Episode 905 - Bill Simmons

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Writer, producer and podcast pioneer Bill Simmons is a man whose life, career and worldview have changed in real time with the evolution of Internet. Bill talks with Marc about some of the checkpoints in that evolution, including why he walked away from a big break in TV when he was writing for Jimmy Kimmel, why he thinks he was considered ‘difficult’ at ESPN, and why his HBO show wasn't what he thought it would be. They also talk about Magic Johnson, Grantland, Letterman, divorce, documentaries, and Andre The Giant.

Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fucksters,
0:15.1	what the fuck publicins, what the fuck are crats, what's happening?
0:18.7	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast WTF, welcome to it.
0:22.7	Thank you for joining me if you're new to it.
0:25.4	Welcome.
0:26.4	Here you go check out the archives over there on the Stitcher app, you can go back and
0:31.5	get them all.
0:33.2	All the 900 and some odd things.
0:35.7	But anyways, my point is welcome.
0:38.3	I am broadcasting from the new garage and I'm happy to say that the garage has been christened
0:43.6	by tears.
0:44.6	It happened, I don't even want to mention the guest because it actually didn't happen
0:48.8	on my, it happened afterwards, after a conversation where it got a little emotionally overwhelming.
0:55.3	But tears have been shed here in the garage and that's good, it needed that.
0:59.6	It needed that sort of like breaking the champagne bottle on the ship's hull before it backs
1:05.6	into the ocean.
1:07.2	Now we have coronated, we have blessed and this garage seems to actually have a bit of
1:14.4	magic of its own.
1:15.4	This is an old house that I bought.
1:18.6	And old houses tend to have magic if they've been around a while.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marc Maron, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Marc Maron and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.