Bryan Curtis and Alan Sepinwall
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 336 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features two interviews. First up is Bryan Curtis, Editor-At-Large for The Ringer.
Curtis talks about a recent article he wrote that connect Brent Musburger's firing from CBS in 1990, which elevated Jim Nantz as the network's lead voice, to Nantz's current contract situation with CBS. Curtis also discusses the NFL asking networks for a 100 percent rights fee increase on their TV deals, why announcers don't matter as much as we think and much more.
Following Curtis, Alan Sepinwall, the cheif TV critic for 'Rolling Stone" joins the podcast to share some television recommendations for listeners. In addition, Sepinwall and Traina discuss "Your Honor," "Ted Lasso," "Young Rock" and "Schitt's Creek." Sepinwall also shares his thoughts on this week's Golden Globe Awards and gives us her personal picks for some of the categories. Lastly, Sepinwall, who wrote the book, "The Sopranos Sessions" talks about how many people watched the smash HBO show for the first time during the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks. |
| 0:13.4 | The book launched a thousand hot takes, |
| 0:15.3 | so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise. |
| 0:18.0 | I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk |
| 0:21.4 | as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk. |
| 0:27.0 | Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson. |
| 0:30.0 | Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | My name is Theo Henderson, hosting creator of the podcast called Weyenne House. |
| 0:40.0 | My lived experience in houselessness is extensive. |
| 0:43.0 | I was one of over 75,000 experiencing houselessness on a given night in Los Angeles. |
| 0:48.0 | Here's a simple truth. |
| 0:50.0 | Houselessness is everywhere. It affects over a half a billion people in the United States alone. |
| 0:56.0 | Weedy Inhows will explore the senseless tragedy of displacement from the perspective of the Inhows. |
| 1:01.0 | Listen to Wehianhows on I-Heart radio app, |
| 1:04.4 | Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. |
| 1:11.1 | What happens when the person you idolize turns out to be someone else entirely? |
| 1:15.8 | And what if you were kidnapped by your own grandparents and left with an endless well of |
| 1:20.8 | mysteries about yourself and those around you. |
| 1:23.2 | These are just a few extraordinary puzzles. |
| 1:25.7 | We'll be exploring in our ninth season of family secrets. |
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