Goodell’s 180, Biden’s VP, Old-School Football, and the Hockey "Code" With Bakari Sellers and Bill Burr

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by attorney, author, and political commentator Bakari Sellers to discuss the "perfect storm" that mobilized the current Black Lives Matter movement; people and organizations making statements, including Roger Goodell, LeBron James, and Patrick Mahomes; some history behind the civil rights movement; the political climate leading up to the 2020 presidential election; Bakari's book, 'My Vanishing Country'; and more (1:55). Then Bill talks with stand-up comedian, writer, and actor Bill Burr to discuss the pre–Super Bowl football era, the unwritten rule book in hockey known as "the code," taking a break from stand-up during the pandemic, his new movie 'The King of Staten Island,' working with Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson, and more (49:19). 'My Vanishing Country' by Bakari Sellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.5	but we wanted a time out for when Judd Apatow's new movie is coming out the king of Staten Island.
1:11.7	But he said say anything was the movie that influenced him the most and his screen ran in
1:17.5	career. So we dove into it so you can hear that. We're putting that up. I think Tuesday night.
1:21.3	And then and that's it. Speaking of that movie, Bill Burr is coming up a little bit later because
1:26.4	he has a prominent role. First we're going to talk to Bacari Seller. So I think it's fantastic.
1:31.5	You might see you might have seen him on CNN and a couple other places, but he's really good.
1:36.3	And that is all coming up. First our friends from ProJim.
1:57.7	All right, Bacari Seller is with us. He wrote a book that came out. How many weeks ago now?
2:02.2	My banishing country. It's my baby about 17 days ago, two and a half weeks ago.
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