The Chiefs Are Done, Pittsburgh Hates Us, Lamar Is Missing, Guess the Lines, and Some NBA Stuff With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal right after the Texans take down the Chiefs to discuss the Chiefs’ slim playoff chances, and to recap Week 14 of the NFL season (3:34). Then, they guess the lines for Week 15 before ending with Parent Corner (57:36). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Michelob ULTRA Courtside could get you closer to the game! michelobultra.com/courtside This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. 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	I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.
0:02.0	Dominate your finances.
0:04.0	Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.
0:11.0	Drowning in green.
0:13.0	Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.
0:15.0	This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills,
0:18.0	get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard.
0:22.3	We're helping young people become money confident.
0:25.4	Search Barclay's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:35.2	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:40.4	We have a new episode of The Rewatchable is coming on Monday.
0:43.4	We did a movie called Shampoo, which is a pretty famous movie that had a few Oscar
0:48.4	nominations.
0:49.0	It came out 50 years ago, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hahn, Julie Christie, Jack Warden.
0:53.4	And the reason we did it was because we had a special guest.
0:55.8	It was me and Sean Fennessee and special guest, Cameron Crow, one of my favorite directors.
1:02.2	We still have not done almost famous on the rewatchables, but yet Cameron Crow is on.
1:06.3	But he brought an unbelievable gift.
1:08.7	We went for over two hours.
1:10.5	We tied it to a lot of his. If you like Cameron Crow movies, watch shampoo and then listen to this rewatchables because it's great. So that's my first plug. Second plug, we're launching. We're recording it tomorrow afternoon, Pacific Time, and then it's going to run on Monday night. Max Kellerman, Rich Paul. The podcast is called
1:28.6	Game Over. It's going to be Monday, Wednesday, Fridays. I am really, really excited about this one.
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