Episode 3: The Super Pulpit

02/04/16 • 43 min

John Heilemann and Will Leitch discuss the Super Bowl as national holiday and how President Obama -- and other politicians -- come alive during sports-centric interviews in a way that they don't with the political press. They also talk to NBC's Willie Geist about the television business, the connection between sports and politics and more.

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Culture Caucus - Episode 3: The Super Pulpit

Transcript

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Hello everybody, and welcome to the third episode of the new Bloomberg Politics podcast Culture Caucus. I'm John Heilman and I'm Will each Are we still new? I think we're in three now three is established. It's actually ready to retire. Do you think we're an institution or like basically like a cornerstone where like the John like Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, We've become a part of the fabric of American life. People are all going around their c