Cesar Chavez, a New Doc About the Manosphere, and the World Baseball Classic

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Today on The Press Box, Bryan and Joel start the show by discussing the New York Times piece about Cesar Chavez containing accounts from women who say he abused them as young girls for years (00:54). Next, the guys discuss the price of oil being the main character of world news this week (06:08) and whether the pushback on rising oil prices will be the thing that will rein in President Trump. After that, Bryan and Joel discuss the ongoing U.S.-Cuba situation (18:15), including what Trump has said about Cuba recently and what reasons he could have for wanting to take action against it (22:35). Following that, the guys review the new documentary ‘Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere’ (28:56) before ending the show with some talk about the World Baseball Classic (42:18) and whether we need more sporting events like it (52:20). All that and more, here on The Press Box. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel Anderson Producers: Isaiah Blakely and Bruce Baldwin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, media consumers.
0:07.6	Welcome to Pressbox.
0:09.0	It's Brian Curtis.
0:10.5	It's Joel Anderson.
0:11.9	It's producers Isaiah Blakely and Bruce Baldwin.
0:15.6	Coming up on today's show how high oil prices became the main character in world affairs.
0:22.0	An American act of war has been obscured by another American act of war.
0:27.6	Joel and I review a new Netflix talk about the Manosphere.
0:34.4	And finally, the World Baseball Classic was a geopolitical home run.
0:39.0	Do we need more TV and streaming ready events like that?
0:51.1	But, Joel, I thought we'd start today's podcast by saying a word or two about the New York Times piece that came out yesterday about Caesar Chavez.
0:59.7	Oh, man. Yeah, absolutely.
1:02.2	What a piece of journalism this was by Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hertz about Chavez, who died back in 1993.
1:10.5	They went back into the 1970s.
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:14.0	And found multiple women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Chavez.
1:19.2	One woman interviewed by the Times told the paper that she was 13 years old when Chavez initiated a sexual encounter.
1:32.0	Another was 12. Yeah. The second woman says Chavez had sexual intercourse with her when she was 15, which the paper notes is rape under California law.
1:39.5	Dolores, where to herself a civil rights hero, says Chavez sexually assaulted her, which resulted in a pregnancy.
1:47.8	Would you make it that big time story?
1:51.0	First of all, the Dolores Huerta piece of it was breathtaking.
1:56.1	Like, I was just shocked.
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