🎉 The Weekly Recommendations 🎉
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MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW: 41 Fall Breaks to Watch For…
Fascinating both on the why and the historical context on birthdays: Why Did Birthdays Become Week-Long Blowouts?
I’m just always saying yes to pieces like this: The Race To Catch the Last Nazis
In last week’s Popcast Episode, I gave Erin some homework about finding a college team to root for. She wrote about it on her Substack but more specifically, her readers gave suggestions on who she should choose and parsing through the affection, bias, and delusion of the suggestions is **chef’s kiss.**
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The newest Over Under Achiever episodes you need to catch up on…
114: Why Jason Quit Coffee and The Importance of Mulligans and Prison Security
115: What Is Zack Morris Probably Up To, What Makes a Good Bodyguard, and Is Bama Broken?
📺 BS HIGH on HBO Max
YO, THIS WAS A WILD WATCH.
It’s about the fake high school that ended up on ESPN before getting boat-raced by IMG Academy and was later revealed to be not a real school?!?
The doc centers around the main organizer of the “school,” Roy Johnson, who is a con man right out of central casting.
The doc does a fantastic job allowing the viewer to be charmed by Johnson1 as he’s humanized but also balancing this with some of the more devious, illegal, and disingenuous aspects of his behavior.
It also opens the curtain on the duplicitous of high school athletics and its commitment to the kids vs. the commitment to fame, riches, and opportunity for all the adults attached to the kids.
🩳 Chubbies Shorts
(not a sponsor………YET)
I happened across these when I was shopping before the Austin live show, and because it was going to be 982 degrees in Texas while there, I wanted to find some shorts with an inseam that wasn’t so puritanical.
I was skeptical at first because I always assume shorts like these are designed for men who would be blown into the hereafter if given the right wind gust, but CAN CONFIRM, these shorts are amenable to all leg styles whether you skip leg day or not.
I’m a complete believer and evangelist now for these shorts. Super lightweight, stain-resistant material, and short enough to be stylish while still keeping your upper leg / inner thigh secrets.
✍️ MINI-ESSAY: ✍️
Not being able to see myself represented in culture isn’t a thing I’ve ever had to endure. On the contrary, to be a WASPy fellow in the South who is almost excruciatingly basic in his masculinity, culture tends to be almost servile when it comes to representing my interests and worldview.
That being said, there’s a distinct difference in the kind of broad reciprocity I’m used to versus a granular mirroring so completely identical to me that I can’t tell where it ends and I begin, the latter of which I saw last week in The Bitter Southerner’s profile of Tyler Childers by Silas House.