While there are some 'surprises' today, it's just too predictable and too unbelievable at times. Yes, you know it's fixed, but there has to be some level of rationality to it. When you have a guy they are building up versus a nobody, you already know the outcome so it's not watchable. When you have two well known opponents and one is a foot shorter and 100 pounds less, it's difficult to suspend belief when you have the little guy win, it's unwatchable. The longer matches today follow the same predictable 1 count, then 2 count, then pin formula, it's easy to predict a winner. The problem is all of these devices are used literally every week. I personally enjoy wrestling, but the amount of product that's watchable can be DVR'd and watched in 30 minutes. They need the personality to mask the predictability and lack of rationality. Yet most don't have that nor storylines that build more than two weeks so one is interested in watching. While the 'Atlas Obscura' article seems to imply actual wrestling was boring, I think it would be novel to not be able to figure out the winner before it happens. But then I suppose you couldn't time shows precisely and 'build storylines'.

This just illustrates my disgust with modern art. Because he has a good story, this guy's art is prized as greatness, when in reality they look like failed projects by a bad potter. If I made pots like this, people would say it's horrible, but because we have an eccentric guy who's stuff was saved and 'rediscovered', it's worth money. As usual, art is about name and a good story (ala Van Gogh's ear) and what the 'prestigious art community' deems art, when it's junk. This 'art' is just as good as my failed elementary school ceramics, but the art community thinks they are so cool by 'discovering' an 'outsider artist' which they couldn't care about during his lifetime but once he died, oh, now he's a genius. How fake and phony can you get. They just want to make money off a poor dead eccentric man that would not be a thing at all if his pottery didn't survive. And just because it did survive, doesn't mean it's good.

A word of wisdom - Do not condemn FDR in front of a WWII survivor. No matter their political leaning, FDR did no wrong. This is from personal experience. I questioned his policies in front of two conservatives from The Greatest Generation and it did not go well.

I think Sinatra cries in The Manchurian Candidate. He comes close at least.