Video games: They’re serious business! Except when they’re not serious at all. Each week on Triple Click, video game experts Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, and Jason Schreier journey into the fascinating world of games. They’ll explore hot topics in video game news and culture, answer burning listener questions, debate the pros and cons of the biggest new games, and replay old classics together.
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Listening to E Pluribus Motto is like taking a road trip with friends Janet Varney and John Hodgman. In each episode, they spotlight one state and chat about its motto, bird, beverages, songs, and–occasionally–muffins. Plus, you'll hear from residents and guests whose lives or work have been inspired by that state. This podcast is a celebration of regional culture and an homage to the love we all seem to have for the place we call home. Pack your snacks and jump on in!
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Troubled Waters is the pop culture quiz show where comedians disagree to disagree. Twice a month, Dave will stoke pointless arguments between two teams of comedians and make them compete against each other in order to settle their meaningless debates once and for all. Winner takes home the right to be right.
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Why pay for streaming services when movies like Timecop and Grease 2 can be watched for nothing more than the cost of enduring a few loud, unskippable ads? Join us every week for a dive into the internet’s bargain bin! Emily Fleming and Jordan Morris are real friends, real comedy writers and real cheapskates. They met working in comedy writing rooms and bonded over their love of “trashy” pop culture and saving a buck. They’re combining these loves for the podcast “Free With Ads,” a movie rev ...
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Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping with Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting e ...
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Join host John Moe (The Hilarious World of Depression) for honest, relatable, and, yes, sometimes funny conversations about mental health. Hear from comedians, musicians, authors, actors, and other top names in entertainment and the arts about living with depression, anxiety, and many other common disorders. Find out what they’ve done to address it, what worked, and what didn’t. Depresh Mode also features useful insights on mental health issues with experts in the field. It’s honest talk fro ...
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Comedians and cooking show superfans Mike Cabellon, Sierra Katow, and Ify Nwadiwe use fantasy sports rules to argue about America's favorite reality cooking competition shows. We pick chefs, we earn points based on how those chefs perform, and at the end of the season, we crown a winner!
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Jo Firestone and Manolo Moreno play original listener-created games with callers from all over the world! Listen as Jo, Manolo and the players struggle through these outrageous family-friendly games that are played regardless of quality!
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Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper learn about anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it's bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or fanfiction, there's so much out there, so let's learn everything! Join our Discord, email us, and follow us everywhere at www.LetsLearnEverything.com
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On Feeling Seen, writer and general enthusiast Jordan Crucchiola invites filmmakers, writers, comedians, and artists to discuss the movie characters that made them "feel seen." It's about that instant when a person connects to a piece of art so deeply that they see themselves reflected in it. Every week Jordan gabs it up with a guest about those magical moments when they were watching a film and realized, "That's me!" It's an informative, funny, and comforting show about our intimate relatio ...
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What has more pomp, spectacle, and sequins than the Olympics, Wrestlemania, and RuPaul's Drag Race combined? The Eurovision Song Contest, Europe’s yearly competition to determine which country has the best original song. It's an extraordinary live musical showdown in which Europe’s most dynamic singers put it all on the line in the name of national pride. And Eurovangelists, a hilarious podcast about all things Eurovision, is here to help you get in on the fun! Each week, we’ll guide you thr ...
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John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast – the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, which was set up in 2008, with a simple mission statement: “Make Too Many Podcasts,” and Lord knows we’ve been churning them out since then.
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John Hodgman's Today in the Past podcast is now The Judge John Hodgman Podcast. Have your pressing issues decided by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman, Certified Judge. If you'd like John Hodgman to solve your pressing issue, simply email it, along with your phone number, to [email protected]. THAT IS ALL.
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Tights and Fights is the podcast that covers pro-wrestling with the sincerity and hilarity that it deserves. Every week, hosts Hal Lublin, Danielle Radford and Lindsey Kelk make sense of the chaos that is the world of sports-entertainment. Whether it's the latest headlines, a cultural analysis of an old angle or a debate about which wrestler has the best merch, Tights and Fights will examine every corner of the squared-circle for your enjoyment.
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Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better! Listeners will learn how to vanquish their To-Be-Read piles, get pointers on organizing their bookshelves and hear reviews on the newest reading gadgets. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on bookish problems. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the ...
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A compendium of classic episodes of Maximum Fun shows! Revisit some old favorites or be introduced to new ones!
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MaxFun Presents is dedicated to stuff a little more behind the scenes and fun at Maximum Fun, a worker-owned podcast network.
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A sports podcast that covers sports stories that even people who don't like sports will find interesting. Each season, we take a deep dive into the eccentricities and off-the-field antics of some of history's most famous athletes. Minimal statistics, maximum fun! Hosted by comedians Adam Tod Brown and Jeff May. Part of the Unpops Podcast Network!
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Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert returns for the second season of her hit podcast MAGIC LESSONS, ready to help another batch of aspiring artists overcome their fears and create more joyfully. This year’s guest experts include Neil Gaiman, Gary Shteyngart, Amy Purdy, Michael Ian Black, Brandon Stanton, Martha Beck, and Glennon Doyle Melton. MAGIC LESSONS art courtesy of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
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THE OUTER REACH: Stories from Beyond is an anthology series inspired by pulp science fiction of the mid-century. In this distant future, space travel is common and colonies span hundreds of different planets - but humans still struggle with small stuff: love, jealousy, ambition, failure and what it all means.
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Two women in comedy, Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin, talking about women and comedy. No guests, just two headliners who started in the 80s and never stopped.
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Tiny Victories is the 15 minute podcast that pushes back on the notion that you have to "go big" or "go home". Sometimes just going is the victory. Each week, hosts Annabelle Gurwitch and Laura House invite listeners to adopt a TINY victory frame of mind, and share tales of fleeting joys and minor accomplishments in this majorly messed-up world.
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Story Break is a weekly podcast from RocketJump where we (Will Campos, Matt Arnold, and Freddie Wong) sit down in the RocketJump writer's room and attempt to "break" a story for a ridiculous concept, property, or idea that we in NO way have any rights to. Join us every week as we attempt to tackle everything from beloved video games to billion dollar franchises!
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Remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager? And remember how some things haven't really changed that much for you since then? Join proud dork Janet Varney as she explores the highs and lows of the bygone years with some of her favorite women as they talk their way through the terrible teens into adult-lescence. Warning: This Podcast Contains Sincerity.
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Sometimes the people, places, and things we love don't love us back. We're fans, but we also have some ANTI- feelings toward them. Every week on FANTI, journalists Tre'vell Anderson and Jarrett Hill bring their pop culture and political expertise to things we must stan and stand up against. FANTI is a place where nuance reigns supreme with energetic, complicated, and sometimes difficult conversations that bring deep knowledge and thoughtful perspective to the things we love and rage about, f ...
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Be Podding You is a limited release series in which hosts John Hodgman and Elliott Kalan discuss the innovative late 1960s British series The Prisoner. Each episode, creator and star Patrick McGoohan, known only as "Number Six" attempts to escape a mysterious island staffed by a powerful force and a giant orb. Will our hero discover the secrets of the village? Will his captors eventually break Number Six down enough to learn why he resigned from his post? Will Number Six ever escape? John an ...
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Rendered (formerly Destination DIY) finds stories about getting creative, making meaning, and breaking rules. We are an independent show from the public radio world carefully crafted for an audience of makers, doers, and curious minds. We are proud to be a part of Maximum Fun family of podcasts.
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Becky Lynch is a GOAT ft. Denise Winkelman
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Hal and Danielle are joined by Denise Winkelman. A former wrestler and current comedian, she tells us about some of the stories about getting trained to be a “Mad Scientist" character. Plus, we’ll learn more about some of the big names she’s worked with as well as the… interesting financial advice she was given early on. Plus, did Naomi just delive…
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Ep 425 - Should You Gift Books to Nonreaders?
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Brea and Mallory debate about gifting books to nonreaders. Plus, they give advice on when you receive a book gift you don’t want, and recommend locked room mysteries! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store Sponsors - ZocDoc www.zocdoc.com/GLASSES Green Chef www.greenchef.com/50GLASSES CODE: 5…
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Episode 82: American Song Contest, Week 5 & Semis
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We finally reach the end of the qualifiers of the American Song Contest, having heard songs from all fifty states, five territories and the District of Columbia, and now it's on to the two weeks of semifinals, where the remaining 22 of the original 56 competitors perform for the 10 spots in the finals. There's also a whole lot more time wasted on w…
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Tricia Cooke on 'Honey Don't' & 'But I'm a Cheerleader'
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Tricia Cooke is having her moment, and it's been a long time coming. Together with partner Ethan Coen, she's made last years DRIVE AWAY DOLLS and the new HONEY DON'T from scripts written long ago. And in some ways, the seed for these very gay, very fun movies was planted by a modern classic of fun gay cinema: Jamie Babbit's BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER. T…
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(BONUS) We Solve Your Toughest Conundrums
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LINKS: Plante's video game podcasts The Besties and Post Games Support Triple Click: http://maximumfun.org/join All-New Triple Click Merch!! https://maxfunstore.com/search?q=triple+click&options%5Bprefix%5D=last Join the Triple Click Discord: http://discord.gg/tripleclickpod Triple Click Ethics Policy: https://maximumfun.org/triple-click-ethics-pol…
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Jo's penultimate episode hosting! Hosts Jo Firestone & Manolo Moreno play listener-created games with callers! Games played: Gentrify This!! submitted by Michael Miller from Phoenix, Arizona, Who IS Dr. Gameshow? submitted by Kate from Queens, New York, and Gotta Go Fast submitted by Ted Trembinski from Los Angeles, California Callers: Kate from Oa…
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It's time to clear the docket, and Chuck Bryant (Stuff You Should Know) returns to the Court to help. Is it ok to take home keepsakes from hiking trails? What if it's a cool rock? Should moviegoers be compelled to stay for post-credits scenes? Plus Judge Hodgman and Chuck Bryant try to guess listener-submitted OBSCURE CULTURAL REFERENCES! Please co…
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Week 12 - Backyard BBQ (MasterChef: Dynamic Duos)
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We chat about the disrespect of Tina, the correct pronunciation of "panzanella," and when Gordon decides to throw proteins. Please support us at maximumfun.org/join, follow us on Instagram @tvcheffantasyleague, and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts!By Ify Nwadiwe, maximumfun.org, Sierra Katow, TV Chef Fantasy League, Mike Cabellon
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This week on the show, Jackie (@jackiekashian) beats herself up about not working hard enough on her upcoming special. Laurie (@anylaurie16) is not a hero for being able to remember obscure members of the Royal Family. Also, Pike's Peak is real! Did we all, already know this!? A lot going on but one this is certain, comedy is not the problem. Subsc…
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Patrick McEnroe and Melissa Errico, Stars of, Respectively, Tennis and Broadway
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When you have two guests on one show, you’re going to get a variety of topics, especially when they have such diverse interests as tennis great Patrick McEnroe and Broadway icon Melissa Errico. The two, married 26 years, take us on a very friendly and relaxing jaunt through a very old-timey English castle (that somehow has a sauna and Pilates room)…
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Episode 14: Kentucky - “United we stand, divided we fall”
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Janet Varney and John Hodgman are here and ready to talk all about some blue grass… sort of. It’s all about Kentucky and it’s slightly complicated branded with its iconography. If you’re looking for excitement, steer clear of the seal and flag; pretty standard fare there. But Kentucky has an absolutely wonderful horse, gem, and soft drink that they…
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Our third selection for Animals Attack August is the Liam Neeson wolf fighting movie "The Grey" which is less about humans fighting wolves and more about humans fighting God. You'll see. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Sharknado. ----- August 28th, come to the Punch Line Comedy Club in Houston to see Matt and his wife Francesca Fiorenti…
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Ashly Burch Delivers Mental Health Insight Using Puppets and Swear Words
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There are plenty of places online to get very serious information on mental health, delivered in tones that are somber, sober, or very dry. Ashly Burch goes a different route on her new YouTube show, I’m Happy You’re Here, employing loads of comedy, puppets, foul language, and mature subject matter to teach what’s going on in complex matters such a…
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Say it ain't so… Naomi was not medically cleared to perform last Monday Night on RAW. With the caveat that we don’t know the reasoning yet, we rampantly worry about what the future holds for her and the World Championship. Plus we’ve got some fun things to discuss about the current state of the World Heavyweight and WWE Championships as the scene f…
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This week, our friends Mary Kate Wiles vs Sean Persaud join Dave for some comic strip theme songs, film adaptations, and memorable quotes from Agnes van Rhijn. Mary Kate Wiles would like to plug Shipwrecked Comedy and The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals and recommends Blue Prince Sean Persaud would like to plug The Librarians: The Next Chapter and als…
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Ep 424 - Honk Honk - Reading Really Long Books
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Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2025 Reading Glasses Challenge: read a honker! Plus, they offer advice about attending specialty book events, and recommend books that feature loving friends and family! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group …
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Episode 81: American Song Contest, Weeks 3 & 4
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We dive even deeper into the American Song Contest this week, tackling 23 more songs from all over the United States. Some are good, and some are, well... not as good, but hey, we're just Countryin' the States. Jeremy cannot and will not Feel the Love, Dimitry's a secret fan of a 90s alt-pop icon, and Oscar suggests that it might be best if you Do …
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Madison Iseman on 'The Shining' & 'Witchboard'
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Madison Iseman is making her play for horror icon status, starring in the fun and freaky forthcoming "cursed object" horror film WITCHBOARD. At the same time, she's embracing her "district attorney era" with a lead role in the new USA series THE RAINMAKER. And on this show, we can't leave out her credits playing twin sisters Lennon and Allison on t…
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How strange are octopuses really? We're going to be debunking some claims, then rebunking them with some real, amazing facts about our fellow earthlings. And what the history of the paralympics? What can we learn from its attempts and its failures and its importance in sports? See Tom's Science Game Show in NYC! Things we Talk About: Octopus Virus …
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Where Is The Line For AI in Game Development?
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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the mailbag to answer some of your questions! What's the ideal skill level for a video game reviewer? What's the funniest made-up video game word? And where's the line when it comes to the use of generative AI in game development? One More Thing: Kirk: The Words of Radiance (Brandon Sanderson) Maddy: Enemy Feminisms: …
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Erin and Bill threw a dragon-themed birthday party for their 1 year old. On the day of the event, Erin was horrified to see the menu that Bill put together. Bill named the food and drink after various things dragons shed, excrete, and throw up. Bill says it was fun. But Erin doesn’t want to see another pitcher of Dragon Pee, ever again! Who's right…
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Week 11 - Macaron Mayhem (MasterChef: Dynamic Duos)
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We get Mike's Alinea pop-up review, discuss matcha longevity, and hail the queen Carly Rae Jepsen who deserves more recognition as an artist and career hitmaker! Please support us at maximumfun.org/join, follow us on Instagram @tvcheffantasyleague, and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts!By Mike Cabellon, Sierra Katow, maximumfun.org, Ify Nwadiwe, TV Chef Fantasy League
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WNBYAY! - Please Stop Throwing Dildos at WNBA Games
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Adam and Logan talk about the continuing trend of creeps throwing sex toys at WNBA games, and the unlikely culprits who came forward to claim responsibility for it. Show notes: https://rebrand.ly/irjuiyyBy Big Pond Podcasts
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This week on the show, Jackie (@jackiekashian) is thrilled because the Pandora ads paid off! Meanwhile, Laurie (@anylaurie16) questions her optometrist's job. But she'll still deal with glasses and contacts instead of getting Lasik. There are stories. Google it. Subscribe to the podcast, and give it a 5-star rating and review to help the show move …
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Kendahl Landreth and Jordan Myrick Gently Realign Your Chihuahua Perspectives
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As hosts of the Happy Wife Happy Life podcast, comedians/writers/actors Kendahl Landreth and Jordan Myrick help their listeners navigate everything related to relationships. Here on our show, in this episode, they bring that gift of harmony to society’s views of chihuahuas, especially their own rescue dog, Angel. As you drift off to sleep, you’ll h…
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It's Animals Attack August and this week we had guest Holly Chou (from X-Men 97) in the studio to talk about Alligator 2: The Mutation, a movie about a giant alligator who eats people again. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Grey. ----- Watch Holly Chou in X-Men 97 where she plays Jubilee! August 30 from 2pm-5pm Holly will be doing an…
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Author/Comedian Tiffany Jenkins on Anxiety, Addiction, Felonies, Success, and Not Wanting to Exist
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Because she racks up millions and millions of views for her viral comedy videos on social media, because she’s written two books including the new best-seller A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb, because she’s famous and successful, Tiffany Jenkins and her family were invited to travel to California and visit Lego Land…
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It was the first ever two night Summerslam event in history. And it was marred in controversy for booking decisions and real-life implications: The most striking is that for the first time in recent memory, WWE publicly acknowledged Donald Trump on its show. The relationship between the company and some of its executives (including Paul Levesque) i…
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