calling it that is how you can tell Bill never played organized basketball as a kid we were taught that break - sans dunk finishing - starting at at least 11
I thought he called it the biggest gut punch/heartbreak of the century which I def agree. Right behind game 7 of Cavs/Warriors 2016
Didn't Bill originally say that Holiday intercepted a pass on the Giannis alley oop play? I was driving and didn't care enough to go back when I heard it
It was awesome. I remember watching it from an infinity pool in Thailand while having breakfast extremely hungover. My point was no one does hyperbole quite like bill. It’s like when he says no one cares about the mvp then breaks down thirty years of mvp races.
Learned from the Fight Club pod that Bill doesn’t know how to pronounce “metastasize” I remember Bill talking about how he was going to do HGH for a column or to play pick up basketball or something, but read that it accelerated cancer so he didn’t.
Bill: you know I don't like narrators in movies me: I have heard Bill say that on the rewatchables 15 times and every time he says he enjoyed this narrator. Seems like he enjoys movie narrators.
He hasn't been able to shut the fuck up about Shawshank in 20 years, and there might not be a single scene in that movie that doesn't have Morgan Freeman narrating
i think bill knows that critical consensus around movie making is that narrators are typically terrible and a crutch for bad directors with some exceptions so he parrots it, even if he doesn't himself believe it
I get more annoyed that he says every movie they do on the rewatchables is too long or what should have been cut. My guy, you do 2 hour plus podcasts about a basketball game.
Wait did he really say that in the Fight Club one? Haven't listened to it yet but the BS subreddit predicted things he'd say and so far thats 1/1
I really think the Fight Club Podcast was just a way to promote the Woodstock 99 Series. He mentioned it five times in the first three minutes of that podcast. I might be speaking out of turn because I was19. When Woodstock 99 happened it might have been some what of a shit show for those who attended but it wasn’t a massive, mainstream shit show which it seems their podcast series is angling for. It was an attempt for our Gen X generation to mimic Woodstock but it was bootleg and not even close to what Woodstock was.
i was younger than you and remembered it for the massive fires and violence, like people performing were telling the audience to calm down, but we also get "memories" implanted in retrospect. can't imagine either of us were watching the news in real time. a quick perusal of the wiki has lots of reporting from in the moment that it was all a disaster, all the media covered it for the price gouging, violence/rapes, etc. i mean MTV evacuated their crew because of the violence
Yep this is all accurate, especially the bolded. It was a disaster. But sure, a bunch of white men were oblivious to it or going to gloss over it...def not going to disagree with that.
Probably remembers William Goldman telling him that during a lunchtime conversation in New York back in 2004
I do think all that happened but in 99 we didn’t have social media or the internet telling us how insane it was in the moment. You heard it through MTV if you were watching it. I think it’s a good comparison in how we treat events now first hand vs what we were being told the next day. Also, unless we were watching MTV it was out of sight, out of mind. Now you have to be pretty deaf to not hear it in a similar event. I was graduating HS then and I know we all just glossed over it and to my friends it was nothing but that might not be someone else’s experience.
I don't remember the rapes being as big of a talking point in the moment as they have become now in hindsight. Part of that is how the cultural conversation on sexual assault has shifted since 1999 but the fires and rioting was a pretty big deal if someone followed popular music The lineup of bands/acts is pretty hilarious in hindsight (ICP...really?) but Limp Bizkit and Korn were legit A list acts at the time so I remember it being a huge deal as someone who watched a shit ton of MTV and TRL in that era
I remember the fires and no one being able to get water. And limp bizkit absolutely slaying, obviously.
Wow rapes are serious shit. Wasn’t aware of that. I’m now gonna to listen to it as I’m pretty unaware of the whole thing. I’ve never been a live concert or festival person so I’ve pretty much avoided that stuff or discussion.
It's really gross when you watch a lot of the footage, girls topless in the crowd on guys shoulders just getting endlessly groped by strangers
My memory of Woodstock 99 was a new kid at our school joining our lunch table (all the cool, popular dudes, obviously) and regaling us of the tale of his grandfather taking him to Woodstock that summer. When pressed for any crazy details, he said someone peed on their tent. We were in 6th grade at the time. I expect this event to be covered in the documentary.
so much fallout for Bill's pyramid after tonight Giannis moves into the top 20 Chris Paul stays at 30 KD moves up to 5th LeBron drops to 7th
Lebron not even in the conversation. Unprompted Bill asks if this is a better game than Lebron has ever had
Brushing my teeth with pod playing on the Alexa. Had a moment where I gave myself a wtf look in the mirror when he said that lmao
in Bill's world it's as if actresses only serve one function in a show/movie and that's to be as attractive as possible. He's always recasting every female lead on the Rewatchables to all the actresses he beat off to in the 80s even if it has 0 fit to the role. Gushing about being all in on Alexandria Daddario is like bragging about having major stock in Christian Hackenberg or DeShone Kizer.
he also went on a rant gushing about Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria and he couldn't even remember her last name i think if you asked me to name the two best pairs of tits in TV history i would name those too. just so transparent Bill.
that plus the whole "I can't wait to see Mallory Edens Instagram pics from later tonight" were pretty creepy from a guy in his 50s
Simmons is weird about women but i didn't take this as creepy. I just took it as, "i hope she has an amazing time celebrating." Hope I'm not wrong there.
Dan Patrick has the best voice in sports television. The story at 21 minutes in this latest RR pod about Jordan is hilarious. Just amazing delivery. What a fucking psychopath that Jordan was.
That was a funny anecdote I’d never heard. Jordan is a psychopath who would’ve probably killed ppl if not for bball.