Can Ben Simmons Be Saved From Philly? With Bill Simmons, Plus Booger McFarland Talks CFB Week 1

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Ryen is joined by Bill Simmons to break down the messy situation between the 76ers and Ben Simmons and why it’ll be hard to find a solution to their pending breakup (0:35). Then, he chats with ESPN college football analyst Booger McFarland about some vulnerable teams at the top of the rankings, his Week 1 predictions, and some stories from his LSU days (35:25). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:03:15). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Bill Simmons and Booger McFarland Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, two guests today, very excited, so we're going to get right to it.
0:14.0	We got Bill Simmons joining us.
0:15.8	We've been going back and forth like, hey, what do you think of this Ben Simmons deal?
0:19.4	So we're going to try to cover all the angles of the story and figure out if there's actually
0:23.0	any real trade that will happen, which again, you always have to have an open mind for the
0:26.2	unexpected in the NBA when it comes to transactions because we've learned less than millions of
0:29.8	times and some college football preview stuff and some LSU stories as well from Borgham
0:33.9	and Farrell and OBSPN and then we'll finish it off with healthy dose of lifetimes.
0:37.8	You may remember our guest here from page two, ESPN's page two.
0:42.6	Bill Simmons now has his own podcast.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:45.9	Any choice?
0:46.9	Any choice is now.
0:47.9	What's up, man?
0:48.9	I text you.
0:49.9	I want to talk about Ben Simmons because I'm doing football the next couple of pods on my
0:53.6	pod and I just have like a 20 minute Ben Simmons conversation in me.
0:57.4	It might expire over a, I don't know what the time sensitivity is on it.
1:02.0	Who knows if something will happen over the weekend, but I'm just so fascinated by this
1:06.4	story and I don't even remember if it has a parallel in recent NBA history.
1:10.6	Okay.
1:11.6	And that's where you always, I think, kind of lap the rest of us, the historical perspective
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