Netflix Comes for the NFL, the Argument About the College Football Playoff, and a Very Merry Jolabokaflod

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Hello media consumers! Bryan and David kick off the show celebrating the first holiday of the week, Jolabokaflod! Then, they discuss the amount of announcers for the Christmas NFL games on Netflix (8:07), and Shannon Sharpe calling out his colleagues on 'First Take' after the first weekend of the College Football Playoff (21:51). And in the Notebook Dump, they discuss media companies pivoting to write for CEOs (35:31). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Only in Journalism, America’s Softest Target, 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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0:31.6	David?
0:33.0	Yes.
0:34.4	Let me be the first person to wish you a very happy Yoloboka flood.
0:41.3	A happy Yolaboka flood to you too.
0:42.9	Sadly, my gift to you has not arrived yet.
0:45.3	So it's in the, it's in transit.
0:47.2	It's somewhere, somewhere out there in the world between.
0:55.5	Where did it ship from?
0:56.9	It was definitely United States.
1:01.4	I was definitely careful about picking a United States used book dealer as opposed to one of the mini British use book dealers that populate the internet.
1:06.1	That's always kind of a landmine on eBay.
1:08.3	We're like, what a price.
1:09.3	And then ships from Australia.
1:15.4	Yeah. We're going to do it like our parents used to do when they got us a Nintendo cartridge, but it was sold out in the store. So you just got a little picture of it in a
1:22.3	card under the tree. Yeah. Hold on. Let me go. I'm going to send you a picture of it. That's a great
1:26.8	idea.
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