Sophie Cunningham's 4 am hotel hallway dance party goes viral, Instagram ladies who served & #MACtion
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She gets what content women want to see on TikTok. She gets what content men want to see on TikTok. She has fun. She uses common sense when talking about society and talking about personal responsibility.
She gets that Caitlin Clark doesn't want to be the face of the WNBA. Sophie, 30, gets that the WNBA Mean Girls are busy catering to the angry purple-haired lesbians.
Meanwhile, she's dumping out 4 a.m. TikTok dances for her fans. This is a winning strategy.
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• Bo T in AZ checks in: I've been monitoring the demise of Hootera via Screencaps but the closure of the Aurora CO store hit close to home (literally). My father lived a half-mile up the hill from that Hooters, which had an old converted school bus that they used as a shuttle to Broncos games. Wings and beer before the shuttle in the restaurant then wings and beer on the shuttle served by one of the waitresses. At Mile High they gave a huge box of wings to the traffic cops. Great memories (mammaries?) of Pop and I enjoying ourselves on a Sunday. Boobs, beer and wings part of what made this country great. It's a damn shame. To all my fellow vets out there, thanks for laying it on the line.
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• Brandon C. in Pinckney, MI (who famously told us about a Russian military trade show) writes: Great work on documenting the demise of a once great institution, Hooters. I first realized this about 5-6 years ago. I would travel out to Colorado Springs for business often, many times teaching classes about space warfare (back when we couldn't say that term in public) to junior active duty and civilians before Space Force was a thing.
The teaching facility was off base on the north side of town, and the AF would put everyone up in an Embassy Suites five minutes from the facility. (Let those guys get the free breakfast and stashed lunches to keep the per diem). In essentially the same parking lot, there was a Old Chicago Pizza and a Hooters. So on a bi-monthly basis, the hotel would have 50-75 young active duty men and ladies, stuck in a hotel for 3 weeks, with nothing to do except go to class, work out, and collect per diem. So guess what that amount of disposable income went toward for the 75+% of men in that group? Yep. Boneless, beers, and boobies.
Fast-forward to around 2018, and the Hooters goes out of business. Now the AF / SF moved the courses to a new facility on base but they were still housing them at the Embassy Suites. What happened? Talking to some of the students, a not insignificant number of them basically said instead of going to the bar with their comrades in arms, they were just getting 12 packs and hanging out in the hotel rooms playing video games. They knew they were there for three weeks, so they just packed up their Xbox / Nintendo and brought it with them. Eat the free happy hour food at the hotel, order door dash later on if they're still hungry, and sit on the room couch in shorts and t-shirts instead of going out.
As I look back now, I should've seen it coming. Even in the most testosterone sense setting (US active duty men with unspent per diem money), Hooters wasn't enough to get them off their couch. Part of me thinks a significant part of the problem is that titillation is so freely available thanks to the internet (and frankly how a lot of young women dress in public now) that the whole "forbidden fruit" aspect of the breastaurant is just gone. It's a total why pay for the cow when I get the milk delivered to me on my couch in my boxer shorts?
The optimist in me thinks maybe this is a good thing in that the over sexualization of our society will get dialed back, but the pessimist in me thinks we're just going to even more deviant behavior because now we don't even have to be civil to ladies in skimpy wear in front of me (and maybe learn some manners as a part), we just dial up the intensity on the AI slut bot on my second monitor.
But then again, if there's no tie to a moral foundation, who gives a s–t, right? (Sarcasm dial turned up to 11)
• Gen X Warren is clearly agitated: Since my wife is a huge Detroit Lions fan, we went to Joe Robbie Stadium (the Hard Rock) on Sunday to see MY Miami Dolphins play as MY WIFE’s Lions came into town.
I haven’t been to Joe Robbie in a few years, but I gotta say, Stephen Ross (owner) did a great job with the refurbishments a few years ago. Even though I’d like him to sell the team, I’m somewhat hopeful for the future. They even did a terrific Salute to Service with a Coast Guard chopper flyover.
Anyway, it was a sea of blue. When there’s a crap product on the field, home team fans stay away. Plenty of Lions fans came across Alligator Alley (I-75 when it heads east across the Florida Everglades) from the west coast of Florida, aka, Midwest South. But plenty also flew in. It was also funny that I saw some Packers fans - probably trolling Detroit.
I don’t know if Miami’s defense was good or if Detroit was playing down to them, but for a good 2.5 quarters, Miami held its own. Then Goff and company woke up and won.
Overall, a good time was had by all, even if I was cranky it was basically a Lions home game. For the record, I do root for them, since my wife and in-laws are huge fans.
Kinsey: And then there's this message from a guy I played high school baseball with — IN OHIO! Why so angry over the Midwesterners bringing their 401k checks to town?
If it wasn't for a Northerner, none of you'd be living there because you wouldn't have air conditioning. Florida should have a state holiday for Willis Carrier, who was born in Angola, New York, over on Lake Erie. Some of you are very ungrateful for what Midwesterners have done to make Florida what it is today.
• Attorney John in New York emails: Hey Joe, I just had to weigh in on this Diana Russini People interview. What a bunch of trash. The "I'm the victim" narrative has gotten so tiresome that now a married woman who is very conspicuously witnessed to be with a married football coach, on multiple occasions over SEVEN YEARS (and seen kissing on at least one of them), is actually being entertained by the big J's as a "victim." First off, victimhood is a state of mind. Martyrs who died for the Lord Jesus Christ never saw themselves as victims, they looked at it as a privilege to die in Jesus' name.
But a married woman who's caught [Ed. note: word redacted!] a married football coach and is fired for her unprofessionalism (to say the least), is now a victim of lies?? What lies? Maybe the only real "heartbreaking" piece of this is how her husband has allowed himself to be such a cucked shill.
Kinsey: Helluva email, Attorney John! Don't be a stranger. With the passion you displayed here, you're welcome back any time you'd like. As for Russini, I like that she's digging in for a fight. This allows the content to flow like Old Faithful. Her going the defiant route is great news for OutKick because this story isn't going to die. It just keeps growing. Dianna turns 44 in February. We're only going to get so much more content out of her. Let's enjoy it while she's still relevant in the industry.
• Mickey D. emails: There was also a blowout by a Dallas Cowboy lineman, R. Gary, I think, as he rolled over with a tackle at the line of scrimmage. I can't be specific of the time to help you if you were interested although I know it was not an angle from the side as they snap the ball, it was an angle from the linebacker position, up close. I laughed immediately but didn't think to mark the time until I saw your article.
• Thomas S. says: Hey Joe: I think one of the issues that football has is too many rules that don't make any sense and therefore shouldn't be flagged.
Here are some of the ones I think should be removed:
1. Failure to Report - shouldn't it be the defense's responsibility to keep track of who's on the field?
2. Illegal Formation - Who cares how they line up?
3. Illegal Shift
4. Illegal Motion
5. Illegal Procedure
6. Taunting
7. Ineligible receiver downfield
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And last Sunday a Browns player went out of bounds on a punt coverage and even though the ball was dead they were penalized because he touched it first. WTF
Imagine how many fewer penalties there would be if we simplified the game?
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