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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 84: Keith Olbermann

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes Keith Olbermann to discuss "the never-ending state of stupidity" in politics, learning to compromise in America (19:30), the impact of social media on cable news (25:00), baseball’s future (32:30), Pedro's peak All-Star Game performance (42:40), how to fix 'SportsCenter' (54:15), and modern sports news (1:00:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.0

Well, it's raining frogs. Keith Oldman is on the BS podcast. How are you?

1:21.0

As surprised as you are, how about yourself? You had to move. You're in the process of moving.

1:28.0

I am in a hotel room with two dogs and about 1 1,000 of all of my possessions right now as I had to move.

1:36.0

So when you're in a hotel room, it's almost like a nightclub. You have a capacity of 100.

1:42.0

And if somebody enters the nightclub, you have to kick somebody out.

1:45.0

Exactly. It's like, okay, I don't really need both of these jackets.

1:49.0

Which one of them is going into storage. And that's very, I mean, it's sort of healthy. You know where everything is. That's for sure.

1:55.0

My advice to all the younger collectors out there is just to be careful early. Like around 25, really start making your choices wisely.

2:03.0

Because the stuff just adds up and adds up and adds up. And eventually you don't know what to do with it.

2:08.0

So, yeah. So what have you been up to? Like you're sitting out the most incredible political election.

2:17.0

I think of my lifetime. I mean, I'm sure there was crazier ones before I was born. But it just feels odd to not have you prominently involved commentating on all this stuff.

2:28.0

Well, a couple of things. I think I agree with you wholeheartedly. Two, I would say that's not what has happened is not entirely been my own choice.

2:37.0

And three, to be fair as there was, there's been, I've had kind of a, until recently, I've had kind of a mixed track on this.

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