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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Denzel Washington on 'He Got Game,' the Yankees, and LeBron. Plus, Yacht Rock Palooza. | The Bill Simmons Podcast (Ep. 390)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons sits down with the legend himself Denzel Washington to talk Knicks, Lakers, Yankees–Red Sox, playing against Ray Allen in 'He Got Game,' making sports movies, filming fight scenes, and his new film 'The Equalizer 2,' which premieres July 20 (4:30). Then Bill calls up his pal and Rival CEO Nathan Hubbard to talk about seeing Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, and Christopher Cross live in concert this past weekend, and what a "Yacht Rock Palooza" might look like (50:55). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's very special episode of the BS Podcast on the Ringer podcast network.

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1:10.8

Simmons. We're also brought to you by the ringer.com where it is mid July, which is really when we

1:17.7

hit our stride. There's nothing to write about. There's nothing going on. Just baseball.

1:23.4

Guess what? People don't really care about baseball that much. Great. Well, we have Brian Curtis

1:29.3

writing about the end of the L.I. L.A. Times sports desk. We have the battle for the best movie

1:35.3

trailer since 1990. Chris Ryan wrote this one. You can go. There's a bracket. You can do your picks.

1:42.8

I think the social network is the best trailer probably of the last 40 years.

1:47.8

But that's just me. Jabari Parker's homecoming Kevin O'Connor wrote about that. Michael

1:52.8

Bauman wrote about Mani Machado. Where's he going? One of the few great baseball stories right now.

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