Chuck Klosterman on the Cinema Revival, Sports Tsars, Owners and Commissioners, Analytics, U.S. Soccer Groundhog Day, and State of Reading
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by PayPal. |
| 0:10.1 | We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I did a rewatchable. |
| 0:15.6 | Last week, we did Ali. |
| 0:17.9 | If you missed it, it was our ninth Michael Mann movie. |
| 0:20.4 | And the one we have coming up on Monday, it's a movie that's also on Netflix, by the way. |
| 0:24.2 | She's the one, 30th anniversary. |
| 0:26.9 | Very important Gen X movie. |
| 0:28.5 | We're going to explain all the reasons you should care about this movie. |
| 0:32.1 | It's an interesting one to discuss 30 years later. |
| 0:34.7 | So we have that, and then we have Hitch with Will Smith,va Mendez. That is going to be the week after. So that is the plan. |
| 0:44.2 | Coming up is a long conversation I had with Chuck Kosterman over the weekend. It goes in all the |
| 0:51.9 | directions. It always goes with Chuck and I, sports culture, all kinds of things. And it's a really good one. So if you haven't heard me and Chuck do that, we've been doing these shit since I got my podcast that he's been in 2007. So I don't remember when he started coming on, but we do these a bunch. And this was a rollicking, rollicking effort. So it is all coming |
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