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The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

Special Guest: George Schroeder

The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sports News, News, Football, Sports

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman are joined by George Schroeder. George shares his unique perspective on COVID-19 & the Nashville tornado. After recently being laid off by USA Today, George talks about landing on his feet at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. He reflects on leaving the sports media business and projects what the future of the business looks like. Subscribe to The Athletic (40% off): www.theathletic.com/theaudible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh yeah. Welcome to the Audible,

0:15.0

the Audible presented by Greater Joes. I'm Stuart Mandel.

0:20.0

Joined by Bruce Feldman in these very, very unusual times.

0:25.6

Bruce, it's fortunate that our sponsor is actually one of the few places left in America

0:30.3

that you can actually go into right now.

0:33.0

Trader Joe's, open, ready for business, ready for you to go stock up on groceries.

0:38.0

But other than that, how are you?

0:41.0

So here in the Bay Area Area we are in a mandated stay at home

0:45.4

order I don't know that LA has done that quite yet but I from what you've told me

0:50.3

you're basically doing it anyway yeah I. They're just trying to be be safe. You know it's just basically my family and you know when you go out and you know it's made it a little

1:00.5

different is you know usually doesn't rain here. We've had rain most of the week that we've been

1:04.8

we've been basically hunkered down and so the times that the sun's come out you know my family's gone out

1:10.7

and you see other families out and everybody's you know kind of

1:13.9

kept their distance and it's it's you know we're just paying attention I don't

1:19.4

think anybody knows where this is headed you You know, there's, you know, scientists have made some statements and predictions and projections and

1:30.0

and we've certainly, you know, seen the track that Italy is on and where the US has been I don't know if it's two weeks behind and that's daunting

1:41.8

But at the same time we're, we cover college football, so it's like, you know, we're still

1:46.7

working on that.

1:48.0

So it's a, it's a, it's just a surreal time, I think.

1:55.0

You know, we're all coping with it differently, I guess.

1:58.0

We're all shut down and we just don't know.

2:01.0

I mean, it's definitely bizarre to be working for a sports

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