The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavericks Fans Revolt, ‘SNL 50’ Guesses, Oscars Watch, and Super Bowl Leftovers With Bryan Curtis and Matt Belloni
12 Feb 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Bryan Curtis to discuss lingering Super Bowl LIX thoughts (2:58), as well as the Luka Doncic trade from the POV of a longtime Mavericks fan (22:07). Then Bill talks with Matt Belloni about the highly anticipated 'SNL 50' show (59:00), Oscars predictions, Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively, Hollywood's relationship with President Trump the second time around, and much more (01:20:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We did the Blues Brothers in honor of SNL fans. You can watch it on the Ring of Movies YouTube channel as well. You can watch a lot of the videos and clips from this podcast and the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. This is a big episode for us because this is our first video episode of the Bill Simmons podcast on Spotify. Every episode from now on, will be a video episode on Spotify.
You can put it in your phone. You can just listen to it. You can pull your phone out. You can watch it. You can go on your smart TV, your PS5, your Roku, your Apple TV, wherever you want to get it and watch it. on the Spotify app, whatever you want to do, knock yourself out. We are a video podcast from now on. I've had this podcast since 2007.
So year 18, it's basically now, I guess, a TV show, a very low budget TV show, as you can see with my hastily put together posters behind me. This podcast, really fun episode, Brian Curtis talking Superbowl, Luca Trade, Day 10, still going. And then Matt Bellany talking SNL 50, the Oscars, Lively versus Baldoni, most famous celebrity right now. A lot of good stuff. It's all next.
First, we couldn't lose them on the video podcast. Our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, editor-at-large of The Ringer, Brian Curtis is here. We're recording on a Tuesday morning, action-packed. A lot of Brian's interests are in play. And we're going to talk about the Mavericks and one of the craziest NBA situations in a long time. But we'll start quickly with the Super Bowl.
Hey, newsflash, the Cowboys didn't win another Super Bowl. What? It's been over three decades since the last time. We did have the Eagles win. We had the end of Mahomes. We had a lot of takes. Sal and I were doing stuff on Sunday night about, Mahomes getting kicked off Cote Island. What was the media reaction yesterday? What jumped out to you? What did you enjoy?
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