This Debate Is Not the Super Bowl

The Gist

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🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Gist is awaiting the first presidential debate and preparing a rapid response for early Tuesday morning. In the meantime, we hear from Jeremy Epstein: Four years ago, he was a 20-year-old Hofstra University student facing uncertain job prospects. But after he asked Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about the economy during the first debate, he became briefly famous. He was even impersonated by Fred Armisen on Saturday Night Live. Now, Epstein walks us through what it's like to ask a question on the debate stage, and if he thinks Lester Holt should pull a Candy Crowley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.5	It's Monday, September 26, 2016 from Slated's The Gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:13.8	This is not the Super Bowl.
0:15.6	I am not at the Super Bowl.
0:17.8	I'm at the presidential debate at Hofstra and here are some reasons why I am not at the Super Bowl.
0:23.4	I've been to five Super Bowls.
0:25.4	I've been to five of the top eight most watched Super Bowls.
0:30.2	That's why Super Bowl got 115 million viewers.
0:33.0	There's going to get over 80 million, but 80 is not 115.
0:36.7	Two, let's look at the ad rates.
0:38.7	The ads, you know, it's estimated that this event will get $225,000 for 30 seconds,
0:45.8	which is a lot of money for the cable stations that are it and the networks that are it.
0:50.1	Super Bowl, you know what they get for 30 seconds?
0:52.5	Six million.
0:53.9	So it's kind of an apples to pig skin comparison because there are many networks
0:57.8	airing this debate and they will be selling ads before and right after not during.
1:02.8	So it's fewer ads.
1:04.1	It's over many networks, but still they're not going to add up all the ad dollars from this debate.
1:10.1	It's not going to be as lucrative as the Super Bowl.
1:13.1	Here's a third reason why this isn't the Super Bowl and won't be as watched as the Super Bowl.
1:18.4	Because the Super Bowl doesn't go up against football.
1:20.6	This is going up against football weirdly and Monday night football is going to cut into this.
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