Remembering Chadwick Boseman With Reggie Ugwu. Plus: ‘I May Destroy You’ Finale and an Interview With the Killers' Brandon Flowers.

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chris and Andy are joined by New York Times culture reporter Reggie Ugwu to talk about the life and career of Chadwick Boseman, who passed away on Friday following a private battle with colon cancer (1:32). Plus, Chris and Andy break down the finale and phenomenal season of ‘I May Destroy You’ (25:36), and Andy is joined by the Killers' lead singer Brandon Flowers to talk about their new album, ‘Imploding the Mirage’ (53:16). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Guests: Reggie Ugwu and Brandon Flowers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I need support staff to clear the room.
0:04.0	Stand up and walk now!
0:06.5	Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan.
0:09.0	I am an editor at TheRinger.com and joining me on the other line is always...
0:13.0	It's Andy Greenwald, Andy. What's up, man? Happy Monday.
0:16.0	Happy Monday? Not that happy.
0:18.0	No, I know. So Andy and I have a sad show today because we are paying tribute and remembering Chadwick Boseman.
0:25.0	We passed away on Friday after a battle with Cool and Cancer.
0:29.0	And just one of those...
0:32.0	Just shots in the heart, man. This has happened way too often.
0:36.0	It feels like you know where you get sucked into this kind of...
0:40.0	This kind of spiral of mourning when somebody really meaningful a public figure like this passes away.
0:46.0	Andy, we have a special guest on the show today to talk about Chadwick.
0:50.0	Yes, we are really happy and lucky to have Regi Ugu from The New York Times,
0:55.0	Culture Reporter who profiled Chadwick in 2019 and wrote his obituary over the weekend to join us and just to sort of help us contextualize this news.
1:05.0	Talk about it and then after our conversation with Regi we'll be back.
1:09.0	But a few more thoughts. We then will get into the rest of the show, which will feature finale talk from I Made History, which ended last week.
1:16.0	And then wrapping up the podcast in interview with one of our favorite musicians, Brandon Flowers,
1:21.0	Leadsinger of the Killers, who's new album is really amazing.
1:24.0	But on our main topic today let's get into our conversation with Regi Ugu from The New York Times.
1:30.0	Yeah, let's do it.
1:32.0	Chris and I are excited now to be joined by Culture Reporter for The New York Times, Regi Ugu. Regi, thank you so much for joining us under not ideal circumstances.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1668 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.