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May 2020
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‘Armageddon’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ry...

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NASA hires an unlikely crew of Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion to record a podcast about Michael Bay’s 1998 action-thriller ‘Armageddon’ starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, and Billy Bob Thornton.

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