The Night Everyone Thought Twitter Was Going to Die
The Press Box
The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup and what better way to prepare |
| 0:07.6 | than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Brian Phillips, I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup, |
| 0:18.0 | told through the stories of 22 iconic goals. |
| 0:22.2 | The show's called 22 Goals, |
| 0:24.5 | it's out now on the Rinner Podcast Network and we're having so much fun. |
| 0:32.4 | David? |
| 0:33.4 | Yes. |
| 0:34.6 | A lot of people were worried Twitter might die last night. |
| 0:39.4 | So this is a test of our press box emergency broadcast system for reporters. |
| 0:47.3 | If Twitter dies, please tune to this podcast where David and I will be offering |
| 0:52.7 | instructions on essential journalistic functions. |
| 0:57.9 | For instance, what new site can journalists use to relentlessly promote their own work? |
| 1:05.0 | If Twitter dies, we will tell journalists where they can post photos of empty football |
| 1:09.4 | fields taken from the press box and add the caption, my office for the day. |
| 1:15.6 | If Twitter dies, we will use this podcast to tell journalists what site they can use |
| 1:19.9 | to casually mention it's their birthday and also post again the next day to thank everyone |
| 1:26.7 | for the birthday wishes. |
| 1:28.6 | Thus inspiring yet another wave of attention. |
| 1:32.0 | And finally, David, if Twitter dies, we will use this podcast to tell journalists where |
| 1:36.6 | they can announce to the world that they are changing journalism jobs, but not actually |
| 1:42.1 | mention what their next job is. |
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