Some core memories from the Jelly Belly factory tour - Fairfield, CA

Our MARCH ISSUE is live: Me and @joelanderson.bsky.social on James Talarico and the Democrats' quest to win in Texas. With contributions from @gregcasar.bsky.social and @adamwren.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4AUt...

Our MARCH ISSUE is live: Me and @joelanderson.bsky.social on James Talarico and the Democrats' quest to win in Texas. With contributions from @gregcasar.bsky.social and @adamwren.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4AUt...

"For him to nod at Bari Weiss’s preferred politics, that doesn’t surprise me. I don’t remember Tony having politics to begin with.” A very revealing @bryancurtis.bsky.social quote in this scathing piece on Tony Dokoupil's "rise" to CBS anchor from humble roots as hair model and Newsweek scribe.

Two events that always appear in tandem.

Arsenio Hall to @jasonzinoman.bsky.social on the fate of late night. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...

Pod is live! open.spotify.com/episode/4AUt...

Coming Monday: The MARCH ISSUE of the Press Box, with me and fellow Texan @joelanderson.bsky.social. We’ll talk about James Talarico and a losing streak that’s even longer than the Cowboys’. Cover by @davidshoemaker.bsky.social.

God bless used bookstores

First core memory of spring break: The pancake machine at the Fresno Holiday Inn Express

And here’s the pod: open.spotify.com/episode/33vA...

Senator Chris Murphy dropped by Ringer HQ today to talk about Iran, breaking up Paramount, prediction markets, 2028, Robert Caro, and Andor. New pod up tonight!

NEW @thepressbox.bsky.social: The Jay-Z interview in @gqmagazine.bsky.social. Is podcasting rotting sportswriter's brains? via @kendallbaker.bsky.social. SAS vs. Whitlock. McAfee vs. Orlovsky on Fernando vs Ty. And @bryancurtis.bsky.social' fave Hov album. 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/0v1d...

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

Albert Zuckerman, the man who convinced Michael Lewis to ask for half his book sales instead of taking an advance www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

"Deighton maintained that two things destroy writers: alcohol and praise. He took care to avoid both." @alexpreston.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/32e4...

slowly inching closer to the point where podcasts become full ass cable/daytime tv and cable becomes podcasts

What happens when legions of reporters are calling Donald Trump's cellphone? The new episode of the Press Box is right here: open.spotify.com/episode/4vWF...

Len Deighton on writing spy novels: "All you need is a profound inferiority complex, no training as a writer and growing up a victim of the English class system." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

New PRESS BOX: The Mystery of Trump's Cellphone What JD Vance Really Thinks Washington's Newspaper War Our Shoplifting Crisis Tales from Covering the Hill w/ the NY Times' Carl Hulse open.spotify.com/episode/4vWF...

New PRESS BOX: The Mystery of Trump's Cellphone What JD Vance Really Thinks Washington's Newspaper War Our Shoplifting Crisis Tales from Covering the Hill w/ the NY Times' Carl Hulse open.spotify.com/episode/4vWF...

Former Green Beret Behind a Failed Coup in Venezuela Is on the Run www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...

New PRESS BOX w/ @joelanderson.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth's PR War NFL + Thanksgiving Schefty + Rap Sheet J School 10 Years of Spotlight + the End of the Heroic Journalist open.spotify.com/episode/7wRP...

New PRESS BOX w/ @joelanderson.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth's PR War NFL + Thanksgiving Schefty + Rap Sheet J School 10 Years of Spotlight + the End of the Heroic Journalist open.spotify.com/episode/7wRP...

Polymarket, Kalshi, and number stations with the luminous @bryancurtis.bsky.social.

"Write what you see, brother." Covering the Lakers beat meant translating Shaq's subtweets. They were often about Kobe. Full interview w/ @howardbeck.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/7h3a...

When Lakers beat writers covered Shaquille O'Neal, @howardbeck.bsky.social says, Shaq might pick them and carry them around the locker room. Howard's Tales from the Locker Room is here: open.spotify.com/episode/7h3a...

New PRESS BOX w/ @davidshoemaker.bsky.social: Trump's Iran Head Fakes Another CBS Defection Judy Blume Stephen A Not For President Plus: @howardbeck.bsky.social's Tales from the Lakers Locker Room. Great stories about covering Kobe, Shaq, Phil Jackson, and more. open.spotify.com/episode/7h3a...

New PRESS BOX w/ @davidshoemaker.bsky.social: Trump's Iran Head Fakes Another CBS Defection Judy Blume Stephen A Not For President Plus: @howardbeck.bsky.social's Tales from the Lakers Locker Room. Great stories about covering Kobe, Shaq, Phil Jackson, and more. open.spotify.com/episode/7h3a...

Media Piss Test h/t Rustin Dodd www.foxnews.com/world/irans-...

When writing about how to end a war, there’s got to be a better word than “offramp.”

A Globe-Trotting U.S. Citizen Landed in a Venezuelan Hell www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

"London can withstand anything: the Great Fire, the Blitz, the films of Richard Curtis, the pandemic." www.ft.com/content/fa5c...

We asked @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: What goes through your mind when you see these three reporters lurking in the Capitol hallways? Manu Raju Jake Sherman Chad Pergram Full interview with me and @joelanderson.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/0DLu...

Hakeem Jeffries on Paramount-WBD: "I'm not sure that the merger should even be allowed... Let's not assume this is a done deal. We should be all hands on deck, ten toes down to try to stop it from happening." Full pod w/ me and @joelanderson.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/0DLu...

New PRESS BOX: @joelanderson.bsky.social and I interviewed @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social about Iran, Epstein, the Democrats' bumper-sticker message for 2026, Paramount-WBD, and much more. open.spotify.com/episode/0DLu...

Wolf Blitzer—and Monica Lewinsky's lawyer—had to outwit the paparazzi. Here's how they did it. Full interview: open.spotify.com/episode/5LlG...

The secret world of classic Pizza Huts www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/d...

New PRESS BOX pod: I went to CNN's Washington headquarters and interviewed Wolf Blitzer about five big stories he covered: the Gulf War, Clinton-Lewinsky, 9/11, and Obama and Trump's first campaigns for the presidency. There are lots of stories. open.spotify.com/episode/5LlG...

Wolf Blitzer—and Monica Lewinsky's lawyer—had to outwit the paparazzi. Here's how they did it. Full interview: open.spotify.com/episode/5LlG...

New PRESS BOX pod: I went to CNN's Washington headquarters and interviewed Wolf Blitzer about five big stories he covered: the Gulf War, Clinton-Lewinsky, 9/11, and Obama and Trump's first campaigns for the presidency. There are lots of stories. open.spotify.com/episode/5LlG...

I haven’t heard Texas counties called out by name like this since I watched the weather as a kid.

New PRESS BOX: Iran Paramount + CNN Paramount + Sports A Report From Capitol Hill w/ @kaine.senate.gov open.spotify.com/episode/6Bxz...

New PRESS BOX: Iran Paramount + CNN Paramount + Sports A Report From Capitol Hill w/ @kaine.senate.gov open.spotify.com/episode/6Bxz...

I watched Oliver Stone's JFK so many times that I took my wife to visit David Ferrie's grave in New Orleans. More in our Kennedys podcast right here: open.spotify.com/episode/7117...

I watched Oliver Stone's JFK so many times that I took my wife to visit David Ferrie's grave in New Orleans. More in our Kennedys podcast right here: open.spotify.com/episode/7117...

"It would be pleasing to report that [Chris] Anderson, who identified the [long tail], took his own advice and started up a classics imprint ... In fact, he chose to generate another sort of buzz. He went into the drone business." www.ft.com/content/1e4b...

Enjoyed the “Kind Bros” section of Capitol Hill Books, which features Krakauer, Gladwell, Larson, and McPhee.

New PRESS BOX: For our February Issue, the great @akdobbins.bsky.social and I reviewed the Ryan Murphy/JFK Jr. series and talked about why the Kennedy Dynasty will never end. Cover, as always, by @davidshoemaker.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/7117...