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What a sorry offensive start. Glad our defense got 15 whole seconds to rest on the sidelines.

Twitter was the worst, least user friendly social media platform even prior to Elon taking over. It’s just gotten much worse with him at the helm. I’m sure I have a profile out there I should have probably deleted years ago, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve logged in. I never used Twitter regularly.

Someone should invent a west coast conference. Like a Pacific Coast Conference, with all the PST time zone schools.

“Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.” - Barack Obama

I think it’s actually pretty cool that Jason Alexander got to be in one of the best comedies of the 1990’s, even if it was only one episode.

Nate Bargatze, who for my money is one of the best comics working, will be hosting this weekend.

Look, you're allowed to your own opinion and personal taste, but if you think he's going for a mix of Seinfeld or Gaffigan I don't think you really understand what he's doing at all. And as far as his delivery, timing, and such, you couldn't be more wrong. But I guess you're right; you are entitled to your own opinion. Your opinion is just a terrible take.

They're old friends. I can't remember the smaller details but Rogan somewhat discovered Segura before he blew up, befriended him, and took him on the road as an opener or feature act. Segura was also one of the first guests on Rogan's podcast when it was just in Rogan's living room with something like 7 listeners. Convinced Segura to start his own podcast. I'm not a big Rogan fan but Segura is his own guy. They're friends, but Segura outshines him as a standup and does a completely different thing.

I hope so and that's encouraging to hear. He's one of my favorite standups but Ball Hog was fairly disappointing compared to his older specials.

This new season of Love After Lockup really dropped the ball. I just don't care about any of these couples and am struggling to pay attention the whole episode. Considering this thread fell to page 4 I'm guessing I'm not alone in that opinion.

Appreciate all the great advice y'all always give. I think I will try to dip my toes back into meetings. If anyone has any good group suggestions they recommend in the Fort Worth area, feel free to let me know.

First time caller, long time listener. What would the AA community's thoughts be on someone who's been sober for almost 2 years starting AA, getting a sponsor, and working the steps? I've been wanting to try AA for a long time, but I have this serious hang up that nobody there will take me seriously because I already have a lot of sober time. I also feel like I may be wasting others' time over people who really need help now. For background, I'm an alcoholic. I struggled off and on with quitting throughout my late 20's and 30's. I went to rehab years ago but didn't stay sober. Relapsed within two weeks of getting out and had another 3+ years of hell. Got to a point after COVID where my health was really starting to take a turn for the worse from drinking so much. I was diagnosed with diabetes, blood work was bad in just about every way from cholesterol, triglycerides, ALT/AST, etc. I had liver pains all the time. I had the realization that I was probably not going to live many more years if I kept on drinking, and I didn't like what my life had to show for it from drinking it away. After a thousand starts, something just clicked at the right time, and I got sober through sheer white knuckling. I meant to go to AA seriously at some point, but I just kept pushing through on my own. I think because a lot of good things happened to me in early sobriety from the complete reversal of my diabetes, my health returning, losing a ton of weight, and social/life experiences improving that the highs just sort of carried me through the early months. I had a ton of close calls and cravings that peaked around the 10th month mark where I actually bought booze for the first time before finally pouring it down the sink without ever actually taking a sip. From that point on, for some reason, I've been in a much better state of mind and don't really get any serious cravings or anxiety anymore. I feel like I've worked on my inner self a lot, am more confident, and don't really think about drinking all that much except in passing. I'll even go on dates and hang out with friends in bars and there's not much more than passing thoughts about drinking that I'm easily able to push away with very little effort. So why do I want to go to AA now? I've sort of hit a wall on my personal mental and spiritual growth, and I wanted to feel the spiritual awaking that's described in the 12 steps and see if helps me grow even further. I've also just sort of always admired the sober AA community and camaraderie from a distance. Would AA and the 12 steps even do anything more for me at this point at 20 months sober or would I be wasting everyone's time?

Saw it in theaters tonight. Very fun movie. It managed to keep the spirit and fun of the first movie with completely new characters in a much different setting, so it doesn't feel like you're just watching an identical clone of the first flick. I could watch several of these if they kept going.

I thought I’d do better on a regular keyboard at my office today, but I still can’t seem to break 130. 157 is insane.

You don't even know what socialism is, but keep on fucking that boogeyman.