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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 24: Guest Hosts Chris Ryan & Andy Greenwald

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stepping in for HBO's Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald weigh in on Fargo, The Leftovers, Aziz Ansari's Master of null, the 30-minute TV model and Jeremy Renner's most recent candid interview. Also, the guys announce the launch of Channel 33, the upcoming pop culture/NBA podcast from the Bill Simmons podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Bill Simmons. Today's episode of the BS Podcast is going to be guest-tosted by Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald.

0:07.4

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0:15.0

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0:22.0

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0:35.0

Hello and welcome to the Bill Simmons podcast. My name is Chris Ryan. I am not Bill Simmons, but I do host a podcast called The Watch with my friend Andy Greenwald, where we talk about television and all of pop culture.

0:46.0

This is now part of the Channel 33 Feed. If you want to check out some more Bill Simmons podcast network podcasts, you can go and subscribe to Channel 33. It's myself and Andy on the watch. Juliet Limon will be on. Andy's going to have his own show of the Andy Greenwald show and I'm sure we'll have some more surprises for you guys soon.

1:02.0

So make sure you subscribe on iTunes SoundCloud Stitcher wherever you get your podcast. That's Channel 33.

1:07.0

Part of the Bill Simmons podcast network. Let's go with this new episode of the watch. Thanks for listening to the Bill Simmons podcast. Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am a podcaster on the Bill Simmons podcast network and on the other line.

1:21.0

He just liquidated his 401k to get a shot at life spring. It's a degree world.

1:28.0

I feel good to hear you shout uncomfortably loudly in my ear, buddy. What's going on, man? This is exciting. I didn't know what you were going to say. This is our first. This is our preview show. This is our first time on the new new day because I like it.

1:39.0

Nothing like a deep Fargo season two reference to just rope everybody in. Andy, this is a new podcast. We're doing it's called The Watch. You may remember Andy and I from the Hollywood perspective podcast for our Greatland days.

1:49.0

Yeah, those were the days, but those days are gone now. We're excited for what's new. It's a new day. What are we going to be doing on this pod?

1:57.0

Oh, Chris, we're going to be I mean, I clearly we're just going to be bantering to the best of our abilities. We're going to talk about TV because that's kind of our thing.

2:03.0

We're going to I think I might start seeing movies again. Maybe we'll talk about those. We're going to talk about songs that we like. People that were obsessed with Jeremy Renner interviews, but really, you know, all our old obsessions are going to come back to the floor.

2:15.0

Yeah, well, let's not waste any time. Let's get to the television stuff. We talked a little bit. I think it was last week we were on this very same Bill Simmons podcast.

2:22.0

And we talked a little bit about some of the shows that we were digging right now, but we wanted to get into, you know, a little bit more of a survey of the landscape.

2:30.0

Get a little more granular with it. And there's no better way to talk about like kind of the state of TV right now than to start with what probably is the best show on television. That's Fargo.

2:40.0

I thought you were going to say the affair. I thought because we were on the bill.

2:42.0

Bill's not here. So I don't have to talk about the affair.

2:44.0

Yes, okay. Really. Let's top it up. Fargo is so good. Andy, why is Fargo good? Because I feel like here's the thing is like Fargo is the classic like like online it intelligence.

2:57.0

And you just hear two dudes online being like, man, Fargo is so good, bro. It is so good this season. No, it is so good.

3:04.0

And nobody says why?

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