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The Press Box

That Martin Shkreli Story. Plus, Sportscaster Jim Gray.

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the Elle magazine story about journalist Christie Smythe and "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli's relationship (2:50). Then the Press Box gang talks holiday carols, food, and traditions (26:32) before sportscaster Jim Gray joins to talk about his book ‘Talking to GOATs’ (36:52). Plus, 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, a standby of local news this time of year is the story that the shopping mall

0:07.4

is really, really busy.

0:10.8

What I want to know is what is local news going to do if the shopping mall is vacated

0:17.0

because of COVID?

0:18.0

I don't know how it is where you're living.

0:20.0

I mean, I know there's different rules in different states.

0:22.4

The great state of New Jersey, or at least I can speak for the Quaker Ridge Mall over here

0:25.5

by where I live, it is packed and it's a packed point where like, there are moments where

0:30.4

we drive by and we say, oh, wouldn't it be nice to go walk around in JC Penny for 30

0:36.6

minutes?

0:37.6

And before we can talk ourselves into it, we look and realize that there are more, the

0:41.4

parking lot is absolutely packed and we just start, you know, speeding in the opposite

0:46.3

direction.

0:48.5

I think that probably there will still be stories, at least over here about the mall being

0:51.8

busy.

0:52.8

They'll just feel more like the newscasts are like 28 days later or something than, you

0:57.8

know, the actual, the upbeat, like everything's fine.

1:00.6

I mean, apparently, I mean, I don't mean to make light of the economic plate of the, you

1:06.9

know, owners of, you know, the banana republic and the orange Julius, but the mall is packed

1:15.3

and it makes me sort of scared.

1:16.9

I want every press box listener to note how David in order to preserve his working class

1:22.6

Bonafide said he was going to walk around JC Penny, rather than Nordstrom or Macy's.

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