Trump’s Campaign of Self-Sabotage. Plus, The Washington Post’s Robert Costa.

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the Trump campaign after Trump declined to participate in a virtual presidential debate. They then weigh in on the re-reporting of The New York Times' narrative podcast, ‘Caliphate.’ Plus, The Washington Post’s Robert Costa joins to discuss covering politics, interviewing Trump, and booking John Mayer for his senior prom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David, this week the print edition of the New Yorker magazine made a reference to the
0:06.0	press box.
0:08.0	Just one catch.
0:09.0	They didn't use the name the press box.
0:11.8	They called us a ringer podcast.
0:15.3	What I want to know is should we be flattered or offended?
0:19.2	First of all, we should always be flattered.
0:23.2	The closer we can be associated with the mothership, the better, despite our weekly efforts
0:28.6	to be disassociated.
0:31.5	I found it humorous that one there was the implication that everybody reading the magazine
0:36.9	would be familiar enough with the ringer to get the point, but also that they would
0:42.1	be unaware enough about the ringer to think that everything that we put out is the Bill
0:46.9	Simmons podcast.
0:48.5	So, yeah, I guess on another show it might be stunning that we would stop talking about
0:55.1	sports long enough to discuss the Lincoln project.
0:59.8	Unfortunately, on the press box, we probably spend a lot more, a lot too much time talking
1:04.8	about the Lincoln project and such topics and not enough time talking about the various
1:10.6	tiers of basketball's Hall of Fame.
1:14.1	Yes, I did love that.
1:15.8	We'd been having some sprawling basketball conversation.
1:18.4	I was like, hey, David, by the way, do you see this Lincoln project thing?
1:23.5	I do feel recognition with the outside media is kind of a three-step process.
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