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Jimmy Kimmel went on Bill Simmons podcast to break it down. Jimmy said Will smiled at the remark initially. Then all of a sudden he was on stage, going towards Rock. Maybe Jada's reaction or something she said to him set him off. Thing is, they don't deserve to be insulted more than any other celebrity or famous person. but OTOH, they really went all-in on fame and celebrity didn't they? Not only put themselves out with all the PR and social media but put their young children at the time into the limelight? Again, that doesn't mean they deserve to be subject to cruel jokes but surely it must have occurred to them that fame can have an ugly down side?

Wow some of the takes are vicious. Supposedly Will condoned Jada's extramarital affairs? So Rock could have gone harder at them, "keep my wife's name out of your mouth, but feel free to put your cock in her mouth."

They could have just fake laughed it off, smile through gritted teeth because cracks are common — I never watch awards shows so I didn’t know they roasted people. I haven’t seen Chris perform in probably 10 years or more. Taking shots at celebrities wasn’t his thing. That’s why I wonder if he’s friendly with them and thought he could make a joke about something she herself has been upfront about. But the reaction blew up his incident. If they pretended not to be offended, the joke would have been forgotten. Then Will having to give what is described as a rambling acceptance speech, tearing up, just magnified it. If it was a stupid joke it could have been forgotten or Chris would have looked bad hair-shaming. But Will created headlines and caused more people to watch the joke and the reactions today than they would have otherwise.

It has little to do with the characters or how they’ve behaved and have been developed. It’s more about sustaining the one gimmick this show has had from the beginning, which is about two supposedly larger than life figures going at each other, with one woman caught in between. Axe wasn’t written off the show because they wanted to move in a new direction. One of their leads wanted off the show so the plan was to have Prince replace Axe in the feud. Regardless of what he did, Chuck was always going to be pitted against Prince. But it took until almost a full season after Axe left for Chuck to come up with a reason why Prince is bad in his opinion, that Prince came to watch him be kicked out of office, meaning Prince enjoys blood sport so that’s why he should take him down, continue his crusade. But Chuck himself taunted Prince in his moment of defeat, telling him he should sell the Olympics properties to the trust he controls for much less than Prince could get. They also waited until this episode for Wendy to get Prince to admit his megalomania the whole once in a thousand years leader or great man. Maybe his transformation to just another rich entitled asshole is complete. He will now keep sleeping with young female employees, even have some #MeToo moments.

So how about The Slap? I remember Will Smith on Fresh Air a few months ago to promote this movie. So well-spoken and thoughtful. Was he overcompensating to protect his wife given their past marital problems? Jada didn’t seem too pleased by Rock’s joke, which isn’t the first time he went at her. But it seems they are friendly or have been in the past for Rock to make this crack about something that some older women might be sensitive about. Would he have made a similar joke about someone whom he didn’t know well? Also Chris may not have expected Will to do what he did because he knew them socially? His reaction seemed to be part feigned shock but still smiling. Will didn’t close his fist or wail on him repeatedly. Would he have slapped a bigger guy than Chris?

Anyone who sleeps with the owner/boss of a firm full of ambitious employees is going to get a lot of side eye. Especially since Rian blew off Taylor, even though she was on E. She had one of the lower numbers for quitting from that episode earlier in the season. If Prince wants more, he probably stops calling Andy and then gives Rian special projects so they could be near each other more. Then eventually a higher position of some kind, bigger bonus. It wouldn't be uncommon for these high level Wall Street types to go through several younger female employees though they tend to be older. But Prince is around 50, maybe still in his 40s. Only thing that may have kept him back was trying to get the ex-wife back. But now, maybe if he doesn't want more from Rian, he finds some other SWTs.

Trying to remember if there were previous indications that she might be into Prince or for that matter anyone else. Or maybe this is just a one-off, fueled by Ecstasy. None of the Mason Cap people seemed particularly excited about going over to Prince's place.

All motorsports is boring. But at least F1 goes around real roads and tracks which require different skills and strategies. Not like some of the US races in Nascar or Indy Car where they're going around the same oval a few hundred times. Thing is, Europeans aren't as car-obsessed as Americans. They are content to use public transportation, trains or low-cost flights. They certainly have highly-admired car companies which attract fans from all over the world. Yet they are really into F1 as a spectator sport.

It's urban folklore or mythical event. Tupac fakes his own death, hangs out in the Dutch Caribbean and then sneaks into Amsterdam where he is taken care of by a death doula among other things. She made it sound like he was going to die and they were just watching over him. Then they have a suffocation machine. Van and Darius have both been in some plots that's out of some macabre movie or Twilight Zone.

Chuck tries get Dave to take over his agenda but she's not playing. Prince the megalomaniac, thinks he's a once in a thousand years type of great man. Is Wendy going to write an exposé about him? Meanwhile, Rhoads Sr. and best friends take Chuck to some swanky upstate resort to make him forget about losing his roost. But Chuck is more determined than ever to take down Prince. His last rationalization is that Prince came to watch him get stripped of power so Prince enjoys bloodsport. Well isn't that what he tried to do in the previous episode, showed up at Prince's Olympics offices and tried to spike the ball in his face? Prince plans a big party to celebrate taking down Chuck, talks about eating the dragon's heart and letting his army also partake. Then he partakes in some Rian who had turned down Taylor when they wanted to partake. Yeah they throw some allusions around as they always do, something about knights slaying dragons and then some average old movie, Angel Heart. Sacker learns what kind of opposition research her opponents would have from Hall, Axe's former Black Ops guy. She decides she can't run for Congress now. She and Dave threaten to have a little cat fight with Dave saying she belongs in prison. For what exactly? So the show's writers have determined that the only thing they can do is to always pit Chuck vs. Prince. They try to make it sound like Chuck knows Prince isn't as pure as Prince makes himself out to be and Prince is something of a power-hungry hypocrite. They double down on the same tiresome plot because they've already moved on to Super Pumped, an even worse show?

There's a lot to admire about Zelensky, who's the inspirational figure of the moment. But he's not doing any of the killing. He's being defiant and brave, or more like trolling on social media -- "Vlad, I'm still here, fuck you!" Comparing him to John Wick is ridiculous. Never saw the movie but that clip shows him shooting wildly into a crowd. That's not not being a bad ass, that's being a psychopath mass murderer. What's next Bill, every woman gets wet for John Wayne Gacy? He's been doing this "we've become such pussies" schtick for years. In fact, I saw him riff on one of his stand ups and it was almost verbatim one of the things Bill Hicks used to do but his take wasn't quite the same or misogynistic. Women who depend on men when they're scared, like hear a noise or see a spider by their bed, that says more about the woman, not all women needing a man around, a macho man that is, not a pussy.

Never heard of this. Listening to the Prestige TV podcast review by Dave Chang and David Choe. First guy is the famous chef, don't know the other guy. But apparently they've both lived in Japan. They compare it to Godfather, GoT but it sounds in many ways like Roots, about racial persecution, generations of resentment and hate our to Japanese occupation. May have to wait for it all to air and then I can subscribe to Apple TV + and catch up on several of the shows I've heard of. But they're raving about it, calling it the best show on TV now and that seems to match up to some of the reviews. So presumably it has appeal beyond Koreans, particularly of a certain age who either lived through some of these events or heard of them from their parents and grandparents.

Says they met after she finished season 4 of BDM. So probably after she was thirsty for that one charter guest and whatever flings she had with Adam or one of the other chefs? Good for her that she's stayed away from BDM but maybe in a couple of years, after her daughter is more grown, will she be tempted to jump back in for that TV money? Maybe BDDU if that's still going? Of if finds something else or the husband is a good earner, she can just be content with motherhood and being a house wife.

Finally caught up with the Sinterklaas episode. So that's why they're in Europe, Paper Boi has blown up and it's not his first European tour either. But didn't Alfred and Earn have a falling out and there was talk about him no longer being the manager? The story in the first couple of seasons was whether Earn could use his education for something interesting and manage Paper Boi to make him big. Unlikely that Earn or any other manager would have altered Paper Boi's popularity or trajectory to freedom. Also in many ways Earn is just like a messenger boy for Alfred or gets things done for him, so like a gopher or production assistant more than a Svengali managing an artist with an international following. BTW the black face thing is real in Holland. Appears to have been some attempts to get rid of the Black Pete tradition in recent years. But some of Paper Boi's fans were in black face so was it following their tradition or they think it's something Alfred would like? They can't be that clueless can they? No mention of covid so it's not clear when this is suppose to take place. Really astounding to think this series hasn't been on air for 4 years! Glover was going to be busy and some of the cast had other projects too. But the pandemic surely impacted their production schedule. The only possible allusion to covid may be Earn sneezing a couple of times and the Dutch yelling gesundheit loudly. Van had an interesting arc. She just decided to come join them in Amsterdam because she didn't get some job, just left the kid with her parents and flew in. Earn seems surprised to see her but he got Darius to pick her up. So they follow the address and then they witness Tupac being euthanized? This is what I mean about the fantastical/horror elements in the storytelling. I also vaguely recall Van going through what is supposedly one of Drake's homes and that had a suspenseful vibe throughout that episode. Just an overall weird episode. I guess them spending most of the season is kind of like season 2 of Master of None, taking place entirely in Italy. Strange scene for them. Earn hooks us in Copenhagen, with a young woman who can't even speak English -- actually the Danish and the Dutch all tend to speak very good English. Alfred gets in trouble but his jail room is like a fancy Airbnb with them ordering food for him. He doesn't want to leave until he's had that lunch and makes Earn wait. He had trashed his hotel room but it was never cleaned up or repaired during the time he was in jail? He was hooking up with 2 women but they get into an argument about whether using the n word is sexy or not. Darius loves Amsterdam but otherwise didn't have much to do this episode, other than tagging along with Van's little adventure. Earn pushes his weight around to make the Dutch concert promoter do what he wants but doesn't make the most graceful refusal to perform and the guy beats up some guy in black face because he can't catch up to Earn. Maybe Earn will have to keep looking over his shoulder.

Captain Jason is too hands on, the deck crew are watching. Not giving Jamie a chance to delegate, like he told them they would do the snorkeling trip first and even said which deck crew would work it? Magda has a good attitude but she needs more handholding. She’s not like Ashley on BDSY. But spending too much time texting boyfriend back in Poland. There must be a great mobile network there but data plans can’t be cheap unless the yacht has WiFi. Tumi is the only one who knows how to do anything. Well Alesha should know but she’s leaning on Tumi. WTF is the point of dropping his shorts at the sunset which that map stripper was doing? Cameras just happened to catch him doing it but probably didn’t need prompting. On the toilet situation, they filmed Benny heading to the captains cabin to say he was going to bail. They may have had him overdub those lines during that sequence and he didn’t tell Jason he was leaving. Otherwise Jason would have a different reaction than he did, when he calmly worked with Benny to clean up the mess.

But there are fantastical and horror elements, like the opening, which is a dream within a dream? I don't know if it's conscious or deliberate but some black storytellers have used fantastic or supernatural tropes more and more in recent years. Examples would include Get Out, Lovecraft Country and Atlanta itself, with episodes like Teddy Perkins. Maybe it's a thing like magic realism was for Latin American authors. Is it a way to depict the monstrous behavior or just monsters that the black protagonists in their shows and movies are subjected to? In Lovecraft Country, the racists trying to murder black people were figurative and literal monsters. In Three Slaps, Loquarious' mother tries to warn and scare-straight her son about white people who will murder him -- though if that's the case, why just let him be taken away from her for a few days? Sure there's the social commentary about white do-gooders like the guidance counselor proposing that Loq be put in remedial classes and then ultimately calling child protective services because the grandfather lightly slapped him 3 times. Or the crunchy-granola woke lesbian couple making their own kombucha and making "good for you" food that was nasty to Loq. They kill the black social worker and take the children on a death ride, pull a suicide pact. They went from annoying and eyeball-worthy to scary in nothing flat.

Tamarindo couple are not married, don’t plan to, but pooling their savings to buy a property in CR. He’s concerned about turning the capital invested into an income stream, wants a good return so wanted at least 3 rental units. She wants a nice place to live in, like 3 bedroom and 2 baths with ocean views. She liked the first property but thought the rooms were more hotel like. Second property, the owners cast wasn’t up to her standards. So she pushed him into property 3. Timing is key. Maybe CR tourism didn’t slow down too much during the pandemic but sharing space with strangers is probably not optimal. How much do they know the hospitality market in that area? For instance, do their clients generally rent cars or is there reliable public transportation to homes #1 and #3? How much income can they get in town vs. more outlying areas? Maybe being close to the beach is what most of their potential clients want, which would work for #3. But if they wanted to go to dinner in town or maybe some organized tours or activities which start in town, then #1 and #3 may be bad options.

More raw, people talking street but funny as hell. There was that mother trying to get her son to play basketball and her younger son came to tell her about his school science project and she told him unless he had an equation for making his brother shoot like Steph Curry, get on outta here with that science bull----. Then that grandmother mocking Zinobia's name as they started their rental dispute.

Ah I got about 80 episodes of HH on mine, recorded as new. Only watching the last segment and I still can't keep up. Probably will delete them without watching.

Might be one of these cases of fake agents. Where are you seeing these old episodes, on the app or probably they run repeat episodes during odd hours?

Sam pushed back against the receptionist, who probably isn't making a lot of money and faces pushback from many patients like her. But she's a doormat to her daughters. Writers aren't interested in consistent characterization?

Maybe there are restrictions on things like jet skis in those waters. They said the waters were shallow and that the corals were near. So one of the main attractions as far as activities seem to be snorkeling. And for that, they're not diving off the yacht but rather going on a tender presumably to places where the coral reef is just below the surface so that they don't have to dive too deep. Or maybe the yacht doesn't have things like slides, trampolines, etc.

Glasgow, I guess money was their main criterium. He says he doesn't have to work as many hours as he used to back in Australia. If he's really doing construction as opposed to being a foreman, probably not something he can do indefinitely. They seemed like a happy family, always smiling. But that may be mostly for the cameras, at least for the parents. Has to be a big change from Brisbane to Scotland. They may have liked seeing snow and the seasons but how long does that novelty last after being used to living in a place with a lot of sun? Maybe this isn't a long-term move unless they plan to travel around the UK and Europe. She expressed interest in that but budget constraints could make that more difficult.

Been doing a rewatch ahead of season 3. Been enjoying it but just got to the episode where Losch, the sad sack detective in season 1 whose wife had left him manages to flip Fuches, to make him get Barry on tape to admit to killing detective Moss, who had figured out that Barry was the killer. Fuches tries to warn him that his place is wired but Barry wants to get off all his guilt off his chest. Losch comes out with a gun, says “I got you!” But then says if you get rid of the guy who took my wife, you’re free. Barry: What!?! What a terrific moment, shows how great the writing and acting is.

I didn't read the books but I presume at some point, things get a lot better for at least Elena, who appears to be a very successful author by the time she's narrating this story in her middle to senior age. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine these books becoming huge bestsellers if things are always depressing. If and when they become successful and fulfilled, it will be a story of triumph and overcoming all the social obstacles they've faced.