Zach Lowe Leaves ESPN and the Kelce Backlash With Jason Gay. Plus, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac on Elon Musk and Twitter.

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Bryan sits with not one, not two, but three guests this week. First he speaks with The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay and they they discuss the following: Zach Lowe getting laid off by ESPN (1:47) How everyone has been covering Travis Kelce’s bad play (20:45) A possible Kamala Harris podcast tour (30:30) Then he speaks with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, the authors of ‘Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,’ and they get into the following: Elon changing the block feature (35:20) Turning Twitter headquarters into a long-stay hotel (44:23) Elon removing journalists’ verified check (49:00) Twitter/X losing it’s value (59:59) Plus, David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis Guests: Jason Gay, Kate Conger, and Ryan Mac Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the summer of 1999, thousands attended what would be the final iteration of the Woodstock Music Festivals.
0:07.0	But unlike its namesake, Woodstock 99 was not about peace and love.
0:12.0	Joining me as I dive deep into this story about music, mud, violence, and tragedy.
0:18.0	From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Stephen Heiden.
0:22.0	And this is Break Stuff, the story of Woodstock 99.
0:26.0	Available Tuesday, August 27th. Hello media consumers welcome to Press Box.
0:37.0	Brian Curtis of the rigor here along with producer Brian Waters.
0:42.6	Coming up in just one second,
0:43.8	we're gonna talk to Kate Conger and Ryan Mack,
0:46.8	the authors of a new Elon Musk book.
0:50.1	But first, let's bring in today's guest host.
0:51.8	He is one-third of the sports repotters,
0:54.8	which is not to be confused with the newly relaunched sports reporters. He's Wall Street Journal columnist.
1:01.1	If Netflix ever reboots Mr. Belvedere, is essentially to play the put-upon
1:06.5	sports writer dad. Jason Gay, welcome back to the press box.
1:11.8	It's been quite a while since I watched Belvedere. Was Uker an ex
1:15.8	sports writer or a put upon sports writer? That was my memory. Okay. And I think he
1:21.7	wasn't in all the episodes.
1:23.4	And so he was a sport writer who had help in the house.
1:27.0	Well, he was away a lot.
1:29.6	Maybe a sports announcer, which would have been a little more on the nose.
1:33.0	Maybe. Okay. You've done television.
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