William Zabka on 'Cobra Kai,' and a 2020 Sports Repodders Recap With Bryan Curtis and Jason Gay

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons shares some early NBA reactions before giving out his Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 16 (3:00), before he is joined by actor William Zabka to discuss Season 3 of ‘Cobra Kai.’ They talk about making the platform switch to Netflix, successfully rebooting a classic franchise, Zabka’s character (Johnny Lawrence) switching from antagonist in the film franchise to protagonist in the TV show, Season 3 excitement, and more (23:00). Finally Bill talks with The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis and WSJ’s Jason Gay for another edition of the Sports Repodders. They discuss COVID-19’s major blow to the sports media industry, how sports media innovated when there were no sports to cover, a look back at the 2020 NFL draft, sports gambling permeating mainstream sports culture, the evolution of the relationship between athlete and journalist, and more (56:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, Cobra Kai, the sports repotters, million dollar picks.
0:04.8	It's one of the goofiest podcasts of the year.
0:06.9	It is a holiday present to you.
0:08.7	It's all next.
0:10.0	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new rewatchables
0:13.8	with Chris Ryan this week.
0:15.0	We did the Born Identity and Action Classic.
0:18.4	I also on the Ringer dish podcast Wednesday night,
0:20.9	Dave Jacobi and I break down the challenge double agents,
0:24.5	the iconic MTV show, the fifth American professional sport.
0:28.8	I promise you there's no better challenge recap.
0:30.9	I rarely say things like that, but it's 25 minutes.
0:34.8	We make a ton of jokes.
0:36.1	We break it down like it is the game seven in the NBA finals.
0:40.7	And it is just the peak, the pinnacle of challenge recaps.
0:44.1	Nobody's doing better than us.
0:46.3	It's just not happening.
0:48.1	Why are we doing it?
0:49.0	I have no idea.
0:49.8	I just missed your Kobe.
0:50.9	That's it.
0:51.8	Coming up, Billy Zabka, finally,
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