Half-Baked Ideas and a Mega-Mailbag With Kevin Wildes and Joe House

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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I'm right after Tough Times for Kevin Wildes, who just went to see the new Spider-Man movie with his son and felt like he was too old. What happened?

**Kevin Wildes** (3:20)
You know what? I just like a straightforward villain.
I just like, I'm the villain, I've got powers, and I'm going to try to thwart the city or whatever. You have to try to stop me. When we're starting to like, I'm in your mind, and again, I'm projecting here to other movies that I've seen with my son. I'm always like bouncing around in other dimensions. I'm like, what dimension are we in now? I'm just, I feel like I'm getting too old for cinema.
I just need, I need straight down the middle. You know what I watched with my wife the other day? Urban Cowboy. Oh, hi, I'm John Travolta. I'm in love with you. We broke up, now we're back together. But Fastball, right down the middle, Bill. That's what I need. We're not in like, we're never in another dimension.

**Bill Simmons** (4:12)
That's why I've been enjoying Homeland. Homeland was just, guy came back from Afghanistan. They might have turned him, they might not have.

**Kevin Wildes** (4:20)
Yep, right down the middle.

**Bill Simmons** (4:22)
And we just gotta figure it out. I'm with you on the multiverse. I don't get it at all. I don't understand it. I don't like these movies. People get mad at me that I don't like these movies. But like, even when you go back to the first Iron Man with Downey, pretty straightforward.
There weren't all these other characters who weren't going backward and forward. Anyway, good luck. I'm glad people are going to the movies. Ultimately, it's great. I'm glad your son's going. I'm glad the Red Sox have revived this summer.
They lost a series to the A's who were terrible.

**Kevin Wildes** (4:55)
We weren't gonna go undefeated. And I feel like both of these games, you were in the ninth and you're like, oh, we got a shot here. Didn't work out, but I feel like they're weaning us off the high of, I think they're, what did I wrote it down? 27 and five in their last 32