Return of the Veepstakes, Peak Sports Docs, and Will Sommer
The Press Box
The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. This week, the Ringer is launching a new podcast |
| 0:04.9 | feed called BoomBust, the new hub for narrative podcasts to documenting the rise and fall of |
| 0:10.2 | companies, celebrities and trends. Season 1 hosted by our own Alyssa Breznak takes you through |
| 0:15.8 | this spectacular journey of HQ trivia, the one's $100 million industry altering company turned |
| 0:21.9 | disaster. Alyssa interviewed dozens of former employees, investors, journalists and fans, |
| 0:27.9 | bringing you the behind-the-scenes story of how HQ crumbled from within. |
| 0:32.7 | Subscribe to BoomBust HQ trivia and check out the first two episodes out now on Spotify or wherever |
| 0:38.6 | you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.8 | Hello media consumers, Ryan Curtis and David Schumaker of The Ringer Here. This is the press box. |
| 1:00.2 | And on today's agenda, we've got new movies out about Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, |
| 1:06.4 | and now Tom Brady. So we ask, have we reached peak sports documentary? Answer, yes, we'll talk |
| 1:15.2 | about why. We've also got an interview with one of our favorite reporters, The Daily Beast Will Summer, |
| 1:20.8 | who will talk about covering the internet, the ride, and the new QAnon Republican Senate candidate. |
| 1:26.4 | Yes, you heard that, right? Plus, David guesses a strain-pun headline and the overworked Twitter joke |
| 1:31.6 | of the week. But David, let's begin with a segment called How to Run for Vice President. |
| 1:36.3 | All right. Because Joe Biden's Veepe Stakes, as I believe were contractually obligated to call |
| 1:42.9 | them, we're back in the news this week. Point number one, Mark Liebovich in The New York Times notes |
| 1:49.7 | that something important about the Veepe Stakes has changed this year. David, let's pretend it's like |
| 1:56.3 | 2008, ask me if I would consider becoming a party's nominee for Vice President. |
| 2:05.4 | Senator Curtis, this is David Chimagra, the MSN News. I was wondering if what's your stance on |
| 2:11.5 | potentially being the Vice Presidential nominee in this cycle? There's a lot of room |
| 2:15.7 | running you into out there that your name has come up in the discussion. David, I don't want to engage |
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