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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 12: Judd Apatow

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons talks to Judd Apatow about today's comedic landscape, living in a social media-driven world, Adam Sandler's career to date, 'Freaks and Geeks' in 2015, fame and celebrity, parenting, and developing talents like Seth Rogen and Amy Schumer into movie stars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Bill Simmons' podcast taping this on a Friday. It's running this week when you're listening to it.

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Judd Apatow, we're finally doing this.

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We've talked about it for a long time.

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And I like getting you right now because you just did a whole media search for TrainRack like three months ago.

1:11.0

How many interviews can one man give over the course of a month?

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That's a very good question because I made a choice for TrainRack to do a lot of press.

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I felt like when you're breaking somebody who people love but isn't a movie star yet, you just have to do everything.

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Because you have to assume there's so much noise out there.

1:37.0

That if I do 40 interviews that most people will hear half of one.

1:41.0

And so even though you're sick to your stomach and babbling so much,

1:46.0

there's only about 300 comedieners in America who will listen to my WTF and my Bill Simmons and my...

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