Back to episode — Episode 2890 CWSA 07/07/25
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Well, I saw a trailer for the new Superman movie, and boy was I surprised. Did anybody see the ads for the new Superman movie? I didn't know what I was seeing because it looks like they're actually going to do a movie where Superman will be played by, and I don't know this for sure, but it looked like a straight white man is playing Superman in a new movie. Honestly, I didn't see that coming. I was really expecting kind of an albino black disabled lesbian kind of a situation, but no, they have boldly gone where nobody could go lately with a straight white protagonist. So I might check that out unless they have somebody tied to a chair. That's my rule out for any movie. Did you really need to tie that guy to a chair?
All right. Well, if you watch soccer, you know that the Gold Cup concluded yesterday and Mexico and the US were in the finals. And the better team won. Mexico looked like they're just a better team, frankly. But was it predictable? Was it predictable that Mexico would win? Apparently Mexico doesn't usually beat the US soccer team. I didn't know that, but I learned that yesterday. But this time they did.
Well, have I ever told you that the best story usually wins? The best story usually wins. Now this is very related to my other point of view that the most entertaining outcome is the one that's most likely. The best story and the most entertaining outcome are kind of the same.
Now if you were going to use that to predict who would win in the context of Trump closing the border and getting tough with Mexico and the Mexicans being very unhappy, I would guess with at least the government of the United States at the momen
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t, who is more likely to win? The bully, which would be the United States, even though it had nothing to do with the soccer team, or the victims of the bully, which would be the Mexican soccer team, but again, not the actual players, just the idea of one country versus another. And so if you would use that standard, which is weirdly predictive, it is so predictive that the best story would win. Th…
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