The Siakam Game, Warriors Overreactions, a Post-'Thrones' Life, and AEW Battles WWE With Joe House, Mallory Rubin, and David Shoemaker | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 121 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House immediately after the Toronto Raptors beat the Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals to discuss what went wrong for the Warriors, what went right for the Raptors, Game 2 speculation, and more (3:00). Then Bill sits down with Mallory Rubin a week and a half removed from the end of 'Game of Thrones' to discuss the ending of the show one final time (35:45). Finally, Bill talks with David Shoemaker about AEW as a competitor to WWE, their successful 'Double or Nothing' PPV, poaching superstars, what a new weekly wrestling show could mean for the WWE, and more (1:12:38). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:52.7	and I are going to break down game one of the NBA finals which just happened and then we have Mallory Ruben talking about
1:58.8	with a little distance Game of Thrones what the series meant are we going to have another prestige TV show by that.
2:05.0	We're the people right or wrong to be so upset about some of the events of season seven season eight
2:11.0	and then also with the future bench mode is so yeah you can hear that as well as coming up after that David Schumacher.
2:19.0	The great one we're going to talk wrestling because we had a seismic moment in the wrestling.
2:25.9	Wrestling annals this past week the business feels like it's changing there's been a new entrance AEW is in and we were both like blown away by how good of a job they've done this month and we're going to talk about what it means with W.
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