Week 1 NFL Season Audio, the Howard Stern-ing of Cable News, and the Iowa Football Primary

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David discuss Jen Psaki taking over Chris Hayes’s Monday night primetime slot at MSNBC (00:48). Then, they listen to some announcer clips from the NFL and college football (07:03) and talk about the GOP candidates at the Iowa–Iowa State football game (15:14). They also touch on Joe Buck and Troy Aikman’s 22nd year as commentary partners (21:52), the end of ‘Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel,’ Vulture’s piece on Rotten Tomatoes, and more! Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody it's Brian Barrett from Off the Pike where we're gearing up for
0:04.7	another exciting NFL season.
0:07.1	We'll be with you every Sunday after the Pads with three time Super Bowl champion James
0:11.7	White to recap the game and break down the biggest moments.
0:15.2	Plus, episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays to cover all things Patriots with your favorite
0:19.8	Boston sports guests as well as familiar voices from the Ringer podcast network.
0:24.5	So follow Off the Pike with me, Brian Barrett on Spotify.
0:31.0	David, we've got a lot of football to talk about.
0:36.5	So can we start with the Howard Sturning of cable news?
0:41.2	Okay, what does that mean?
0:46.8	Let me tell you, there was a story broken by Axios last week.
0:51.9	The Jen Socky, the former Biden Apparachic only in journalism, turned MSNBC
0:59.7	host is going to be taking over the Monday 8 p.m. slot from Chris Hayes.
1:06.4	Like the weekday 8 p.m. slot or just Mondays?
1:09.7	The Monday 8 p.m. slot specifically just one of the five days.
1:15.6	Okay.
1:16.6	Hayes's tweets that he is going to be spending time working on vague projects.
1:23.1	But he's still doing Tuesday to Thursday to Friday?
1:26.2	Exactly.
1:27.2	Okay.
1:28.4	Now listener, Vic Caramel says, we need a term for not hosting your cable news show
1:34.8	every day.
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