'Getting our version of this' never works; talent fails out of context
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Like you've taken Stephen A. Smith out of ESPN, out of predominantly a sports mindset where he can sort of safely venture off into political commentary, but using sports as this launchpad. And now you take you take him out of there and you stick him purely in a political realm. Yeah, it fails immediately.
Episode 205: Podscape (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:15:46 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Whenever a company says 'let's get our version of this,' it never works. Dave says you pull talent out of the milieu where they thrive, like taking Stephen A. Smith out of a sports framing that let him venture into politics and making him purely political, and it fails immediately.
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Episode 205: Podscape (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:14:57 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Because the thing whenever you say, hey, we're going to go get our version of this. It doesn't matter what sphere it's in.
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