Before we get to today's podcast, I want to talk about Sunday's podcast and the whole podcast

with Bill on Sunday was a miss on my part. I did a bad job and I'm going to talk about some of

those things now. The first problem was that I should not have been the voice that you heard from.

You needed somebody with a better perspective, a different life perspective on everything

of this country just went through in the past week. I was not that person and that was a mistake.

The second part is my tone sucked throughout most of that first 40 minutes and when I went back

and listened, I go, okay, this is a problem. You sound like you're more disappointed. You sound

more angered by looters than you do the fact that a police officer murdered George Floyd. The whole

reason why we were here to begin with and the mistake that you can make when you do the podcast,

at least with Bill and I, because we've been doing it a while, we've known each other a long time,

is that we can become very casual just to guys talking, forgetting that all of these people are

listening to you and I can't make the assumption that of course they know I'm more upset about George

Floyd than I am, just people stealing from stores, but that's not the way it came off and it was

a terrible assumption for me to make because I come off in the podcast as if I don't get it at all.

And so I understand that criticism and again, I'm sorry for that. And finally, just the execution.

I pride myself on always trying to figure out ways to talk about different topics and maybe make it

more complicated and add my flaws and be vulnerable and admit to some things and go, well, what about this?

Maybe we should think about this mindset. That's a miss and I shouldn't have done it and it was,

it was a really poor job on my part of trying to add all these different elements to a discussion

where sometimes the discussion is very straightforward and it's getting people to wake up to what's

happening in this country. So all I can ask is that you trust I'll get better because I believe I will.

So thanks today's episode of the Ryan Russo podcast on the Ringer podcast network is brought to

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