NBA Finals Media Takeaways. Plus: Has the Podcast Conquered Music in the Car?

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David are back to discuss the last of the 2022 NBA Finals after the Golden State Warriors took home the championship. They revisit the NBA bumper music and highlight Game 6’s playlist, recap the Steph Curry debate, and touch on the biggest winner of the Finals—Draymond Green (5:36). Later, they weigh in on Jemele Hill’s tweet discussing the transition from music to podcasts and audiobooks in the car (21:26). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Chris Murn, me and my buddy Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Everything,
0:07.0	post an NBA podcast called The Miss Match.
0:10.2	They call it The Miss Match because I'm awesome and Kevin is such a gigantic nerd.
0:14.5	No, no, that's not why at all Chris, they call it The Miss Match because I have a brain
0:19.6	and you're a loud mouth bozo.
0:21.5	Good, great.
0:23.0	Anyway, listen to our amazing NBA podcast The Miss Match.
0:28.0	Or don't, we really don't care.
0:29.6	We're probably going to win a million awards either way.
0:31.9	Chris, we do care, so don't say that.
0:34.6	Please subscribe and listen to The Miss Match only on Spotify.
0:38.2	Did you really call me a bozo?
0:49.0	David, what's on your mind today?
0:52.3	I was just watching Shoms on the Pat McAfee show talking about his breaking news about
0:58.7	Kyrie Irving today and McAfee opened it up by saying, you broke news today using
1:05.8	a word that we all had to look up and then proceeded, the word turned out to be impass
1:11.2	and proceeded to both pronounce it and use it incorrectly when he was trying to read.
1:16.4	That's fine.
1:17.4	And it got me thinking, well, is that only in journalism word?
1:19.6	I know that we have, that there's, like, we use impass and other parts of life, but does
1:24.8	it meet the criteria of the now shuttered department of overused journalism words?
1:29.8	And the reason why it even like stuck, the reason why I'm having this conversation with
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