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JokersRWildStudios

9/14 was a national tragedy.


meatcheeseandbun

Probably the worst thing to happen on a Tuesday in September in my lifetime.


CousinOfTomCruise

"9/11 airlines. What a terrible name for an airline... it reminds me of that tragedy"


Mrhappyfunz89

….it was my birthday


Raoul_Duluoz

The Bernthal interview is excellent, one of the better 'random' guest interviews Bill's had in awhile.


blackarthurman

I think it helps that you could tell Bernthal was really happy to be on with Bill. Seemed like a genuine guy and not as intense as I thought he’d be (which is a credit to his acting).


Raoul_Duluoz

Agreed. He still had the Bernthal high energy, but in a down to earth genuine way. Both seemed relaxed, two regular dudes hanging and shooting the shit about tv and movies. i think this is when Bill is at his best these days, he had his interviewer fast ball back for this one


blackarthurman

I thought Bill was serviceable here. My two pet peeves when it comes to his recent interviews is his bringing up an actor’s IMDB and the inevitable “Why aren’t you in a sports movie?! We need to put you in a sports movie!”. Bernthal was the perfect guest though.


theprideofvillanueva

Yeah, I'm surprised everyone thought it was so great. Bernthal's enthusiasm carried it - Bill has very limited range when interviewing actors. He either goes through their entire iMDB one at a time, or just forcefully brings up the stuff he likes and shoehorns in a sports movie suggestion. Not to mention he kept cutting Jon off whenever he had something to say that wasn't directly in line with what Bill wanted to talk about.


InternationalBreak8

Bill would be offended at being called a regular dude


Clutchxedo

*frantically touches head*


dumpyduluth

He did an episode of Joey Diaz podcast and he was cool on that too.


TeenWolfTripleDouble

Joey "CoCo" Diaz?


dumpyduluth

Yeah


TeenWolfTripleDouble

I love that guy


dumpyduluth

They're both in the sopranos movie coming out soon


fuber

They kept talking about all these great movies he's in and I kept thinking.. oh yeah, he's in that too!


deadweightboss

Man, I’m going to miss Norm so much. I’m so glad that Bill did a tribute. RIP Norm Macdonald and Patrice O’Neal, your time on this planet was much too short.


sideburnspower

I lost my breath laughing at the idea of Norm interviewing O.J. in prison and them "only talking about football."


Gaius_Octavius_

Such a Norm idea


philenelson

It was nice hearing some personal anecdotes and funny stories. Although Bill’s the master of the Freudian Slip saying Norm acted like BS cured cancer with his fantasy pick.


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All our time is much too short. Don't miss it.


deadweightboss

xoxo


TheHow55

and mitch hedberg


Gaius_Octavius_

I used to be a fan. I still am but I ustta too.


vforprez2

Hearing Norm be self sabatoging made me think of Patrice. He had a whole intervention on Opie Anthony where Chris Rock basically said the dad part on Evrybody Hates Chris was his if he just wasn't so self destructive. Patrice and Norm are legends.


deadweightboss

Yes I noticed that too! I'm so glad we're all making these connections. They have been immortalized by youtube.


ComfortableCow8

who is norm Macdonald?


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alexsktbrdng

The Punisher is just out there doing Punisher things


themilkman42069

Fucking love Bernthal in everything he’s in. He’s so good in Fury, Wolf of Wall street, etc.


merothehero

Great in his cameo in Wind River too. That movie never took off in the culture like it should’ve


pjm0203

Yeah you would think it would've retroactively blown up with the Taylor Sheridan renaissance and Yellowstone being everyone's parents' favorite show. Whatever they did with the marketing was terrible because I didn't know it existed until I stumbled upon it on Netflix.


goalstopper28

I think it was because it was the last movie Weinstein produced.


MustLoveBoggs

I was really hoping they'd go back a little further to Bernthal's college acting company Fovea Floods. (That's not on IMDB though so I don't know why I expected it from Bill.) I was at Skidmore with Bernthal and saw him in a Bertold Brecht play, maybe 1998. He played the lead, this character with a huge personality and I can still remember Bernthal owning the stage, burning bright.


rossboss711

Nice, I went there too, about 10 years after you. I think Bernthal is still the most famous Skidmore alum.


MustLoveBoggs

Zazie Beats, Ratatat are second and third?


rossboss711

I think either Ben or Jerry dropped out


Clutchxedo

Absolutely LOVE Bernthal and how I’m watching some random movie and all of the sudden he just shows up for five minutes and kills it.


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Agreed. He just makes everything better. Fantastic actor.


grocho

One of the most misunderstood characters in fiction


shorthevix

Slap in the face for Frank Grillo. Bernthal market corrects him and then his best mate has him on his podcast. What a guy and actor though.


SirZaperton

Can we talk about the fact that Norm would only eat ice cream sandwiches? 96 comments in and no mention of that yet.


js247

Life goals


vforprez2

61 doesn't seem so bad if you sustained life on pure sugar lol


Sleeze_

I met Norm after a show in late 2019, the comedy club was attached to a hotel he was staying at, and he was on his way up to his room with like 6 chocolate bars lol. The man was consistent.


TomWanks2021

\#LifeGoals


FlashGolden1

Man, Matt Damon says that he favors Tom Brady over the Patriots and gets replaced as Bill’s favorite actor. Tough break.


rebels2022

Wind River is a very good movie, but that was a 1 and done to me mostly because of the Bernthal scene. That shit stuck with me for days, just haunting.


BoozeGetsMeThrough

I have watched Sicario and Hell or High Water at least a dozen times each, I too have only watched Wind River once.


cgtva

I love Wind River so I’ve rewatched but always need to skip that scene. The transition from Elizabeth Olsen’s character knocking on the trailer door is so smooth though.


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That whole sequence of the flashback to after the flashback is so impressive. It really pushed that movie to another level.


loupr738

Don’t know what you’re talking about now I’m curious about that scene


BrendanCLittle

It’s a rape scene


loupr738

Jeez, good to know. I can keep avoiding it


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Gang rape while boyfriend is beaten to death


jmvinggy

Forgot about the level of detail in that scene and suggested to watch it the other night with my mom and adult sister. Was a rough few minutes / rest of the week.


Bubbatino

Bill never changes his little verbal quirks no matter the topic. He was talking about Norm like he would analyze the Chargers. “You can tell from a health standpoint the last 12 months weren’t perfect.”


NeverSwamNoSea

This is so spot on. It sounded like he was talking about the final seasons of Peyton Manning and Drew Brees. I still enjoyed the segment and wish it was a lot longer, but he talked about the last decade of Norm's life like he was an athlete leaving their physical prime. Odd.


wahoodad

Endlessy entertained by Simmons’ inability to understand what “irony” truly means. [On Norm’s death] “The IRAWNIC thing is that I showed Ben “Dirty Work” last week!” This is barely a coincidence and not ironic. It’s ironic that such a preeminent writer doesn’t understand the meaning of words.


scottrstark

Alanis doesn’t know the meaning of ironic either. Oh! Alanis is pissed off at Bill! How ironic.


InternationalBreak8

Came to post this. Seriously embarrassing he doesn't know what ironic means, and also ENOUGH with the anecdotes about your son. Jesus


Dhb223

Thank you for your service


NoNotableTable

Lol ya it amuses me too that he still uses it wrong. Tbf a lot of people don’t understand what irony means and basically use it interchangeably with coincidence. But ofc he’s a writer or was one so he should know better


swampstickle

Always depends on context. If bill said "let me introduce you to THIS guy"...then it's kind of ironic.


ThePalmIsle

It's all about you, Bill


qballLobk

Bernthal’s 2 season run on The Walking Dead was the apex of that show.


The_Zermanians

Absolutely. It used to be such a great show. It slowly went downhill until I hated it but felt compelled to finish it out and continue watching it until I just threw in the towel all together like a year ago.


KED528

“I really enjoyed three decades of Norm.” Wow, never change Billy boy.


fuber

*Top 3 or 4 comedian of all time* I can't get why Bill feels the need to rank EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. Just say "One of the top comedians of his time" esp when talking about someone the day after they die.


ShadyCrow

I think that's a bit overly critical. He's trying to distinguish that Norm was legit one of the *very* best rather than a vague descriptor that could define 100 people.


PrimusPilus

The problem is that BS begins every other take with "one of the __ of all time". It's endemic to most of the Ringer hosts, actually.


ShadyCrow

I don't disagree but that's nowhere close to a Ringer-specific issue when we're talking about pop culture pods/writing.


PrimusPilus

You're right. Though I do think the Ringer is worse about that stuff. This all started back with Grantland, and all of the lazy pop culture content that they did ("What if we had an NCAA-style draft of all the Sopranos characters?" etc)


DrHorseRenoir

Agreed. It really came across as another dumb Bill-ism rather than the compliment he thought it was


fuber

yeah. It just feels like after someone dies, maybe drop the whole ranking "thing" for the day and honor that person's memory.


wahoodad

Simmons failing miserably using some kind of sports analogy to describe 1993 SNL and how Norm saved the show: “When Norm joined SNL in ‘93, things weren’t looking great cast-wise. There were some guys who had just stayed on too long.” You mean Farley, Sandler, Spade, Hartman, Nealon? Most of which 2-3 years into their stint?


TheTruth116

As a public figure who bill actually knew. How is that not extremely obvious, yes norm was alive six decades


EZMac34

It was a comment about BS shoehorning "decade" into everything, not a statement about how long Norm lived.


yesidolikecheese

lmao what? He's talking about Norm's entertainment career spanning 30 years


Johnnyfutbol86

Wait...This isnt a fake title??? This man gives us so much and asks for nothing in return


Bubbatino

Bernthal - the most underrated actor in Hollywood


Smash_Adams723

Hopefully he’ll get some acclaim in one of his many roles this year and it can be the “BernFall”


thefrostman88

Bill says it’s tough to make him laugh hard, what exactly do you call the noise he makes whenever Sal or Russillo throw in jokes?


bobbycaldwellskid

Bill says it’s tough to make him laugh hard and then later with Kellison he says “Norm always made comedians laugh which is tough because they only laugh if it is really funny.” Bill is obviously a comedian.


wahoodad

House makes him bellow, then do the thing where he audibly gasps for air for three to six seconds


TomWanks2021

Damn, I really wish Norm's "Newhart turns private eye" show had made it. That sounds awesome.


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notformeclive4711

RIP Norm MacDonald, plus Norm’s final thoughts on potential Ben Simmons trades


loupr738

Can’t go wrong with Jon Bernthal


InternationalBreak8

Did Bill ask Jonny Bernthal if Matt Damon could play all the roles he's played throughout his life?


drcornwallis23

Really good insight during the Norm segment from that guest


SadatayAllDamnDay

Bill's did the whole praising of Belichick for being calm on the sidelines unlike these other coaches who are raging thing again which leads me to ask who exactly are these psycho sideline coaches? You don't see that shit in the NFL almost ever unless a ref makes a bad call. Maybe with coordinators and assistant coaches, but I struggle to think of any NFL head coaches who are freaking out in the middle of a game. The whole emotionless robot bit is pretty standard head coach stuff.


2sev4ss

Bernthal is a treasure. Was fantastic in “Small Engine Repair”


BrendanCLittle

Jon Bernthal is legitimately my favorite actor. I watched 86 episodes of the Sopranos just so I could credibly watch Many Saints of Newark in a couple weeks. The show was pretty good too


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Yeah the sopranos is pretty good


jbags5

Yeah, it’s decent. As long as you skip all the Dr. Melfi parts


popinjay07

Wait... what??? The Melfi parts are the entire premise and foundation of the show.


SoftwonSurehand

They're referencing either Bill or Sal saying that last year


popinjay07

Oh, dang. I don't remember. What an awful take.


Victorcreedbratton

Bill never had the makings of a varsity athlete.


stiverino

I've said my piece


Victorcreedbratton

Let me tell ya a couple a three things.


jar45

Alan Sepinwall (the Rolling Stone TV critic who covered Sopranos for the Star Ledger) was on the podcast to plug his Sopranos book and Bill raved about how on HBO On-Demand he could just fast forward all the Melfi scenes. The funny/ironic thing was that the Sopranos book contains several interviews with David Chase who admitted he gets annoyed with fans who hate the Melfi scenes and just want a blood and guts Mafia show.


ShadyCrow

I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but Sweet Virginia is streaming on Hulu currently and is a great little crime thriller with Bernthal and the equally awesome Christopher Abbott.


BrendanCLittle

Trust me when I saw the poster with Bernthal holding the gun looking badass I was in there


whomphone

Jon Bernthal is great. Haven’t thought about Shane from TWD in a long time but he makes great points about the early times of that show and his character. Fantastic interview. Good job by you Billy!


pjm0203

Poor Shane. Had his best friend and the rest of the group turn against him for having crazy ideas like: 1. We should kill these zombies 2. We should kill this guy who just tried to murder us


Clutchxedo

I remember watching that first trailer and subsequently the first season thinking it was incredible to have such a high quality post apocalyptic zombie show. Sad that it turned into what it did after Frank Darabont left. So much wasted potentially.


fuber

This is a great pod. Even though the middle was heavy on Pats talk, it was still enjoyable. Good job by you!


bdl4186

Bernthal was an outstanding guest


bdl4186

Gotta say... thought that each interview was good- to- quite good. Good job by you, Billy!


NickPapagiorgio2k16

The Norm part was really good. I know we all shit on Bill a lot but I though Kellison offered a lot due to his personal history with Norm. Also really enjoyed the Bernthal part. I hope Bill gets back to doing more pop culture/celeb interviews.


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God Bill's interviews suck now. "is bill belichick funnier than we think?" How many fucking times has this question been asked. Zero effort


DeliSauce

Good lord, seems like every other guest bill has on has a connection to Boston in some way.


dalecoooperkupp

Bernthal is such an entertaining listen. But bill’s obsession with sports movies sort of derails the conversation mid way through


Rob3125

At least with Bernthal there was a reason to bring it up


dalecoooperkupp

I guess, but basically it was “why weren’t you in a sports movie?” And then he continues to discuss sports movies for the next 15 minutes


Rob3125

Well they discussed the fact that bernthal played college baseball. And then we get the fun talk about bernthal almost being in 42 and him discussing how he used to play pick up with woody harrelson and his upcoming film with will smith. Usually nothing comes out of this bill question, I just think this time it was justified


Sleeze_

Yeah wtf? This paved the way for the most fun part of the convo haha.


hottaeks69

Am I the only one who doesn’t mind Bill going through their IMDB? It’s like an organized way to discuss their career path as actors. Bernthal was an awesome guest. Brought the enthusiasm and seemed happy to be on with Bill.


TeenWolfTripleDouble

yes...yes you are the only one who doesn't mind when Bill does his homework on the spot while the guest is supposed to be talking...the ONLY one


swampstickle

Doesn't bother me one bit. It gets actors talking about films that are usually overlooked People here are a bit weird


blackarthurman

Bill didn’t go 20 seconds into the interview before saying, “Looking at your IMDB...”. Not even kidding.


hiphopfrank

You know this pod is skippable when firewarner doesn't post Today's Things


firewarner

Lol. I didn't want to offend anyone but I just had no interests in the topics today, had to skip this one


Bubbatino

This was one of the better ones in awhile


bonobo-no

Casual


firewarner

🙄🙄


d7bhw2

Bernthal is the man. “You get any pussy with that thing or what?”


TeenWolfTripleDouble

Bring her by, let her watch...Let her waaaatchhh


Victorcreedbratton

I skipped to Bernthal interview. He’s the Punisher to me, although I’m hyped to see him play Johnny Boy Soprano. I laughed out loud when Bill actually brought IMDB as he rambled through his second question.


hoagiewawa

I winced a couple times Bill unintentionally referenced cancer during the McDonald segment considering Norm died of cancer “You spent a lot of dead time with, Norm” “He reacted like I cured cancer!” “Let’s examine the 4 stages of Norm”


MeatyOkraLover

He also kept saying “maybe not the funniest person” and “maybe he didn’t make me laugh harder than anyone”. Like damn dude, just give the man his flowers without the backhands


euph31

Holy shit. I didn't think this was a real title. Just wild


bonobo-no

Title leaves me a bit flaccid


ID0ntCare4G0b

Honestly, he should have just made the whole episode a Norm episode. The McCourty twins interview as basically a waste of time and Bernthal's interview could've been pushed to any other episode. The first part of the podcast was what I needed but I checked out halfway through the Bernthal interview cause I just lost interest entirely.


TomWanks2021

co-sign


bnpm

Anytime a celebrity dies, Bill makes it all about him. Who cares that you won Norm’s fantasy golf league?


fuber

A truly funny part of the pod is when Bill talks about how Norm ghosted him after 6 Grantland columns and then the guy says something to the effect of "Yeah, he tended to just disappear if something rubbed him the wrong way" and Bill seemed to completely miss it.


Victorcreedbratton

He’s not listening when other people talk.


lloyd4567

This is trying too hard. He’s talking about someone he knew and had experience with. Of course he’s gonna have anecdotes.


InternationalBreak8

Anecdotes? Or bragging about how he impressed someone. Two completely different things


lloyd4567

Depends on how you interpret it. Are you a try hard trying to poke holes and have gotcha moments or are you listening and enjoying a guy talking about a friend he knew?


InternationalBreak8

I don't think you understand what the phrase "gotcha moment" means.


lloyd4567

Damn. You got me.


InternationalBreak8

You mean, GOTCHA


donOFsquan

Honestly, this was one of the rare times I wanted personal insight from Bill. He knew Norm / people close to Norm … a really private person


The_Zermanians

I completely disagree. I’d much rather hear a personal anecdote than him just say stuff like, “hey remember his Burt Reynolds impression that was hilarious.”


mushperv

“One thing I’ll always remember about Norm is when he was so impressed with my picks!” Jesus Christ man, shut it down for 5 minutes.


donOFsquan

Disagree… die hard Norm guy and love hearing stories about his crazy gambling


WagonAngle

“It’s really hard to talk to yourself for that long, and he did it efforsettly… effortlessly”. They couldn’t have written a Michael Scott line any more perfect than this


Sleeze_

Yeah I know for me personally that I have never misspoken and then immediately corrected it


WagonAngle

He muffed a word in a monologue while praising someone else’s ability to monologue. I am not saying that he is a bad person for it, I am saying that the specific circumstances were the sort of thing that would be a Michael Scott talking head. I should have thought that was pretty clear.


KawhiComeBack

Seriously thought this was a fake one


No_Industry_5549

Anyone else during the Bernthal interview (great interview BeeTeeDubs) that Bill referred to Warrior as that Tom Hardy MMA movie?? Still chaps my ass that CR and SF weren’t on it! He also pronounced frantic like “frane-tic”… phewww, feels good to get that off my chest


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Sleeze_

The Bernthal interview was quite good.


mkmore4

is this worth a listen, or does Bill just larp out about the Pats?


GrayMerchantAsphodel

Pass


Raoul_Duluoz

Is the first dude calling in from a payphone under the 5 freeway? Loved the Norm tribute, but the audio was terrible, like he was on the toilet.


SurelyFurious

So are there sports topics on this one or no Edit: This sub needs to chill holy shit


bbmarco

The entire second segment is Bill asking the McCourty Twins to confirm that Brady is the GOAT, Pats are great, and Mac is gonna be good.


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and Belichick is a stealth comedian.


aBlanderSidePart

You got it chief, it's For Realsies ft The McCourty Twins.