Achilles Tension: Deep Fakes and Trump Bytes | The Press Box

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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How the media is handling Kevin Durant’s injury in the NBA Finals (03:00), the “Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week” (19:15), the disturbing Mark Zuckerberg deep fake (27:15), and a farewell to Le Anne Schreiber (36:30). Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.5	Just wanted to remind you guys that every Sunday night after each episode of Big Little
0:07.8	Lies, the ringers Amanda Dobbins and ESPN's Mina Kimes break down everything we just saw
0:12.9	in our new after-show called Big Little Live in partnership with UIC.
0:16.5	And after you check that out, make sure to subscribe to the Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny,
0:20.6	a weekly NFL podcast with frequent contributions from her beloved dog and sidekick named Lenny.
0:25.6	You can subscribe to the Mina Kimes show with Lenny on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get
0:29.5	your podcasts.
0:30.5	And make sure to watch Big Little Live every Sunday night on Twitter.
0:34.2	David, a funny but fake tweet has been going around during the NBA finals.
0:45.4	It says, Raptor Stark-Kawaii Leonard ate a bag of 12 apples with a knife and fork in
0:52.0	front of his teammates while chanting Apple Time, Apple Time.
0:55.8	This is a fake story.
0:58.0	I just want to assure you, what I want to know is, what other fanciful story would you
1:04.4	believe about Kawaii Leonard?
1:06.5	Oh, man, this is hard.
1:09.7	I think the premise of the Kawaii memes that are going around, correct me if I'm wrong.
1:15.4	He's sort of like the inverse of the Chuck Norris meme where Chuck Norris can karate chop
1:22.7	the globe in half.
1:24.0	The Kawaii is just this aggressive boringness and that's what makes it Kawaii.
1:29.4	That's what makes it...
1:31.4	It's not pedestrian things, right?
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