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The Press Box

Year-End Listener Mail. Plus, The Undefeated’s Jesse Washington

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker are rounding out the year by answering your Listener Mail (8:05). Then, writer Jesse Washington joins to discuss the writing process for John Thompson’s memoir, ‘I Came As a Shadow’ (38:00). 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

David, the new issue of the New Yorker is filled almost entirely with a single article

0:07.1

about the coronavirus that is written by the great Lawrence Wright.

0:12.1

What I want to know is, what do we think about single story issues of magazines?

0:17.6

I don't want to make light of this because I'm looking forward to reading this.

0:20.8

I have not read it yet and I'm sure I will eagerly read every word or at least every other

0:25.2

word.

0:26.2

But really, you're really going to read everywhere.

0:29.2

Okay, listen, this is not the first time this has been done.

0:33.4

There's been other, you were mentioning other great important stories that have taken

0:36.8

up entire magazines.

0:37.8

It's probably.

0:38.8

Perotima, John Grishy.

0:39.8

Right, right, Thompson did this for an ESPN magazine of memory serves.

0:44.3

And yet the only thing where my mind goes now and probably it's because of the season

0:48.4

and also because of the, inordinate amount of time I've spent in checkout lines or, you

0:52.5

know, in grocery stores or whatever compared to previous points in my life.

0:58.8

The single issue holiday magazine where it's like every, there's no regular magazine.

1:05.2

I don't even think regular magazines come out anymore.

1:07.8

They just have, if you do, there's just like the trash celebrity magazines, which I love

1:12.8

in that trash in a negative way.

1:14.4

But I then just like the 84 page like Jesus, the real story, the magazine or like.

1:21.2

Say the clause is coming to town.

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