He does this impression with a lot of things. He sounds like he’s mentally handicapped and has a deep voice. It’s incredibly unfunny and cringeworthy.
wasn't Rembert caught up in some Me Too type stuff at one point? He's always been absolutely terrible.
cursory search is he was on a list spread by Cernovich about bad guys in media, so all the salt in the world isn't enough for that list he did admit he had substance abuse issues at one point post grantland
Tarantino doing three Rewatchables pods. Pretty huge. Hoping Simmons is missing at least one of those.
Wonder if they will do any of his movies. and wonder how weird the movie selections will be if he has a say
It'd be pretty funny if they were just movies like Sweet Home Alabama, Cliffhanger, and then some foreign movie everyone says you really should check out.
Tarantino picked the movies. So get ready for 3 different spaghetti westerns or blaxploitation flicks, all of which will be compared to Boogie Nights and Rounders. Edit: don't care the first movie is dunkirk, leaving the post in
50/50 Bill watched a screener of Dunkirk while following a Red Sox game on his iPad and, “Just couldn’t get into it.”
until he heard smarter people at the Ringer liked it and then he "watched it a 2nd time and I get it now"
i haven't listened yet but intended to go back at some point to do so: QT apparently did a great long podcast a few months back related to film. and it's clear he listens to the rewatchables/fennessey.
The story he tells on the Rewatchables about seeing Dunkirk for the first time is something I never knew about Nolan and absolutely awesome.
https://theoutline.com/post/8485/bill-simmons-fans-reddit-the-ringer?zd=1&zi=lmgqnzyp my god this was good and nearly as apt to this thread as the bill simmons subreddit
Battle Royale is apparently QT's favorite movie, but it's in Japanese so I'm not sure if they would do it
they announced the next one as Unstoppable (last Tony Scott movie) on the latest BS podcast so they're just doing random movies
Chief among them: A podcast from 2013, in which Simmons supposed that Memphis, as a city, has subconsciously conflated the trauma of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination with the failures of the Grizzlies. That was nearly 7 years ago? Yikes. Time is flying by. That was such a weird take. I remember listening to that pod.
A) Can't believe that thread didn't cite our thread B) Wonder how weird that must feel for Bill reading that article
I guess I need to drop in on the Howard Stern thread on here because from what I understand 90% of the Stern fanbase basically hates his guts now, so its not really a unique deal with BS
I will say the parent corner compilation pod was fun. But it was also pretty nuts to relisten to "Bill chases a youth soccer ref back to the tent" and "Bill yells at his teenage daughter because she doesn't buy him enough presents"
All too often he comes across as a child that never actually grew up. He’ll probably admit to it as well and blame the fact that he is a child of divorce.
Grantland had really fantastic NBA and NFL coverage, I thought, led by Lowe and Barnwell. I think The Ringer's film and tv coverage with Fennessey/Ryan/Dobbins/others is really what they're best at. I know they have about 15+ writers doing NBA stuff but The Big Picture and The Watch are their best podcasts and their coverage of shows or movies surpasses anything on sports.
I think that's what Simmons wants now. He cares about pop culture more than sports, and his pod is what it is because he lives in a bubble and doesn't really consume sports in a way where he understands that his stupid opinions are stupid anymore. His HBO show was basically the start of it. He's said said his idea for the show was to find something sports related that celebrities wanted to be on. In a lot of ways, he's become the PTI guys. He talks about sports because that's how people identify him, but he doesn't actually watch or care about the stuff he talks about. He's just faking it because that's where he makes his money and because it gives him the chance to talk about the few things he actually cares about that are sports related.
Is this a bad thing? I consider Tony and Mike still the best of the business. I have been a listener to Tony’s show/podcast for years (proud Little) and he definitely still watches the games and loves sports.
I guess if you want your sports analysis stuck in ideas from 20 years ago from a guy who readily admits he doesn't stay up past 9pm to watch sports, sure.