Gotta admire RR’s restraint when providing his answer to why the Ringer after ESPN. He could’ve easily said “Disney/ESPN was too fucking woke”. Bones Russillo would’ve laid it out straight. Swole Ry is more measured. It’s called growth, folks.
not sure if any non-golf fans are watching Full Swing on Netflix but Chris Ryan did a recap pod of it on the No Laying Up podcast for all the CR heads
I don't remember why he left? He was definitely like "uhh there was some weird stuff there" but I didn't really think about it any more
Also I like Ryen's stories about how he got to where he is but it's also like... yeah dude, you're gonna be talking to no one and get paid nothing when you start
my fav part was bill's all-nba guard selections on the same night dame drops 71 luka/sga ja/jrue others mentioned: mitchell, haliburton, curry, booker
did you not hear Jacoby say "i still can't forgive D-Lo for what he did to Nick Young and Iggy Azzalea" ?
yes he's a white guy who seemingly enjoys the TMZ aspect of the NBA the most. Gigantic reality TV fan who used to host a pod about it at Grantland with Juliet Litman
i haven't listened to a minute of titus and tate on any platform but i guess this is a thing for people titus on barstool, tate at ringer
I’m not terribly familiar with his resume but I recall tates career arc being pretty well aligned with Bill and then getting his own podcast at a young age. He’d really have to hate Bill.
It was posted here or maybe reposted from Reddit site that Tate was mad during Spotify sale process that he didn’t get more money when he was there from day 1 and helped build podcast network.
RR: one time it (the surfing lesson) was a date and the fucking instructor hit her up afterward …fucking foreign surf instructors. Next thing you know your mom is dropping him off. I was guffawing
No. Like unruly fans showering players with racial epithets at the Boston Garden during his formative years.
Some law must have been passed because every sports podcast has an ad from some gambling site and it’s awful now
i keep my bitching about the mookie trade and the inept front office to a bare minimum in the mlb thread and im just some dude cant imagine subjecting millions of listeners to it also liked that he suddenly started watching hockey again (obviously for a total random reason)
Ryen hurting Bill's feelings with that text ("would 30 year old Bill be satisfied with this segment idea?")
In terms of being able to stay on the floor? I listened to some of that pod and enjoyed Russillo challenging Bill on coaching and strategy. Nerd Ryen knows a lot more about basketball strategy than Bill ever has.
That was the gist of it but Anthony Davis is/was one of the best layers in the league. Rob Williams is a role player on Bill's favorite team
Listened to the Catch Me If You Can rewatchables and loved it. People who think Ryan and Fennessey hate Bill or hate doing pods with him are nuts. They made fun of him for almost an hour about his Hanks and Adams takes and seemed to enjoy every minute of it.
I don't know if it's that bad. It's just like anything else in terms of no one is an expert on everything, and those two guys are just smarter than him when it comes to movies and general pop culture understanding because that's what those guys do in the same way Bill is the basketball historian. And so when Bill oversteps a little, they smack him around and it's hilarious to listen to. And I think Bill is in on the joke enough that he kind of digs in for the humor of it. Although I'm kind of team Simmons when it comes to Amy Adams (both in that movie and in general).
i meant more that bill being horny seems to be an enormous source of his takes even if he doesn't recognize it. like a pubescent teen. he 100% understands the dynamic with them though and leans into it even if his ego is bruised after
The Celtics lose on national TV with another Tatum stinker and of course Bill and “not a Celtics fan” Russillo have a circle jerk about the 2008 Celtics and suck Ainge’s dick
for example i loved black snake moan when it came out but it turns out i just found christina ricci unfathomably attractive
its literally his barometer for every actress, if he doesn’t find them hot he doesn’t think they are a good actress. Every re-casting he does on there is to “upgrade” the leading starlet to someone he wanted to fuck in the 80s and 90s