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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Euro NBA Thoughts, Plus Cody Rhodes on Being the WWE’s Guy, Leaving AEW, Feuding With John Cena, and the Rules of Kayfabe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Bill discusses the Red Sox and news of Adam Silver’s NBA European league venture (2:50). Then, Bill is joined by WWE superstar Cody Rhodes to talk about his wrestling career, his father, and much more (13:52)! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cody Rhodes Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo 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 by the Ringer Podcast Network,

0:04.1

where you can find the rewatchables. We do them on Monday nights. We're doing one-day movie month this month for August. August is coming. Robocop is going to be Monday. We're doing all bangers. It's going to be an all-banger, one-name movie month, month, I think. I think it's going to be all bangers. Pretty confident in that one. but you can watch that in the Ring of Movies YouTube channel as well.

0:02.9

I think Roboc think it's going to be all bangers. Pretty confident in that one. But you can watch that in the Ringer movies YouTube channel as well.

0:22.9

I think Robocops on Amazon Prime for free, if you want to go check it out.

0:28.9

I was just in Chicago for 24 hours.

0:32.5

I'm a little delirious.

0:34.6

I'm too old to fly.

0:35.7

I don't know how the NBA players do it.

0:37.3

Flying back to Chicago,

0:39.0

it's like four hours, got up super early yesterday, then flew back today, but I was at the

0:45.0

national, the sports collectors convention. Looking for stuff really for the studio. I put it on

0:50.7

my Instagram. I found one thing I was really excited about this Bull Durham tobacco sign I got.

0:55.0

But I got a couple other good things too that I'm going to do a studio tour on here.

1:01.0

I'll do like five minutes explaining a lot of the choices.

1:05.0

But it was really fun to go back to the Collectors Convention.

1:09.0

I had not been since COVID.

1:12.9

And it's just massive now.

1:15.7

And weirdly, there's less eclectic stuff than ever and just more old baseball cards from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

1:22.7

I have no idea who's buying, who under 40 years old is out there looking for like a stand usual card?

1:29.2

I don't get it.

1:30.2

But I had a great time.

1:32.2

I was looking for all kinds of things for the background for here, but just in general.

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