Bucks in Trouble, McGregor’s Comeback, and a Yankees Eulogy With Ben Thompson, Ariel Helwani, and JackO

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by business/tech analyst and massive Bucks fan Ben Thompson to discuss the Suns’ Game 2 Finals win and the silver linings for Game 3 in Milwaukee (1:45). Then Bill talks to MMA journalist Ariel Helwani about covering the UFC, the excitement of the pre-fight weigh-in, UFC competitors, the upcoming McGregor-Poirier fight at UFC 264, and more (32:35). Finally Bill talks to his old friend JackO about the Yankees and whether they missed their “title window” (1:31:50). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Ariel Helwani, JackO, and Ben Thompson Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, I'm Shay Serrano, and I'm Brandon Jinks Jenkins.
0:06.4	We have a new show called No Skips with Jinks and Shay, and we discussed the most unskippable
0:10.9	albums in hip hop history.
0:12.5	New episodes drop on Thursdays, only on Spotify.
0:15.6	We're also brought to you by TheRinger.com, as well as the Ringer podcast network.
0:21.3	We have a new rewatch, while it's coming on Monday next week.
0:24.3	I'm not going to tell you the movie.
0:27.2	It's a lighter.
0:28.2	It's a lighter.
0:29.2	It might be a rom-com.
0:30.9	Head to mix it up a tiny bit.
0:33.7	Hope you're checking out Ringer NBA show and the Resillow show and all the great sports
0:37.6	podcasts we have, as well as Flying Coach, which has been really, really good.
0:43.2	And then this week they show him a big Peter Schreger.
0:46.1	They had Kyle Shanahan on, and he was really candid about his two big Super Bowl losses.
0:50.8	I would highly recommend that podcast coming up.
0:54.1	Ben Thompson from the Stratekery blog, huge bucks fan.
0:58.3	I corralled him into doing this post game, Bucks, Suns podcast with me.
1:04.3	Area Hawani, who is joining us on Greenroom all weekend for this UFC event.
1:11.2	We're going to talk about that, his relationship with UFC, Conor McGregor, a whole bunch of
1:15.8	things.
1:16.8	And then my buddy, Jacko, I basically forced him to come on because the AC season is
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