Chris Ryan
Appearances
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I was trying to be nice.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
He's kind of the perfect example of English teacher guy, English student. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Cooper in A Star is Born.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I don't think enough people have seen the movie yet. I think when he is actually like, first of all, this is he's already doing the Lord's work on the promo tour, which we're going to talk about. Yeah. But once people see this movie, I think that he might slingshot ahead of Ralph Fiennes and Adrian Brody. So what are the cases for Rafe Fiennes and Adrian Brody?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
So Rafe is probably a... He deserves it. Body of work. Conclave's really good. Body of work? Like a Joel Embiid type of case two years ago? He's never won. Okay. I'm wearing a thunder hat. I don't even acknowledge that. Uh... Yeah, body of work for Ralph Fiennes. And I think for Adrian Brody, it would be like, this is it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
This is the performance of a lifetime, even though he's already won, which I think will probably count against him. Already won. That's a strike.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
It's the first movie that I feel like, this and Dune, but definitely Dune 2, where it's like Timmy's a man now. He's actually a convincing guy in his late 20s now. Remember when this happened to Leo?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
It was like the Catch Me If You Can era where it was like, oh, Leo's an adult now. Yeah, he had done The Beach and a couple of other things to try and move into out of heartthrob and into adult. I remember this happened to you when we went to The Ringer.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
That was my blood diving.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Monica Barbaro. Monica Barbaro. Yeah, she was great. She plays Joan Baez.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah, Norton is Pete Seeger. I think it's a movie that'll probably be like, a lot of people are like, I love the performances. I love the music. I don't know if there's like a huge story there. But that's been a lot of musical biographies in general.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
That one had a little bit more inherent tragedy built into it. But I think that this one is just going to really blow people away. Because if you see the trailer, and if you just look at Timothee Chalamet in his day-to-day life, you probably wouldn't guess that he could pull this off.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
So Chalamet's using the opportunity that he might have here where he's odds on, or he's going to be an odds on Oscar favorite, if not like the prohibitive favorite. And he seems to be taking most of that time to make it clear how much you love sports.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And I love it. Now there's a very, you know, not famous, but infamous clip of him on Kimmel from like eight years ago or whatever it was, where he talks about how much he loves you. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
He's done Theo Vaughn. He's done game day. He's done. He was good. He was great on game day. When are we getting Timmy on the bill pod? I put the request in.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
The flip side is that like there are photos of him like autograph hounding Amari Stoudemire. Let's talk about it. Let's find out this side of you, the sports side. It's not coming out in a Theo Vaughn podcast. What do you think you would do to him? Would you just put him on Guess the Lines blind? I want to go full 80 minutes.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Travis Hunter, how does he translate to the NFL?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
What if he's not coming on your pod because he has lost most of the money he's made following million dollar picks?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
LeBron and Curry and Durant stay too long? What's your take? Are threes, are we getting too much of a homogenous product with threes?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah, this is what the people want, Chalamet.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
We don't want you talking about how you've just been building your whole acting career towards playing Bob Dylan. We want to know whether or not you think Jalen Hurts can win a Super Bowl.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Oh. Like a guy who's coming up through Texas high school football. Isn't Mike McDaniel more fun?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
If we find out that Mike McDaniel got involved in some crazy Scarface Coke thing in Miami. Mike McDaniel crossed with Pain and Gain. Yes.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
It's like we love these plays you're calling, but our wide receivers keep getting killed out there. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Oh, like a horror? Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I think that this movie, when you see him in Dylan, he's got a little hair on his chest. And I think he needs to be back in the mix for Heat 2 conversations. I don't know what part, but I'm just saying he could be in the conversations. And then I think you're right. A horror movie would be incredible.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Is there anything from... Has he done Fincher yet? He hasn't. He hasn't done Fincher yet. No. It's Villeneuve. It's James Mangold for Complete Unknown. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Timothee Chalamet, The New Jersey Drone Story. Oh, that would be great. It's like just a guy in Jersey.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And it could be like Spielberg, like Close Encounters or War of the Worlds.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
That sounds great. Yeah. Close encounters of the drone kind.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Oh, like a Bourne kind of thing?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Oh, sports spy. Maybe he's like... He's like Connor Stallions.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah, maybe he plays Scott Boris. That could be a sports movie. Sure. That would be a great transformation. It'd be like when Leo played J. Edgar.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Because we get Miami. Yeah. There's drugs. You could embed him in the Miami football scene. You could make it be like Teddy Bridgewater is hanging out and stuff like that. It would be awesome.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
You can't leave Cooper like that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I don't know how good it is, but I know that I haven't had more fun talking about a TV show this year. Literally, every conversation I have about Landman seems to go 20 minutes. And it's just like... We're hysterically laughing, but also deeply, deeply involved in the plot. This is Taylor Sheridan's... I didn't know that he was ever going to have a home run again after Yellowstone.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I thought he would have shows... Much less a grand slam. That niche people... People love Lioness. People liked it in Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, whatever. The Yellowstone spinoffs. This feels like it could be the biggest show he made. I don't...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Billy Bob's no Kevin Costner in terms of the matinee idol department, but in terms of the amount of people watching it and the amount of times where you're just like, there's something in here for everyone. You can be into this because it's Friday Night Lights. You can be into this because it's Sicario. You can be into this because it's Dallas. I don't know, man. I love this show.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
The first two episodes, Ali Larder mostly just appears on FaceTime.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
They were like, well, can you FaceTime in? It would be like basically being like, we're going to have Sangoon just like only check in from the locker room. He's not going to play at all. Yeah. It's an incredible performance by her, but you're right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Like after the first two episodes, I think the show teaches you how to watch it, which is essentially like there are going to be three or four scenes where Billy Bob absolutely monologues and cooks. And the only time that doesn't happen is when Ham calls him to yell at him. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And then there's all this domestic drama between Billy Bob's character, Tommy, and her character, his ex-wife, now current wife. And it's just amazing. The funny thing is, did you notice that no one's giving Taylor Sheridan notes? This is Andy's big thing, Greenwald's big thing. There are scenes where you're like, how much longer is this scene going to go?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Like the dinner scene from episode four, I think, where she makes the wild boar bolognese. Yeah. And then he's like, are you on your period? And like, there's just, and you're like, how fucking long is this happening for? And it feels like you're just like in some sort of experimental drama.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
He just wrote it for him. It's in his voice.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
A little bit of the NASA guy from Armageddon.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah. And I don't know what Allie Larder thinks the show is, but whatever she's doing, I love it. But the show seems to be bending towards her now. Like in the beginning, I was like, this is insane. Like she's in a bikini on FaceTime crying every scene.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And now it seems like she is an integral part of the drama and is like in every scene, even when guys are getting absolutely murdered by falling pipes. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
What's weird is that Demi Moore is in this show.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And if you would watch the trailer or if it was just the call sheet, you'd be like, yeah, Demi Moore is going to have a much bigger part in this show than Allie Larder.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
needed the extra name but so those two and then the actor who plays Billy Bob's son in this oh Jacob Laughlin yeah so he was in this movie he's just really good yeah he was in a movie a while back this Jeff Nichols movie called Mud that's really really good when he was a kid actor and I haven't really seen him recently and he's awesome He is kind of like the Matt Saracen character.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
That's a good comparison. The prodigal son who wants to be an oil man but doesn't want to do it on his dad's back. He's just really soulful, really good. It could be really bad. This show would not work if he wasn't doing a good job.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Well, he does a real live forever McBain speech in the middle of that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And Dave Annabelle on Yellowstone.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
One of the best parts about this show, which is so refreshing, is that it's not a overall mystery or overall plot that you have to keep track of all these different moving pieces.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
You're just like, there's a problem every week. It's like dead body in the oil well that we got to figure out. We got another clue. Yeah. It's just every week, it's like West Wing or like Grey's Anatomy or like any big, really successful drama. They just give you a problem that Billy Bob has to solve by the end of the episode. Or not.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Or he's like, we're fucked and Jon Hamm's going to get mad at me.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
It's awesome. It was so good. One other thing I wanted to mention is that I think I've realized that I'm a secret huge fan of shows where people have to travel a huge distance to have a very simple conversation. This was a big thing for Ozark where it was like, I need to see you. And they'd have to drive all the way around the lake to the resort or all the way back. In car scenes?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
This scene, this show is basically like, They need to have a conversation. You have to get on a private plane and fly from the Permian Basin to Dallas to get yelled at for five minutes. And I was just like, if we had that at the Ringer, if the Ringer was based in West Texas and you were like, I'm going to need to talk to you. And I'm like, I got to go.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
How fast can you get from Fort Worth to Houston? The private plane leaves Permian. I fly to Dallas and you're like, I didn't much care for that Celtics team yesterday.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Let's talk about it. It is like we said about Tatum. I know you're emotional, but don't ever yell at me. I'm your boss.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah, but I think that he does a really good job explaining things for people who might be looking at this more from the business perspective. Like the two speeches he's given, well, the one... You're talking about Ham. Yeah, Ham. The one where he's like, this business is like constant crisis punctuated by extraordinary success. I'm like, that sounds like an incredible idea for a show.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And two, like when he's just like, I'm the bad guy. Like everybody hates... I've accepted the fact that the oil industry is the villain. So all my job is to do is keep oil between this number and this number. Well, and then the lawyer... Oh, yeah.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Yeah.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And Billy Bob's got to memorize like five pages of a monologue. Right. It's an incredible feat athletically. I do agree. Ham seems to be always getting off a plane, getting off on his mobile phone and then hanging it up. Yeah, they're like, John, can you film from two to five? Yeah. We just need to get off a plane and you're yelling at somebody.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I put on a suit. I got off a plane. I talked to him. And Demi Moore was like, I loved it. Two-day shoot. I think that this show does really remind me that it's okay for TV to be a lot of fun. We have had a nice long stretch of prestige television that's very serious, very like, this is about important issues. There are important issues in Landman, but you can take them as seriously as you want.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
There is at least three things in each episode where you're like, what did I just watch?
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
But the father-son story is like definitely really affecting. Like I really, really like it.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
Are you going to say the line? There's been a couple of lines that are like... Oh, yeah. They'll push in almost an R. Yeah? Yeah. So she says, I may have to suck Victor's dick to get my Bentley.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I honestly wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I think that Yellowstone was like a phenomenon where there wasn't really anything like that. There was no Western on TV at that moment, I don't think.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
This is a little bit more familiar to people, but I think as it keeps going, they're probably only going to be... It's so popular, I wouldn't be surprised if some huge star does a guest star next year. That's... I was going to bring that up. Andy Garcia is supposed to be on this season. It's going to be getting bigger and bigger.
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No, people were actually watching Yellowstone. Yeah, right.
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You know what's crazy about this show too is how fast they made a couple of the sets become like instantly recognizable and kind of iconic. Like the cafe that they all hang out at, the bar, where it's like everyone's drinking all day long because they have like crazy shifts. Yeah. And then, like you said, the McMansion and the Country Club, you're kind of like, I already know this world.
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Like this is, it usually takes a show like years to be like, oh, and you know this place and you know that place. And it's like, no, they instantly kind of hit all of that stuff.
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Yeah.
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So where does it go? Where does it go? From here?
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
I think that they'll probably keep playing out the adversarial relationship between Monty and Tommy, but I think that the cool thing about this series is that it'll probably be like Yellowstone where there's a big bad every season. And so there will be a big plot for each season, but all the parts will stay the same.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
What are the lessons?
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And the daughter is just going for it. She's the sister of a woman who was on The Bachelorette.
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The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan
And yes, is 28. I mean, she's 28 years old. She's playing like an 18 year old. It is an extraordinary bit that she's just like, I'm nude in this house while like the lawyer guy is like, I can't look at you.
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Yeah, Succession is way more prestige.
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Hardest one to thread. I think it's more, it would be something that like David E. Kelly did. It would be like Big Little Lies, maybe. That's good. Like that kind of like, this is very pop. It's got big people in it. People will just like looking at the furniture.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Or you would
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My mom's like that with Lioness. She was like, have you heard about this Lioness show? And I'm like, yeah, I have. Right. And then all of a sudden it was like, all my episodes were done. So do you think Taylor Sheridan took like the limitless pill?
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So he has now written at least 40 hours of television this year.
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I don't get it.
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I don't know, but this is like, we haven't seen a run like this in Sorkin, where Sorkin wrote every episode of West Wing. Can you imagine? And this show, honestly, it kind of reminds me of West Wing a little bit. It's a lot of people like walking and talking and solving problems in entertaining ways.
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But there would be like three good plots per episode of West Wing.
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There would be like an overarching thing where it's like the president's sick or whatever. But like for the most part, it would be like Josh is going to solve something. Sam's going to do something. And like CJ is going to do something. And then you get a big speech from the president. Yeah.
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There is no writer's room.
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I'll tell you what is unprecedented. It's unprecedented for someone to have the biggest show on TV end while possibly one of the biggest shows on TV is beginning and you're responsible for both of them. I can't think of another time that's happened.
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That you were writing both of them.
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That's coming up next. I thought you were going to be like first take, but for like actual land man. Oh, that'd be amazing.
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Should Cooper have kept it in his pants? Coming up.
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Does it use more energy than we think?
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Oh, I can't even remember. I just refer to her as Allie Larder. She doesn't need a name.
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Yeah. Because Allie Larder's Instagram. She's like, Angela's back. Episode four.
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The odds of Mallory loving the show are 100%. She texts me on Saturday saying six hours till Landman. I'm like, Lamar Jackson's on.