This week our runner ups. Number 1 runner up Bob Iger, the embattled CEO of Disney. His company lost billions in 2023 and they are due to lose billions more in 2024. He seems to be driving this once great company off a cliff. But Bob Iger is still in charge. Still the CEO of Disney. This reminds us of Jake LaMotta a middle weight contender and even champion of the 1940's and 50's. Jake fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times. Many in the world of boxing consider Ray Robinson to have been pound for pound, the greatest fighter of all time. Jake managed to win one of their fights but lost the other five. In their last fight Sugar Ray just pounded Jake into a bloody pulp. As the fight came to a close, through a face that was a total mess with his eyes looking like slits and his lips all bent out of shape, Jake managed to mutter. "Never knocked me down Ray. You never knocked me down." Ray Robinson had beaten him five times but never knocked Jake LaMotta off his feet. And, Bob Iger like Jake LaMotta is still standing. He maybe losing more billions for his company than any CEO in history but no one's knocked him down.
Number 2 runner up Meghan and Harry. They lost their 20 million dollar Spotify deal. Netflix dumped them. The Royal family dumped them. They have been dissed by the Royals in more ways than we can even count. It seems no one explained to them that a 'Tell All', never has a sequel. The very nature of the 'Tell All', is you 'Tell All' and there shouldn't be anything left. But even if there is or might be more, no one speaks to people who do 'Tell All's for fear of being in the next one. But they're still together! Who'd a' thunk that one? We would have bet good money that they'd gone their separate ways by now. With Harry on his knees begging his Daddy to let him come home, so he could play the Prodigal son. The Prodigal son meme would play really well, as no one has done it in a long, long time. It would blow up the internet. It would make the Mass Hysteria apoplectic. Even the Cognoscenti Of The Known World, would weigh in on a daily basis. And Meghan, we figured she'd be in another 3rd rate, cable only TV show. Or she'd be one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. But what can we say? Sometimes, we're wrong. But they are still together! Amazing!
Tune in next week for our Person of the year 2023. Or maybe the week after, as this might be harder than we think. But no, our person of the year will not be Taylor Swift. We think that Time Magazine who made her their person of the year, is just a shadow of their former self. No, more like an echo. They put Taylor Swift on the cover of their magazine because her concerts sold out and a movie of her concerts, grossed over 249 million dollars, world wide. So they hoped that with her on the cover they might get someone to look at their archaic construct. Maybe they'd even get some likes on Tik Tok, Twitter and Youtube. No one reads the thing anymore and hasn't for a long time. It's not like Taylor Swift did anything of note. Gone are the salad days when Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Adolph Hitler and the sane world gasped.
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