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Music of the Mat #161: AEW Grab Bag Vol. 3
Andrew and @maura delve into some more AEW themes.
redcircle.com/shows/music-of
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Music of the Mat #161: AEW Grab Bag Vol. 3
Andrew and delve into some more AEW themes.
redcircle.com/shows/music-of
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good stuff. going to write a slamming linkedin essay on it
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I regret to report that our economic model is so broken that the incentive structure of the media is to cater to business guys who do not like to read.
hamiltonnolan.com/p/incuriosity-
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“Someone bought the thing you liked and killed it” is the defining experience of the 21st century.
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excited for this show to totally bomb tbh
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this was so much fun to record! look for it tuesday!!
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Massive thanks to the delightful @maura for making her debut on the show. We did another AEW Grab Bag for themes including Orange Cassidy, Rush, Jarrett & Lethal, Willow Nightingale, Konosuke Takeshita, and many more. A lot of fun chatting with Maura. Look for it Tuesday!
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that first la guns record still goes hard
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Lots of cassettes.
You’ve got to choose. What’s the first album you’re playing?
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can someone be a dear and drop the details on teya and salena’s outfits #Eurovision2023
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reading threads of old funny tweets and feeling sad about this place
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a lot of women bringing up the glass cliff, but I think the role of (yt) women enabling fascists is more pertinent
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Here is my first best guess here: @lindayacc of NBC. I will have more. (Musk says has found new CEO for Twitter | Reuters) reuters.com/technology/mus
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They say the final stage of any dying platform is becoming a bulletin board for TEMU deals and discounts
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Acting just enough like a journalist to have plausible deniability for gullible pundits is right-wing media's entire thing and has been for 40 years and every time I write something like this some bro slaps his dick on my desk all YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND and my good bitch really.
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Every single time there’s a mass layoff at a media company, there should be an accompanying chart of what every single executive at said company makes, and whether they got any kind of bonus, perk, or raise in the last three years. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
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at the jon taffer whiskey launch and it’s fun and the whiskey is nice but why is all the music from the late 00s?
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This is also instructive about how the insane right keeps getting wins - bit by bit, because there's one small thing, it's just easier to cancel than to fight them, just to shut them up... then another, and another, and next thing you know, you've given them everything they want.
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This is vile: In Tennessee, a teacher planned a Mother's Day lesson that was sensitive to kids without moms. Activists smeared her as a groomer. The lesson was canceled.
Incredibly, one of the books they objected to is about a bear who raises goslings!
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/
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is there a mournful version of zz top’s “legs” out there
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late to this, but i thought it was really well done
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Obviously
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What's a movie that hasn't had it's own pinball machine that needs one?
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here's the music video for "Ajax"! this is one of my favorite songs i've ever made, i'm so happy to share it!
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8. With the writers strike, as with magazines, the studio argument against compensating writers fairly is that if they do, they won't be able to keep doing the thing they've been doing, which also happens to not even remotely work.
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3. In the process, magazines (and many papers) trashed their brand equity, exhausted their workforces, bored/insulted their readers, and created a situation where the only people who could afford to write for them were people who don’t actually need to work. (That's bad.)
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1. As a member of the and a former magazine guy, I see nauseating similarities between what happened to mags and the situation in Hollywood. Magazines took a profitable business, and, confronted with the growth of digital newcomers, started producing way more content...
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this week on the show:
- is here to check in with this year's autoqualifiers
- professional wrestling and Eurovision: closer than you might think!
- which of this batch do I want to hear The Killers cover?
and more! tune in!
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NEW
EPISODE 🩶
@maura joins us as we wrestle with the #Eurovision 2023 set of auto-qualifiers. Will
pull the double? Will
and
continue their glowups? Will we be going back to
? Will
get out of the basement? Is 
gonna ? eurowhat.com/1931
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