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Puck podcast: Paramount’s red-state gambit, ESPN’s talent math

Julia Alexander and Dylan Byers unpack Paramount’s Nashville-or-Texas relocation brinksmanship with Rob Bonta, the Bari Weiss ratings debate and Nielsen’s shifting methodology. They close by weighing ESPN’s talent-pay math on Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Tom Brady.

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