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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Warriors-Celtics Finals Pick, Van Lathan on CFB Recruiting Jealousy and Life, Plus Going Abroad

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ryen opens with his pick for the Warriors-Celtics NBA Finals matchup and goes through the categories of confidence whenever people make predictions (0:27). Next, he chats with Van Lathan about why Texas A&M is the G-Eazy of college football, Captain America vs. Black Panther, and his new book 'Fat, Crazy & Tired' (17:09). Then, Ceruti hops on for a Champions League edition of Going Abroad, before Ryen recaps the F1 Monaco Grand Prix (30:07). And finally, he closes it out with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:03:53). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Van Lathan Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On today's podcast, I go through a history of trying to pick the series and give you

0:14.7

my NBA fondest pick.

0:15.7

We're going to talk with Van Lathen just about anything and he's going to book out and

0:20.4

we'll do a little life of vice and we go abroad.

0:23.8

Soccer F1 style was so rude.

0:27.7

As we all get ready for the NBA finals, trying to figure this whole thing out.

0:30.8

Trying to figure out which way I'm going to go with this, which team I'm going to pick

0:35.4

and I'm going to run through a couple different things.

0:37.6

I want to talk about the categories of confidence when you go ahead and pick and stuff.

0:41.9

Now 20 years of doing this, I've had to pick a lot of games, some success, some failures,

0:46.4

some I saw coming, some I never saw coming.

0:48.4

That's just the way it works.

0:49.4

That's why we keep coming back because it sports.

0:51.4

One category is the masses of assets.

0:53.2

You'll hear a lot of people say, if you go with the mob, you end up being wrong and that's

0:59.0

definitely happened a lot in sports.

1:00.3

If you look at the biggest spread in Super Bowl history, that's Super Bowl 3, Colts, Jets,

1:05.6

Name, Eth, Guarantee, and A Victory, the Colts were favored by 18 points in that game.

1:10.4

Everybody was picking the Colts.

1:11.7

I don't even know if Joe Damus was really picking the Jets and the Jets pulled one of the

1:15.7

greatest upsets in modern day sports history.

1:19.4

Little big Super Bowl, the eighth largest spread ever, more recent Super Bowl 42, Pats

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