Watching History on Cable News, Plus a Pop Culture Grab Bag

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about what it was like watching the last 48 hours unfold on cable news and whether or not this is the right medium for this moment (1:34). Then, they get into a grab bag of pop culture topics, including the news that ‘Loki’ executive producer Michael Waldron is being tapped to write a ‘Star Wars’ movie (22:51), The Watch Facebook group’s top 10 TV shows of 2020 (37:30), and Hayao Miyazaki films (44:33). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I need support staff to clear the room.
0:04.0	Stand up and walk now!
0:06.2	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:07.9	My name is Chris Ryan.
0:08.9	I am an editor at TheRigger.com and joining me on the other line as always, it's Andy
0:13.7	Grewell!
0:14.7	Hey buddy, how are you doing today?
0:17.1	I'm doing great.
0:18.1	Today kind of a weird, we're a grabback of an episode obviously with so much happening
0:23.2	in the world.
0:24.2	It's hard to concentrate on TV and pop culture but Andy and I will talk a little bit about
0:28.4	both, all of it happening on The Watch coming up next.
0:32.4	Alright man, what's going on?
0:42.1	It's Thursday.
0:43.1	I don't know about you but I watched probably like 13 hours of television yesterday,
0:49.1	community-only.
0:50.1	Unbelieble, worst West Wing season ever.
0:52.9	But none of it obviously TV that we would usually talk about on this program.
0:57.1	We're not really a news program, we're not really a current events program, all jokes
1:00.5	aside.
1:01.5	But it's sort of strange because I think even a day like yesterday winds up kind of just
1:06.5	sucking up everything around it.
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