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The Press Box

Woj-gate and Fauci vs. Trump. Plus: Christopher Buckley on Satire in 2020.

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After U.S. Senator Josh Hawley issued a press release about the NBA’s relationship with China, ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski had a few words to say in reply. Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down Woj-gate (1:30). They then talk about the disappearance of Dr. Anthony Fauci from the media, and how the Trump administration appears to be campaigning against the expert (23:30). Then, writer Christopher Buckley joins to discuss his new novel, ‘Make Russia Great Again’ (32:00). 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

Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:03.0

The Ringer's got a brand new show out now about NFL player Cam Newton called the Cam Chronicles.

0:09.0

We'll be releasing it new episodes every Monday for the next six weeks,

0:12.0

but you can binge all six episodes right now for free on Spotify.

0:16.0

Here's a quick trailer.

0:18.0

From N'Ringer, I'm Tyler Artons, hosting a new podcast series, The Cam Chronicles.

0:24.0

And a fell star Cam Newton has always been a complex figure.

0:28.0

Over the past year, I've traveled the country speaking to coaches and teammates, friends and family,

0:33.0

and even briefly said a man himself, trying to unravel the enigma that is Cam Newton.

0:39.0

The Ringer NFL show presents Cam Chronicles.

0:43.0

Listen to the full series now on Spotify.

0:48.0

Hello media consumers.

0:57.0

You've got the press box here, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer with a bunch of good stuff for you today.

1:03.0

We'll talk about the disappearance of Dr. Anthony Fauci, how the Trump administration came to hide and then almost campaign against a coronavirus truth teller.

1:14.0

We'll have a jolly conversation with one of our favorite funny writers, Christopher Buckley, author of the new novel Make Russia great again is Trump the best thing or the worst thing to happen to political satire.

1:27.0

All that plus David guesses a strain pun headline in the overworked Twitter joke of the week.

1:32.0

But David, we got to begin with Wojge gate.

1:35.0

If you're not a sports Twitter person on Friday, US Senator Josh Holly, Republican from Missouri,

1:41.0

sent out a press release about the NBA's relationship with China, Adrian Wojge Narowski, ESPN's all powerful NBA reporter responded to the press release by writing fuck you.

1:55.0

David, I've been like Stephen A Smith in the green room all weekend.

1:59.0

I've just been paced around waiting to talk about this.

2:03.0

I just like I have about a thousand thoughts coursing through my mind, but before we fast forward to like free wojge and liberal ESPN and Clay Travis and all those other things we could go to.

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