Kamala Harris Is Coming to Your Podcast, Players Are Trying to Eject Reporters From the Locker Room, and Our National Bit Crisis

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan and David open with two contradictory ideas: “The return of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog” and “there are too many bits (0:36).”Then they get into the following: Kamala Harris's current podcast tour (10:12) NFL players wanting to kick reporters out of the locker room (22:54) Kate Winslet playing a war correspondent in the movie 'Lee' (31:03) Everyone is introducing a paywall (36:27) Later they react to breaking news, as Shams Charania joins ESPN as the new senior NBA reporter (44:34). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Only in Journalism, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. 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	Look, it's not that confusing. I'm Rob Harvilla, hosted the podcast 60 songs that explain the 90s,
0:06.7	except we did 120 songs. And now we're back with the 2000s. I refuse to say aughtughts 2000 at 2009. The strokes,
0:15.0	Riana, J-lo, cogniz, sure. And now the show is called 60 songs that
0:20.0	explain the 90s, colon the 2000s. Wow Wow that's too long a title for me to say anything else
0:25.8	right now. Just trust me that 60 songs that explain the 90s colon the 2000s
0:31.5	preferably on Spotify.
0:36.0	David?
0:37.0	Yes.
0:39.0	I want to start with two contradictory ideas.
0:42.6	Oh, okay.
0:44.6	Idea number one.
0:46.4	We have seen the return of one of our most intrepid investigative reporters.
0:52.2	I speak of course of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
0:57.0	I thought that's where this was going, all right. Born on Conan O'Brien show 25 plus years ago, he reappeared in the spin room at the Vip debate last Tuesday.
1:09.0	Now working for the Daily Show.
1:12.0	Triumph is a freelancer.
1:15.0	Just like many of our journalist friends.
1:18.0	Always weird to see something rebooted that you thought was funny
1:22.0	a quarter century ago?
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	And the question becomes, is it still funny or maybe was it even funny to begin with?
1:31.0	Or am I just old? Am I just old? I'm pleased to report that for me to put upon is still funny.
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