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Matthew Randazzo V
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Matthew Randazzo V
@RandazzoTweets
Author on org crime, gov/cop corruption & political extremism, adviser/negotiator for Tribes, former government exec, NOLA native, father. https://t.co/c2izvFQHlV
Olympia, WA Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@TeaKaGee I find it irritating personally, I just don't think it's political.
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@RandazzoTweets I have hated his ‘sincerity filled’ sing along since day one but my point was not unique to the eulogizing of an era.
deadline.com/2015/09/stephe…
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If you want to see really funny Colbert, the Dana Carvey show is on Tubi.
But this type of retro Up With People celebrity sing along has been a central part of his talk show from week one.
Jason Blakely@jasonwblakely
I admire Colbert's wit & I don't think he should have lost his show *but* elite liberals throwing themselves encomia parties with A-list celebrities as their form of symbolic resistance amounts to nothing politically & is part of what brought us to the current ideological impasse
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@HybridShoot I simply desire to be covered in this book :)
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Wrestling has a literature: ghostwritten memoirs, kayfabe paperbacks, histories, vanity projects, masterpieces and disasters.
We want to know about them all. That's right—Hybrid Shoot wants to publish a book about wrestling books!
Looking for the right author. DM if this is you
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Nearly everything worth doing was done better, in higher quantities, and in a quicker timeframe back then - and you’re not crazy for noticing it.
THE X FILES AESTHETICS@XFilesAesthetic
I wonder how The X Files managed to look this brilliant while also delivering 24 quality episodes per season 👇
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@KrisPLettuce It absolutely, definitely did. The original couple generations online was adult male my little pony fan repellent
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I am not entirely sure this is a new phenomenon. I think the worst of the joshi weirdo message board posters kept many people away from watching it tbh
IVPvideos@IVPvideos
Maybe it’s a generational thing but I find you weak as hell if you are letting random people saying random words on your phone influence you on liking something or not.
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Masakatsu Funaki x Tatsuo Nakano. One of the all-time UWF madman classics. (7.24.1989) ☠️
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@RandazzoTweets @IANdrewDiceClay Are you the same guy who wrote the book on Benoit? If so, I absolutely loved it! You are an amazing author!
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Its funny that in Ted Turner's book "Call Me Ted", he isnt scared of settling scores or giving some receipts out, and there's not a single mention of Vince McMahon in the whole thing. Like he didnt give a fuck about small fry and a supposed feud was all in McMahon's head.
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I built 81 different models in an attempt to isolate quarterback value and identify potential busts. Model No. 74 won. It's ability to spot hidden gems and red-flag busts is promising.
Here's what we learned.
neworleans.football/article/what-w… via @NofNetwork
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@allan_cheapshot Lots of actors do stage for nothing because they like to act
Lots of writers go to readings or write uncompensated poetry
Rich comics like Leno and Seinfeld keep touring etc.
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@allan_cheapshot Wasn't part of the point to get to entertain people
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This is the difference between margin logic and wrestling logic. TKO sees a low-margin house show. A wrestler used to see reps, timing, confidence, audience education and a place to get good. Cut enough of that away and you may protect profit while slowly thinning the craft.
Fightful Wrestling@Fightful
Drew McIntyre explains why house shows never made sense to him profit wise. “These days, I probably wrestle one match every couple of months. They finally eliminated most of the non-televised shows. One, the talent were just getting hurt all the time and going out quicker, and two, from a profit standpoint, it just didn’t make sense. It never made sense to me, profit-wise. So now, the money’s in the TV deals and all the other massive deals that the billion dollar man Nick Khan is constantly making so because I’m wrestling once every two months, every three months, I do feel like I’ve been in a car crash after the matches and I train for each match now, like, I assume a boxer would train for a fight, UFC fighter would train for a fight, I train for each pro wrestling match.” (Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast)
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@danielwreporter I'm reading this X post with my kids about you watching "The Sandlot" with your kids and just realized the America of this post, with irony and social media and posts about posts about watching "The Sandlot" is also almost extinct.
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I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with large dogs, s'mores, suburbs, kids and watching the film "Sandlot" is almost extinct.
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.
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@davemeltzerWON Yeah, hence my argument that I think you can't rate guys like Bruno < Hogan without major thought. The guy drew regularly in many of the biggest markets in world on a repeated basis for two decades in a way Hogan categorically couldn't.
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Bruno was very strong in the sense he could work 2-3 matches with the same opponent and work monthly and usually drew well if the TV was strong. Sometimes with weak TV he didn't draw. Hogan wasn't as good as Bruno with return matches nor did he work monthly as they found out in 1984 if he worked too often in the same market his numbers went down. SF area notable they booked him monthly trying (and succeeding) in winning the market from AWA, and was doing 10,000 early and fell to 2,500 for a match with Ventura (who was ill and missed the show, replaced by George Steele but Ventura not being there was never announced). So they used him less frequently and he drew much better.
Matthew Randazzo V@RandazzoTweets
@davemeltzerWON that and Bruno/Londos has consistent drawing power over a very long period of time without mult deadzones that Hogan had for one. Longson is another question altogether that I am not educated enough on.
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@BLACKTERRY Show us how we financially incentivize this
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For those who don't know: I was one of the first to document lucha libre at ringside. I have an unreleased archive from years ago, recorded way before the current "influencer" wave. Close-up footage captured from all perspectives.
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@Mikesyabud @davemeltzerWON thanks, I write laws for sizable part of living, have published multiple books, been lead reporter for a #1 BBC podcast episoed etc. but I will work on my X reading comprehension, dude with an elaborate North Korean exile social circle.
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@RandazzoTweets @davemeltzerWON If you had Dave’s comment were clearly talking about North Korea. Try reading sometime 🤷♂️
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He is the national hero in North Korea. They teach people in schools a complete fictitious story of his life though. In what they teach, pro wrestling was a shoot, nobody could beat him, and the Japanese murdered him because none of them could beat him. To this day he's used as a way to teach the populace to hate Japan.
CTESPN Hawkeyes@CTESPNhawkeyes
@davemeltzerWON North Koreans even teach the youth about Rikidozan
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@mikeyj2208 @davemeltzerWON I mean 33 years isn't 40 years
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@davemeltzerWON Cool that wasn’t the point I was making. I was talking about Hogan and how in 63 years people will still be talking about him. Andre has been dead for 40 years, people are still doing documentaries on him, you really think people won’t still be doing documentaries on Hogan?
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An April 2007 survey of the 100 most influential people in world history based on a poll of Japanese people. officialfan.proboards.com/thread/263701/… You will see Santo in polls of most popular Mexican native of all-time.
Mike@mikeyj2208
This is the dumbest take ever. I’m no Hogan but in the age of the internet and video, Hogan in 63 years will still be talked about. Andre has been dead for almost 40 years and people still talk about him and Hogan was bigger than Andre.
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@wrestlingbubble oh shit it totally might be Tel Aviv
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@Mikesyabud @davemeltzerWON you said "from Korea". That's not a country.
The vast majority of South Koreans, don't know *many* escaped North Korean exiles. Apparently you are in a position to.
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@RandazzoTweets @davemeltzerWON Comprehension is hard huh? I said from. They moved clearly.
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@Mikesyabud @davemeltzerWON you met many people in ... *North* Korea?
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@davemeltzerWON Met many people from Korea, not one of them can confirm this story and they all have zero clue who he is.
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@ACraig2031 @davemeltzerWON ok that fucking kicks ass
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@davemeltzerWON It took years to finally track down, but one of my favorite things in my wrestling collection is a North Korean Rikidōzan soju bottle.
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@davemeltzerWON I would sooner buy Rikidozan as #1 all time in influence before I'd buy Hogan in Top 5.
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@davemeltzerWON also, again, treating Japan like a backwater when it was the 4th largest economy on earth in 1964 and the *2nd largest economy in the world* when Rikidozan's students were running it in the 1970s-1990s.
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If Hulk Hogan had started pro wrestling in the U.S., and trained two other people who were listed among the top seven U.S. sports stars in the U.S. of the 1951-2000, had 40+ books written on him, so many documentaries I can't count them, was in polls in the U.S. listing him as among the top 10-25 most influential figures in history decades after his death in the U.S., had an arena named after him, then he'd be exactly the same as Rikidozan. Hogan was bigger worldwide. People in the U.S. can't conceive of other culture.
Jeff Haveson@JeffHavesonBK
@davemeltzerWON Rikidozan never traveled culturally the way Hogan did there's no Rikidozan merchandise in Brazil, no Rikidozan references in Hollywood, no Rikidozan on a cereal box in Germany. His legend stayed where it started.
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