The Simon & Friends Podcast

This week we hit the AFC South for our final Divisional Offseason Recap! I am joined by friend of the pod Ronan Summers ( @ronan_summers ) as we look at the offseason moves for every AFC South team.  Houston Texans (2:10) Indianapolis Colts (15:05) Jacksonville Jaguars (31:30) Tennessee Titans (50:47) Thank you for following along this NFL Offseason as we recapped all of the moves for every t...

Part 2 of our MCU Movie Rankings with Muhammad Mehdi ( @mmehdi771 ) is here! This half of this week's episode is our top ranked movies and some discussion at the end. If you haven't already, check out Part 1 of this week's episode for the lower ranked movies! Thanks again for listening! Enjoy!

Muhammad Mehdi is back and we embark on our biggest pod of the summer...MCU MOVIE RANKINGS! We give our rankings of all 29 MCU movies to date from bottom to top.  This episode will be released in two parts. So enjoy the first half coming to you on our normal Thursday schedule, with part two coming Friday 9/2.  Enjoy our final rankings of the summer! 

This week we continue our NFL Divisional Offseason Series with Lee McManus of Fantom Sports Industries to discuss the AFC East. As always we dig into each team's season last year, their roster moves, draft and expectations for this season. We get into the Buffalo Bills (4:05), Miami Dolphins (23:30), New England Patriots (55:40) and New York Jets (1:17:10).  You can follow Lee on Twitter @lef...

Hey everyone we are coming at you a day early this week as we preview the WNBA Playoffs! Playoffs start Wednesday 8/17, so we recorded this Tuesday night. No Thursday show this week, but we'll be back to the normal schedule next week.  To preview the playoffs I am of course joined by Bre Flowers and Mario Walker. We continue the summer theme and rank our top three things we are most excited t...

The NFL season is almost here! We get back to our divisional offseason series with the NFC North, and our buddy Josh Limesand is back! You can follow Josh on Twitter @JLime8 , listen to his podcast, Bad Fantasy Advice , and read his work on fantasy football and the Vikings . We discussed the Vikings (2:30), Bears (26), Lions (52) and Packers (1:12:00) including all of their offseason moves, the dr...

Muhammad Mehdi returns to discuss the MCU announcements at the San Diego Comic-Con. We discuss the new projects announced, our feelings on the phase divides, and it's still the summer so you know what that means: RANKINGS! We rank our top five projects were most excited for from the MCU. 

For the 30th Episode of The Simon Shortt Podcast I am joined by Chrys Henderson and Terence Church from Fantom Sports. We discuss a very important topic to me and something I don't discuss lightly - our All-Time NBA player rankings. You can follow Chrys on Twitter @ChrysNBA and Terence on Twitter and Instagram @terence438 to keep up with all their thoughts and written work. 

Robertson Viar is back to discuss the Fantom Sports Industries QB rankings headed into the 2022 season! We also catch up on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and give our thoughts on the show as a whole. The Obi-Wan talk starts at the one-hour mark and we do a spoiler warning, but if you haven't seen the show and want to before listening be sure to stop the podcast there!  You can follow Robertson on...

It's the middle of the summer! That means sports are at their slowest, but the fandom contest is at its peak. Muhammad Mehdi is back to discuss it all with me this week on The Simon Shortt Podcast. We discuss Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy (2:50), Season 1 of Ms. Marvel (35:00) and Thor: Love and Thunder (1:08:00). Enjoy the nerd out this week, and be ready to pick some nits! 

This week the original podcast guest, Kevin Smick, is finally back to talk all things NBA news. From the Golden State Warriors winning the championship (2:40), to the draft (9:40), free agency/trades (26:45) and Kevin Durant fake trades (1:09:29) we cover it all. Be sure to follow "Smick" on Twitter @smickyyy .  You can now catch The Simon Shortt Podcast on Amazon Music and Google Podcasts, a...

This week we continue our NFL Offseason Series with the AFC North. We're joined by Cleveland Browns beat writer Marquis Appling of Fantom Sports. We kick things off with Marquis's Browns (2:15) before hitting the Steelers (42:40), Ravens (57:34) and Bengals (1:20:50). Be sure to follow Marquis on Twitter @7Marqalen . You can check out his written work here . Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and...

This week I am joined by Brandon Dyer of Fantom Sports to discuss the NFC South! We talk about Brandon's Atlanta Falcons (3:25), the New Orleans Saints (27:30), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (46:40) and the Carolina Panthers (1:00:45).  Brandon is Fantom's beat writer for the Atlanta Falcons. You can check out his work there at the link below.  https://fantomsportsindustries.com/?s=brandon+dy...

We are back talking NFL! This week I am joined by Robertson Viar of Fantom Sports to discuss the NFC East. To continue our NFL Offseason Series we cover the Dallas Cowboys (2:00) New York Giants (21:00) Philadelphia Eagles (41:40) and Washington Commanders (1:02:10). We discuss where each team ended the 2021 season, free agency moves, the draft and our expectations for next year. Robertson covers...

I'm back! Just a tad sleep deprived after welcoming home a newborn and after a week off we are back with a bang! I am once again joined by Bre Flowers of Fantom Sports along with first time guest Mario Walker to discuss the WNBA. We talked about the rolling Connecticut Sun (1:45), the firing of Derek Fisher from the LA Sparks (14:40), and the WNBA All-Star voting (31:42). Bre and Mario helped me w...

Welcome in! I'm going solo this week for The Shorttgasbord Mk. 2 and covering a wide range of topics. I discuss the Steelers hiring Omar Khan as GM (6:20), my WNBA Power Rankings (15:15), the NBA Playoffs (31:38) and finally my expectations of the Obi Wan Kenobi show which premiers this week on Disney Plus (46:05).  Be sure to reach out to me on Twitter @Simon_Shortt and let me know which top...

A very important episode - this week on the Simon Shortt Podcast, I speak with Bre Flowers of Fantom Sports about the WNBA. We discuss where the league currently stands and how it's growing, a few key players for this WNBA season, and our favorite to win it all. Follow Bre on Twitter @pumpinseedbre_ , and check out her work on Fantom Sports . Be sure to keep listening for topics on the show throug...

We're officially past draft season so it's time to branch out! Dr. Strange In The Multiverse of Madness just came out and I have some questions. I brought our friend Muhammad Mehdi in to briefly discuss the movie before playing a game where we re-wrote the movie to help the storyline, or it's place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Now a few days removed, I sit down with Ronan Summers of Fantom Sports to give our thoughts on the NFL Draft's first round chaos, and discuss our winners and losers from the draft as a whole.  Ronan was in charge of the first round mock drafts for Fantom Sports, and you can check out his final one here: https://fantomsportsofficial.com/2022/04/27/ronan-summers-2022-nfl-draft-final-first-round...

In Episode 18 of the Simon Shortt Podcast, Ben Parker is back to help me give our instant reactions to the first round of the NFL Draft! We cover all 32 selections, the trades, and give some predictions for what happens next. 

In this episode, Ben Parker and I preview the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft via over/unders for each position group! You can find Ben on Twitter @BenPark79, you can follow his YouTube Channels (which I appear on!) Sports & Money: KC and Sports & Money: Pro Football GM, and hear him on the In The Flat Podcast.  Shoutout to Brian Martin for this article that I looked at when thinkin...

In the 16th episode of the Simon Shortt Podcast, I do a deep dive on the NFL Draft and where the Steelers fit into it. I talk about my favorite prospects, the QB conundrum, and discuss my Pittsburgh Steelers Big Board series on fantomsportsofficial.com

It is the 15th episode of the Simon Shortt Podcast! For various reasons I wanted to mix things up today, so we are having a Shorttgasbord! I talk with my pal Muhammad Mehdi about a wide array of topics. We discuss NFL Player Movement and Player Empowerment (4:06), the NBA Play-In Game structure and other potential league changes (21:15) and end talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the d...

This week on the Simon Shortt Podcast I'm once again joined by Ronan Summers of Fantom Sports! Ronan and I discuss the NFC West teams in terms of: where we left off with them last season, offseason moves, draft expectations, and predictions for next year.  Ronan also writes for Fantom Sports and you can check out his work here: https://fantomsportsofficial.com/?s=Ronan+summers And is a co-hos...

In Episode 13 of the Simon Shortt Podcast, Ben Parker is back to talk about the AFC West. With big name players being traded in and out of the division this offseason, it was a great time to have Ben on to discuss the ins and outs of each team, where their rosters stand, and what they might do in the draft.  Check out Ben's work on YouTube at the below links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...