A Quarantine Mailbag, Plus Michael Lewis and Jason Bateman

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons answers a bunch of listener-submitted mailbag questions (2:10), before he is joined by author Michael Lewis to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of youth sports being cancelled, what a return to sports arenas may look like, the most interesting coaches, and more (33:55). Lastly, Bill talks with actor and director Jason Bateman about Season 3 of his Netflix series 'Ozark' as well as the HBO miniseries 'The Outsider,' his evolution as a director, reactions to 'The Last Dance,' the '30 for 30' documentary series, quarantine life, bringing back baseball movies and sitcoms, and more (1:39:20). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:04.1	zipper cruder. We were heading toward month four of the quarantine. We know when sports comes
0:09.2	back a lot of stuff is going to be different from how we go into the games, how we order food and
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0:43.2	to you by the Ringer podcast network where we just launched another new podcast. I'm really proud
0:48.1	of this one. It's called Higher Learning with Van Lathen and Rachel Lindsay and they talked about
0:54.0	a whole bunch of stuff in their first episode, which you can find right now on Spotify and on Apple.
0:59.6	They talked about the George Floyd tragedy. They talked about Doja Cat. They talked about
1:06.5	Joe Biden going on with Charlemagne. They talked about, oh man, the bachelor, whether the bachelor
1:16.5	is secretly racist, a lot of good stuff in this podcast. You can check it out wherever you get
1:22.6	your podcasts. Also, check out the ringer.com where we continue to do great stuff on sports and
1:28.0	pop culture as well. Very proud of everybody over there these last three months. Coming up, I'm
1:33.9	going to do a little mailbag at the top and then we're going to have Michael Lewis, the famous author.
1:41.2	And then we're going to have Jason Bateman who's going to talk about season three of Ozark and
1:45.7	life in quarantine. So this is a good podcast. A lot of stuff going on. Very excited to have the
1:50.2	mailbag back. But first, our friends from Pro Jam.
2:12.8	All right, we don't have the last dance with Michael Jordan anymore. We don't have celebrity
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