play l play lithuania. it s still close. i m cheering for these guys. i love my country and the u.s., but i wanted lit juan ya to win the game. thank for joining us. go team lit juan ya. up next, it s happy hour here on the cycle. what your favorite beer says about your politics. i ll drink to that scientific correlation. so, we all set? i ve got two tickets to paradise! pack your bags, we ll leave tonight. uhh, it s next month, actually. eddie continues singing: to tickets to. paradiiiiiise! no four. remember? whoooa whooaa whooo! you know ronny, folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how happy are they jimmy? happier than eddie money running a travel agency.
need to get behind it. t they faced the russians in the final game of the tournament playing for the most important bronze medal in the history of olympic basketball. joining us is director, writer and producer of the documentary the other dream team, whose film details the history and lasting impact of that 92 team. it opens in new york and l.a. today and is expanding across the country through october. thanks for joining us. first of all, i have so the l, lithuania basketball story. i ve told it before. set the stage for us here. lithuania got its independence from the soviet union a couple years earlier and the economy was kind of wrecked.
medals. you have one right now. the grateful dead colors. i want to play a clip explaining the grateful dead connection to the basketball. let s play that. the grateful dead were big basketball fans. jerry is like we re all about freedom and celebration. basically we want to help you guys. they cut us a big check and sent a box of tie-dye t-shirts with lithuania colors. that s how we entered the olympics. it s amazing. that s the story of that. what i wanted to ask is i think about the soviet union and all the years of the great rivalry with the united states. so much of the talent on the soviet basketball team came from lithuania. when you look at the population of lithuania, a very small part of the soviet union and small country. how did it become for a tiny country such a basketball mecca. it goes back to the 1930s when they had their independe e independence. there was a lit wanian american
so it can feel like you re using nothing at all. but neosporin® eczema essentials™ is different. its multi-action formula restores visibly healthier skin in 3 days. neosporin® eczema essentials™. imagine having to compete for another country knowing sits 1940 the russians have occupied and destroyed every bit of hope. well, 1992 is widely remembered as the year that the american dream team first ransacked the olympics. it was jordan, pippen, larry and magic. it was the greatest team created but not the most important. that same year a freshly liberated lithuania sent their team to the olympics. it was the ultimate underdog story. even the grateful dead felt the