Ep. 75: Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes Jon Favreau, former director of speechwriting for President Obama, to break down the 2016 primaries, Donald Trump's lack of a speechwriter (10:00), and this season’s WWF-style debate format (21:00). Then, Dan Pfeiffer, former senior adviser to Obama for strategy and communications, joins to discuss Ted Cruz's lack of likability (26:30), advising the Trump campaign (31:00), the Obama-Clinton Cabinet dynamic (39:00), Obama’s post-presidency (45:00), flaws in media coverage (50:00), and the impact of technology on the political landscape (1:05:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.8	let me and Chris Ryan and more and we're off. There's two pack making Holy Cross. Oh yeah. Yeah okay.
1:02.5	Yeah. Big Holy Cross we care on the BS podcast. We at Joe House and I talked about Holy Cross
1:08.6	somehow sneaking into the I heard you guys to the madness and now John Fabro here. Former. It's
1:13.8	all Holy Cross. Former. Former Obama speechwriter but more importantly a Holy Cross graduate. 2003. Yeah.
1:22.0	Living in a you were that was really the last decent run for Holy Cross. That's a Ralph Willard
1:27.3	era. The Ralph Willard era. Very close. Three years I was there. A 102 and a 3 we made the tournament.
1:35.0	And then every time lost in heartbreaking fashion. Yeah. Round one. Yeah and blowing leads each time.
1:41.2	2003 we were up against Kansas and I remember we were like leading by five with like 10 or 11 minutes
1:49.8	left and it was just pandemonium at the at the school. Yeah. We didn't even we almost didn't even care.
1:56.8	The fact that we got that close you know. We never had that moment where we just that one upset
2:02.4	that I think would have gotten the momentum going and just never happened. I know. So when you
2:06.2	graduated what happened next in your life? How did you end up in the White House? So I graduated
2:11.1	and I had done Holy Cross has like this DC internship program. Yeah. Junior year. So I went and I was
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