The Dave Chang Show’s 250th Episode, With Bill Simmons

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Our first guest ever, the Podfather himself, returns to recall the freewheeling days when this podcast was just a glimmer in Dave’s eye. Also considered: Stephen A. Smith, what makes a great show, remembering Tom Hanks movies vs. remembering notable life events, the perfectly sized dinner table, throwing a chain saw into a hot tub, Jon Favreau’s ‘Dinner for Five,’ Ooni ovens vs. French bread pizzas, the potential death of season tickets, what a 22-year-old Dave Chang would do in 2021, wearing belts again, and burning down your entire neighborhood with the smoker Jimmy Kimmel gave you. Host: Dave Chang Guest: Bill Simmons Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dan Chang Show, part of the Ringer podcast.
0:16.0	Now we're presented by Major Del Lemuria.
0:18.0	Thank you, Yala Tango, as always, for the intro music.
0:21.0	We have a celebratory episode, the 250th episode of the DC show,
0:29.0	unbelievable, with the pod father himself, Bill Simmons.
0:34.0	Me just saying whatever I just said was an impossibility
0:38.0	when we were practicing the podcast and Bill's office at Sunset Gower.
0:42.0	I don't know how many years ago.
0:45.0	Bill, remember how terrible I was?
0:47.0	It was impossible.
0:48.0	Those were the days, right, when we could hang out in an office
0:51.0	and spitball and workshop and work on stuff and get reps.
0:56.0	Now I've seen you twice in the last year.
0:59.0	I know.
1:00.0	I don't know.
1:01.0	We wouldn't be able to do that on the Zoom.
1:03.0	You just needed to get out of your own head with the intro.
1:05.0	You were just trying to be perfect.
1:06.0	And they know all of the sudden eight episodes in, nine episodes in,
1:09.0	whatever it is.
1:10.0	I was listening to one.
1:11.0	I was like, oh, he gets it now.
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