The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
06 Dec 2024
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss the Lions surviving the Packers on 'TNF,' talk through the NFL weekend slate, and make the Million-Dollar Picks for Week 14 (2:35), before looking at the updated NBA win totals, "make the playoffs" bets, likely trade teams, and more (44:44). Then, Bill talks with Jesse "The Body" Ventura about his return to WWE broadcasting, his rocky exit from pro wrestling, filming 'Predator' and 'Running Man,' his political career as a mayor and later governor of Minnesota, and much more (1:11:36). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Joe House and Jesse Ventura 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
Full Episode
Coming up, Lions Packers, football, basketball, and Jesse the Body Ventura. All next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where the season finale of Truthless just dropped. It's a storytelling pod about the lives people tell, hosted by Brian Phillips. You can binge all the episodes. Go check that out. You can check out the live show I did with Brian Rosillo in Denver.
on Wednesday night, which is now available on my YouTube channel, the Bill Simmons channel. And we had a great time. I love Denver. Thanks for having us. Got to see Jokic. Great times. Really fun podcast too. New Rewatchable is coming on Monday night. It's a movie from the 90s. I'll tell you what it is on Sunday. Kind of a controversial movie. A little controversial. Anyway.
Fan duel is still going to do 30 on 30 score bets, even though the NBA cup is now over. We're going to keep it going. The 30 on 30 profit boost token. You can boost any 30 point score you want. I tweet out my picks on Fridays. I've been red hot. I hit, I hit my long shot picks two weeks in a row. I post like five guys that I like. And I think I went three for five to two for five.
I hit a 12 to one. I had a plus 700. But you can be sure to claim the PBD and place your 30 on 30 bet for Friday. Look for it on the FanDuel Sportsbook app. On this podcast, Joe House and I are going to react to a fantastic Lions-Packers game. We're going to do million-dollar picks.
We're going to do some NBA future stuff because I was trapped on a plane in Denver frantically making future bets on FanDuel. And there were some that really jumped out. So we're going to talk about NBA as well. And then Jesse, the body of Ventura, is going to come on for the first time ever to talk about his comeback. Yeah, his comeback to WWE. Plus, we had to talk Predator.
We had to talk Running Man. We had to talk about a whole bunch of stuff. Really fun. He did a lot of the talking. I'm just going to tell you now. I had a great time. So that's the pod. Let's bring in our friends. Not from Yacht Rock, which is still available, by the way. On Max, we did really well. It was like in the top four on Max for like five, six days in a row. Got some great feedback too.
Everybody really seems like they liked it. So check out Yacht Rock on Max. Not our friends from Yacht Rock, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this right after the Lions-Packers game is 8.37 Pacific time. We were hoping that would be a really good game. It seemed like it was going to be a really good game. And then it was a really good game.
And even better, Packers plus three and a half covered. My adjusted Packers plus four and a half with love 200 plus passing yards. That covered one of my first million dollar pick already. Detroit had the ball 36 minutes house. They had 280 yards passing. They outgained the Packers by over 100 yards and felt like they dominated the game. And yet, I kind of feel like the Packers blew it.
They had the ball first down after that long completion over the middle. And they were inside the 20. And then all of a sudden, they're settling for a field goal. And I really feel like they had it.
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