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The Press Box

The Evaporating Iran News, CNN’s Podcast Identity Crisis, and Sports Radio’s Wilding Period

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Press Box, Bryan and David talk about the shortening news cycle under Trump, especially during wartime. Then they talk about journalists trying to get back into the Pentagon (20:19). In the Notebook Dump, they talk about Bill Raftery, Bob Woodward’s new book, sports radio fights (27:08), and more. Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline! Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David ShoemakerProducers: Bruce Baldwin, Isaiah Blakely, and Jamie Yukich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Damn it!

0:06.1

Yes.

0:07.6

I woke up in Los Angeles yesterday morning.

0:12.2

I drank a cup of tasteless but effective Courage coffee.

0:16.9

And then, as one does, I looked at the news.

0:24.6

And I experienced something that seems this is like my like the short story from my MFA class where the teachers just like cut the

0:29.9

first paragraph ago it was where does that go is it a Philip K. Dickian I stared into my

0:36.8

intelligent newsbox and it told me.

0:40.3

I had a bit of an experience like that.

0:43.9

Before I woke up, Donald Trump had posted on true social that the U.S.

0:51.7

in Iran were having, quote, conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.

1:00.3

Yes.

1:01.9

Also, before I woke up...

1:03.9

I was going to say, there was a few tweets before you woke up, but go on.

1:07.1

The Iranians had denied the story.

1:10.0

Speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohamed Baguerre Galaboff, later tweeted,

1:16.4

no negotiations have been held.

1:20.5

Now, we could make some points here that Trump is churning out new U.S. war objectives

1:25.5

like our football writer friends are churning out mock drafts,

1:30.4

which is at a very, very high rate. I'm not sure if Trump, even Trump, can keep up with

1:34.4

field Yates at this point. We've got two of them on the ringer.com, or we will soon. It's like,

1:38.2

go on. We could also make the point that Trump is tossing out stuff to loyal, to lower oil prices or goose to stock market.

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