The Ringer Thread: Complain about everything, yet still consume content

Yay.

 

I get that Tessitore is terrible but Bill’s impersonation is even more annoying than Tess.

 

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.

 

This clip is screaming for the “Hello you fellow kids” gif

 

Take that fucking beanie off you weirdo

 

Ben Simmons: no longer the most cringe worthy member of the family

 

it's 60 degrees in LA, ok?

 

he got a free beanie with his hoodie purchase at fjällräven

 

You don’t but wearing them inside for a video is trying to act like a 20 something and he’s 50.

 

I don’t understand how people wear beanies inside without sweating profusely

 

inside a studio to cover your hairline?

never

 

wasn't Rembert caught up in some Me Too type stuff at one point? He's always been absolutely terrible.

 

Take a shot every time Rembert says “like” during the last pod. Fucking hammered.

 

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.

 

I would pay money to listen to QT do a rewatchable pod on Cliffhanger

 

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

 

Cillian Murphy in Dunkirk reminds me of Don Cheadle in Boogie Nights going to get donuts.

 

Also, bill not involved in that one at least

 

Good call on whomever made that decision

 

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 guess I need to finish Dunkirk.

 

Same

 

Lmao I’d be surprised if this wasn’t how it happened.

 

Dunkirk with QT was as good as advertised.

 

QT does a great job of explaining certain movie shit I had no idea I needed to know.

 

Battle Royale is apparently QT's favorite movie, but it's in Japanese so I'm not sure if they would do it

 

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 lot of fun. this thread reminds me of the Simmons sub.

 

Even at the time I had to rewind and confirm what I just heard. An insanely bad take.

 

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.

 

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 think him and Sal both exaggerate being bad dads for laughs on the pod.

 

I went to Chatter when in DC in 2018

 

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.