The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Buffalo Curse, a Mega-Mailbag, QB Roulette, and Week 3 Picks With Joe House and Tom Pelissero | 2:07:19 | 8:47 | 8 | |
| The Knicks (and a Crowded East) With Zach Lowe, Plus Anthony Jeselnik on Book Clubs, Roasts, and Stand-Up Comedy in 2026 | 2:37:31 | 10:55 | 7 | |
| The Broken Chargers, Mahomes 3.0, Zombie Deshaun, the Masked Backup, First Coach Fired, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal | 1:51:00 | 7:44 | 8 | |
| Apex Josh Allen, the Goofy NFC North, Week 2 Picks, and Bill’s Breakup Letter to the Clippers | With Tom Pelissero and Joe House | 1:58:04 | 9:04 | 7 | |
| A Clippers Rebrand, an NFL Mini-Mailbag, and Best MLB Story Lines With Rob Mahoney, Anthony Dabbundo, and Billy Gil | 2:12:39 | 10:31 | 6 | |
| The Smashmouth Giants, Bumbling Chargers, Stumbling Packers, Week 1 Overreactions, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal | 1:48:10 | 8:29 | 9 | |
| The 49ers Crush the Jet-Lag Bowl, Rams Overreactions, Bills-Texans, and Week 1 NFL Picks With Joe House | 1:29:20 | 9:29 | 6 | |
| An Absolutely Horrific Patriots Loss, the Rams-49ers Travel Bowl, and Hottest Takes With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly | 1:12:57 | 7:11 | 6 | |
| Mahomes or Allen (Again???) and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag With Nick Wright | 1:48:35 | 10:34 | 6 | |
| Guess the Lines Week 1, Plus Favorite NFL Futures With Cousin Sal | 2:20:25 | 7:46 | 9 | |
| Clippers Rock Bottom 9.0, Plus Charles Barkley on the Clips, 76ers, Lakers, ESPN, and Why He Loves Josh Allen | 1:41:25 | 9:06 | 6 | |
| Make-or-Break NFL QBs, a CFB Preview, and the WNBA Renaissance With Todd McShay and Diana Taurasi | 1:41:02 | 6:51 | 6 | |
| The Annual AFC Over/Unders With Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Joe House | 1:59:29 | 6:05 | 8 | |
| The Annual NFC Over/Unders With Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Joe House | 2:11:40 | 9:26 | 8 | |
| The Fifth Annual “My Guy” Fantasy Football Draft With Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck | 2:04:57 | 8:48 | 6 | |
| Deshaun Vs. Cleveland, and a Mega-Mailbag With Joe House. Plus, UCLA’s Bob Chesney. | 2:19:40 | 7:15 | 9 | |
| Derek Thompson on the American Sports Plutocracy, the NBA’s 2016 Black Swan Event, and the WNBA’s Growing Pains | 1:42:00 | 7:23 | 7 | |
| The "Invincible" Rams, NFL Pressure Guys, and L.A.’s Crazy NBA Month With Tom Pelissero and Sam Koppelman | 2:15:41 | 8:44 | 6 | |
| Russell Westbrook’s One-of-One Career With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus College Football and Coaches With Van Lathan and Chris Ryan | 2:04:06 | 7:55 | 6 | |
| A Shocking Lakers Sale. Plus, the 20 Best and Worst Youth Sports for Parents With Cousin Sal. | 1:53:30 | 6:22 | 6 | |
| Half-Baked Ideas and a Mega-Mailbag With Kevin Wildes and Joe House | 2:27:44 | 8:47 | 6 | |
| 2026 NFL QB Rankings, the Villain Dodgers, MLB Trade Deadline Lessons, and SummerSlam 2026 With Mina Kimes, Billy Gil, Anthony Dabbundo, and David Shoemaker | 2:52:40 | 9:27 | 8 | |
| The NBA Mega-Redraftables (2012 and 2013 Combined) With J. Kyle Mann and Joe House. Plus: Portland vs. “El Cheapo” for the Blazers With Justin Verrier. | 2:14:32 | 8:16 | 10 | |
| Steph in Purgatory, a LeBron Mini-Mailbag, Jaylen Trade What-Ifs, and the Revived Red Sox With Joe House and Bill’s Dad | 2:08:41 | 5:23 | 6 | |
| LeBron’s Philly Shocker! Plus, the 2011 NBA Redraftables With Zach Lowe. | 1:46:23 | 6:02 | 7 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to The Bill Simmons Podcast with YAPP
The Bill Simmons Podcast runs 7 ad breaks in a typical episode — among the more heavily advertised shows we measure. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 7.4 minutes per episode, or 3.7 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 34 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 12% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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