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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Jason Bateman on His Crazy Career, Plus Mallory Rubin on Football and 'Thrones' | The Bill Simmons Podcast (Ep. 404)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by the Mother of Dragons, Mallory Rubin, to discuss the anticipation of the final season of 'Game of Thrones,' future spinoffs, NCAA football, MLB, and rookie NFL quarterbacks (1:57). Then Bill sits down with actor Jason Bateman to talk L.A. Dodgers fandom, being a child actor, 'Ozark,' 'Arrested Development,' binge-watch television, sports movies, and more (27:13). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.3

Coming up, we're going to talk to Mallory Rubin about her favorite time of year.

1:16.3

College football, pro football, world series, all that stuff. And even the game of thrones, rumors,

1:23.4

whispers might be coming back. And then Jason Bateman. Wow. I don't know how this finally happened,

1:30.5

but it happened. Jason Bateman on the BS podcast. But first, our friends for ProJep.

1:54.6

All right. I'm here with the mother dragons. Mallory Rubin. This is the time of year when I get

2:01.6

concerned about your health. I'm doing the right one. There's two times a year. One is right before

2:05.6

football season started when baseball playoffs is coming. And the other is when game of thrones

2:10.9

happens, which fortunately and unfortunately there's only seven left six left six six hour and a half

2:16.0

really long ones though. Hour and a half long each feature film length. Do we know when these are

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