Hello everyone, I am not one of the people who thought this series was a monstrosity. I just think it's a bit out of date. like if this was made in 2012 it would be a success, i saw season one's writing as kind of equivalent to a Shane Dawson sketch if that makes sense? Kind of inappropriate and grouping people in a box, shock humor. Over all i would give season 1 a 6 out of 10. Saying that I still really enjoyed season one.
Season 2 I am going to give a good 7.5 or 8 out of 10, to me I still think Velma is a very unlikeable character. However, I think a lot of other shows have main characters that a disliked by most compared to the other characters. For example Awkward, Twilight, and Harry Potter.
I think everyone's characters sort of evolved and regressed, like in season one Velma only made sweeping accusations, but now the whole future Mystery Gang runs toward accusations without a second thought. Also, I loved the brains as characters, I think they were really funny and I loved Shaggy and Lola's relationship.
Amber was a really good addition, I think they did the right thing about bringing the 'Hex' Girls in but as a parent because the Hex Girls are so iconic. I think Sophie and Velma's relationship had evolved and was sweet this season, now that Diya is back she isn't so hostile to her and you get to see a real fondness between the two masked as them bickering.
Also, I just love Jane and Wanda as Daphne's Parents, I see them as being cast as the same character in a lot of shows. If Wanda isn't in the show then it is Jane, and vice versa, i just love them so much
In Closing, I think this season was a lot better than the first. I would love a season three just to see all the secondary character's stories continue. I would also love to see Shaggy x Fred. I think Daphne X Velma has been explored a lot, but this season set up Fred x Shaggy has been more likely to happen.

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom) A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books) Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra) Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor) Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK) Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK) System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey) 

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey) The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK) Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom) The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK) Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll) He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle) My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra) City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra) Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) 

Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley) The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere) Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK) Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World) Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher) Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) 

Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK) The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido) Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street) A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard) The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK) The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz) Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen) Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK) The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick) The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen) 

Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon) The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK) The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK) These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US) The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW) Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz) Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK) Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century) 

The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom) The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean) “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun) The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean) Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor) The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom) The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom) Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) 

“What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches) “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches) I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave) “The Year Without Sunshine“, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23) “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog) “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown) “The Rainbow Bank“, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23) “One Man’s Treasure“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23) “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23) “On the Fox Roads“, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23) 

“A Soul in the World“, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23) “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23) “The Mausoleum’s Children“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23) “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2) “Window Boy“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23) “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming) “The Sound of Children Screaming“, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23) “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23) “Stones“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23) “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead“, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23) 

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade) Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK) The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic) Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador) New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK) The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android) The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra) 

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon) Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex) The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic) White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra) No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow) Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow) Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock) Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer) The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean) The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean) 

Analog Asimov’s Beneath Ceaseless Skies Clarkesworld F&SF FIYAH khōréō Strange Horizons Tor.com Uncanny 

Angry Robot DAW Gollancz Neon Hemlock Orbit Small Beer Subterranean Tachyon Tor Tordotcom 

Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Arley Sorg & Christie Yant Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheree Renée Thomas E. Catherine Tobler Ann VanderMeer Sheila Williams 

Brom Rovina Cai Kinuko Y. Craft Julie Dillon Bob Eggleton Abigail Larson John Picacio Charles Vess Michael Whelan Alyssa Winans 

The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic) 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK) Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024) All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene) 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing) Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver) Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House) A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing) Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone) Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood) 

The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics) The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published) Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art) The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen) The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope) Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic) Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse) Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams) Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian) 

As always, #1 slot does not mean that they're my winner pick, just that they're the most likely nominee. Reddit has a character limit and I go kinda crazy with these so I'll include a link to my elongated list at the bottom.

Picture

1. Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. Pictures
2. Blitz, Apple Studios
3. Conclave, Focus Features
4. A Real Pain, Searchlight Pictures
5. Hedda, Amazon MGM Studios
6. Sing Sing, A24
7. Pedro Páramo, Netflix
8. Bird, TBD
9. Dìdi, Focus Features
10. The Fire Inside, Amazon MGM Studios
11. The Room Next Door, Sony Pictures Classics
12. Civil War, A24
13. Maria, TBD
14. His Three Daughters, Netflix
15. Gladiator II, Paramount Pictures
16. The Piano Lesson, Netflix
17. Parthenope, A24
18. Joker: Folie à Deux, Warner Bros. Pictures
19. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Warner Bros. Pictures
20. Hard Truths, Bleeker Street

Director

1. Steve McQueen, Blitz
2. Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
3. Edward Berger, Conclave
4. Andrea Arnold, Bird
5. Nia DaCosta, Hedda
6. Pablo Almodóvar, The Room Next Door
7. Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope
8. Rodrigo Prieto, Pedro Parámo
9. Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
10. Pablo Larraín, Maria

Actor

1. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
2. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
3. Barry Keoghan, Bird
4. Tenoch Huerta, Pedro Páramo
5. John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
6. Daniel Craig, Queer
7. Wagner Moura, Civil War
8. Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
9. Gael García Bernal; Holland, Michigan
10. Paul Mescal, Gladiator II

Actress

1. Tessa Thompson, Hedda
2. Angelina Jolie, Maria
3. Carrie Coon, His Three Daughters
4. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
5. Amy Adams, Nightbitch
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tuesday
7. Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
8. Kirsten Dunst, Civil War
9. Lady Gaga, Joker: Folie à Deux
10. Nicole Kidman; Holland, Michigan

Supporting Actor

1. Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
2. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
3. Stanley Tucci, Conclave
4. Franz Rogowski, Bird
5. John Lithgow, Conclave
6. Harris Dickinson, Blitz
7. Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
8. Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
9. Callum Turner, Hedda
10. Stephen Graham, Blitz

Supporting Actress

1. Saorise Ronan, Blitz
2. Joan Chen, Dìdi
3. Nina Hoss, Hedda
4. Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
5. Giovanna Zacarías, Pedro Páramo
6. Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
7. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
8. Eve Hewson, Hedda
9. Elizabeth Olsen, His Three Daughters
10. Kathy Burke, Blitz

Adapted Screenplay

1. Peter Straughan, Conclave
2. Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing
3. Nia DaCosta, Hedda
4. Barry Jenkins, The Fire Inside
5. Mateo Gil, Pedro Páramo
6. Denis Villenueve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two
7. Marielle Heller, Nightbitch
8. Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington, The Piano Lesson
9. Justin Kuritzkes, Queer
10. Eric Roth and Robert Zemeckis, Here

Original Screenplay

1. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
2. Andrea Arnold, Bird
3. Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Door
4. Sean Wang, Dìdi
5. Steve McQueen, Blitz
6. David Lowery, Mother Mary
7. Steven Knight, Maria
8. Alex Garland, Civil War
9. Umberto Contarello and Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope
10. Daina O. Pusić, Tuesday

Animated Feature

1. Spellbound, Apple Studios
2. The Wild Robot, Universal Pictures
3. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Warner Bros. Pictures
4. Inside Out 2, Walt Disney Pictures
5. The Glassworker, TBD
6. The Most Precious of Cargoes, TBD
7. Mufasa: The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures
8. Sauvages!, TBD
9. Memoir of a Snail, TBD
10. Flow, TBD

Documentary

Shortlist Slots: 15

1. Daughters, Netflix
2. Sugarcane, National Geographic
3. The Beauty of Gaza, TBD
4. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Netflix
5. Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, Netflix
6. Dahomey, MUBI
7. Power, Netflix
8. Learn/Apprende, TBD
9. No Other Land, TBD

International Feature

Eligibility Window: 1 November 2023 - 30 September 2024
Shortlist Slots: 15

1. Evil Does Not Exist, Japan (Japanese)
2. Pedro Páramo, Mexico (Spanish)
3. Parthenope, Italy (Italian/Neapolitan)
4. Emilia Perez, France (Spanish)
5. Kill the Jockey, Argentina (Spanish)
6. Kneecap, Ireland (Irish Gaelic)
7. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Norway (Norwegian/Danish)
8. All We Imagine as Light, India (Malayalam/Hindi)
9. Grand Tour, Portugal (Portuguese)
10. Dahomey, Senegal (French)
11. Dying, Germany (German)
12. The Girl with the Needle, Denmark (Danish)
13. Last Shadow at First Light, Singapore (Japanese/Mandarin)
14. Motel Destino, Brazil (Portuguese)
15. The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, Iran (Persian)

Cinematography

1. Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
2. Edward Lachman, Maria
3. Rina Yang, The Fire Inside
4. Nico Aguilar, Pedro Páramo
5. Yorick Le Saux, Blitz
6. Rob Hardy, Civil War
7. Stéphane Fontaine, Conclave
8. Lawrence Sher, Joker: Folie à Deux
9. Sean Bobbitt, Hedda
10. Robbie Ryan, Bird

Costume Design

1. Jacqueline West, Dune: Part Two
2. Jacqueline Durran, Blitz
3. Paul Tazewell, Wicked: Part One
4. David Crossman and Janty Yates, Gladiator II
5. Massimo Cantini Parrini, Maria
6. Lisy Christl, Conclave
7. Arianne Phillips, Joker: Folie à Deux
8. Shirley Kurata, Opus
9. Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, The Piano Lesson
10. Jenny Beaven, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Editing

1. Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two
2. Peter Sciberras, Blitz
3. Nick Emerson, Conclave
4. Harry Yoon, The Fire Inside
5. Jake Roberts, Civil War
6. Jeff Groth, Joker: Folie à Deux
7. Sam Restivo and Claire Simpson, Gladiator II
8. Marco Costa, Challengers
9. Joe Bini, Bird
10. Margaret Sixel and Eliot Knapman, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Hair and Make-Up

Shortlist Slots: 15

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Civil War
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. Monkey Man
5. A Different Man
6. Hit Man
7. The Apprentice
8. Joker: Folie à Deux
9. Wicked: Part One
10. The Fire Inside
11. Gladiator II
12. Borderlands
13. Maria
14. Nosferatu
15. Challengers

Production Design

1. Zsuzsanna Sipos, Patrice Vermette, and Shane Vieau; Dune: Part Two
2. Arthur Max, Elli Griff, and Jille Azis; Gladiator II
3. Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock, Blitz
4. Suzie Davies and Cynthia Sleiter, Conclave
5. Nathan Crowley, Wicked: Part One
6. Eugenio Caballero and Carlos Y. Jacques, Pedro Páramo
7. Caty Maxey and Lizbeth Ayala, Civil War
8. Mark Friedberg, Joker: Folie à Deux
9. Guy Hendrix Dyas and Sandro Piccarozzi, Maria
10. Colin Gibson and Katie Sharrock, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Score

Shortlist Slots: 20

1. Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
2. Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two
3. Alan Menken, Spellbound
4. Gustavo Santaolalla, Pedro Páramo
5. Tamar-kali, The Fire Inside
6. Harry Gregson-Williams, Gladiator II
7. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hedda
8. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Challengers
9. Anna Meredith, Tuesday
10. Nicholas Britell, Mufasa: The Lion King
11. Bryce Dessner, Sing Sing
12. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker: Folie à Deux
13. Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
14. Thomas Newman, Kinds of Kindness
15. Siddhartha Khosla, The Idea of You

Song

Shortlist Slots: 15, (max 2 per film)

1. TBD from Diane Warren: Relentless
2. TBD from Kneecap
3. TBD from Spellbound
4. "Not My Fault" from Mean Girls
5. TBD from Joker: Folie à Deux
6. TBD from Wicked: Part One
7. TBD from The Idea of You

Sound

Shortlist Slots: 10

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Civil War
3. Twisters
4. Challengers
5. A Quiet Place: Day One
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. Blitz
8. Gladiator II
9. The Fire Inside
10. Joker: Folie à Deux

Visual Effects

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Blitz
3. Twisters
4. Civil War
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. The Fall Guy
7. Wicked: Part One
8. Mufasa: The Lion King
9. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
10. Here

BAFTA Casting

1. Blitz
2. Dìdi
3. Conclave
4. Bird
5. Monkey Man
6. The Nickel Boys
7. Wicked: Part One
8. Sing Sing
9. Pedro Páramo
10. The Apprentice

SAG Ensemble

1. Sing Sing, A24
2. Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. Pictures
3. Blitz, Apple Studios
4. Conclave, Focus Features
5. Hedda, Amazon MGM Studios
6. Civil War, A24
7. Wicked: Part One, Universal Pictures

Stunts

1. Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. Pictures
2. The Fall Guy, Universal Pictures
3. Monkey Man, Universal Pictures
4. Joker: Folie à Deux, Warner Bros. Pictures
5. Civil War, A24
6. Blitz, Apple Studios
7. Wicked: Part One, Universal Pictures

DGA First Feature

1. Rachel Morrison, The Fire Inside
2. Sean Wang, Dìdi
3. Agathe Riedinger, Wild Diamond
4. Dev Patel, Monkey Man
5. Ellen Kuras, Lee

My long prediction
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LPs

• C-Kan (🇲🇽) - Cualquier Parecido con La Realidad [Latin Rap]
• Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (w André 3000, George Clinton, Thundercat, BJ The Chicago Kid, D Smoke + more) [Jazz Fusion, Young]
• Slum Village - F.U.N. (w Larry June, Cordae, Sango, Fat Ray + more) [Midwest Hip Hop]
• Cookin Soul (🇪🇸) - Raw Tapes Vol. 1 Beats [Beats]
• Heembeezy - Beezy Baby [L.A. Trap, Santa Anna]
• ALLBLACK - ROUND 1 (w 03 Greedo, Berner & R3 Da Chilliman) [Bay Area Rap]
• DJ Muggs - Silver Cloud [Boom Bap]
• Blockhead - Luminous Rubble [Boom Bap, Def Presse]
• Spice 1 - Platinum O.G. 2 (w Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, C.L. Smooth, DJ Premier, Conway the Machine, MC Eiht, Devin the Dude, Paul Wall, Lil' Flip, B-Legit + more) [West Coast Rap]
• evilgiane & Slimesito - Evilslime [Plugg, Surf Gang]
• Ras Kass, RJ Payne & Havoc - Guttr (w Method Man, Kurupt, Twista, Raekwon, KXNG CROOKED + more) [Boom Bap, Fat Beats]
• Chicken P - Hard Nigga Livin' (w Baby Money) [Milwaukee Trap, 10KP]
• Black Jack OBS (🇫🇷) - Strangulation (w Freeze corleone + more) [French Drill]
• Saigon & Fredro - The Jordan Era (w Pete Rock, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Grand Puba, Sadat X, Grandmaster Caz + more) [Boom Bap]
• Chanceko (🇫🇷) - En roue libre [French Trap]
• OT The Real - PALE HORSE (w BoriRock, Merkules + more) [Philly Rap]
• Jadasea (🇬🇧) - Too Many Tears [Rap, 10k]
• Baby Neelou (🇫🇷) - Le Chemin du Cœur [French Trap]
• Jawnino (🇬🇧) - 40 (w MIKE, Jesse James Solomon, evilgiane, Airhead + more) [UK Rap, True Panther]
• Rouge Carmin (🇫🇷) - GRAND CARMIN HÔTEL [French Rap]
• samayusi (🇫🇷) - des cauchemars qui ont saigné [Rap]
• Curtisy (🇮🇪) - WHAT WAS THE QUESTION [Irish Rap]
• LAVILLE (🇫🇷) - LAVILLE 9 [French Rap]

Deluxe

• Jorja Smith (🇬🇧) - falling or flying: reimagined [UK R&B]
• NSG (🇬🇧) - AREA BOYZ DELUXE (w Stonebwoy, Blaqbonez & Slim) [Afroswing]
• AJ Suede - Ark Flashington [Portland Rap]

EPs

• Farruko (🇵🇷) - CVRBON VRMOR [C_DE: G_D.O.N.] [Latin Trap]
• DaBaby - Ghetto Superstar: The Intro (w Skilla Baby) [Trap, Interscope]
• Eladio Carrión (🇵🇷) - Porque Puedo [Latin Trap]
• 4batz - u made me a st4r (w Kanye West) [R&B, gamma.]
• Gloss Up - Not Ya Girl: Act 1 (w Jacquees, Hunxho & Skilla Baby) [Memphis Trap, QC]
• Rome Streetz & WavyDaGod - Buck 50 [Boom Bap]
• KPoint (🇫🇷) - Shottas [Rap]
• Valee & Black Noi$e - Partridge [Chicago Rap]
• gapman (🇫🇷) - Prochaine Chèvre 2 [French Rap, Sony]
• Nixon (🇫🇷), La Miellerie & G.A THE PLUG - OUTSIDER [Rap, [PIAS]]
• Key Nyata - DONT FOLD, Vol. 1 (w Denzel Curry & Lia Liza) [Seattle Rap]
• Papo2oo4 & subjxct 5 - We Don't Miss [NJ Rap]
• HELOÏM (🇫🇷) - DERNIER RUSH [French Rap]
• Acifiq (🇫🇷) - SI C'ÉTAIT AUSSI SIMPLE [French Rap]

Songs

• Kendrick Lamar - euphoria / 6:16 in LA
• Uncle Luke & Trick Daddy - Scarred (Remix) [feat. Pitbull & Trina]
• Gunna & Turbo - Whatsapp (Wassum)
• Casper Mágico, Anuel AA, Laur La L & iZaak - Toki
• Yeat - King tonka / heavy stunts (feat. Don Toliver)
• Kevin Abstract & Romil - Tennessee (feat. Lil Nas X
• G-Eazy - Lady Killers III
• Lil Tecca - Never Last / Number 2
• Maiya The Don & Flo Milli - Expensive
• Finesse2Tymes - Letter to the Devil / Traumatized (feat. NBA Youngboy)
• Lil Mabu & NBA Youngboy - ENGINE
• Bakar - React
• B.o.B - Steve Harvey
• Conway the Machine & Don Cannon - Ten (feat. Key Glock) / Rya Interlude
• PBE Pluto & BigXthaPlug - Alabama
• Trueno - THE ROOF IS ON FIRE
• Moneybagg Yo & Tay Keith - TRYNA MAKE SURE
• Mary J. Blige - Still Believe In Love (Remix) [feat. Vado, Fat Joe, Raekwon & Jadakiss]
• Hunxho & Mike WiLL Made-It - Come Over (feat. 2 Chainz)
• Ghostface Killah & Nas - Scar Tissue
• Chance The Rapper - Buried Alive
• Smokepurpp - HEY THERE DELILAH (feat. Lil Pump)*
• Jasiah, Denzel Curry & Meechy Darko - 5 Days
• $NOT - BULLY
• Bb trickz - Jálele alv (feat. Kevin AMF) / Soy la Más Mala de España (feat. Bryant LR)
• Rapsody - 3:AM (feat. Erykah Badu)
• Black Thought, Your Old Droog, & Madlib - REEKYOD
• 41 - Tweak
• Network the Narcotic & DJ Premier - Hardcore
• Afroman - Hunter Got High
• Trigga500k & BossMan Dlow - Ain't Goin'
• 310babii, OhGeesy & BlueBucksClan - rock your hips
• Aryeé The Gem & DRAM - FWM
• Darkoo & Dess Dior - Favorite Girl
• Ben Reilly - The Blocc 2 (feat. 03 Greedo)
• Prezi & Larry June - Game Recognize Game
• Fana Hues - Paper Tigers
• Mike Shabb & Boldy James - Big Piranhas
• Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh)
• Lancey Foux & Cash Cobain - Gotta Get U
• mynameisntjmack, Mick Jenkins & femdot. - High Kick
• Sango & Dave B. - Meanwhile
• Dave B. - Shots
• Perry Porter, Dave B. & Quise.Wav - Most High
• Wax & Eric Krasno - Higher (feat. Talib Kweli & Nigel Hall)
• YTB Fatt - One Mo
• Fatpocket - The Biggest (Remix) [feat. YTB Fatt]
• Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not (feat. Ritz Reynolds) / Love Is Blind (feat. Solomophonic)
• Henny L.O., Fly Anakin, Big Kahuna & ewonee - Soda
• Pre Blaze & Sada Baby - Freaky World
• Taiku Nulight, P Money & Capo Lee - Style
• Ice Cream Social (Abhi The Nomad & shane doe) - Cell Reception
• Yuki Chiba - TEAM TOMODACHI (Remix) [feat. Duke Deuce]
• softboy ivo, Philanthrope & helmuth - Osiris
• Fonzse - Royalty (feat. Jme & PreeThe1st)
• Kamaiyah - No Pressure
• Stunna Girl - Paid & Put Up
• Kenny Allstar, Bawo & Sam Wise - Chop This Life
• CEO Trayle - What's Ya Point / Play It Smart
• ItsManMan, Lil Vada & 1TakeJay - GTFO
• OG Smoke & Peso Peso - 392
• OsamaSon - Just Score It
• Certified Trapper - Entourage / Win / Plane Jane
• AUDREY NUNA - Jokes On Me
• Kash Doll - Kash Kommandments
• Ocean Wisdom - Near Life Experience
• Soba! & che - Breaking Bad
• wolfacejoeyy - double tap
• Kanii & wolfacejoeyy - hate me
• Yawuh & Korralle - Matcha
• LaRussell, Mike G Beatz & Hokage Simon - Flipside
• Fashawn, Cap Kendricks, DJ Access & Lord Apex - Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Jansport J - People's Choice (feat. Coast Contra)
• Chanel Star & Yhapojj - Wish / Another Planet
• theKenyanTroublers - DYSBF! (feat. Osuwu Jr. & grouptherapy.)
• RXKNephew - Money Can't Replace Time
• Rob Apollo - SUPERBAD / DIGI GIRL
• Tooch MaGooch & Celly Ru - Girlys & Gangstas
• Baby Money - Shinin'
• Motion Mall - Free the Bitch (feat. Philthy Rich)
• bblink, Nettspend & xaviersobased - Slingshot
• J.Star & Big Sad 1900 - Jiffy
• M.V.T, Estee Nack, DEALB & Westham Hooligan - MARTYR
• Lil Bean - mtv cribs
• Siete7x - All My Life (feat. Wallie the Sensei)
• KNEECAP - LOVE MAKING (feat. Nino)
• Ace Clark, eLZhi & Jwalt - WARN YOU
• Stereotype & Lil West - OUTTA MY MIND
• Finch & Fritz Rango - Solstice (feat. Quelle Chris)
• Pagemuzik & Ransom - Spazz Out
• Deja Carter - So What (feat. ZayBang)
• Thizzler On The Roof - Thanks To My Haters (Bar Wars Cypher #13) [feat. KeepItPeezy, Lul Booga & Fully]
• PENPALS & EMERLD - Lupita
• Big Nitti & WifiGawd - Back End
• Struggle Mike, Rick Hyde & Fuego Base - PARASITE
• Suspect 95 - Rose Ba / Transition
• Doggystyleeee - ISSA ALOT OF MACC'N
• Chelo G - Pushin' Through Struggle (feat. Glockboyz Teejae)
• A-F-R-O - Wing Chun
• Fimiguerrero - Mandy
• Freddy Got Magic & Supa Bwe - 24Hunnid
• Snowsa - What's Da Move
• Formerly LEN, Chris Patrick & Ace the Abstract - 12FW
• $atori Zoom & Lunchbox - WHERE WE AT
• Mercury, Vayda & Biskhit - PERFECT
• Nate Brazier - Hard Too
• El Cousteau - Reassurance
• Nhale - On My Mind
• PLUMMCORP RECORDS - dracula flow 5
• BeMyFiasco - Don't Wanna Be Your Lover
• STOUT - SLOW DOWN / Trigger (Remix) [feat. Yaahn Hunter Jr.]
• Paco Panama - Pottstown

Old Drop Watches

2023 and 2024 Calendar

LPs

• Slum Village - F.U.N. (w Larry June, Cordae, Sango, Fat Ray + more) [Midwest Rap]
• Meekz (🇬🇧) - TRU [UK Rap]
• ALLBLACK - ROUND 1 (w 03 Greedo, Berner & R3 Da Chilliman) [Bay Area Rap]
• Rome Streetz & WavyDaGod - Buck 50 [Rap]
• Blockhead - Luminous Rubble [Beats, Def Presse]
• evilgiane & Slimesito - Evilslime [Rap]
• Ras Kass, RJ Payne & Havoc - Guttr (w Method Man, Kurupt, Twista, Raekwon, KXNG CROOKED + more) [Boom Bap, Fat Beats]
• Jadasea (🇬🇧) - Too Many Tears [Rap, 10k]
• Jawnino (🇬🇧) - 40 (w MIKE, Jesse James Solomon, evilgiane, Airhead + more) [UK Rap, True Panther]

Deluxe

• Jorja Smith (🇬🇧) - falling or flying (reimagined) [R&B]
• NSG (🇬🇧) - AREA BOYZ DELUXE (w Stonebwoy, Blaqbonez & Slim) [Afroswing]

EPs

• Eladio Carrión (🇵🇷) - Porque Puedo [Latin Rap]
• DaBaby - Ghetto Superstar: The Intro (w Skilla Baby) [Rap]
• 4batz - u made me a st4r (w Kanye West) [R&B, gamma.]
• Valee & Black Noi$e - Partridge [Rap]
• Papo2oo4 & subjxct 5 - We Don't Miss [Rap]

Songs

• Kendrick Lamar & Cardo - euphoria
• Gunna & Turbo - TBA
• Kevin Abstract & Lil Nas X - Tennessee
• G-Eazy - Lady Killers III
• Yeat - TBA
• Lil Tecca - Never Last / Number 2
• Ghostface Killah & Nas - Scar Tissue
• Chance The Rapper - Buried Alive
• Your Old Droog & Madlib - REEKYOD (feat. Black Thought)
• Network the Narcotic & DJ Premier - Hardcore
• Aryeé The Gem & DRAM - FWM
• Fana Hues - Paper Tigers
• Mike Shabb & Boldy James - Big Piranhas
• Lancey Foux & Cash Cobain - Gotta Get U
• mynameisntjmack, Mick Jenkins & femdot. - High Kick
• Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not / Love Is Blind
• Henny L.O., Fly Anakin & Big Kahuna - Soda
• Ice Cream Social (Abhi The Nomad & shane doe) - Cell Reception
• softboy ivo, Philanthrope & helmuth - Osiris
• CEO Trayle - What's Ya Point
• OsamaSon - Just Score It
• Certified Trapper - Entourage / Win / Plane Jane
• wolfacejoeyy - double tap
• Yawuh & Korralle - Matcha
• LaRussell, Mike G Beatz & Hokage Simon - Flipside
• Jansport J - People's Choice (feat. Coast Contra)
• M.V.T, Estee Nack, DEALB & Westham Hooligan - MARTYR
• KNEECAP (🇮🇪) - LOVE MAKING (feat. Nino)
• Ace Clark, eLZhi & Jwalt - WARN YOU
• Stereotype & Lil West - OUTTA MY MIND
• Pagemuzik & Ransom - Spazz Out
• Thizzler On The Roof - Thanks To My Haters (Bar Wars Cypher #13) [feat. KeepItPeezy, Lul Booga & Fully]
• Big Nitti & WifiGawd - Back End
• Doggystyleeee - ISSA ALOT OF MACC'N
• A-F-R-O - Wing Chun
• Freddy Got Magic & Supa Bwe - 24Hunnid
• Snowsa - What's Da Move
• Mercury, Vayda & Biskhit - PERFECT
• Nate Brazier - Hard Too
• Nhale - On My Mind
• PLUMMCORP RECORDS - dracula flow 5
• BeMyFiasco - Don't Wanna Be Your Lover

Old Drop Watches

2023 and 2024 Calendar

The theme of the month is MOVIE ADAPTATIONS.
Here are the books nominated by you guys:

1. No Country for Old Men: Western crime thriller by Cormac McCarthy adapted into a multiple-Oscar-winning movie by the Coen brothers starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin.
2. Capote by Gerald Clarke and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: The first a biography of Truman Capote, the second started the true crime genre. The first book made into a movie by Bennett Miller, starring the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman (who won the Oscar for this role) and Catherine Keener (who played Harper Lee), the second was adapted into a great movie in the 1960s.
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: A social/romantic drama set in the Gilded Age in New York adapted into a movie by the legendary Martin Scorsese starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.
4. Sophie's Choice by William Styron: A social drama/tragedy adapted into a movie by Alan J. Pakula, starring THE Meryl Streep (one of her Oscar-winning roles) and Kevin Kline.
5. Schindler's List or Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally: Holocaust drama/tragedy adapted by the master Steven Spielberg into a movie starring Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes.
6. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games prequel adapted last year by Frances Lawrence into a movie starring Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, and Hunter Schafer.
7. The Godfather by Mario Puzo: That movie you see on every list of the greatest movies of all time, and for good reason. Adapted by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, and Jimmy Caan.
8. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks: Romantic drama adapted by Nick Cassavetes into a famous romantic film starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
9. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks: Romantic drama adapted by Adam Shankman into a movie starring Shane West and Mandy Moore.
10. PS I love you by Cecilia Ahern: Romantic drama adapted by Richard LaGravenese into a movie starring Hilary Swank.
11. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones: Fantasy novel adapted into an animated movie by the great Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli).
12. Emma by Jane Austen: A comedy of manners adapted into different movies, one starring Gwyneth Paltrow, another starring Anya Taylor-Joy, another starring Sonam Kapoor (AISHA).
13. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A genre-defining sci-fi novel adapted into a movie by James Whale starring Boris Karloff.
14. Carrie by Stephen King: Horrocoming-of-age novel adapted by Brian de Palma, starring Sissy Spacek.

Can't add a poll for 14 options (max = 6), so I'll post all 14 titles in the comments. Whichever is most upvoted will be the book of the month. I can't think of an easier way to do this. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Poll runs until END OF DAY, MAY 3. There is no timer on this poll, so this is the only way to do this.

I’ve decided to rewatch every Amazing Race and rank them all.
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SEASON 23 gets a 6/10
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This season had some good aspects but felt underwhelming overall so is ranked near the bottom. The cast was average besides 3 teams (Leo/Jamal, Tim/Marie, Nicole/Travis who were all pretty dynamic), the route was average (no new countries or anything unique), challenges were okay but few standouts, winners were very forgettable and drama was okay but nothing special. It was an enjoyable season (so gets a 6) but not much stands out as ‘fantastic’.
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General Thoughts

• Immediately I felt the cast wasn’t great, and a cast is the most important element of a good season. Only 3 teams (Leo/Jamal, Tim/Marie Nicole/Travis) had dynamic personalities or storylines while the rest were either bland or 1 dimensional. This cast also felt very gimmicky and mactorish which was a big turnoff when introduced in the 1st leg. It had ChesteEphraim (former footballers), Nicky/Kim (baseball wives), Jason/Amy (Miss Rhode Island), Tim/Marie (sport agent and “friends” with Kim’s husband which is another big turnoff when casting is taking contestants from a similar pool), Nicole/Travis (married doctors), Rowan/Shane (theatre performers), Ally/Ashley (LA Kings Ice Crew workers) and most of the others just felt loud and unrelatable. And teams like Leo/Jamal and Tim/Marie felt like they were playing up to the camera a lot. Probably the least relatable cast so far. Some likeable and interesting teams amongst them though.
  
• While there was some interesting drama, it did come off as annoying sometimes. Tim/Marie giving away the 2nd Express Pass was a big storyline at the start but was mentioned WAY TOO MUCH (it was like this in TAR22 too but TAR23 was worse). After 4 episodes we were like “just hurry up and give it to someone!” There were some interesting alliances (Jason/Amy and Nicole/Travis helping eachother, as well as Leo/Jamal and Ally/Ashley “The Ice-ganimals”) and rivalries (Tim/Marie and Leo/Jamal causing conflicts with other teams). It did have some surprise early boots with 3 alpha male teams (ChesteEphraim, Brandon/Adam, Tim/Danny) all leaving early which felt unique. I don’t understand why they would cast 5 male/male teams after we just had 2 male/male winners in a row…and only cast 2 female/female teams? They lucked out though with an interesting boot order.
  
• Jason/Amy were very forgettable and underwhelming winners unfortunately. They are up there with TyleJames as very unremarkable. I found Jason/Amy very boring and they weren’t even super sweet like Anthony/Bates or TK/Rachel so they were just this boring middle ground. Leo/Jamal were the ideal outcome being the fan favorites, or even an underdog story like Nicky/Kim winning. A Tim/Marie win would have been crazy and unique. Nicole/Travis crashing and burning in the 2nd half was more satisfying than them winning. So another outcome that is “that random boring couple/alpha males won…now time to move on”.
  

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Route

• Not a great route but not terrible. While there were some stunning locations (such as castles in Portugal and Austria, the midnight sun in the Arctic Circle with the Viking longhouse, the deserts near Abu Dhabi, the crater and rural Indonesia looked fantastic, the Shibuya scramble…for the 3rd time), there were also no new countries and no Africa or Oceania. The movie ranch was NOT an epic starting line (TAR22 proved Los Angeles can still have epic starting lines) and Alaska as a finale leg is very overused.
  
• Most of the challenges were okay! I enjoyed the shoe shining (some chaos), measuring Magellan’s journey within 500 nautical miles, polka dance/dressing as Neptune for tips, singing with the Vienna boys choir, sorting dates/making the fishing net, dressing a camel for a beauty contest haha, transporting awkward ingredients like sugar cane across town in taxis, making the angklung instrument (mostly interesting because of Nicole), boiling eggs (an interesting concept with being patient but may have worked better with more teams than just 4), painting partner in makeup/searching the plants and the Japanese robot puzzle. A few that weren’t that interesting (like always) but overall they tried making each one either interesting or challenging.
  
• This season basically had the same format as TAR22 which I don’t mind. It brought back the twist where the winner of the Express Pass gives a 2nd one to another team. I liked this twist because it isn’t game changing but encourages inter-team dynamics and strategy (and provided some good moments this season). Besides that, this season also had 2 Double U-Turns, 1 Fast Forward, Speed Bumps and 1 Keep on Racing leg. Just like TAR22.
  

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Cast Ranking
1.Leo/Jamal - the Afganimals were the obvious fan favorites! They aren’t for everyone - they do ham it up for the cameras A LOT (Yelling LALALALA, dancing, imitating the elephants and being LOUD) but I still liked their enthusiasm and fun commentary like joking that Ally/Ashley were their race wives (“My wife is flying off with another man” when paragliding). They were also sneaky (such as “My wife is pregnant”) and lied just for the fun of it (lying about not U-Turning Brandon/Adam, lying about the challenge taking hours, lying about Tim/Marie being ahead). But I appreciate teams that cause friction and some drama…while also managing to be likeable and providing some laughs. Also somewhat became a “final boss” at the end where every other team wanted them out and worked together to do so.

1. Tim/Marie - were the next big characters! Their banter and roasting each other was hilarious (“I didn’t know they made voices as shrill as yours” - “Well I didn’t know they made people as dumb as you” haha) and Marie was such a ballsy and wacky individual who claims she’s “always right” and demanded a 60-40 split of the winnings haha It’s fascinating having 2 individuals who hate eachother (the Japanese host saying “American love story” but Marie calling them “American horror story” haha) but I sort of picture them being fun friends in a way. Besides their bickering, Marie was also pushy at the start trying to leverage the Express Pass at every chance (“Remember we have an Express Pass”) and not afraid to steal a taxi (and blame Leo/Jamal). She was petty and bitchy but also aware of it “I’m mad because they did something I would have done”. Sometimes their fights came off as playing up for the camera but still witty and entertaining! And a pretty strong team too!
   
2. Nicole/Travis - had one of the most unique storylines in that they started off as these likeable and dominant “power parents” but the second half they were a disaster - Nicole freaked out at multiple challenges and Travis was impatient and tough on her. Possibly the biggest editing nosedive of a team ever - and I found it fascinating! They weren’t necessarily likeable but I liked Nicole mentioning “Express Pass” EVERY episode, hilariously blackmailing Tim/Marie for it, plus some sassy looks! They got a hypocritical edit where they wanted to be role models for their kids…but were then shown not being that honourable (Nicole trying to cheat off Leo and begging for help is one of my favorite moments) and were carried to the end by their allies Jason/Amy. Also Travis previously mentioned about staying unflustered and wanting their children to see them working together well haha I much prefer a messy team like this than the actual inspirational ones.
   
3. Nicky/Kim - had everything needed to be a ‘likeable underdog team’ but I found them hard to root for because they were “baseball wives” rather than “regular people”. But I still liked them. They weren’t huge characters but were very sweet, endearing, and actually quite independent and strategic, like plotting with Tim/Marie and then getting in front of the counter. They weren’t pampered divas AT ALL like many expected. They also felt down to earth with some witty comments such as “she's like Cameron Diaz in my best friend's wedding” at the opera challenge and getting excited “Our cab has pink on it” haha. Some cute moments like “We’re not bunnies anymore…we are ninjas” but after struggling at that wave pool “I think we’ll just go back to being bunnies” haha Enjoyed seeing them scrape through each week.
   
4. Jason/Amy - I’m not a fan of the “generic couple” archetype and Jason/Amy were basically just that, and they weren’t that interesting or memorable. However I ranked them higher because of their role in a few dramas like their fight when Tim/Marie stole their taxi, as well as their alliance with Nicole/Travis. Helping other teams at the final 4 created some interesting discussions, especially when Nicole/Travis were a bigger threat than Ally/Ashley. I remember Jason randomly asking if Indonesians were like Asians or Indians haha But forgettable as characters.
   
5. Tim/Danny - had the “needs the money” backstory and a very sad elimination with Tim struggling at the choir challenge (arguably unfair because Tim was just a terrible singer so not sure if he could have done much better). Team Oklahoma had some good banter dressing up as the couple (“wanting rock scissors paper” to determine who was the woman, humorously arguing and suggesting things like 1 was smaller or more attractive as a woman) and helped Ally/Ashley with their truck..but nothing special. Not overly memorable but still a likeable team!
   
6. Brandon/Adam - another fun likeable male team who always seemed to be enjoying the race…and lived in the woods. A few fun confessionals and making their own fishing rods to fish on the boat in Norway. Started out strong (including a 1st place before their elimination) but had 1 bad leg with a bad Detour choice and a U-Turn. In a way I liked these shock eliminations. Similar to Tim/Danny in that they were likeable but not that memorable.
   
7. Rowan/Shane - had some fun moments like “Phil don’t fall asleep” when they finally arrived at the pit stop, “My name is not Rowan for nothing” when rowing and telling Shane to stop talking on the bikes because they are wasting “air” haha. We don’t see “2 older goofy men” often and I like older, unfit teams who are a bit of a disaster. Team Bingo were wacky and funny like a modern Steve/Dave. They had a disaster of a leg - wrong bus, hilariously taking a local shoe shiner’s cart (one of the best moments of the season) and calling Marie “el diablo” haha One of the more memorable early boots and would have been unique characters if they somehow lasted longer.
   
8. Ally/Ashley - they were the “dumb blondes” but pretty forgettable and just didn’t have any charisma like Caroline/Jennifer or Liz/Marie. One of them wanted to find love…but was then reminded that she had a boyfriend haha plus calling Abu Dhabi “Abu Dubai” and were edited as just riding Leo/Jamal’s coattails. I actually would have liked them more if they had more dumb moments - they weren’t great racers, but not in a funny way. And Nicky/Kim were definitely the more endearing underdog team. They had a big fight in their elimination episode and would have been more entertaining if they were like this more often.
   
9. Naina/Hoskote - felt less mactorish and had a storyline of Hoskote wanting an arranged marriage for his daughter and being old fashioned. If they lasted longer, they could have had a Ron/Christina type storyline with Hoskote showing signs of being “real truth flavour” haha, and there was some very mild bickering in leg 1. However they didn’t really stand out in their 1 leg and didn’t have much of an interesting storyline or a memorable elimination.
   
10. ChesteEphraim - seemed fun and likeable in their short stay with “We’re heavy, it’s gonna take a mountain of salt to make us float”, “You were easy to spot - you looked like a military jeep under the parachute” and comparing themselves to the Beekman Boys when struggling at the airport. They came in 1st in leg 2 and were a shock elimination in leg 3 with their bad luck with their flight connections and delays. Were eliminated at the airport after falling a day behind! Usually find it hard to root for alpha male teams (especially former athletes) so that’s the main thing that separates them from the teams ranked just above them (2 blondes and a fathedaughter team).
    

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Leg Rankings
1.Leg 9 - Indonesia (F5 - Ally/Ashley eliminated) - a fantastic leg that sets up the final 5 so well with a chaotic location in Bandung, trains, cultural animal tasks (ram fighting, making birds sing, feeding elephants), drama (Leo/Jamal vs Nicole/Travis over the U-Turn), great detour (Ally/Ashley not going to the market first, teams hilariously trying to fit sugarcane into taxis…the poor taxi drivers), Ally/Ashley arguing and pleading for help, and some placement shifts at both the Detour and Road Block. The best part was the storyline of Nicole/Travis being like “we want to be a beacon for God’s light” and continually critiquing Leo/Jamal for playing unethically….and then ending with Nicole’s hilarious meltdown at the anklung Road Block (hypocritically trying to look at Leo’s, getting frustrated with the children “Don’t laugh, you have to help the lady” haha, Travis groaning in disappointment “She doesn’t know an octave is 8”). Tense ending with Nicole begging Amy to help her with Ally/Ashley getting closer!

1. Leg 5 - Poland (F8 - Brandon/Adam eliminated) - navigation dramas, great tasks, U-Turn drama, great location in Gdansk, banter between teams, Express Pass used and lots of action. The Express Pass cliffhanger is resolved haha The polish dance was fun with Tim/Danny bantering about being the woman and struggling “I’m a white body with 2 left feet…and I have 3 left feet” haha and the judge “don’t fight with each other” and Tim ripping his pants. The huge apartment building Road Block was basic but had some fun moments between teams - Some teams working together, Tim and Jason randomly dancing, Travis pressing the elevator on every floor for Kim haha and Tim having to warn Marie that you can get a penalty for “bad manners”. Plus some nice interactions with locals. Some navigational issues and Brandon/Adam get tricked by Jason/Amy’s taxi driver haha Brandon/Adam had a disastrous leg after finishing 1st at the “Keep on Racing” (shock elimination). Great episode but misses #1 because it had bigger moments.
   
2. Leg 11 - Japan (F4 - Leo/Jamal eliminated) - a very exciting final 4 elimination with some great inter-team drama! A few too many wacky Japanese tasks though rather than cultural tasks - walking vending machines, crazy game shows, jump into a telephone box filled with water, cat temple, capturing a rhino in a suit, and a robot greeter. Detour was too easy for a final 4 (especially answering the phone underwater - awful) and the rhino Speed Bump was embarrassing…but I loved the robot Road Block - placement shifts, Amy and Nicole working together, Amy staying behind to help Nicole who was freaking out again, and Travis ridiculing Nicole afterwards (and Jason frustrated that Amy wasted time helping). It was sad seeing Nicole so sad and disappointed when Travis should have been relieved a team was behind. Great storylines for the final 4 with everyone vs Leo/Jamal (plus losing Tim/Marie while searching the park) and memorable elimination. Unfortunately the weak challenges let it down a bit though.
   
3. Leg 2 - Chile (F10 - Rowan/Shane eliminated) - Some drama at the start with Tim/Marie trying to dictate lines at the hours of operation with Afganimals calling them “Pinky and No Brain” haha with teams annoyed by them for the whole leg, Ally/Ashley call her miserable (love this trashy drama). Reading the newspaper on saltwater was one of those “silly” challenges but had Nicky/Kim having a minor meltdown and Nicole “What a lovely way to start my birthday, a salt bath with my husband”. Some Detour switching and Nicole crashing her bike. Some interesting bus scrambles with Rowan/Shane getting confused and picking a later bus. The shoe shining Road Block was fun and tense at the end - Rowan taking a random person’s shoe shining equipment haha (and calling Marie the devil haha), Kim forgetting equipment with Marie not giving her the Express Pass (earlier had an alliance because Tim knows Kim’s husband), Leo/Jamal missing out on 1st because they didn’t pay their driver, and just felt so much more exciting than leg 1.
   
4. Leg 10 - Indonesia (F4 - Non elimination) - a fun leg despite being an obvious non-elimination. Challenges weren’t great but the teams made them better than they should have been. Eating the cobras was a lame eating challenge…but Marie being a picky eater had fun moments. Boiling the eggs in the volcanic crater was also a dull challenge…but had teams having to redo it plus Marie freaking out again because she’s never boiled an egg and wasn’t even putting the eggs into the water haha (but surprisingly got it on her 1st try). Painting their partnesearching the fields also had fun moments especially painting the men with Nicole “My husband looks like the sexiest drag queen ever” (and Phil calling him an angry showgirl) and Marie “You’re so metro, you’ll be fine”. Leo/Jamal also lie again and then have to confess (about Tim/Marie being ahead). Felt like a tense ending with Leo/Jamal struggling to find the shears, switching, immediately leaving at “shave your beards” haha but still felt close. More drama in the ones above it though.
   
5. Leg 6 - Austria (F7 - Tim/Danny eliminated) - just an “okay” leg but the taxi drama raises it up higher plus the singing challenge at the end. Assembling the chandelier looked interesting but all teams chose matching the masks which wasn’t that difficult or interesting (which Marie said “We did it in like 3 minutes”). Some drama with Jason/Amy trying the bungy jump Fast Forward but choosing to leave due to weather (tense deciding whether to wait or leave with the wind). But the German opera song was a nice tough task with lots of teams together (Tim really struggling and the judge being like “That was terrible” haha). It felt a little bit long and drawn out though. Also a random scene where clowns appear “When you said clowns, I got scared because I thought you meant the Afganimals were here” haha Leo/Jamal also lie about the U-Turn. Tim/Marie stealing Jason/Amy’s taxi and arguing on the mat was the highlight. Would rank higher if the leg was more interesting overall.
   
6. Leg 7 - United Arab Emirates (F6 - Non elimination) - another “okay” leg. Some airport banter with Marie complaining about Nicky/Kim chatting on and on with their airport staff, and also Tim getting over the Jason/Amy drama because we’re dudes and then calls Marie a “dude” haha Then visited mosques in Abu Dhabi with a nice scene of Nicky/Kim reflecting on Arab culture and not to judge a group of people by one’s actions. Ally/Ashley also hope Leo/Jamal help them there because “it’s a man’s world” and also “Abu Dubai”. Sorting dates/assembling fishing net were both challenging detours, Tim/Marie hilariously bicker (Nicky/Kim being like “As an American, it’s embarrassing”) and Nicky/Kim keeping one of the locations a secret from the other teams and Nicole/Travis struggle putting together the net (the start of their downfall). The repel and racecar Road Block weren’t that interesting at the end (Kim was scared of heights…and cars). Also the ferries before the Road Block made it obvious that Nicky/Kim weren’t catching up.
   
7. Leg 3 - Portugal (F9 - ChesteEphraim eliminated) - a modern season with a classic flight scramble! This took up half the episode…and I don’t mind because I love flights and travel - they’re the heart and soul of the race more than challenges. Aggressively trying to get on standby, a team books the wrong date, a clash between Nicky/Kim and Tim/Marie, a few teams work together (and Tim/Danny don’t trust the Afganimals’ alliance), Marie tries to get information from Tim/Danny, and ChesteEphraim’s bad luck becoming “Beekman Boys part 2” haha Such classic feels! The Lisbon section was pretty dull though with ChesteEphraim as obvious boots and dull tasks (Detour may have been better with teams together), but I also like when teams are far apart from flights and can keep their leads. Ashley is inspired by her Portuguese grandfather with Leo “My race wife is Portuguese” haha Leo/Jamal lying about the tiles challenge taking a long time and Tim/Marie not using the Express Pass were the only notable things though. Average overall!
   
8. Leg 12 - USA (F3 - Finale) - a dull finale but not necessarily terrible. Alaska has been done many times before and no challenges stood out as memorable plus boring winners. And there wasn’t any drama between these teams like there usually is, and Marie had no crazy moments. Nicole being a hot mess was the only highlight - failed the supply drop Road Block, dropped her pick on the ice climb haha, Travis told her to stop rowing because she was that bad, and then at the final puzzle Travis just groaned at how useless she was “I’m basically doing the whole thing myself” haha A fitting ending for them! Unfortunately Jason/Amy left the Road Block first and just never lost their lead. That’s also why TAR16, TAR17, TAR19 and TAR22 were also underwhelming finales - the team that leaves the first challenge first never loses their lead. It looked like all teams were together at the final puzzle (remembering the currencies wasn’t a bad idea) but it just didn’t feel tense enough. The last 3 are also boring, but at least this had the excitement of the finish line.
   
9. Leg 4 - Norway (F8 - TBC) - had the gimmick of “daytime at 1:00am” but nothing much happened besides Nicole aggressively asking for the Express Pass in return for helping Tim/Marie (who missed their clue). Nicole “I want that Express Pass, I want that Express Pass” with a hilariously sassy look to the camera…and To Be Continued haha. One of the best moments of the season…however the rest of the leg was dull. Both Detours were just “doing boring things with fish” plus hanging up the fish heads was so much quicker that it seemed unfair. The Detour really only had Nicky/Kim “The Cod Queens” struggling to carry the fish and freak out that they’ve lost their clue (but it’s in her mouth haha). Tim/Marie also place the fish on the wrong pole and try leveraging the Express Pass with Brandon/Adam ignoring and mocking her (they may actually need this the next day haha). Jumping into the cold ocean and moving the boulder with your car “Ford product placement” were also boring besides Ally/Ashley almost driving their car over a cliff haha
   
10. Leg 8 - United Arab Emirates (F6 - Nicky/Kim eliminated) - didn’t have much happen despite another U-Turn. It had desert scenery but teams were mostly in the same order with no equalisers and Nicky/Kim never caught up. In fact Nicky/Kim’s buggy got stuck in the sand and then got U-Turned and a Speed Bump…so just fell further behind. Preparing the wedding dish/grooming a camel weren’t great. Preparing a camel for a beauty contest was a funny concept I guess, with the camels kicking and teams laughing about their hot camels. The rafting Road Block was boring and easy…even Nicole did it with no problems haha The wave pool Speed Bump was a bit silly but worked well with Nicky/Kim being scared. Some of the U-Turn drama was okay but nothing special - Nicole/Travis strategically using the Express Pass to get to the board first, Tim/Marie U-Turned Nicky/Kim because of a petty rivalry, and Leo/Jamal lying about how easy the cooking challenge was (they switched). But dull overall!
    
11. Leg 1 - Chile (F11 - Naina/Hoskote eliminated) - a very boring premiere and very similar to TAR20’s very boring premiere (ep2 is also similar to TAR20’s ep2). A dull heights challenge where the person NOT doing the Road Block is completing the paraglide (same twist as TAR20’s skydive except paragliding is less scary). Following the paragliders (the actual task) wasn’t that hard with the only interesting thing being Marie taking Jamal’s taxi and him saying “Bitch”. The paragliding only had Kim being slightly scared, and doing it for her children…named Spidey and Baboo haha. Then a 2nd dull challenge just like TAR20 (rowing a boat and collecting fish) where the only difficulty was 2 team members accidental doing both Road Blocks. Ally/Ashley tipped off Leo/Jamal about their Road Block mistake. And just like TAR20, not many teams stood out, no drama and it was a dull looking South American city. The only highlights were Nicole/Travis taking a taxi instead of walking and Tim/Danny having a language barrier in the US haha
    

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Summary
So the best way of describing this season is - not terrible but not much stands out as “fantastic”. This season needed some more dynamic characters (and less gimmicky/mactorish/camera aware), a more likeable final 3, more interesting winners, and some more memorable moments. Around half the episodes I’d regard as average or dull. It did have some interesting parts due to some drama (mostly due to the polarising characters of Tim/Marie, Nicole/Travis and Leo/Jamal) and some top episodes. I found it similar to TAR4 and TAR15 in that they had a dull feel overall but some fun characters here and there. Enjoyable enough so still scrapes through with a 6/10 which is still “good”.
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So after each season I will place it on a ranking:
1.TAR5 - 10/10

1. TAR3 - 10/10
   
2. TAR12 - 9/10
   
3. TAR17 - 9/10
   
4. TAR18 - 9/10
   
5. TAR2 - 8/10
   
6. TAR7 - 8/10
   
7. TAR20 - 8/10
   
8. TAR11 - 8/10
   
9. TAR13 - 8/10
   
10. TAR6 - 8/10
    
11. TAR10 - 7/10
    
12. TAR22 - 7/10
    
13. TAR14 - 7/10
    
14. TAR1 - 7/10
    
15. TAR9 - 7/10
    
16. TAR21 - 6/10
    
17. TAR15 - 6/10
    
18. TAR23 - 6/10
    
19. TAR4 - 6/10
    
20. TAR8 - 6/10
    
21. TAR19 - 5/10
    
22. TAR16 - 5/10
    

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I, 18F, live with my mum and little sister. Growing up, I had 3 siblings with disabilities, a stay at home mom and a working dad. My dad would have to travel to an 2hrs to and from work everyday, not to mention handle bills, trips, cleaning, everything. Mum didn’t cook much. My older siblings lets call them Shane and Lacy, have autism. Lacy is non-verbal and cannot be alone for even 2mins while awake. Shane is like Sheldon from the Big Bang theory, except high. My little sister “Jane” has ADHD.
So basically, my home life was very stressful growing up. The stress got to my dad but I adored him. He was my hero. I loved him and related to him. My mother and father would fight a lot and dad would end up locking himself in his room.
At 15, my mother started looking at houses to move into, to seperate. Meanwhile, she would leave my older sister lacy, and Jane, with my dad, leaving him to take care of everything. In July, a week before his birthday, my mother told him she was divorcing him and took me and my siblings to her house.
For the first few months I was heartbroken, for my dad. I missed him so much and I started bawling every time I thought of my dad being alone for the first time in 18years. I visited my dad every two weeks and he would talk horrible about my mom. About how she was cold to him for years and didn’t let friends over. Then he started saying how bad of a mum she was. I started to believe the divorce was her fault and grown to have anger towards her.
It really affected my relationship with my mum. To help understand: My mum isn’t really the type you can cry to about your problems, she just has no idea how to comfort people. Sure she’s sweet and nice, but she likes being left alone and hates physical touch. Because my siblings I felt really lonely, left out, the divorce made it worse.
I had wished once as a child, to move back to my hometown to see my friends again. My mother moved back to the hometown during the divorce, saying “she did it for me”. It made my guilt and misery even worse.
I developed depression. I would cry and cry, then feel numb, not move much and just lay in bed. Whenever I’d make a small mistake, I would apologise so much, people had to tell me not to. I would apologise to chairs. Whenever I did something my dad didn’t like, I would have to apologise and he’d have to be right.
My depression became severe, I developed anxiety as well. My older sister also attacked me and my family, so she had to move out. I watched my mother scream “please stop” as my sister scratched and clawed at her, unable to control herself.
I started to get unwell all of the time, and got suicidal. I told my dad I was suicidal, he told me I was selfish and horrible, imagine how my little sister would feel if I died. He told me to be honest with him and trust him. He belittled me in public and infront of people I cared about. Yelled at me when I did something small wrong. Shamed me over things I couldn’t control. One night he found me crying in my room, I was missing my grandfather and he comforted me. The next day I was having a fight with him he goes “I know you’re not that tough, I see behind your tough act”. Referring to the night before basically shoving in my face that I was vulnerable.
After that it was still going on, he would insult me, make fun of me, call me stupid when I made a small mistake, saying I’m useless. My self worth became horrible. I had no self worth and thought of myself as a burden. He’d tell me that I’m awful and I’m dumb then I’d believe it, then he’d say I’m so smart and I should priotize my self worth.
Often he would yell at me that I’d end up in tears. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong. I did everything I could to please him but he still got mad. I wanted him to be happy and tried everything to do that.
About a year ago, my dad moved into a new house and I wasn’t staying over. I had so much pressure on my shoulders and I was confused, and miserable. I sat on the front lawn and cried. I had lost my Nan two days before my birthday the previous year, my doctor also said I most likely had high functioning autism, so I was so scared to be like lacy, my brain didn’t make sense to me.
My dad found me crying and asked me if I was crying I kept saying, “I’m not crying” “I’m fine”. Over and over. He asked if I wanted to go for a drive. I agreed and he tried to understand. I told him how miserable I was, that I was suicidal and I had all these issues and things in my brain I couldn’t understand. I let my heart out.
A few weeks later my dad had drunk some alcohol and we were watching a movie together. He said to me that “if your life was so hard,you should go jump off the upstairs balcony”. I was extreme suicidal at the time and that shattered my world. I looked up to him, adored him and spill my heart out, then he would smash it to pieces, and then be the best dad ever. He even got me a iPhone 14 for my birthday. I thanked him again and again, I couldn’t stop thanking him. I was so happy.
Every time I describe my dad to others this is the quote I use: “on a good day, he’s the best dad in the world, but on a bad one, he’s worst nightmare”
I sent a boundary a year ago, he was telling me I’m too dramatic, and sensitive. I told him he was right and I was gonna change. That he could vent to me if he wanted to (like he does all the time, talking bad about his girlfriend, kids, my mom, people at work, my nan, etc). He did not like that. He drove back to my mum’s house to collect my new phone. He pulled up demanding to collect it. I slam it down on the table. Then he tells me to call him. To make sure I didn’t swap the SIM cards between my phones. My dad often claims he knows me better than I know myself. He called my phone and I slammed the door shut saying “if you knew me at all, you’d know I wouldn’t do that”. I lost my phone for a month. A WHOLE MONTH. The only reason I got it back is because I pretended to be something I’m not and suck up to him. Eventually I forgave him again.
I kept believing everything was my fault and that my dad was perfect until about 3 months ago. The incident.
I had gone to see my dad and spend the weekend with him. He bought me a coffee and it made me silly. I was goofy off, having fun and my brother had annoyed my dad somehow and he was pissed off.
He was telling me about how I should be focusing on my future now and plan it all out. I tend to spend every day worrying about my entire life, the future. I wanted one day to not worry about it.
I joked it’s no big deal and I’ll worry about it later . He got really serious and I couldn’t help but laugh. He told me that im stupid. I laughed and said “told you so”. He looked me confused. I said “it’s been what I’ve been trying to tell you”.
He got so mad and shouted at me to go to my room. I was too happy and silly so I just played around in my room until he came upstairs looking for my phone. I had purposefully left it downstairs knowing he would probably take it from me. I told him it was downstairs and laughed. I thought it was funny that he said he knew me better than I knew myself, but didn’t even bother to check downstairs first. He got so mad, like the anger in his eyes was beyond terrifying. He came up to me and said “I should hit you”. The look in his eye, he’d would have done it. I stated “that’s abuse” and he replied “I don’t care”. He stormed back downstairs and I was left alone in my room.
I broke down. I cried and cried. I kept pulling at my hair. Repeating “I should die” over and over. I felt trapped and tried to strangle myself to death. It didn’t work. He had finally done the impossible. He had broken my spirit. I was like a vegetable,barely speaking and lost all sense of self. He asked me to come down to dinner and I did. I just kept thinking, “I should die”. Over and over. I had no will to speak, to eat, anything. He begged “come back to me”. I boiled. The reason my will was broken was because of his actions. Then he told me something I wanted to hear my whole life from my parents.
“You matter. You are important” I bawled my eyes out, I couldn’t stop, it caused a panic attack. Eventually I calmed down and after a few hours, my will came back. Then dad when straight back to belittling me and my siblings.
Since then I avoided him for about 2months because I was absolutely terrified of him. I didn’t trust him anymore. In that time I overdosed on my meds, and tried to kill myself twice. So I wouldn’t have to see him. I was desperate. I hid from him, slept when he came over. But eventually, he caught me and I had to face him. The second I saw him, I balled in my room and had a severe panic attack. I almost passed out. It didn’t stop until he left. That was about 1month ago.
During those months of not seeing him broke my heart. I missed my dad, not the scary man who claimed to be him. I wanted to be in a good mental state before visiting again. Many people told me to stop visiting him and kick him out of my life. But I can’t. I love him too much and I couldn’t hurt him without breaking my own heart. But I don’t feel safe at his place. I don’t trust him anymore.
He expressed today that I don’t obviously show I care about him and now I’m wondering if I did do something wrong and I feel guilty.
What do I do?

I, 18F, live with my mum and little sister. Growing up, I had 3 siblings with disabilities, a stay at home mom and a working dad. My dad would have to travel to an 2hrs to and from work everyday, not to mention handle bills, trips, cleaning, everything. Mum didn’t cook much. My older siblings lets call them Shane and Lacy, have autism. Lacy is non-verbal and cannot be alone for even 2mins while awake. Shane is like Sheldon from the Big Bang theory, except high. My little sister “Jane” has ADHD.
So basically, my home life was very stressful growing up. The stress got to my dad but I adored him. He was my hero. I loved him and related to him. My mother and father would fight a lot and dad would end up locking himself in his room.
At 15, my mother started looking at houses to move into, to seperate. Meanwhile, she would leave my older sister lacy, and Jane, with my dad, leaving him to take care of everything. In July, a week before his birthday, my mother told him she was divorcing him and took me and my siblings to her house.
For the first few months I was heartbroken, for my dad. I missed him so much and I started bawling every time I thought of my dad being alone for the first time in 18years. I visited my dad every two weeks and he would talk horrible about my mom. About how she was cold to him for years and didn’t let friends over. Then he started saying how bad of a mum she was. I started to believe the divorce was her fault and grown to have anger towards her.
It really affected my relationship with my mum. To help understand: My mum isn’t really the type you can cry to about your problems, she just has no idea how to comfort people. Sure she’s sweet and nice, but she likes being left alone and hates physical touch. Because my siblings I felt really lonely, left out, the divorce made it worse.
I had wished once as a child, to move back to my hometown to see my friends again. My mother moved back to the hometown during the divorce, saying “she did it for me”. It made my guilt and misery even worse.
I developed depression. I would cry and cry, then feel numb, not move much and just lay in bed. Whenever I’d make a small mistake, I would apologise so much, people had to tell me not to. I would apologise to chairs. Whenever I did something my dad didn’t like, I would have to apologise and he’d have to be right.
My depression became severe, I developed anxiety as well. My older sister also attacked me and my family, so she had to move out. I watched my mother scream “please stop” as my sister scratched and clawed at her, unable to control herself.
I started to get unwell all of the time, and got suicidal. I told my dad I was suicidal, he told me I was selfish and horrible, imagine how my little sister would feel if I died. He told me to be honest with him and trust him. He belittled me in public and infront of people I cared about. Yelled at me when I did something small wrong. Shamed me over things I couldn’t control. One night he found me crying in my room, I was missing my grandfather and he comforted me. The next day I was having a fight with him he goes “I know you’re not that tough, I see behind your tough act”. Referring to the night before basically shoving in my face that I was vulnerable.
After that it was still going on, he would insult me, make fun of me, call me stupid when I made a small mistake, saying I’m useless. My self worth became horrible. I had no self worth and thought of myself as a burden. He’d tell me that I’m awful and I’m dumb then I’d believe it, then he’d say I’m so smart and I should priotize my self worth.
Often he would yell at me that I’d end up in tears. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong. I did everything I could to please him but he still got mad. I wanted him to be happy and tried everything to do that.
About a year ago, my dad moved into a new house and I wasn’t staying over. I had so much pressure on my shoulders and I was confused, and miserable. I sat on the front lawn and cried. I had lost my Nan two days before my birthday the previous year, my doctor also said I most likely had high functioning autism, so I was so scared to be like lacy, my brain didn’t make sense to me.
My dad found me crying and asked me if I was crying I kept saying, “I’m not crying” “I’m fine”. Over and over. He asked if I wanted to go for a drive. I agreed and he tried to understand. I told him how miserable I was, that I was suicidal and I had all these issues and things in my brain I couldn’t understand. I let my heart out.
A few weeks later my dad had drunk some alcohol and we were watching a movie together. He said to me that “if your life was so hard,you should go jump off the upstairs balcony”. I was extreme suicidal at the time and that shattered my world. I looked up to him, adored him and spill my heart out, then he would smash it to pieces, and then be the best dad ever. He even got me a iPhone 14 for my birthday. I thanked him again and again, I couldn’t stop thanking him. I was so happy.
Every time I describe my dad to others this is the quote I use: “on a good day, he’s the best dad in the world, but on a bad one, he’s worst nightmare”
I sent a boundary a year ago, he was telling me I’m too dramatic, and sensitive. I told him he was right and I was gonna change. That he could vent to me if he wanted to (like he does all the time, talking bad about his girlfriend, kids, my mom, people at work, my nan, etc). He did not like that. He drove back to my mum’s house to collect my new phone. He pulled up demanding to collect it. I slam it down on the table. Then he tells me to call him. To make sure I didn’t swap the SIM cards between my phones. My dad often claims he knows me better than I know myself. He called my phone and I slammed the door shut saying “if you knew me at all, you’d know I wouldn’t do that”. I lost my phone for a month. A WHOLE MONTH. The only reason I got it back is because I pretended to be something I’m not and suck up to him. Eventually I forgave him again.
I kept believing everything was my fault and that my dad was perfect until about 3 months ago. The incident.
I had gone to see my dad and spend the weekend with him. He bought me a coffee and it made me silly. I was goofy off, having fun and my brother had annoyed my dad somehow and he was pissed off.
He was telling me about how I should be focusing on my future now and plan it all out. I tend to spend every day worrying about my entire life, the future. I wanted one day to not worry about it.
I joked it’s no big deal and I’ll worry about it later . He got really serious and I couldn’t help but laugh. He told me that im stupid. I laughed and said “told you so”. He looked me confused. I said “it’s been what I’ve been trying to tell you”.
He got so mad and shouted at me to go to my room. I was too happy and silly so I just played around in my room until he came upstairs looking for my phone. I had purposefully left it downstairs knowing he would probably take it from me. I told him it was downstairs and laughed. I thought it was funny that he said he knew me better than I knew myself, but didn’t even bother to check downstairs first. He got so mad, like the anger in his eyes was beyond terrifying. He came up to me and said “I should hit you”. The look in his eye, he’d would have done it. I stated “that’s abuse” and he replied “I don’t care”. He stormed back downstairs and I was left alone in my room.
I broke down. I cried and cried. I kept pulling at my hair. Repeating “I should die” over and over. I felt trapped and tried to strangle myself to death. It didn’t work. He had finally done the impossible. He had broken my spirit. I was like a vegetable,barely speaking and lost all sense of self. He asked me to come down to dinner and I did. I just kept thinking, “I should die”. Over and over. I had no will to speak, to eat, anything. He begged “come back to me”. I boiled. The reason my will was broken was because of his actions. Then he told me something I wanted to hear my whole life from my parents.
“You matter. You are important” I bawled my eyes out, I couldn’t stop, it caused a panic attack. Eventually I calmed down and after a few hours, my will came back. Then dad when straight back to belittling me and my siblings.
Since then I avoided him for about 2months because I was absolutely terrified of him. I didn’t trust him anymore. In that time I overdosed on my meds, and tried to kill myself twice. So I wouldn’t have to see him. I was desperate. I hid from him, slept when he came over. But eventually, he caught me and I had to face him. The second I saw him, I balled in my room and had a severe panic attack. I almost passed out. It didn’t stop until he left. That was about 1month ago.
During those months of not seeing him broke my heart. I missed my dad, not the scary man who claimed to be him. I wanted to be in a good mental state before visiting again. Many people told me to stop visiting him and kick him out of my life. But I can’t. I love him too much and I couldn’t hurt him without breaking my own heart. But I don’t feel safe at his place. I don’t trust him anymore.
He expressed today that I don’t obviously show I care about him and now I’m wondering if I did do something wrong and I feel guilty.
What do I do?

I will put down a few characters that I absolutely love/d - - everything about them - never to be forgotten. Some of them have even inspired and influenced me. Others scared the life (no swears) out of me. Others made me nearly die laughing. Mostly it's about outstanding acting and writing. There's going to be quite a mish mash here as I watch a mix of genres as I guess most TV watchers today do. Working backwards:

• Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein) - The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Boyd Crowder / Shane Vendrell / Cooper Howard (The Ghoul) (Walton Goggins) - Justified / The Shield / Fallout
• Walid El Abed (Shadi Mar'i) - Fauda
• Dr Shirin El Abed (Laëtitia Eïdo) - Fauda
• Rogelio De La Vega (Jaime Camil) - Jane the Virgin
• Rodrigo de Souza (García Bernal) - Mozart in the Jungle
• Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) - Slow Horses
• Omar Little (Michael K. Williams) - The Wire
• Rita (Mille Dinesen) - Rita
• Gillian Greenwood (Nicola Walker) - Last Tango in Halifax
• Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) - Succession
• Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) - The Bear
• Raymond Reddington (James Spader) - The Blacklist
• Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce) - Frasier
• Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) - Parks and Recreation
• Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) - Game of Thrones

** Am amending list as I go when reminded in the comments of another beloved character!

(NOTE: Only feature film categories are listed. Certain nominations omit teams of nominees and only list the film and/or certain individuals. Winners highlighted)

Producers Guild of America

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

• American Fiction (MGM)
• Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)
• Barbie (Warner Bros.)
• The Holdovers (Focus Features)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
• Maestro (Netflix)
• Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
• Past Lives (A24)
• Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
• The Zone of Interest (A24)

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

• The Boy and the Heron (GKids)
• Elemental (Pixar)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Illumination/Universal Pictures)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount Pictures)**

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• American Symphony
• Beyond Utopia
• The Disappearance of Shere Hite
• The Mother of All Lies
• Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Directors Guild of America

Feature Film

• Greta Gerwig – Barbie
• Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
• Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
• Alexander Payne – The Holdovers
• Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Documentaries

• Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp – Bobi Wine: The People's President
• Mstyslav Chernov – 20 Days in Mariupol
• Madeleine Gavin – Beyond Utopia
• Davis Guggenheim – Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• D. Smith – Kokomo City

First-Time Feature Film

• Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
• Manuela Martelli – Chile '76
• Noora Niasari – Shayda
• A. V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
• Celine Song – Past Lives

Screen Actors Guild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein
• Colman Domingo – Rustin as Bayard Rustin
• Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham
• Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Annette Bening – Nyad as Diana Nyad
• Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart
• Carey Mulligan – Maestro as Felicia Montealegre
• Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie
• Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison
• Willem Dafoe – Poor Things as Dr. Godwin Baxter
• Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon as William King Hale
• Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss
• Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple as Sofia
• Penélope Cruz – Ferrari as Laura Ferrari
• Jodie Foster – Nyad as Bonnie Stoll
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• American Fiction – Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, Sterling K. Brown, Keith David, John Ortiz, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Leslie Uggams, and Jeffrey Wright
• Barbie – Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Greenblatt, Kate McKinnon, Helen Mirren, Rhea Perlman, Issa Rae, and Margot Robbie
• The Color Purple – Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Jon Batiste, Danielle Brooks, Ciara, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Louis Gossett Jr., Corey Hawkins, Taraji P. Henson, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and Gabriella Wilson "H.E.R."
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Tantoo Cardinal, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Fraser, Lily Gladstone, John Lithgow, and Jesse Plemons
• Oppenheimer – Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Cillian Murphy, and Florence Pugh

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

• Barbie
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• John Wick: Chapter 4
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Writers Guild of America

Best Original Screenplay

• Air – Alex Convery
• Barbie – Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
• The Holdovers - David Hemingson
• May December – Samy Burch; story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik
• Past Lives – Celine Song

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Fiction – Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. – Kelly Fremon Craig; based on the book by Judy Blume
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese; based on the book by David Grann
• Nyad – Julia Cox; based on the book Find a Way by Diana Nyad
• Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan; based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Best Documentary Screenplay

• Bella! – Jeff L. Lieberman
• It Ain't Over – Sean Mullin
• The Pigeon Tunnel – Errol Morris
• Stamped from the Beginning – David Teague; based on the book Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? – John Scheinfeld

American Society of Cinematographers

Winners Announced March 5

Theatrical Feature Film Nominees

• Edward Lachman, ASC for El Conde
• Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS for Maestro
• Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Robbie Ryan, ISC for Poor Things
• Hoyte van Hoytema, ASC, FSF, NSC for Oppenheimer

Spotlight Award

• Eric Branco for Story Ave.
• Krum Rodriguez for Citizen Saint
• Warwick Thornton for The New Boy

Documentary Award

• Jeff Hutchens for Murder in Big Horn "Episode 1"
• Curren Sheldon for King Coal
• D. Smith for Kokomo City

American Cinema Editors

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical)

• Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Maestro – Michelle Tesoro
• Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame
• Past Lives – Keith Fraase

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy, Theatrical)

• Air – William Goldenberg
• American Fiction – Hilda Rasula
• Barbie – Nick Houy
• The Holdovers – Kevin Tent
• Poor Things – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Best Edited Documentary (Theatrical)

• 20 Days in Mariupol – Michelle Mizner
• American Symphony – Sammy Dane, Matthew Heineman, Jim Hession, and Fernando Villegas
• Joan Baez: I Am a Noise – Maeve O'Boyle
• Little Richard: I Am Everything – Nyneve Minnear and Jake Hostetter
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – Michael Harte

Best Edited Animated Feature Film (Theatrical or Non-Theatrical)

• Elemental – Stephen Schaffer
• Nimona – Randy Trager and Erin Crackel
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Michael Andrews
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Eric Osmond
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – Greg Levitan

Visual Effects Society

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Ben Snow, Diana Giorgiutti, Khalid Almeerani, Scott Benza, and Sam Conway
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Stephane Ceretti, Susan Pickett, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Andrew Whitehurst, Kathy Siegel, Robert Weaver, Julian Hutchens, and Alistair Williams
• Oppenheimer: Andrew Jackson, Mike Chambers (VES), Giacomo Mineo, Dave Drzewiecki, and Scot Fisher
• The Creator: Jay Cooper, Julian Levi, Ian Comley, Charmaine Chan, Neil Corbould (VES)

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

• John Wick: Chapter 4: Janelle Croshaw Ralla, Reina Sparks, Jonathan Rothbart, Javier Roca, and Gerd Nefzer
• Killers of the Flower Moon: Pablo Helman, Brian Barlettani, Sam Bassett , and Brandon Keys McLaughlin
• Napoleon: Charley Henley, Sarah Tulloch, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco, and Neil Corbould (VES)
• Nyad: Jake Braver, Fiona Campbell Westgate, R. Christopher White, and Mohsen Mousavi
• Society of the Snow: Félix Bergés, Micaela Gagliano, Laura Pedro, Ezequiel Larrú, and Pau Costa

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget: Jon Biggins, Jim Lewis, Charles Copping, and Matthew Perry
• Elemental: Peter Sohn, Denise Ream, Sanjay Bakshi, and Stephen Marshall
• Nimona: Archie Donato, Yancy Lindquist, Theodore Ty, and Anthony Kemp
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Alan Hawkins, Christian Hejnal, Michael Lasker, and Matt Hausman
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Matthieu Rouxel, Marie Balland, Jacques Daigle, and Vincent Leroy

Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature

• Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (Topo the Octopus): Thomas Ward, Andrew Butler, Felix Slinger-Thompson, and Jacob Burstein
• Godzilla Minus One (Godzilla): Kosuke Taguchi and Takashi Yamazaki
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Rocket): Nathan McConnel, Andrea De Martis, Antony Magdalinidis,and Rachel Williams
• Wonka (Oompa Loompa), Dale Newton, Kunal Ayer, Valentina Ercolani, and Gabor Foner

Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Feature

• Elemental (Ember): Gwendelyn Enderoglu, Jared Fong, Jonathan Hoffman, and Patrick Witting
• Elemental (Wade): Max Gilbert, Jacob Kuenzel, Dave Strick, and Benjamin Su
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Spot): Christopher Mangnall, Craig Feifarek, Humberto Rosa, and Nideep Varghese
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Superfly): Gregory Coelho, Anne-Claire Leroux, Simon Cuisinier, and Olivier Pierre

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Knowhere): Omar Alejandro Lavrador Ibanez, Fabien Julvecourt, Klaudio Ladavac, and Benjamin Patterson
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Underwater Wreck Environment): Johan Gabrielsson, Adrian Tsang, Stefan Andersson, and Martin Eneroth
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (Place de L’Étoile): Manuel Gaudreau, Fabrice Vienne, Vignesh Ravi, and Laurent Makowski
• The Creator (Floating Village): John Seru, Guy Williams, Vincent Techer, and Timothée Maron

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Chicken Island): Charles Copping, Matthew Perry, Jim Lewis, and Jon Biggins
• Elemental (Element City): Chris Bernardi, Brandon Montell, David Shavers, and Ting Zhang
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Mumbattan City): Taehyun Park, YJ Lee, Pepe Orozco, and Kelly Han
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Midtown Manhattan): Olivier Mitonneau, Eddy Frechou, Guillaume Chevet, and Arnaud Philippe-Giraux

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Joanna Davison, Cheyana Wilkinson, Michael Cozens, and Jason Desjarlais
• Migration: Guylo Homsy, Damien Bapst, Antoine Collet, and David Dangin
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Rich Turner, Randolph Lizarda, Daniela Campos Little, and Thomas Campos
• The Creator: Roel Coucke, Christopher Potter, Amanda Johnstone-Batt, and Jeremy Bloch

Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (The Arête): Kenneth Johansson, Jason Galeon, Tim Civil, and Artur Vil
• Peter Pan & Wendy (Jolly Roger): Patrick Comtois, Thomas Gallardo, Harrison Stark, and David Thibodeau
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Spider HQ): Dongick David Sheen, Mark JeongWoong Lee, Mikaela Bantog, and René Völker
• The Creator (Nomad): Oliver Kane, Mat Monro, Florence Green, and Serban Ungureanu

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

• Napoleon: Koen Hofmeester, Gianmichele Mariani, Clair Bellens, and Hernan Llano Duque
• Nyad (Stormy Waters) Korbinian Meier, Sindy Saalfeld, David Michielsen, and Andreas Vrhovsek
• The Creator: Ludovic Ramisandraina, Raul Essig, Mathieu Chardonnet, and Lewis Taylor
• The Nun 2: Laurent Creusot, Sebastien Podsiadlo, Michael Moercant, and Benjamin Saurine

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature

• Elemental: Kristopher Campbell, Greg Gladstone, Jon Reisch, and Kylie Wijsmuller
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, and Nicola Finizio
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Louis Marsaud, Paul-Etienne Bourde, Serge Martin, and Marine Pommereul
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Simon Pate, Christophe Vazquez, and Milo Riccarand

Outstanding Composition and Lighting in a Feature

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Indah Maretha, Beck Veitch, Nathan Abbot, and Steve McGillen
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (Apartment Massacre Videogame Style): Javier Roca, Julien Forest, Thomas Bourdis, and Dominik Kirouac
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Bret St.Clair, Kieron Cheuk-Chi Lo, Kelly Christophers, and Rowan Young
• The Creator (Bar): Phil Prates, Min Kim, Nisarg Suthar, and Toshiko Miura
• The Creator (Spaceships): Ben O-Brien, Juan Espigares Enriquez, Wesley Roberts, and Hayes Brien

Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project

• I’m a Virgo: John McLeod, Scott Kirvan, Alec Gillis, and Carl Miller
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Neil Corbould (VES), Ray Ferguson, Keith Dawson, and Chris Motjuoadi
• Oppenheimer: Scott Fisher, James Rollins, and Mario Vanillo
• Society of the Snow: Pau Costa, Carlos Laguna, Guillermo F. Aldunate, and Eloy Cervera

Emerging Technology Award

• Blue Beetle (Machine Learning Cloth): JohnMark Gibbons, Allen Ruilova, Momme Carl, and David Minor
• Elemental (Volumetric Neural Style Transfer): Vinicius C. Azevedo, Byungsoo Kim, Raphael Ortiz, and Paul Kanyuk
• The Flash (Volumetric Capture): Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn, Oliver Pilarski, and Lukas Lepicovsky
• Wish (Dynamic Screen Space Textures for Coherent Stylization): Brent Burley, Daniel Teece, and Brian J. Green

Motion Pictures Sound Editors

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Animation

• Elemental
• Migration
• Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Documentary

• 32 Sounds
• American Symphony
• Mourning in Lod
• Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Foreign Language Feature

• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Zone of Interest
• Godzilla Minus One
• Society of the Snow

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Dialogue ADR

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Effects/Foley

• Gran Turismo
• Ferarri
• John Wick Chapter Four
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• The Killer

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Documentary

• American Symphony
• Pianoforte
• Still: A Michael J Fox Story
• WHAM!

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Feature Motion Picture

• Barbie
• Creed III
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
• Wonka

Cinema Audio Society

Motion Picture: Live Action

• Barbie - Nina Rice (Production Mixer), Kevin O’Connell (Re-Recording Mixer), Ai-Ling Lee (Re-Recording Mixer), Peter Cobbin (Scoring Mixer), Kirsty Whalley (Scoring Mixer), Bobby Johanson (ADR Mixer), Kevin Schultz (Foley Mixer)
  
• Ferrari - Lee Orloff (Production Mixer), Andy Nelson (Production Mixer), Tony Lamberti (Re-Recording Mixer), Luke Schwarzweller (Re-Recording Mixer), Andrew Dudman (Scoring Mixer), Matthew Wood (ADR Mixer), Giorgi Lekishvili (Foley Mixer)
  
• Killers of the Flower Moon - Mark Ulano (Production Mixer), Tom Fleischman (Re-Recording Mixer), Eugene Gearty (Re-Recording Mixer), George A. Lara (Foley Mixer)
  
• Maestro - Steven A. Morrow (Production Mixer), Tom Ozanich (Re-Recording Mixer), Dean A. Zupancic (Re-Recording Mixer), Nick Baxter (Scoring Mixer), Bobby Johanson (ADR Mixer), Walter Spencer (Foley Mixer)
  
• Oppenheimer Willie D. Burton (Production Mixer), Gary A. Rizzo (Re-Recording Mixer), Kevin O’Connell (Re-Recording Mixer), Chris Fogel (Scoring Mixer), Tavish Grade (Foley Mixer), Jack Cucci (Foley Mixer), Mikel Parraga-Wills (Foley Mixer)
  

Motion Picture: Animated

• Elemental - Vince Caro (Original Dialogue Mixer), Paul McGrath (Original Dialogue Mixer), Stephen Urata (Re-Recording Mixer), Ren Klyce (Re-Recording Mixer), Thomas Vicari (Scoring Mixer), Scott Curtis (Foley Mixer)
  
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Brian Smith (Original Dialogue Mixer), Aaron Hasson (Original Dialogue Mixer), Howard London (Original Dialogue Mixer), Michael Semanick (Re-Recording Mixer), Juan Peralta (Re-Recording Mixer), Sam Okell (Scoring Mixer), Randy K. Singer (Foley Mixer)
  
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - Doc Kane (Original Dialogue Mixer), Michael Semanick (Re-Recording Mixer), Mark Mangini (Re-Recording Mixer), Trent Reznor (Scoring Mixer), Atticus Ross (Scoring Mixer), Chris Cirino (ADR Mixer), Chelsea Body(Foley Mixer)
  
• The Boy and the Heron – Kôji Kasamatsu (Original Dialogue & Re-Recording Mixer)
  
• The Super Mario Brothers Movie - Carlos Sotolongo (Original Dialogue Mixer), Pete Horner (Re-Recording Mixer), Juan Peralta (Re-Recording Mixer), Casey Stone (Scoring Mixer), Doc Kane (ADR Mixer), Richard Durante (Foley Mixer)
  

Motion Picture: Documentary

• 32 Sounds - Laura Cunningham (Production Mixer), Mark Mangini (Re-Recording Mixer), Ben Greenberg (Scoring Mixer), Bobby Johanson (ADR Mixer), Blake Collins (Foley Mixer)
  
• American Symphony - Tom Paul (Re-Recording Mixer), Tristan Baylis (Re-Recording Mixer), Ryan Collison (Foley Mixer),
  
• Little Richard: I Am Everything - Tom Paul (Re-Recording Mixer)
  
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie - Skip Lievsay (Re-Recording Mixer), Paul Urmson (Re-Recording Mixer), Joel Dougherty (Re-Recording Mixer), John Michael Caldwell (Scoring Mixer), Micah Blaichman (Foley Mixer
  
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - Jacob Farron Smith (Production Mixer), John Ross (Re-Recording Mixer), David Payne (Re-Recording Mixer), Christopher Rowe (Re-Recording Mixer)
  

Casting Society of America

Feature Animation

• Elemental (Disney): Natalie Lyon, Kevin Reher, Kate Hansen-Birnbaum (Associate Casting Director)
• Leo (Netflix): Danielle Aufiero, Amber Horn
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony): Mary Hidalgo
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount): Rich Delia, Adam Richards (Associate Casting Director)
• Wish (Disney): Grace C. Kim

Feature Big Budget - Comedy

• Air (Amazon Studios): Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Sydney Shircliff (Associate Casting Director)
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Searchlight): Francine Maisler, Melissa Kostenbauder, Betsy Fippinger (Location Casting), Tara Feldstein (Location Casting), Chase Paris (Location Casting), Molly Rose (Associate Casting Director)
• Asteroid City (Focus Features): Douglas Aibel, Jina Jay (Location Casting), Matthew Glasner (Associate Casting Director)
• Cocaine Bear (Paramount): Debra Zane, Dylan Jury, Alli Coffey (Location Casting)
• Wonka (Warner Bros.): Nina Gold

Feature Big Budget - Drama

• The Color Purple (Warner Bros.): Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Destiny Lilly
• Maestro (Netflix): Shayna Markowitz, Dayna Katz (Associate Casting Director)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple): Ellen Lewis, Rene Haynes, Kate Sprance (Associate Casting Director)
• Oppenheimer (Universal): John Papsidera
• Saltburn (Amazon Studios): Kharmel Cochrane

Feature Studio or Independent - Comedy

• American Fiction (Amazon Studios): Jennifer Euston, Lisa Lobel (Location Casting), Angela Peri (Location Casting), Melissa Morris (Associate Casting Director)
• Bottoms (Amazon Studios): Laura Rosenthal, Maribeth Fox, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting), Kimberly Ostroy (Associate Casting Director)
• The Holdovers (Focus Features): Susan Shopmaker, Lisa Lobel (Location Casting), Angela Peri (Location Casting), Melissa Morris (Associate Casting Director)
• Joy Ride (Lionsgate): Rich Delia, Kara Eide (Location Casting), Kris Woznesensky (Location Casting), Adam Richards (Associate Casting Director)
• Theater Camp (Searchlight): Kristian Charbonier, Bernard Telsey

Feature Studio or Independent - Drama

• The Iron Claw (A24): Susan Shopmaker, Brent Caballero (Location Casting)
• May December (Netflix): Laura Rosenthal, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting), Rebecca Carfagna (Location Casting), Kimberly Ostroy (Associate Casting Director)
• Past Lives (A24): Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel
• Priscilla (A24): Nicole Daniels, Courtney Bright, John Buchan, Jason Knight
• Rustin (Netflix): Avy Kaufman, Donna Belajac (Location Casting), Missy Finnell (Location Casting), Scotty Anderson (Associate Casting Director)

Feature Low Budget - Comedy or Drama

• Birth/Rebirth (IFC Films): Allison Twardziak, Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick
• Emily (Warner Bros.): Fiona Weir
• Jules (Bleecker Street): Avy Kaufman
• Memory (Ketchup Entertainment): Susan Shopmaker
• Monica (IFC Films): Emily Schweber, D. Lynn Meyers (Location Casting)

Feature Micro Budget - Comedy or Drama

• The Donor Party (Vertical): Anthony J. Kraus
• How I Learned to Fly (Film Movement): Jessica Sherman
• Summoning Sylvia (The Horror Collective): Steven Tylor O’Connor
• What Comes Around (IFC Films): Eyde Belasco, Jeff Johnson (Location Casting)
• Your Lucky Day (Well Go USA Entertainment): Jessica Sherman

The Zeitgeist Award

• Barbie (Warner Bros.): Lucy Bevan, Olivia Grant (Associate Casting Director)
• The Flash (Warner Bros.): Rich Delia, Kate Ringsell, Adam Richards (Associate Casting Director)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate): Debra Zane, Dylan Jury, Simone Bär (Location Casting)
• Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire (Netflix): Kristy Carlson, Jeanette Benzie (Associate Casting Director)
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Paramount Pictures): Wittney Horton, additional voice casting by Ruth Lambert and Robert McGee, Eve Streger (Associate Casting Director)

Art Directors Guild

Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film

• Beau Is Afraid – Fiona Crombie
• John Wick: Chapter 4 – Kevin Kavanaugh
• The Killer – Donald Graham Burt
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Gary Freeman
• Saltburn – Suzie Davies

Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film

• Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk
• Maestro – Kevin Thompson
• Napoleon – Arthur Max
• Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong

Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film

• Barbie – Sarah Greenwood
• The Creator – James Clyne
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Beth Mickle
• Poor Things – James Price and Shona Heath
• Wonka – Nathan Crowley

Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film

• The Boy and the Heron – Yôji Takeshige
• Elemental – Don Shank
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Patrick O'Keefe
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Guillaume Aretos
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – Yashar Kassai

Guild of Music Supervisors

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million

• The Holdovers
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
• They Cloned Tyrone
• Barbie
• Maestro
• Saltburn
• Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
• Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret
• Wonka
• Air

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $25 Million And Under

• The Iron Claw
• Jesus Revolution
• All of Us Strangers
• Polite Society
• Flamin' Hot
• Joy Ride

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $10 Million And Under

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• Brother
• Past Lives
• Somewhere in Queens
• Eileen
• War Pony
• Paint
• Theater Camp

Best Music Supervision for a Non-Theatrically Released Film

• Change Can Dunk (TIE)
• Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
• Rye Lane
• Sitting in Bars With Cake
• Family Switch
• Totally Killer (TIE)
• A Million Miles Away
• Heist 88
• Praise This

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film

• Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse (Am I Dreaming) - Mike Dean, Peter Lee Johnson, Rakim Mayers, Roisee, Leland Wayne, and Landon Wayne
• Theater Camp (Camp Isn't Home) - Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, and Mark Sonnenblick
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Can't Catch Me Now) - Dan Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo
• Barbie (I'm Just Ken) - Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
• American Symphony (It Never Went Away) - Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
• Joy Ride (Juicy) - Isak Alvedahl, Kirubel Swedin, and Sandra Wikstrom
• Totally Killer (Little Bit 'O Soul) - John Carter and Kenneth Hawker
• Past Lives (Quiet Eyes) - Zachary Dawes and Sharon Van Etten
• Rustin (Road to Freedom) - Lenny Kravitz
• Barbie (What I Was Made For) - Billie Eilish O’Connell, Finneas O’Connell*

Costume Designers Guild

Excellence in Contemporary Film

• American Fiction – Rudy Mance
• May December – April Napier
• Nyad – Kelli Jones
• Renfield – Lisa Lovaas
• Saltburn – Sophie Canale

Excellence in Period Film

• Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West
• Maestro – Mark Bridges
• Napoleon – Janty Yates & Dave Crossman
• Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick
• Poor Things – Holly Waddington

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

• Barbie – Jacqueline Durran
• Haunted Mansion – Jeffrey Kurland
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Trish Summerville
• The Little Mermaid – Colleen Atwood & Christine Cantella
• Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Stephanie Porter

Excellence in Costume Illustration

• 1923: War and the Turquoise Tide – Maggie S. Chan
• Haunted Mansion – Barbra Araujo
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Song Songbirds & Snakes – Oksana Nedavniaya
• Loki: 1893 – Felipe Sanchez
• Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Jason Pastrana

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild

Best Contemporary Make-up

• Candy Cane Lane - Tym Shutchai Buacharern, Michele Lewis, Jennifer Zide-Essex, Yvettra Grantham
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Jane Galli, Personal
• The Haunted Mansion - Kimberly Jones, Dionne Wynn, Bridgit Crider, Carla VanNessa Wallace
• NYAD - Felicity Bowring, Ann Maree Hurley, Julie Hewett, Mahar Lessner
• Saltburn - Siân Miller, Laura Allen

Best Period and/or Character Makeup

• Barbie - Ivana Primorac, Victoria Down, Maha Mimo
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - Alexei Dmitriew, Nicole Sortillon, Amos Samantha Ward, LuAndra Whitehurs
• Maestro - Siann Grigg, Jackie Risotto, Elisa Tallerico, Nicky Pattison-Illum
• Oppenheimer - Luisa Abel, Jason Hamer, Kerrin Jackson, Jamie Loree Hess
• Poor Things - Nadia Stacey

Best Special Makeup Effects

• Golda - Karen Thomas, Eva Susanna Johnson Theodosiou
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Alexei Dmitriew, Lindsay MacGowen, Shane Mahan, Scott Stoddard
• Maestro - Kazu Hiro, Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Mike Mekash
• Poor Things - Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier
• Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire - Ozzy Alvarez, Justin Raleigh, Kelsey Berk, Jonathan Shroyer

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

• Candy Cane Lane - Yvette Shelton, Shian Banks, Stacey Morris, Maisha Oliver
• Joyride - Jeannie Chow, Kim Lee
• NYAD - Daniel Curet, Vanessa Columbo, Enzo Angileri, Darlene Brumfeld
• Pain Hustlers - Michelle Johnson, Dennis Bailey
• Saltburn - Siân Miller, Laura Allen

Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling

• Barbie - Ivana Primorac, Marie Larkin, Clare Corsick
• Chevalier - Roo Maurice, Francesco Pegoretti
• The Color Purple - Lawrence Davis, Andrea Mona Bowman, Tym Wallace
• Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3 - Cassandra Lyn Russek, Stephanie Fenner, Peter Tothpal, Connie Criswell
• Maestro - Kay Georgiou, Lori McCoy-Bell, Jameson Eaton, Amanda Duffy-Evans

Society of Composers and Lyricists

Outstanding Original Score For a Studio Film

• Anthony Willis - Saltburn
• Joe Hisaishi - The Boy and the Heron
• Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
• Laura Karpman - American Fiction
• Robbie Robertson - Killers of the Flower Moon

Outstanding Original Score For an Independent Film

• Jon Batiste - American Symphony
• John Powell - Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Daniel Pemberton - Ferrari
• Mica Levi - The Zone of Interest
• Fabrizio Mancinelli and Richard M. Sherman - Mushka

Outstanding Original Song For a Drama or Documentary

• Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro - Can’t Catch Me Now (Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes)
• Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson - It Never Went Away(American Symphony)
• Lenny Kravitz - Road to Freedom (Rustin)
• Nicholas Britell and Taura Stinson - Slip Away (Carmen)
• Sharon Farber and Noah Benshea - Better Times (Jacob the Baker)

Outstanding Original Song For a Comedy or Musical

• Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell - What Was I Made For? (Barbie)
• Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt - I’m Just Ken (Barbie)
• Diane Warren - The Fire Inside (Flamin' Hot)
• Heather McIntosh, Allyson Newman and Taura Stinson - All About Me (The L-Word)
• Jack Black, John Spiker, Eric Osmond, Michael Jelenic, and Aaron Horvath - Peaches (Super Mario Bros. Movie)

David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent

• Kenny Wood - The Naughty Nine
• Hannah Parrott - After Death
• Fabrizio Mancinelli - The Land of Dreams
• Catherine Joy - Home Is A Hotel
• Allyson Newman - Commitment to Life

Set Decorators Society of America

Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Contemporary Feature Film

• The Killer – Brandi Kalish (Set Decoration); Donald Graham Burt (Production Design)
• Leave the World Behind – David Schlesinger (Set Decoration); Anastasia White (Production Design)
• May December – Jess Royal (Set Decoration); Sam Lisenco (Production Design)
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Raffaella Giovannetti (Set Decoration); Gary Freeman (Production Design)
• Saltburn – Charlotte Dirickx (Set Decoration); Suzie Davies (Production Design)

Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Period Feature Film

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Hi, mixedrace!
I am a Korean who is born and raised there (so racially 100% Asian) and then emigrated to the US. My husband is a White, green-eyed American. We live in Phoenix suburb where the vast majority of the residents are White, and plan to live here for the foreseeable future.
We are currently in the stage of trying to conceive, and I am not really sure how to approach the name situation. I do feel strongly about the child having a Korean name (either first or middle) they can identify with and use in Korea, if they choose to live there. I also have a Korean last name, and do not plan to take my husband's name. I would like to include my last name if possible, but that is not necessarily a must.
Some of the options that I have are:

• Option 1
  • First name: (Regular English name)
  • Middle name 1: (Korean name that exists in English, think Jane/재인, Hannah/해나, Shane/세인)
  • Middle name 2: (My last name)
  • Last name: (Husband's last name)
• Option 2
  • First name: (Regular English name)
  • Middle name: (Korean name that exists in English)
  • Last name: (Husband's last name)
• Option 3
  • First name: (Korean name that exists in English)
  • Middle name: (My last name)
  • Last name: (Husband's last name)
• Option 4
  • First name: (Regular English name)
  • Middle name 1: (Korean name that exists in English)
  • Last name: (My last name) and (Husband's last name) hyphenated

I wanted to ask your thoughts based on your lived experiences living as a mixed race person. How were you named, and how do you like it? If you had a choice, what would you have preferred?

Fun read of a book, I have much more in-depth reports on the book if you're interested...
Ric Flair book part 1
Ric Flair book part 2
Anyways, this is all in chronological order from Flair's point of view. I hope you enjoy...
Ric says he was surprised when Turner bought Crocket Promotions. He says his new contract was for $730,000 per year. According to Flair, he later found out that Turner only agreed to buy the company if Ric Flair was there and that his contract should have been in the millions. But neither Dusty nor Jimmy Crockett let Ric in on how vital he was to the deal. He let (newly renamed) WCW officials know that he would be a team player, but he absolutely would not work for Dusty Rhodes.
Flair convinced WCW to hire Ricky Steamboat in early 1989, and on February 20th that year, Steamboat beat Flair for the NWA title. Steamboat remembers how booker George Scott didn't decide who was winning until an hour before the match.
Ricky Steamboat's wife Bonnie would accompany him to the ring, and most agreed that she was hurting Ricky's image and making him look too soft. Because Flair brought him in, George Scott told Flair he had to get rid of Bonnie. Flair remembers telling Ricky but seeing him not listen, saying that Bonnie had gold on him. Flair says the fallout from this conversation turned he and Bonnie into "mortal enemies."
George Scott was relieved of his booking duties in April 1989, when he refused to advertise an NWA World title match between Flair and champion Steamboat. George Scott thought that fans wouldn't buy house show tickets if they knew a world title match was coming up on TV. George Scott was replaced by a booking committee consisting of Flair, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Barnett, Jim Herd, and Eddie Gilbert.
Flair says originally he and Steamboat were supposed to draw for a finish. Flair said with his new booking position, he insisted on Steamboat winning clean to help keep him over. Flair says that he refused to be like Dusty as a booker and said, "What's best for business is best for Ric Flair."
Flair says TV and PPV restraints made it difficult to have a great match because it was unlikely to get more than 10 or 15 minutes, and Flair says he needed at least 30 for a great match.
When Flair won his 6th NWA World title on May 7th, 1989, off Steamboat, Flair turned face for the first time since becoming a main eventer. Terry Funk was a guest judge for the match and actually turned heel in a post-match angle to set up a flai funk fued. Terry Funk would memorably Piledrive Flair through a table which Flair says fucked up his neck legit for weeks. Bubba-Ray Dudley says this spot is the inception of him being obsessed with table spots.
Steamboat says he wasn't told about the post-match angle or the Funk/ Flair fued and was clearly upset by this. He said he didn't think he would win the title back but was hoping for a couple high profile rematches.
Funnily enough, Flair says the show went off the air with him laying in the table wreckage. But they weren't the main event that night, they were 3rd to last on the card. The main event was the NWA United States Tag Team Championship match. It wasnt uncommon for the world title to be in the middle of the show back then, it's just funny how Flair remembers it.
In late 1989, Flair convinced Jim Herd to hire back Arn and Tully for $250,000 a year each! Unfortunately, while finishing up in the WWF, Tully tested positive for cocaine and so WCW didn't want him and didn't see value in Arn so offered him $100,000 less per year. Flair says he had to break that news to Arn. Arn and Tully already gave their notice to WWF and were stuck.
Flair obviously has nothing nice to say about Jim Herd and says that because of Herd's background managing a pizza hut, the boys backstage mockingly called him "Pizza King."
Jim Cornette says Ric Flair got him a spot on the booking committee for an extra $300 a week, and Cornette says he hated working with Jim Herd, calling him unsuited, unprepared and uneducated to the wrestling buisness.
Jim Ross says he despised Herd's management style and his lack of wrestling knowledge. Ross says Herd would change his mind based off the last person he spoke to so the long term plans were always in Flux. Ross says Herd would even listen to people who aren't in WCW like Sam Muchnick or Lou Thesz. Ross jokingly says "Lou would have us go back to wool tights."
Herd believed the Nature Boy gimmick was outdated, and wanted to change Flair into a Roman Gladiator named Sparticas. He wanted to put him in a silly getup and have him pierce his ears, but Ric refused. He regrets letting Herd cut his hair though, calling it a "humiliation."
Flair stresses in this book that while he was on the booking committee, he didn't have the sway he was accused of. Flair specifically calls out Mick Foley for what Foley said in his own book about Flair being a terrible booker.
Flair says Foley took a shot at him in Foley's book, so Flair spends several pages here giving him his "receipt." Flair calls Foley a glorified stuntman and compares him to Brutus Beefcake or Ultimate Warrior, as guys who only got somewhere because they worked for Vince. Flair says there would have never been a demand for Foley without Vince and says Foley would spend all day at the tv tapings sucking up to writers or bookers for a better spot.
Sting was being built up as the future of WCW since mid-1988 and Flair promised to drop the title to him. On Feb 6th 1990, Sting blew out his knee and needed time off. Jim Herd was furious and wanted Flair to drop the title to Luger instead. Flair refused and was kicked off the booking committee. But Flair kept his promise to Sting and in June of that year, Flair dropped the belt to Sting at the Great American Bash ppv.
Flair says Herd "knew what he was doing" when it came to booking the Black Scorpion angle for Sting's title reign. He says that they never really had a plan as to who it was and that Herd did it to humiliate Flair. He says Sting hated it for ruining his first title reign, and it really did. In January 1991, the title was put back on Flair.
The title change didn't help WCW and the rematch drew less than 2000 fans. The blame for the current state of the company was quickly switched from Sting to Ric Flair with TBS officials talking about how Ric at 42 was too old to carry the company.
This was when Ric noticed the company calling the NWA title the WCW Championship.
Roc noticed a lot of guys taking advantage of WCW's disorganization. One night in Greensboro, 16 of the 24 scheduled wrestlers didn't even show up because they knew they would still be paid and there would be no consequences. Ric calls this Jim Herds doing as a poor manger.
When it came time to renegotiate Flair's contract, he was significantly low balled from $750,000 a year down to $350,000 and he knew Sid Vicious was making over a million per year.
Flair had never dealt with not being wanted by a wrestling company and started suffering terrible anxiety and eventually went to see a shrink. Though he prefaced it by saying "I know it's not very manly to see a shrink."
Ric was NWA Champion and wrestling without a contract. Eventually he recieved his termination notice via fax machine. Then Herd called him up and said "Fuck it, your fired! You want your release, well your fired!" Herd then tried arranging a pickup of the NWA title but Flair demanded his $25,000 deposit back. In those days the NWA Champion had to put a $25,000 deposit to hold the title and they would get it back when they dropped it. Flair refused to give back the title with out getting paid first. Flair says he literally mailed the title to WWF.
"We Want Flair" chants rang out at the next WCW ppv where Luger defended Barry Windham for the vacant WCW Championship. The public outcry and calls to boycott in certain regions made the NWA release a statement saying that Ric Flair is still their recognized Champion.
Flair took his lawyers advice and laid low for a month and ignored all calls from Herd and Jimmy Crockett before making a handshake deal with Vince McMahon. Vince even told Flair that if Flair wasn't being used as a main eventer in WWF, he was free to leave and go anywhere he wants, including WCW. I think this is what Flair cared most about, being valued in a wrestling company again after spending a decade as the top guy down south.
Flair turned down $800,000 a year offer from WCW and a contract claus that would protect him as the "Babe Ruth of WCW" for Vince's handshake deal. He says Jim Herd was fired shortly after he jumped ship to the WWF.
Flair says that when WCW tried suing the WWF over Ric having the NWA title on tv, their wasn't much of a case but the judge was sympathetic to the WCW's position since they would get the title back eventually. So Ric says he mostly wore a WWF Tag Team title and it was digitized on TV to look like the NWA title. I had never heard this before.
Flair worked at WWF from Aug 1991 to Feb 1993.
Flair says he was pulled aside by Vince and basically told that he wasn't a priority anymore. Vince said "I don't know what we're gonna do with you next." Flair saw the New Generation campaign and looked back over at WCW, which was now being overseen by Bill Shaw. Shaw hired Cowboy Bill Watts as the booker and Flair had great respect for him so the decision to go back was easy. Bill Watts called Vince on the phone to personally ask for Flair to come back. Vince was true to his word and let Flair leave since he wasn't gonna be featured in the main event anymore. Vince just asked Flair to put over Mr Perfect on the way out since Perfect had spent the last several months in Flair's corner. Flair was happy to do so. Flair was proud to walk away without burning any bridges.
Flair knew there was trouble the second he got back to WCW. He was shocked to find Watts at the Turner offices wearing workout pants and tshirts, putting Bill Shaw in a headlock, laughing at everyone else wearing suits and not taking it seriously. Flair says Cowboy Bill Watts wasn't racist because of the black wrestlers he pushed in various places or promotions. Flair says it was Watts idea to make Ron Simmons as the first African American Champion of any promotion ever.
Watts did an interview where he said, "If you own a buisness why shouldn't you be able to discriminate? Why should I have to hire a f@g if I don't like f@gs? If I don't wanna sell fried chicken to blacks, I shouldn't have to. It's my restaurant." Watts resigned shortly after when Shaw questioned him on it
Flair says he was asked by WCW executives about Vince's operation and Flair advised them to hire Bobby Heenan and Gene Oakerlund asap. He was shocked they did.
Flair says Bill Shaw asked him to take Watts position and oversee the day to day operations. Flair immediately declined so they hired someone named Bob Dhue. Flair says Bob was competent but Bob knew he was in over his head managing the boys. Flair turned down a second offer this time from Bob, to help oversee WCW.
Flair says Bob Dhue asked Flair what he thought about Eric Bishoff. He says Bill Shaw also asked him what he thought Bishoff and Flair pushed for Bishoff, saying he liked him because he is aggressive.
Flair says it was down to Eric Bishoff or Ole Anderson for the position and Flair says he wasn't impressed with Ole's personality as a leader or his idea's as a booker so he pushed for and helped get Eric Bishoff hired.
Flair says Bob and Eric were originally a team but Eric quickly pushed him out. Flaor then takes credit for that too saying Bill Shaw asked him about Bob and Flair said Bob was struggling. Flair notes how he did Bob a favor since he wasn't around for the collapse of WCW and still kept his original Turner position. Flair isn't considering that Bob also wasn't there for the rise of the company either so it's a weird point to make in my opinion.
With Eric overseeing day-to-day operations of WCW, Dusty Rhodes was brought back as booker. Flair doesn't bring up his earlier claim of refusing to work for Dusty ever again.
Dusty remade the Four Horseman with Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, and perennial under card talent, Paul Roma. Flair says Roma had a shitty work ethic and notes how at the Omni in Atlanta, the crowd went silent as Roma as announced with the team. Flair remembers thinking to himself, "It never ends, Dusty screwing with me again."
On July 18th, 1993, Flair beat Barry Windham for the NWA world title but notes how little the crowd cared because Vader was the WCW Champion at the time and the company was pushing him as a much bigger deal. In September a few months later, the NWA finally withdrew from the WCW. Since Flair was the champion but wrestled for WCW contractually, the title was vacated.
Flair trashes Sid Vicious throughout the book as a poor wrestler with a poor work ethic. He remembers how Sid would call in sick but still go play in his local softball league. He tells a funny story of Jim Cornette voicing concerns in a meeting of putting Sid over, saying, "we have to go back to that town someday."
Flair notes how originally Sid Vicious was planned to go over Vader at Starcade that year and win the WCW title. But Sid would leave the company and Dusty would go with Flair. Flair says a lot of guys like Rick Rude and Paul Orndorff were upset over this decision, thinking they deserved the spot while Flair was already a 10 time World champion.
Flair puts over Dusty a bit for the build to Flair vs Vader at Starcade 1993. He still takes a few more shots at him but notes how sometimes he was a creative genius.
Flair says Vader got some flack backstage from some wrestlers for agreeing to drop the belt to Flair, so their was some heat there between them. Flair says that while Vader protected Flair like a professional when it comes to moves and slams and falls, Vader was throwing real punches. Flaor says he had a cauliflower ear, swollen eye and a busted open mouth. Flair remembers how at one point Vader told Flair to fight back for real. Harley Race was ringside as Vader's manager and notes how unprofessional Vader was being in the match, saying it was uncalled for. Harley does note how Vader loosened up a bit after Flair tagged him with a series of punches that buried Vader's eye.
Flair calls his Starcade 1993 match with Vader as one of his finest moments. He says Hulk Hogan called him the next day and told him the match with Vader made Hulk cry.
Eric Bishoff asked Flair for help in signing Hulk Hogan and Flair started getting in Hulk's ear about it and made sure to arrange a face to face encounter between Hulk and Bishoff. Flair says Hulk signed a ridiculous contract that gave him creative control and 25% of all ppv revenue. That means Hulk was making $600,000 to $1.2 million for every ppv match, while Flair was only making $500,000 for the whole year! Flair says he doesn't blame Hogan at all for exercising his creative control, he blames Eric.
The plan originally was for Sting to to take the WCW title off Ric Flair, but with Hogan coming in plans completely changed. Flair turned heel to accommodate Hogan's spot and Sting was completely removed from title picture plans. Flair says Sting was furious.
Flair says that Vader and Rick Rude flat out refused to work with Hogan. Apparently Vader hated Hogan's style of wrestling since Vader liked to be rough and Rude was bitter because Hogan refused to drop the WWF title to Rude years prior.
Flair notes how Hogan was boo'd heavily for the first few months he was in WCW and everyone worked really hard to get him over as a hero.
Flair says he and Hogan had agreed to Flaor dropping the title at the Bash at the Beach ppv in July 1994, then for Ric to win it back at the Clash of Champions ppv in August, only for Hogan to win the rubber match in a cage at Halloween Havoc. After Hogan won the title at the Bash ppv, he had a change of heart and said he didn't want to lose the title yet. Hogan told Flair the fans don't wanna see him lose the title yet either.
Flair won their rematch at the Clash ppv by countout, and didn't see a point in a rubber match since there was no heat. A few weeks before the Havoc ppv, Bishoff pulled Hogan and Fkair aside, Bishoff was upset that the Havoc ppv hadn't sold much tickets. Flair was annoyed at how that was an obvious outcome and was worried when Bishoff told Flair he wanted Flair's career on the line when he lost. He promised Flair an office gig for a year before coming back hotter than ever. Flair was nervous because his contract hadn't been extended yet.
Flair says "later on I was accused of refusing to lose until I got a new contract." Flair never really disputes this though and just justifies his position saying he had ti stand his ground "to the very end." He says Bill Shaw showed up to the Halloween Havoc ppv with a new contract in hand for Flair. Flair signed it, then went out and lost his "retirement" match to Hogan.
Eric Bishoff approached Flair in early 1995 about wrestling in North Korea. Flair later found out he was the 4th person Eric Bishoff approached this to, saying both Hulk Hogan George Forman wanted too much money and Sting just refused. Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, and Jane Fonda were originally planned to go as well but all backed out, leaving the only marquee names being Muhammed Ali and Ric Flair.
Flair says he only agreed to go to Korea for the chance to get to know Muhammed Ali in some way.
Flair says the second they all landed their passports were confiscated.
Flair says each wrestler or preformer got someone assigned to them as a "cultural attache" who never left their side.
Flair remembers seeing cameras in every corner and notes how when Scott Norton called home to his wife, the lime was cut after Scott said "this place sucks."
Flair says he and Ali were kept apart and in separate cars even.
Flair says that it was a sight to see over 300,000 spectators, remembering how he couldn't see where the people actually ended. But he says it was kinda creepy and that I felt like they were ordered to attend. Well duh Ric.
It was a 2 night show and the first night, Ric didn't wrestle so he sat with North Korean officials and remembers how confused they were by the matches. Ric relozed they were figuring out right then and there that it was predetermined. They though they were getting real combat it would seem.
It was supposed to be a 2 night trip with Flair losing to Inoki on the 2nd night. Flairnwas told that it wouldn't be broadcast to America and implies WCW tricked him because no one told him it would be shown on a WCW ppv.
For reasons Flair was never told, the w day trip turned into 5 with Flair and Ali getting dragged all over the place for various appearances.
Flairnremebers how little Ali speak and how out of it he seemed do to Parkinson disease he suffered from. But one night at a dinner with a bunch of North Korean officials, someone was talking loud and boisterous about North Korea's superiority and Ali randomly chimed in loudly saying, "No wonder we hate these motherfuckers!" Flair immediately panicked telling him to stop talking and thinking 'please don't start talking now!'
Flair was asked to make a speech before leaving and to praise North Korea, their leader and trash the States. Flair says he just said some random diplomatic bs but was quoted as putting over North Korea and trashing the states. Flair says he kissed the ground when he got off the plane in America.
Flair says that Hogan made sure guys like Brutus Beefcake and EarthQuake were hired, while trying to push out Arn Anderson.
Flair remembers how Bishoff and Hogan wanted The Renegade to squash Arn Anderson in 15 seconds for Arn's TV title.
Flair says Hogan was trying to groom The Renegade as the next Ultimate Warrior so Hogan can beat him to avenge his Wrestlemania loss to Warrior 5 years later. Ric questions why anyone watching WCW would care about this at all. In 1999, 4 months after The Renegade was released from WCW, he shot himself in the head. Flair states he doesn't blame Hogan but says Hogan did inflate the kids ego.
Flair again found himself on the creative committee and hated it, having to fly down to Hogan's house to plan angles that Hogan would just toss out the day of tye show.
Flair talks about how guys like Hogan and Bret Hart were too obsessed with Dave Meltzer and his newsletter. Bret confirms this in his book, as he would trash Meltzer but routinely quote directly from the newsletter as if Dave's opinion really mattered to him. Flair says Hogan would spend more time talking about Dave than any wrestlers he worked with.
Flair says he helped Randy Savage get hired at WCW.
Flair says Hogan convinced Savage that the 2 of them were bigger than WCW and both guys would go out drinking before the shows, before coming back and changing things with Eric Bishoff's approval. Eventually Eric was joining them for those drinks.
Flair was finally brought back to television in mid 1995 where he started a fued with Randy Savage. Savage was supposed to win their bout at the Slamboree ppv in May, but Ric says "enough is enough" and told Savage that he was winning, adding "take it or leave it." Savage agreed and Flair won. Flair says he was suprised he finally put his foot down, but not suprised when he was immediately kicked off the booking committee after the show.
Ric Flair takes time in his book to say he couldn't call Scott Hall a "great" preformer either.
Flair says he nearly walked out one day when Eric Bishoff told they whole locker room that the only people to draw money for the company were Hogan, Savage and Piper. Chris Jericho was there and remembers how everyone looked at Flair who just sorta took it.
Flair says that when he wrestled Randy Savage at Starcade 1995 to win the WCW title, Savage wanted color so he cut Flair open without asking or talking about it first. Flair says that's the only time in his career that happened to him.
Flair said he and Savage were having a series of good matches, trading the title back and forth, but it was abruptly ended so Flair could drop the title to The Giant. (The future Big Show)
Flair says the decision to drop the title to The Giant came after Flair missed a show when taking his son Reid to an amature wrestling tournament Reid was in.
Flair has high praise for the Four Horsman group that consisted of himself, Arn Anderson, Dean Melanko and Chris Benoit. Arn had ti have a vertibre removed from his neck in 1997 and could no longer wrestle, so he was replaced with Mr Perfect.
Flair said they weren't warned ofnNWO impersonating the Four Horseman and spoofing Arn's retirement speech. Flair also questions why he and the Horseman weren't allowed to go get even with them.
Arn Anderson actually knocked on Kevin Nash's dressing room door after the show, because he was very offended by the NWO spoof. Arm says Nash genuinely didn't see how it was hurtful, and that it was just buisness to him. Arm says after they talked for a while, he came to see Nash was probably genuine.
Flair says later on it was revealed that the NWO spoof segment was thought up by Arn's good friend Terry Taylor, who genuinely meant no ill will and though segment would be funny. Flair says Nash apologized for any issues and later when Arm wrote a book and expanded on his hurt feelings, Nash called him to apologize again. Nash is one guy who Flair really didn't have much bad to say about in the book.
Flair says the decision to have Mr Perfect turn on Horseman a month after joining was designed to humilate Flair.
Earlier in the book, Flair spent several pages trashing Bret Hart for the Montreal screwjob, saying Vince was correct when he said "Bret screwed Bret." Flair made fun of Bret for not wanting to lose in Canada, and sarcastically said that would be like me having a problem losing in the Carolina's. A couple hundred pages later and Flair is complaining constantly about losing in the Carolina's and how they were killing towns buy having the Horsemen lose so close to home. It's not quite the same, but I found it funny.
Flair says he was realizing in early 1998 that Shawn Michaels was starting to eclipse Flair as the best active wrestler in the world.
Ric Flair says 18 guys were making more than him in 1998 working for WCW and even lists several of them out. Of the names you would expect to see Hogan and Goldberg and Nash but there was also names like Booker T and even Rick Steiner who were making more than Ric Flair at the time.
Late in the book Flair says one of his agents was actually Barry Bloom, and Flair doesn't have much nice to say about him either. He says Bloom as negotiating a book deal for Flair that ended up going to Goldberg, and Bloom convinced him to re-sign with WCW in 1998 instead of going to WWF. Jim Cornette had told Flair that Vince would have loved to have Flair back. Flair says he wasn't a priority to Bloom or his other agent.
Flair says he was technically operating without a contract in early 1998, when he went to a wrestling tournament his son was in. WCW offered to charter a plane to get him to a show asap, but only if Flair paid for half of it. Flair knew they wouldn't make Hogan pay so he said no. Bishoff tried to fire him and sue him for a breach of contract, but Flair wasn't on one at that time.
Eric gathered all the WCW wrestlers together and badmouthed Flair to them. Chris Jericho remembers Eric saying he was going to sue Flair into bankruptcy and starve his family.
Flair doesn't say it, but implies it was his absence that led to the 83 week win streak Nitro had in the ratings, coming to an end.
Flair says he sat out 5 months without pay as the lawyers settled things. Flair says he wanted to go to WWF but felt an obligation towards Arn and the rest of the Horsemen still trying to get that over, so Flair re-signed his contract for extra years and got no extra pay.
Flair takes pride in the fact that he didn't take liberties in his match with Eric Bishoff at Starcade 1998, and that he was always professional. Flair says Bishoff asked him the day of the show to lose.
Flair says the angle where Hogan whipped David Flair with a weight belt wasn't discussed beforehand. David says Hogan said not to worry and he would while him a couple of times but Hogan hit him over a dozen times and David says it was excruciatingly painful. Flair was pissed, obviously, since David wasn't trained and this wasn't talked about. David remembers how Scott Norton was holding him for the lashes and kept asking him "are you okay kid?"
Flair says David was too nice to be a wrestler and tried to talk him out of it, and have him go home and take the State Trooper exam he had been preparing for.
Flair takes a couple paragraphs to shade Diamond Dallas Page as an average at best wrestler, who's climb to the top was a "joke" as Flair put it.
Flair calls Page pinning him for the WCW title as an "insult to everything I've learned from men like Verne Gagne and Wahoo McDaniel."
Flair says the mental patient storyline was a Kevin Nash idea, who was not booking. Charles Robinson says it was disgrace to Flair.
Flair says it bothered him that Bret was so angry at WWF and Vince after Owen died and talked about how Bret was trashing Vince publicly and said it should have been a private conversation. Ric didn't know at the time that Bret and Vince spoke privately shortly after Owen died I guess. Flair says Bret seemed more upset with the Montreal Screwjob than the death of Owen.
Flair says Vince Russo didn't say a word to him when he came to WCW, and after seeing all the boys kissing his ass, Flair refused to talk to Russo or even introduce himself.
Flair remembers the first real conversation he and Russo had, where Russo randomly said "you must really hate my guts?" Flair say he doesn't even know Russo to hate him, and Russo responds with "Well your friend Jim Cornette hates me, so I figure you would too." Flair said "What makes you think your even important enough for Jim to mention your name to me? He's a busy guy."
Flair didn't like the way Scott Steiner would insult people's personal lives on the mic and noted how he never said anything about Kevin Nash or Scott Hall or Scott Norton.
Flair was very heated over Scott Steiner's random shoot promo where he buried Flair as an ass kisser and failure. Flair spends several paragraphs burying Scott, saying Scott meant nothing as a talent, drew no money and has no legacy.
Flair spends a couple paragraphs to shade Shane Dougles as a forgettable talent who couldn't rise above bad booking like any quality wrestler could, according to Flair. He says despite how much Dougles trashed him online and in interviews, when they met in 2000, Douglas shook Flair's hand and told him all those interviews were just a work.
Flair has nice things to say about David Arquette, who won the WCW title in 2000. Flair advised David to buy everyone drinks the night he won and David obliged. He also notes how Arquette donated his WCW paydays to the families of deceased wrestlers like Owen Hart and Brian Pilman. Flair says Arquette had more character than most.
Flair heavily criticizes the booking of WCW in 2000, notably the month of July when the WCW title changed hands 5 times.
Flair was upset when his son David moved in with Stacey Kiebler without talking to him first. He was worried that David wasn't putting his own needs ahead
Flair notes how at one point, Russo wanted to reveal that Stacey Kiebler was Ric Flair's daughter or that David Flair was Russo's son? No wonder Vince liked Russo so much.
Flair says he didn't make it to Wahoo McDaniel's funeral in 2002, or Mr Perfects, or Andre the Giant's, or Road Warrior Hawk's. He felt great shame for missing Wahoo's and said he had "prior commitments." Not everyone can do funerals though. Actor David Spade famously refused to go to Chris Farley's funeral, saying, "I couldn't have gone into a room where Chris was in a box." Not everyone can face that and poor Flair is so torn up over being one of those guys it seems.
Flair says at the end of the book that he isn't missing any more funerals and already told guys like Triple H and Vince McMahon to the the biggest party when Flair passes. Flair says if he goes first, his wife Beth promised to buy a boat and lower his body into the sea as everyone parties. Flair has been remarried 3 times since then though so I don't know if his current wife has the same idea.
Flair had to have rotator cuff surgery in 2000, but agreed to shave his head in a match before going away. It was clear that Russo and Bishoff wanted to humiliate Flair, but he got to share the ring with both his sons that night and he said he enjoyed it more than he expected.
Flair said he really lost his passion in 2000 and for the first time ever he stopped working out and the fans heckled him for it.
Flair says he was shocked at how little Vince McMahon paid for WCW and says if he knew it would go that low, he would have gotten a couple investors together to buy it himself. He is confident with himself and Sting on board, they could have kept it going.
Flair says he had to be talked into wrestling Sting at the final Nitro episode because he was so beaten down. He was embarked by his physique and wore a tshirt. He calls the match terrible and takes all the credit for it being so bad.

Part 1
Flair turned down $800,000 a year offer from WCW and a contract claus that would protect him as the "Babe Ruth of WCW" for Vince's handshake deal. He says Jim Herd was fired shortly after he jumped ship to the WWF.
Flair says that when WCW tried suing the WWF over Ric having the NWA title on tv, their wasn't much of a case but the judge was sympathetic to the WCW's position since they would get the title back eventually. So Ric says he mostly wore a WWF Tag Team title, and it was "digitized" on TV to look like the NWA title. I had never heard this before.
Flair doesn't understand why he and Hogan were wrestling untelevised matches when it would have drawn huge numbers and did good business.
Bobby Heenan was paired with Flair for about six months before he took himself off the road. Bobby needed neck surgery and was in a ton of pain all the time, so partying every night with Flair wasn't helping. When Heenan had enough, he told Ric, "You're killing me, you hear that? You're killing me, I can't keep track of time. I hope all your hair falls out and comes back red. I hate you!" I have no idea how serious Bobby was being here.
Earl Hebner was put on the road with Ric next, and he says it took 4 or 5 years off his life from partying every night. He talks about Flair paying for "happy ending" massages for them and how it eventually led to Earl getting divorced because he was cheating on his wife all the time. He says it's not all Flair's fault, but Ric definitely played a part in his divorce.
Flair says he first heard he was winning the WWF title from Jake Roberts, who heard locker room gossip about it. Reminds me of how Bret Hart heard he was losing his tag titles from Dino Bravo due to locker room gossip.
Bobby Heenan says the 1992 Royal Rumble is the best match he ever called and the only match he ever called that he believed to be 100% while calling it.
Flair says his Mania match with Hogan was changed to Randy Savage because Hogan's relationship with Vince had deteriorated, and he was on his way out the door to become a full-time movie star.
Flair says he was originally planned to retain against Savage at Mania before Savage "pitched and mounded until it was changed."
Flair says he can't call Randy Savage great because of how pre-planned out his matches are. He hated practicing the match at Savage's home weeks prior to the show.
Flair says that while at Savage's home, he "realized there was real terror between Randy and Miss Elizabeth."
Flair says Savage is the one who asked him to blade during their match, knowing it was banned at that time in the WWF. He says Vince was furious backstage and scolded Flair as he came back through the curtain. Bret Hart's book touched on this a bit because Hart also bled but worked everyone on it so that he wasn't fined. Flair doesn't mention the fine in his book, but Hart says Flair was fined $500. Bret says no one ever said anything to him, so he got away with it.
Flair says he was with Savage when Savage was freaking out because alledgedly, Elizabeth went to a club and never came back. Savage was on the phone frantically trying to find his wife.
Flair says Savage wasn't much without Elizabeth in the picture and again reiterates that he can't call Savage great.
Flair says Savage's heart wasn't in it anymore after Elizabeth left, and that's why Vince decided to put the title back on Flair.
Flair says Randy Savage didn't like Scott Hall personally.
On September 1st, 1992, Ric Flair wrestled Savage at a tv taping in Hershey Pennsylvania for the WWF Championship. Ric calls the match terrible and again says it's because Savage just didn't care about anything anymore. Scott Hall was supposed to do a run-in, but because of their heat, things got bad quickly. In fact, Vince had sent Bobby Heenan out there making the cut sign on his throat, so literally everyone in the ring had to stop and head to the back because Vince hated what he was seeing on the monitor. Flair notes how confused the fans were at this taping. Pretty wild story.
Flair says they talked the match over for half an hour before heading back out to the ring to try again and again and again. He said the crowd hated everything, and Savage was overselling his leg too much and that Flair couldn't do a fall to light up the crowd at all. Eventually Savage just passed out during the figure 4 leg lock to a dead crowd.
Flair says that he was just a transitional champion as Vince wanted to spearhead Bret Hart as the face of his New Generation idea.
Flair says Ultimate Warrior botched a suplex, resulting in Flair dislodging a chip in his inner ear, and he could get his balance back. Earl Hebner had to call off the match when Flaor tried to do his corner spot and fell out of the ring. Flair notes how Charles Barkley was sitting in the front row, and Flair was trying to show off.
He says this injury made him immediately drop the title to Bret, and that's why it happened at the house show in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I could be wrong, but I don't remember Bret mentioning any injury in his book and just tried to paint Flair as uncooperative in the series of matches they had. Flair called his title loss match to Bret awful.
Flair says he went to the Mayo Clinic with his dad, who was a doctor, and was told he had "benign paroxysmal position vertigo" as a result or the dislodged chip. He was told he couldn't lean forward or backward without losing his equilibrium. He says he saw 3 specialists between the Mayo Clinic and Duke Univeristy before applying for Loyds of London benefits. He says he was all set up to receive $30,000 a month for 3 years to just not wrestle.
He day before filing his claim, Flair says he woke up completely fine with no dizziness. He even smacked his head against the wall a few times to prove to himself for some reason. As a result, he didn't get his Loyds of London payday but says he has no regrets, noting how he wouldn't exchange his good health for money.
Flair says when he came back, his rematches with Bret were also not great, and the fans didn't care. In Bret's book, he tells a story about Flair was sabotaging their return matches since he said Flair was already planning to return to WCW. He says at one point, Pat Patterson got them alone together in a room and told Flair to stop screwing up the matches every night. Flair apologized to Bret and confessed that he just didn't have his head in the game since he was leaving back to WCW soon.
Okay, so this is a weird one. I'm torn on who is closer to the truth here between Hart's story and Flair's story. Flair makes no mention of the meeting, but Pat Patterson was alive when Bret wrote his book, so this could have been refuted if untrue. Bret insisting on Flair sabatoging the matches and making no mention of the potential injury is odd. Though I do question the validity of the injury, since it was so convenient a timing for Flair. Looking up Flair's match history online, you can find the no contest match he mentioned having prior to the title change. But he wrestled Bret 2 times before the Saskatoon title change bout, and 1 of which was nearly half an hour long! After the title change, he wrestled Warrior a few more times before having zero matches for nearly a month. That would coincide with his multiple specialist visits. It's a fantastic tale that isn't impossible, so I'm inclined to side with Flair here. I love Bret, but he and his family are a bunch of paranoid crazies half the time.
Flair says he was pulled aside by Vince and basically told that he wasn't a priority anymore. Vince said, "I don't know what we're gonna do with you next." Flair saw the New Generation campaign and looked back over at WCW, which was now being overseen by Bill Shaw. Shaw hired Cowboy Bill Watts as the booker, and Flair had great respect for him, so the decision to go back was easy. Bill Watts called Vince on the obone to personally ask for Flair to come back. Vince was true to his word and let Flair leave since he wasn't gonna be featured in the main event anymore. Vince just asked Flair to put over Mr. Perfect on the way out since Perfect had spent the last several months in Flair's corner. Flair was happy to do so. Flair was proud to walk away without burning any bridges.
Flair knew there was trouble the second he got back to WCW. He was shocked to find Watts at the Turner offices wearing workout pants and t-shirts, putting Bill Shaw in a headlock, laughing at everyone else wearing suits and not taking it seriously.
Flair says Cowboy Bill Watts wasn't racist because of the black wrestlers he pushed in various places or promotions. Flair says it was Watts idea to make Ron Simmons the first African American Champion of any promotion ever.
Watts did an interview where he said, "If you own a business, why shouldn't you be able to discriminate? Why should I have to hire a fg if I don't like fgs? If I don't wanna sell fried chicken to blacks, I shouldn't have to. It's my restaurant." Watts resigned shortly after when Shaw questioned him on it
Flair says he was asked by WCW executives about Vince's operation, and Flair advised them to hire Bobby Heenan and Gene Oakerlund asap. He was shocked they did.
Flair says Bill Shaw asked him to take Watts' position and oversee the day to day operations. Flair immediately declined, so they hired someone named Bob Dhue. Flair says Bob was competent, but Bob knew he was in over his head managing the boys. Flair turned down a second offer this time from Bob to help oversee WCW.
Flair says Bob Dhue asked Flair what he thought about Eric Bishoff. He says Bill Shaw also asked him what he thought Bishoff and Flair pushed for Bishoff, saying he liked him because he is aggressive.
Flair says it was down to Eric Bishoff or Ole Anderson for the position and Flair says he wasn't impressed with Ole's personality as a leader or his idea's as a booker so he pushed for and helped get Eric Bishoff hired.
Flair says Bob and Eric were originally a team, but Eric quickly pushed him out. Flair then takes credit for that, too, saying Bill Shaw asked him about Bob and Flair said Bob was struggling. Flair notes how he did Bob a favor since he wasn't around for the collapse of WCW and still kept his original Turner position. Flair isn't considering that Bob also wasn't there for the rise of the company either, so it's a weird point to make, in my opinion.
With Eric overseeing the day-to-day operations of WCW, Dusty Rhodes was brought back as booker. Flair doesn't bring up his earlier claim of refusing to work for Dusty ever again.
Dusty remade the Four Horseman with Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, and perennial under card talent, Paul Roma. Flair says Roma had a shitty work ethic and notes how at the Omni in Atlanta, the crowd went silent as Roma as announced with the team. Flair remembers thinking to himself, "It never ends, Dusty screwing with me again."
On July 18th, 1993, Flair beat Barry Windham for the NWA world title but notes how little the crowd cared because Vader was the WCW Champion at the time and the company was pushing him as a much bigger deal. In September, a few months later, the NWA finally withdrew from the WCW. Since Flair was the champion but wrestled for WCW contractually, the title was vacated.
Flair trashes Sid Vicious throughout the book as a poor wrestler with a poor work ethic. He remembers how Sid would call in sick but still go play in his local softball league. He tells a funny story of Jim Cornette voicing concerns in a meeting of putting Sid over, saying, "we have to go back to that town someday."
Flair notes how originally Sid Vicious was planned to go over Vader at Starcade that year and win the WCW title. But Sid would leave the company, and Dusty would go with Flair. Flair says a lot of guys like Rick Rude and Paul Orndorff were upset over this decision, thinking they deserved the spot while Flair was already a 10-time World champion.
Flair puts over Dusty a bit for the build to Flair vs. Vader at Starcade 1993. He still takes a few more shots at him but notes how sometimes he was a creative genius.
Flair says Vader got some flack backstage from some wrestlers for agreeing to drop the belt to Flair, so their was some heat there between them. Flair says that while Vader protected Flair like a professional when it comes to moves and slams and falls, Vader was throwing real punches. Flair says he had a cauliflower ear, swollen eye, and a busted open mouth. Flair remembers how, at one point, Vader told Flair to fight back for real. Harley Race was ringside as Vader's manager and noted how unprofessional Vader was being in the match, saying it was uncalled for. Harley does note how Vader loosened up a bit after Flair tagged him with a series of punches that buried Vader's eye.
Flair calls his Starcade 1993 match with Vader as one of his finest moments. He says Hulk Hogan called him the next day and told him the match with Vader made Hulk cry.
Eric Bishoff asked Flair for help in signing Hulk Hogan, and Flair started getting in Hulk's ear about it and made sure to arrange a face to face encounter between Hulk and Bishoff Flair says Hulk signed a ridiculous contract that gave him creative control and 25% of all ppv revenue. That means Hulk was making $600,000 to $1.2 million for every ppv match, while Flair was only making $500,000 for the whole year! Flair says he doesn't blame Hogan at all for exercising his creative control. He blames Eric.
The plan originally was for Sting to take the WCW title off Ric Flair, but with Hogan coming in, plans completely changed. Flair turned heel to accommodate Hogan's spot, and Sting was completely removed from title picture plans. Flair says Sting was furious.
Flair says that Vader and Rick Rude flat out refused to work with Hogan. Apparently, Vader hated Hogan's style of wrestling since Vader liked to be rough, and Rude was bitter because Hogan refused to drop the WWF title to Rude years prior.
Flair notes how Hogan was boo'd heavily for the first few months he was in WCW, and everyone worked really hard to get him over as a hero.
Flair says he and Hogan had agreed to Flaor dropping the title at the Bash at the Beach ppv in July 1994, then for Ric to win it back at the Clash of Champions ppv in August, only for Hogan to win the rubber match in a cage at Halloween Havoc. After Hogan won the title at the Bash ppv, he had a change of heart and said he didn't want to lose the title yet. Hogan told Flair the fans don't wanna see him lose the title yet, either.
Flair won their rematch at the Clash ppv by countout and didn't see a point in a rubber match since there was no heat. A few weeks before the Havoc ppv, Bishoff pulled Hogan and Fkair aside, Bishoff was upset that the Havoc ppv hadn't sold much tickets. Flair was annoyed at how that was an obvious outcome and was worried when Bishoff told Flair he wanted Flair's career on the line when he lost. He promised Flair an office gig for a year before coming back hotter than ever. Flair was nervous because his contract hadn't been extended yet.
Flair says, "Later on, I was accused of refusing to lose until I got a new contract." Flair never really disputes this, though, and just justifies his position, saying he had to stand his ground "to the very end." He says Bill Shaw showed up to the Halloween Havoc ppv with a new contract in hand for Flair. Flair signed it, then went out and lost his "retirement" match to Hogan.
Eric Bishoff approached Flair in early 1995 about wrestling in North Korea. Flair later found out he was the 4th person Eric Bishoff approached this to, saying both Hulk Hogan George Forman wanted too much money, and Sting just refused. Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, and Jane Fonda were originally planned to go as well, but all backed out, leaving the only marquee names being Muhammed Ali and Ric Flair.
Flair says he only agreed to go to Korea for the chance to get to know Muhammed Ali in some way.
Flair says the second they all landed, their passports were confiscated.
Flair says each wrestler or performer got someone assigned to them as a "cultural attache" who never left their side.
Flair remembers seeing cameras in every corner and notes how when Scott Norton called home to his wife, the line was cut after Scott said, "This place sucks."
Flair says he and Ali were kept apart and in separate cars even.
Flair says that it was a sight to see over 300,000 spectators, remembering how he couldn't see where the people actually ended. But he says it was kinda creepy and that I felt like they were ordered to attend. Well, duh, Ric.
It was a 2 night show, and the first night, Ric didn't wrestle, so he sat with North Korean officials and remembers how confused they were by the matches. Ric reslized they were figuring out right then and there that it was predetermined. They thought they were getting real combat, it would seem.
It was supposed to be a 2 night trip with Flair losing to Inoki on the 2nd night. Flairnwas told that it wouldn't be broadcast to America and implies WCW tricked him because no one told him it would be shown on a WCW ppv.
For reasons Flair was never told, the w day trip turned into 5 with Flair and Ali getting dragged all over the place for various appearances.
Flair remebers how little Ali spoke and how out of it he seemed due to Parkinson disease he suffered from. But one night at a dinner with a bunch of North Korean officials, someone was talking loud and boisterous about North Korea's superiority and Ali randomly chimed in loudly saying, "No wonder we hate these motherfuckers!" Flair immediately panicked, telling him to stop talking and thinking.'Please don't start talking now!'
Flair was asked to make a speech before leaving and to praise North Korea, their leader, and trash the States. Flair says he just said some random diplomatic bs but was quoted as putting over North Korea and trashing the states. Flair says he kissed the ground when he got off the plane in America.
Flair says that Hogan made sure guys like Brutus Beefcake and EarthQuake were hired while trying to push out Arn Anderson.
Flair remembers how Bishoff and Hogan wanted The Renegade to squash Arn Anderson in 15 seconds for Arn's TV title.
Flair says Hogan was trying to groom The Renegade as the next Ultimate Warrior, so Hogan can beat him to avenge his Wrestlemania loss to Warrior 5 years later. Ric questions why anyone watching WCW would care about this at all. In 1999, 4 months after The Renegade was released from WCW, he shot himself in the head. Flair states he doesn't blame Hogan but says Hogan did inflate the kids' ego.
Flair again found himself on the creative committee and hated it, having to fly down to Hogan's house to plan angles that Hogan would just toss out the day of the show.
Flair talks about how guys like Hogan and Bret Hart were too obsessed with Dave Meltzer and his newsletter. Bret confirms this in his book, as he would trash Meltzer but routinely quote directly from the newsletter as if Dave's opinion really mattered to him. Flair says Hogan would spend more time talking about Dave than any wrestlers he worked with.
Flair says he helped Randy Savage get hired at WCW.
Flair says Hogan convinced Savage that the 2 of them were bigger than WCW, and both guys would go out drinking before the shows before coming back and changing things with Eric Bishoff's approval. Eventually, Eric was joining them for those drinks.
Flair was finally brought back to television in mid 1995, where he started a fued with Randy Savage. Savage was supposed to win their bout at the Slamboree ppv in May, but Ric says "enough is enough" and told Savage that he was winning, adding "take it or leave it" Savage agreed, and Flair won. Flair says he was surprised he finally put his foot down, but not surprised when he was immediately kicked off the booking committee after the show.
Ric Flair takes time in his book to say he couldn't call Scott Hall a "great" performer either.
Flair says he nearly walked out one day when Eric Bishoff told they whole locker room that the only people to draw money for the company were Hogan, Savage and Piper. Chris Jericho was there and remembers how everyone looked at Flair, who just sorta took it.
Flair says that when he wrestled Randy Savage at Starcade 1995 to win the WCW title, Savage wanted color, so he cut Flair open without asking or talking about it first. Flair says that's the only time in his career that happened to him.
Flair said he and Savage were having a series of good matches, trading the title back and forth, but it was abruptly ended so Flair could drop the title to The Giant. (The future Big Show)
Flair says the decision to drop the title to The Giant came after Flair missed a show when taking his son Reid to an amature wrestling tournament Reid was in.
Flair has high praise for the Four Horsman group that consisted of himself, Arn Anderson, Dean Melanko, and Chris Benoit. Arn had to have a vertibre removed from his neck in 1997 and could no longer wrestle, so he was replaced with Mr Perfect.
Flair said they weren't warned of NWO impersonating the Four Horseman and spoofing Arn's retirement speech. Flair also questions why he and the Horseman weren't allowed to go get even with them.
Arn Anderson actually knocked on Kevin Nash's dressing room door after the show because he was very offended by the NWO spoof. Arm says Nash genuinely didn't see how it was hurtful and that it was just business to him. Arn says that after they talked for a while, he came to see Nash was probably genuine.
Flair says later on it was revealed that the NWO spoof segment was thought up by Arn's good friend Terry Taylor, who genuinely meant no ill will and thought segment would be funny. Flair says Nash apologized for any issues, and later, when Arm wrote a book and expanded on his hurt feelings, Nash called him to apologize again. Nash is one guy who Flair really didn't have much bad to say about in the book.
Flair says the decision to have Mr. Perfect turn on Horseman a month after joining was designed to humilate Flair.
Earlier in the book, Flair spent several pages trashing Bret Hart for the Montreal screwjob, saying Vince was correct when he said, "Bret screwed Bret." Flair made fun of Bret for not wanting to lose in Canada, and sarcastically said that would be like me having a problem losing in the Carolina's. A couple hundred pages later and Flair is complaining constantly about losing in the Carolina's and how they were killing towns buy having the Horsemen lose so close to home. It's not quite the same, but I found it funny.
Flair says he was realizing in early 1998 that Shawn Michaels was starting to eclipse Flair as the best active wrestler in the world.
Ric Flair says 18 guys were making more than him in 1998 working for WCW and even lists several of them out. Of the names, you would expect to see Hogan and Goldberg and Nash, but there were also names like Booker T and even Rick Steiner, who were making more than Ric Flair at the time.
Late in the book, Flair says one of his agents was actually Barry Bloom, and Flair doesn't have much nice to say about him either. He says Bloom as negotiating a book deal for Flair that ended up going to Goldberg, and Bloom convinced him to re-sign with WCW in 1998 instead of going to WWF. Jim Cornette had told Flair that Vince would have loved to have Flair back. Flair says he wasn't a priority to Bloom or his other agent.
Flair says he was technically operating without a contract in early 1998, when he went to a wrestling tournament his son was in. WCW offered to charter a plane to get him to a show asap, but only if Flair paid for half of it. Flair knew they wouldn't make Hogan pay, so he said no. Bishoff tried to fire him and sue him for a breach of contract, but Flair wasn't on one at that time.
Eric gathered all the WCW wrestlers together and badmouthed Flair to them. Chris Jericho remembers Eric saying he was going to sue Flair into bankruptcy and starve his family.
Flair doesn't say it, but implies it was his absence that led to the 80+ week win streak Nitro had in the ratings, coming to an end.
Flair says he sat out 5 months without pay as the lawyers settled things. Flair says he wanted to go to WWF but felt an obligation towards Arn and the rest of the Horsemen still trying to get that over, so Flair re-signed his contract for extra years and got no extra pay.
Flair takes pride in the fact that he didn't take liberties in his match with Eric Bishoff at Starcade 1998 and that he was always professional. Flair says Bishoff asked him the day of the show to lose.
Flair says the angle where Hogan whipped David Flair with a weight belt wasn't discussed beforehand. David says Hogan said not to worry, and he would hit him a couple of times, but Hogan hit him over a dozen times, and David says it was excruciatingly painful. Flair was pissed, obviously, since David wasn't trained, and this wasn't talked about. David remembers how Scott Norton was holding him for the lashes and kept asking him, "Are you okay, kid?"
Flair says David was too nice to be a wrestler and tried to talk him out of it and have him go home and take the State Trooper exam he had been preparing for.
Flair takes a couple of paragraphs to shade Diamond Dallas Page as an average at best wrestler, whose climb to the top was a "joke," as Flair put it.
Flair calls Page pinning him for the WCW title as an "insult to everything I've learned from men like Verne Gagne and Wahoo McDaniel."
Flair says the mental patient storyline was a Kevin Nash idea, who was not booking. Charles Robinson says it was disgrace to Flair.
Flair says it bothered him that Bret was so angry at WWF and Vince after Owen died and talked about how Bret was trashing Vince publicly and said it should have been a private conversation. Ric didn't know at the time that Bret and Vince spoke privately shortly after Owen died, I guess. Flair says Bret seemed more upset with the Montreal Screwjob than the death of Owen.
Flair says Vince Russo didn't say a word to him when he came to WCW, and after seeing all the boys kissing his ass, Flair refused to talk to Russo or even introduce himself.
Flair remembers the first real conversation he and Russo had, where Russo randomly said, "You must really hate my guts?" Flair said he doesn't even know Russo to hate him, and Russo responds with "Well your friend Jim Cornette hates me, so I figure you would too." Flair said."What makes you think you're even important enough for Jim to mention your name to me? He's a busy guy."
Flair didn't like the way Scott Steiner would insult people's personal lives on the mic and noted how he never said anything about Kevin Nash or Scott Hall or Scott Norton.
Flair was very heated over Scott Steiner's random shoot promo, where he buried Flair as an ass kisser and failure. Flair spends several paragraphs burying Scott, saying Scott meant nothing as a talent, drew no money, and has no legacy.
Flair spends a couple of paragraphs to shade Shane Dougles as a forgettable talent who couldn't rise above bad booking like any quality wrestler could, according to Flair. He says that despite how much Dougles trashed him online and in interviews, when they met in 2000, Douglas shook Flair's hand and told him all those interviews were just a work.
Flair has nice things to say about David Arquette, who won the WCW title in 2000. Flair advised David to buy everyone drinks the night he won, and David obliged. He also notes how Arquette donated his WCW paydays to the families of deceased wrestlers like Owen Hart and Brian Pilman. Flair says Arquette had more character than most.
Flair heavily criticizes the booking of WCW in 2000, notably the month of July, when the WCW title changed hands 5 times.
Flair was upset when his son David moved in with Stacey Kiebler without talking to him first. He was worried that David wasn't putting his own needs ahead.
Flair notes how, at one point, Russo wanted to reveal that Stacey Kiebler was Ric Flair's daughter or that David Flair was Russo's son? No wonder Vince liked Russo so much.
Flair says he didn't make it to Wahoo McDaniel's funeral in 2002, or Mr Perfects, or Andre the Giant's, or Road Warrior Hawk's. He felt great shame for missing Wahoo's and said he had "prior commitments." Not everyone can do funerals, though. Actor David Spade famously refused to go to Chris Farley's funeral, saying, "I couldn't have gone into a room where Chris was in a box." Not everyone can face that, and poor Flair is so torn up over being one of those guys, it seems.
Flair says at the end of the book that he isn't missing any more funerals and already told guys like Triple H and Vince McMahon to throw the biggest party when Flair passes. Flair says if he goes first, his wife Beth promised to buy a boat and lower his body into the sea as everyone parties. Flair has been remarried 3 times since then, though, so I don't know if his current wife has the same idea.
Flair had to have rotator cuff surgery in 2000 but agreed to shave his head in a match before going away. It was clear that Russo and Bishoff wanted to humiliate Flair, but he got to share the ring with both his sons that night, and he said he enjoyed it more than he expected.
Flair said he really lost his passion in 2000, and for the first time ever, he stopped working out, and the fans heckled him for it.
Flair says he was shocked at how little Vince McMahon paid for WCW and says if he knew it would go that low, he would have gotten a couple of investors together to buy it himself. He is confident with himself and Sting on board. They could have kept it going.
Flair says he had to be talked into wrestling Sting at the final Nitro episode because he was so beaten down. He was embarked by his physique and wore a t-shirt. He calls the match terrible and tales all the credit for it being so bad.
Flair says Jim Ross (head of WWF talent relations at the time) called him in mid-2001 shortly after Nitro went off the air and asked Flair to come wrestle for the WWF. Flair was apprehensive but said yes, then sat around for 6 months before he heard back from the WWF.
Flair says that during that 6 months, he was contacted several times a week by various independent groups offering 5 or 10 grand for appearances or to wrestle. Flair refused, believing if he wanted to fix his image and legacy, it would be with Vince McMahon.
Flair remembers how Eric Bishoff called him after 9/11 because Eric wanted to "check on his friends." Ric was and Is still confused by this because they weren't friends. Flair spent many years angry about not beating the shit out of Bishoff. He legitimately regretted not doing it at WCW.
Flair was horrified when he was asked to wrestle Vince at Royal Rumble ppv in 2002. He broke down crying in front of Vince and Vince's kids, Shane and Stephanie, admitting to them that he isn't the same as he used to and his confidence was shot. Vince hugged him, assured him that everyone gets to that point and that Vince has confidence in Flair.
Flair remembers how, right before his match with Vince, Vince pulled Flair aside and assured him that this was all about making Flair look great. Flair was floored by this after years of dealing with Bishoff.
Flair says Undertaker hand picked Ric Flair as his opponent for Wrestlemania in 2002.
Flair remembers how Undertake beat up David Flair in the build-up to Mania and notes how Undertaker called Flair up after the beat down to ask about David and put him over to Ric. Flair compares this to Hogan whipping David and not caring at all about hurting the kid.
During the Mania match, Flair botched a flip over the top rope, but before he could panic, Undertaker set it back up and asked Flair, "You ready to try this again, kid?" Flair doesn't care that he's older than Taker or that he was called "kid" because he was just grateful for the support.
When Flair fueded with Chris Jericho in the summer of 2002, he told Chris that he didn't feel good enough to share the ring with him. Flair says he felt the same way when he started a program with Rob Van Dam as well.
With Bishoff in WWE, Flair couldn't handle it and actually cornered him in a dressing room. Flair had Arn watch the door and slapped Bishoff across the face. He ended up backing up and challenging Eric to a real fight, threatening to rip his eyes out. Eventually, road agent Sargent Slaughter broke things up. Vince was pissed at Flair for this incident. Vince told Flair he couldn't ever do that again and asked if there was anyone else he wanted to assault. Flair half jokingly said, "Yeah, Hogan." Vince got all bug eyed and told Flair "No you can't do that!"
Flair says Eric Bishoff has repeatedly tried to bury the hatchet, but Flair says "fuck no, fuck him."
Flair says multiple guys came up to him to praise Flair for his attack on Eric, so that made Flair feel better.
Flair says Triple H started talking about forming the Evolution group in early 2002 and Flair wanted to be part of it from the start. He liked how full circle it felt with the Horsemen in the past.
Ric Flair credits his May 2003 match with Triple H as being significant in getting his confidence back. I watched that match as it aired when I was 14 and it was one of the best matches all year. Bubba Ray Dudley remembers how everyone in the back couldn't tale their eyes off the monitor for that match and he told Vince McMahon afterward that this was an example of everything good in their buisness.
Shawn Michaels says Tommy Dreamer organized all the wrestlers coming out after the match to celebrate Flair.
Flair says when he want to a Smackdown taping the next day, Roddy Piper made sure to reconnect with Flair, but Hogan didn't say a word to him at all. This would be during the Mr America program with Piper and Hogan on Smackdown in 2003.
Flair was disappointed when David was released from OVW because he felt there were a lot more guys who were worse than Davis who weren't let go.
He ends the book putting over Evolution and how they were all champions on the RAW brand when he wrote the book.
That's the end of Flair's book and I found most of it fascinating, probably because I was a WWF kid growing up and am not familiar with the details of other promotions.
I have Dynamite Kid's book I'll be reading next after a non-wrestling related autobiography I'm reading right now. Then I have a bunch to chose from, if anyone has any suggestions between JR's 1st book, Foley's 1st book, Jericho's 1st book or that random Rock book that came out like 20 years ago, let me know?

I wanted to take a look at this most recent rookie class compared with some previous ones to see how they all stack up.
This is a look at the top rookies by position every season over the past ten seasons. Skater winners will be determined by total points with tie breaker being goals. Goalies will be determined by save percentage with minimum 25 games played. If a rookie goalie didn't play 25 games but got on the All-Rookie Team, they'll be added with an asterisk next to their name. The numbers beside the names indicate either save percentage or points scored. The Calder winner will be bolded and the All-Rookie Team will by Italicized.
If the season was shortened by COVID or hasn't been finished yet, their points over a full 82 game season will be put up there, rounded to the nearest point.
These positions will be determined by the NHL's data and will stick firmly to those positions, meaning that we'll have four centers, four right wingers, four left wingers, etc. Defensemen will be listed according to their shooting hand. Absences that are created by this listing method will be added at the end.
2014-15
Forwards

Johnny Gaudreau (64)	Mike Hoffman (48)	Mark Stone (64)
Filip Forsberg (63)	Evgeny Kuznetsov (37)	Kevin Hayes (45)
Anders Lee (41)	Victor Rask (33)	Richard Rakell (31)
Jonathan Drouin (32)	Bo Horvat (25)	David Pastrnak (27)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Oscar Klefbom (20)	John Klingberg (40)	Petr Mrazek (.918)
Nikita Zadorov (15)	Aaron Ekblad (39)	Michael Hutchinson (.914)
Jyrki Jokipakka (10)	Damon Severson (17)	Jake Allen (.913)

Absences created by the list: Matthew Dumba and Christian Folin
2015-16
Forwards

Artemi Panarin (77)	Jack Eichel (56)	Joonas Donskoi (36)
Anthony Duclair (44)	Max Domi (52)	Jonathan Marchessault (18)
Nikolai Ehlers (38)	Connor McDavid (48)	Sven Andrighetto (17)
Oscar Lindberg (28)	Dylan Larkin (45)	Viktor Arvidsson (16)

Defensemen and Goaltending

Shayne Gostisbehere (46)	Colton Parayko (33)	John Gibson (.920)
Ben Hutton (25)	Brett Pesce (16)	Joonas Korpisalo (.920)
Noah Hanifin (22)	Colin Miller (16)	Connor Hellebuyck (.918)

Absences created by the listing order: Jaccob Slavin, Sam Reinhart, Robby Fabbri, Sam Bennett, Mattias Janmark, Jordan Martinook, William Karlsson, Jared McCann, Phillip Di Giuseppe, Shane Prince, and Joseph Blandisi.
2016-17
Forwards

Patrik Laine (64)	Auston Matthews (69)	William Nylander (61)
Matthew Tkachuk (48)	Sebastian Aho (49)	Mitch Marner (61)
Jake Guentzel (33)	Brayden Point (40)	Mikko Rantanen (38)
Artturi Lekhonen (28)	Christian Dvorak (33)	Connor Brown (36)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Zachary Werenski (47)	Nikita Zaitsev (36)	Matt Murray (.923)
Brady Skjei (39)	Troy Stecher (24)
Ivan Provorov (30)	Brandon Carlo (16)

Absences created by listing order: Anthony Mantha, Devin Shore, Ryan Hartman, Travis Konecny, Zach Hyman, Nick Schmaltz, Jakob Chychrun, Josh Morrissey, Esa Lindell, Derek Forbort, Mike Matheson.
2017-18
Forwards

Kyle Connor (57)	Matthew Barzal (85)	Clayton Keller (65)
Danton Heinen (47)	Yanni Gourde (64)	Brock Boeser (55)
Jake DeBrusk (43)	Nico Hischier (52)	Alex DeBrincat (52)
Adrian Kempe (37)	Pierre-Luc Dubois (48)	Alex Tuch (37)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Will Butcher (44)	Ryan Pulock (32)	Juuse Saros (.925)
Mikhail Sergachev (40)	Charlie McAvoy (32)	Tristan Jarry (.908)
Thomas Chabot (25)	Neil Pionk (14)	Anton Forsberg (.908)

Absences created by the list: Vince Dunn, Samuel Girard, Matt Grzelcyk, Christian Djoos, and Alex Kerfoot.
2018-19
Forwards

Brady Tkachuk (45)	Elias Pettersson (66)	Andrei Svechnikov (37)
Andreas Johnsson (43)	Colin White (41)	Matthieu Joseph (26)
Oskar Lindblom (33)	Anthony Cirelli (39)	Conor Garland (18)
Jordan Greenway (24)	Dominik Kahun (37)	Troy Terry (13)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Rasmus Dahlin (44)	Filip Hronek (23)	Jordan Binnington (.927)
Miro Heiskanen (33)	Rasmus Andersson (19)	Carter Hart (.917)
Marcus Pettersson (25)	Eric Cernak (16)	Alexandar Georgiev (.914)

Absences created by the list: Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Robert Thomas, Casey Middelstadt, Ryan Donato, Filip Chytil, Brett Howden, Roope Hintz, Austin Wager, Travis Boyd, Michael Rassmussen, Henrik Borgstrom, Zach Aston-Reese, Luke Kunin, Warren Foegele, Rudolf Balcers, Andrew Mangiapane, Brett Seney, Devon Toews, and Dennis Cholowski.
2019-20
Forwards

Dominik Kubalik (46) (56)	Nick Suzuki (41) (48)	Denis Gurianov (29) (37)
Victor Olofsson (42) (64)	Martin Necas (36) (46)	Kaapo Kakko (23) (29)
Alex Nylander (26) (33)	Kirby Dach (23) (30)	Ilya Mikheyev (23) (48)
Joel Farabee (21) (33)	Blake Lizzotte (23) (29)	Filip Zadina (16) (44)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Quinn Hughes (53) (64)	Cale Makar (50) (72)	Elvis Merzlikins (.923)
Vladislav Gavrikov (18) (21)	Adam Fox (42) (49)	Mackenzie Blackwood (.915)
Carson Soucy (14) (21)	John Marino (26) (38)	Ilya Samsonov (.913)

Absences created by the list: Sam Steel, Jack Hughes, Emil Bemstrom, Dylon Dube, Pierre Engvall, Nick Aube-Kubel, Ethan Bear, Matt Roy, Phillippe Myers, and Ryan Lindgren.
2020-21
Forwards

Kirill Kaprizov (51) (76)	Josh Norris (35) (52)	Eeli Tolvanen (22) (45)
Jason Robertson (45) (72)	Yegor Sharangovich (30) (46)	Oliver Wahlstrom (21) (39)
Nils Hoglander (27) (39)	Tim Stutzle (29) (45)	Owen Tippett (21) (33)
Brandon Hagel (24) (38)	Pius Suter (27) (40)	Alexander Volkov (13) (29)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Ty Smith (23) (39)	Artem Zub (14) (25)	Igor Shesterkin (.916)
K'Andre Miller (12) (19)	Zach Whitecloud (12) (20)	Jake Oettinger (.911)
Jake Bean (12) (24)	Jamie Drysdale (8) (27)	Alex Nedeljovic (.932)\*

Absences created by this list: Juuso Valimaki, Mikey Anderson, Nikolai Knyzhov, Wyatt Kalynuk, Jacob Bryson, Jakub Zboril, Jane Kuokkanen, Gabriel Vilardi, Alexis Lafreniere, Nico Strum, Philipp Kurashev, Michael Bunting, Dylan Cozens, Trevor Zegras, John Leonard, Keegan Kolesar, and Jake Evans.
2021-22
Forwards

Michael Bunting (63)	Trevor Zegras (61)	Cole Caufield (43)
Lucas Raymond (57)	Anton Lundell (44)	Arthur Kaliyev (27)
Tanner Jeannot (41)	Dawson Mercer (42)	Vasily Podkolsin (26)
Matt Boldy (39)	Seth Jarvis (40)	Taylor Raddysh (22)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Martin Fehervary (17)	Moritz Seider (50)	Jeremy Swayman (.914)
Bowen Byram (17)	Jamie Drysdale (32)	Kaapo Kahonen (.912)
J.J. Moser (15)	Alexandre Carrier (30)	Spencer Knight (.908)

Absences created by this list: Rem Pitlick, Alex Newhook, Philip Tomasino, Cole Sillinger, Jonathan Dahlen, Peyton Krebs, Sean Durzi, Timothy Liljegrin,
2022-23
Forwards

Matias Maccelli (49)	Matty Beniers (57)	Jack Quinn (37)
Noah Cates (38)	Mason McTavish (43)	JJ Peterka (32)
Fabian Zetterlund (23)	Wyatt Johnston (41)	Jonatan Berggren (28)
Rafael Harvey-Pinard (20)	Kent Johnson (40)	Kirill Marchenko (25)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Owen Power (35)	Calen Addison (29)	Logan Thompson (.915)
Jake Sanderson (32)	Nick Perbix (20)	Stuart Skinner (.914)
Pierre-Olivier Joseph (21)	Nils Lundkvist (16)	Connor Ingram (.907)

Absences created by this list: Kaiden Guhle, Jordan Harris, Shane Pinto, Cole Perfetti, Jack McBain, and Juuso Parssinen
2023-24 (so far)
Forwards

Dmitri Voronkov (31) (39)	Connor Bedard (54) (79)	Luke Evangelista (32) (39)
Matthew Knies (28) (34)	Marco Rossi (35) (41)	Tyson Foerster (29) (37)
Zach Benson (23) (31)	Logan Cooley (32) (37)	Alex Laferriere (22) (26)
Will Cuylle (20) (24)	Connor Zary (29) (48)	Bobby Brink (21) (38)

Defensemen and Goaltenders

Luke Hughes (38) (44)	Brock Faber (38) (44)	Joel Hofer (.917)
Pavel Mintyukov (27) (38)	Simon Nemec (18) (31)	Pyotr Kochetkov (.909)
Scott Perunovich (15) (28)	Michael Kesselring (15) (23)	Lukas Dostal (.901)

Absences created by this list: Adam Fantilli, Leo Carlsson, and Ridly Grieg.
Takeaways
The Calder comes down to factors other than just points at the end of the season, unlike what tends to happen with something like Hart voting. It can be the player with the most points, but often goes to the player with the best points per game or particularly good defensemen. All-Rookie is much the same. While points are a part of it, it's clear that it's a part of a greater whole in the minds of the voters.
COVID seems to have had an impact. I'd have to do some more math to try and see if I can gauge that impact on productivity and all, but it's interesting. I'd consider that 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22 all were heavily affected by COVID. All three of those drafts also had no first overall prospects made the main list of players. 2019's first overall pick was Jack Hughes. 2020's was Lafreniere. And 2021's was Owen Power.
I don't have definite numbers on this, but I feel that as time went on, teams started to rely more and more on their rookies, giving them more time on the ice in games and more points. I could probably check that to see how accurate that is. Maybe I'll make another post later about that.
I feel that the current roster of rookies is a pretty solid group compared to all the others on this list. Not the best, but we'll have to see what happens in the remaining few games and how much that can change the perceptions of the class.

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