Matt Damon! Plus: Giannis Cards and COVID Confusion With Mike Gioseffi and Derek Thompson

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Mike Gioseffi of The Ringer's 'Sports Cards Nonsense' podcast to discuss changes in the market for Giannis Antetokounmpo's rookie card following his first NBA championship, as well as other changes in the sports cards landscape (6:45). Then Bill talks to The Atlantic's Derek Thompson about the COVID-19 delta variant, vaccine hesitancy, new policies for universities and sports teams, and more (35:05). Finally Bill is joined by Matt Damon to discuss the lingering pain of losing Mookie Betts to the Dodgers, Tom Brady's seventh Super Bowl win, the upcoming Patriots season, '90s movie eras, 'Stillwater,' why Tom Cruise is the ultimate stuntman, future projects, and more (1:02:35)! Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Matt Damon, Derek Thompson, and Mike Gioseffi Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ringer Films is premiering its first of six films in our music box series Woodstock 99,
0:05.2	Peace, Love and Rage on Friday, July 23rd on HBO. Woodstock 99 tells the story of the infamous
0:11.8	music festival promoting unity and counter culture but devolved into chaos and collapse under the
0:16.7	weight of its own ambition. Watch or stream Woodstock 99, Peace, Love and Rage on HBO or HBO Max now.
0:23.9	We're also brought to you by the wringer.com as well as the wringer podcast network and
0:29.8	ringer films. We're brought by them too because we have the first film from our music box documentary
0:35.6	series that is on HBO in 2021. Sneak preview going up on Friday, Woodstock 99, Peace, Love and Rage,
0:44.6	directed by Garrett Price. Really proud of this one through reviews. It's been really good.
0:48.8	I think it's excellent. I can't wait for you to watch it. You can watch it on HBO at 9 o'clock
0:54.6	ET on Friday, July 23rd. As soon as it comes available on HBO, as soon as it starts rolling,
1:01.3	it's also available on HBO Max so you can catch it, catch up on it on there all weekend.
1:07.6	We've also supplemented that on the wringer.com with this is the end week where we've had a
1:12.7	couple of different pieces about, you know, if the theory is Woodstock 99, brought the 90s to an end,
1:17.3	what other things came to an end and some good pieces on there as well from Katie Bakes and
1:22.8	Brian Phillips and others on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that explains the 90s podcast.
1:28.8	He broke down Limp Biscuits. Nuky. Limp Biscuit is in this movie. I'm going to be interested
1:35.2	to see what your reaction is to Limp Biscuit in this movie. It is a lot of ways that are apex
1:40.8	mountain, but they also contribute to a lot of the problems that this festival had. So cannot wait
1:47.3	for you to watch this film and the rest of them will be available later in the year in the November
1:53.6	December range. But we are really pumped about about the whole series and HBO has been great.
2:00.0	They've been a great partner. Excited for you to watch. So there you go. Before we get to the
2:05.9	podcast, which includes our guest, Mike G. Assefie from our sports cards nonsense podcast on the
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