A Memorable NBA Reopening, Plus: Talking NFL With Kyle Brandt

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on the NBA restart, including Lakers-Clippers, Pelicans-Jazz, the NBA broadcast, NBA awards, and more (4:40). Next he talks with NFL Network's Kyle Brandt about his new Ringer podcast '10 Questions With Kyle Brandt,' the seemingly precarious 2020 NFL season, Brandt's time on 'The Real World: Chicago,' the golden age of MTV's 'The Challenge,' the evolution of reality TV, his recent two-hour interview with Aaron Rodgers, nostalgic NFL talk, and more (35:05). Finally Bill talks with his daughter, Zoe Simmons, about teen culture during quarantine (1:41:06). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight's special, the NBA is back!
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0:47.3	be talking about the top of this podcast. If you're missing the sports bar as much as we are,
0:52.3	you need to get the Buffalo Wild Wings to watch all the action. The beer is cold. The wings come in
0:57.6	24 sauces and seasonings. Fans can still be fans. And if you'd rather watch at home, make sure you watch
1:06.8	with a wing bundle. You do what you want to do. Just make sure wings are involved. Please drink
1:12.4	responsibly. Shratt also mentioned the ringer ambiae show, which is going to be back in full force
1:18.0	to mismatch with a verno and koc. That's happening this week. It should be up late tonight or
1:23.5	early tomorrow morning. And then Monday, we have a new weekly podcast on the ringer ambiae show
1:32.0	that we'll be tweeting about. I think tomorrow or maybe early Monday morning, I'll tell you more
1:37.8	about it on Sunday's podcast. But very excited about this. We have a couple of new additions
1:42.8	coming to the ringer that I am super pumped about. So that's happening. Hey,
1:48.4	wanted to mention Spotify really quickly. Thanks to everybody out there who's been spread in the
1:52.7	word for man. We're coming up. It was October 2015 when we launched this podcast. It was the first
2:00.3	one on the ringer podcast network. trivia question. What was the second one? It was channel 33,
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