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Did you take a college math class that involved politics?

It's really not that surprising. I think it has more to do with the job not being political. Teaching wrestling is not a political endeavor. This kind of thing happens all the time in the public sector. Lots of career civil servants have worked under both openly republican and democrat administrations. A liberal mailman isn't going to quit because republican is in the white house. A conservative garbage man isn't going to quit because a democrat is now mayor.

Some of them. Some Universities with prominent wrestling programs are in athletic departments/schools that have had controversies with sexual misconduct, gambling, drugs, prostitution, sham classes, financial irregularities, admissions bribery, etc.

A lot of conservative wrestling coaches are employed by liberal universities.

Would you say that Trump and Carr are being served karma sammiches?

So dead that Sinclair is bringing Kimmel back too. Their preemption lasted two days during which time Kimmel had his highest ratings in years. Seems like they made a solid business decision. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/media/sinclair-kimmel-blackout-abc-disney-nexstar

I think you are right Chris Wilson. https://vault.si.com/vault/1992/07/22/arsen-fadzaev-vs-chris-wilson I was mostly going by Fadzaev's profile in the database and it doens't have individual match results from the World Cup. https://whatsmat.uww.org/daten.php?spid=F7906658798748558F729ED73619A3FE

It was more than just a relative high. It was the highest ratings of his show's entire run which is 20+years and that was with 25% of affiliates not carrying the program. It might be the most viewed monologue of any late night show host in 25+ years. In addition to the 6.26 million that watched live the youtube video of it got 21 million views. It was also distributed on Hulu and instagram. Considering all those outlets it was probably viewed over 30m times. The highest rated episode of the Late Show with any host was a special Stephen Colbert did after the 2016 Super Bowl at 10pm. That had over 21million viewers. Not only was it the highest rated Late Show episode it had more viewers than the final shows of Leno, Letterman, and O'Brien and also the premier episodes of Colbert, Fallon, and O'Brien. It's big number any way you look at it.

That might matter if it wasn't completely made up. There was no such podcast.

They both would have been favorites to win in 1984 as they both won Worlds in 1983 and 1985 and the Friendship games in 1984. However the 1980 boycott arguably helped Beloglazov whilst Fadzaev was not wrestling on the senior level yet. Beloglasov lost to Tomiyama in the 1979 world final and Japan boycotted the 1980 games. Beloglazov would win worlds in 1981 with Tomiyama finishing 3rd (I don't know if they met). Probably sometime between worlds 1979 and 1981 Beloglazov passed Tomiyama. If they met between worlds 1979 and the 1980 Olympics that would have determined the favorite, otherwise it would have been Tomiyama based on his win in 1979. Both Beloglazov and Fadzaev went up in weight in the middle of their runs. Beloglazov won worlds at 62kg in 1982 after winning the title in 1981. Fadzaev lost in the world final to Kenny Monday at 74kg in 1989 after having won 5 titles at 68kg. So Beloglazov successfully went up and Fadzaev did not, but if Fadzaev had stayed down he likely would have another title. He won the next three world level titles at 68kg. An interesting intersection of their careers happened in 1982. This was the year Beloglazov went up to 62kg and won worlds and the year before Fadzaev won his first world title. They were both at 62kg. Beloglazov, 25 years old, won USSR Nationals and Fadzaev, 20 years old, finished 8th. The next year Beloglasov went down to 57kg and Fadzaev up to 68kg where they both won worlds. Fadzaev retired at 30 years old which was 2 years younger than Beloglalzov. So perhaps Fadzaev left more on the table in retirement than Beloglazov. Beloglazov failed to make a team until he was nearly 23 and retired at 32. He would unretire for a single match with John Smith up a weight in 1989 which Smith won. Fadzaev on the other hand made his first world team two years younger than Beloglasov. He would unretire for the Olympics in 1996 when he was 34 years old where he failed to medal. In domestic competition Beloglasov failed to win the USSR nationals 3 times 1983, 1985, and 1986 which did not prevent him from representing the USSR at Worlds. He also finished 3rd behind two Soviets at the Grand Prix of Germany in 1984. Fadzaev's only loss outside of worlds was in the Grand Prix of Germany in 1987 to another Soviet.

"Yes, you read that correctly: one billion. Not million. Billion. That’s more than the population of North America, Europe, and at least three Taylor Swift fandoms combined." That was a quote from the article. Another way to look at it is that only about 20% of the world population speaks English. If the billion views are unique this represents 75% of the English speaking global population that would have viewed the podcast. This would be across all ages and political ideologies too. Kirk's political opponents must have cared enough to watch.

1 billion views would only cost $4MM. $0.04/10 views

I am not sure either. It looks like his wife was first on his podcast on 9/12 and Megyn Kelly on 9/18. I don't think they were on it together recently and I don't think either were on the first episode post assassination. I didn't listen to them so it's possible that they make an appearance together in one of them. 9/11 podcast (1st after murder) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/charlie-kirk-a-life-of-faith-a-legacy-that-endures/id1460600818?i=1000726418822 9/12 podcast (1st with Erika Kirk) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-husbands-love-mrs-erika-kirk-addresses-the/id1460600818?i=1000726598889 9/18 (1st with Megyn Kelly) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/megyn-kelly-remembers-charlie-kirk/id1460600818?i=1000727426136

I shared my thoughts. Feel free to share yours. Do you think the podcast was viewed over 1 billion times?

It doesn't matter what I believe. Think about it and decide for yourself. Do you think more people watched this podcast than the past 8 NFL Super Bowls combined? How many times have you listed to the podcast? Do you often listen to the same podcast multiple times in a week? Do you think many people listen to a podcast multiple times in a week? The last world cup final was watched by 1.5 billion people do you think this podcast has a similar level of international interest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_States

Peak viewers for the last super bowl was only ~130M viewers. You would like me to believe that 10x watched this? Or a significant number of people watched the podcast 2-3-4-5x over the past week? Try and think critically on this Jimmy. You don't have to believe any number someone posts on social media.

You think over 12% of the world's population watched the podcast? Use some critical thinking...

1 Billion postcast views is kind of an unbelievable number. Every man, woman, and child in the country would have had to watch it 3x on average to get that many views. Essentially the only Youtube videos with that many views are music videos and those get viewed multiple times by an individual and have greater worldwide appeal than this would have. It can still take weeks or months for a very popular song to top 1 billion views. One of the things that has been cannibalizing the late night audience is the ability to watch the highlights later on youtube. Why stay up and watch the whole show when you can just catch the good stuff on youtube later? You said 6 million watched Jimmy Kimmel Live! in real time. The monologue from Kimmel's return show was also posted to the show's youtube account. I had posted a link to it yesterday. That video has been viewed over 21 million times. That's 3-4x the number that watched live.

Aside from politics there are too many differences to directly compare Gutfeld’s program with Colbert, the Jimmies, and Seth Meyers. Gutfeld is on cable and the others are on broadcast channels. Gutfeld’s show airs at 10PM, Colbert and the Jimmies at 11:35, and Meyer’s at 12:35. There are far more viewers at 10PM than at 11:35, but there is also more competition as it’s prime time. Popular shows air at 10PM like Americas Got Talent and Big Brother, programs airing at 11:35 don’t compete with these.. Gutfeld is not the #1 overall program at 10PM. Colberts show is #1 at 11:35. Meyers is #1 at 12:35. Gutfeld has an older audience with a lower percentage that fall in the 18-49 year old demographic. Gutfeld has a successful show at 10PM. It is not clear it would be as successful aired at 11:35 or 12:35.

Kimmel's return monologue

No one said that. If the threats are consumers threatening to cancel their Disney+ or Hulu subscriptions either because they don't like Kimmel's show or don't like ABC not airing his show that is perfectly fine. The FCC threatening enforcement like Carr did is inappropriate. Threatening violence because a broadcaster cancelled a show is wrong. It's odd because Sinclair didn't give any reason for not airing the Kirk special until earlier today. I wonder what threat(s) were received and from whom.

If Sinclair actually follows through with preempting his show. They said they were going to air a special tribute to Charlie Kirk on Friday and then they just air a Celebrity Family Feud re-run instead. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/09/22/sinclair-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-replacement/86289176007/ Some outlets reported that threats to some of it's member stations impacted its decision to not air the Kirk special.

I believe you and Red Viking are confused or just incorrect. The murder took place at Utah Valley University. The shooter, Tyler Robinson, was formerly a student at Utah State University not Utah Valley.

Are you talking about Tyler Robinson? I thought he attended Utah State University not Utah Valley.

Because they are good words. I'll take the most likely. That's not how the world works.