The Bill Simmons Podcast
An NBA Scandal, the WembyCorn, a Three-Day Power Poll, and NFL Week 8 Picks With Joe House
24 Oct 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to react to the NBA gambling scandal before having an early NBA power poll (3:24). Finally, they make their Ringer 107 picks for Week 8 of the NFL season (01:07:06). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Joe House Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo 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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The Bill Simmons Podcast brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where I will have a new Rewatchables for you at some point early next week. I think it's going to be Monday night, but we have to do a horror movie. And we've done Halloween 1, and we've done Halloween 4, but we have not done Halloween 2.
And especially now that I'm in the new studio with, can you see? Can you see the mark? There he is right there. Sam, Michael Myers, my guy, uh, we're gonna do Halloween too. So that's going to be the next rewatchables. Now I just screwed up my camera. Uh, and you can find that wherever you get your, uh, wherever you get your rewatchables, preferably on Spotify on video. So there you go. Um,
So I was going to do the top of the podcast and talk about Chargers-Vikings and then the Warriors-Nuggets game. And then the Chargers decided to kill the Vikings. So I was going to watch the second half and then have some notes. But it was just the classic Thursday night stinker. And it all kind of flipped in the beginning when Herbert seemed like he threw a pick six.
And then they called it back because they said the ball kind of moved on the ground and the Chargers drove down and then that was it. So the Chargers beating the Vikings. And I guess we didn't talk about that other than the fact that the Vikings... Do not look like a playoff team this year. And JJ McCarthy, the mystery continues.
So that, and then Denver and the Warriors, we had the whole year to talk about that. So we're diving right into this so we can get the podcast up faster. Joe House is coming on. We're gonna talk about the NBA gambling scandal. I think scandal's the right word here. I'm gonna do a very brief blink test NBA power poll for House because I watched a ton of basketball over the last couple of days.
And then last but not least, we're going to do Ringer 107 and try to find five games in a depleted schedule because we have six teams on a Bible. We found five that we liked. This is a very fun podcast. I'm just telling you now. We just recorded it. And then I went a time machine to the beginning of this for this intro you're about to watch. I'm going to take a break, Pearl Jam, and then house.
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All right, we're taping this part of the podcast. This is the first time I've ever done this house, where in the new studio, I have the Chargers-Vikings game on, and I'm going to try to concentrate on you and not look to see what's happening, but there's... There's a lot of stuff going on right now.
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