Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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40 published records
01 / recommendation
“I like Fillmore East a lot, a kind of souped up Bitches Brew. Sketches of Spain, the whole Jack Johnson, that ambient period.”
02 / recommendation
“I’ve read most of these in the ’70s and ’80s, starting with — well, when I was in high school, we read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and then as an adult, I read everything that he’s written just about.”
03 / belief
“I think people like Cornel, their frustration and anger at that type of hypocrisy and betrayal is really what motivates them.”
04 / belief
“You gave some instruction to Joakim Noah over the last year. He’s injured right now, I believe.”
05 / belief
“Jeez, I would say that Tim Duncan has had a better career just because they’ve been able to win more consistently, and they didn’t have to rely on Tim all the time.”
06 / belief
“I would make him do the fundamentals every day before practice, and he just thought it was boring, but now that he’s not getting paid like he was, I think he might have a different opinion about that, but it’s too late now.”
07 / belief
“You have to go and experience some of the different martial arts and take from them what you can that works for you personally. I think that is the way people train now.”
08 / belief
“What accounts for that difference in the two of you? I believe you knew him, even.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I don’t know if I’ve gotten everything. I certainly would not have the nerve to think that everybody here doesn’t get something that I got.”
10 / belief
“If you look back on your life, all the different things you’ve done, and you had to sum up, what’s the underlying unity in all the different phases of your career — hanging out with jazz musicians as a kid, listening to racine, playing with John Wooden, winning so many NBA titles, MVP awards, writing, I think, 11 books.”
11 / belief
“I think the war on drugs was racist. I don’t think it’s the same now. People are starting to see that drug addiction can affect any and everybody.”
12 / belief
“Oh, I think Michael Jackson certainly deserves all the credit he got. He was an incredible performer.”
13 / belief
“A second question if you don’t mind. I do recall, I think, that Dr. J actually did block the skyhook once.”
14 / belief
“Let me try a few questions about religion, and Islam in particular. If I think of Islam, this is what I see.”
15 / belief
“You’ve in some regards spoken out on behalf of Bernie Sanders, I think mostly on economic issues.”
16 / belief
“I think that the American model is the best in the world but in order to get everybody involved in it we have to have it open to everyone.”
17 / belief
“I think he has really continued the tradition of Bruce Lee in another way in that he has continued to make the martial arts popular and have kids realize that they too can be close to superheroes.”
18 / belief
“I think people’s lives should be given the priority in how to solve this problem — getting people off of these things and understanding that it’s very detrimental to their future.”
19 / belief
“In my view, there’s something especially noble to a performance which in a way was maybe in a hopeless setting, but I’ve always admired that game of yours more than a lot of the victories.”
20 / belief
“I think people who don’t like to compete against minorities and women do the complaining, because prior to that point they had priority.”
21 / belief
“I would say to them that, unless they understand history — and I’m stealing again — they will be condemned to repeating it, which hasn’t gone that well for most human beings.”
22 / belief
“George Mason came out, I think, as the second most mixed ethnically, racially, and otherwise university in the whole country.”
23 / belief
“Here’s a guy, I think he was from Harlem way back when. He’s called Earl “The Goat” Manigault, and he never really made it to the NBA, but many people claim that if he had, he would’ve just been a brilliant, fantastic player.”
24 / belief
“People from both of those groups play on that one album, and all of the cuts are awesome, so I would say that that’s probably the best one that does not get very much attention.”
25 / observation
“Everybody else can go to hell. That is really what the problem is in the Islamic world.”
26 / belief
“I think that the reason that a whole lot of great coaches haven’t come out of UCLA is the guys aren’t interested in coaching.”
27 / observation
“The Assad family, they’re not going to give up power. The only way that they will be removed from power is through military means.”
28 / belief
“If black people can go where they want to go, and no one is going to oppose them, I think that’s a good thing, and that is people making their own choices without any coercion from the law, enforcing something that some people find odious.”
29 / observation
“The way that Islam is interpreted in all of those countries really goes contrary to a lot of what the Prophet said was the way to practice Islam, and it is for that reason that it comes across so bizarrely, where people say, “Oh, we have this beautiful religion of Islam, but, yeah, we have a lot of political prisoners.”
30 / belief
“If you look at the cover, here’s your name, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and there’s the name of Mycroft Holmes. I think that’s on purpose.”
31 / evaluation
“” Because if you are dancing in this, it’s no longer a jazz club, it’s a dance hall, and he would have all kinds of difficult problems and get summoned by the City of New York.”
32 / evaluation
“I think that’s why their friendship is so strong because Mycroft appreciates the fact that Cyrus is a good person with a good moral center, and he accommodates him as a friend because of that.”
33 / evaluation
“I think in Islam, because you can’t depict people or animals, they put all their artistic expression into architecture and abstract art.”
34 / evaluation
“I think there’s a very conservative strain in, let’s say, the black community. But they absolutely advocate for change because things have to change in order to make success more accessible.”
35 / evaluation
““The Republican agenda seems basically indifferent to people’s hardships, but I agree with its position that handouts are not the solution to social problems.”
36 / evaluation
“I think Bill Russell certainly is not acknowledged for what he did because of the way they kept statistics.”
37 / recommendation
“I don’t know how we’re going to work on the poverty situation unless, again, the educational system is up to speed and can educate people so they can escape poverty.”
38 / evaluation
“I think that failure has led to a lot of these problems and has given rise to a segregation of schooling where you have private schools that are for wealthy white people and the public schools that have very poor teachers and very bad facilities that are for everyone else.”
39 / evaluation
“The whole idea of prophets being strangers in their own country, I think, is more or less what has happened to jazz, but I don’t think it’s dead.”
40 / recommendation
“I read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was a rookie.”