Sports TV Secrets, MLB’s Murky Future, Hollywood’s Next Phase, And Bong Joon-ho's Championship Belt with Joe Buck and Alan Yang | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by sportscaster Joe Buck to discuss breaking into sportscasting, covering his first World Series at 27 years old, the differences between local and national broadcasting, the obstacles of a three-person booth, the search for the next great sportscaster, concerns surrounding the upcoming MLB season, his new podcast 'Daddy Issues With Joe Buck and Oliver Hudson,' and much more (3:20). Then Bill talks with screenwriter, director, and producer Alan Yang to discuss COVID-19's effect on writers' rooms, his new Netflix film 'Tigertail,' celebrity TV cameos, functioning without sports, and much more (1:03:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast.
0:02.0	The Ringer podcast network is brought to you by World Central Kitchen.
0:06.0	One of my favorite charities we are facing an unprecedented emergency right now, unlike
0:11.2	anything our country has ever experienced.
0:13.7	Our economy is ground to a halt.
0:15.5	Schools and businesses are closed, travels, restricted restaurants,
0:19.5	face an uncertain future.
0:21.6	Traditional safety nets like school feeding programs, childcare services,
0:25.6	and senior centers struggling to stay open.
0:27.6	A million Americans at work now struggling to put food on the table for their family.
0:33.7	We also have people on the front lines all over the place.
0:37.2	People that work for hospitals, ER, ICU, all of them putting their lives in danger to protect
0:43.2	us, to help us, to try to save lives.
0:46.0	Those people, guess what?
0:47.4	They need to eat and they're working crazy hours right now.
0:51.1	World Central Kitchen is delivering fresh meals all over the place.
0:56.7	Tens of thousands of meals daily, you can donate there.
1:00.9	Just go to their website, wck.org.
1:06.1	And you can help in a whole bunch of different ways.
1:08.2	There are also helping people on the front line.
1:11.8	One of the things they're doing, the feed the front line in Los Angeles,
1:14.3	which you can find on their front page.
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