David Shoemaker

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407 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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The Bill Simmons Podcast · 2026 NFL QB Rankings, the Villain Dodgers, MLB Trade Deadline Lessons, and SummerSlam 2026 With Mina Kimes, Billy Gil, Anthony Dabbundo, and David Shoemaker · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But you're right when it's like,

you're watching ESPN and the weirdest part is that it doesn't seem totally out of place just because the production is so high, you know?

And, and, and, and, and also it's just like, you see these wrestlers just wandering in and out of the set of like, get up and first take, like there's so much weird synchronicity that are like synergy that like, it's, it's almost hard to process.

I mean, when you were there,

You remember that people were in the highest seats of power who would have just quit over WWE being... A WWE story being on the homepage of the website, you know?

And now it's just seamless.

It's all part of the product.

So do you feel, I remember, I remember very well the first time we talked at Grantland and you, and you called me on the phone and we were just like, what does a wrestling column look like?

Like, like we didn't know what the, what the world would want, you know, or like what, what could even happen.

And so, you know, we've come a long way, I guess.

I think it's helpful.

I think more than anything, it's thrown a lot of these questions into stark relief.

You know, it's like now every single insidery wrestling conversation is like trying to read tea leaves about how excited ESPN is or unexcited or how pleased or unpleased they are with the numbers they got last month.

I think if it weren't ESPN, it probably wouldn't feel quite as dire every time new numbers come in or whatever.

Yeah.

acquiring WWE is an interesting move for ESPN.

I think it's worthwhile, but it's always been very transactional.

All of their various over-the-top homes, it's always been

you know, they had the WWE network.

And then when they went to Peacock, it was like, because Peacock, because the Olympics got canceled, you know, because of COVID.

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