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Author/Podcaster Nancy Rommelmann stops by to discuss a myriad of subjects both morbid and inspiring. This is the week I am, out loud, sorting out the current cultural moment. Nancy, in all her wide ranging curiosity, is an ideal thought partner in this venture. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Freddie’s “After Liberal Cultural Hegemony”
* Last Boys at the Beginning of History
* Will legacy magazines become interesting again?
* What young men see in Trump
* Meghan Markle's dry pie
* Why Mark Halperin has the best political podcast
* Cannibalism
* Why do people do political violence?
* Why is Nancy interested in violence as a writing topic?
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Nate Jones and I are both trying to figure out the current moment, an era that more or less kicked off on January 20th. Where’s the culture headed now that Trump is officially in power? What are the implications for athlete/sports culture? How is social media different now versus when we started to use it? Enjoy!
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Great talk that’s anchored by this week’s cancellation of Very Bad Eagles Fan. As WIP host, pod friend Spike Eskin is our ambassador to all things Philly culture, plus a myriad of other pressing topics.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Does the NBA have a “massive negativity problem”?
* The viral Eagles fan who called a Packers fan an “ugly dumb cunt”
* This Eagles fan seems bad, but was the moment contrived?
* We’re cancelling randos off viral videos again
* Philly fans have a negative reputation. Do they like that reputation?
* “History is fake”
* There once was an ancient, burgeoning European civilization that was wiped out
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One of my favorite podcasts to date…
Independent NBA Podcast Beast Nate Duncan chastises me over my pronounciation and takes. He also offers his solution to what ails the NBA, but there’s a lot more. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Am I right to want hand checking above the arc?
* What good reforms has the NBA made?
* Are 3-pointers even the main issue?
* Does Nate send soup back?
* Is there a way to prevent Jimmy Butler situations?
* Do NFL quarterbacks get paid too little?
* Are dating apps good for society?
* Is it more uncomfortable to strike up a conversation with a random woman in a bar, or a surly athlete you have to interview?
* Nate doubts the power of conservative backlash against Caitlin Clark
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As NFL newsbreaker Ian Rapoport told the world on Friday, preeminent sports media critic Ryan Glasspiegel is leaving the New York Post for Front Office Sports. Ryan and I discuss the why of his leaving such an established legacy brand, and segue into the business of sports media coverage. Plus we talk about the lurid Fox Sports sexual harassment allegations, California wildfires, current political cultural moment and more. Enjoy!
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Happy New Year! We start off 2025 with an in depth discussion about, what else? H-1B Visas.
In all seriousness, the visa issue has revealed fascinating dynamics within American politics and culture. Our guest Lee Fang wrote a fantastic article on the business dynamics behind a controversial policy that’s pitted Elon Musk against more traditional MAGA types. In this pod, our topics include but aren’t limited to…
* What the hell are H-1B Visas?
* Why is the “Tech Right” struggling to make a case for them?
* Is Elon Musk’s loyalty to America or Mars?
* I read the now infamous Vivek Ramaswamy tweet
* What’s wrong with 90’s sitcoms and sleepovers?
* “Market dominant minorities” and modern anti Indianism
* Is the Tech Right against racism? Or just highly specific forms of it?
* What are people in tech really like?
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Ryan thinks you can guess the two major discussion points here. Topics include…
* Why is a Gregg Popovich Trump rant going viral in conservative media over a month after it happened?
* Why is NBA ratings discourse so overwhelming all of a sudden?
* Did Adam Silver not use soft power like David Stern used it?
* Are we more pessimistic about the NBA’s cultural future than Bill Simmons is?
* The NBA’s America problem
* Why is the NBA a WOKE piñata in conservative media?
* How do we feel about Caitlin Clark clearly lying (Ryan seems fine with it)?
* Does Clark’s TIME feature influence how fans relate to her?
* Why is Hannah Hildago a potential future WNBA controversy generator?
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One of our favorite cultural commentators returns to discuss men, women, politics and so much else. Great pod, in my unbiased opinion.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Why there was a “Sydney Sweeney is mid” discourse on social media
* Is modern dating terrible?
* Why the dating app market is bad, even for its big winners
* Single men should buy dogs
* Does becoming Republican shrink male dating options?
* Are nearly all marriages “politically mixed” marriages?
* Is the political gender divide hurting society?
* Is the Wifejak good?
* Is “toxic femininity” a real thing?
* Is the WNBA the only institution still on Earth 2? Or are there others?
* What’s with people who voted for Kamala enjoying the outcome of Trump winning?
* The meaning of Luigi Mangione support
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Non sports media edition, because a) I’m morbidly captivated by the Healthcare CEO assassination fallout and b) Any excuse to host Sarah Haider is a good one.
Beyond being intelligent and brave, Sarah has some personally informed thoughts about ayahuasca, a topic of the moment given certain rumors about the CEO killer. Conversation includes but is not limited to…
* High status people celebrating the murder of CEO Brian Thompson?
* It’s underrated how frequently high functioning people lose their minds
* Did ayahuasca compel Sarah to quit her own podcast?
* If ayahuasca kills motivation, then why did Sarah do it?
* Does living under threat of assassination, as Sarah might, inform perspective?
* Are we completely honest in our public transmissions?
* Are we more honest in real life or as writers/podcasters?
* Why don’t professors, whose system saddles young people in debt, see themselves as oppressors?
* What do we think of the politically minded tech libertarian types?
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Depending on schedule, this is a potential Part 1 due to a surprise area Internet outage that cut us a bit short. Would love to discuss more topics with Tom, who’s just so easy to talk to. Like so many others, I was shocked to hear KNBR cut ties with the region’s most beloved sports radio host. Hopefully, the silver lining here is that we’ll get to hear more of Tolbert in other contexts. Dude’s a gem, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to chat about old basketball NBA with him.
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NBA/Tech/China podcaster Andrew Sharp is here to “see where the takes take us,” and I love where it goes.
* Is Andrew buying or selling the future of BlueSky?
* The Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight
* What is Netflix’s sleazy strategy with this sort of live event?
* Andrew explains how the NBA made way more TV money while in viewership decline
* What’s driving the NBA viewership drop? Andrew wrote a list
* Are we excited about Inside the NBA coming to ESPN? Are there downsides?
* Has the vibe shifted such that Charles Barkley can talk about San Antonio women?
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Great podcast, if we do say so ourselves…
* Did Ryan lose his life savings betting Kamala Harris on Kalshi?
* The French polymarket whale who bet on Trump using the “neighbor method”
* Has the election inspired a vibe shift in sports media?
* The Ben Strauss argument that FS1 is more woke than ESPN
* The “Democrats need a Joe Rogan” trope
* Is the “Dem-friendly Rogan Bill Simmons”?
* Is Shannon Sharpe the Dem-friendly Rogan?
* The sports journo exodus to BlueSky and why it won’t work
* I don’t think the shift to the right among Zoomers has much to do with “incels”
* Inflation or culture war: What settled the election?
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Nick is back, and candid as ever. This was a wide ranging conversation, as it always is, covering sports, media and political subjects. I wonder which aspects might get aggregated…
Topics include but aren’t limited to:
* Nick says our guy Freddie deBoer is mad at him.
* I just bow down to the Kansas City Chiefs now. It’s easier.
* Has the analytics movement devalued winning?
* How does Nick feel about having a different politics than a lot of Kansas City Chiefs fans?
* Would Nick have traded another Chiefs Super Bowl for his Bears pick working out?
* How does Nick feel about having a different politics than Chiefs players?
* Is politics any kind of proxy for how good a person is?
* The NBA is flush with TV money, but is it struggling as a product? Do they need Nick’s reforms?
* The MLB has some juice right now. Can baseball be made into a national sports talk show topic?
* Can you hate your co-host and do a great sports show in the modern age?
And much more…
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Not exactly sports, but sort of. I and New York politics expert Ross Barkan reflect on Trump’s landslide victory, the multiethnic factors propelling it, and where the Democrats go from here. Enjoy!
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Eric (@HLinsight) is a real life pro sports gambler. He also has profound reservations about sports gambling’s introduction to the mainstream. I can confidently say that the conversation you’re about to listen to isn’t happening at any of the other mainstream sports media sites. This is a candid look at why betting sports, as fun as it is, is mostly a sucker’s bet.
Topics include…
* Parlays and other tricks apps use to keep you hooked
* How the limiting of winners makes sustained success nearly impossible
* Tout scams, busty pick advice, and other ways to get rich off worthless tips
* Sports bet advertising that targets youth
* Betting on games vs. events that are determined by inside info (Draft picks)
* Can games be rigged in this era due to gambling?
* Pro social gambling vs. anti social gambling
* How do we feel about betting on the 2024 election? Good opportunities there?
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In addition to being co-host of the Light Years podcast, Saam is tasked with running Creator Growth at Playback, an interactive sports streamer app. This means that a lot of this millennial’s waking hours are spent on trying to figure out the sports viewership habits of Zoomers.
This is the foundation of our conversation in this pod: What’s up with young people? What programs are they gravitating to and why? And are their habits upending traditional notions of what “mainstream” media even is? But first, true to Bay Area form, we start with expressing our annoyance at the conventional takes of Purdy-hating, “NFL Film Watchers.”
Topics include…
* “Film Watchers” don’t have an edge on the data
* Is NFL Twitter worse for the fake smart takes than NBA Twitter
* How the beat writer has to pretend to not care if the team loses
* Ya, I cared when the Warriors lost
* My regret over my ESPN the Magazine Draymond “hit piece”
* How ESPN cut the Nike loses Steph Curry article from the Magazine
* Will Compton farting at the Washington Post over his Bussin’ with the Boys Trump interview
* Legacy media trying to recap these Trump and Harris Youtube show interviews
* The filming over everything makes athletes more paranoid in the locker room now.
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My live video with Chris Best is available here as well, so it seems. Great talk, enjoyed being the one who answers the Qs this time.
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Your guy Big Wos is back, with candid takes on the state of NBA media. This was a great conversation wherein we discussed the following:
* A variety of ESPN NBA moves (Woj leaving, Lowe ousted, Shams hired)
* Shams on First Take shows why we didn’t really need Woj anymore
* Why does ESPN value news breaking so much!
* I can now freely say that Brian Windhorst is great
* The friendly fire of an ESPN article attacking ESPN host Kendrick Perkins over his NIL business
* Is Perkins’ business sleazier than SOP for college education loans?
* Will we see more Matthew Sluka situations where players simply quit over NIL issues?
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When Tim Kawakami and I get together, we’re going to talk sports media. Considering that Tim just recently left the Athletic, where used to be my boss, and joined the ambitious SF Standard, we’ve got much to discuss. Also, for those who like Niners talk, we’ve got a whole lot of it in the back half of this pod. My teaser is that Tim dispels a commonly believed false notion or two. Enjoy!
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Nate Jones, NBA agent and footwear entrepreneur at Move Insoles, is here to discuss a shocking corporate ouster at Nike. We get into how Nike modernized at its own expense, lost core customers, and ultimately fired a CEO they were just recently so enamored with. What lessons can be learned from the shoe apparel giant’s issues? What parallels do we see to recent problems at Disney and overall entertainment? Is this what happens when a corporation sacrifices art in pursuit of efficiency?
Oh, and we also discuss why the hell Nike’s not making more of the Caitlin Clark moment. Enjoy..
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