You listen to the Bill Simmons Podcast? Russ does. He usually reports back if there’s anything newsworthy.

But either Russ was snoozing or didn’t listen to the most recent episode yet, because he missed a comical local radio reference. Courtesy of @JoeFedorowicz, here’s Simmons referring to Charles Barkley’s recent comments on “The Mike Massanelli Show” –


The Mike Massanelli Show? Sounds like Bill Simmons needs to GOOGLE Mike’s name.

This reminds me of that one time that Colin Cowherd referred to Philadelphia’s Angelo “Castaldi” –

lol

Maybe these guys just stumbled a bit, and you give them the benefit of the doubt, but it would not surprise me if it was revealed that they were purposefully butchering these names as a diss. I am not ALLEGING that they are doing this, just thinking out loud here.

But first, here’s Pearl Jam.