FYI, Simmons is on the latest Zach Lowe podcast, talking for an hour-and-a-half about international basketball and other things.
Someone should create a Simmons-style bracket challenge with the best 16 or 32 projects Simmons has been involved with - each of his two books, his two websites (Grantland and The Ringer) specific 30 for 30 docs (and the Andre the Giant doc for HBO) that his fingerprints are all over, individual podcast partnerships, recurring columns (e.g., NBA Draft Diary, NBA Trade Value), and so on - and let everyone vote to determine the best work he's ever produced. It's the sort of thing Simmons himself would have wanted...anyway, I bring it up because for me, Simmons/Lowe podcasts have to be strong Final Four contenders, don't they? You could have quite a podcast bracket on its own, actually, involving the following eight contenders: The Rewatchables, Simmons/Lowe, Simmons/Cousin Sal, Simmons/House, Simmons/Russillo, Simmons/JackO, Simmons/NFL Playoff Previews (including Aaron Schatz et al. back in the day), and maybe Simmons/Jacoby or Simmons/Haralabob. Although dividing the brackets into Podcasts, Documentaries, Writing and Websites/Other - which is the sort of thing Simmons would do - is a bit like forcing the Eastern Conference and Western Conference teams to defeat each other before meeting in the final - which Simmons hates. If the best two things he's done are both podcasts, shouldn't they meet in the Championship Game, not just to go to the Final Four? Tough call...