Luka! Plus: The Bucks and Big Tech Craziness With Ben Thompson. Plus: Three Decades of Counting Crows With Adam Duritz.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 146 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on another stellar Luka Doncic performance in the Mavericks' Game 2 win over the Clippers, putting the Mavericks up 2-0 on the series (2:45). Then Bill talks to business and tech analyst and Milwaukee Bucks fan Ben Thompson about the Bucks' Round 1 series vs. the Heat, the Bucks' 34-point victory in Game 2, the hypothetical Round 2 matchup vs. the Nets, and more (16:00). Next they discuss AT&T’s announcement to merge Warner Media and Discovery, streaming giants, Epic Games vs. Apple, and more (42:00). Finally, Bill talks with singer, songwriter, and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz about the origin of the band, their iconic first album ‘August and Everything After’, behind the scenes stories about some of their most beloved songs, adjusting to a meteoric rise in the early 1990s, maintaining artistic integrity over three decades, Counting Crows' new album, ‘Butter Miracle, Suite One’, and more (1:09:00). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Adam Duritz, Ben Thompson Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's get everybody. I'm Zahnezy Stewsky hosting the New York New York with Chae-Jay, the
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0:15.4	the show on Spotify.
0:17.4	We're also brought to you by the ranger.com as well as the ringer podcast network where
0:23.8	we put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did the rock. Me, Meena Kimes, Chris
0:30.2	Ryan. That was a really fun one. I also popped on the sports cards nonsense podcast to make
0:35.6	fun of Mike and Jesse. We talked NBA playout breakout guys possibly and and wide receivers.
0:43.3	And then I left, but not before I got in 10 digs and Jesse. Anyway, one more podcast
0:49.4	for you. Flying coach season two, Peter Schreger, Sean McVeigh and they have another coach
0:55.2	on this week. I think they might even have two coaches, but that's a good one. Check it
0:59.0	out on the flying coach feeder ringer and a fell show coming up on this podcast. Ben
1:02.7	Thompson is going to talk about his beloved bucks and a lot of big company stuff. Apple
1:07.6	AT&T. He's going to break off it down for us. And then somebody I've been trying to get
1:12.2	on this podcast forever. One of my favorite artists, Adam Duritz from County Crows. He's
1:18.0	going to talk about his whole career, how he writes songs. He tells some cool stories.
1:22.0	And my daughter has never been more impressed. I'll leave it at that. That's all coming
1:25.6	up. First another great artist. Pearl Jam.
1:27.2	All right, taping this part of the podcast, it is 10, 14 p.m. Pacific time. I held off
1:53.4	posting tonight's podcast. We finished it a few hours ago, but just in case something
1:57.5	wacky happened with the two LA games. Lay that of course they did. The Lakers ended up
2:02.8	winning the beat the Sons. It looked a little hairy there for a second. They were playing
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