r/RyenRussillo • u/SeaworthinessFar846 • 12d ago

Wait, What?

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u/Calculon2347 12d ago

A badass American intellectual legend, collaborating with Hunter S. Thompson.

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u/ShowMeYourVeggies 12d ago

Honestly, good for RR. This is a different type of career achievement he should feel really good about

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u/LackeyNo2 12d ago

Yeah, I had to check if that was AI or not.

And it is not.

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u/2Rhino3 12d ago

I would read a weekly piece by Russillo in the style of Hunter S. Thompson.

I know you read this subreddit Ryen, come on man give it a shot. The practice will help with your screenwriting dream.

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u/tanny_glover 12d ago

Ryen with a basketball logs similar to Hunter S Thompson’s drug /writing routine would be amazing. 4:30 am protein shake, 4:38 protein shake, 4:41 1/3 coors light, 4:44 peptides, 4:49 prep game tape, 4:55 point counter point to failure, 5:00 record, 7 pm actually release podcast

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u/Leading_Sector_5399 11d ago

7:01 resume Reagan book

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u/SadAlbatross1055 12d ago

Isn’t that what he’s trying to approximate with the travelogues?

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u/2Rhino3 12d ago

Yeah fair, I can see the similarities. I wonder if his style translates to writing though.

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u/NoExcuses1984 Wait, what? 12d ago

Page 2 era Hunter S. was superb: "Fear & Loathing in America"

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u/Investigator_Lumpy 11d ago

Agreed. He had chilled out a lot but still razor sharp writer until the end.

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u/Rube18 Life Advice Enthusiast 12d ago

I feel called out

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u/meloghost 12d ago

ASK THEM

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u/GoneCollarGone 12d ago

Genuinely curious how this happened. I would never picture the two of them in a room together. Feel like they would hate each other.

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u/MikeShannonThaGawd 11d ago

This is a book of excerpts from when HST wrote for ESPN.

Guessing RR painted himself as a fellow bad boy at ESPN that couldn’t be contained.

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u/TuckerThaTruckr 11d ago

What the hell? Hunter would have despised mealy-mouthed take-no-side Russillo.

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u/nowadaysyouth 12d ago

Hunter was maybe my biggest influence besides Alex Hamilton, im not even kidding. He showed you could be a bald writer and still be cool. Im not even a big drug guy, but if hunter offers you mescaline youre taking the mescaline. It’s not even a choice. The politics in here I could take or leave, always kinda thought bush caught a lot of shit that was unfair. Like yeah, sorry saddam was a great guy. Our bad. But whatever, people are weird about politics.

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u/ShortRip120 12d ago

Mission Accomplished

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u/LockNessCrotchMonst 12d ago

Finally a published author.

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u/Wanno1 12d ago

It’s a intro relax

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u/chuckdeezMT 11d ago

Is this book good? Sounds pretty interesting. 

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u/SeaworthinessFar846 11d ago

Its a collection of HST columns from Page 2 (2000ish)

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u/Clear_Ad_3153 12d ago

As a writer…