1. Last June, during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Ryen Russillo joined Bill Simmons on his Ringer podcast. They discussed what was going on in America at the time and the results were not good.
Russillo and Simmons were accused of being tone-deaf and many people took issue with the segment. Both men apologized for misreading the moment and doing, in Russillo’s words, “a bad job.”
Russillo was a guest on this week’s Sports Illustrated Media Podcast and opened up about that controversial podcast, his regrets over it and the fallout.