Ep. 93: Chuck Klosterman, Wesley Morris, and Joe House
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Ringer
4.4 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 1:27.0 | And we are going to talk about Prince with Chuck Closterman, Wesley Morris, and then a little NBA play-ass with Joe House. Here we go. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah! |
| 1:39.0 | It's Friday, we're Joe House coming up a little bit to talk about the NBA play-offs, so possible Wesley Morris stop by, even though he's a... |
| 1:49.0 | He attacks, he doesn't text, we never hear from him. |
| 1:52.0 | On the phone right now, Chuck Closterman and 24 to 30 hours ago, Prince passed away and a shocker. |
| 2:04.0 | Sometimes with celebrity deaths you can kind of have a hint of it, maybe. |
| 2:10.0 | There had been rumors that Prince was sick, but I just didn't believe it, it's only 57, what was your reaction? |
| 2:16.0 | Well, I mean, not only was he 57, but generally, now there's different kind of rumors coming out now who knows what it was, but I always viewed him as living as a very clean light. |
| 2:27.0 | And he obviously was not overweight, he was incredibly fit. |
| 2:32.0 | You look at him at 57, he does look that different, and he looked in 1990, something. |
| 2:38.0 | I mean, it just did not seem to be aging in any kind of dramatic way. I mean, I know that for a while he used a cane, and he missed this show because of the flu or whatever, but I gotta say I was pretty shocked. |
| 2:55.0 | I was walking into a movie, everybody wants them, and then all of a sudden you know there's seven texts, and you know something happens. |
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