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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Part 2: Tom Hanks on ‘Cast Away’ Theories, ‘Forrest Gump’ Haters, and 40 Years of Memorable Movies

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In Part 2 of a two-part podcast, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks to discuss his long career, his three favorite films, his new movie, ‘Finch,’ baseball stories, and much more. Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Tom Hanks Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, if you missed it, we announced the dates for the rest of the films that are music box series on HBO.

0:05.9

It's a ringer film special.

0:08.0

You might have seen the Woodstock 99 doc that we did a little sneak preview of the series back this summer.

0:13.4

The other five are coming starting on November 18th on HBO and HBO Max Jagged.

0:18.2

It's about a land of s'mores set after that DMX, Kenny G saturday night fever, the guy who made a Robert Stigwin.

0:27.1

And last but not least, Juice World.

0:28.5

Five weeks in a row, I put the posters on my Instagram if you didn't see that.

0:34.6

Really excited for this series November 18th, Marketown, your calendar HBO HBO Max music box coming back.

0:41.0

We're also brought to you by Fando sports book and the ringer podcast network.

0:44.8

If you missed part one of this two-part extravaganza, I did some takes to the top, did a million dollar picks with Peter Schreger and talked to

0:52.7

Rember Brown about the briefs when in the world series. This is part two, the one the only Tom Hanks first project.

0:59.0

All right, Tom Hanks is here. He's been in my life for a long time. I went back to the Buzz of Buddy's days. I had season tickets for everything you've done for the last 40 plus year.

1:29.0

I don't even know where to start. By the way, we give those away. Season tickets, not like you've paid money for them. Free. That's true.

1:38.0

They're available here at the radio station and at the Happy Donuts found by on Lancership.

1:43.5

When I was writing free SPN, I got a mail back question like 10 years ago from a reader who said, if you ask 1,000 people to list their top three favorite Tom Hanks movies,

1:55.0

and you took gump off the table, you're like, you can't vote for a cup, but you give your next three. That all the responses would be different for all the people.

2:03.0

And I actually did a test with 30 people I knew and 26 of them had completely different lists.

2:08.4

Hey, hey, I win, I win.

2:11.4

So what are your three? You have to pick three. What are your three? No, I would. No, I do it.

2:18.4

But I would not do the, I would not do it according to the way the movies came out. I would do it by way of the personal experience that I had when I was doing it.

2:27.4

Okay, do that. Let's hear it, which is very different. All right. You got three. I can have three, you say three.

2:37.9

So you can do degree of difficulty. You can do what it meant the most to you or film at whatever category.

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