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17 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
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Who at NBC was like "yeah, Frogger, the kids fking love Frogger. They play it all day and all they want now is to be *poignant pause* inside Frogger!"
There is no way real humans are watching these peacock originals. I've never heard of a single one of these.
'Two doctors team up to stop a third, evil, killer doctor' is a 30 Rock cutaway gag. How could this possibly exist?

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16 Oct
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4 Oct
"One anonymous staffer told me Watson literally threw a book across the room at her. The book was The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers."

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defector.com/ozy-media-is-a…
This is so insane on-the-nose ridiculous I think it would get rejected from the writers room of Succession.
Like the only way this could be more of an insane story is if the staffer got a concussion when they were hit in the head with the book and Ozy refused to give them time off to recover.
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4 Oct
This is just one more insane day in the OZY story. WTF? It smells to me like someone announced they were shutting down the company without actually checking with the appropriate people. That would be crazy... but also par for the course.
Also, considering all the reports of how hands on the founders are about everything in Ozy... “I don’t know if that was a mistake or that was intentional” sounds like some real BS.
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It's wild to discover that I'm not the only one with a 'WTF is going on at OZY?' folder in my notes and I'm enjoying seeing everyone open their's up.
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