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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NFL Championship Round Film Breakdowns With Ted Nguyen, the Forgotten Character in the Steroid Saga, Plus 'The Line' Director Doug Shultz

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on MLB players bearing the blame for the steroids era by being left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame (0:47), before briefly hitting on whether or not Ben Simmons's trade value has diminished from August 2021 and the 76ers quest for a favorable trade (10:01). Next, Ryen talks with the Athletic’s Ted Nguyen about his film breakdown of the upcoming conference championship round of the NFL playoffs (20:07). Then Ryen talks with filmmaker Doug Shultz about his Apple TV+ docuseries ‘The Line’ (41:57), before answering some listener submitted Life-Advice questions (1:26:34). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Ted Nguyen and Doug Shultz Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's podcast, a lot going on. I've got an open about who was

0:15.1

complicit in the Hall of Fame results we had for baseball this week. The Ben

0:20.4

Simmons market, is he really as much of a declining asset as everyone says he

0:24.6

is? Ted Wynn, who will join us to do a film preview of both

0:28.7

the current championship games and something that I've been talking about quite a

0:32.2

bit, the line for part documentary on the seals from 2017 Doug Schultz,

0:38.7

producer, director, creator of this amazing content. He's going to talk about

0:42.4

this awesome story, which I can't wait to share with you. And life is a

0:46.1

place. I want to open today's podcast. I want to talk a little bit about the

0:49.5

Hall of Fame. I want to talk about steroids and maybe the first week I've

0:52.6

ever seen Twitter being favor of voter suppression because everybody's so

0:55.4

mad at the writers for not letting bonds, Clemens A. Rodin. Let me just start

0:59.6

with this this overall statement. I want all these guys in. I'm totally fine

1:03.5

with it, but I want to open it up to a further discussion so that we understand

1:06.5

the full scope of this story. And I want to start with a quote. This is from

1:09.7

Donald Fair in June of 2002, talking about potential testing of baseball

1:14.1

players, he's ahead of the union at this time on why he opposed testing. And

1:18.4

Donald Fair said this quote, this discussion can be summarized in a single

1:22.2

word, privacy. Remember that because we're going to get back to it. Now when

1:26.5

it comes to the players, Clemens, you know, in 1986 that first half of that

1:30.8

season was one of those times as a little kid, you're like, okay, I can't I

1:34.7

can't believe this is the best thing ever. I want to try to emulate his wind up

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