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The Press Box

Post-Twitter Trump With Charlie Warzel and Meghan and Harry With Ed Malyon

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are joined by New York Times opinion writer Charlie Warzel to share his experience reporting on events such as the riot at the Capitol and discuss what it's like covering post-Twitter Trump (2:30). Later, The Athletic's Ed Malyon joins to talk through Oprah's special with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. They talk through Oprah's impressive interview, Meghan and Harry's responses, and how the British press and tabloids could respond (34:20). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Guests: Charlie Warzel and Ed Malyon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air, hosting a podcast where he weighs in on the issues of the week and

0:07.6

Interviews guests in the world of politics, entertainment, culture, sports and beyond. Check out Larry Wilmore, black on the air on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:19.5

David! Are you familiar with NBA Top Shot?

0:23.7

Not which sells you digital basketball cards featuring moments with your favorite stars?

0:30.7

Yes, in concepts, I am familiar with this new fad.

0:36.7

Okay, what I want to know is, can we create cable news Top Shot featuring moments with our favorite hosts and puns?

0:46.7

Wait, so like I, and forgive me, I don't understand exactly how this technology, cryptocurrency, whatever it is worth, but is the idea that I would like have a gift of Tim Russell holding up the Dryer Race Board and would somehow make money from selling that gift to you?

1:04.7

Absolutely, yes, that's it. Like you could buy Joe Manchin, Senator from West Virginia calling Jake Tapper Chuck.

1:17.7

Is that the real key of the year card or something? Could we go back in time? Can we do like, is there like a very limited run of like, herald dough trying to open Al Capone's vault?

1:30.7

Yeah, or something more recent Rick Santorum getting owned by Van Jones. Jeffrey Lord getting owned by literally anybody back in his CNN days.

1:41.7

How about Bill O'Reilly yelling at all those producers? That would be a collector's item. That would be fantastic.

1:47.7

I would pay millions of dollars for cable news Top Shot of Bill O'Reilly yelling at his producers.

1:53.7

Coming up on today's show, we talk about misinformation and post Twitter Donald Trump with New York Times columnist Charlie Worsell Plus.

2:01.7

What do we make of Megan and Harry's critique of the British tabloids? The athletics Ed Malion joins us to understand the Oprah bomb shells all that more on the press box.

2:11.7

A part of the ringer podcast network.

2:14.7

Hello media consumers Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker here. David were joined right at the top by one of our favorites.

2:30.7

Charlie Worsell is an opinion writer at large for the New York Times. He's a Buzzfeed veteran. He lives in Montana, but his date line is our digital hell.

2:39.7

Charlie Worsell. Thanks for coming on the press box. Thank you for having me. Wow digital hell. I love it.

2:47.7

Accurate.

2:49.7

We'll get to some of your recent columns here in a second, but I want to ask you a little about you first when people ask Charlie, what do you write about?

2:58.7

What do you tell them?

3:00.7

I would say I write about the ways that the internet is changing everything. I mean, that's the most reductive way to say it is just like I started a long time ago being really interested with how you know our behaviors were changing as more and more people were starting to use these very nascent social platforms.

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