Have You Seen Donald Trump? Plus, TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz

The Press Box

The Ringer

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Donald Trump’s disappearance from the media and weigh in on what a post-Trump presidency will look like (2:10). Then they break down ‘Meet the Press,’ in a new feature called We’ve Got Notes (21:25). Then Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies joins to discuss his career and his favorite media movies (48:40). 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, the Trump campaign announced yesterday in a statement that lawyer Sydney Powell was
0:07.0	no longer part of the president's campaign legal team.
0:11.7	If she ever was, what I want to know is, is this the best way to find out you're no longer
0:17.5	working for somebody?
0:19.6	I mean, it's got to be a little bit awkward right after the attorney that is working for
0:26.9	the legal team introduced you and stepped aside so you could approach the microphone
0:31.2	to find out that that was not, not imply everything that you thought it did.
0:35.0	That is a great way.
0:36.0	I don't know.
0:37.0	I mean, they said that she's practicing law on her own.
0:39.6	Correct?
0:40.6	If this happened to you or me, if Bill Simmons got on Twitter and said, I would just
0:45.0	like everyone to be clear that Brian Curtis is not a host of the press box and not
0:49.4	an employee of the ringer.
0:50.6	He is out there committing acts of journalism on his own.
0:55.0	At least like, well, you would have presumably paced up as to contradict it.
0:59.0	But if you didn't, at least there's like a definition of this, right?
1:02.0	You are blogging, right?
1:05.2	You're journalism or just they're just blogs.
1:08.0	They're not really ours.
1:09.4	Your podcast or just you recording, they're not really ours.
1:11.8	There's not really the idea of like practicing law on one's own doesn't really exist,
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