A Kevin Wildes–Dave Jacoby Reunion, Plus Freddie Gibbs Finally Comes On

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Wildes and David Jacoby to cover a wide-ranging list of topics, including NBA All-Star Weekend, LeBron James’s future in Los Angeles, and Aaron Rodgers on social media. Finally, Kevin and Jacoby pitch Bill on some half-baked ideas about Tom Brady, target scoring in basketball, and more (2:38). Then, Bill is joined by rapper Freddie Gibbs to talk about his experiences in the music industry, the similarities between rappers and athletes, his future in movies, and more (66:56). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin Wildes, David Jacoby, Freddie Gibbs Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, I have two dramatic reigning sphere. Not as dramatic as Andy and Red at the end of Shawshank, but dramatic nonetheless. That's next.
0:10.0	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast Network, where I put up a new rewatchables on Sunday night with a Kramer versus Kramer.
0:18.4	It is the fourth and almost last installment of F-Dub Fam in February.
0:23.0	Sean Fantasy, Mallory Rubin and myself, three children of divorce.
0:26.2	I'm talking about the greatest divorce movie of all time. One of the great dramas of all time.
0:30.9	So you can check that one out. We have the ice storm coming next Monday. That's the last episode of F-Dub Fam in February.
0:37.0	And then we'll do some big ones. Yeah, I didn't march. It's time. We'll bang out a couple of bangers.
0:42.6	So that's happening. No fan duels, same game Parley for me this week because there is no NBA until Thursday night.
0:48.8	Maybe I'll do one over the weekend, but we are heating up the Ringer gambling show. You can check it out. John Chistremsky is on there.
0:54.4	Things are going to be on there twice a week. Doing some basketball stuff. Your buddy Joe House is going to be on there.
1:00.2	All that has happened. We're also starting to ramp up the Prestige TV podcast again because
1:05.4	there are some awesome shows coming in March. So this week, Euphoria, Nora and Joana have been breaking that
1:11.3	down every Sunday night. The season finale is next week. So be ready. We'll be doing that on Monday,
1:16.8	morning. I know Joana and VanLath are going to do severance a little bit later this week.
1:21.0	We might have a Euphoria season finale preview on Friday. Not sure.
1:26.9	Possible. But then once we get into next week, there's just a bunch of great shows coming out.
1:32.6	I'm excited to talk about them. Whole rotating cast of people. And if you don't subscribe to Prestige TV podcast yet,
1:39.8	I'm not sure what you're doing. You should be subscribing. So coming up.
1:44.0	My old friends, Dave Jacob and Kevin Wounds, very close on their own right close with me. We've never
1:51.5	been on the same podcast together since I started the ringer. That's happening. And then Freddie
1:56.4	gives. We've been talking about doing a podcast with for 11 years, 12 years, 12 years. Yeah.
2:03.7	One of my son's favorite rappers. He insisted that we drive to go see Freddie and then I bring him.
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