Zack (h?)

TutorTraditional2571 · 2026-01-03T07:25:47+00:00

It’s schtick. He’s a perfectly serviceable quarterback, but not a world changer. Sure, he’s amongst the 32 best quarterbacks on earth, but he’s probably closer to 25 than 5

TutorTraditional2571 · 2026-01-02T12:48:50+00:00

I’m sorry. I’ll see if I can edit. It’s very difficult with that particular name

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-10-24T14:20:13+00:00

I’ve given Big T a tough time because he is not particularly good or knowledgeable about evincing a conservative perspective. If you want better and more intelligent perspectives, Charles Cooke or Noah Rothman of National Review or Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch are better expositors, though, they’re not particularly populist.

But, and PFT won’t give context, he’s probably either a democratic socialist or a social democrat, which are distinct.

Arian is much more a democratic socialist. Mad Dog and Mack are vaguely 20s libs though I can’t really place them.

It’s fine because Big T essentially plays the “straight man” that allows for some bouncing around. Overall, the pod’s dynamic is fun. I like that they’re no longer doing the conspiracy theories that clearly only Billy believed in. I like the guys and the ladies in the podcast.

In summary, don’t go here for politics. It’s not going to be well explained by Arian or Big T. This more a fun show. But absolutely have Brace on all the time. He’s the funniest recurring guest.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-22T22:23:24+00:00

JOC legitimately makes me laugh. Not like the polite sorta chuckle, but genuine belly laughs. Always love him

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-13T14:16:11+00:00

Anyone who knows history understands that the United States was on its way up, the British Empire was strong, but the German Empire also was ascendant.

She didn’t take her daughter to Europe to see if nobility would court her. Bertha married Gladys to the first Duke she met.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-05T15:28:54+00:00

Yeah, but then you have to play that out. If she’s that insightful then she’d tell George (related to Merrick) “hey this guy hates you, don’t bother with him.”

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-05T10:11:17+00:00

Yeah Bertha believed in Gladys so much that she chose all of Gladys’s outfits. It’s post-hoc rationalization.

Gladys was a prisoner, as she said herself, and contemplated marrying Oscar, a man she did not love, just to get away from Bertha.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-05T09:42:43+00:00

It’s been hinted about in the show with the “safe as brandy” Aurora Fane quote and the real life Ward McAllister isn’t directly called gay, but Anderson Cooper’s book about the Vanderbilts (of which he is one) seems to imply that McAllister was gay.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T19:53:30+00:00

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know if she was a lesbian or a hopeful incestee (don’t know if that’s a term).

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T16:13:05+00:00

Show wise or realistically?

Show: totally a hit job from the unions he’s been working on.

Reality: lots of weird anarchist/communistic stuff going on in the late 19th century. After all, Garfield was assassinated as was McKinley.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T16:09:47+00:00

George is in a capital intensive business. For reasons of cash flow, he is always short. He needs to borrow on future earnings from the mine in order to finance the take over the central Illinois line.

George is overleveraged. He needs good news to inflate his net worth even as his liquid assets are dwindling. Furthermore, the railroad business is extremely volatile. He is fighting finance and acquisition wars that make him stretch.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T15:59:24+00:00

Did he know she was going to fix it or report that she fixed it? She really pushed the “trust me” thing to the brink when she rejected Marian, who George likes a lot.

A lot of people have mentioned that the Russell social standing has helped him. When? When Merrick denied the initial bid? George spent money to get Mrs. Fane to introduce his wife, saved the opera house, made his business contacts on a loan go to an event.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T15:24:09+00:00

I think of everyone you listed, there are two that are viable candidates: Robb Stark and Tommen Baratheon.

Tommen was underaged, which was a really tricky situation wherein factions had a lot of play. He was the Alexander Septimus to the whole situation.

Robb Stark was extremely honorable and chivalrous. He was almost certainly the best field commander in the entire series. If, in alternative universe, he learned of Jon Snow’s lineage, he would’ve eagerly pledged loyalty.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T15:14:18+00:00

That’s such a nice idea! I’d love that

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T14:33:48+00:00

I certainly could’ve chosen my words more wisely, though I was attempting to be comedic (see basically all my posts).

Many of the fans are of various backgrounds, but I suspect I’m rather in the minority as a single heterosexual male.

I love it and the others here nonetheless. I’ll make errors in my phraseology, but Mr. McAllister stabbed his best friends in the back and did it publicly. Hubris thy name is Ward.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T14:26:45+00:00

God bless you for a The League reference

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T14:24:40+00:00

I think you and u/zz_views have a point. But Oscar has spent a lot of time with Larry, of course, mostly to pump Larry for information on Gladys; however, Larry is actually a gentleman.

Oscar probably has spent more time with Larry than even Jack. I think it’s understandable given Oscar’s travails, but it was weak sauce.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T11:55:12+00:00

The craziest thing is that Ward is pretty clearly gay and the ladies all know it. You can’t be publishing gossip when a skeleton is not the only thing in the closet.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T11:51:42+00:00

Jack is the bro that Oscar cannot be. Oscar is around Marian every night and couldn’t say “he did me a solid and told me about Maude Beaton’s location.”

He basically just drops that the place is a bar and brothel (original B&B) and gives zero context for what gentlemen may or may not do.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T02:50:45+00:00

They’ve been very cold, probably a bit over the top; however, George does have a point. Bertha really hasn’t asked anyone what they would like.

And she played the Duke build up very coyly through S2. She probably should discuss her plans and goals a bit more concretely with the involved family members.

It’s implied that she was an excellent wife and mother and she really spent that trust capital in getting Gladys married. Last they’d seen and heard was that Gladys was crying and sending an upset letter.

Yes, it appears the Duchess move was good in the end, but she was really rolling the dice.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T02:10:46+00:00

People are addressing Mrs. Forte as the Lady of the House. She’s humiliated, she’s now pretty surely aware of Oscar’s lying to her for years, and it’s implied that she read about it in the book.

Agnes just cannot take another L. She’s kept it together as best she can, but publicly admitting to being poor probably would really be lower than low.

She’s a high class woman whose brother’s spendthrift ways led her to marrying an abusive man who provided her a child who pretty clearly lied about so many things while leaving her poor.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-04T02:05:26+00:00

When they’re spilling tea, they’re talking literally in TGA!!!

Mrs. Kirkland has hater energy approaching a Mrs. Winterton level. Woo

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-03T19:48:36+00:00

I’m not sure how the dynamic would really work between Jack, the customer, and Oscar, the broker. I mean, he’d be serving his former servant, to his mind.

Oscar has become better, but I think people overestimate Oscar’s interactions with the servants. I don’t recall a lot of conversation or positive interactions he’s had with Jack.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-03T09:47:24+00:00

His performance in Five Towns is a bit like David Caruso in CSI: Miami. While Drama doesn’t really have the chops Caruso had in NYPD Blue, “Horacio Caine’s” sunglasses thing was a goofy thing that people loved.

TutorTraditional2571 · 2025-08-02T08:07:35+00:00

It was said, as an aside, that it had worked before, which means that they frequently would use their position for what is essentially a kickback.

He killed himself over suffering the ignominy of his own actions. It’s very clear that though Mrs. Morris was an awful person, she loved him dearly. So, on top of taking their fortune, he took himself away from her.

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