Variety vs. Puck and The Atlantic. Plus, ESPN’s New NBA Team, and Twitter Becomes X.

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Bryan and David preview the new NBA announcing team at ESPN (0:30) before they unpack the media face-off between 'Variety' and both 'The Atlantic' and 'Puck' (9:10). Then, they touch on Twitter rebranding to X (18:28), discuss Sean Payton’s recent comments in the media (23:40), and Ron DeSantis’s media approach. Later, they introduce a new feature, "Not About the Media," where they share a personal story from their week (39:10). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right now on the Ringer gambling feet and all throughout the entire month of August, the East Coast
0:06.9	bias boys are getting you ready to bet to NFL this season. We're going through each and every
0:12.5	single division and revealing our favorite futures predicting division winners and even giving you
0:17.7	some award winners. Do we think the Kansas City Chiefs will repeat or will they be the throne?
0:22.7	Tune in now to find out on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	David. Yes. Looks like we've got a new NBA finals announcing crew. Oh, I saw this. This is
0:39.8	this is big news. You remember the Jeff and Gundie got laid off? I seem to remember that, yeah.
0:45.9	Four reasons. Chad Finn tipped us off about ESPN's intentions a few weeks ago.
0:51.7	And the New York Post Andrew Martian tells us today it's close to becoming a reality.
0:56.8	Mark Jackson is going down to the second NBA team on ESPN. And the new number one team is going to be
1:04.4	Mike Brain, Doc Rivers and Doris Burke. Wow. What do you think about that?
1:13.0	Uh, it sounds great. I mean, I like all of those people. I mean, Doc Rivers at this point is just
1:18.0	sort of a, you know, urban legend that our boss Bill Simmons has passed down to us now. He was
1:24.6	good. You actually called a finals like in 2004 without Michaels. No, I know. And reputation
1:31.7	is great. I have to admit, I don't remember it as well as I should. Can I just say I'm the same
1:38.0	way? You know me, right? You just give me a prompt and I'll give you, you know, 20 seconds on
1:42.6	Dick Ann Berg and Bob Trumpi in the 90s on NBC. I don't know that I can give you a ton on Doc
1:48.4	Rivers calling that single finals without Michaels. Yeah. Yeah, same. But any, but, but presumably,
1:56.4	I mean, he's, he's good at his job. I didn't take those word for it. And, um, and ESPN certainly seems
2:02.8	to think so. Uh, or good at that job. Uh, and Doris Burke is wonderful. Uh, the, the Mark Jackson
2:10.7	demotion seems, um, interesting just in so much as like what was the point of retaining him,
2:18.7	if you're not going to keep him. But again, we don't really know how all these things work
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