Bill Simmons on Podcasting, Writing, Doing TV, and Being a Fan

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Bryan is joined by Bill Simmons to discuss his journey in podcasting, his writing career, favorite moments, and what he sees next for media. Hosts: Bryan Curtis Guest: Bill Simmons Associate Producer: Stefan Anderson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Derek Thompson.
0:03.2	The news cycle these days is absolute madness.
0:05.6	Pandemic, inflation, war, crypto.
0:08.6	It's too much.
0:09.9	That's why my podcast, Plain English, breaks down the news twice a week to be simple, memorable,
0:16.5	and when it's appropriate, fun.
0:18.6	No blather, no fluff, just the world's most important stories with fresh context and takeaways
0:23.6	you'll actually remember.
0:25.4	This is the Plain English Free on Spotify.
0:32.4	The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:39.7	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it
0:44.3	was all wrapped up, it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like
0:47.6	a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so, I guess, for that was a life changer
0:51.4	and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one, change me a little.
0:56.4	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
1:01.4	What the hell?
1:03.4	What the hell?
1:05.4	You're kidding me!
1:07.4	I'm a real idiot!
1:09.4	But look at this thing, you're kidding me!
1:17.4	Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football.
1:20.1	You're spicy Italian flavors.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.