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The Rewatchables

‘City Slickers’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Yesterday, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey were podcasters. Today, they are cowboys. We revisit the 1991 comedy ‘City Slickers,’ starring Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, and Daniel Stern. Hosts: Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What if the Len Bias story hosted by Jordan Ritterconn is the ringer's latest narrative podcast?

0:05.6

Episodes 1 and 2 launch on June 9th and you can find new episodes every Wednesday

0:09.8

on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed. Here's a quick trailer.

0:14.8

You've heard his name, Len Bias, 1980's Fienon, second pick in the NBA draft,

0:22.2

and then, Cocaine, Tragedy, one of the most shocking deaths in sports history.

0:28.2

35 years later, Bias' legacy is still making an impact. From Spotify and the ringer podcast

0:35.8

network, this is What If, the Len Bias story. I'm Jordan Ritterconn.

1:05.8

You can find it on there. Really good one. Coming up, I'm not going to quit my job. I'm just going

1:11.6

to do it better.

1:41.6

I'm Henry Havagu.

1:53.3

Alright, we did this in this person. Chris Ryan and Sarah Shanth Finis is here. This movie's

1:57.1

better running joke for us ever since. What was the podcast, Sean? It sounds like it was neighbors.

2:01.6

When Chris Ryan decided that they just don't make them like they used to, they just don't make

2:05.8

them like city slickers. Low and bobble-o. Low games in bobble-oom-antel. Yeah. Just cranking

2:11.5

it out of script with some story. Some set pieces. Some cast. Some angst, some midlife crisis angst.

2:20.8

This is a corny midlife crisis movie that is incredibly rewatchable. It's really entertaining. It

2:28.3

was the fifth biggest movie of 1991. It's cemented Billy Crystal as a star. When you say that,

2:34.3

they don't make them like this anywhere. They actually really don't make movies like this anywhere.

2:39.0

They do like if they do like the dark midlife crisis thing. It gets super dark. It's now you're

2:44.4

the dad and you for you now online doing something horrible. Or they cheat it and the midlife crisis

2:49.2

is happening to a guy who's like two years out of college. Right. That's a sad, broken thing where

2:54.0

it's just like I smoke a lot of weed and I'm dating Catherine Haigle but I got it together in the end.

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