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  1. There are 53 posts in this thread. 11 of them are yours. Almost 21% . . .

     

    And??? Out of those 11, did you find a couple where the only text is "Armen sucks". Like where every sentence is that? Because that's what I was compared to, remember? A podcast ep where June, Paul, and Jason just say the same exact thing for one hour.


  2. Guys, forums are for baseless optimism and sweetness regardless of ones opinion or true feelings

     

    It is not a place to share your opinions on the show, it is a place to say you loved something, pretend you loved something or hide your feelings, and nothing more, ever

     

    Yes, you must fall in and like everything that happens on Earwolf. If Aukerman suddenly launches a podcast that seriously thinks there is a Zionist plot to take over the world, you MUST like it. Otherwise you're an abrasive asshole, spreading negativity. It's free, after all.

     

    The exceptions to this are Jeff Dunham, Dane Cook and Kevin Hart. Whereas the advice for people who don't like Armen is to shut the fuck up and move on, it is appropriate, good, and just to spread negativity about those three.

     

    THUS SAYETH THE FORUM GODS!!!

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  3. Look in the end it's a free podcast that is consistently pretty funny, it takes less energy to move on for a week when, say, there's a guest host you don't like, than to channel your energy into being negative. I'm totally guilty of this, moving on always feels better

     

    It takes even less to skip over a comment. No one has to respond.

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  4. Armen is great. He's very funny and I love hearing his rapport with Kulap. I loved him on Burning Love. Very funny show.

     

    I think the fact that so many people, like Shariq Torres, are spending so much time hating on him is insane. You definitely don't get it so move along to something you do get. And stop spewing out all this negativity.

     

    June is also wonderful. She cracks me up.

     

    It is the height of insanity to not agree with your opinions.

     

    That's rich.


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    Yeah, i loved that episode where PJ+J just said 'Tiptoes sucks' into a microphone over and over for an hour.

     

    PS, People should really stop saying "I hate to say this, but _____" because you don't hate to say it. You love to state that something is bad, as though your opinion is objectively factual and relevant. Kulap will have her friend on her show if she wants, and as it's been pointed out, it's so so easy to just not listen if you don't like it.

    It wouldn't be so annoying for people to bitch about the guests they don't like if it was an exception, but it's basically every episode of everything.

     

    Because that's EXACTLY what everyone is doing! We're just writing "Armen sucks" ala Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Just over and over again.


  6. I generally love the Earwolf forums, but there are times when it begins to smell like every other internet podcast forum (where there is plenty of hate and disgust for the Earwolf hosts and guests we all love under the guise of, "Hey, it's just my opinion, man!")

     

    I guess I'm just old enough to have learned that pouring energy into something you don't like does not lead to anything good, but, "Hey, it's just my opinion, man!"

     

    You should tell June, Jason, and Paul that. Their whole podcast is about tearing into movies they believe are shitty and it's led to very, very good bits of comedy.

     

    Armen is the "Tiptoes" of Earwolf. I, and others, will make fun. If you don't like it, don't read it.

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    Because money and the amount thereof is the determining factor in how one develops as a person? You're correct when you say that "it probably isn't fair", and therefore, perhaps keep it to yourself next time?

     

     

     

    Because Kulap is great friends with Armen and she enjoys having him on the show, and others, such as myself, enjoy when he is on the show. If you don't like it, then don't listen when Howard is absent.

     

    Considering that Armen's money comes from his dad being Micheal Jackson's lawyer, we probably shouldn't talk about it. Alot of hushed up molestation claims paid for his lifestyle.

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    It looks like June has her arm lodged in between Kulap's boobs. Also, June is very tall.

     

    Also, cool jacket, Armen. :rolleyes:

     

    The big question is why is June wearing a Miami Vice suit jacket? Did she get back from filming a spoof where she played Don Johnson?


  9. If we're going based on the fact that someone has ever played a villain in wrestling, than Rey Mysterio, Junkyard Dog, and Ricky Steamboat are probably the only truly heroic characters in wrestling, period. Just about everyone, regardless of ethnicity, has changed from hero to villain and back again during their career. The names I listed were all portraying heroes when they won a World Championship, or portraying a hero during the height of their career. Ron Simmons portrayed a hero when he beat Vader for the WCW championship in the early 90s. After that he went to WWE and became Faarooq. To use Hollywood as an example, does playing a villain in the movie Unbreakable discredit Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of heroes in films like The Avengers or Shaft?

     

    Though that question may open the whole can of worms about portrayals of POC in all of entertainment, which was not my intent. My intent was simply to say that there are or were more popular heroic POC in wrestling than just the 2 you mentioned. But I do feel that pro wrestling should do a much better job of representing POC than it does (as should other fields of entertainment). And I do find myself in agreement with your last two paragraphs.

     

    Are you sure about Ron Simmons being the WCW champion in the 90s? That was during my prime wrestling watching days, and I don't remember that storyline at all. It was Sting, the Four Horsemen, and Ric Flair that kept trading back and forth the WCW title? Are you sure it wasn't one of the lower belts -- the US Championship or Tag Team championship?


  10. No disrespect intended, Shariq, but the list of heroic POC wrestlers includes far more than simply The Rock and Ricky Steamboat. There's former WWE World champions Pedro Morales, Rey Mysterio Jr., and Eddie Guerrero. Eddie, as a matter of fact, in 2005 was entered into a feud with an anti-immigration white texan, John Bradshaw Layfield, who was portrayed as the villain. If we include the NWA/WCW, which at one point was equal in popularity to WWE, then the list includes former World Champions Bobo Brazil, Ron Simmons, and Booker T. That's not to mention popular wrestlers who have never held a world title, such as Junkyard Dog, Rocky Johnson (The Rock's father), Peter Maivia (The Rock's maternal grandfather), and Rikishi, among others.

     

    Having said all of that, I do still have to agree that, by and large, the WWE still has its racist leanings. The current main event tier of WWE's roster consists almost exclusively of caucasians (exceptions include The Rock on the rare occasion he makes an appearance and Roman Reigns, who is set to face Brock Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania this coming Sunday). And the midcard and undercard POC wrestlers are oftentimes written in a stereotypical fashion. And recently a former World champion, Alberto Del Rio, was fired for slapping a WWE employee who did not apologize after making a racist comment about him.

     

    However, Alberto Del Rio has since gone on to become a beloved wrestler in other organizations. Which brings me to my next point: while professional wrestling's roots are tied to backwoods white folks, the concept has branched out to other parts of the globe. CMLL and AAA are two of the biggest companies in Mexico, and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, and DragonGate are major promotions in Japan.

     

    So, to make a long, possibly uninteresting story short, WWE still has a long way to go on this subject, even though they brand themselves as a worldwide entertainment platform. But, if this is a yes or no scenario, then I do have to say that yeah, they are racist. However, there are alternative pro wrestling organizations out there. So I don't think Pro Wrestling, as a concept, is racist.

     

    I think you're cherry picking here. In wrestling, the champion is the big draw and the one who the company wants to promote heavily. Rey Mysterio is no more closer than becoming the WWF champion than I am. I put the The Dragon in there because he did hold the WCW championship for a bit and it passed between him, Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair. The Rock was like the third POC champion in WWF's history and that was just this last decade. They have been around since the 1950s.

     

    Far more of the POC are villians. Ron Simmons was once Farooq who was the head of the villianous Nation of Domination Black Power-esque group in WWF. Virgil was basically the Million Dollar Man's slave. Rikishi was a popular wrestler but he was stereotype and played the heel in alot of his matches. I wasn't around for Rocky Johnson or Peter Mavia's runs, so I can't really speak to that. What I do know is that out of all of the examples you gave, Booker T may be the only babyface on the list and is of less than a handful of POCs who have won the championship (and by extension, the approval of the owners for promotion). Remember, the WCW and WWF are organizations that have been around since atleast the 1950s. I read that Booker T was the first African American to win the championship and that was just this last decade.

     

    And other countries have their wrestling organizations, that is true, and those wrestling organizations represent their own countries neurosis and bigotry. Mexican wrestling is very, very old and also very, very homophobic. The gay wrestlers were pink masks and are almost always the villain. I'm sure there are a handful of gay wrestlers who are the babyfaces but they are far in between, just like the POC babyfaces in the U.S.

     

    Pro Wrestling is a form of entertainment and it follows the same rules as the rest of a nation's entertainment. If you are in a country that does not have representation of minority groups in other forms, it will follow the Pro Wrestling will be as well. Even more so, because these characters are engaged in physical combat. If your TV and movie and books tell you that blacks are inferior, then you're not going to spend good money to see a black person physically beat a white person (even if it is fake).


  11. Great ep. This is not a DVD.

     

     

     

     

     

    Guess I missed something

     

    There was an epic White Tears episode where Matt and the fat guy complained about a guest on "Yo! Is This Racist" who said people in the Midwest were racist. To Matt and the others on that ep, this was like the most egregious example of racism in our modern times.


  12. Wrestling is very racist. It's a form of entertainment that was originally created for backwoods white folks and backwoods white folks were the ones who ran/run it today. Jim McMahon's father ran the original incarnation of the WWF and it was a damn near lily white organization.

     

    But not only that, but the roots of wrestling is even weirdly racist toward white people. Hulk Hogan is named so because the organization he worked for wanted an Irish heel, so they named him "Hogan". I don't think Terry Bolea is Irish, but it doesn't matter because he has white skin, so he can any white ethnicity. Ric Flair is another wrestler whose origin was rooted in this sort of pitting white ethnicities against each other.

     

    And don't even talk about gay or POC wrestlers. They are always the villain. The Rock and Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat are notable exceptions. But the time span between the two was more than 20 years.

     

    So, in short, wrestling is a white working class form of entertainment and like the white working class of this country is incredibly hostile to anyone who is not a white male.


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    He did the same shit in Bloodsport, he jumped on Ray Jackson's head, and flexed his pecs at JCVD.

     

    If I'm remembering right, the guy's hand flies up in the air when Bolo jumps on him. It was sort of funny. His pec work was undeniable in Bloodsport. They should have had their own credits in the movie.

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  14. I'm interested in the story of "Bolo", the guy on the other wanted poster next to Katie/Erin. In my experience, a guy named "Bolo" has a story to tell. I know of two Bolo's in my life.

     

    Bolo Yeung - The legendary Martial Arts star playing the iconic "Chong-Li" in Bloodsport.

     

    There was also a guy named "Bolo" where I lived, a local criminal/supposed hardman, with a completely shaved head (no eyebrows either), with a spiderweb tattooed on his ENTIRE head, there was a story about him tearing up a Job Centre after getting annoyed that they wouldn't pay him his benefits, after his excuse for not even looking for a job being "They're not gonna give a job to a bloke with a fucking spiderweb on his face, so what's the point in looking for a fucking job!" He got arrested seemingly weekly until he got stabbed in the neck in a bar fight.

     

    So, with a name with that track record, I wanted to see what "Bolo" was doing.

     

    Bolo Yeung was in Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" too. He hilariously kills a fighter by jumping on his chest and then flexes his pecs at Bruce Lee.

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  15. There is alot of examples of white gay guys being too familiar with black women. Going so far as Perez Hilton saying that every gay guy has "fierce" black woman inside of them. There's a comedian named Guy Branum who said white gay guys were just plain old white guys before they came out as gay, and have/had all of the privileges granted to white men in this society, so they can be just as racist as any Tea Party member.

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