Just A Reminder

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(08-11-2021, 01:39 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I don't know if you'll find this interesting but I stumbled upon this awhile back.  It's Tucker Carlson fishing in Central Park where he's being filmed by Joey Boots.  If you don't know who Joey Boots is, he was a pretty well known person from Howard Stern.  He was notorious for filming people and pissing them off.  Anways, Tucker is surprisingly maybe the most friendly person I've seen among people who have had interactions with Joey Boots.  What's even funnier is neither one of them know who the other one is.

They actually talked about this incident on the podcast. He was saying how irritated he was with the guy, but he knew that with the camera on he needed to be polite about it. He also just recognized the guy's ignorance with what he was doing.

So, apparently, he does his show from his homes because he can't stand New York, but during those days he would go to the city on the weekends. He would fish in Central Park to get outside because he also fishes pretty much every day and the concrete jungle of NYC is soul sucking (which is how I would fee, too).

(08-11-2021, 05:15 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: But this is too much.  Dude, his rhetoric on climate change alone should induce Anaphylactic shock given your connection to nature.  How could you put that aside?  Where is the line?  

Seriously.  **** this guy.  I would have gone to greater lengths to ruin his day and make sure his kids know what a piece of shit he is too.  He's crossed the point of no return and deserves nothing but constant and unabated public blowback.

All bets are off with him.  

(08-11-2021, 06:32 PM)GMDino Wrote: One thing I've always said is that "I could live with Satan"...meaning I can overlook a lot with people and just get along.  

My college roommate sophomore year (1988) had a photo of Ronald Reagan on his desk and would play a video game that you plan presidential campaigns just to show how Reagan would beat everyone in history all the time.  Seriously.

And that probably wasn't the worst thing about him.

And I have lots of friends who we have disagreements over issues big and small.  Some of them we just agree not to talk about those issues.  Some have simply stopped talking to me.

One friend from high school and college blocked me on twitter because I said the Steelers has some issues.  That was the year before Ben got hurt.  But we still talk about other things.

So I get it.  I really do.

But a guy like Tucker?  Who so obviously only cares about his ratings and making money (which he doesn't need) is a bridge too far.

All those other people I mentioned are real people.  They speak what they believe and if they want to debate/talk/argue about it it can be done.

TC is as fake as some posters around here.  He'll say and do anything for attention.  I ain't got time for that.

So I agree with the sentiment that we can find something we like in people even when we vehemently disagree on one thing or another.  But the example of Tucker just doesn't work for me.

Also...I read a biography on Ted Williams quite a few years ago.  He was a real prick, an amazing baseball player and national hero and I assume you know what kind of fly fisherman he was!  

https://www.thesportshistorian.com/ted-williams-hall-of-fame-fly-fisherman/

I'd have had a beer with him...and I don't even like fishing. 

I don't think I could ever consider him a friend. And I freely admit that I'd have a hard time biting my tongue the whole time. He may not be with me on the issue of climate change, but there are many environmental issues we do agree on and we support some of the same organizations because of it. Like I said from the start, I'm conflicted on it because he has done a ton of damage with his bullshit and I know there is zero point in trying to change his mind. But that's just it, there is zero point. I would let him know my opinion of his work, but then I'd talk about the flies that work in the hole we're about to cast into. Sometimes we waste a lot of energy on things that aren't worth the effort.