u/DonnyBoyCane

....he shouldn't lean too hard into the battles with athletes or the "You wanna play THIS game?!" type of threats.

And I preface this by saying that I'm sure Austin Rivers is a giant douche. I mean the Dook part alone, amirite? But these little wars and threats are sooooo Steven A.-esque and lame and at the end of the day (right or wrong) basically nobody is going to give props to the non-former athlete media member.

Just sayin' it's a weak sauce look imo and Amin as a Pulitzer Prize recipient is smart enough to wage these wars (if he must) in a non overt manner.

I think we (along with JVL & Sarah) are selling this mindset short when assuming it has ZERO political value.

Shortly after he began to sell his entire soul, I had the "pleasure" of having a brief exchange with Marco Rubio. In this moment, he freely espoused that the key to current elections is motivating your base and suppressing/demoralizing the opposition vote and absolutely not about prioritizing "winning new voters".

Now back to JVL, let's assume things continue to go south for Trump. Now let's assume there's a significant amount of Trump voters that are disenchanted or even regretful about their Trump support....but also will simply never vote for whatever Dem wins the '28 nomination. Does it not behoove there to be at least some JVL shaming and ridiculing to be happening? Does that not at minimum nudge a lot of these individuals along to becoming cynical about politics in general and lead them to be non-participatory in voting and as citizens- something we'd ALL benefit from.

Starts at the 1:15:45 mark if the link doesn't take you directly there. He does a little assessment of his growth/mindset changes professionally earlier in this pod but this part was also fairly interesting if you're a Mike fan. I personally appreciate how he wears this stuff on his sleeve and doesn't segregate it from his iob or at least his on-air performance.