KC’s Receiver Dilemma, UFC 293, ESPN In Trouble, and Million Dollar Picks With Ariel Helwani and Ben Thompson

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares some postgame thoughts about the Lions' season-opening win over the Chiefs (3:02) before making his Million-Dollar Picks for Week 1 (14:32). Then, Bill is joined by Ariel Helwani to discuss Team Canada's FIBA run, UFC 293 story lines, and a disagreement on the Buffalo Bills (24:10). Then, Bill talks with business and tech analyst Ben Thompson about Disney vs. Spectrum, what it says for the future of cable, and more (57:04). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Ariel Helwani and Ben Thompson Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming, please checkout theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, football, we're back, baby.
0:04.9	Oh, yeah.
0:06.0	Next, we're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network
0:10.6	where we put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:12.5	We did lost in translation.
0:14.3	We also welcomed against all odds with cousin Sal back
0:18.8	to the Ringer podcast fold.
0:20.6	Please follow, subscribe, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.6	They are doing all the gambling stuff.
0:25.5	Sal has a new show that we premiered on Friday
0:29.6	morning.
0:30.8	So we haven't premiered yet
0:32.2	because I'm taping this on Thursday night.
0:33.6	I just went into the future,
0:35.3	but it's going to be a Fandall TV 10 AM ET.
0:39.8	And then we are going to run it as well on Sal's feed.
0:43.8	It is called cousin Sal's winning weekend big weekend preview.
0:46.9	And then on Fandall TV on Sunday, the Ringer wise guys,
0:51.4	we're doing it, man.
0:52.7	We talked about doing a pre-game gambling show forever.
0:56.5	And it's finally happening.
0:57.7	Cousins out with the East Coast bias guys.
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