I know, right? Mitch has been there forever, but that's what really dates it: "folks, I hate everyone equally, I'm an equal-opportunity offender" is that pure late-'90s/early-2000s "fun" misanthropy that had stopped being socially acceptable by 2012.

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they dropped out of school on the same day

"Hey, you done getting divorced so much? Now you got some time to be friends with me."

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Pappy and Fritzy, the Even Couple

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Well, they'll float on, good news is on the way

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Haven't heard Jorr's Fritzy story yet.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Fritzy and I are good pals.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Fritzy was ridiculous even back in those days.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'm pretty sure that Fritzy had an uncle Nick who lived in Wilmette in one of the "affordable" units on Ridge. Nick and especially his wife Christy were good friends of my parents.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Can someone give me a plausible explanation as to how the idea of mac actually committing suicide by social media benefits him in any way

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There can only be one Ween fan on the bored.

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I'd guess the theory goes that Mac was getting close to the Retirement Figure—the total amount of money he feels he needs to stash away to care for his son for the rest of his life—anyway and he realized that Entercom might be willing to settle his paper for an amount that would get him to the Retirement Figure, but still be less than the total value of his new deal, and close enough to the amount they would spend on lawyers defending against paying out on the rest of his deal should he say something to get himself fired. For Entercom the bonus would be that they get to take Dan's contract off of their already-on-fire financial books for a percentage of the total value of the deal; For Dan the bonus would be he gets close enough to the total amount of money he came back to the business for in the first place and gets to check out early and spend the rest of his days fishing in Manitoba; And the mutual benefit is that neither party has to spend money and time litigating the issue.

As for WHY Dan might entertain such a scheme: Maybe he fell out of love with talking about sports, social issues, or sports AND social issues, maybe he fell out of love with talking for a living in general, maybe he took a look in the mirror and didn't like what he and his content had become over the last 6-12 months without sports to yak about as he let his younger, more liberal and Always Online partner steer their show to places he may not have liked (sound familiar?). It's also possible that he really, REALLY hated being like Terry sitting in his basement yelling at his ottoman to collect a paycheck, and he realized that it wasn't the talking sports that made him feel fulfilled, or even banking money to care for his son, but the process of going to the studio everyday and interacting with people in what limited ways a person in radio interacts with people; the feeling of doing work and being useful, regardless of whether the work was dumb sports and Rolling Stones takes transmitted over the air.

Anyway, that's just the theory as I would imagine it, but I don't put much stock into it: Dan's tweet wasn't toxic and crude enough to be from someone trying to get fired, and if it was really constructed with an eye towards getting himself canned, Dan McNeil is Machiavelli reincarnate, and I don't think he's that kind of manipulator.

Yeah Im not thinking this was done on purpose at all by Mac. Especially since there is zero guarantee he's going to see any money. Im guessing he's shell-shocked actually.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Nah, he just fucked up and became the example, but that will happen when you betray yourself and surrender what makes you you.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

No. He did not do this on purpose.

Yes, he will get his remaining contract money. I think he should fight for more than that in court like I've said.

If he doesn't win that suit, it means the court hates the porn industry. Which is a legal industry. And the judicial system shouldn't hate legal industries. That's not what America is about.

I don't think it was on purpose either.
They will reach a settlement. A settlement usually involves concessions on both sides. He's not getting his full contract. He'll got a percentage....everyone will be happy.

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a horny washed up radio host made a mistake on social media in 2020 and got fired because of it. that's about all that happened.

Yep, there were no morals to be gathered from this story.

59 seems like an awfully young age to retire with dependants. However, he had already said he was retiring in a year and part of that year was going to be spent on sabbatical in an RV like Albert Brooks in Lost in America. Similar to Brooks, I could see him losing that nest egg on some vice.

for the life of me, I just cannot understand these sports talkers who desperately want to retire from four hour days for nice pay having to do nothing but express thoughts on the previous days events. I'm from the Howard Stern belief that you don't leave money on the table. Sure, if the job retires you, you move on. If they are willing to pay you for that schedule, you keep earning. Your heirs will thank you.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

piss up a rope

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Umm after a few more weeks around here, you will realize that “cum up a rope” was the better response.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I don't get it either, but some people seem to be unable to deal with living in the public eye like this without melting down every few years.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

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We've been a little past that point for a bit.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

He's just waving his dick in the wind.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

SS, I am sure with your slight upper body build, climbing ropes was never your thing. But you sure as shit loved the feel of those things between your legs. Right?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Mac did not do this on purpose.

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@audioidkid

don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.

spinal meningitis got me down

No way he did. He laid out his employment plans a few times.

I think it was a Russian conspiracy.

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You know me like that.