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The Press Box

The February Editorial Meeting

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bryan, David, and Joel are back together for February’s editorial meeting! They first discuss how they’re going to watch Trump’s State of the Union (9:03). Then they move on to some news items from the Olympics, starting with Kash Patel partying with the men’s USA hockey team (18:16). They also talk about Mike Tirico’s coverage at the Olympics (28:21). They talk about more bad news at CBS News (34:39), the newest Savannah Guthrie video (41:16), and the infamous photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (45:08). They wrap up with a couple of reader questions (50:09), and Joel pays homage to a past coworker (54:38). Hosts: Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, and Joel AndersonProducers: Isaiah Blakely and Bruce Baldwin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Premier League is exciting.

0:04.0

It's exhilarating.

0:08.0

And sometimes it's...

0:11.0

So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action,

0:17.0

grab a Coke to keep you in the game.

0:20.0

Time to refresh.

0:21.8

Time for a Coke.

0:23.8

Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League.

0:31.3

David?

0:35.4

Yes. Joel? Yes. I'm coming to you live today from Washington, D.C.

0:43.4

Hey, what's up? I can see you from across the Potomac. You can.

0:48.5

Maybe not. I don't know how that works.

0:51.3

You're looking at my window in my hotel right now? Well, not really. No. I'm probably still about an hour away from you, to be honest.

0:56.0

Do you see all the National Guardsmen that were in the elevator with me this morning when I was coming down?

1:01.0

I thought that kind of had moved on a little bit, but evidently not.

1:08.0

I get in the elevator, David, and there's all these guys in, you know, the full military regalia, if I may. And I'm like, what are these guys doing here? Very little regalia outside of the military usage, by the way. That deserves to be on one of your list. That's a good point. That's right. Yeah. Those two words go together and nothing else goes with regalia, right? Unless you're talking about ancient British navies and other things.

1:30.4

So that was sign number one.

1:32.2

I was in D.C.

1:32.9

Sign number two is it's really cold.

1:36.3

I know this is falling on deaf ears or Mr. New Jersey, but it was a little colder than I was expecting.

1:44.0

Yeah, I know that we're at that phase of life where we talk about weather and are like, It was a little colder than I was expecting.

1:50.6

Yeah, I know that we're that phase of life where we talk about weather and are like self-aware about how ridiculously old we sound.

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