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Listener Mail and Michael Riedel on Covering Broadway

Plus, Bryan and David on the new Anthony Bourdain book

By Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker
Chef Anthony Bourdain has a drink at Tintol restaurant in Ti Photo by James Keivom/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images


Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are answering your Listener Mail! They weigh in on the new Anthony Bourdain book (17:15), discuss the journalistic use of the word “slap” (23:00), and touch on the potential repackaging of retired or aging NFL quarterbacks on our televisions screens (25:58). Then longtime theater columnist Michael Riedel joins to discuss his new book, Singular Sensation, as well as his thoughts on Broadway post-pandemic (32:15). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline.

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