The Times’ Mamdani Story, David Foster Wallace Revisited, and Josh Dawsey on the 2024 Election

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Hello media consumers! Bryan and David discuss the NYT's story on Zohran Mamdani and what the point was of running their "scoop" obtained in a hack of Columbia University records, new info on the Epstein files reports there are in fact no files, and new contenders for "Worst Question Ever Asked at the White House" (7:15), before revisiting David Foster Wallace's 2006 piece on Roger Federer entitled, 'Roger Federer as Religious Experience' (22:25). Next Bryan is joined by WSJ's Josh Dawsey to discuss his new book, '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America' co-written with Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf (41:25). Finally David and Bryan reconnect in wake of the new 'Superman' film to discuss Clark Kent the journalist, and for David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline (1:09:10)! Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Guest: Josh Dawsey Producer: Kye Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're a fan of the inner workings of Hollywood, then check out my podcast, The Town, on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:05.6	My name's Matt Bellany. I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.
0:10.4	And with my show, The Town, I bring you the inside conversation about money and power in Hollywood.
0:15.1	Every week, we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders to tell you what people in town are actually talking about.
0:21.7	We'll cover everything from why your favorite show was canceled overnight, which streamer is on the brink of collapse, and which executive is on the hot seat.
0:29.2	Disney, Netflix, who's up, down, and who'll never eat lunch in this town again?
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0:42.1	Okay. Follow the town on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. David?
0:43.6	Yes.
0:44.8	I'm kind of against podcast chit-chat as a rule of thumb.
0:50.8	But I want to know, how was your July 4th?
0:56.2	Oh, that's a good question to start with.
0:58.7	It was good.
0:59.4	We had a good, pretty low-key July.
1:00.9	I mean, we just came back from the beach.
1:03.4	We're going to head up to New Hampshire before long.
1:06.8	So we kept it pretty low-key.
1:09.3	I will say that we went over some friends houses that live about an hour away.
1:13.9	So we did a lot of did some driving and then just chilled out.
1:17.2	Our little one played with just like the neighborhood kids over there, like something out of an 80s movie, you know?
1:24.0	I mean, just like a mob of kids from ages like four to 14, just running around.
1:28.2	They played four square, which was just amazing to watch.
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