One of the busts in the haunted mansion, too (the broken one)

It might be because I only drink something like that when I want a heavy, one-off drink.

I disagree with subbing out the heavy cream, but that's a personal preference, I suppose

And, we weren't angry and looking for something to rage against, which also helped once we kind of looked outside the bubble. Was much easier to go "oh, whoa, this is fucking stupid." But if you're angry, scared and looking to blame someone for something, you're gonna cling.

We were never, like, into the "movement." It was just that all of a sudden there was this whole world of information being flooded in your face (this was in 2012, fwiw, not the mainstream topic it is today) and it's easy to get swept up in it all if you can't find that moment of "whoa, hang on"

I had never thought about vaccines and suddenly everyone in our very small circle was like "hey, you should know about this." When I finally had time to look into it all, it quickly became clear it was all bullshit, but that took until I had time to look into what we were being told.

Oh yeah? Well ... Our oldest kid's birthday is the 24th, wife's dad's is the 25th, my dad is the 26th.

Funniest part was the security guys this dork always hides behind being like "what the fuck are you doing? We aren't getting in there"

Also, the Pauls have some natural athletic gifts. You can say that, it doesn't mean they don't suck. On a normal boxing career path, he's fighting way worse dudes than he did on this path. It's whatever.

Also ...

I tried to sum up the whole experience yesterday. Like, setting aside that he does suck as a human and all, just the whole thing was so weird. bsky.app/profile/prid...

If any Jake fight had an element of being "fixed," it was him clearly carrying Tyson to a decision.

It also, like, doesn't track with how the fights played out. None of those fights are what a dive looks like. I remember people trying to claim Woodley "took a dive" in the rematch. You don't take a dive by getting your shit so completely rocked and going out cold. That's not how it's done.

Also, I've pointed this out several places, but fixing a fight requires an incentive for the loser. Joshua is a wealthy man with a great legacy who wants to continue fighting in meaningful bouts. What would the incentive have been to fix the fight?

The worst thing for him to do was to add weight. He clearly had a bit more gas at cruiser (though not an impressive tank), and now he's bulked up and it's sapping him even more.

His endurance is the one area he has NEVER improved meaningfully. Add that to how outclassed he was everywhere else and ... yeah

Honestly, I put so much of that on Askren. That man showed up incredibly out of shape. Askren's boxing skills were no worse than most guys legit boxers face in their third pro fights. Why would they do it in MMA? Askren agreed to a boxing match, Jake was doing boxing. Ben simply didn't care.

One other thing I'll say about those fights with UFC guys, they had resources for training that no club fighter a normal boxer faces at that point has, also experience under the brightest lights. That counts for SOMETHING.

Yes, Paul constantly shot angles. Fighting guys who were smaller, guys who were less experienced, guys who were old as hell, negotiating glove size, ring size, etc. That sucks, sure. But it's also how negotiations go. Billy Joe Saunders refused a ring smaller than what Jake had last night vs Canelo