Breaking: 'Ready Player One' Isn't the 'Black Panther' for Gamers | Damage Control (Ep. 447)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week on 'Damage Control,' The Ringer’s Justin Charity and K. Austin Collins discuss the unrealistic expectations surrounding Stormy Daniels’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview (1:47), the obsession with creating nostalgia porn for millennials (18:33), and how ‘Ready Player One’ may not be as groundbreaking as gamers think (29:04). You can find the official Ringer web store here: http://bit.ly/ringershop More from The Ringer: Subscribe to 'The Recappables' The Hilarious Life And Agonizing Death of Online Comedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Justin Cherity from Damage Control.
0:05.0	I have some exciting news for all of you ringer fans out there.
0:08.2	The ringer has new merchandise with a shiny new store front that you can check out right
0:12.7	now.
0:13.7	Go to the ringer.com slash shop to pre-order your merch now.
0:17.6	You can also find the link to the ringer web store in the podcast description.
0:22.0	While you're at the ringer.com, go ahead and check out a great piece by our friends,
0:25.5	Alice and Herman and Victor Locke's in about the hilarious life and agonizing death of
0:29.4	online comedy sites like The Onion, Funny or Die, and why we aren't going to them anymore.
0:35.0	Check it out.
0:36.0	Season 3 of Billions premiered on Sunday.
0:38.9	Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin are taking over the Recapables podcast each week to discuss
0:43.6	the show.
0:44.7	You can also find recaps of Donald Glover's show Atlanta on that feed so be sure to subscribe.
0:50.3	All right, and now on to Damage Control.
0:55.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:57.5	I'm Justin Charity and I'm Cameron Collins.
1:05.3	Welcome to Damage Control on the channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,
1:10.6	excites and divides us in popular culture.
1:13.1	Ready Player One.
1:14.1	We're talking about Steven Spielberg's latest blockbuster based on a controversial novel
1:19.3	by Ernest Klein.
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