Tasty NFL Underdogs, COVID Misconceptions, and 2021’s Teen Culture Awards With Peter Schrager, Derek Thompson, and Zoe Simmons

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Derek Thompson to discuss media coverage of COVID-19 (1:56). Then Bill talks with NFL Network's Peter Schrager about the Cardinals' three-game losing streak and an updated Super Bowl contenders list (38:24) before making the Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 17 (1:01:01). Finally Bill is joined by his daughter, Zoe, to review the year in teen culture (1:35:58). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Derek Thompson, Peter Schrager, and Zoe Simmons Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you're into BobaFet, I hope you checked out the Ringerverse podcast by the midnight
0:05.1	boys right after the show premiered Van, Lathen, Charles Holmes.
0:09.4	They broke it down and also on the Ringer.com Ben Limberg broke it down as well.
0:13.4	So check it out.
0:14.9	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network as well as the Ringer.com,
0:19.3	where we did a bunch of best of 2021 stuff on there, including Jordan,
0:23.9	RitterCon, wrote a really good piece about Tyler Mattick, who was the baseball player
0:29.6	of the year, basically, for what he did in the postseason and how he conquered the Yips.
0:33.6	But that's a must read lot of good stuff on there, including Brian Curtis,
0:36.9	right and about John Madden's death and legacy.
0:40.4	So check that out.
0:41.6	Check out Fandall Sportsbook as well.
0:43.2	We are going to be doing a couple booths.
0:45.9	I'm a million dollar picks in a second that we use some of the Fandall lines.
0:49.5	But in general, if you go to the homepage, we'll have a same game parlay or an underdog
0:53.8	parlay booster or whatever, at least twice a week on there.
0:56.3	So check out Fandall Sportsbook as well.
0:58.3	Coming up on this podcast, we got a lot going on.
1:00.8	We got Peter Schrager talking about what's going on with the Cardinals.
1:05.5	Should we believe in the Rams?
1:09.9	Should we do a Rams Colts parlay, all the stuff, million dollar picks?
1:14.5	That's coming up.
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