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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Five NBA Playoff Takes, Plus David Letterman’s First-Ever BS Pod Appearance (We Did It!!!)

5/8/20261 hr 58 min

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons give his thoughts on various topics around the NBA with Round 2 of the playoffs well underway (3:06). Then, David Letterman comes on to talk about his upbringing, the evolution of talk shows, sports, and much, much more! (38:51). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: David Letterman Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clips

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Never Give Up The Chair
Letterman Rates The Hosts
Why Jordan Never Came Back
Dave’s NFL Overtime Fix
Retirement Didn’t Hit Right Away
Raise The Rim Each Quarter
Why Netflix Still Works
Caitlin Clark Admiration
Moonves In The Hot Seat
The Dark Year After Failure

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. Bill Simmons· Host0:11

    [upbeat jingle] [upbeat music] The Bill Simmons Podcast brought to you by FanDuel. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new Rewatchables on Monday. We did There's Something About Mary, and then this Monday, because we're doing comedies all month for Netflix as a Joke month, I did Tropic Thunder with Chris Ryan and Van Lathan, and Joel Anderson, first time for him on the pod. So that's coming, uh, at some point Monday afternoon. Stay tuned for that one. Uh, for this podcast, I'm gonna freelance a little bit at the top, because we had two basketball games tonight. I had a lot of, uh, a lot of scattered thoughts. Um, but I really wanted to get to our guest, because David Letterman, after ... I've had this podcast since 2007, so this is the 20th year I've had the podcast. Uh, and he was always bucket list, someday, maybe, um, really number one for a long, long time, ever since I had ... I had Larry Bird in 2012, and then really after that it was Letterman. Um, my three guys growing up were Bird, Letterman, Eddie Murphy. So I guess now Eddie Murphy moves into the pole position of guy I really need to get on my podcast. But, uh,

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