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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Week COVID-19 Changed Everything With Malcolm Gladwell | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by best-selling author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell to discuss worst-case coronavirus scenarios, why America waited too long to react and didn’t listen to experts soon enough, what people can do to keep this from becoming even worse, and how long our favorite distractions (sports, movies, etc.) might be on hold until life starts to feel safe again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The corona outbreak pretty extensively in a whole bunch of different ways. Hope you're checking all that stuff out

1:11.2

Coming up we're going to talk to Malcolm Gladwell first our friends from progeny

1:33.9

All right, Malcolm Gladwell is calling in from New York City. It is raining here in Los Angeles. We're taping at about 230

1:40.2

On Thursday Pacific time from a sports standpoint everything has been canceled

1:46.0

It seems like it seems like we're in full sports shutdown for 30 days. It seems like movies aren't coming out

1:52.2

TV and streaming stuff seems like it's still going so life does not seem

1:57.5

Everyday life does not seem normal and anyway. We're doing the self quarantine thing and

2:03.2

Even though Gladwell is in New York and I'm in Los Angeles. I can't imagine

2:06.6

Our experiences are that much different right now just just kind of hang out and going hiding basically right

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