PTFO - How Republican Influencers Abandoned Football (and Might Fumble the Election)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Donald Trump was at the Alabama-Georgia game. Tim Walz was at The Big House in Ann Arbor, ahead of tonight's VP debate between a high-school coach and an Ohio State grad. College football has always been a passport to America that will never be too woke to go broke, but now the sport itself has become a battleground state. Jane Coaston — Republican whisperer, Michigan fanatic, new host of Crooked Media's "What a Day" podcast — considers whether the presidency might be decided by a disconnect between two formerly allied institutions. And an emerging strain of influencer conservatism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	He is a guy who will show up at the party with a 30 wreck. He will make sure that you don't drive home.
0:17.0	Right after this ad.
0:19.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network.
0:24.0	Don't miss the new Hulu original drama La Machina,
0:33.0	starring Diego Luna, Gail Garcia Bernal,
0:36.2	and Aisa Gonzalez.
0:38.2	Lamachina is the first Spanish language original series from Hulu.
0:41.2	And in their long-awaited on-screen reunion, Gail and Diego play lifelong
0:45.0	friends, one a boxer, the other his crafty manager and they are making one last attempt at
0:49.7	glory in the ring. But to make it to Fight Night, they must confront a mysterious
0:54.7	underworld organization raising the stakes to life or death. Lamakina premieres
0:59.7	October 9th streaming on Hulu.
1:04.0	It has been very obvious to me that if we're going to do culture war stuff as the main mode of
1:14.0	political discourse in America these days we should consider given that framework
1:18.6	what actual culture is in America.
1:23.0	And so for people who don't know, and I try to say this as often as I can,
1:26.0	college football is in fact the second biggest sport in the United States after the NFL.
1:31.0	Oh yeah.
1:32.0	Look, for me, Jane, you're from Cincinnati, I'm from New York City, New York City not known as a college
1:37.8	football hotbed, but merely covering sports and doing sports talk shows in which I talk about college football
1:45.8	It's been my passport to the rest of America
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