Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Licorice Pizza’ and the Beatles Doc, Plus Million-Dollar Picks Week 14 | With Peter Schrager and Sean Fennessey

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by NFL Network’s Peter Schrager to discuss concerns about the early-season playoffs-contending Rams and Bills, as well as why people are hesitant to believe in the 10-2 Cardinals (3:07). Then they make their Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 14 (23:09). Finally Bill is joined by Sean Fennessey to talk to writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson about his new film ‘Licorice Pizza,’ casting the movie, making films during the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Jackson’s documentary ‘The Beatles: Get Back,’ and much more (55:50). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Fennessey, and Peter Schrager Producers: Kyle Crichton and Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I made a bunch of appearances on Ringer Pods over the last few days, including the Ringer
0:04.5	on a fell show with Mallory Nora.
0:06.2	I went on sports cards nonsense.
0:08.1	I went on Larry Wilmore and went on Dave Chang.
0:11.8	And I've been on the rewatchables as well because we did this week Saturday night fever
0:17.7	me and Jimmy Kimmel.
0:18.9	So you can check out all those podcasts on the Ringer podcast network.
0:22.9	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network as well as Ringer films.
0:31.2	Yeah.
0:32.2	Put up our fifth music box series documentary.
0:35.7	It went up on Thursday night on HBO and on HBO Max.
0:39.7	It is called Mr. Saturday Night, directed by John Maggio.
0:42.9	It's the story of Robert Stigwood, a content genius and how he just basically dominated
0:48.8	the 70s leading to him putting together Saturday night fever as basically a pop culture tornado.
0:55.8	So there you go.
0:57.2	Check it out.
0:58.2	You can watch the first five films by the time you're hearing this.
1:01.5	You can watch all of them on HBO Max.
1:03.8	And then we have Juice World coming up next week.
1:05.3	Juice World into the best.
1:06.5	That is the sixth and final one of season one of music box coming up on this podcast.
1:12.5	Million dollar picks and some discussion about Buffalo and the Rams, whether we should
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