I only know Ryan Nanni from Twitter – he’s @celebrityhottub – and I don’t really know him. I only know that his tweets consistently make me laugh and he’s someone I’m happy exists in my feed. So one night I happened to check out his full profile, and found this pinned tweet:
Pay dirt! I emailed him a brief pitch, we got our schedules aligned, and Bob’s your uncle. He’s on the show! It’s one of the weirder interviews I’ve done only in the sense that I didn’t really prepare for it and had no idea where the conversation would go. I usually structure these things a bit more, but decided to say screw it and just talk with this due who’s made me laugh over the interwebs for years. So what did we talk about? Here’s a brief snapshot:
- Thoughts on the CSU Rams football program and the overall state of college football in 2023.
- The impact of Deion Sanders on the CU Buffs and the burden of raised expectations.
- Why the show Succession is actually very similar to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
- Why the cowboy hats in Nashville are anachronistic relative to the rest of the South.
- Why it’s ok for me to despise Devin Booker’s punchable face in the privacy of my own home, but not in person.
- The 2010 movie The A-Team and why it rules (Ryan’s never seen it).
- And yes, some talk about work, entrepreneurship, raising young children and all that other “real life” hogwash that defines us existentially. Whatever.
I was thrilled with the chat because he was immediately a dude I vibed with. We shared a ton of genuine laughs, gave each other some insights, and I helped him put another notch in his belt toward the absurd goal of guesting on as many podcasts as possible in 2023. Win-win-win!
Follow Ryan on Twitter and Instagram. And check out his own podcast The Shutdown Fullcast (ostensibly about college football with a strong tendency to meander).
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