ESPN’s Big Gamble With James Andrew Miller, Plus a Raid in Kansas, and a New ‘Countdown’ Cast

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan and David hit on the newly announced NBA ‘Countdown’ lineup and discuss its new potential format, before author James Andrew Miller joins the show to unpack the state of ESPN and how things could unfold after the Penn Entertainment deal (9:45). Later, they discuss the Hollywood Reporter’s recent incident involving an awards pundit asking for special privileges (27:07), then touch on a Kansas newsroom being raided by the police (35:27). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Guest: James Andrew Miller Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Football is around the corner and we are ramping it up, over here on the Ring or NFL
0:04.5	feed in the month of August.
0:06.3	Every week Ben, Solak and I will be bringing you not one but two extra point takins, that's
0:11.1	right, double the trouble as we predict, debate and analyze our way through camp and the
0:16.0	preseason every Monday and Friday.
0:18.0	But that is not all, Steven Ruiz and I will be coming to you every Wednesday, we'll
0:22.0	talk about everything in the world of the NFL, and who knows, maybe Steven will even
0:25.4	have something nice to say about your favorite squad, though frankly I wouldn't count on
0:28.6	it.
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