The Rodgers-McAfee Debacle, How Debates Became Politics’ In-Season Tournament, and the Barry Sanders Doc With Slate’s Joel Anderson

The Press Box

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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For the ‘Press Box’: Final Edition, Bryan is joined by Joel Anderson of Slate. They discuss Aaron Rodgers’s comments about Jimmy Kimmel and Pat McAfee’s response (1:44). Then, Joel shares a story of being called into the office for a tweet he liked during his time at ESPN (25:51). They discuss many memes in college football and how the national championship game may be the all-time nobody-believed-in-us game (30:04). Later, they talk about how debates have become politics’ in-season tournament (40:51). Lastly, they close with Bryan’s new rules for sports documentaries after watching the new Barry Sanders documentary (43:43). Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Joel Anderson Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? It's Austin Rivers from Off Guard and I've got some exciting news.
0:04.8	Off Guard hosted by me and my guy Pasha Gigi is officially moving to our own
0:08.8	podcast feed. We are now dropping two shows every week. Me and Pasha go way back and talk so much hoops already
0:15.2	that we figured it was time to fire up the mics and let you in on these conversations.
0:19.2	Every week, Pasha and myself will hit on the biggest stories happening around the league.
0:23.0	Tapp into the show twice a week on our new off-guard feed on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.
0:29.0	Hello media consumers welcome to Press Box final edition Brian Curtis of the
0:38.4	ringer here along with producer Brian Waters coming up on a's pod, what Aaron Rogers said about Jimmy Kimmel on Pat McAfee's
0:47.0	show and what it says about the new E-SPN, plus the memeing of College Bowl season, the nobody believed in us national championship game,
0:57.0	how the presidential debates became the end-season tournament of politics,
1:01.0	and some thoughts on Amazon's Barry Sanders dock.
1:05.2	Our first guest host of 2024 is one of my favorite people in the journalism business.
1:10.1	He is Slates Joel Anderson.
1:12.2	You've heard him host three seasons of Slowburn,
1:14.6	most recently on Clarence Thomas.
1:17.0	He worked as a writer at ESPN, which he wrote a great piece about last month.
1:21.0	He is my pal on all matters except which Texas football teams you should
1:26.3	root for.
1:27.3	So, welcome to the press box.
1:30.0	Oh man, Brian, thanks for having me on.
1:33.0	Big fan of yours as always.
1:35.0	I've been on here a couple times, I think, before too, in the past, right?
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