Dodgers Drama, Gruden’s Wreckage, Kyrie’s Soap Opera, and Million-Dollar Picks With Peter Schrager and Jay Caspian Kang

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on the Dodgers' Game 5 win over the Giants, sending them to the NLCS for the second straight year (2:55). Then Bill talks with NFL Network's Peter Schrager about Jon Gruden's exit from the Raiders, before making their Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 6 (22:29). Finally Bill is joined by Jay Caspian Kang of The New York Times to discuss his new book, 'The Loneliest Americans,' as well as a range of NBA topics including Kyrie Irving and the Nets, the limits of NBA analytics, why the Trail Blazers need to trade for Ben Simmons, and more (1:14:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager and Jay Caspian Kang Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.2	podcast network where the prestige TV podcast has gone to a whole other level. We had three straight
0:54.3	succession podcasts this week. Me and Joe House. We did a 25 favorite best, whatever you want.
1:00.8	Love most love. Well, whatever you want to call it, succession characters. Counting it down.
1:04.4	25 to one. All right. Full of school. Drew is my list. House just reacted to it. But did that
1:09.1	on Wednesday. Joanna Robinson and Sean Fennacy did a deep dive on the last episode of season two
1:15.0	to get ready for season three. And then on Friday coming up Chris Ryan and big wise have a pre-cap
1:22.3	for episode one, which is coming Sunday night. Succession. It is back next week. We'll have a
1:29.5	couple succession reaction podcasts. Well, also I think we're doing something about I know
1:34.1	you did last summer. We're going to have a mid season morning show. The show on Apple.
1:42.0	Mid season report on that one. And the house and I did a curb your enthusiasm. Hall of Fame
1:46.8	episode that we taped when you're saying our lights. So that's going to run on that next week as well.
1:51.3	Not an episode you're going to guess we picked. But I think start to finish. It is the most
1:57.5	unassailably excellent, funniest curb enthusiasm episode. So that's it. That's your spoiler alert.
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