John Feinstein and March Madness, News From The New Yorker, and Gutting the Voice of America

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan and David kick off the week by discussing Donald Trump’s dismantlement of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the Voice of America (0:45). Then they get into the Old Guy’s Still Got It Segment with sounds from Rick Pitino (8:40), Tom Izzo (10:30), and Dick Vitale (14:20). Afterward they discuss Michael Wilbon’s tribute to John Feinstein (16:20). Later in the Notebook Dump they discuss the changes happening at The New Yorker (38:42). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producers: Jessie Lopez and Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.3	David?
1:19.3	Yes.
1:20.5	I woke up Saturday morning to a New York Times news alert telling me that Donald Trump had
1:26.8	dismantled some things.
1:29.3	Yes.
1:29.9	Some other things.
1:31.3	Which things are we talking about specifically here?
1:33.5	There's kind of a list.
1:34.7	Well, one was the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
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