The Colbert-CBS Drama and NFL Leap Team Possibilities With Matt Belloni and Nate Tice

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Matthew Belloni to talk about CBS cancelling ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ and what that means for the future of TV (2:50). Then, Nate Tice joins ahead of the NFL season to talk about the teams that could jump a level, before discussing the Timberwolves (51:11). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Matthew Belloni and Nate Tice Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented to you by the Ringer podcast network where you can find a bunch of
0:06.8	awesome shows and podcasts. You can find a great website. You can find the rewatchables. We do that
0:13.9	every Monday night. We did species this time around. We're getting weird. We got weird in July because
0:20.6	we had the 400th movie coming.
0:22.8	August is going to be action-packed. I think I'm going to do one-name movie month in August.
0:27.1	But August is going to be, this is the last like one for us. I wanted to get a little wacky.
0:34.3	You know, it's July. There's no sports. Something's going on. Everybody's on vacation. But we're about to kick into a pretty good year here. Anyway, Species, a movie that
0:44.1	would not be made in 2025, me Van Lath and Chris Ryan. This is a very funny podcast. So you can check
0:50.3	it out on Spotify. You can check it out wherever you get your podcasts are on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel. So I cut down the Sundays, at least for July, which is great.
1:01.8	I needed to refuel some batteries, work on some Spotify Ringer stuff. And most importantly,
1:08.3	I needed to start prepping for the football season. I have all process. It's weird. I'm the only one who really understands it. I have to do everything. I type everything in by hand. I type in the schedules. I type in everybody's odds. I do these weird player rankings. I'm like a psycho. But it's this whole process. So I'm, I'm at the end of phase one of it. So later in
1:29.3	this podcast, we're bringing in our friend Nate Tice, and we're going to talk about three
1:35.1	levels of teams that could make a leap in 2025, because you're going to start thinking about the
1:40.0	futures, what's going to happen. So that's coming up later, big football podcast,
1:43.9	uh, conversation with
1:45.2	nate but leading off with matt bellany who uh host the town for us but we we got to talk about
1:51.1	stephen colbert cbs trump skydance paramount uh everything that's going on how does this affect
2:18.5	john stewart is late night to be dead There are just so many storylines with this. It's the rare podcast where we're leading with Hollywood stuff. So that's all coming up next. I had a whole MBA thing I was going to do, but I think I'm going to save that for a later podcast. So that's it.
2:19.4	That's what I got for you.
2:21.5	Matt Bellany, Nate Tice, Hollywood, football.
2:22.3	All next.
2:23.0	Let's take a break.
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