The 2020 Streaming Wars, Cheating Astros, Cheap-Ass Red Sox, and Rudderless Democrats With Ben Thompson and JackO | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 128 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by business and tech analyst Ben Thompson to discuss monetizing digital media, streaming TV, subscription overload, podcasts, broadcast rights, NBA, and more (2:25). Then Bill and JackO have a long-overdue conversation about the Astros cheating scandal, Mookie Betts to Los Angeles, the Democratic primary elections, and more (1:21:36). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.2	Meanwhile, check out the ringer.com, the ringer podcast network, the rewatchables,
0:45.5	which put up the breakfast club late on Wednesday night, me and Wesley Morris and Chris Ryan.
0:52.1	The book of basketball podcast still in full swing. We did Dwight Howard this week. Have
0:55.8	another one coming next week. And our new podcast. That's going to be exclusive on Spotify.
1:04.8	Go follow this feed now. And when we have new ones, it'll pop up in your Spotify feed for free.
1:10.1	It is called music exists. Chuck Closterman, Chris Ryan, two people who have been on this podcast many
1:17.2	times. A whole bunch of big picture conversations about music. It's hard to explain. You've heard
1:26.8	Chuck on this podcast many times. I trust that you trust that this will be good because it will be
1:33.2	good. We've been trying to get Chuck to do a podcast for 10 years. He finally folded. He finally
1:37.6	caved. So go on Spotify. Look for music exists and just follow that. Coming up, we're going to talk
1:43.2	to Ben Thompson from the Stratekery newsletter about where things are going with streaming and tech
1:50.4	and all kinds of things. He's been on this podcast before you've heard him. And he's really
1:55.4	getting his stuff. And then later, my buddy, Jack O popular demand people want him with the
2:00.3	Moodybeth thing and the cheating scandal and the Democratic. All everything going on there.
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