Dana White Returns, Plus Knicks Fever With J. Kyle Mann and Bananas vs. CT With Dave Jacoby

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss the Knicks’ win streak, the superb play of Julius Randle, playoff scenarios, and more (3:20). Then Bill talks with UFC president Dana White about his 20 years with the company, how the sport has grown, historically great UFC fighters, how the pandemic's Fight Island came to be, inking a deal with ESPN+, incorporating gambling across major sports, Conor McGregor’s upcoming fight, and more (47:30). Finally Bill talks with ESPN’s David Jacoby about the finale of MTV’s 'The Challenge: Double Agents,' where CT and Amber finished in first place, as well as Bill's million-dollar idea for next season (1:50:00). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Dana White, J. Kyle Mann, David Jacoby Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have a lot of great stuff coming with the ringer NFL show this week and next week as we head toward the NFL draft.
0:06.5	Listen to Danny Kelly's updated big board the moment.
0:09.9	Kevin Clark, North Prince, the daddy, Danny, high fits, Warren Sharps going to be down there a couple of times the ringer NFL show follow the draft and check out our awesome ringer NFL draft guide as well.
0:19.9	Written by Danny Kelly and many other words the NFL draft it's coming. We're also brought to you by the ringer.com as well as the ringer podcast network.
0:30.5	So we're switching the schedule a little bit Sunday Monday next week.
0:34.4	We're running predator on the rewatchables brought a dream key dream cast together for that one.
0:40.2	That is running Sunday night and then my podcast will run Monday and Tuesday and Thursday next week.
0:46.8	So little programming note there coming up.
0:50.2	Here's what we have Kyle man from the ringer.
0:52.2	We're going to talk about Julius Randall and the next and a couple other players named VP race.
0:56.4	We're going to run a long interview I did on Tuesday with Dana White.
1:01.7	You might have heard of him.
1:02.5	He runs UFC about what's going on with them.
1:05.7	Big pay per view coming up for them as well.
1:07.8	And then finally, wanted to run a clip.
1:10.0	It was the last episode of double agents from the challenge on MTV.
1:14.8	One of my favorite shows.
1:15.9	Dave Jacobi and I.
1:17.8	We recapped every episode on the ringer dish podcast, which really took a leap that podcast this year because we had the every single album with Taylor Swift.
1:27.2	Put the challenge stuff on there and we still have T time and jam session.
1:30.6	It's a fun podcast, but I wanted to run a little thing that we did about CT versus bananas and then an idea I had for next season.
1:38.0	So that's on the tail end of it.
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