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Older Parents During a Quarantine, Sports That Are Trying to Come Back, and Listener Mail | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are joined by producer Jim Cunningham to discuss worrying about their parents during a quarantine (2:00). They then talk about the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (19:58), sports that are trying to return ASAP (24:15), Bernie Sanders leaving the race (32:15), the Wisconsin catastrophe (35:00), and finally Listener Mail (37:50). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Bill Simmons. I just wanted to make sure you were listening to podcasts on Spotify.

0:04.0

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0:07.9

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1:03.6

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1:07.8

app shame you, but the answer, unfortunately, is yes. Make the move. Listen to podcasts on Spotify

1:14.5

back to years. Hello, media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the ringer here.

1:29.1

We got a lot of great stuff to get to today. We'll talk about the various and variously

1:34.4

kooky plans for sports leagues to start pumping out content ASAP. We'll talk about Bernie Sanders

1:41.2

dropping out after the nightmare of the Wisconsin vote. We'll answer your listener mail plus David

1:47.4

Schumaker guesses a strain pun headline and the overworked Twitter joke of the week. But David,

1:52.3

let's start here. On Monday, we talked about what it's like to be a parent during coronavirus.

1:59.2

Now I want us to have the companion discussion. Okay. What's it like to be a grown-up kid like us

2:06.4

and worry about your parents during this pandemic? Oh, man. Well, I mean, I should say a front that

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