Praise the Heavens...

Lemurs Fling Grenades: the first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer is here

Note also the splendid “Liefeld’s Just Feet” store behind the duo.

Really? I thought I was just shitting out a comment. Then again, there are multiple longtime listeners telling me I’m right, so take that for what it’s worth.

I don’t believe I said I was being forced.

Initially, the conceit of the pod was to go back into recent history and explain why the popular conception of an event is wrong by digging up the actual details that don’t get talked about. By the time they got to the OJ episode, that conceit had mostly become a thing of the past and the events they covered didn’t…

Along these lines, as someone who has never listened to this, can you tell me what exactly they’re proposing I’m wrong about with regard to OJ? As someone who was in college when the trial happened, I know the ins and outs ...my sense is popular opinion today is that he’s guilty, with a potentially forgotten subtext…

“Journalist for the Huffington Post” was sorta-braggable about 10 years ago.

Yes. Extraperplexing considering he’s a journalist. He had to Wikipedia some real basic stuff.  I wouldn’t have been surprised if he needed to look up 9/11.

That’s the type of thing that gets under my skin, when someone smugly assumes that a reaction is due to some strawman character shortcoming as opposed to other justifiable motivations.

If you have the time/inclination - I wonder if your experience was the same as mine: devoted listener, onboard with their project, then over time Hobbes would make assertions where I would actually make a face toward my headphones/car speakers essentially going “Uhm, wut da fuq? You don’t know that. No.”

I used to just adore You’re Wrong About, but you’re not off the mark with your expectations. Sarah Marshall is really intelligent and witty, but at some point I started getting really really annoyed by the smugness (more from Michael Hobbes, but also a little from Marshall) in how they judged and criticized how the…

I spent roughly 4 seconds reading a few of Michael Hobbes’ tweets once. On that basis, I think I’m going to pass on the 17 hours of audio.

You couldn’t pay me to listen to a podcast with such a condescending title.

these people who want us to call them they/them, or whatever they want us to call them, which I have respectfully made a point of doing

It’s those kids who are spewing this antisemitic hate, that have no idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country—it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played with like a soccer ball.

Dear Julianna Margulies,

Didn’t anyone tell her not to listen to the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving this year?

I don’t know what to tell you.  I just quoted from Deadline.