Listener Mail on ESPN, the White House Press Corps, and Watching the Olympics

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are answering your listener mail about the ongoing saga inside ESPN (7:35), the lack of information coming from the White House press corps (15:48), their Olympics viewing plans (32:50), and whether or not David calls Bryan “babe” (47:02). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The postseason is here and the Ringer NBA show has you covered with Real One's
0:04.0	Group Chat, the Answer, and Ringer NBA Post Game. Check out the Ringer NBA show on Spotify or wherever
0:09.5	you get your podcasts. David, as you know, I'm spending a month on the East Coast this summer.
0:19.7	And I have been reading a publication that I had not read for a really long time.
0:25.6	But that publication is the New York Post. Okay, okay. Yeah. And you know how some publications,
0:31.9	you publication, or even a Twitter account, you kind of piece out on for a while. And then you
0:36.6	come back to it and it's like, oh, hello, old friend. I'm not sure I would get to the New York
0:41.2	Post to be a friend or even a friend of me, really? Yeah, but I mean, the New York Post is like,
0:48.6	it's a paper you encounter at the Bodega, right? It's the thing that you see on the new stand.
0:52.9	And in that sense, it's like, the New York Post is not your friend, but it's not so different than like
0:57.2	the guy at the Bodega that you happen to talk to for 15 minutes every day, or like the guy who sells
1:02.9	you your coffee or the, you know, the, just whatever. I mean, there's a lot of people you encounter,
1:07.3	like you encounter the New York Post. It's not necessarily a bad connotation, even if it's
1:12.8	a substance isn't great. Yeah, no offense to the guy at the Bodega. Right. We update you. But would
1:18.4	you like a New York Post update? What is going on at the New York Post? Please, please. Okay, so the
1:24.2	pun headlines are still intact. Chris Paul having a crappy game for of the NBA finals today is casts
1:33.1	a Paul P.A. U.L. The Yankees. They're a second half opener against the Red Sox is called off because
1:41.6	of a COVID outbreak. This Sox is the back page of the post today. So that's all still intact.
1:49.1	Sports section. Really good. Really? Yeah, I mean, it's, it's funny because one newspaper sports
1:56.6	sections of all really, really strong. The post is still really big. It also covers sports in a
2:03.1	kind of ringery way, which might be insulting to the tradition of the New York Post, but anyway,
2:08.2	it covers sports in the sense of like, here are the articles you actually want to read. And I'm going
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