Everybody’s Going to Substack. Plus, Journalist Reeves Wiedeman on WeWork.

The Press Box

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Matt Yglesias’s announcement that he will no longer be writing for Vox but will be publishing his writing in Substack (1:45). They then write their own 2020 campaign retrospective, recounting the chain of events leading up to the election (22:10). Then New York Magazine editor and author Reeves Wiedeman joins to discuss the fall of WeWork and Adam Neumann (47:18). Plus, The Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David, we're gonna talk about how journalists are leaving their jobs for
0:05.1	Substack. What I want to know is if you were to do such a thing, what would you
0:11.5	name your Substack? I think what you mean to ask is like what what wrestling
0:18.4	term would I would I like you know employ to try to sound like it was a bigger
0:23.0	the subject was bigger than pro wrestling. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
0:30.4	the bunkhouse brawl. Do you like his idea? Yeah I was kind of thinking of the
0:34.6	masked mag. The masked mag is good. I like that. We could always go with
0:40.6	shoemakers mark which I think I've suggested on this show before. If the shoemaker
0:44.7	fits, I'm not gonna do a bad name pun. I just can't do it. After all the bad
0:50.9	name puns we've talked about on this show. In my case, I think the life of
0:55.8	Brian is completely overworked at this point. But maybe there's a niche for
1:01.6	Kurdistan that still could be out there. Should we go with that? Yeah let's do it.
1:08.0	That sounds fantastic. Coming up on today's show, look mom, going to
1:11.6	Substack. David and I pre-write the 2020 presidential campaign books plus
1:18.2	Reeves Wideman talks about billion dollar loser all that more on the press box
1:23.0	a part of the ringer podcast network. How did Malcolm finally gain his
1:27.8	cat's respect? Was it because he saved 35% on train line and bravely looked
1:33.2	into the eyes of his dismissive pet where he saw something that said, I don't
1:38.4	actually hate you. His train line to thank for Malcolm gaining his cat's
1:43.9	respect. We hope so. We really do. Great journey start with train line.
1:50.3	Average savings from advanced fairs, rail cards and split save wear available
1:53.2	versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's apply.
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