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The question is whether she's actually younger than 24, not older. I'm speculating, but it's a valid reason why she'd be so defensive over the "how did you guys meet?" question.

Going back to the Butch Reed question, who is the wrestler who we underrate the most based on the fact that most people only watched their WWE/WCW work? I honestly think that Rick Martel is probably the best babyface worker of the 1980s (yes, including Ricky Steamboat, who was fucking awesome), but Vince didn't like the way he talked so he never really had a face run as a singles wrestler in WWF. By the time he got to WCW, he was old, and his body quickly fell apart after showing he could still go against the right opponent.

If 10% of what is in this podcast episode is true, then this is going to be an incredible documentary. The fact that even her age is in question says everything I need to know. I can't imagine how I'd deal with this if this was my dad or grandfather.

I'm all in on both of these ideas.

Jokic is essentially the player coach for the Nuggets right now. I feel like a baseball manager is an easier job than a basketball coach.

When the best news the Pirates have seen in recent years is a security guard whooping a drunk fan, who was harassing a woman at a concessions stand, with a belt, I'm pretty sure you can fire just about anybody and justify it. Anybody but the security guard.

I always feel away about calling someone a former football player or a rapper after being accused of a crime when no one knows this person as a football player or heard any of their songs. It's one of those, "we are trying to make this story more salacious for no good reason," news things that I notice every time. This is a terrible crime, and heinous enough without adding the "see these football players are out of control," aspect to it. This story has literally nothing to do with his football career, which was over before most of us even knew it happened. If he was a 41 year old who worked at Denny's as a line cook in his early 20s, no one would mention it. We only mention it here to paint a picture of out of control football players, and it's unnecessary. This has been my media criticism minute for May 8th, 2025.

I would like to announce that my academic progress rate has dropped below 914. I am now ineligible to date Rhianna. They have been to three bowl games in the program's history which goes back to 1976. Every player could the a Rhodes Scholar and it wouldn't matter.

You are ignoring the fact that playing at Central Michigan is the mess. Players as good as Antonio Brown don't leave Florida to Central Michigan without a story. He was Juco, got a scholarship to FIU, and got into a fight with security while moving into his dorm, and was expelled before the season.

Gamepass has flooded the market with games I want to play, but do not have the time to play. I still haven't got through Blue Prince. I haven't started Atomfall, South of Midnight, or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I have started The Oblivion Remaster, but that was a terrible idea because that game is literally 100s of hours. There are too many games, but not nearly enough hours in the day.

Finally, someone is asking the important questions around here.

I was just arguing about this with my coworker. Based on their time in Pittsburgh, who would you least like to have on your team, Antonio Brown or George Pickens? I don't want Pickens anywhere near my team. I can't have a guy fighting his defender during a hail mary while the ball is in the air.

She has to be a heel if they bring her back. The only problem is that I don't know if she has the charisma/acting chops to be an effective heel on purpose. Another thing that got her super popular in the UFC that won't work in WWE is she was seen as the most attractive woman in the sport. No woman in WWE can get over for being good looking. Pretty much every woman in the WWE is the best looking woman in the room to somebody. They have a murderer row of really good women's wrestlers who also happen to be incredibly good looking. She walked into a situation where the bloom was off the rose after being best looking, most charismatic woman in a sport where no one is really trying to be the best looking most charismatic woman in the sport. She walked into a company where everyone was better at the job, just as, if not more good looking, and far more charismatic than she was even at her best. It's actually pretty amazing she was as successful as she was, despite the fact that she kind of failed.

She was a fascinating combination of incredibly popular but completely and totally unlikable. It isn't even like someone like Floyd Mayweather or Conor McGregor, who are actively trolling, she seems to be genuinely unlikeable.

There is no bigger trope in fiction that has less to do with reality than the idea of the billionaire who is also the charming ladies man. All those dudes are dweebs who are only successful with women because those women are after their money. The real life dudes who have all the game are like my cousin who has 10+ kids, but as far as I know has never had a job. It's really hard to bring nothing to the table and still somehow have multiple women at the same time for 30+ years.

We could probably do another Million Dollar Man. I feel like we probably can't remake full on characters that are continuations of iconic characters. But the idea of a super rich dude who tries to buy his way to success is a concept that should be evergreen. They shouldn't try to associate him with Ted DiBiase in any way, but a billionaire villain would probably be pretty successful these days.

This reminds me of one time where I took my mom to a doctor's appointment and as I noticed that the music in the waiting room was really good, some douche got up to complain about it. In what might be my favorite piece of customer service I ever witnessed, the lady at the desk politely said, "I'm sorry you don't like it, but I welcome you to wait outside if you would like." The guy was dumbfounded. He tried to argue, but she stood firm and said in a super pleasant voice, "you can take a chair into the hallway and we will come out to get you once we're ready." He looked around the room, found no sympathy, dragged a chair into the hallway, and everyone in the room was happy as hell that the woman got him out of there. It was one of those times where a room full of strangers who literally have never interacted with each other all immediately were on the same page because of one asshole.

I can't argue with any of this, but my point is that the people running the UFC and WWE looked at this arrangement and said, "Nope, not exploitative enough for us."

I'm 100% sure that the Ali Act has been circumvented in 10,000 different ways, but TKO's lobbying to get it overturned is 100% about hording all the money for themselves while fucking over the fighters. Boxing is a corrupt, piece of shit industry, but boxers can and do make a shit load of money compared to most corrupt, piece of shit industries. The Ali Act is a huge reason why this exploitative ass sport pays well. There are other protections, like the promoter can't have a financial interest in the management of a fighter, which stops the exact type of shit the UFC does to keep their fighters from making too much money. They have spent millions keeping the Ali Act from affecting MMA and are spending millions trying to get it repealed in boxing. They are transparent with their ambitions for boxing, but they aren't going to do it if they have to play by the current rules.

I know all about it, but as bad as it is, it's still him being a giant douche to one person. I hope she sues him into homelessness, but the harm he has done is minimal compared to the decades of shit the WWE has done and is doing. Those two dudes are shitbags, don't get me wrong, but if this was a movie those are the toadiest of the WWE's henchmen. The Avengers don't assemble for Logan Paul, Pat McAfee, or even the combination of the two. The WWE/TKO/Endeavor is an Avengers level threat and we spend our time hating on Paul and McAfee. They're meat shields, and if they go too far they'll be fired. It won't stop the train from running though. Never forget, when the child sex trafficking thing came out, they fired Pat Patterson for long enough that people stopped asking questions, and then hired his ass right back. This company has been evil for our entire lives and they play in our face about it.

Lady Gaga is on the list of artists that I don't listen to, but would probably go see in concert. She's not really my taste, but I can and do appreciate the talent.

I also want to state for the record that I'm not badmouthing Sisqo, but his hit song The Thong Song. Sisqo is the only reason that absurd piece of shit works. He wrote one of the most ridiculous songs of all time, didn't like the Elanor Rigby beat, hired a violin player who worked on the score for Star Wars to punch it up, and then sang the song like his life depended on it. Sisqo quite frankly should be commended for that. My point stands that the song is otherwise a huge steaming turd that doesn't really have any reason to be good, except Sisqo made it good. Just because the WWE uses their power for evil, doesn't mean Sisqo didn't use his power for good. The analogy stands, because they are both putting lipstick on a pig. I also would like to state for the record that this is also not an indictment of thongs, but only songs about thongs.

A tradition unlike any other, punishing the replacement coach for the cheating the previous coach did to win the championship.

See, this is where we always lose the plot. Logan Paul and Pat McAfee are loud, but generally harmless shitbags. I'm not a fan of either, but their shit is kind of like the class clown who is a distraction from the kid who is selling crack in the back of class. One thing isn't nearly as bad as the other. The actual people making decisions in WWE/TKO/Endeavour are fucking monsters who are actively making the world worst for their employees. They are not just doing the shit you noted, but they're trying (and it looks like succeeding) in overthrowing the Muhammad Ali act in boxing, which is why boxers get paid what they get paid and MMA fighters don't. It is illegal for boxing promoters to prohibit boxers from fighting against fighters promoted by another entity. If you are being promoted by Top Rank, Top Rank cannot stop you from fighting against someone promoted by Golden Boy. They want to turn boxing into the UFC, where they can sign a bunch of boxers and prohibit them from boxing against anyone outside of their promotion, which keeps salaries low and control high. When I was young, my grandfather told me that the reason you have to work hard to improve your life is because the people who want to make the world worse never stop working. These are those people. They are working their hardest to make your life worse, but put people like Logan Paul and Pat McAfee in front of you to be mad at when they're literally just loud assholes. They put micro-level annoyances in front to hide the macro level evil in the back.

The cherry blossom festival sucks, but it is tucked away in one little corner. You can kind of maneuver around it if you know your way around, but it's probably #2 on the list of worst weekends to be in DC. The weather factor is what makes it a distant #2. Spring in DC is short and unpredictable, but when it's nice it's really nice. Summer is long and predictable, it's not only hot, but the weather gaslights you because the heat index is always 5-15 degrees hotter than the temperature. I don't care that the temperature is 92 if it feels like 108...as far as I'm concerned it's actually 108.