Do Bill Simmons and Michael Rapaport Have Beef
Looks like there's trouble in Podcast-land.
Michael Rapaport went off on fellow podcaster Bill Simmons on Monday, tearing into Simmons in a venom-tongued tirade.
According to Rapaport, the rancor developed after Simmons ignored multiple requests to come on Simmons' podcast to promote his new book, "This Book Has Balls," even though Rapaport has given Simmons "gold" when he's appeared on Simmons' show.
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"I'm hurt, I'm upset and I'm offended," Rapaport said during Monday's "I Am Rapaport" podcast. "You c–ksucker you. You player-hating motherf–ker you, your time is up! You see us on the sports iTunes, podcast charts, consistently ahead of you."
"I'm sure you probably think, oh let the Barstool people promote you,'" Rapaport continued, referring to Barstool Sports, which carries Rapaport's podcast. "No, f–k that, duke. I know you, I've been to your crib, duke. I come on your show, I give you gold, money … I wanted to come back on, it's been a few months. I want to promote my book."
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Rapaport went on to take a swipe at Simmons' short-lived HBO show "Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons."
"When you asked me to come do the Deflategate skit on your wack-ass HBO show, I came with bells on. I exceeded every single expectation; it's the most-viewed piece on the show that soon got canceled. Show was trash, duke!" Rapaport vented.
While Rapaport gave Simmons props for his writing skills, he opined that Simmons "just can't do it" as an on-camera personality.
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"Even I couldn't save you. Great writer, icon of this whole sports culture thing, but in front of the camera, you just don't have it. You just can't do it," Rapaport said.
"And then you go behind my back and you don't even take my texts?" Rapaport continued. "You played yourself out, duke. You disrespected me for no f–king reason. My feelings are hurt, and when my feelings are hurt, my tongue heats up!"
Clearly.
To see Rapaport and Simmons in happier times, watch Rapaport's Deflategate skit on "Any Given Wednesday" below.
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With President Donald Trump's grousing over recent protests in the NFL, the debate over whether athletes should express their political views through the platform of sports has heated up once again. But contrary to what some might believe, the phenomenon of athletes protesting didn't begin with Colin Kaepernick. Read on as TheWrap delves into the long-term relationship between sports and politics.
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At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos -- who'd taken the gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter dash -- took to the winners podium and raised their fists above their heads in a silent protest against discrimination against African-Americans in the United States. "If I win I am an American, not a black American. But if I did something bad then they would say 'a Negro.' We are black and we are proud of being black," Smith said of the protest.
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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali famously refused to serve in the U.S. military during the Vietnam war, noting, "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?" In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded Ali the Presidential Medal of Freedom, calling him "a fierce fighter and a man of peace."
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Four years later, the USSR would return the favor, boycotting the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. "Chauvinistic sentiments and anti-Soviet hysteria are being whipped up in this country," the Soviet government said of the boycott, which 13 other communist countries would also join.
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At the beginning of the 1995-1996 NBA season, Denver Nuggets point guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf decided that he wouldn't salute the American flag during the playing of the national anthem prior to games. The decision went unnoticed for some time; when NBA commissioner David Stern handed down a one-game suspension to the player. The NBA later reached a compromise, mandating that Abdul-Rauf stand for the anthem, but allowing him to close his eyes and face downward.
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In 2014, following the death of Eric Garner after a confrontation with police in New York, Cleveland Cavaliers stars LeBron James and Kyrie Irving wore shirts emblazoned with the phrase "I Can't Breathe" -- Garner's reported last words -- while warming up for a game against the Brooklyn Nets. Nets players Jarrett Jack, Alan Anderson, Deron Williams and Kevin Garnett also donned the shirts.
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In 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick opted not to stand during the national anthem, saying, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color ... To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
Source: https://www.thewrap.com/michael-rapaport-goes-off-on-bill-simmons-your-time-is-up/
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