25 for 25: Chris Ryan on the Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Blogging

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! In our latest 25 for 25 installment, Bryan is joined by Ringer superstar Chris Ryan to discuss his come up in the mid-2000s blog world, how it set up the rest of his career and changed media forever, where the energy of blogging was dispersed, and whether there will be a revival of blogging. Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.2	Let's go.
0:39.0	Hello, media consumers.
0:42.0	Welcome to Pressbox.
0:43.1	Brian Curtis of the Ringer here, along with producer Bobby Wagner.
0:47.0	I want to welcome you to the fourth installment of our 25 for 25 series.
0:59.2	This one is called the Birth, death, and rebirth of blogging.
1:03.5	And it is with one of my favorite people here at the ringer, Chris Ryan.
1:09.4	Yeah, Chris Ryan was a blogger before he came to Grantland, before he came to the ringer,
1:10.9	before he became one of the greatest podcasters on planet Earth. And it has been so funny this week to go back and revisit his
1:15.8	blogs because in a way, it helps explain why Chris is so good at what he does. I mean, I think
1:23.4	even in an industry where we misuse adjectives all the time, Chris is brilliant, whether the subject is movies or television or sports or anything else, politics included.
1:35.5	Yes, so that's part of what makes him great.
1:38.8	But the other part of Chris, and I think this comes through in both podcasting and blogging, is this just spirit,
1:48.6	this openness, this Chris Ryaness, it's almost hard to explain.
1:54.3	I remember when the ringer started in 2016 and I started working in an office with Chris.
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