Post Game: March 24, 2017

In Post Game - On Demand by Gigi Manukyan74 Comments

Steve Oh, Irma Brito, Gigi Manukyan, and Michael Wood present the Friday PRE-game with smuggled Armenian vodka and Steve’s bougie French press coffee. Steve brags about his college party days. Gigi gives an Armenian history lesson. Michael shares a funny poop story. Irma reads some great and not-so-great Friday PG comments.


Comments

  1. Shit, I was late to this party, just watched it now, but like many other members (and I’ve said this before) Michael Wood should get his own show!

  2. Definitely should give Michael his own show! He gives such great insight and has great debates with people!

  3. I prefer the Friday PG to be Steve with Malcolm and the “socially awkward” Dave. (I think Dave is probably more socially indifferent than socially awkward but I can see why someone would think that.)

    However if MDF wants to do their own show, why not? They should practice not speaking over each other though.

  6. Add Michael Wood, Jr.! I love to hear his perspective given his military and police background. Plus, who doesn’t like a little eye-candy? :)

  7. I don’t know if he’s being considered as a potential hire or not, but I think Michael would be a great person to have on more often. So would Wes.

  8. Btw my homies & I would get lit af, smoking up every day & drinking booze , private school life ha.

  9. Gigi is right. I’m one of the biggest heathens , went to private school most of my young life aside from 8th&12th grade. In HS everyone was fucking everyone , during school , after school AT school, streets around school, school events, teachers were having affairs with students , deans were accused of sexual misconduct. And those were the ‘CHRISTIANS’. Still this shit blew me away. Hypocrisy is alive. There was definitely a strange sexualized culture among most everyone, because they were so stifled by the upbringing. Recently they held a emergency meeting To tell the GIRLS that their school mandated uniforms of skirts; shorts,etc were too DISTRACTING to the young guys & as a result their grades were slipping. Ridiculous Shit. Btw the school is tucked away in a very white, fundamentally conservative, canyon in Sun Valley.

  11. Youth in Government* is a YMCA based HS club where students draft and debate bills in real mock government settings. In Florida we took a trip to Tallahassee every year and used the actual Capital and capital building to debate our Owen drafted legislation. It was SO AWESOME.
    I absolutely hate how being a SJW has a negative connotation. As if sticking up against racism, sexism and other bullshit behavior is a bad thing.

  12. I like when Michael Wood is on. I don’t agree with him on some things, so I enjoy hearing his perspective. It makes me see things from a different point of view when I otherwise might not. I think he’s a good addition whenever he’s on.

  13. I’ve never submitted one comment as a member until now. Please hire Micheal. Please. I love TYT. I love Micheal and what he stands for. I’m FROM Baltimore, so I’m a little biased, but IMO he would make a FANTASTIC addition to the panel rotation.

  14. Irma read my message saying Malcolm is hilarious and should have his own show but didn’t read my name. What’s up with that!?

    Malcolm should have his own show btw. Friday Post Game with Dave and Malcolm and Steve O is the best show on TYT…..

    1. Damn can’t edit, I mean PG is the best show on TYT, . Its always fun and I love the various behind the scenes people I get to meet.

      Give Malcolm his own game show and do more PGs!

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      Sorry that was my fault. I just posted the comments onto a Google doc without writing usernames

  16. YEEEEESSSS to Michael Wood. He and Wes Clark Jr. have a way of making me – I don’t want to say shift my perspective. They both sort of have a way of distracting the mental auto-focus that makes you notice and appreciate the different layers of it.

  18. Have I been taking a nap through these shows? Why have I never seen Gigi on TYT before? :/

    Anyway, she’s great. I’d love to see her on more programs on TYT. :)

    As for Michael, I think the guy is wonderful and adds some wonderful personality to the show. So, give the man a job! :D

  19. Ok so I love Michael on post games but when he hosted Hour 1 of the main show I didn’t think he had enough knowledge about politics and I didn’t feel like he brought a lot to the discussion. I know he has great knowledge about police stories and environmental stories but I would not recommend he host the first hour.

  23. YES, Michael Wood would be a valuable addition to TYT! Whenever he’s on a show, I know it’s going to be good.

  24. And since Gigi is apparently reading all the comments: you seem like a lovely person from what I have seen of you on the Post Game so far, but you need to take your website tasks more seriously. This time, you got all the shows on and the links right (yay), but you switched the Hour 1 Featured Image with the Post Game Featured Image. It may seem like a tiny thing, but it seems super unprofessional and like you do your job with very little attention to details and without checking your work. Since the website his TYTs face to the members, you should make extra sure that everything is neat and accessible, all the links are available and all the right videos are in the right places.
    If you can manage that, I will enjoy you even more when you are on the show and not secretly grumble about your carelessness.

  25. I see Michael Wood similarly to Michael Shure and Ben – I cannot decide whether I really like them or not and I certainly don’t agree with them all the time (even though all three of them are very different from each other) but I love it when they are on the show because The bring such diversity of opinion. I would love to have Michael Wood on more regularly for this reason. He adds a very interesting unique voice to TYT and shakes up the debates.
    Also, always fun to have him on the same panel with Jimmy ;)

    2. yep, I agree with this too. There is no equal to Cenk for political analysis in my opinion, but I love the diversity of opinions and exchanges. I generally prefer the older TYT commentators and hosts, but that’s probably because I’ve been watching them so long and I am an older viewer–56, but also just their greater experience. Michael Wood has the experience of being in the military and police, so that brings something extra and can maybe create a bridge from TYT to new audiences?

  27. We were totally hoping for Michael Wood to be in this round of /go funding, please bring him on board for the final round as a bonus at the very least!

    We’re excited every time we see him on any of the shows because he brings such an intelligent, real-world perspective with a great sense of humour!

    Can we have a poll to vote him in to come on board at TYT pleeeeeeeeease…

    Much love to the Millenials, the ladies and the three amigos – Friday night post-games are always so good!

    Second only to Aggressive Progressives…

  28. you should give Michael Wood a job on cheekbones alone;D he sounded a bit desperat at the end there, so you could probably pay him a dogshit salary and he’ll accept:p

  29. I love Michael Wood because he tweaks my perceptions. I am REALLY uncomfortable with cop, soldiers and the like and have to say I generally consider them less than…. Michael explodes that. He speaks my language he thinks my thoughts AND plants new seeds to think about. Bring him on!

  31. HIRE MICHAEL, BIGLY! REALLY REALLY BIGLY HIRE HIM.

    HE WOULD BE AWESOME. HE JOKES, HE SMILES, HE MUCKS AROUND, HE’S VERY BRIGHT, INTELLIGENT, EXPERIENCED. PERFECT FIT.

  32. I vote to give Michael a weekly show. make it a weekend show so I have something to watch before work on Mondays.

  34. I didn’t realize these comments were so read (hi) and you get negative comments about post game. :(
    I totally get that you want to leave on friday so you prerecord and that your all so busy it might be different groups.
    Its all really good, I may not agree with everyone and the newer ppl might accidentally talk over each other a bit. which makes it hard to understand but you all have good points and I learn lots. Thank you everyone.
    You could mix up the groups and it would still be a good show. I love TYT family.
    Good luck and i guess my tip is dont focus too much on the negative or your inspiring ppl to be negative to get your attention. Basically remember you rock.

  35. Agree with everyone on Michael Wood–loved him ever since his first appearance and been wondering lately if they could hire him. Love Steve too.

  36. Irma!

    If youre reading this, please set up a special friday post game where Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh competitively drink moonshine while someone reads them outlandish Hillary supporter quotes!

    1. OH MY GOD THIS IS SUCH A HILARIOUSLY AWESOME IDEA. GIGI PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU PITCH HIM. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY!

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      There’s a reason I received a 1 on my AP Euro exam……then again I also drew the Eiffel Tower as one of my DBQ responses.

  39. Since they read the member comments: the website is fucking slow guys. Like… I think trump finishes faster than this website okay. ???? Seriously, slow af. Make it fast. Hire Trump’s web guy, he pays him $3, you got a website.

    1. Yeah, hire the $3 website guy that works with trump. How do I delete the last embarrassing comment ????

  40. These young pups complaining about how they had no tech growing up…

    The steel sofa springs stuck up through the first-generation magic powderizing foam cushions and poked us in the ass. ‘Live’ reporting was often play-acted after the fact for the 11 o’clock news rather than captured on cellphone video.

    I watched the first lunar landing live, on a black-and-white Zenith tube television with a motorized VHF tuner that sounded like a frog ribbiting and had to be fine-tuned using a plastic screwdriver from the inside of the cabinet.

    Young children ran screaming and terrified from the room when the spooky Doctor Who electronic theme song played on TV for the first time. Satellite TV required a BUD (big ugly dish about 10′ across) and a football field sized yard to install it.

    Televisions needed replacement tubes every couple of years and so did shortwave radios if one actually wanted to know what was going on in the world rather than being spoon-fed pure propaganda, but one also had to know how to speak several languages fluently. Being native born to native born, we only spoke English so we grew up geographically isolated and largely misinformed or ignorant of world affairs. Consequently, racism as sexism were considered normal while the rest of the western world was coming of age.

    Social media was a CB radio (if we were lucky) and the only people to talk with were neighbors and the occasional trucker “puttin’ the hammer down” when he got the all-clear from his buddies that the ‘smoky’ had moved to a new ’20’. The craze was short-lived because the communication range was limited to about 10 miles or less without a tower and an illegal amplifier, and everyone was ‘walking all over’ everyone else rather than taking turns nicely, especially those cops in Texas jamming channel 19 with tape loops of garbage on illegal linear amplifiers that we could hear all the way up in Maine.

    There were still party line phones where we had to take turns on the line with a neighbor or two, or three. There were only two ringer wires to choose from, so if there were more than two parties on one ringer wire we had to listen to the rhythm of the ringer signal to tell whose line was being called. If we wanted to call one of the other parties on the same ringer line, we had to dial a special call-back ringer and hang up, then wait for the other party to pick up before we also picked up.

    We typed our term papers on smudgy corraseable paper with the double red lines around it delineating the margins to warn you that it was important to type in the box and not get too creative around the edges or you might be a communist.

    Calculators were considered cheating, so we used a slide rule until the authorities sorted things out between themselves. The charge life of ni-cad batteries and LED display was about 2 hours down to zero as the batteries aged over a few months so instructors brought outlet strips, extension cords, and spare calculators to keep things fair.

    Turning on the Texas Instruments calculator while hot from charging all night was pretty much certain to blow the chips. The simpler and more reliable (but more expensive) Hewlett Packard calculator required the operator to be fluent in re-ordered operations of Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) with no parenthesis allowed because the human took over the role of pushing and popping the stack manually.

    Trig functions plus root/square/log/ln were especially fancy buttons to have, evoking ooohs and aaaahs from all the other nerds. When programmable calculators hit the scene there was a new round of “Is this cheating?” soul searching.

    The high school teletype connected to the computer in the privatized technical high school via 100 baud modem (I can type faster than that). If we got something wrong we had to re-type the whole program because it was just about impossible to edit the paper punch tape once they ran out of those red sticky patches even if you were bright enough to be able to find and correct the goof with a patch/repunch/splice. If you were lucky, the remote computer sent back your asterisk parabola printout via modem before you had already left for your next class.

    Punch cards held a single line of code each. A shoebox full of punch cards dropped all over the college computing lobby could take hours to sort out, so rubber bands were popular safety devices. If you think engineering math is challenging, try doing it on punch cards.

    Editing code could mean re-numbering punch cards or at least charting the order in a log to keep it all straight. A single noob loop instruction could burn up the entire processing budget a student was allotted for the entire term in a fraction of a second, or waste an inches-thick ream of fan-fold line printer paper on ‘Hello World’.

    There was no such thing as a disk drive in a personal computer unless one had four stars on collar and a dozen medals on chest.

    Guitars were tuned by ear with a tuning fork because the motorized/tubed analog tuners were too expensive.

    Plastic transistor radios from Japan shattered into a million pieces the first time they got dropped, and were promptly mended with layers of sticky Scotch tape that had to be removed again to replace the battery. Leaving a ‘transistor’ on the dashboard in the summer under non-tinted windshield while at the beach would melt the remains into slag even with the windows open, and earn a strong rebuke from the parents who used push mowers on the lawn and probably felt like using them on us too after we melted a transistor into the dash.

    AM came standard and FM stereo in cars was front/back if present at all. If you had a tape player it was almost certainly 8-track that changed tracks in the middle of songs. Every 8 track tape bound up eventually as the lubricant dried out and the infinite loop on a single spindle stopped slipping against itself.

    Automatic transmission, power brakes, and power steering were all optional, and corporations hated spending the money on such frivolities, so blue collar workers had Popeye forearms and cantaloupe calves to go with their herniated disks and aching backs.

    Central air conditioning was a noisy 150 pound appliance your father bought at Sears and put in the living room window every summer.

    Soon after tampons became super-absorbent we learned about toxic shock syndrome the hard way.

    Japanese compact cars with newfangled anti-theft combo steering/ignition locks on the steering column would force you right off the road and into the parked cars if you accidentally switched off the ignition, until they finally passed a law making a shifter interlock mandatory so no one would ever die in such silly tragedy again.

    Seat belts became mandatory in cars, and my father had to retrofit our Dodge Dart to make it compliant, but actually wearing them was still optional. I have a scar on my eyelid from my parents dangling the huge silver buckle over the top of the front seat and slamming on the brakes with me in back to become a relativistic projectile hurtling into that painfully sharp chunk of chrome.

    Ralph Nader launched his political career off the Corvair’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ rear engine and rear suspension making the thing fishtail and roll over like the antique slot cars we used to race in the basement while our male siblings chopped the heads off Barbie and Ken and we burned Barbie’s plastic bikini bras in feminist protest of the inhumane testosterone slaughter of innocents.

    Smallpox vaccine left a huge pockmarked scar on the shoulder. Braces were metal bands wrapped around all the teeth and a mild face-first bump into the edge of a door was enough to cause blood spray everywhere from hamburger lips. Many people my age and older who had ‘overbite’ now have ‘underbite’ and TMJ (jaw) dysfunction instead thanks to bicuspid extraction and overcorrection.

    PMS and endometriosis were still ‘hysterical’, imaginary mental illnesses that uniquely affected females. Depression was rampant among women plus queers that are also sort of female, and no wonder since we were treated like shit and still are for the most part though I hear things were getting steadily better until the recent election.

    Cancer was nearly invariably fatal (though in truth not much has changed in that respect if one uses 15 year survival rates rather than 5 since even early detection is not soon enough to prevent metastases).

    Abortion was barely legal and rarely affordable, but we all chipped in. ‘Bad’ girls without the means or the will for abortion ended up teenage high school dropouts and single moms on welfare with cockroaches for co-tenants and minimum wage jobs for life to go with that scarlet S.

    Bicycle helmets were nonexistent. Motorcycle helmets were optional and every now and then some Hell’s Angel with road rash all over his face would hang out selling weed and LSD.

    Stranger danger was about 100 times more prevalent, with pictures of local neighborhood kids staring back at us from milk cartons while we ate our marshmallow-filled breakfast cereal with carcinogenic dye in it.

    These greenhorn whippersnapper millennials think they got it tough growing up? HA! Just let me go find my cane and beat some sense into you.

    What good we oldsters had that you never experienced are things like the fields and fields of wild blueberries and wild mushrooms, including some psilocybin. You never ate wild strawberries the size of pearls with a delicate mild tender sweetness that puts the tough soapy bitter monstrosities we have today to shame.

    Most of you grew up in towns covered in concrete and asphalt, with fences between the yards making everyone strangers, nothing but light/noise/chemical pollution everywhere, and your noses buried in your electronics rather than out playing with your neighbors and getting fresh air and exercise or using your imaginations where your physical accommodations fell short of your fantasy.

    You were raised on Roundup-ready GMOs and your fibromyalgia is likely the inevitable result of a lifetime of eating neuron-destroying anticholinesterase inhibitors from the pesticides that are basically just revised forms of Zyklon.

    So yes, there were advantages to not having so much tech around, but they were more ephemeral and systemic experiences we just took for granted without even realizing they were vanishing before our eyes until it was too late.

    1. Ouch. Punchcards. Relive the nightmare.

      Was bringing three boxes of “code” to be fed to an HP 9000 that was housed in a “mobile home” at the top of the hill on campus. Lightning struck the rod about 50 feet away and scared the p-jesus out of me, and my statistical analysis program fell to the mud and puddle below the catwalk. Oh the lovely days of FORTRAN programming.

      Tour post makes me feel old. But I refuse to grow up. Still play with my toy soldiers.

    3. My dad wrote code for the first Apollo moon landing and it was all done by punch cards. The slender little MacBook I’m typing on right now contains more processing power than the entirety of the computer resources employed by NASA to send Apollo to the moon.

  41. TYT would be sorely remiss to not hire Michael Wood in any capacity, let alone as a contributor. This man is indeed revolutionary in his thinking and action.

    This guy was literally dredged through the crumpled masses of societal refuse for the better part of his adult life and still chose to study the systems that generate such conditions in the interest of affording better quarter for justice to those who were his natural adversary. Fucking brilliant guy.

  42. It’s not substantive but I’m only 10 minutes in and Gigi’s new haircut is KILLING IT. So beautiful.

  43. Michael Wood’s point of view is very valuable and would be a progressive voice to reckon with. He could undermine a lot of bullshit with his experience and uphold honest work in the police force. And this guy served or country. A hero with a progressive head on his shoulders.

    I’ve heard of Dave Koller’s sense of humor described by others on the show. I think I would get along with him and often think a chess game would be edifying. Something tells me I would probably get schooled by his skill.

  45. You’re describing Louis XIV, but he was not married to Marie Antoinette, who dated from the late 18th Century and was married to Louis XVI during the time of the French Revolution, some 70 to 75 years after Louis XIV’s death.

  46. Gigi… how do I find out what my member number is???? I wanna know what number I am!!!! BTW, love Michael Wood… post game should be you guys getting high… I would join from Maine where I can legally smoke recreational weed!!! Love you guys!! Stay strong!!

    1. I don’t think there is any such thing as a hard-wired member number. Members come and go. I myself have come-and-gone several times over the years, as credit cards were replaced and TYT did not have a system sophisticated enough to automatically contact members when a card was discontinued, so I’d just drop off the roles for a while until I remembered to re-join with the new card. So if they say “We have 20,000 members” I’m pretty sure that I’m 4 of them.

      I suspect that someone’s “member number” is whatever number is in the left-hand column of the Excel spreadsheet used to track current members.

      If that’s the case… The number next to your name will change constantly as new members are added (alpha sorted) and discontinued members are dropped (like, when their credit card discontinues and no one alerts them to the need to provide TYT with new payment information :o).

  47. Cenk announces micheal wood as next hire I don’t think it’s going to take too long to get to that 2 million mark. Ummm! Yummy! his revolutionary solution to the policing problem needs a platform. Yes to micheal woods!!

  48. this post game is one of the best! I wish Steve-O would be more on the 1rst hour. I like his commentary.

  51. Michael J Wood Jr. doesn’t just kickass, his ideas on community policing are revolutionary & inevitable unless police get replaced by robots sooner than they can get implimented. He should have his own show & could effect real change in the world, reforming policing if he had that platform. I’m actually really surprised it hasn’t happened yet. Please seriously consider giving him his own show immediately. Love you all. TYT FOREVER. TOO STRONG!

  52. Yeah, hire Michael Wood in the final go round. I like him. Great addition to any show he is on.

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