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The Press Box

Covering Larry Nassar, Interviewing Jason Isbell, and the Future of FiveThirtyEight | The Press Box (Ep. 419)

The Press Box

The Ringer

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker examine why it took so long for the media to cover the Larry Nassar case (03:00), Jason Isbell's war on fake news (18:00), and the odds that Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight gets sold (34:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:45.0

David, we're going to talk about Jason Isbilt's criticism of the media today. If

0:50.8

here's my question, have you ever been called out by a celebrity?

0:56.1

Many years ago, a Twitter account purporting to be Jake the Snake Roberts took

1:01.4

exception to the fact that I had him, uh, Leri Eid and eating a hamburger at a

1:07.0

signing one time, um, said that he had never eaten a hamburger.

1:11.2

Jake the Snake Roberts was indeed eating the hamburger. So I just was confident in

1:14.9

my reporting in true wrestling tradition. It was somebody in a mask purporting to

1:18.8

be Jake Roberts, but not actually Jake Roberts.

1:22.5

What about you? Is that ever happened to you?

1:24.4

Yeah, not publicly, but, um, I got an email one time from Richard Simmons after I

1:30.0

wrote about McGrantland. And it was somewhat disappointed. I believe in the story

1:35.7

that I produced. But what I remember was just how many periods there were between

1:39.4

each sentence. There was sort of like a mega ellipsis between every sentence and the

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