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The Rewatchables

‘Jeremiah Johnson’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Bill’s Dad

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, plus Bill’s dad, give it all up to become three podcasting mountain men after rewatching Robert Redford in ‘Jeremiah Johnson,’ also starring Will Geer and Allyn Ann McLerie and directed by Sydney Pollack. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Ronak Nair, and Eduardo Ocampo A Mountain of Movies® on Paramount+. Stream now! Chad Powers - New Episodes on Tuesdays on Hulu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Say hello to the next generation of Zendesk AI agents, built to deliver resolutions for everyone. Loved by over 10,000 companies, Zendesk AI agents easily deploy in minutes to resolve 30% of interactions instantly. That's the Zendesk AI effect. Find out more at Zendesk.com. The rewatchables is brought to by the Ringer podcast network where you find the watch. Here we are. With CR. Did you solve that crime and task yet? It's not really a crime, Bill. It's a journey of spiritual awakening. My bad. My dad doesn't have a podcast. This is only the second time he's ever been on the rewatchables. Yeah, but it's his second time on the Ringer podcast network in two days. Right, that is true.

0:56.7

You taped yesterday about on the Red Sox game one, which will be by the time we, people hear this, they'll have known what it will happen with the Red Sox Yankees. In 20 hours, few times. The only other time you ever came on the rewatchables. Shawshank. Shawshank for my 50th birthday. And now we are doing, it's Robert Red for a month,

1:02.8

we are doing my dad's favorite movie ever, Jeremiah Johnson. It's next. This episode of the rewatchables is presented by Paramount Plus. Around here, we love talking about rewatchable movies,

1:08.0

almost as much as we love watching them. Paramount Plus has movies,

1:11.4

a mountain of them, new movies, and also the classics that we keep coming back to. Almost

1:17.2

Famous, Gladiator, Top Gun, the Naked Gun, that mall, whether you want to relive your

1:23.6

favorite moments or catch the latest blockbusters or dive into some old 902 and oh

1:29.1

there's a mountain of movies to discover on paramount plus start streaming today All right, CR. It's Redford Month. You can't have Redford Month without Jeremiah Johnson, which I did not invent the Mountain Man movie, but I think still is in the running for the best one. Redford said it was his

2:01.2

favorite of all of his movies. Yeah, do you think that's because of his affection for the landscape

2:07.7

that it set in? I mean, it's essentially shot in his adopted backyard, right? Right. It's filmed in Utah.

2:13.6

He looks great. He gets to grow all this different facial hair. He gets to kill some

2:17.8

Native Americans who are coming after him. It's a complicated situation. It's like it's,

2:24.4

you know, he's he's just a pilgrim trying to make it work and pisses some people off. And,

2:29.3

uh, dad, ever since I was a kid, this movie was on, you would have this on all the time to the point we would make fun of you.

2:37.0

Really again, Jeremiah Johnson?

2:38.9

What is it?

2:39.7

What was it about this movie?

2:41.6

Well, it came out in 1972.

2:44.1

You were...

2:45.0

I was three.

2:46.6

Three years old.

2:48.2

And I had read an article...

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