Episode Details

Hello, media consumers! Bryan and David begin the week by showing love to Ringer colleague Yasi Salek, who was affected by the L.A. fires (1:07). If you would like to help out Yasi, here is a link to the GoFundMe that Bryan mentions.

Then they get into the stories and sounds from wild-card weekend, including:

• Tom Brady’s Game of the Year and the one-and-done theory (7:19)
• A.J. Brown reading a book on the sideline (15:57)
• The proud franchise tier (20:30)
• Kirk Herbstreit’s promo on the Steelers (23:57)
• The "I Have Seen the Future" Call of the Week (31:27)

Then, in the Notebook Dump, they discuss:

• Barstool’s Big Cat’s interesting revelation (33:46)
• Venu, the sports streamer, is no more (46:23)
• Rachel Maddow returns to MSNBC prime time (49:24)

Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Only in Journalism, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline.

Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker

Producer: Brian H. Waters

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