An Awesome ‘F1’ Movie and Superman Expectations With Van Lathan and Charles Holmes

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Van Lathan Jr. to talk about Joseph Kosinski’s ‘F1’ film, starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris (2:16), before discussing Pitt’s acting career. Then, Charles Holmes joins the pod to try to convince Bill to watch James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ (59:01). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Van Lathan Jr. and Charles Holmes Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is presented by State Farm®. Dishing the assists you need off the court. State Farm® with the Assist. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to by the Ringer podcast network. We put up Jaws 2 on the
0:35.5	rewatchables on Monday night, and it was one of the silliest
0:39.0	podcasts we've done in the last couple of years, actually, me and fantasy and Chris had a great
0:43.4	time, a lot of laughs. We have, it's complicated coming next Monday because we hadn't done a rom-com
0:48.6	in a while. You can watch all of these on the Ring of Movies YouTube channel as well.
0:52.5	You can watch this podcast on the Bill Simmons
0:54.3	YouTube channel. You're probably noticing after years and years and years of complaints,
1:01.1	my camera finally looks pretty good. We might have spent some time. I have not decorated this
1:07.6	office yet, but I was able to grab some cardboard cutouts of Slice
1:12.2	Stallone and Crocket and Tubbs and at least have them shepherd me. You can see Bird and Magic's
1:18.4	feet in the back, but we're going to be decorating this at some point. But we finally went high
1:23.0	tech. I've heard your complaints. I'm a man of the people. You guys want a better camera quality.
1:28.5	Well, now you have it.
1:29.9	Coming up later, Van Lathen is going to talk to me about F1,
1:33.2	a spectacular sports movie with Brad Pitt that's out in the theaters now.
1:36.6	We tried not to do a lot of spoilers until the end of the pod,
1:43.1	but we talked for like an hour about the movies so like in the last
1:45.8	10 minutes of that we start talking a little bit about some heavy plot stuff and then at the end
1:51.3	charles holmes came on with van that's van's midnight boys partner and we talked about whether
1:57.2	i should see super bad or not and where i stand with the ringerverse, because I know that's keeping you up at night.
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