Five NBA Playoff Takes, Plus David Letterman’s First-Ever BS Pod Appearance (We Did It!!!)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons give his thoughts on various topics around the NBA with Round 2 of the playoffs well underway (3:06). Then, David Letterman comes on to talk about his upbringing, the evolution of talk shows, sports, and much, much more! (38:51). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: David Letterman Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
0:20.9	Get the money side of the story.
0:22.9	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:29.4	The Bill Simmons podcast brought to by Fandul.
0:36.4	We're also brought to by the Ringer podcast Network.
0:39.3	I put up a new rewatchables on Monday.
0:41.8	We did There's Something About Mary.
0:43.2	And then this Monday, because we're doing comedies all month for Netflix as a joke month,
0:47.6	I did, Tropic Thunder with Chris Ryan and Van Lathen and Joel Anderson, first time for him on the pod.
0:54.1	So that's coming at some point Monday afternoon. Stay tuned. with Chris Ryan and Van Lathen and Joel Anderson, first time for him on the pod.
0:57.6	So that's coming at some point Monday afternoon.
0:59.9	Stay tuned for that one.
1:05.1	For this podcast, I'm going to freelance a little bit at the top because we had two basketball games tonight.
1:05.9	I had a lot of scattered thoughts.
1:09.1	But I really wanted to get to our guest because David Letterman, after I've had this
1:14.5	podcast since 2007, so this is the 20th year I've had the podcast.
1:19.1	And he was always bucket list someday, maybe, really number one for a long, long time,
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