Matt James on ‘The Bachelor’ Behind the Scenes, Plus Joe House on Desperate NBA Teams and March Madness

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Matt James of ‘The Bachelor’ franchise to discuss his season, expectations vs. reality, dealing with real feelings during a public controversy, being "unplugged" from media and sports while filming, getting back to life after ‘The Bachelor’ and more (2:30). Then Bill talks with Joe House about teams that may be desperate for a trade with the NBA trade deadline approaching, House’s revised NBA MVP bets, the NCAA tournament, Ryan Fitzpatrick to the Washington Football Team, the upcoming Masters Tournament, and more (51:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome into the Ring of Vers from the Ringer. My name is Mallory Rubin.
0:04.6	And I'm Van Lathen Mal before you get started. Does anyone want to know what the Ring of Vers is?
0:09.0	The Ring of Vers is one podcast feed with multiple shows on all things super heroes,
0:13.6	nerd culture and fandom entertainment.
0:15.3	And it's the reactions to new releases, theory breakdowns, fun takes on the latest news and more.
0:20.5	Whether you're a casual fan or an obsessive like us, our shows are worthy while your fandom needs.
0:25.1	So head to the ringer verse and follow the show now on Spotify.
0:30.5	We're also brought to you by the ringer.com as well as the ringer podcast network where we launched the ringer verse this week.
0:38.1	We'll be doing it three times a week. You probably heard the trailer at the top.
0:41.2	People like Mallory Rubin and Van Lathen are going to be on it.
0:43.6	We're going to be reacting to nerd culture, superheroes, Marvel, all of it.
0:48.7	Much like the ringer and be a show to be honest. It's going to be that kind of feed.
0:52.4	It's going to be great. Super excited about it. So check it out. Subscribe on Apple.
0:56.8	Follow on Spotify. And there you go. Coming up, Matt James, who just finished
1:03.8	quite a batch of season. We're going to be breaking down all of it with him.
1:07.3	He was very gracious with this time. And then Joe House talking to NBA and college basketball
1:13.0	masters and a whole bunch of other stuff. First, our friends from ProJet.
1:37.2	All right. This guy was a hard man to book. He's not doing a lot of media. Matt James,
1:41.6	he was just a bachelor. My agent, James Babydoll Dixon, is a longtime family friend of yours.
1:49.1	That's really the only reason you're coming on. You became the first bachelor or bachelor
1:53.2	at who was just like you did the after the rose and you were out. That was it. How did you pull that
1:58.0	off? I thought you had to do all this stuff after the season ended. Right. I think when the season ends
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