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The Press Box

Biden’s First Week and RIP Larry King, With Charlotte Alter and Jason Gay

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are joined by Time senior correspondent Charlotte Alter to discuss President Joe Biden's agenda and the era of misinformation (3:30). Later, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay joins to pay tribute to and remember legendary talk show host Larry King (31:05). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Guests: Charlotte Alter and Jason Gay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David NBC's peacock streaming service just basically absorbed world wrestling entertainment

0:12.0

or at least all of the stuff that world wrestling entertainment shows.

0:15.7

What I want to know is, is the future of content professional wrestling?

0:20.3

All right, so they just bought the WWE network. WWE shows on broadcast television on USA,

0:30.4

which is owned by NBC Universal, but also on Fox. Obviously they got a huge contract

0:34.2

from Fox not long ago. But they also had this over the top network.

0:39.6

They were one of the first to the game and having a standalone over the top service.

0:44.8

And for a while, we're getting a whole lot of looks from people trying to buy the company

0:49.4

because they were so impressed with the service itself, with the software.

0:57.3

And nothing really ever materialized. WWE is just in a weird spot where their stock value

1:01.4

goes up and down a whole lot, depending on fluctuations and programming and how much money

1:07.0

they're making and everything else. And there are times when it looks like Vince's

1:10.7

the richest man on Earth, Vince McMahon the owner, and that he will never sell in times

1:14.3

where it looks like he really just wants to see.

1:17.1

It almost seems like he would be willing to sell the company just to have a check in

1:21.7

his hand for $100 billion or whatever it would be. Now, NBC Universal just paid $1 billion

1:28.4

to absorb the network, which is a lot of money. It's one of those things where if this

1:32.3

were an athlete's contract, well, Scott Borris in the old days would have been the one

1:38.5

that negotiated it, but you'd probably be looking for the loopholes and how the team

1:42.4

can get away without paying the quarterback that much money or whatever.

1:45.6

But it's a billion dollars. And now my household is the happiest place on Earth because we

1:52.3

just stopped having the office on Netflix. And now without even having to think about

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