‘Wild Things’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Mallory Rubin
The Rewatchables
The Ringer
4.6 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 132 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The rewatchable is brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network, |
| 0:09.0 | where you can find Higher Learning with Van Lathen. |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.3 | Midnight boys, peepo, peep, and ringer tailgate. |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.1 | The best new show of 2025. |
| 0:19.8 | It's very special. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah. Somebody sent new show of 2025. It's very special. Yeah. |
| 0:21.7 | Somebody sent me a listener email saying that Joe Anderson was like a fourth round. |
| 0:28.9 | What did he say fourth round? |
| 0:29.9 | He said a fourth round, a fourth round defensive end that has 15 sacks in their rookie year. |
| 0:35.7 | It just comes out of nowhere. |
| 0:37.4 | That was the description, Joe Anderson. I said insult and a compliment. Frankly, how dare that person? Joel, number one draft pick. But also gave him 15 sacks, which was a compliment. So really, you're in the gamut. Yeah, it's a Trey Anderson thing. Five-star recruit, number one draft pick, 15 sacks, rookie of the year. Hall of Fame. MVP in between all of it. You told you did the dress-up trick. Oh, my God. That was just an genuinely incredible moment. Man, the show started, the show is rolling, and then two things happened to the show that we could not have predicted. Number one, Joel is just, I can't explain it. And then when Billy came in, Billy knew how to harness it. Tells all of them to dress up in suits. When you say how to harness it, you mean make fun of Joel every 15 minutes. Yeah, man. Yeah. What a show. What a show. Best new show 2025. No awards yet, but that I just gave one. Mally Rubin, you're seeing in House of Ar. |
| 1:28.1 | That's right. I don't like to pigeonhole you as we only bring into the rewatchables for certain |
| 1:33.3 | type of genres and things. But you are being pigeonholed lately. So we're going to have to |
| 1:37.8 | zag at some point. I would say that there's an erotic thriller. |
| 1:41.3 | Harrison Ford. |
| 1:42.2 | Sex stuff. Harrison Ford sports movie. |
| 1:47.2 | Maybe we just do a generic rom-com in 2025 with none of those things. |
| 1:51.0 | That would be great. |
| 1:51.7 | I'm still waiting to be invited for my actual area of expertise, |
| 1:56.3 | which is a science fiction or fantasy film. |
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