As someone who works with a very big multinational conglomerate, let me speculate:

Oh, I’m sure it is! If there were a transcript, I’d click the shit out of it too. I’d read it on the shitter! I just haven’t figured out a way to work podcasts into any part of my life and I feel fulfilled anyway. 

The part about the masseuse sneaking up the back stairs made me think the story was going in another direction...

Yes. yes it does. I herniated a disk in my neck getting out of bed. FUCKING getting out of bed. I was 43 (now 44) when it happened and had planned on playing roller hockey until I was 50 with stoner cousin and his stoner friends, but not now. I blame it all on playing football from 3rd grade into college. Basically…

One time my grandma and I were dancing at some random banquet and she told me, “Oh, Drew … never settle. NEVER SETTLE.”

Counterpoint: The Deadcast actually answers the age old question about a tree falling in the forest.

Nearly five months ago, I suffered a severe brain hemorrhage while I was just standing around at a work party. When I collapsed, I fractured my skull.

You got screwed in the playoffs.  Congratulations, you’re officially an NHL franchise.

To be fair, “head of the FBI” doesn’t mean the same thing now as it did in Hoover’s day. He was basically a branch of government to himself.

My original idea was to start in 1939, with Gone With the Wind, but A.A. Dowd convinced me that nobody wants to read about a whole bunch of random-ass ‘40s movies that don’t even get talked about anymore. 1960, as others have noted, is a pretty good intermediary point, a place where the studio system is still humming…

Imagine if Joe McCarthy found out the President was colluding with Russia. Why he'd... do nothing,  because Republicans were always hypocritical assholes and this whole thing was some we're always at war with Eastasia kabuki theater. 

it was a news story, for instance, when John F. Kennedy, just two weeks into his presidency, went out to see Spartacus

I can’t wait to see some Wikipedia creative editing.

/vomits

Whenever someone tells me that racism is long dead or overblown in America, I respond to them by saying that their grandparents bought a popular album and likely really enjoyed a song on it called “Why the Darkies Were Born.”

Nah. He was more of a blackface kinda guy.

I’m surprised they even admitted this since it opens them up to troglodytes yelling that everything it too PC. If they just said they wanted a change people would have gotten mad and forget in 2 weeks.

Don’t worry. Any day now we will find out that Neil Diamond donated big bucks to the US Japanese Internment camps or something.

“The Yankees take social, racial and cultural insensitivities very seriously.”

Yeah Dan says CATFISH did it for “fun/play” but I think it reads more like someone who gets off on the validation.