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The Bill Simmons Podcast (1 Viewer)

Capella said:
His son watched a Japanese suicide video :lmao: :lmao:  
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Technically it wasn't a sucide video - as much as a guy posted with a body blurred out that was dead from a suicide.

Still not good but they are 2 different things :)

ETA: He doesn't not come off as a great parent 

But I fully admit My wife and I are on the more conservative side when it comes to thsi stuff

 
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my god listening to Paul Thomas Anderson chew gum for 8 minutes was all i could handle

someone in the studio should have advised him to spit it out

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Same with that faux-Limey accent of his.
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I was wondering about that.  Even when the "accent" wasn't audible, he used a ton of English phrasing/terms, like "your mates" and saying "Right..." before making a statement.  So much so that I went to his Wiki page to see if he lived in the UK, but it said nothing of the sort - says he lives in SoCal with his wife and kids.  Is that just from hanging around Daniel Day-Lewis for so long?

 
mr. furley said:
i've noticed this when talking to people from the coasts for about a decade now

it has really taken off in the last 2 or so years
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That's odd.  I've lived 43 of my 45 years within 15 miles of the ocean and have never heard anyone not British do that until PTA.  I guess I'm out of the "loop."

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
That's odd.  I've lived 43 of my 45 years within 15 miles of the ocean and have never heard anyone not British do that until PTA.  I guess I'm out of the "loop."
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seems particular to people i deal with from NY, NJ and Philadelphia.  but i hear it from the California folks, as well.

lately i'm on a weekly meeting with a woman based in NJ who leads EVERY. SINGLE. FREAKING. SENTENCE. with "right... so..."

might be why i'm sensitive to noticing it

 
mr. furley said:
seems particular to people i deal with from NY, NJ and Philadelphia.  but i hear it from the California folks, as well.

lately i'm on a weekly meeting with a woman based in NJ who leads EVERY. SINGLE. FREAKING. SENTENCE. with "right... so..."

might be why i'm sensitive to noticing it
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right ... so living in NJ for 46 years - this must be a you thing.

 
RUSF18 said:
Are we talking "right" like saying "I'll be there right quick"? FOH with that being a Jersey thing. 
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right, so it's not used like that. it's more like listening to Mark Cuban talk, right. where, right, he uses it constantly, right, to make a point.

 
mr. furley said:
right, so it's not used like that. it's more like listening to Mark Cuban talk, right. where, right, he uses it constantly, right, to make a point.
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Seems like a lot of people just need to be really sure you're able to follow a conversation. 

#jerseystrong

 
[scooter] said:
"I was real worried about [Bet X] and I'm glad that I changed my mind just before kickoff."

"The line for [Game Y] seemed strange to me when I made my pick, then I found out afterwards that [Player Z] was injured, so of course if I had known about the injury I would have made the opposite pick."

"The Chiefs and Bills would have covered if not for those injuries to Kelce and Taylor."
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Literally the first sentence of the pod "I somehow won money this week despite going 0-4 in my column!" :lmao:  

 
Capella said:
Literally the first sentence of the pod "I somehow won money this week despite going 0-4 in my column!" :lmao:  
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I think he won money because he got paid by everyone on the other side of those picks to go in the opposite direction. 

 
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Still like the podcast for the most part but I find it impossible to take him seriously after that Jonah Keri nonsense with the trade value column. That was probably the dumbest thing ever. 

 
facook said:
Magary might be more insufferable than Bill. But he is absolutely right today.
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Love Magary. The first twenty minutes of the deadspin podcast is usually great. The mailbag stuff is meh. Marchman is my kind of curmudgeon so I was sad to see him go but the dude they replaced him with is pretty funny and a good fit with Magary. Definitely worth putting in your rotation if you listen to a lot of podcasts. 

 
mr. furley said:
i've noticed this when talking to people from the coasts for about a decade now

it has really taken off in the last 2 or so years
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I thought "right" was the domain of aspergers folks, as I first noticed nate Silver doing it a while ago, as well as some other math nerds on podcasts/tv.

And "so" I find is largely used by phd/career academic types.  I found that my SIL's ex-boyfriend used this all the time when starting a response to something, and then I noticed it among a lot of other academics on podcasts.  Though that guy was from California, so maybe that's something.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
I thought "right" was the domain of aspergers folks, as I first noticed nate Silver doing it a while ago, as well as some other math nerds on podcasts/tv.

And "so" I find is largely used by phd/career academic types.  I found that my SIL's ex-boyfriend used this all the time when starting a response to something, and then I noticed it among a lot of other academics on podcasts.  Though that guy was from California, so maybe that's something.
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so this article backs up your inclination

 
Atlanta making the Super Bowl last year, Eagles and Pederson making the Super Bowl this year...the Lombardi mush is strong. 

 
I enjoyed the SalCast this week with Bill, but man how much must have @mr. furley hated the knob slob of Tony Romo for the last 20 minutes?  Especially after Romo "Uhh...ughhh....eeemmmmmm....hmmmm...errrreeeeddddd...." his way through every replay of the AFC Championship?  (I like Romo but he was painfully bad in that game.)

 
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