Sean Fennessey
Appearances
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Tatum and Brown for KD.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I hope Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart pod forever. I'm really enjoying that show. It's them just shitting on each other for 45 minutes. You're the biggest loser.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Hire an assassin to kill John Rose. I'm not sure. I don't listen to a lot of those shows, if I'm being honest, but I do respect that they are currently working very hard to eliminate shows like this. We have been observing your strategy of hot takery, and we can do better.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Just like we can dunk better than you, we can also hot take better than you, and that's kind of what each new show that comes along needs to go to a higher level. So do you listen to that next podcast? Sometimes, yeah. You're like, these are my guys? I have an emotional relationship with these men who don't know who I am.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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About Iran-Contra, you know, with that affair, well, at that time, we know Larry Bird was going for 26, 9, and 7. Were you sad to see Aaron Rodgers go? Sad to see Aaron Rodgers go? Yeah. No. No, I honestly hope he goes to hell.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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My favorite thing ever, no one here cares about the new Jets regime, so I'm sorry, but the story that they were like, you can come back if you don't go on McAfee, and he was like, no dice, tells you everything you need to know about that guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I mean, Jack and the Lakers is the realest shit ever. Not Larry David and the Jets?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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No, Larry David quit the Jets. Yeah, he quit the Jets. Once again, smartest guy of all time.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, you nailed it, brother. In August, we were texting about the... No, in September, we were texting about the Oscars. And I was like, I think it's a Nora because there's like nothing else going on. And you're like, no chance.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
What did you think of that?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Did you like those scenes?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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It was Crash, yeah. Well, Brokeback Mountain won those three awards in 2005. Oh, yeah. Brokeback Mountain won the three and didn't get the last one. And then Crash won on Oscar night, which is the first time I gouged my eyes out and then had a reconstructive surgery.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Three and a half hours is a long time. What was the name of the Netflix true crime doc you were telling us about backstage?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Gabby Petito?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Was it roughly three and a half hours?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Yeah, a mood to enjoy something great. My wife liked it. I forgot to tell you. Did she? Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
I'm out. I'm out. That's going to be in The Brutalist 2.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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No.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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He has not won a single precursor. So if he wins, it's going to be really surprising.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I think part of his campaign for this whole movie where he's been doing non-traditional media like Nardwar and doing photo ops with Carl Anthony Towns, which I fully support, has been so that he maintains his cool without having to seem like he's glad-handing every Academy member. I like it. Adrian Brody's going to win, though. Who's winning Best Actress?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Two weeks ago, I would have said Demi Moore, but now it feels like Mikey Madison. She won at BAFTA over the weekend. She has to win. I don't know. It feels like we'll find out on Sunday at the SAG Awards. That's when we'll figure it out. If Demi Moore didn't win for about last night, she's never winning.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I mean Batman forever sucked. That was tough. You know, we came off to Burton movies. Yeah, like I'm mixing it up. Schumacher. Yeah, he's interesting. Lost boys. I like that guy. The client was big fan of that film. Batman Forever is terrible. That was tough. I mean, Godfather 3 is a famous one, but we've come all the way back around. International. Oh, my God.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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It pains me to say this because I don't know that he's the most charismatic person in the world. But, you know, Jason Tatum is like really famous and successful. And I'm not kissing up to you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I went to Waterloo Records. Shout out Waterloo. Yeah. And I spent $184 on Blu-rays.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, I think it's Boston. It is really painful. Shut up. It's really painful knowing, rooting for a great team and knowing that they're what I want them to be, but knowing that they're still just one inch below a couple of other teams. That's painful. You've been there before. You've never been there. Um...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We flew like four hours. Why does he get the first pick?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
That's great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Basketball Movie Character Draft LIVE From Austin, Texas, With Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Shoot. I didn't have Brendan Fraser's character from Bedazzled on my board.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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That's a tough one. Um... Well, the first name I wrote down is Jesus Shuttlesworth from He Got Game. Which has the added benefit of being a great movie. And, you know, honestly, there are not a lot of great basketball movies, which you realize when you're going through this. A lot of great basketball characters. But Jesus was loosely modeled on a LeBron-esque figure.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Somebody who could come... Supposedly Stefan Marbury. Could save the game. Yeah. Memorably played by Ray Allen in the movie. And he had it all. He had incredible range, handle, good defender, good team guy. His teammates loved him. He had a lot of fun at Big State on his trip there. So he seems like an obvious centerpiece of my team. Yeah, good pick. So, Jesus.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Panic trading Chet?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So it's because he's white? Yeah, that's why. Billy Hoyle, great character, very inspiring to a young me, but also a complete fiction. The idea of that guy bawling out on the Venice courts, absolute nonsense. Sidney Dean would have broken his ankles a hundred times out of a hundred.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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What about the Sanuki brothers, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Sean, what do you got? I'll just take Sidney Dean so nobody else can take him. We can close out. White men can't jump right here, unless you want to take some of the guys they were playing against. No, I have people nobody's picking. I just think Sidney Dean and Jesus in my backcourt. We've got a lot of speed, power. We're going to be really hard to defend at the rim. We've got range.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I'm feeling good about my backcourt so far. Also, I had my eye on Neil just to make you mad, but you jumped the line. I'm going to make the crowd mad.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Who do you have, Sean? I'll also be selecting a stretch five, another incredible athlete with a gift we've not seen before. I'll be taking Sandy Lyle from Along Came Polly as portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I just took Sandy Lyle, yeah. Yeah, so you have three. Yeah, we're doing this correctly. You go, and then Bill goes two, and then you go back. My turn.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Another white guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Billy Hoyle tried to quit his relationship. You're up, Sean. I'm going to take a more recent vintage player and the most recent great basketball movie, Hustle, starring Adam Sandler. Oh, I like this. And I'll take Bo Cruz as portrayed by Wancho Hernan Gomez. Yes. He's on the board. Great pick. Wancho, need a big man. Obviously, a bit of an unknown coming overseas.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Really needed a strong voice, an advocate for his game. And frankly, we need his size on our squad. Need size, unselfish.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I've got an incredibly flexible roster, but I need an owner.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Somebody who I can really trust. Somebody who's got big ideas, who knows how to continue building out a front office. No Nicos in this business. So I'm going Joe Cabot from Reservoir Dogs as my owner.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You know, we know how he knows how to put a job together. We know he's just a mean bastard. Is his owner a GM?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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He's owner. Okay. And he also loves his netball baby son, gave him a job in the front office. Which is very owner behavior. And I'm just really excited about what we're going to do together. And also he loves colors, so he's going to be great with uniforms.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Under two minutes. I knew he'd come up. I was in San Francisco this past weekend and I had tickets to the event and did not go to any of the events, which is not a good sign, obviously. So... Okay, I'll pitch you my idea. Let's hear it. I think they should scrap the game. I think they should scrap the dunk contest. I think they should scrap the three-point shooting contest.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Thank you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Trying to balance out all that white.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, I'm going to take... I'm going to slide Shuttlesworth to the three. Okay. And I'm going to take Uncle Drew in the cinematic masterpiece Uncle Drew starring Kyrie Irving, which is a film I've not seen. But I have seen that commercial and that old man can ball out. So he'll be bringing it up for us.
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Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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They should scrap the futures game. What about the skills competition? So I think that they should only do the skills competition, but for two full days. I'm not kidding. And make it like an insane double dare obstacle course. Oh, like American Gladiators? Yes. Okay. But... The winning team, and I was inspired by Wemby and CP3, should automatically get home court advantage throughout the playoffs.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Terrence Howard.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Tough one. Got Uncle Drew. Lock that down. Jesus Shuttlesworth. Sidney Dean. We're closing out the Blue Chips Triumvirate. I need a stretch four, so I'm going with Ricky Rowe, the real pride of Indiana, who is the horniest, greediest dickhead in the history of basketball movies, but who has an incredible stroke, as portrayed by Matt Nover, and I'm referring, of course, to his bed game. Yeah. Um...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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When I think Ricky Rowe, I think CR. And so we're going to be playing seven seconds or less, Phoenix Sun style. That's what I'm thinking. I like it. CR?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh. And who's Shine's dad? I think it's supposed to be, the implication is it might be Doug, right? But it's going to be Ursula.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So there's like real stakes. So you'd have these guys like during practice, during the season, like really working on throwing the ball through that round circle or whatever and all the stuff they have to do there. It's just like the skills competition matters.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I like it. Sean? For my coach, I'll be taking Jack Cunningham from the way back because we know that Jack knows how to fight the good fight and inspire, and we need to find a way to beat 7'6 Brendan Fraser somehow, so I feel like he can really draw up some interesting plays for our seven seconds or less offense.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yes. I like that. Yeah, you could be like the play-in team at number 10, but you got home court games. That would work for the Sixers.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Well, I see some potential issues, but I'm excited to see what Jack can pull together. All right, Shay, you got two.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, and I'm going double Affleck. I'm going Tom Redfly Davis from Triple Frontier. So Affleck will be reporting to Affleck in a never-before-seen doubling. in a basketball characters movie draft. Great idea. And Redfly, of course, fails miserably at the end of Triple Frontier. Killed. Nevertheless, I trust him to run this franchise effectively to a championship.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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It's excellent.
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No, I'm taking... He's kind of the banjo of that movie, yeah.
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Okay, so I need one more player and two assistant coaches. Yes. Okay, I'll come back to the player because I have a good idea for that one. I'm not drafting Kazam, you dork.
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One of my assistants, I need like a live wire. I need a real mouthy guy. You don't totally know what he's going to do. Wangro? I'm going with Danny Sharp as portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal in Ambulance. That's a deep pull. Ambulance, which might be the best movie of the decade. And featuring an incredible performance by Gyllenhaal. And you know, sometimes there's a guy who's behind the guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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who you're like, that guy's going to get fired tonight because he keeps yelling at the best player. That's Danny Sharpe from my team.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Fantasy, what do you got? Well, I need another player, and it would not be a ringer-related movie draft without Tom Cruise. So I'm going with Brian Flanagan from Cocktail.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Obviously, he's not guarded in that film. He's taking wide open free throws, barely making them. Barely looks like he's ever held a basketball before they shot that sequence. And yet, he looks amazing. $10 a shot, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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He's my sixth man, yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I learned by watching you, Dad.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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They would have called it Cocktails with an S on the end. Who should have played the hot young bartender, though, that he brings under his wing? That he groomed? CR!
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I was going to say Dune Part 2, A Complete Unknown, but you got me.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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And now he's a good teammate.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I'm taking Bodie from Point Break. Is there basketball in Boaty in Point Break?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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It's Chris's first draft, everybody. Bodie rules. Does he live to tell the tale of his own success? Maybe not, but that's not really what we're thinking about when we've also got Danny Sharp from Ambulance coaching our team and Jack Cunningham, who obviously has a long history of substance abuse. So this is one last season for us.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We're just trying to go out in a blaze of glory, and I'm really excited about it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I miss the idea of the power that he represented. I also love the idea of him like firing Nico Harrison. You know, like he would have just done that. This guy is out of the paint. And he would have done something like that. So I miss that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, just as Billy Shakespeare imagined it. High school basketball player.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Of course, Brian Flanagan from Cocktail. Brian Flanagan. And Sandy Lyle.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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From Along Came Polly. Not the strongest bench in the league, but... Weak bench.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, we don't... Second apron, Jesus Shuttlesworth's contract. It's an issue.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We're actually, I'm really excited to let you know, Bill, we've been working on an eight-part narrative podcast series called Podslut, The Rise of Chris Ryan. It's about all the pods he does over the course of one week. It's like a follow doc. How many ringer pods have you been on? Like over 20?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yes, sir.
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No, it's been going on for six months. I need it to end so I can go to the next thing. But it's okay.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah. I think that they shouldn't talk. Which is not good for journalism, obviously. I think that everyone should be held accountable for their actions. I did have an idea for ownership groups, though, which is I think if you're going to buy a team, you should have to pass like an NBA literacy test.
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Like when you become an American citizen, you have to learn about like who wrote the Declaration of Independence. You should have to know the history of the game. So Patrick Dumont? Well, I'm not going to name any names.
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What do you think, Fantasy? I think this is the chance to finally get Oliver Stone back where he belongs. Oh, yeah. And I think that we have yet to see the way we can conspiracy theorize about what's happened here. But I think he should do it entirely in the register of the doors where it's just like... Nico Harrison is just tripping on LSD the whole time. He like micro doses every morning.
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He's like, yeah, Lucas should go like just losing his mind. But if they do a Native American guy in the desert, it would be great if they do it like JFK.
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I think he should make a sequel to the Disney original film Thunderstruck.
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Yeah, Phoenix Rising. Just keep following that story a little bit. You know, he messed up. He should have signed with the New York Knicks, but he was a coward. So, screw him.