A Stunning Non-Endorsement, World Series Walk-Off Calls, and a Visit to the Set of ‘Good Morning Football’

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan kicks off the show by discussing the recent non-endorsements for the presidential candidates (0:40). Then he discusses the arena-show phase of the campaigns, including Kamala Harris’s visit to Houston with Beyoncé and Willie Nelson and Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden (19:16). Later, he gets into some of the best Dodgers walk-off World Series calls (31:54). To finish, Bryan recaps his visit to the set of 'Good Morning Football' with a few sound bites (37:20). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Only in Journalism, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Tara Palmary. I'm Puck's Senior Political Correspondent and host of,
0:05.3	Somebody's Gotta Win. Brought to you by the Ringer and Spotify.
0:08.4	The 2024 election has been upended, with Joe Biden off the ticket and Donald Trump facing a new
0:14.0	challenger Kamala Harris. If you want to hear what the insiders are really
0:18.0	saying about the race, join me Tuesdays and Thursdays as I break it all down
0:21.8	with lawmakers, journalists, and political
0:24.0	strategists. We'll go deeper than the headlines to the anxieties at the highest
0:28.1	levels of power and of course we'll chew overall the hot political gossip as we
0:32.4	head into this historic election.
0:34.1	Be sure to follow, somebody's got a win at Spotify or wherever you get your
0:38.4	podcast.
0:42.3	David? Yes. It was a big week for a newspaper to not endorse a candidate for president.
0:49.6	Yes, it was. The LA Times didn. Times didn't endorse. The Washington Post didn't endorse.
0:57.0	Mm-hmm. We can focus on the post because, well, the L.A. Times has got other problems.
1:04.0	The post opinion section, we learned last week,
1:07.0	had an endorsement of Kamala Harris ready to go in draft form.
1:11.0	Papers endorsed a candidate for president nearly every year since
1:15.2	1976 and then the post owner Jeff Bezos decides 11 days before the election that he didn't want his paper to do
1:28.6	endorsements anymore at least for president. Now tell me is this where media Twitter got to by
1:36.2	Friday afternoon? A presidential endorsement by a newspaper is a pretty
1:42.3	useless gesture.
1:44.0	Yes, completely.
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