Chuck Klosterman

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3,417 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 12 Jul

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The Bill Simmons Podcast · Chuck Klosterman on the Cinema Revival, Sports Tsars, Owners and Commissioners, Analytics, U.S. Soccer Groundhog Day, and State of Reading · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, I probably wouldn't have been smart.

I thought it was just a crazy thing he was suggesting that I do.

I was like, but you know, there's

So now these franchises are these things where it's like, you know, it is the thing itself.

The rest of the world is becoming this sort of this kind of digital, almost like false simulacrum of reality.

But these things are real.

So I suppose a guy who would be buying the Bears, he would be saying like, well, I'm really investing in, in many ways, the NFL.

And that there's this thing that, in his maybe opinion, is one of the few things that is not only stable, but has the potential to get bigger in big ways.

I think that the meaning of the franchise has less to do... There was probably a period where it was like a...

I want something kind of for me, for fun.

Like I love sports.

So this is a way to do it.

Like, I think if you had become extraordinarily wealthy when you were a young person, you would have attempted to buy into some sports franchise.

Well, I mean, it certainly seems that way.

Although it's just like, you know, we forget.

It's so easy to forget things.

Like, you know, like, do you remember why Monday Night Football moved to ESPN?

I used to know this.

So bizarre.

ABC was like Desperate Housewives is more popular.

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