NFL Preseason Hype Buy or Sell. Plus, Spike Lee on Basketball and Movies | With Danny Kelly
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Ringer
4.4 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 142 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday. |
| 0:06.6 | We did Rollerball, which came out in 1975 and is one of the first great modern sports movies. |
| 0:12.2 | Brian Coppenter and I broke it down. |
| 0:13.5 | You can listen to it or watch it on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel or on Spotify. |
| 0:19.4 | Next Monday, we're doing a movie that came out 50 years after Rollerball. |
| 0:22.8 | I think this is the biggest disparity we've ever had between an old movie and a new movie |
| 0:27.7 | of 50 year difference. |
| 0:29.5 | We're doing sinners. |
| 0:32.2 | Best movie I saw this year, I've seen it a bunch of times and I cannot wait to talk about it. |
| 0:38.7 | So that's going to be on Monday. Stay tuned for that. Spike Lee and I talked about that a little bit later actually |
| 0:43.9 | when we did our interviews. So you can look forward to that. Want to talk while we're talking about |
| 0:49.5 | movies. Mission accomplished new narrative podcast that's going to be on the big picture podcast it's about |
| 0:55.0 | the 2000s the bush years and a deeper dive into some of the films that came out right after |
| 1:01.6 | America was going through 9-11 and a whole bunch of other stuff so that premiered August 12th |
| 1:07.4 | and you can check it on the big picture podcast on this podcast Danny's coming in, and we're going to talk about all the preseason NFL hype. What do we believe? What do we not believe? What are we actually even more excited about than the hype? I told him 25 minutes, and I think we went 50. So a lot of NFL, a lot of NFL going on. |
| 1:27.6 | Can't wait for it to come back. |
| 1:28.6 | We're getting close. |
| 1:29.7 | And then Spike Lee for the second time ever, he is a new movie coming out. |
| 1:34.5 | And that is not what we spent the first half hour talking about because we had to catch up on a lot of basketball stuff. |
| 1:40.9 | He came over to the new studio and did it. |
| 1:43.9 | I'm getting back in the swing with these |
| 1:45.7 | celebrity interviews. I'm trying to remember how to do them. It's been so long. Once COVID happened, |
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