A Brewing Lakers Mess, Eagles Flying Low, Belichick’s Last Game, and Million-Dollar Picks for Week 18 With Howard Beck and Sheil Kapadia

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Howard Beck to discuss what is wrong with the Lakers after Shams Charania's report of internal struggles. They debate how to fix the Lakers' season (1:35) before kicking around some fake LeBron James trades (25:38). Then Bill talks with Sheil Kapadia about the uninspiring Eagles, the Chiefs' grim playoff outlook, and the sleeper Browns (51:18) before looking at their favorite games for a funky Week 18 (1:12:09). Finally Bill makes his Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 18 (1:51:52). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Howard Beck and Sheil Kapadia Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming, please checkout theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a little basketball, a little LeBron, a lot of football. Next.
0:07.0	We're also about to by the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I put up a new rewatchables on Monday.
0:12.0	We did search him for Bobby Fisher.
0:13.9	We have a bunch of prestige TV things coming up,
0:16.4	including, we've been breaking down Fargo,
0:18.5	and we have Drew Detective coming back,
0:20.4	which is a really good show.
0:22.3	Jody Foster is the star of this season.
0:24.0	We're going to have Rob Mahoney and Joanna Robinson
0:26.0	breaking it down, so if you're interested in True Detective
0:29.0	that I've seen the first couple of episodes
0:32.0	and you're going to want some friends to help
0:34.3	break it down for you because there's a lot going on.
0:36.7	So, Prestige TV.
0:38.7	Plus we have the watch.
0:40.1	Chris Ryan, still cranking it out with Andy Greenwell.
0:43.3	Coming up on this podcast, Howard Beck's gonna join me
0:45.6	to talk about whatever the hell is going on with the Lakers,
0:48.3	LeBron, possible trades, not just for the Lakers,
0:52.3	but around the league that wouldn't shock us so we're going to hit all that and then
0:56.1	Sheokapadia from Ringer &fel show and the Ringer.com is going to help me sift through a very complicated kind of nut so week 18.
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