The WTF Luka Scoop, Super Bowl Scenes From New Orleans, and Trump’s Pentagon Switcheroo

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan and David kick off the week by discussing the chaos surrounding the reporting on the blockbuster trade involving the Dallas Mavericks' decision to send Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis (0:30). Then Bryan, who is in New Orleans, shares the current temperature of radio row (19:16). Later, in the Notebook Dump, they discuss the following: Reports that Chuck Todd is leaving NBC (38:30) The new media switcheroo (42:16) In the Hall of Departed Journalists, they reflect on the life of Jules Feiffer (48:55). Plus, Bryan shares an update on his movie career (0:00).Finally, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producers: Brian H. Waters and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Damn it!
0:31.6	Yes.
0:32.6	We gotta start with the trade of Luca Dotchage.
0:35.6	Oh, God, do we? We do, because it was one of the craziest nights with the trade of Luca Dodgich. Oh, God, do we?
0:38.3	We do, because it was one of the craziest nights in the history of sports Twitter.
0:43.3	Were you even awake when the news came down?
0:46.3	No, I wasn't, I wasn't.
0:48.3	The first thing I saw about it was a text for my 16-year-old, and I thought it was sad that he got tricked but also it was like hey good he gets to
0:54.6	get tricked you know this is this is a learning experience for him he needs to know about fake news
0:59.7	yeah but no it was real harmless thing yeah did you go to the I mean I think everybody went
1:05.1	through the same two-step process one that this was a fake account that was one letter off
1:09.9	of sham Shirani's real account.
1:13.9	And then when we figured that that was not the case, we're like, oh, Shams got hacked.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.1	But he didn't get hacked.
1:21.3	No, it didn't.
1:22.2	I mean, yeah, none of it seemed real.
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