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The Ringer&#039;s Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss the media spectacle surrounding Donald Trump&#039;s alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels (03:00), the controversy following New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo&#039;s social media experiment (22:00), and how Michael Smith&#039;s departure from &#039;SportsCenter&#039; reflects ESPN&#039;s programming problem (34:30). 
 
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Bryan Curtis is the editor-at-large of The Ringer and cohost of ‘The Press Box’ podcast. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, he's written for The New Republic, Slate, Play, and Grantland. He plays a deejay in a movie about the end of the world.

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David Shoemaker is the host of The Masked Man Show With Kaz and the author of ‘The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling.’

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