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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Charles Barkley on Skinny Luka, the Eagles, LeBron, Jokic, Josh Allen, and His Uneasy ESPN Partnership

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Charles Barkley to make his annual NFL champion pick before discussing the second apron, the “best NBA player” argument, Barkley's ESPN partnership, and much more (3:53)! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Charles Barkley Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Steve Ceruti This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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on Monday night. It was me and Van Lathen and Chris Ryan. We did

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appearances, 12 or 13 for him. This is a really fun episode you can find on the Ringer Movies

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YouTube channel as well. We're doing a bunch of football stuff this week. Ringer Fantasy football shows in high gear. You have the Ringer gambling show, which got going. The Ringer Tailgate, our college football, which did really, really well. Ringer NFL was shield. So we're humming heading toward Thursday night. It's going to be me in house on Thursday and maybe some other stuff. I might do a fourth podcast this week. I would keep an eye on that. There's so much content. I thought the guests were about to have Charles Barkley was just going to be the first part of the show. But man, once we got going, it was almost an hour and a half. We covered a lot. We covered a lot of basketball, his football. he comes on every year to do football stuff, make his picks. He picked the Eagles correctly last year.

1:48.5

But we ended up kind of diving into what happened at TNT and what's going to happen with him at ESPN and inside the NBA.

1:56.0

So always great to have him. He's honestly one of my favorite, favorite people.

2:00.5

And I was talking to Jimmy Kimmel once about this. I think he might be the best guest. If he's not the best guest, if he's not the best guest, he's a one seed in whatever the tournament is. Just can go on any talk show, can come on any podcast. He's just the best. So anyway, he's the podcast today, the one and only Charles Barkley. It's next. We're going to take a break. We're doing a Pearl Jam, and then Sir Charles. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by Fando and the NFL is back. And thank God. Fando has everything. They got an awesome app. They have SGPs. They have great futures. They have good prop bets, Lab betting. Your way bets. Clean app. It's great to use. I've been using it in for a few years. Every time I go back to Boston or any place that has Fando and I get to use it. I'm always excited. I'm on an airplane runway. You done the airplane runway? Yeah. Oh, everybody. Airplane runway. There should be a button. The runway button. I'm on the airplane runway. I got to get this in. Get your bets in, build something bold, make every game feel bigger. Download the Fando app or head to fando.com slash BS to get started. The ringer committed to responsible gaming. Please visit RG dash help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available and listen

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Paid endorsement. All right, grandpa Charles Berkeley is here.

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He's visiting the grandkids.

3:56.6

He's getting ready for football season. He comes on every year to make picks. And I think you picked the Eagles last year. And even if you did it, I'm going to say that you did. I did pick the Eagles. And I'm going to pick them again this year, brother. Come back. Give me the back-to-back. Give me the explanation. Well, they got the same offense.

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I'm not related to this guy, but his name is Sequin Barclay.

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I'm going to claim him because he's a Barclay.

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