Ep. 65: 'The Ringer' Announcement, Robert Smigel, and JackO

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons discusses the launch of his digital venture, 'The Ringer'; brings on Robert Smigel to talk about his Hulu special, 'Triumph's Election Special 2016' (18:00); and consoles JackO about the state of the Republican Party and the country in general (50:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.9	What's happening? Welcome to the BS podcast.
1:12.9	It is Wednesday.
1:15.8	I think it's February 17th. What day is it?
1:17.8	Is it date? February 17th?
1:19.6	February 17th.
1:20.8	I'm going to take you in his mic. Good job. We have Robert Smigel, who has this great special about Triumph on Hulu, and we have my buddy, Jacko coming up later.
1:32.3	First, I want to talk about, we had an announcement today.
1:35.8	We announced the new content website, theringer.com, which I have been pointing with a bunch of my old Grantland colleagues and a couple of other people for the last few months.
1:46.9	Actually, I guess the story goes back to last May. I stopped working for ESPN, second week of May after 14 years.
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