The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Jokic Fest, the Worry Scale, Rather Have, and Favorite Movie Girlfriends LIVE From Denver With Ryen Russillo
05 Dec 2024
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo LIVE from Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO, to give Nikola Jokic his flowers and discuss the Nuggets’ NBA Cup win vs. the Warriors, Bill and Ryen’s NBA biases this season, a new segment called the NBA Worry Scale, Bo Nix’s surprising rookie season, Ryen’s top five TV/movie girlfriends, how Bill and Ryen first met, a sports edition of “would you rather,” and much more! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producer: Kyle Crichton 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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It's really easy to find your favorite shows and videos and some good sorting stuff. Hey Million Dollar Picks. So, I am going to do a podcast after Packers Lions tomorrow night. So that we are ending up doing three episodes this week. The one today right now that you're listening to. And then
Nach der Packers-Line ist es eine Reaktion mit einigen anderen Sachen, die ich im Banken habe, die ich ziemlich gespannt habe. Aber ich wollte einen Million-Dollar-Pick auf dem Board für das Spiel bekommen, weil ich in Denver bin. Fando ist legal hier. Und ich konnte nicht resistieren, die Packers plus 4,5 zu betten. Ich würde gerne mindestens 200 Yards schießen. Das ist minus 101 als Parlay.
Wir haben 200.000 Dollar auf das für Million-Dollar-Picks-Bereiche gesetzt. Kommen wir auf die beste Woche, die wir jahrelang hatten. Wir haben 870.000 Dollar gewonnen. Out of our seven big bets, we hit six. And we're up 1.213 million fake dollars for the year. Doing pretty well this year. So we're going to throw 200k on Packers plus four and a half with love to throw for at least 200 yards.
And the rest of the picks will be in the third podcast of the week tomorrow night. What you're about to listen to is me and Ryan Rosillo at the Fillmore in Denver in front of an awesome crowd. So glad we did this. If you want to hear two guys talk about Nikola Jokic for a couple of minutes, you've come to the right place. Marcelo and Simmons live from Denver next. First our friends from Pearl Jam.
I should have worked out today. I feel scrawny. Thanks for coming out. Thank you to State Farm, because I always forget to thank them before we start this stuff. Oh, and Starry. Thank you to Starry. Here's how this show happened. I texted Brasilo and I said, Jokic is playing Golden State in the NBA Cup game on a Tuesday. Live show? And he was like, fuck yeah. Why do you love Denver so much?
You know, I think it was... I had a bunch of friends, like there's a big Vermont-Colorado thing. There you go. And I think once they were like, alright, I've kind of done the JV version of things in Vermont, I'm gonna head out to Colorado. And when I left ESPN and I was kind of going like, alright, Manhattan Beach or Denver, it was like really close. Was it a toss-up? It was.
It was Ocean or Friendship.
And then friendship lost out to the ocean. I think that people in Denver, every time I'm here, they're disarmingly nice. That's what I notice over and over again. I'm like, oh man, people are just nice here.
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