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LOL I wouldn't say Davey is the dumbest. Dude has an education and a career outside the business that would easily get him and his family by if it all ended tomorrow. Now if we're just talking his in-ring work, yes.

I think so but YMMV. It does pick up with the daughter being possessed but if you checked out after the first two eps, I'm not sure if there's something you'd like in the next three.

Insert "Goodbye Horses" here

I finally got caught up with The Exorcist. The reveal at the end of the last episode was an ohhhh holy shiiiiit moment

PLANTED into the ground amirite bros

I knew, that was the (bad) joke.

LOL except for the part where the babyface demands his men hand over their wives/girlfriends and burns dudes' faces with a hot iron when they get out of line.

TIL @Vader does my taxes! is an accountant, which is awesome. We need more people with IRL occupation-based handles. If I find out NickMD is a practicing physician, I'll shit myself.

Every time I hear Kyle O'Reilly's name, I think of how much money he's leaving on the table by not working a Star Wars gimmick as Kylo Reilly.

Exactly. Like any bureaucracy, the IRS would rather just settle things quickly than take it to court. Maybe TNA paid a fine, but that would be about it. I'm sure this kind of thing happens every day in many, many shady companies. Speaking of "how shady companies do things as regular business practices," Prichard went into, in his expression, how TNA treats its wrestlers like contractors. What he meant was twofold. One, wrestlers were treated as easily replaceable (you can always hire a new plumber). Two, wrestlers were treated the way some really shitty companies will with regard to accounts payable, holding off on paying a third party for work forever. I like to call it The Trump Method. The way TNA came across in the podcast, it sounded like all this awful shit is just common policies and procedures at Panda and Janice was running TNA like any other business the Carters owned. Did you all hear the one about the time nobody was paid at all? Wrestlers were pestering Prichard constantly and when he called accounting multiple times, they actually gave him check numbers and FedEx information. They swore checks had been sent and it must be a post office issue. Yes, a post office issue at every wrestler's post office. This went on, back and forth, for some time. Eventually, somehow, it was all settled and accounting did "re-send" the checks, according to them. The wrestlers all received FedEx envelopes. Inside each was another FedEx envelope with the original postmark and old check. So what TNA accounting had done was cut the checks in the first place, paid for the postage, then sat on them. What a bunch of horrible fucks. This company deserves to burn and the Carters deserve debtor's prison.

jesus christ i hope there's no double timeline or similar shymanlan-esque precious gimmicky WHAT A TWIST bullshit I really like this show and really don;t want gimmicks like that.

@Lawful Metal and @NickMDI'm not sure why people don't like Rick being broken and made humble. That's the whole point of his story arc from last season and even before that. He got way too cocky. You can see his hubris growing and this is what you get. There's a through-line here that goes all the way back to Terminus ("they're messing with the wrong people"). Rick's gang used to only kill other humans if they came looking for a fight. Contrast that with last season where Rick tells the leader of Hilltop "sure, we'll go kill Negan and his people for you, no problem." They literally went out to one of Negan's HQs and proactively slaughtered a bunch of people just on Gregory's word. Rick didn't evaluate the situation or even assess Negan's forces and ability; he just assumed The Ricktatorship could defeat all enemies. Rick being thoroughly broken here is the payoff to two seasons of growing arrogance.

Is there a rating above "TV-MA" for WWE network? Because PWG with commentary restrictions would be awful. "You know what I call that kick to the back? FUCKING UNNECESSARY."

It was mentioned here in passing on the last page, but the last Prichard show is pretty good with regard to shady TNA stories. To elaborate a little better on the paycheck thing that was said here: Prichard was working for TNA and was having his paycheck garnished (in the simplest terms, it's the kind of thing that happens when you owe back taxes, aren't paying child support, things like that -- the government has the employer take money from your check and give it to them directly). This kind of thing shows up on the withholding on your paystub. It's right there. So after a long period of time where garnishments were being taken out of his check, the government comes knocking. Seems they weren't receiving the payments and he owed them like $10,000. He showed them the paystubs and the government went to TNA to get the money. Because they had not, in fact, sent it to them. The scumbags they are, they were garnishing his check and keeping the money. Holy fuck.

Thanks! I figured as much but had to ask because I didn't think they'd have the audacity to run a building that big. Oh TNA.

blinged out stagecoaches

lol holy shit What building is that? That's amazing.

The Arrival...man, I don't know. I love alien invasion movies but a film about a translator's rush to, what, translate correctly in time to avoid a catastrophe? It sounds like a bit of a stretch. I hope the aliens don't tell her they've arrived on Earth to serve man.

Queen of the South was surprisingly not bad. The "conversations with her future self" plot device is a bit hokey but, then again, you get to see double the Alice Braga so I won't complain. Fun unexpected plot twist in the final episode as well. I loved The Bridge so this show is up my alley. I also can't stop laughing to myself whenever the main villain shows up, as he looks like Mexican Phil Hartman.

Add Paul Orndorff to that list. Hogan didn't come to the phone when Mr. Wonderful called him, giving some flimsy excuse about being in the middle of a workout at the time. Orndorff literally said, "Hogan's my friend! Watch, I'll call him on the phone right now!" And the Hulkster left him high a dry. Made Orndorff look like a chump. Then he wasn't into the subsequent bout against the Moondogs like he was too good for that shit. What a dick.

I seriously powered through Mexico as fast as I could on my second playthrough. The whole "yes yes, I'll help you find your men...but first run this errand for me!" thing got so tiresome after the 6th time. If there's any drawback to the Rockstar open world games, it's the flimsy excuses for starting a mission that we see all too often.

@OSJWine pricing is crazy since the rule of thumb is "charge as much for a glass as you paid for the bottle." I thought wine might have the most insane markup so I Googled this cool article I read a while back. Apparently, mixed drinks made with rail liquor have the worst markup, with draft beer a distant second. The bar right near my job charges over $6 for a draft served in a phony-ass non-pint pint glass in off hours. Ridiculous. Tipping bartenders per-drink just sucks, btw. I can see tipping on a mixed drink but a dollar for taking the cap off a beer? Sheeeeeit.

I expected more tracksuits

He was in episode 1 as well. After a standout performance in the finale, he'll also be a regular in this season of Walking Dead -- his character actually has a name and everything! It's funny seeing him show up in live action shows because I just can't separate him from Trevor. It would be like Sonic the Hedgehog showing up on CSI.

The first little bit really is a slog with all the Cattle Simulator 2010 stuff. Just hang in there.