Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

I don’t cover politics and I don’t do political hot takes on pop culture and yet here I am, still working as a writer

Enjoy it while you can, because there won’t be too many more of us

I spent twenty years immersed in law, philosophy, history, cultural studies...so now I know what to omit when “doing the work.”

Interestingly enough though is you're far more qualified to do it than the people who pump out those takes

It really fascinates me, Tom. I cover Butterbean and crotch bulges in the serious manner of a vintage Inside Sports writer, while other "kids" in their thirties "do the work" and just run wild on extremely complicated topics. I'm sure @MUGGER1955 gets it, too

So I bring a high degree of precision to my Butterbean pieces, whereas they use dull butter knives to cut into weighty topics like the fate of the entire world

Oh absolutely. You're really well educated and obviously know a ton about wrestling so it works really well. I really enjoyed the Butterbean interview you had. But you're absolutely right too is we have folks who don't know anything acting as if they can fix this earth hahaha

Yeah, they start with the biggest targets: impeaching trump, reversing global warming, etc.