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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 87: Chuck Klosterman and David Shoemaker

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes Chuck Klosterman to respond to Monday night's wild NCAA championship game, rank all-time Final Four moments (11:30), discuss the singularity of collegiate success (26:00), break down Celtics-GSW (30:00), go over the NYT’s Joe Lacob story (36:00), and have the pro-chance vs. pro-karma argument (42:00). Then, David Shoemaker joins to announce he's joining The Ringer and break down all things ‘WrestleMania’ (53:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Subscribe to our newsletter and follow our Twitter feed at ringer. We announce two more

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writer hires there today. Very excited about chaos and Collins. It's going to be writing a little

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film stuff for us. And Kate Nibbs is going to be helping out the tech side. Congratulations to them.

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More announcements coming. Maybe even in this podcast. Oh yeah, get ready for our second guest.

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Yeah, I don't know why I'm whispering and we're off.

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Yeah.

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Oh, clearing up for you. Chuck close to me. My old friend on the line.

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Take Frazier, producing the podcast. Show them self Carolina. Showed up to her today.

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Give me a little credit. Chuck, was that a better win for Villanova or a worst loss for Carolina?

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I would say it's a better win for Villanova. Okay, I agree. I don't think anyone would look at

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this game and say, ah, man, Carolina Chokes. Like nobody would say that, right? I mean, they played

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great. This is a whole game. I mean, anybody who watched this, not like I'm having some kind of

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controversial fan theory. I mean, that was an exceptionally fun game to watch. There were so many

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