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The Press Box

The Media in Quarantine, the NFL Marches on, and the Biden-Bernie Debate | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss covering the coronavirus from quarantine (02:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (18:15), the NFL’s decision to charge ahead with free agency (21:15), what sportswriters and sports TV people do with themselves when there are no games (31:15), and some of the media lowlights of the pandemic coverage (36:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Media Consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of The Ring Are Here.

0:13.7

This is a press box podcast.

0:15.5

To the end of the show today, we're going to touch on last night's Democratic debate

0:19.3

between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and figure out the state of the race, such as it is.

0:24.4

But our topic today is coronavirus.

0:26.6

I want to talk about the NFL's decision to charge ahead with free agency in the face

0:31.0

of a pandemic.

0:32.4

We'll talk about what sports writers and sports TV people do with themselves.

0:35.8

When there are no games, I want to hit on the misinformation being ladled out to the

0:40.2

public by a rogues gallery of people, including Jerry Falwell, Jr.

0:44.8

But David, I want to start with a weird side effect of this, which is the media in quarantine.

0:52.0

I'm home in Orange County, recording this podcast.

0:54.3

Where are you right now?

0:56.4

I'm in Pennsylvania, Amish country.

1:00.9

Just we just looked at the map to see where the least coronavirus cases were.

1:04.6

And we went straight witness.

1:06.4

It was that that was our solution to the problem.

1:09.4

Yeah, we just found a nice, the family and I found a nice little Airbnb out here

1:14.2

and then and roughly the middle of nowhere, at least in comparison to where we're from.

1:17.8

So it's nice.

1:18.8

If you're a first time listener to the pod, David does not live in Amish country.

1:22.3

This is a direct not yet, not yet.

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