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Your both sides attempts very often consist of comparing something that did happen to something that didn't happen or at best, might have happened.

he likes to pretend we make up things actually said then goes on and makes up things never said and expects us to argue against it as if it were said.

I'm sure during the awesome transition between admins from election day until Jan 20 the topic was discussed. The Trump folks at the Pentagon all seemed like stand up people who would gladly share information with the new guys about embarassing information.

and this:

I remember getting a pull out CD player installed at Highland in Dearborn. The store was in one location and the install was out of some alley down the street. I can picture the store. I paced around once deciding whether to spend the $35 for a "Caller ID" box. Of course any Detroit commercial discussion is incomplete without this masterpiece.

I agreed to go see Pink this summer with my wife because Brandi is opening for her.

They give away all the good awards before the show airs. The Grammys are like the super bowl halftime shows. It's not for music fans. It's for mass audiences. You know better than anybody about the commercial side of music and what the real goal is. My wife was watching and she couldn't understand when I told her that the audience shots are scripted. They tell JLo, "Ok, we're going to show you in 4 seconds, do something" so then she'll do a "Whoop" or something. It started because I was criticizing it and she said "Look, they are getting into it". I said that's fake. Like Wrestling. Nobody in that setting is on camera unless they get approval. The superstars are the bosses and they can't make the bosses look bad. That said.... glad to see Brandi Carlyle win and perform and God bless Bonnie Raitt.

I haven't watched Modern Marvels since they changed the format. But i still record them all but most I have seen. I still watch the one on the Mackinaw Bridge, Beer, Whiskey.... those stand out to me as fun. And I like anything related to food and the mass production. "here's how we fill 5 million M&M's a day into these bags!"

I don't recall what happened in which seasons, it all runs together. We stuck with it more like a chore but outside of the Negan backstory episode nothing really stood out to me. The last season or two were definitely the best of the run since the early days. Once the effects of shooting under quarantine and all that wore off they could do it properly.

I think there's a distinct line in that red hat group between the religious fanatics and the "government is nazis and want to kill us" groups. The latter is all in on pot, the former, not so much. The former still wants to ban dancing, stores being open on Sundays, booze, interracial marriage, and of course pot. The latter were the ones growing it. Of course a couple of well placed Supreme Court picks won't care about that. So you might be right.

VH1 was started up kind of as a joke. Ted Turner said he was going into the TV music business and was going to be family friendly and free to the cable providers so at MTV they tasked some people to quickly come up with counter programming on a new channel. They did the same. They actually didn’t want it to succeed in terms of rating’s because it would affect MTV as buys. They put Kenny G on. Then he became huge. Turners station didn’t last long.

Planet Fitness determined $10 was the point at which people tend to stay on. Of course saying “you will go back to the gym” and watching sports is not quite the same but I can see mentally where people let things go at $10 and under.

In the mid 90s on the weekend A&E was the mafia documentary channel.

I don’t know… when my wife’s ICU was filled with COVID patients who didn’t get the vaccine and has yet to be filled with people from side effects by getting the vaccine…. That tells me the vaccine itself is safer than COVID so why not take something that’s cost free and will probably help you if infected. It’s not a guarantee but nothing is. I mean… I’m not going to not invest in stocks because I heard a guy got ripped off. Life is a gamble but it’s up to us to learn the odds. Many of the odds are heavily weighed in your favor. Take them.

Price of freedom, bro. They don’t care when a 6 year old shoots a teacher at school.

Arts and Entertainment. I think TLC has some kind of MILF show where these women in their 60s who have had a ton of plastic surgery live in th same compound as men in their 20s. MTV is interesting. I read a book on the history of it and it was inevitable what happened. The labels and artists got tired of providing free content to the network. And between them they couldn’t agree who would pay for the videos. In the beginning it was a free for all. Nobody knew anything. And they saw results when the videos played. That changed. MTV was insisting on not paying them for the videos… then they started to show their original content like remote control and then real world and ratings took off. It’s a business, not a public service. They won’t change the name because it’s a brand they built up. they used the moon landing footage in the beginning because it was free and they ironically were thinking what they were doing was just as important.

Bill Bonds

Article today in the News about Detroit’s 33 new licenses are limited because of restrictions about being beyond 1000 feet of a school, church, or liquor store. (Wonder if that also means restaurants?) It’s diminished potential sites and owners of buildings that fit the requirement know this. High barrier of entry.

I know in MIchigan there were issues with banks not wanting to touch the money because of the federal ban. Not sure whatever happened with that.

The things I never would have believed 20 years ago. Pot and gambling being so accepted.

We were 15. My friends mom drove down and dropped us off. We sat near that auxiliary box on the RF line. We went to see Bo and Saberhagen. That was when Bo was breaking his bat over his head. In BP he was aiming for the LF roof and did hit some up there. Then to appease the fans he broke his bat.

I was at that game. It was Labor Day. Doug Strange also hit his first, and maybe only, HR.

and I just like to forget about him..... what a horrible stretch for the Tigers front office.

The reason I didn't include Suarez is I didn't get the impression he was a solid or even decent MLB player yet. I feel like he got more seasoning when he went to Cincy whereas Matt Joyce was more of a finished product. But I could be wrong in how I remember it.

I get the point and it's very valid.... but would you add Matt Joyce to the list? I think he was a solid player who came up here and had success at the MLB level before being traded for Edwin Jackson.