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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Will Smith's Apology and Apple’s Predicament

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw and The Ringer’s Juliet Litman to discuss Will Smith’s latest apology, which came in the form of a five-minute Q&A on YouTube. They talk about the sincerity of the apology, the handling of the aftermath of the Slap, and Apple’s looming decision about whether to release or delay Will Smith’s newest film, ‘Emancipation,’ which is set to come out later this year. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw and Juliet Litman Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The NFL season is just around the corner, and if you need to cram for your upcoming fantasy draft,

0:04.9

check out The Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast,

0:08.8

where you'll find in-depth analysis, plus some charming bits from Danny Highfits, Craig Horlebeck,

0:13.5

and me, Danny Kelly.

0:14.9

Also, check out our fantasy rankings and sleepers at fantasy football.the ringer.com.

0:30.0

All right, it is Monday, August 1st. Happy August. I am back from a week off.

0:36.3

Those episodes this last week were pre-recorded. I think they went okay. I was so eager to get out of town for a week that there were a couple

0:39.0

little errors in there. Craig, let me guess. You heard from people on the internet that I made

0:44.1

some errors last week. Twitter always has thoughts, Matt, and opinions, and I heard them.

0:49.3

Matthew Reese, the actor, is not Irish. He's actually Welsh, which I knew. And for some reason I said Irish,

0:57.1

and I did not mean to get into any historical geopolitical skirmishes there. But apologies to

1:02.4

Matthew Reese, who, as I said, is a very nice guy. I also screwed up Ezra Miller's pronouns,

1:08.2

which I actually knew as well. And I should have known that Ezra Miller is a they,

1:14.2

not a he.

1:15.0

So apology to Ezra Miller.

1:17.5

I got a bunch of tweets about that one.

1:20.2

It's good that we're held accountable.

1:22.0

Yes, but one of the things I also miss last week was the Will Smith Apology video, which came out on Friday morning,

1:30.0

let the internet up for a little bit, and we have thoughts about that. Did it work? Did it not work?

1:36.2

What's the business implication? Why do he do it when he did it? And he's got this movie

1:41.8

emancipation that is about to come out or maybe not come out. We will get

1:46.2

into all of that and how the Will Smith Apology played. So we brought on Juliet Litman, who is

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