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Trump Takes on Amazon (Again), ESPN’s New Morning Show, and the Next Installment in the Chronicles of Tiger Woods | The Press Box (Ep. 449)

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Ringer’s David Shoemaker and Bryan Curtis discuss President Trump and Amazon’s latest spat (2:30), ESPN’s new morning show ‘Get Up!’ (18:05), and the latest Tiger Woods tell-all biography (35:51). You can find the official Ringer web store here: http://bit.ly/ringershop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:08.8

David Donald Trump called Roseanne after the premiere of her rebooted sitcom

0:15.2

drew 18 plus million viewers. What I want to know is, what other media members would you like to see

0:22.8

Trump call? Is it true self-serving to hope that he calls Bill Simmons when the Andre the Giant

0:27.7

documentary? I think that might actually have or he'd probably call Vince. He'd call Vince

0:32.2

with man. It'd be Vince. Yeah, absolutely. It's a great work on that wonderful documentary.

0:37.4

It is funny because in the old days, right, you got the presidential phone call when you won the

0:40.8

Super Bowl, right? Bill Clinton was not calling the producers of ER and saying congrats on the

0:45.3

great ratings, right? You may have been. I mean, we don't know. I got a few more for you. He'd

0:50.8

call my green berg after the premiere of Get Up. Oh yeah, I think I'd like to hear the recording

0:55.2

of that telephone call. I think I'd prefer to hear the recording if he called Jalen, but go ahead.

1:00.0

I'd like to hear that too or be to leave him better. How about novelist Ernest Klein after the

1:05.6

strong opening of Ready Player One? I was thinking of Spielberg, that's much better. You have

1:10.7

approved that a high concept yet poorly written novel can become a lucrative phone franchise.

1:18.1

I think that's kind of exactly what he would say. We're the kind of guys who aren't above a

1:21.9

self-serving congratulatory phone call. This is the press box on the Ringer podcast network.

1:32.2

The press box is the media podcast where you're not allowed to use the phrase,

1:36.0

the barstoolization of the sports media because I got a tweet saying I use that phrase all the time

1:41.4

and I am ashamed. We are Brian Curtis and David Schumacher of the Ringer. If you want some

1:45.7

recent content by us, you can read my non-review review of the new ESPN Morning Show Get Up.

1:50.8

You can listen to the Mass Man Show on the road to WrestleMania and for you golf fans,

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