Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes. Plus: The Masters, ‘The Pitt’, Coachella, and ‘Love Story’ With Nathan Hubbard and Joanna Robinson.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 137 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Wildes to present another set of Half-Baked Ideas (7:57). Then, Nathan Hubbard comes on to discuss the biggest story lines ahead of the Masters and Coachella (01:01:55). Finally, Joanna Robinson joins to break down ‘The Pitt’ before previewing ‘Euphoria’ ahead of the new season, and much more (01:28:17). Host: Bill SimmonsGuests: Kevin Wildes, Nathan Hubbard, and Joanna RobinsonProducers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by Fandle.
0:08.2	We are also presented by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:14.0	We did Eddie in the Cruisers.
0:15.1	It was a one for us coming off CR month.
0:17.7	It was me and Chris Ryan and Van Lathen.
0:19.5	All of us are headed to San Francisco
0:21.1	to do a live show. We're doing Basic Instinct on Wednesday night. We'll see if Mallory
0:27.1	could make it through without doing like whatever happened when Jim Morrison and Miami when
0:31.8	he had offended the obscenity laws or whatever he did. Hopefully we can get through it intact.
0:37.0	Coming up on this podcast, we have, listen, it was a great order.
0:43.3	They could have gone in any direction, starting with Kevin Wilde's doing half-baked
0:46.5	ideas, talking a little basketball as well.
0:49.2	Nathan Hubbard is going to come on and talk about the Masters and Coachella.
0:53.8	And then I hadn't talked TV in a while.
0:56.3	So Joanna Robinson is on.
0:58.2	We're going to talk about the pit, which I finally jumped into and binge watched.
1:02.5	And I have a lot of thoughts.
1:03.9	We're going to talk about Love Story and we're going to talk about a bunch of Apple shows.
1:06.6	So that is the podcast.
1:08.3	So we have half baked basketball, golf, Coachella TV.
1:14.6	That's pretty good.
1:16.0	Pretty eclectic.
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