Pats-Eagles Super Bowl Plans and Thanksgiving Picks With Peter Schrager, and HBO’s Remarkable History With James Andrew Miller

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by NFL Network’s Peter Schrager to discuss the three NFL Thanksgiving games and make their Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 12 (2:35). Then Bill talks to author James Andrew Miller about his now book on the history of HBO, ‘Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers’ (50:03). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager and James Andrew Miller Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, rewatchable spans. We have a new one coming on Thursday,
0:03.3	special Thanksgiving drop. It is a very famous sports movie.
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0:22.7	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook as well as the
0:27.0	Ringer podcast network. I hope you're checking out plain English with Derek Thompson.
0:31.2	Man, that thing launched with the bank. He's done three so far. Really good. Feels like that
0:35.5	pod's been around for a year or so. Great job. Smart guess, smart topics, and a big asset to the
0:43.3	Ringer podcast library. I hope you're checking that out. Speaking of checking things out,
0:47.6	the third film from our music box series is launching 8pm HBO Thursday night Thanksgiving
0:54.0	and also in HBO Max as well. It's about DMX. It is called DMX. Don't try to understand.
1:00.0	It's directed by Christopher Frierson. It's really good. I don't know what to tell you.
1:05.3	All six of these that we made, they're really good. There's no stinkers. There's no run in the
1:10.3	litter. They're all just really good. People love the Alannis one last week. You're going to love
1:14.4	the DMX one as well. It's emotional. Just warning you now. So I don't know. Look, you might want to
1:21.9	watch football on Thursday night and then get to it over the weekend. You might be tired of football
1:26.0	by Thursday night. I might want to watch something with the whole family, but this is a really good
1:30.8	film. We are really proud of it. We are proud of this whole series. And if you missed the first two
1:35.6	jagged or Woodstock 99, those are on HBO Max. So there you go. Coming up Peter Schreger and I,
1:41.6	we're going to mix things up because we've been been a little stagnant. I'm million dollar picks.
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