‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan head up to Lake Winnipesaukee to annoy Dr. Leo Marvin as they revisit the 1991 comedy ‘What About Bob?’ starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Hosts: Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you want to hear the entire rewatchables library spanning almost 200 movies at this point,
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0:21.6	you can hear the big picture with Sean fantasy and higher learning with Vian Lathen and the Midnight
0:25.5	Boys on the uh, the Van Lathen and Charles Holmes coming up. I feel good. I feel great. I feel
0:34.2	wonderful. What about Bob is next? It's Bill Murray. I'm a little false alarm off the wall. I
0:42.4	don't have any GLE. I'm talking to my fish in the elevator out of control. I'm going to explode
0:49.5	and on vacation. In America's number one comedy hit. It just makes my lips numb to think about it.
0:58.9	Bill Murray, Richard Reifers, what about Bob? Great to pee. Now playing at a theater near you,
1:03.7	check newspapers for showtimes.
1:11.2	All right, Sean fantasy is here. Vian Lathen is here. This is a movie that I really enjoyed
1:16.1	when I saw it in the theater and it's worn me down over the next 30 years. Much like Bob
1:22.7	in the movie wears down Dr. Leo Marvin's entire family. What about Bob? A movie that the three of us
1:30.0	love. I don't know if that's a 100% opinion out there. I think there's some people that maybe
1:36.8	don't totally get it. To me, this is like one of the great Bill Murray movies ever. This movie kills
1:41.9	me. I think it's almost perfect. I don't know why I love it so much. Vian, your therapy guy
1:48.8	walked me through the therapy piece of this and how it relates to why you love this movie.
1:55.2	Well, I didn't know that I was going to be a therapy guy when I was watching this film as a kid.
2:01.4	I actually thought that like everybody else did that Bob was nuts. But then when I rewatched it
2:08.9	and I'm looking at all the things that Bob is scared of, I was like, hey, I've had the time
2:15.4	while I was scared of elevators while I was scared of random cardiac arrest when I was scared of
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