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The Press Box

Obama Writes a New Book. Plus, Claire McNear on 'Jeopardy!'

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Barack Obama has released his 768-page memoir, 'A Promised Land.' Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss his book, his playlist, and the accompanying poster (2:10). Then, on Listener Mail, they answer the question “What is a piece of media you consume to get away from the world of media you spend the most time in?” (31:12) Then, Ringer writer and author Claire McNear joins to discuss her book, 'Answers in the Forms of Questions,' which covers 'Jeopardy!,' former host Alex Trebek, and much more (44:45). Finally, 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 news came out today that BuzzFeed has bought HuffPow.

0:07.4

Would I want to know is what other odd journalism mergers would you like to see?

0:13.8

Guys, is this like the internet 3.0 buying internet 2.0 or do I have my, is that, is that

0:19.6

I don't even know where my, where, with, with, with heroes of the internet I'm even dealing

0:23.9

with here?

0:24.9

It really reminds me, remember when all the fast food restaurants started pairing up?

0:27.7

I was like, oh, it's Taco Bell and Pizza Hut or it's Long John Silver's and A and W.

0:34.9

I didn't really want to go to either one of those but all are together.

0:38.0

Um, the, the, the, the, the rumor that Long John Silver is like a front for the cornbread

0:44.1

mafia.

0:45.1

I, I, I, I just go down that rabbit, just go down that rabbit hole one night.

0:50.6

Um, the, uh, or like when Carl's Jew was at hearties, but Carl's Jr. but didn't actually

0:54.8

give up on the Carl's Jr. name because it had so much more value than the hearties name.

0:58.7

So they're still like, they kind of have the same logo but there's different sign.

1:02.3

That might be where we're headed here.

1:03.7

Huff Puzz not gonna go away.

1:05.2

It's not gonna supplant Buzzfeed news.

1:08.8

But maybe they'll have a similar little smiley star in the upper right hand corner.

1:13.1

Can we bring back some of those like vintage Huff Poh bloggers?

1:15.8

Remember when they had the celebrities and pseudo celebrities at the beginning and make

1:19.4

them all into Buzzfeed staff writers?

1:22.4

Are they all gone?

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