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The Impeachment Mess, the Critics Come for Buttigieg, and Top 10 Lists | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss how Trump considers impeachment something of a foregone conclusion (03:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (24:30), the beginning of the attacks on Pete Buttigieg (27:30), year-end and decade-end top-10 lists (36:00), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:04.4

Throughout the month of December, the Ringer staff will be releasing their year and reviews

0:07.9

covering the best and worst of 2019 in sports, TV, movies, music, and more.

0:13.6

This week we're getting started with Shay Serrano and Rob Harvilla on the best albums of the

0:17.3

year and Alison Herman and Chris Ryan break down the best TV shows.

0:21.1

We'll have tons more in the coming weeks so make sure to check it out on theRinger.com.

0:30.7

David, during this week's impeachment hearings, Stanford professor Pamela Carlin said the following,

0:40.2

the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. So while the president can name his son,

0:46.7

Baron, he cannot make him a Baron.

0:51.3

Kyle, that's a really bad joke. Republicans took offense. What I want to know is, is there anything

1:04.6

lamer that we could possibly make into a controversy? They were mad because the joke referenced

1:15.9

the president's son full stop? Yeah, we brought the son into it. How dare you bring it?

1:23.0

First of all, it's not really making fun of the son. It's just like referencing his name to make

1:26.5

it really bad joke. I take more offense to the joke. I mean, if you're going to...

1:32.4

So we're saying Stanford law professors should bring better material to the...

1:37.2

I mean, if you're good, listen, I guess there should be some bar to like making a joke that

1:41.0

all references the president's son. So yeah, if you're going to come with it, you got to come

1:47.6

a little bit stronger. Save it for like a right to Baron Arms joke or the...

1:54.1

Looks like he needs a Baron hug or something. That's not even that good. Baron a grudge?

1:58.3

That would be a good one. Oh, a Baron wasteland. Oh, that's it. That's it.

2:02.4

That's it. In 2019, a Baron wasteland. There you go. I'm going with that. And the segment right here,

2:06.6

we are the Beer Baron immediate podcast. This is the press box, a part of the Ringer podcast network.

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