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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Weird Wednesdays: Seven Minutes, Plus Talking Politics With Chris Cillizza | The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Russillo runs through some rapid-fire NBA thoughts (2:25) before talking with CNN's Chris Cillizza about the 2016 presidential election and how it shaped the buildup to the 2020 election, dealing with politicians, pickup basketball, and more (12:50). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A weird Wednesday pod for you, Chris Saliza of CNN.

0:13.6

Hey you guys are talking politics?

0:15.3

Yeah we are.

0:17.2

Check it out.

0:18.2

I'm going to endorse the candidate right now.

0:20.8

The shackles are off.

0:22.2

Uh, no.

0:23.2

I've always kind of kid with people that say, well, you know, this is the job now.

0:27.3

But now you can actually do the sports job for a really long time and not have to talk

0:30.3

politics if you don't want to, but you want to.

0:32.2

And in this case for a Wednesday pod, I do want to talk with Chris Saliza who I grew up

0:37.6

with for a couple years.

0:38.9

We played youth basketball together and he was a really good player.

0:41.2

Believe it or not.

0:42.2

I know you guys think he's a nerd now, but he's not a nerd.

0:44.7

He was an athlete and there's just a bunch of stuff I'm interested in from a very surface

0:50.2

level thing.

0:51.2

So I don't know that it's going to be too deep.

0:52.2

Um, I know, look, I know it's not going to be too deep.

0:54.5

You can't keep up, but have an open mind about it.

0:57.2

But I kind of know what's going to happen no matter what is it people are going to accuse

1:00.4

me of like, Oh, I can't believe you're a liberal.

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