The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Derek Thompson for another edition of The Future of Everything, during which they discuss Derek and Ezra Klein’s new book ‘Abundance,’ before sharing their predictions for the future of politics, tech, sports, and culture. Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Derek Thompson Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Speaking of video podcasts, Amy Poehler's new podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler. We launched it today. Very excited about it. You can listen to her talk to Martin Short. That's an episode. You can listen to her talk to Tina Fey. That's an episode. And we put a lot of time and work and effort into this. And Amy's the best. So I really hope this podcast becomes humongous.
And I don't know why it wouldn't. Because again, Amy is the best. So congrats to her coming up on this podcast. Speaking of the best, we have Derek Thompson from the Plain English podcast. Every once in a while, he pops on and we talk about the future of everything. We have a gimmick for this. You've probably heard it in the past.
And we're going to do it again after we hear from our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're recording this on a Tuesday. Always fun to have this guy. I would do the future of everything concept, but he's on a little book tour. He's dressed up. Never seen him in a tie before. I'm just one of many stops, but I booked it super early.
I'm pumped because future of everything is clearly one of the nine most important things you're doing today. Derek Thompson, host of Plain English. New co-author of a book called Abundance with Ezra Klein that came out this week, today. And I'm just going to say it. I feel like you lucked out that this didn't come out last year. Timing seems perfect.
It's interesting. Ezra and I had a conversation maybe, I don't know, I guess a full year ago now where the book was being extended, right? Ezra and I were just, we were busy. I was doing my podcast. He was doing his podcast. We couldn't quite finish the book in time. The book was supposed to come out just before the Democratic National Convention happened. of last year.
And I remember thinking like, man, it's too bad that our book can't come out and shape the messaging for the Democratic Party in 2024. At this point, for better or for worse, and there's certainly a lot of worse if you're a Democrat, I think there's a moment right now where there's a lot of people asking, what's the future of the Democratic Party? We're polling at 29% according to CNN.
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