Eagles Spit Takes, Week 1 NFL Picks, and a Possible Clippers Scandal With Joe House

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to react to the Eagles-Cowboys 'TNF' game (3:19). Then, they talk about their Ringer 107 picks for the week (22:50), before discussing the Kawhi Leonard–Clippers scandal (1:22:29). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Joe House Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Steve Ceruti Get up to 40% off Back to School Essentials on Uber Eats. 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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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by Fandul Sportsbook,
0:03.8	where you should be doing all of your wagering as we head into football season.
0:08.4	I'm so excited.
0:09.2	We have a big football podcast coming for you in a second with House.
0:14.5	Rewatchables went up on Monday.
0:15.9	We did The Forger's Movie.
0:17.0	We did American Gangster.
0:18.6	I also put up three BS podcasts already this week, the Sunday
0:22.3	with Sal Guestalens, Charles Barkley on Tuesday, Peter Schrager on Wednesday. So this is podcast number
0:30.3	four. We have a whole bunch of great podcast stuff going across the network right now. Football.
0:35.8	Zach Lowe is back. Don't forget about him.
0:38.4	A lot of pub culture. Sean Fennessey's back on the big picture. Chris Ryan's back on the watch.
0:44.0	Prestige TV. That's coming back this weekend because me and Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney
0:50.8	are going to be breaking down an HBO show called Task, which is awesome.
0:57.8	It is so good.
0:59.0	I can't wait for you to watch it.
1:00.8	We just love this show.
1:02.0	So we're going to be talking about it every week, find on the Prestige TV podcast.
1:06.4	And then the Wedding Scammer podcast that we did, there's an epilogue now because the star of that podcast, who didn't want to be the star, but he became the star, was arrested.
1:16.8	So if you like that podcast, go find the epilogue episode as well.
1:22.0	Coming up on this podcast, Joe House and I, we're going to do something that you can only do with the magic of editing in
1:28.0	2025. We're going to react to Eagles Cowboys Thursday night in the first segment. And then we're
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