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The Press Box

What Will the Republican National Convention Look Like? Plus, Sports Announcer Disasters and Ben Jacobs on Kanye for President.

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Republican National Convention kicks off today. Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down what we can expect (2:58). Then, they discuss sports announcer meltdowns during the pandemic and weigh in on some of the racist, homophobic, misogynistic comments from some of the most popular announcers (20:55). Then political writer Ben Jacobs joins to discuss his journey covering the Kanye West campaign (30:30). Plus: The Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained Pun-Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David Turner announced today that it has reached a contract extension with former NBA player

0:07.6

Shaquille O'Neal, a star of their NBA studio show.

0:13.0

What I want to know is, is Shaqton a fool a great strain pun or a terrible strain pun?

0:20.5

Oh man, well, I think I have to, I'm leaning towards the latter.

0:26.0

The first few times that I heard it, I could not even register what the pun was playing

0:30.8

off of.

0:31.8

I mean, I know I can fool, but like Shaqton is such a weird thing that I wasn't quite

0:36.4

sure what I was looking at, but or hearing.

0:39.5

But with time, every bad pun becomes a great pun.

0:42.5

You know what I mean?

0:43.5

With repetition, dads across the world can attest to this.

0:48.1

With repetition, every bad joke, every bad pun becomes wonderful.

0:52.4

And now it's just so, the fact that it doesn't sound like anything rolling out the tongue

1:00.0

is part of what makes it so great.

1:01.5

You're never going to hear the phrase Shaqton a fool and think of anything except Shaquille

1:06.6

O'Neal, like lazily laughing about somebody missing a dunk on inside the NBA.

1:12.8

He's good at branding himself or at least he has been late of late when he's taken over

1:18.9

Papa John's and yeah.

1:21.4

I didn't know until reading this press release that there was a Shaq podcast.

1:25.0

I guess I should just assume everyone has a podcast at this point.

1:28.2

Also did not know he was developing a show called The Business of Basketball with more

1:34.4

details to be announced the later date.

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