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P1 with Matt and Tommy

Friday, June 5, 2026

Reaction to Monaco GP practice

Matt and Tommy react to Monaco GP Friday practice from a super yacht, with Ferrari leading both sessions and McLaren surprisingly slow.

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Hard Fork

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The Big Picture

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Plain English with Derek Thompson

Friday, June 5, 2026

What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity

A Georgetown neuroscientist studied 400,000 college essays and found that AI makes writing look more creative while quietly homogenizing the underlying ideas — and warns that over-reliance on AI risks long-term atrophy of human creative thinking.

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis

Derek Thompson and psychologist Laurie Santos explore why American men's friendships have collapsed, how people misunderstand both loneliness and solitude, and what Jefferson really meant by the pursuit of happiness—a phrase the founders aimed at community and virtue, not personal pleasure-seeking.

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The Rewatchables

Friday, June 5, 2026

A Rewatchables Summer Mailbag!

Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and producer Craig Horlbeck riff through listener mailbag questions proposing new Rewatchables award categories, debating city "Apex Mountains," and reminiscing about the Ringer's early days.

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The Watch

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Wait a Second...

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The Bill Simmons Podcast

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The Ringer F1 Show

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

F1 European Preview

Hosts Megan Schuster and Spanners rank all 10 European circuits on the 2026 F1 calendar, reaching near-total agreement from bottom to top—with one genuine split over the Hungaroring and Austria.

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Decoder Ring

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Tina Turner and the Dance That Conquered Australia

Australia's unofficial national dance traces back through Melbourne gay clubs, a New York City novelty act, and a Danish jazz pianist—none of which most Australians know anything about.

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Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Why No One Can Prove the Resurrection

Bart Ehrman argues that historians cannot prove the resurrection happened—and that this same limitation means they cannot disprove it either.

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Data Over Dogma

Monday, June 1, 2026

Let's Get Weird!

Two biblical deep dives in one episode: a close reading of Hebrews 1 that reveals how its high claims about Jesus rest on Old Testament passages pulled far from their original meaning, and an introduction to the Shepherd of Hermas—the early Christian text that nearly made it into the New Testament.

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Ringer Dish

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Every Single Album

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What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

Friday, November 28, 2025

What Is a War?

The Trump administration's lethal drone strikes on Caribbean fishing boats expose how presidential war power, stretched incrementally by administrations from Lincoln through Obama, can now be used to execute suspected drug smugglers without congressional approval—or any legal process at all.

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Smoot, Hawley, and Trump

The episode traces Trump's use of emergency law to impose global tariffs through the history of the Smoot-Hawley Act and asks whether the Supreme Court will apply its own recent doctrine to strike those tariffs down.