of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball about the book, the Philippines basketball culture, and many other interesting topics that have nothing to do with one player and what team he may or may not play for.

Songs from the episode:

“Comin’ At You” - Monster Island Czars
“Ain’t it Good To You” - Ultramagnetic MC’s

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Dan is re-joined by Bethlehem Shoals to catch up about life and the playoffs.

Of course there’s talk of LeBron’s No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Game. Along with the relative value of Twitter, go-to guys, and a long and winding (what else?) discussion of cliche in sports.

It’s a long episode, sure, but we haven’t done one in a couple of weeks. So if you take the average, we still owe you like half an episode. We’ll send you that one in the mail. Just send us a self-addressed stamped envelope and a Cheesecake Factory napkin autographed by Larry Hughes.

Songs from the episode:

“Fast and Delirious” - Lindstrom
“The Harder They Come” - Jimmy Cliff
“Power of Independent Trucking” - Big Black
“Whip You With A Strap” - Ghostface Killah
“Leave Me Alone So I Can Rock Again” - John Spencer Blues Explosion
“I Learned The Hard Way” - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

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And that’s all I have to say about that.

 

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Dan Filowitz got to combine two of his most geekiest passions: the NBA and music.

So, behold, The Disciples of Clyde with Today’s Man, with the first ever NBA preview song inspired by Slint.

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Today’s Man is Anup Gurnani, Nithin Kalvakota, and Gregoire Yeche.

Due to a faulty home internet connection at the Disciples of Clyde recording studio (aka my apartment) there isn’t going to be a show this week.

I’m going to go attempt not to yell at Comcast and get this thing fixed up nice. Until then, please enjoy this video.

Inspired by other geniuses, Dan Filowitz tries his hand at one of these xtranormal.com movies. Enjoy!

URL: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6176345

You can now follow Dan Filowitz on Twitter, in case hearing him talk for an hour a week isn’t enough for you.

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For reasons best left unexplained, I was reading old Sports Illustrated articles today, and came across the following quote from a 1967 column by Frank Deford.  While in Lawrence, Kansas, Deford ends up talking to Phog Allen, who says this:

All through the land, no matter how small the town, a basketball gym became like a city hall, like a community meeting place. That’s part of it, and the game. It’s artistic, fast, and clever. It has action and scoring. That’s what people want. And then there’s the emotion. There’s so much that I don’t think people can ever appreciate it in the right way. There’s just so much emotion.

Phog Allen knew it in 1967 as much as we do today. It’s a great time to love basketball, and it always has been.

Have a safe, happy, and healthy New Year, everyone!

 

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Ken and Dan managed to record another episode this off-season despite a baby about to be born and a brain about to die.

In this episode:

• Actual basketball talk, featuring Ramon Sessions
• A new sitcom pilot by Ken and Dan
• Another look at some players from the past you don’t hear much about these days
• In regards to the article on The Painted Area, does there need to be an NBA-only Hall of Fame?
• And, of course, Scarlett Johansenn’s sex tape!

Songs from this episode:

“Tronic Summer” - Black Milk
“Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)” - The Yardbirds
“The Payoff Mix” - Double Dee and Steinski
“Yessir!” - DOOM featuring Raekwon
“Watch the Sunrise” - Big Star
Sitcom Theme Music: “Funky Drummer” - James Brown

 

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In this episode, Ken and Dan are joined by Ken’s college friend Andy Manoff, who spent a year in Ethiopia and ended up teaching girls to play basketball.  Not a euphemism.  Also, Andy has a story about reading a book near an NBA player, which leads to a larger discussion of NBA books/movies (including this fine book by Alexander Wolff).

Also, Dan finds out he has a surprising number of songs with “Africa” in the title:

“Ball of Fire” - Israel Vibration
“African Children” - Aswad
“Africa Center of the World” - Fela Kuti
“African Walk (Zamunda)” - Madlib
“African Woman” - Burning Spear
“Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa” - Sly and the Family Stone