Ep. 401 I'm Doing a Little Bit of Everything with Joel Anderson

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Stacks, we’re joined by Joel Anderson, senior staff writer at The Ringer and co-host of sports & media podcast The Press Box. We discuss his transition from athlete to sports journalist, how his relationship with his audience has changed alongside public perceptions of the media, whether we’re freaking out enough about the state of media, and why he loves books on place.

The Stacks Book Club pick for December is Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger. We will discuss the book on Wednesday, December 31st, with Joel Anderson returning as our guest.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks Website: https://www.thestackspodcast.com/2025/12/3/ep-400-joel-anderson

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0:43.3	You know, I've had to start reading books to my kids now, man.
0:45.2	And so the cat and the hat.
0:47.1	It made you laugh.
0:47.6	It made me. I was like, dude is ridiculous, man.
0:49.8	Like, he's just coming into your house doing all this shit.
0:52.5	It's all these kids are like, man, what is going?
0:54.2	You know, it's just like, what gives you the right to come and invade our house and do all this stuff in here? It doesn't make any sense. And I just, the thing about Dr. Seuss is like, I wish I had the mind to do the kind of writing that he does. Like I just as I'm reading Dr. Seuss books like, you know, one redfish, bluefish, one fish, two fish.
1:14.1	That kind of, I'm does. Like I just, as I'm reading Dr. Seuss books, like, you know,
1:11.1	one redfish, bluefish, one fish, two fish. That kind of, I'm just like, oh, I wish I had the
1:15.6	mind to do that. It's just, it's just amazing stuff.
1:24.2	Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today we are joined by Joel Anderson, a senior staff writer at the sports and pop culture website, The Ringer, and co-hosts of their media podcast, The Press Box.
1:36.6	Today, Joel and I talk about being a sports journalist, the state of media today, and the many nonfiction books that shaped his life.
1:43.9	Joel will be returning on Wednesday
1:45.3	December 31st for the Stacks Book Club conversation around Friday Night Lights, a town, a team,
1:50.5	and a dream by H. G. Bissinger. Everything we talk about on each episode of The Stacks can be found
1:55.8	in the link in our show notes. If you like this podcast, if you want more bookish content and community,
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