The Mailbag Makes a Dramatic Return

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons opens up the mailbag to answer various questions from the listeners (2:14). Host: Bill Simmons Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. 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 brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we put up a new
0:04.4	rewatchables on Monday night.
0:06.1	I did weird science with Kyle Brandt.
0:08.9	It is a 1985 movie, John Hughes.
0:12.5	It's both unbelievable that it happened, but also kind of delightful that it happened.
0:16.3	It straddles both worlds.
0:17.7	1985, very weird year in general.
0:19.5	I put up a tweet a couple days ago of the Billy Ocean song from,
0:26.6	it's either Jewel of the Now or Romance in the Stone,
0:29.4	where he sings it with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas,
0:35.8	and they're in the background.
0:36.8	And then at some point, Danny DeVito grabs Michael Douglas, and they're in the background. And then at some point,
0:38.0	Danny DeVito grabs a trumpet or a sax and starts the sax and starts pretending to play the
0:43.8	sax. And it's just bonkers. And I put it up and for some reason it became a really popular tweet
0:49.6	because I think everybody was like, what was going on in 1985? What was going out in 1985 was things like word science.
0:56.1	So check out that rewatchables.
0:58.0	I'm not sure what we're doing next week yet.
1:00.1	I am recording this mailbag on a Monday.
1:03.8	So if anything crazy happens, we're running it on Tuesday.
1:06.5	But if anything bonkers happens, don't blame me.
1:10.2	But I asked for mailbag questions at BS Podcast 33 at gmail.com.
1:16.3	People sent a lot of questions, and we're going to tackle them right after this break
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