The Flip Side

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Galen is back teaching after his sabbatical, but Brian is still on hibernation during his endless winter break. The boys are back for the start of Season 9, and they are great fun to be state employees and not federal ones. This leads to a discussion about what a United States University would look like. The paperwork. The bureaucracy. The sprawling campus in Nevada. What conference would they join? Is Condoleezza Rice the natural for athletic director?

This gives way to a discussion about Max Read’s article in New York magazine about just how much of the internet is fake. Brian assures us that he’s not a bot, which is exactly what a bot would say. But seriously, what does it mean for our culture that metrics are such a definitive part of our media landscape? If so much of our world is built upon the premise that what we’re seeing is real, what does it mean when we have to question all of that? And while there’s a lot about the internet to hate, the maps are pretty solid.

Finally, there’s discussion of the NFL playoffs. Galen’s Colts look good, and Brian’s on the bandwagon. Also, how is it that 74 NBC cameras could not come up with a definitive angle of the double doing?

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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually

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The boys are back! Galen is back after traveling literally all over the world. He talks food in South Korea, Anchor Bar wings in NYC and what he learned on all his travels.

Galen and Brian talk about the challenges of a subscription model and what it means for the state of the game story; debate deleting Facebook; the challenges of covering college basketball.

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Topics include: The Nathan Peterman Experience; Underrated Beatles Songs; Galen's DNA and the presidency.

Topics include: Is LaCroix good for you? Is social media? How Galen made Twitter more bearable. And how is it that the NFL isn’t dying anymore?

Questions addressed this week: Why hasn’t the NFL collapsed like everyone predicted that it would? Why hasn’t gambling changed sports journalism, like everyone said it would? Why does Twitter’s algorithm suck so much?

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It’s the earliest in the day that Brian and Galen have ever recorded, and Brian was up late at an Avett Brothers concert the night before, so it’s time for some cobweb podcasting. There is much caffeine involved.

Topics include an extended discussion on the state of podcasting, spurred by a great live question from our friend @AssemblyCall. How will the commingling of podcasting and radio work going forward? Also, talk on The Athletic’s recent round of expansion, and a debate on the merits of pie vs. cupcakes vs. cake.

Galen is back from Hawaii and highly recommends it. Brian had a flooded basement today and does not recommend it.

This week’s topics include the media’s over-the-top coverage of Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship; the need for college sports to have independent oversight; what sports media students should do to start the academic year.

Also, a discussion on the worst idea they’ve heard all year.

Topics this week include: Brian’s daughter’s new Kindle and the state of the Apple ecosystem; layoffs at the New York Daily News; innovation in the newspaper industry; journalists stepping away from Twitter and what’s gone wrong with the platform.

Brewery of the month: Trillium Brewery.

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Topics include: Brian’s preparation process for day podcasting; The World Cup semifinals; TV and sports and cable cutting; The Supreme Court nomination process; Flip Side trivia.

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Topics include: Galen’s New Door; The Lost Steely Dan Demos; The Evolution of Sports Media vis a vis LeBron’s Decisions; Media Organizations picking winners and losers; The Gatekeeping Power of 21st Century Sports Media.

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