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73. Is That Jim Lampley? (Mark, pt 4)
We start with a fairly loaded and deep question, which is always an adventure four cocktails in.
Has the ubiquity of social media culture and a 24 hour news cycle dominated by said social media created the precise opposite of what it might ideally? Which is, a world community both massively misinformed and ironically more xenophobic, exclusive, and isolated because of our tendency to seek only the information that confirms our most rigid, biased, and colloquial of beliefs and sensibilities? As with all tools, social media is both a curse and a blessing…depending on the hands that wield it and the brains that interpret it. The world has shrunk to the size of an iPhone. In terms of information and human contact, the world has quite literally shrunk to the size of the device on which you’re reading this right now. That’s fucking amazing. Such technology should, ideally (I think), create a more interconnected, inclusive, and well-informed humanity. Maybe it mostly is. Maybe it’s just that those seeking only the “data” that allows them to rest easily at night knowing that all that they believed to be true and right is, in “fact,” true and right are the loudest, most prominent and, in many ways, most influential voices poking through the overwhelming amount of information at our fingertips.
Jesus, that got away from me. Sorry. Anyway, we ask and answer that question. Kind of. But drunk. Absolutely.
We talk Bill Simmons, in many ways our ideal journalistic voice and unquestionable babyface; Barry Melrose, the hockey commentary equivalent of a carny “heel” and ESPN company man; and Mark Madden, an actual wrestling heel turned local (Pittsburgh) sports journalist and firebrand.
We close out this penultimate Luczcast with Mark’s WWE “Mt. Rushmore.” Spoiler: It’s Ric Flair, Shawn Michels, Dwayne Johnson, and Vince McMahon.
The Music? “Billy Jean” and “Workin’ Day and Night” by MJ.
We present to you, “Is That Jim Lampley? (Mark, pt 4).”
Yo dawg, I heard you like Hulk Hogan…so we put Hulk Hogan’s face on Hulk Hogan’s face so Hulkamania runs wild on you, brother, while Hulkamania runs wild on you, brother.
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By Driven 2 DrinkWe start with a fairly loaded and deep question, which is always an adventure four cocktails in.
Has the ubiquity of social media culture and a 24 hour news cycle dominated by said social media created the precise opposite of what it might ideally? Which is, a world community both massively misinformed and ironically more xenophobic, exclusive, and isolated because of our tendency to seek only the information that confirms our most rigid, biased, and colloquial of beliefs and sensibilities? As with all tools, social media is both a curse and a blessing…depending on the hands that wield it and the brains that interpret it. The world has shrunk to the size of an iPhone. In terms of information and human contact, the world has quite literally shrunk to the size of the device on which you’re reading this right now. That’s fucking amazing. Such technology should, ideally (I think), create a more interconnected, inclusive, and well-informed humanity. Maybe it mostly is. Maybe it’s just that those seeking only the “data” that allows them to rest easily at night knowing that all that they believed to be true and right is, in “fact,” true and right are the loudest, most prominent and, in many ways, most influential voices poking through the overwhelming amount of information at our fingertips.
Jesus, that got away from me. Sorry. Anyway, we ask and answer that question. Kind of. But drunk. Absolutely.
We talk Bill Simmons, in many ways our ideal journalistic voice and unquestionable babyface; Barry Melrose, the hockey commentary equivalent of a carny “heel” and ESPN company man; and Mark Madden, an actual wrestling heel turned local (Pittsburgh) sports journalist and firebrand.
We close out this penultimate Luczcast with Mark’s WWE “Mt. Rushmore.” Spoiler: It’s Ric Flair, Shawn Michels, Dwayne Johnson, and Vince McMahon.
The Music? “Billy Jean” and “Workin’ Day and Night” by MJ.
We present to you, “Is That Jim Lampley? (Mark, pt 4).”
Yo dawg, I heard you like Hulk Hogan…so we put Hulk Hogan’s face on Hulk Hogan’s face so Hulkamania runs wild on you, brother, while Hulkamania runs wild on you, brother.