Joe Biden and Tara Reade, Sports Plot a Comeback, and Ahmad Rashad

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Tara Reade, who says Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, and Biden's candidacy (1:25). Then, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (22:50), the sports comeback that could take us to Las Vegas (26:30), and finally, the sports reporter during the '90s who seemed to have gotten it right: Ahmad Rashad (31:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.2	Hello media consumers!
0:47.5	Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer here.
0:51.1	We got lots and lots to get to today.
0:53.4	We'll ask when sports comes back in the near future, is it going to come back on the
0:58.6	Las Vegas strip?
1:01.0	We investigate.
1:02.5	Off the latest installments of the Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, we'll
1:06.7	talk about the curious figure of a Mad Rashad.
1:10.4	What was his unusual place in sports TV in the 90s?
1:15.6	Or if I were Marv Albert, his unusual place in sports TV in the 90s?
1:20.7	David guesses a strain pun headline and the overworked Twitter joke of the week.
1:25.1	But David, we got to start with a big story in politics the last few weeks.
1:28.7	That is, terror reads accusation of sexual assault against Joe Biden, who I think we're
1:34.0	still obliged to call the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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