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This is an aspect of Jerry that a lot of people miss, too: What for you is reason to dislike him is one of the reasons that I like him so much. You're correct, he's not a "normal" person (whatever that is, and I'm surprised to see you pushing this criterion as grounds for a negative judgment...

Are you really not kidding with this? How many times was Larry David on Carson? How many specials did he release? How many shows did he sell out? And writing jobs? You mean SNL where he managed to get a whopping one sketch on the air in a year? Or are you referring to the unforgettable Lifetime...

It also seems to have some roots in the Larry David/Curb Your Enthusiasm fanbase, almost like since Jerry went back to stand-up while Larry made another show it's "proof" that Larry was the real brains of the operation. But leaving aside the fact that Curb is improv and not scripted, and that...

All due respect, but you have to know how stupid this sounds. How can you actually believe that one of the all-time great joke writers "doesn't have that talent" of joke writing? There's a reason that Larry was a failed stand-up and Jerry is one of the GOAT stand-ups and the co-creator and star...

People are stupid. What can we do about that? Anyone with functioning brain cells should've known immediately that this pop tart movie would be silly nonsense that Jerry used as an excuse to hang out with a bunch of his comic friends and make money - for which I won't begrudge the man - but...

Obligatory bench vids: A genuine physical powerhouse. Looking forward to hearing what he has to say.

QFT. Love the show - I actually just rewatched it for the millionth time a couple of months ago, and it's still incredible - but I didn't need this video. The only extra Oz that I need is the Oz/Seinfeld crossover. I'd also have to say that the gold standard for retconning/continuing an OG...

This one's vague, so I'm not sure. I know that Matt Hughes would qualify regarding the wins over champs spanning the 90s, 00s, and 10s, but the link to a 20s champ is too vague to know what you have in mind. Pretty sure someone brought him up in that recent "MMA Records" thread. It's Beaver...

Never liked DC, but when he was fighting he was winning so it didn't matter, but since he started being Mr. UFC, my God he just gets more and more insufferable. For the many reasons that it's unfortunate that Dana White burns so many bridges with UFC legends, it's a crying shame that we have to...

No commentary is always the best. This is like the old special feature on PRIDE DVDs that they called "Ringside Pass," with fights like Rampage vs Ricardo Arona, Cro Cop vs Aleksander Emelianenko, and Wanderlei Silva vs Yuki Kondo with no commentary. It's cooler in the Japanese context because...

<mirkosmile> I'd hate for facts to get in the way of a good ignorant rant, but just for the hell of it, I thought that I'd point out that neither of those fights that occasioned this silly anti-PRIDE rant were even PRIDE fights. For future reference, if you're going to troll, try not to suck at...

QFT. Today, for new fans, "old school" means GSP and Cain. But going back to the beginning of the sport, those first 5-10 years, there were some incredible fighters doing incredible things, and Igor's one of the most incredible for sure. He not only took on everyone, regardless of style and...

<TrumpWrong1> Meet Igor Vovchanchyn, aka "Ice Cold." Before Khabib, before Fedor, Igor was the Russian bareknuckle destroyer. Between 1996 and 2000, he went 38 fights without losing, and the only blemish is when PRIDE briefly didn't want people kneeing to the head of downed opponents and...

Yeah, he tapped him on the ground, but he didn't outwrestle him. He tapped Chael on the ground, too, but he got mauled beforehand. Not exactly the same as GSP outwrestling Hughes or Fedor outstriking Cro Cop. More like Bas Rutten never being able to stop the TD but being able to either KO you on...

Weird bump, but it's an excuse to say that Dirty Harry is solid if a bit clunky, but Magnum Force is far and away the best in the series. Tight plotting and a very clever way to reposition "dirty" Harry as still having a line and a code as a cop and standing up for the spirit of the law after...

One of his worst takes is his take on '80s American cinema. He went full Pauline Kael on that nonsense in his book, and you should never go full Pauline Kael. It's one thing to prefer other decades - Tarantino's an unashamedly biased lover of the '70s films that he grew up on - but the hate that...

Wow, that's legitimately awful. I hope that he saves this type of silly shit for the novels that he'll write and I'll never read. For a film, he definitely made the right call abandoning this idea. It's too bad that he's so popular that even scrapped ideas get talked about. We shouldn't sift...

Hard not to pick Mighty Mouse. Punches, kicks, knees, wrestling in the clinch and shots, GNP, grappling on top, grappling on bottom...there was literally nothing that he didn't do at an insanely high level. GSP and Jones didn't threaten people with wicked guards, Anderson wasn't going to...

Yes, technically he looked great, but physically he was in shambles. In the Frye fight, his shoulder and his neck were bad and his knees were so shot that he literally couldn't shoot. That's why he clinched the whole time: He knew that he couldn't box on the outside with him but he also couldn't...

The only problem at this point - aside from the still pervasive culture of silence surrounding Japanese MMA and the early era works - is Ken's memory. It's so long ago that he doesn't remember things that well. I noticed in this podcast that he repeated a story that he's told before about him...