Welcome to Episode #119! We bring on returning guests Roman, Chris and Chenny for a rare 4-man panel to cover every angle of the Bill Simmons-Pablo Torre story. We discuss the origin of the feud, what we liked about Pablo calling out Bill several times, why we think Bill did the pod given he clearly hadn’t listened to Pablo’s shows, Bill’s hypocrisy on Pablo making this a story when Bill makes anything a story, whether Bill considers the pod a success, and we wonder if Bill will do more "sports media beef" content like this (Nick Wright?) after seeing such a strong listener reaction to the pod.Plus, we discuss this show's, and Awful Announcing’s, role in the feud and comment on the evolving ecosystem of podcast aggregation and whether this, along with Bill Simmons Twitter and r/BillSimmons becoming more popular lately, is changing Bill’s mindset so he has more fun online at his expense in order to further grow his pod, especially with a younger audience.For anyone who’s followed this story over the past week and listened to their pod, this is must-listen. Enjoy!

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