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I supported AOL (and other dial services) until 2012 and in an advisory role until 2015. It was my understanding Level3 (Lumen now) was the only other dial network and they were shutting down soon after us. Crazy how long it stuck around.

Last nights NFL game faded out to one of its commercial breaks with a Goldfinger song, that led me to listening to some old songs of theirs. This was one of my favs:

I just did a quick lookup and the last superbowl was watched by roughly 210 million people in the US (plus another 62.5 million globally). Hispanic viewship was estimated at 14% and the spanish language broadcast was below 2%. The vast majority of viewers are English speaking, so it doesn't seem that outside of the box to think that entertainment for the group would match. The NFL is pushing their product to Latin/South America, as well as Europe, but they are making significant gains within our hemisphere. As such, I understand why Bad Bunny was picked, but I have no issues with the majority of viewers which this won't resonate with wondering if the NFL is turning their back on them either. My guess, the NFL figures it won't lose fans over this, but can gain fans with Bad Bunny. Think of it like Democrats and their constituents in large cities, they throw some talking points to them once in awhile, but by and far they ignore them just like the Republicans because they already have that market controlled.

To be fair, I'd probably enjoy that more than Bad Bunny.

When taking the first question in his press conference today, JD Vance calls on some guy. His question started out like this "There are two key democrat lies....." What a complete ****ing joke.

Taking the emotion out of it, I agree with Kirk at a basic level that the 2nd amendment is important, but with it comes costs. As I mentioned before about Kirk, he put out statements like he did about the 2nd amendment (and other things) in order to stir up the emotion that comes against it, making it easier for him to outline his talking points and negating an emotionally charged response. That headline response can be understood better as he talked through his reasoning, but he wanted people to react to the headline first. I am pro 2nd amendment despite knowing it will result in some needless deaths. I am pro 4th amendment despite knowing it will result in some bad people getting away with illegal activities. I am pro 1st amendment despite knowing some vile speech will get said. That said, I don't think people should assemble in a manner that prevents me from driving to work, I don't think people should be able to be able to threaten people with their speech, and I don't think it should be as easy as it is to get a gun, or keep it.

The country isn't ready for an American Indian yet.

No idea if there is legitimate news on this or someone just thought of it and put it on reddit, but there is a reddit post indicating that ABC could pull SEC football from Sinclear and Nexstar in response to them preempting Kimmel. One of the comments: "So, how did the American Revolution of 2025 start? A podcaster was killed in Utah and then ABC threatened not to air college football in the south." As I laughed at that, my next thought was 150 years from now, some teacher explaining that a 2nd civil war started over football and some dumbass kid raising his hand to say it really wasn't about football itself, but rather states rights to be able to watch football'

Two things 1) I've done it too, I'm sure most of us have, but I feel like I notice it more now..... I don't get how pointing out supposed hypocrisy of the other side is a good argument because you are admitting by using this type of argument that you were upset 'When X, Y, or Z happened' and are choosing to be hypocritical now because others were hypocritical back then. 2) You didn't even use the correct examples. The government was not involved in the Barr thing and he violated the TOS of Twitter, again, no government involvement. The correct example would be Biden's administration informing the socials what accounts/topics to shadow ban. I was livid about it back then and I think people that care about free speech should be livid now too.

Every live musical I went into simply because my wife and/or daughter wanted to see it. Every live musical I've walked out of I was thoroughly impressed with. Hamilton was no different.

Even though you may argue ABC made the wrong decision (I agree in this case), it's tough to call this a f up. If Trump/FCC don't say anything (which they shouldn't, it wasn't an issue the WH needed to be involved in, IMO) then ABC doesn't even have a decision to make which they know will piss off a subset of folks. No way they wanted to do what they did, but for their shareholders, they can't be fighting the FCC. I love the idea of corporations going against their best interest to fight power, its also not really fair to expect them too.

I'm over on the east side and feel like we don't have too many good Chinese restaurants over here either any longer. Is Dynersty still around in A2? They were open late which was great for us that worked the midnight shift. The basics were alright, but they had a few 'secret' items they would make that were apparently more authentic (I'm not cultured enough to truly know) that were great.

What's in it is that it helps keep them in the good graces of the FCC and Trump. They help Trump, Trump will help Sinclair.

Jimmy didn't want to double down, he simply wasn't going to apologize for something he felt he didn't do. It was the conservative side that up until recently said we need to stop pussyfooting around everyone's supposed feelings and offering blanket apologies. I have 1 friend in particular that has told me he's MAGA for one reason and one reason only, that the 1st amendment was being attacked by dems and wokeness. I'm sure some of you realize that i'm sympathetic to some of those complaints. But now that he's part of the cult like you, I'm extremely interested in talking to him about Jimmy and wondering how he's going to contort himself and tell me this is a good thing.

It is clear what he did here. He didn't want to be the one to rule on this as it would look like government overreach. But it's crystal clear he's calling for anyone that needs a friendly relationship with the FCC, like maybe a couple of large companies that want to merge, to take action, which they have the right to do. It's a shakedown, nothing more, nothing less.

I agree, just wish we could have had a criteria called 3) electability.... definitely feel like that might have been able to keep us from this current debacle.

I'm not trying to both sides this as we both will agree which side is the far bigger threat to our democracy, but please remember you guys ran a guy that couldn't meet with more than 1 person in his administration for his last 2 years and the one time he has to be in front of the cameras, he completely fell apart, leading to the party scrambling for option 2 with very little time to allow that option to define themselves (and definitely no time for the party to agree on who would be a best 2nd option.

All the kids are co-owners still, Martha is chair and Sheila is principal owner. The other three kids are listed as vice chairs. No idea how many the other three are involved now, but I got the same feeling with WCF Jr that he wanted to focus on Ford. I swear I remember hearing that Martha gave the kids the option of deciding who should run the day to day stuff and Sheila was voted by the siblings. That could have simply been the public spin though.

This needs to be shared/seen more. I was always going to vote for Biden, but I was truly concerned that he didn't have the mental ability to do the job anymore. Most people are still dismissing Trumps mental issues with 'well, he always rambled'. That is true, but he's not just rambling anymore. He's always had that ADHD type issue where a topic could derail him, but he'd get out his talking points and eventually round back. He is completely lost now, it is remarkably different IMO.

As someone with teenage kids, it's crazy how much wages raised for fast food employees when the choice to the owner was to pay higher or simply not be able to open the doors. My guess is those owners are still getting by, despite the increase in labor. That said, for some industries, there isn't as much mark up or volume to be able to believe that simply paying more will benefit. My wife did not see big raises in her job over Covid and she's seeing friends of our son picking up unskilled jobs paying not much less then what she is making (granted she still has some decent perks which they don't have). Her boss owns a small business and has done everything he can to keep price increases from being passed to his customers which I'm sure means a lot less money in his pocket. Maybe he is wrong and could easily raise his rates, but I do understand his concern about it.

Need a double like option for this.

There is a valid argument about the executive simply having the power as congress ceded it, and without a congress that will force authority back, it's Trumps best bet to be able to continue this. But, ceding power once, doesn't mean you cede all power. For instance you can give permission to the police to search your car without a warrant, but if you feel they are overstepping the search, you can demand that they stop which would require them to get a search warrant to continue. Smoot Hawley only lasted a couple of years before congress stepped in and make changes which negated it. Ultimately I feel SCOTUS should side with a repeal of these, especially when there was no legitimate emergency which POTUS referenced to start them. Guess we'll see.

Would love to know what Trumps thoughts are for going to bi-annually from quarterly for earnings reports. The cynical side of me says he doesn't want Q3 reports right before the mid-term or the next POTUS election. The other part of me thinks maybe it could incentivize companies to make longer term decisions, which tend to be more prudent, rather than switch course due to 1 bad quarterly result.

Couple of random thoughts 1) A Harris FBI likely makes no difference 'on the ground' in Utah. I very much doubt any stupid posts by the FBI director putting out inaccurate information though. 2) Kirk was a master and arguably the first to be able to consistently do it, at inputting click bait headlines into video media form. I wasn't a regular viewer of his, but I have watched him and he would put out a quote much like a click bait headline in response to some question posed to him. It would often derail the questioners initial thoughts and get them to respond based on emotion. Once he started talking, often you'd see he really didn't agree with his own initial comment and the full context was something that most people, even if they disagree, could at least understand. One of the quotes going around after his death was him talking about not having empathy, I think it might have been over shootings. I mean, right there, a horribly callous take. But then when he explains his position, it's basically a technicality that he believes sympathy is a better word then empathy in some specific context and he says he has sympathy. In short he's saying he has the same feelings we all have (or hopefully nearly all at least). He just takes that opportunity to enrage his opponent in the hopes he makes them mess up and then can explain why he's not really a bad person after. He was not part of the solution like the right wants to say, when they say 'he just wanted to have discussions with people'. He was part of the problem. Currently I think Gavin Newsom is part of the problem as he mocks the president on Twitter, but what he's trying to accomplish also aligns with what I would like to see (derail Trump's presidency and MAGA policies), so right now i'm pro-Gavin. Guess you could say Kirk was like Ciccarelli, one of those guys you paid attention to just how good they really were at their craft if they were on your team, otherwise they are just a hack that doesn't respect the game because they always got under your skin. 3) The amount of Facebook posts about this was crazy and were all the same (TAPAS - thoughts and prayers and ****) with some 'the left better not get away with this' sprinkled in. I did kind of want to point out some kids were shot in a school shooting, but did not, mostly because 1) I didn't want to detract from the awfulness of the Kirk shooting, and 2) the WOKE right might be worse then the WOKE left and I don't want to get fired.

Yeah, I was trying to watch it up north while we were on vacation. The Xfinity stream app (mostly) only works if you're connected to your Xfinity Internet.