How Sportswriters Can Win the Super Bowl. Plus: Inside Radio Row, Politicians Avoiding Nosy Reporters, and the Death of the D.C. Bureau

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David discuss Super Bowl week’s radio row with the Radio Row power rankings (2:12)! Then they host a Super Bowl editorial meeting that touches on Taylor Swift being the biggest story (9:55) and Brock Purdy’s legacy if he wins the big game (19:49). Later they talk about the Wall Street Journal cutting jobs from the D.C. Bureau (31:06). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. And finally, the Media Piss Test returns. 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	Did Don Draper really buy the world of Coke?
0:04.0	Did Tony Soprano really die or just order more onion rings?
0:08.0	The finales of our favorite shows can make us argue,
0:10.0	make us cry, and make us crazy.
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0:17.1	podcast where we'll be telling the story of Modern TV backwards, one fade out at a time. Find Stick the Landing on Wednesdays on the Prestige TV feed,
0:26.0	on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.0	Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices.
0:37.0	Domino's price slice.
0:38.7	Small pizzas now 8,
0:40.4	medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid.
0:43.5	Yet we're making cuts too.
0:45.5	In 11th of February 24 minimum delivery spend charges and areas may apply.
0:49.5	Ties and see you see Domino's dot co-kow.
0:51.5	UK. David? and C. C. Domino's dot co-k.
0:55.0	David? It's Super Bowl Week.
0:58.0	Oh.
0:59.0	That means all the sports writers and sports media professionals are headed to Las Vegas.
1:07.0	Now at times like this, it often feels like you are advertising the Super Bowl just by doing your job?
1:17.0	Yeah, of course.
1:18.0	You become part of the hype.
1:20.0	What if I told you this year that the Luxor, the official media hotel right there on the strip,
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