Bill Simmons… STOP Gatekeeping NBA Media! & NBPA: Investigate Ace Bailey NOW! | Perk UNPLUGGED

Road Trippin’

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Kendrick Perkins couldn't wait to GO OFF on Perk Unplugged! Perk covers why Bill Simmons should stop gatekeeping NBA discourse, and takes a good hard look at Ace Bailey and the people who surround him.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to Road Trip and ad-free right now.
0:04.1	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.1	In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Don Phillips was at the center of the UK's dance music explosion.
0:16.4	By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle,
0:23.1	with his friend Bruno Pereira.
0:25.6	In 2025, so many questions remain.
0:30.2	I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.
0:34.0	Listen to Missing in the Amazon wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.9	Bill, y'all separated over a decade ago And I'm talking about you in ESPN
0:42.9	ESPN can't fight
0:45.1	Without you having something to say about it
0:47.2	If they pass gas, you wanted to smell like perfume.
0:50.7	Why? That's not how it is.
1:00.0	Damn it and I couldn't wait, but I'm back in it. I'm back to you guys.
1:05.4	I appreciate you guys. I know it's Friday. I know it's usually Perk Sunday, you know what I'm saying. Perk unplug is what we're calling it on Sundays, but I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait.
1:11.6	I was having anxiety.
1:12.6	I needed to get this off my chest when it comes down to Bill Simmons,
1:17.6	when it comes down to this Ais Bailey situation.
1:20.6	Here we are road-tripping.
1:22.6	I'm missing the crew, the family, you know what I mean, but we'll be back later on this week.
1:28.6	Allie, you know, she's holding it down, you know what I'm saying, as she do.
1:32.5	Emmy Award winner, you know what I mean?
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