Inside 'The Bubble Screen' with John Walters
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The Athletic's Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman welcome John Walters to the show! John writes The Athletic's 'Bubble Screen', a review of the CFB weekend through the lense of television, and he's also a graduate of Notre Dame. The guys discuss The Fighting Irish's big game this weekend vs. #1 Clemson. Plus more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.0 | Bruce, today we are joined by one of our all-time favorite podcast guests, author of the bubble screen TV column on The Athletic and Notre Dame, noted Notre Dame officiato John Walters. |
| 0:38.9 | Guys, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:41.3 | I was looking down on my watch this morning. |
| 0:43.3 | I thought, oh, I'm talking to Bruce Feldman and Stuart Mandel today. |
| 0:46.8 | Notre Dame must have a big game this week. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, who knows more about Notre Dame and these kind of situations than you, right? |
| 0:54.4 | You're like, you know, when Letterman would call Marv Albert out of the bullpen. |
| 0:59.9 | Show us your highlights, Marv. John, come on and tell us about the 88 Catholics versus |
| 1:05.6 | conflict. I don't know. I'm a noted expert on vestigial football programs. |
| 1:10.9 | All right. So can we start here, John? |
| 1:13.5 | Yes. |
| 1:13.9 | So I've watched some of your alma mater, and I think they're pretty good. |
| 1:18.6 | We obviously haven't seen them play anybody that good yet, and they struggled against |
| 1:24.9 | Louisville, who I don't think is that good, but they've blown out some other teams. |
| 1:29.2 | So never mind just whether they can beat a Clemson team without Trevor Lawrence, |
| 1:35.3 | but do you think they are a team that could win the national title? |
| 1:43.5 | No, but I think they're a team that could win this Saturday title no but i think there are team that could win this saturday uh i i've watched |
| 1:49.2 | you know as you guys know because you're sort of living my bubble screen existence this autumn and |
| 1:54.0 | watching more games on tv as opposed to being at games uh i think that ohio state and alabama are |
| 2:00.3 | a cut above um clemson went healthy right with them, |
| 2:04.1 | but I just don't think Notre Dame would compete with Ohio State or Alabama. But this weekend, |
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