The NBA’s Summer Return, The Quarantine 'Bachelor,' and the MJ Doc With Casey Wasserman, Chris Harrison, and Mike Tollin | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Casey Wasserman to discuss safe and effective ways to bring back pro sports including golf, baseball, and basketball, and the Olympics (2:50). Then Bill talks with the host of 'The Bachelor' universe, Chris Harrison, about 'The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart,' how COVID-19 could affect The Bachelor universe, and more (31:15). Finally Bill talks with Mike Tollin, producer of the upcoming Michael Jordan documentary series, 'The Last Dance,' about making the series (1:13:55). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.2	It's a charitable donation once again that is the ringer.com slash WCK two new podcasts launched
1:10.0	this week on the Ringer podcast network. One was the wire way down in the hole. We put up the first two
1:15.0	episodes you can subscribe on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcast van lathe and
1:20.9	chamele help breaking down every wire episode one by one. We also we launched flying coach with
1:28.0	pcare on steep curve this week and now that is going to have their its own feed by the end of the
1:32.8	week and there's a new episode coming where they talked a whole bunch of draft stuff. It's really
1:37.9	interesting that I don't know when that pots coming but it will be by the end of this week and it'll
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1:46.8	awareness for a whole bunch of different uh COVID-19 charities and just in general trying to uh
1:53.6	make people a little more optimistic by the time the whole thing coming up I have a podcast Kasey
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