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The Rewatchables

‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by actor Glen Powell to rewatch Jim Carrey’s 1998 classic ‘The Truman Show,’ directed by Peter Weir and starring Laura Linney and Ed Harris. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the Personal Price Plan®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there®. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of The Rewatchables is brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network, where you can find my podcast.

0:04.7

You can find Chris Ryan's podcast to watch. You can find Craig Horrobeck's podcast. We're a fantasy football show. Fantasy football. Week 10. I know. This is where the strong become the strong and the weak become the weak. That's right. It's nut crunching time for fantasy. You like when we have celebrities on the rewatchables

0:21.8

because it just throws their chains on in the hot. right. It's nut crunching time for fantasy. You like when we have celebrities on the rewatchables

0:21.8

because it just throws a chains on in the hot tub for the podcast. Yeah, and I got to say,

0:27.6

the secrets out, we have Glenn Powell. He set the bar pretty high for celebrities on the rewatchables.

0:31.2

I was going to say, I think we learned some things in this episode. It's good when the celebrity

0:35.6

has listened to the podcast and knows the ringer and knows who we are. It's good when they suggest the movie and they really care that we did it. And I don't know, this is also a great movie that you'd actually seen, even though it came out in the 1990s. Yeah, this is a classic. I've seen it many times. Glenn has seen it many times, and you can tell based on his performance. People are upset that we don't do a lot of Jim Carrey movies, but I've been saving it for Jim Carrey Month and yet we just haven't done Jim Carrey Month. I can't wait for Ace Ventura. I can't wait for Acerty. Yeah, yeah, we have a bunch of ones. Anyway, rewatchable is coming up next. The Truman Show with Glenn Powell. This episode is presented by PayPal. Let's talk holiday shopping.

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1:58.8

All right.

2:00.6

We've been talking about this pre-top Gun Maverick. We have? Because you said you liked this podcast. I'm a big fan of this podcast. Yeah. And we were like, we got to get Glenn Powell on, CR. And then COVID, Top Gun Maverick. You started making movies left and right, and it took five years, but now we're here. I'm, I'm, it was worth the wait. It's worth the wait.

2:18.7

This is honestly, like, the perfect moment, I really, like, there's a lot of comps between

2:24.1

the Truman Show and Running Man and just, like, the fact that I've gotten a long, like,

2:28.7

I've had a long time to, like, watch y'all's podcast and watch you guys do what you do.

2:31.9

It feels like we've earned it now. Are you a big rewatcher? Do you have like a stable of movies that you're pumped, like you kind of like cycle through over and over again? I love hosting movie nights at my house. So like everybody knows me to like, you know, cook some dinner for people and like host a movie night. Cook some dinner for people. Drinks and dinner. Yeah. Yeah. Making some brisket? Yeah, just, you know, I love Man and a Grill. So what we'll do is we'll just, like, you know, have like a little, like a little theater thing in my house. And so what we do is we just like kind of, you know, choose a movie that a lot of people haven't seen. Basically what you guys do here, and we talk about it afterwards. So, like, kind of the same debrief, we do like a rewatchable's version.

3:10.4

Nice.

3:11.0

And it's like, it's like, you know, sometimes it's like cool, serious movies, but sometimes

3:15.2

you're like, hey, let's watch three ninjas.

3:17.7

Right.

3:17.8

You know what I mean?

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