The Pats Grow Up, Nobody Believes in the Jags, the Bears are a Sports Movie, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal right after Drake Maye and the Patriots take down the Ravens to recap Week 16 of the NFL season (2:15). Then, they Guess the Lines for Week 17 and react to the Anthony Joshua vs. Jake Paul fight before ending with Parent Corner (58:31). 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 ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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 Parkley's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:35.1	The Bill Simmons podcast, brought you by the Ringer podcast network where we are still chugging along, even though the holidays are coming up.
0:42.3	I even have a new rewatchable is coming for you on Monday, and we did a big movie.
0:46.3	We did a big movie from the 2020s.
0:48.8	That would be the hint.
0:49.7	I'm not going to tell you what movie is because you've seen it.
0:52.7	So that is coming on Monday.
0:54.4	If you missed it last week, we did the sure thing on Wednesday and we did
0:58.4	High Fidelity on Monday.
1:00.8	So go check those out.
1:02.5	This is the last movie we're doing this year.
1:04.2	And then we have a special episode for the last rewatchables of the year.
1:09.8	So you can check that out. You can check out all the movies we did
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