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🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | David, we're gonna talk about the fur over the New York Times's op-ed page today. |
0:06.2 | But first, I want to ask you, what's the most obnoxiously contrarian piece you could write on your beat? |
0:13.8 | Wow, on my beat, my beat being professional wrestling. |
0:18.2 | Yeah. |
0:19.2 | One of my childhood idols, Jeff Jarich, is going to be inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame, |
0:22.6 | and I think writing and support of him, if judging by the Twitter reaction today is correct, |
0:28.2 | writing and support of him would be incredibly contrarian, surprised to me. |
0:31.9 | But honestly, I think the best answer to your question would be to write a piece saying |
0:36.2 | wrestlers shouldn't have health insurance and should continue to be freelance employees of WWE. |
0:42.0 | I don't agree with that, but I could make that contrarian argument. |
0:45.8 | Yeah, a free market at work kind of thing. |
0:47.5 | Yeah, I think mine would be a defensive bar stool. |
0:51.6 | The headline is something like, we're all stuolies now. |
0:54.3 | You know, and I argue that we media-elites writer and danger of becoming too disconnected. |
1:00.4 | To be sure, barstools Rihanna piece was incredibly tasteless and then do kind of a mini list of atrocities, right? |
1:05.9 | Before returning to the thesis of the piece. |
1:08.5 | That's, I'm channelling my inner bread, Steven's here. |
1:10.4 | That's, that's, I think I would do it. |
1:11.8 | We will offer more brain dead clickbait on the press box, which is part of the Ringer podcast network. |
1:17.1 | The press box is the media podcast where you're not allowed to send thoughts and prayers to anybody. |
1:27.8 | We are Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker of the Ringer. |
1:30.6 | If you want some recent content by us, you can find David Gacking with the Starter's |
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