The Holiday Mailbag Episode

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! Today's episode is a special holiday mailbag episode wherein Bryan and Joel answer your questions, as well as some they have for each other. The show starts out with a discussion about what media they enjoy in their free time (02:29) before they dive into questions like “What was the most overcovered story this year?” (12:06), “What publication would you bring back from the grave?” (24:16), and “What are your favorite book finds of the last five years?” (40:45). All that and more, here on The Press Box. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel Anderson Producer: Bruce Baldwin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, media and consumers. Welcome to press box. Welcome to what might be the final
0:10.0	press box of 2025. But Joel, you never know when important journalism news could break. And you and I are back at the barricades once again.
0:20.0	I know. What would be a reason for an emergency press box pod? I mean, like, would somebody have to die or would, I mean, it wouldn't be like to talk about Sharon Moore, right? Like, we wouldn't do an emergency pot on that. No, that's emergency tailgate.
0:38.5	Yeah, that's emergency tailgate.
0:39.5	We didn't even do that.
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:42.1	Yeah, we don't know what the other developments are going to be in that case for sure.
0:46.0	You got Brian Curtis Joel Anderson, producer Bruce Baldwin here.
0:49.1	Joel, we thought we'd do a mailbag episode.
0:51.8	Oh, yeah, man.
0:53.0	That's a very end of the year show thing to do.
0:57.8	It is.
0:58.7	It's a gimmick, you might say.
1:00.2	But let me put kind of a classic coat of paint on this because when Shoemaker and I were
1:05.4	researching the New Yorker episode, I was looking in the very early 1920s history of the New Yorker, and they would occasionally
1:14.0	print letters from readers under the heading Our Disillusion Correspondence.
1:20.4	That's funny.
1:21.9	So let's call this mailbag episode our disillusioned listeners.
1:25.5	All right.
1:26.3	Even if they're mostly still illusion.
1:28.4	I think so.
1:29.1	Yeah.
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