The Joe Biden Semi-Boomlet, the Jerry Jones Photo, and a New Book by Anthony Bourdain

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan and David kick things off discussing Anthony Bourdain’s biography, ‘Down and Out in Paradise’ (0:33), before weighing in on Joe Biden’s bid for re-election in 2024 against former president Donald Trump (13:44). Then, they address the Washington Post story about Dallas Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones and discuss his impact, or lack thereof, in diversifying hiring practices throughout the league (28:21). 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	The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup.
0:05.5	And what better way to prepare than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals.
0:12.5	I'm Brian Phillips. I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup.
0:18.0	Told through the stories of 22 iconic goals.
0:22.0	The show's called 22 Goals. It's out now on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:26.5	And we're having so much fun.
0:56.5	And we're having so much fun.
1:26.5	We didn't read my friends' new book, my friends' long form article that was tweeted out.
1:30.5	What I did was I skimmed enough so I could send the proper congratulations or put out the tweet I needed to put out.
1:38.5	But I didn't read it.
1:40.5	My wife and I just listened to the devil and Sherlock Holmes on audiobook.
1:44.5	The great David Grant collection.
1:46.5	And I had a sort of wistful feeling throughout the entire thing of just remembering having read things.
1:52.5	Like a decade ago.
1:56.5	Like, oh, sitting down and just the rapturous feeling of reading a 10-page New Yorker piece.
2:02.5	Oh my God. It was a great time.
2:04.5	Well, I got back on the horse over Thanksgiving.
2:06.5	And I read the new biography of Anthony Bourdain called Down and Out in Paradise.
2:12.5	Oh, yeah.
2:13.5	By Charles Lierson, who's a veteran of many magazines.
2:16.5	Bourdain died in 2018 and Lierson's book, David, is like a classic unauthorized biography.
2:26.5	Except Lierson has Bourdain's text messages, including the last ones he ever sent before his death.
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