Big Senate Races, the TB12 Primary, and a First Look at Ben Smith’s Semafor

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In preparation for the midterm elections, Bryan and David check in on three of the biggest Senate races around the country, starting with Pennsylvania’s race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz, Ohio’s race between Tim Ryan and JD Vance, and Georgia’s race between Senator Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker (7:46), before then addressing the embattled former prime minister Liz Truss (30:28). Later, they dive into the new media site Semafor that provides readers with “redefined news,” and attempt to decipher who the site is for (36:02). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mac Jones is ripped, Matt Patricia is calling plays, the Celtics are title favorites,
0:06.4	and the ringer has a new Boston show.
0:08.3	I'm Brian Barrett, host of Off the Pike, the show covering all things Boston sports.
0:12.2	I'll have shows multiple times a week covering your favorite teams and with your favorite
0:16.0	ringer and local guests. Plus, maybe Bill will stop by to rant about the socks.
0:20.2	Follow Off the Pike with me, Brian Barrett, now on Spotify.
0:23.2	David, two weeks from Election Day, there's a lot of political news out there.
0:34.2	But there are also some shadow primaries going on.
0:37.6	Oh.
0:38.7	For example, Sean McCreech had a good New York magazine story about the Donald Trump versus Florida
0:44.4	governor, Ron DeSantis Battle going on behind the scenes at Fox News.
0:48.8	Yep.
0:49.5	But the most interesting example of this phenomenon is the TB12 primary.
0:56.6	Oh, wait, TB12 like Tom Brady?
0:59.7	Like Tom Brady.
1:01.6	Go on.
1:02.6	This was announced today in of all places the New York Times, which featured the immortal and not
1:09.2	quite New York Times, he headline Tom Brady and Ron DeSantis are said to be on texting terms.
1:20.6	Let me read you a little bit of the story from Reed Epstein here.
1:23.1	Tom Brady, the seven time Super Bowl champion, has for years been the subject of public affection
1:29.1	from former president Donald J. Trump.
1:31.3	But according to Tim Michaels, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, Mr. Brady is now
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