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The Press Box

The NFL Is Having an NBA Offseason. Plus, Lou Dobbs is Canceled.

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the similarities between this year’s NFL offseason and a typical NBA offseason (3:50). Then they discuss recent media transactions, such as Fox News canceling Lou Dobbs’s show and Donald McNeil Jr. leaving The New York Times (20:30). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David, a very interesting nugget in Friday's New York Times, Fox News's Janine Puro,

0:09.0

aka Judge Janine, has a new streaming show called Castles USA, where quote, she visits

0:18.4

Castles around the country.

0:21.5

What I want to know is, what is Castles USA and how did it happen?

0:26.2

What I want to know is, what is the pitch process at Fox News right now?

0:30.0

Can you and I just walk in and just be like, uh, the dogs, where did they come from and

0:35.8

just get the green light?

0:36.8

I mean, what is it?

0:37.9

Okay, I will give Judge Janine this, uh, I would love to see some American Castles.

0:45.5

That's a, that's a thing I would like to see.

0:48.0

Where I, in, in Waco, Texas, there is a castle, uh, just like sitting on a residential

0:53.6

block and I think the chip and Joanna gains own it now, but forever it was just sort of,

0:59.5

with it, with it back when I lived there, it was just sort of sitting, laying, fallow,

1:03.5

uh, across the street from a giant cement gorilla that was painted differently for every

1:08.6

season.

1:09.6

But, um, but yeah, I always wondered about the deals with that castle.

1:13.2

I don't even know what the deal, I can probably, I'm called Google it today, but you know,

1:16.4

when you see a castle in the United States of America, it's normal to wonder what the hell

1:21.9

that, does that thing do in there?

1:23.5

Well, that was my question.

1:24.5

How many American castles are there going to be to sustain this show?

1:30.2

I know of Hearst Castle.

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