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Riley Blanton
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Riley Blanton
@therileyguy
Intel Officer | Conflict & Culture. Watchtower Intel (Substack) + @geekystoics (Views my own, not Not DOW Endorsed)
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When people roll their eyes at you for taking fairytales and stories really seriously, they’re neglecting how reality shapes fiction, and then fiction enters reality in a cyclical fashion. Man motivated by Catholicism, writes fantasy, future Pope cites in church canon 🔄 so cool
Tea with Tolkien@TeawithTolkien
the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!
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Pizza Hut franchises across the country are rolling out "Pizza Hut Classic" remodels to bring back the iconic '80s and '90s dining experience.
Franchisees are reviving beloved staples like the red cups, checkered tablecloths, salad bars, and classic Tiffany-style lamps to draw families back into dining rooms.
After years of sleek modern redesigns, the old-school dine-in feel is suddenly making a comeback.
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I legit thought this was AI generated
sailor thats no moon@mirandaiiisms
I can’t with how bad the acting is on the part of the influencers. Fake shock!!!! Wow!!! 🥴
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These aren’t guests - they’re influencers. It’s disingenuous to say they’re guests of the park. They weren’t randomly there.
Matt@DisneyScoopGuy
Pedro Pascal surprised guests aboard the Millennium Falcon at Disneyland recently to promote The Mandalorian and Grogu! A brand new Mando and Grogu mission debuts on Smuggler’s Run on May 22, the same day the film opens in theaters!
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This is how I expected I’d feel after seeing it… twitter.com/kristianharlof…
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I talk about it with @ryfun on a new Watchtower Intel Podcast!
open.substack.com/pub/watchtower…
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Everyone keeps asking if we “won” Operation Epic Fury like it’s the Super Bowl, not a campaign inside a decades-long conflict.
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I'm back. (to podcasting) watchtowerintel.substack.com/p/the-careeris…
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It's crazy that Holiday and Moyer hold up Ted Lasso as a legit source of moral formation for secular parents.
The assumption underneath is clear: religious people outsource their moral reasoning to priests and prophets.
"If you're not going to church... where somebody else is doing that for you..."
AKA Christians can't think for themselves. The superior secular humanist, by contrast, arrives at objective morality through pure enlightened reason.
It's a condescending premise. And it's wrong.
@andrewklavan has a great YouTube video on Ted Lasso. His takeaway: that specific brand of unshakeable American optimism, and belief the show is built on? It's historically rooted in faith. Pull the faith out, and there is no foundation.
The show treats Ted's divorce as a mature, selfless act. Klavan calls it what it is: Hollywood's version of decency, where divorce is painless, sophisticated and normal, minimizing the true cost, particularly to children.
Here's the real irony... Hollywood inherited the blueprint for a good man from a faith tradition it despises.
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad
“As modern progressives not going to church we have to do more to inculcated moral lessons in our kids,” Ryan Holiday “We watch Ted Lasso with our kids,” NYTimes science reporter “Yes!" 🥴🥴
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@therileyguy @TheMiddleborne The real irony is that the show does have a priest class: therapists. Everyone (especially men) going to therapy (confession) is portrayed as critical to becoming fully self actualized.
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@Fsubucs1 Fair, I meant more Hollywood’s perspective that the show itself (which portrays it it as a necessary good)
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@therileyguy We are just finishing a rematch of the series. Completely disagree that the show portrays the divorce as painless. He hides his pain under a guise of unwavering positivity that leads to severe panic attacks and has to go through therapy.
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@ianmSC The dead giveaway is the assumption that people who part of a religious community outsource their moral reasoning to priests or prophets. It’s a sneering assumption that religious people are dumb, unlike the superior intellect and objective morality of secular humanism.
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Progressives are not going to best the theater kid allegations by congratulating each other for getting their morals from Ted Lasso
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@therileyguy Terrible title. Who thought of that should be publicly executed
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The Mandalorian and Grogu is projecting an 80M four-day opening. Solo, the franchise's previous worst, opened to 103M over the same Memorial Day window.
That result restructured the entire studio's strategy.
This is the first Star Wars movie in seven years. It is tracking below the floor.
The marketing campaign ran for six months. It hit WrestleMania, the Super Bowl, American Idol, and the Oscars. After all of it, the audience skewing in tracking right now is men over 25, AKA the hardcore fans who were going regardless. The family/casual audience isn't there. Three weeks out.
Riley Blanton@therileyguy
My entirely unnecessary and nerdy manifesto on terrible Star Wars Marketing (AKA zero storytelling) for the Mandalorian and Grogu. W/ @GeekyStoics
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Let's be real: anyone who hasn't watched the show doesn't care about this movie and won't go see it
Riley Blanton@therileyguy
The Mandalorian and Grogu is projecting an 80M four-day opening. Solo, the franchise's previous worst, opened to 103M over the same Memorial Day window. That result restructured the entire studio's strategy. This is the first Star Wars movie in seven years. It is tracking below the floor. The marketing campaign ran for six months. It hit WrestleMania, the Super Bowl, American Idol, and the Oscars. After all of it, the audience skewing in tracking right now is men over 25, AKA the hardcore fans who were going regardless. The family/casual audience isn't there. Three weeks out.
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