Welcome to If I Did It the show where we talk PR kerfluffles from the world of PR and beyond. This week: GSP vs Bisping??!?! Oscar follies. Recuse this.
You’re WME-IMG. Explain the PR behind granting Georges St Pierre, who retired as the UFC Welterweight Champion, a title match in his Octagon return against the reigning UFC….Middleweight Champion. – 0:39
You’re the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. During your “In Memoriam” segment at the Oscars last Sunday, you accidentally used the photograph of living Australian producer Jan Chapman, instead of the late costume designer Janet Patterson. How do you make amends? – 8:50
You’re Nicki Minaj. After you dissed fellow rapper Remy Ma on Friday, she penned and released a response that thoroughly bodied every aspect of your professional and private life, ranging from your alleged use of ghost writers, coonery, your botched butt implant, inspiring lethal body imagery to impressionable black girls, stupidity in bullying Mariah Carey/Miley Cyrus/Taylor Swift, performing sexual acts to advance your career, and your brothers upcoming pedophila rape case. Since you have more bank in the tank from the junk in your trunk, should you just move on and take this ‘L’? – 13:37
You’re Hunter Biden. Your father, former Vice President Joe Biden, was so affected by your older brother’s tragic death, he rejected a presidential bid. You were so affected, you left your wife to get with your brother’s widow. You told Page Six, ““Hallie and I are incredibly lucky to have found the love and support we have for each other in such a difficult time, and that’s been obvious to the people who love us most. We’ve been so lucky to have family and friends who have supported us every step of the way.” What PR prep do you have in place in case enquiring minds want to know more from ‘friends and family”? – 17:52
You’re a Congressional Republican. After being busted by the Washington Post for lying to Congress about chatting with a Russian spymaster, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from Justice Department investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 US Presidential Election. With Russia on everybody’s mind, your Republican colleagues buckling to pressure, and a President who neither forgives nor forgets his enemies, how do you navigate an environment, live and in public, if you will, filled with risky bidness? – 27:15
TEACHABLE MOMENT: You’re PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan. Days before the Oscars, you told the Huffington Post that there was no procedure for preventing a false winner from being named at the Academy Awards, because “it’s so unlikely.” Yet on your watch days later, the wrong Best Picture was named because you were tweeting a backstage picture of Emma Stone instead of doing your job and handing Warren Beatty the correct envelope for Best Picture. What can we learn from your epic fail? – 40:25
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN – 46:10
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION – 53:20
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome to If I Did It the show where we talk PR kerfluffles from the world of PR and beyond. This week: GSP vs Bisping??!?! Oscar follies. Recuse this.
You’re WME-IMG. Explain the PR behind granting Georges St Pierre, who retired as the UFC Welterweight Champion, a title match in his Octagon return against the reigning UFC….Middleweight Champion. – 0:39
You’re the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. During your “In Memoriam” segment at the Oscars last Sunday, you accidentally used the photograph of living Australian producer Jan Chapman, instead of the late costume designer Janet Patterson. How do you make amends? – 8:50
You’re Nicki Minaj. After you dissed fellow rapper Remy Ma on Friday, she penned and released a response that thoroughly bodied every aspect of your professional and private life, ranging from your alleged use of ghost writers, coonery, your botched butt implant, inspiring lethal body imagery to impressionable black girls, stupidity in bullying Mariah Carey/Miley Cyrus/Taylor Swift, performing sexual acts to advance your career, and your brothers upcoming pedophila rape case. Since you have more bank in the tank from the junk in your trunk, should you just move on and take this ‘L’? – 13:37
You’re Hunter Biden. Your father, former Vice President Joe Biden, was so affected by your older brother’s tragic death, he rejected a presidential bid. You were so affected, you left your wife to get with your brother’s widow. You told Page Six, ““Hallie and I are incredibly lucky to have found the love and support we have for each other in such a difficult time, and that’s been obvious to the people who love us most. We’ve been so lucky to have family and friends who have supported us every step of the way.” What PR prep do you have in place in case enquiring minds want to know more from ‘friends and family”? – 17:52
You’re a Congressional Republican. After being busted by the Washington Post for lying to Congress about chatting with a Russian spymaster, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from Justice Department investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 US Presidential Election. With Russia on everybody’s mind, your Republican colleagues buckling to pressure, and a President who neither forgives nor forgets his enemies, how do you navigate an environment, live and in public, if you will, filled with risky bidness? – 27:15
TEACHABLE MOMENT: You’re PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan. Days before the Oscars, you told the Huffington Post that there was no procedure for preventing a false winner from being named at the Academy Awards, because “it’s so unlikely.” Yet on your watch days later, the wrong Best Picture was named because you were tweeting a backstage picture of Emma Stone instead of doing your job and handing Warren Beatty the correct envelope for Best Picture. What can we learn from your epic fail? – 40:25
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN – 46:10
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION – 53:20
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome to If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at Derrick Lewis’ call out of Travis Browne, Fedor’s non-fight at Bellator and the fall of Milo.
You’re WME-IMG. Derrick Lewis showed the world he was the baddest of the bad by blowing up Travis Browne three times last Sunday in exciting UFC main event. First, a brutal knockout. Second, a post-fight Octagon interview: “He calls himself a man, but he likes to put his hands on women. So, forget that guy. I got much more heart than he has. Where’s Ronda Rousey’s fine ass at?” And the third time at the official post fight presser when asked if referee Mario Yamasaki could’ve ended the fight earlier: “I appreciated him letting the fight go a little longer than what it should. I just wanted to get my anger out on Travis’ face because he likes to hit on women. So I appreciate him for doing that. I keep it real.” Was your removal of Lewis’ spousal abuse smack talk from your official post fight package a lack of appreciation of that realness and a sign that you plan to tame the ‘Black Beast’? Or would it be shameful if you don’t get fonky like a monkey, live and in public, if you will, with a dookie holdin’, bloody sausage makin’, Ronda booty takin’, rough and tumble Texan as your, MOOOOO….“Bull of the Woods”? – 0:49
You’re Bellator. Days before headlining your tentpole television tet-a-tet with Fedor, Matt Mitrione complained about kidney stones, but assured you he’d be able to fight Saturday night. Turns out he didn’t. Do you try the same matchup with Meathead at a later date or move on? – 10:06
You’re Amateur MMA Fighter Joe Harding. You’re the darling of the internets after fight footage surfaced of your in-ring clowning culminating in a karmic ko at the feet of your opponent. Is there any positive PR spin you can make to capitalize and monetize your 15 minutes of shame? – 13:44
You’re an NBA Groupie born before 1983. Before the NBA All-Star Game, former NBA player Gilbert Arenas put you on blast: “From 1983 and down ( it’s OVER for you OLD THOTS)leave them young n***as alone….yo bae is probably one of those out of shape ESPN commentators, bankrupt or just joined that new half court league @thebig3 which they season starts in JUNE #StayWokeYoungGirls#allstarweekend2017 is y’all time.” Is this a wake up call or a call to action? – 17:53
You’re a school formerly attended by NBA All-Star Kylie Irving. While guesting on the podcast “Road Trippin’ with RJ & Channing”, Kylie besmirched your hallowed halls by asserting, “The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat.” What PR steps do you take to protect your school’s academic reputation? – 24:50
You’re CNN Anchor Jake Tapper. After a 2016 video of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia surfaced Sunday, you summoned a tweetstorm, “Preying on children is the definition of evil. Justifying it in any way is sick and disturbing. Has everyone lost their minds?” Instead of receiving universal support for your stance, you received questions as to why Milo’s transphobia, sexism, Anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia weren’t worthy of your outrage. What PR steps can you take to put the spotlight off of your oversight and back on Milo’s transgressions? – 29:08
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Uber. Last Sunday, one of your former workers wrote about her sexual harassment and your Human Resources department failure to care because her harasser was a ‘high performer’. “I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that.” Her harasser eventually left the company, but you’re stuck with bad PR. What can tech companies learn from your Mad Men misogyny miscues? – 37:01
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN – 44:34
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION – 55:13
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozy.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome to If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at Derrick Lewis’ call out of Travis Browne, Fedor’s non-fight at Bellator and the fall of Milo.
You’re WME-IMG. Derrick Lewis showed the world he was the baddest of the bad by blowing up Travis Browne three times last Sunday in exciting UFC main event. First, a brutal knockout. Second, a post-fight Octagon interview: “He calls himself a man, but he likes to put his hands on women. So, forget that guy. I got much more heart than he has. Where’s Ronda Rousey’s fine ass at?” And the third time at the official post fight presser when asked if referee Mario Yamasaki could’ve ended the fight earlier: “I appreciated him letting the fight go a little longer than what it should. I just wanted to get my anger out on Travis’ face because he likes to hit on women. So I appreciate him for doing that. I keep it real.” Was your removal of Lewis’ spousal abuse smack talk from your official post fight package a lack of appreciation of that realness and a sign that you plan to tame the ‘Black Beast’? Or would it be shameful if you don’t get fonky like a monkey, live and in public, if you will, with a dookie holdin’, bloody sausage makin’, Ronda booty takin’, rough and tumble Texan as your, MOOOOO….“Bull of the Woods”? – 0:49
You’re Bellator. Days before headlining your tentpole television tet-a-tet with Fedor, Matt Mitrione complained about kidney stones, but assured you he’d be able to fight Saturday night. Turns out he didn’t. Do you try the same matchup with Meathead at a later date or move on? – 10:06
You’re Amateur MMA Fighter Joe Harding. You’re the darling of the internets after fight footage surfaced of your in-ring clowning culminating in a karmic ko at the feet of your opponent. Is there any positive PR spin you can make to capitalize and monetize your 15 minutes of shame? – 13:44
You’re an NBA Groupie born before 1983. Before the NBA All-Star Game, former NBA player Gilbert Arenas put you on blast: “From 1983 and down ( it’s OVER for you OLD THOTS)leave them young n***as alone….yo bae is probably one of those out of shape ESPN commentators, bankrupt or just joined that new half court league @thebig3 which they season starts in JUNE #StayWokeYoungGirls#allstarweekend2017 is y’all time.” Is this a wake up call or a call to action? – 17:53
You’re a school formerly attended by NBA All-Star Kylie Irving. While guesting on the podcast “Road Trippin’ with RJ & Channing”, Kylie besmirched your hallowed halls by asserting, “The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat.” What PR steps do you take to protect your school’s academic reputation? – 24:50
You’re CNN Anchor Jake Tapper. After a 2016 video of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia surfaced Sunday, you summoned a tweetstorm, “Preying on children is the definition of evil. Justifying it in any way is sick and disturbing. Has everyone lost their minds?” Instead of receiving universal support for your stance, you received questions as to why Milo’s transphobia, sexism, Anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia weren’t worthy of your outrage. What PR steps can you take to put the spotlight off of your oversight and back on Milo’s transgressions? – 29:08
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Uber. Last Sunday, one of your former workers wrote about her sexual harassment and your Human Resources department failure to care because her harasser was a ‘high performer’. “I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that.” Her harasser eventually left the company, but you’re stuck with bad PR. What can tech companies learn from your Mad Men misogyny miscues? – 37:01
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN – 44:34
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION – 55:13
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozy.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome to If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at WME-IMG’s response to UFC 208, Michael Flynn’s resignation and more.
You’re WME-IMG. The boo-birds in Brooklyn let loose their disgust with your lackluster UFC 208. And a main event featuring one fighter who was ducking the uncrowned UFC Bantamweight Champion Cris Cyborg and a winner who told the world….she’s ducking Cyborg, too. With critics complaining about bad reffing, what PR moves do you make to prevent a rematch nobody wants to see, a Cyborg match your champion doesn’t want to fight, and a ref who had no business in the Octagon?
You’re former National Security Adviser, Michael T. Flynn. You resigned last Monday after news broke that you lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the extent of your discussions with Russia’s US ambassador. As Congress beckons for answers about your sins, does your fear of offending Putin trump your concern to come clean? And if so, how do you keep your cheeks protected, figuratively and literally?
You’re Edward Snowden. According to NBC News, Russia is sending you back home to the US. You tweeted, “I don’t know if the rumors are true. But I can tell you this: I am not afraid. There are things that must be said no matter the consequence.” So let me remind you of these things, matters, and consequences said by our current president, “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records,I might become a major fan”. What’s your PR plan to appease his high exaltedness, the Great Donald the Trump, before you enter his boardroom and are fired from life?
You’re the US Tennis Federation. Prior to a replay match in the women’s tournament, a Nazi version of the German national anthem was sung. German team member Andrea Petkovic posted, “It was the worst experience that has ever happened to me – horrifying and shocking.” She lost her match. How do you make amends?
You’re Rosa Maria Ortega. You’re a permanent resident who is being prosecuted by a Texas Attorney General for illegally voting for him and Mitt Romney. Now you’re facing hard times. Eight years in jail and deportation. Live and in public, if you will. What PR moves can you make in wake of being a poster child for President Trump’s voter fraud claims?
You’re United Airlines. According to Reuters, one of your pilots reported to work wearing casual clothes and a baseball cap. Argued with her crew mates. Apologized that she was going through a divorce. Identified an interracial couple. Besmirched Hillary Clinton and Trump. Then said, “So I’ll stop, and we’ll fly the airplane…Don’t worry. I’m going to let my co-pilot fly it. He’s a man.” Multiple passengers left the plane, fearful of their lives. What PR moves can you take to make flying United great again?
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Disney. You were in the irreverence business with YouTube giant PewDiePie who enjoyed million dollar deals with you and others for its over 14.7 billion views. Until Monday, after the Wall Street Journal contacted you about eight anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery. What can we learn from your dance with the devil in the pale blue light of the Internet?
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome to If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at WME-IMG’s response to UFC 208, Michael Flynn’s resignation and more.
You’re WME-IMG. The boo-birds in Brooklyn let loose their disgust with your lackluster UFC 208. And a main event featuring one fighter who was ducking the uncrowned UFC Bantamweight Champion Cris Cyborg and a winner who told the world….she’s ducking Cyborg, too. With critics complaining about bad reffing, what PR moves do you make to prevent a rematch nobody wants to see, a Cyborg match your champion doesn’t want to fight, and a ref who had no business in the Octagon?
You’re former National Security Adviser, Michael T. Flynn. You resigned last Monday after news broke that you lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the extent of your discussions with Russia’s US ambassador. As Congress beckons for answers about your sins, does your fear of offending Putin trump your concern to come clean? And if so, how do you keep your cheeks protected, figuratively and literally?
You’re Edward Snowden. According to NBC News, Russia is sending you back home to the US. You tweeted, “I don’t know if the rumors are true. But I can tell you this: I am not afraid. There are things that must be said no matter the consequence.” So let me remind you of these things, matters, and consequences said by our current president, “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records,I might become a major fan”. What’s your PR plan to appease his high exaltedness, the Great Donald the Trump, before you enter his boardroom and are fired from life?
You’re the US Tennis Federation. Prior to a replay match in the women’s tournament, a Nazi version of the German national anthem was sung. German team member Andrea Petkovic posted, “It was the worst experience that has ever happened to me – horrifying and shocking.” She lost her match. How do you make amends?
You’re Rosa Maria Ortega. You’re a permanent resident who is being prosecuted by a Texas Attorney General for illegally voting for him and Mitt Romney. Now you’re facing hard times. Eight years in jail and deportation. Live and in public, if you will. What PR moves can you make in wake of being a poster child for President Trump’s voter fraud claims?
You’re United Airlines. According to Reuters, one of your pilots reported to work wearing casual clothes and a baseball cap. Argued with her crew mates. Apologized that she was going through a divorce. Identified an interracial couple. Besmirched Hillary Clinton and Trump. Then said, “So I’ll stop, and we’ll fly the airplane…Don’t worry. I’m going to let my co-pilot fly it. He’s a man.” Multiple passengers left the plane, fearful of their lives. What PR moves can you take to make flying United great again?
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Disney. You were in the irreverence business with YouTube giant PewDiePie who enjoyed million dollar deals with you and others for its over 14.7 billion views. Until Monday, after the Wall Street Journal contacted you about eight anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery. What can we learn from your dance with the devil in the pale blue light of the Internet?
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at WME-IMG’s fighters’ retreat, Jake Shields vs the Black Bloc and more.
You’re WME-IMG. Yahoo’s Kevin Iole broke news of your planned UFC fighter’s retreat scheduled for this May in Las Vegas. “Athletes, musicians, actors/actresses and celebrities from many different genres who are represented by WME/IMG will appear at the retreat and will either offer presentations or be available to the fighters to ask questions. The fighters will be given a primer on the soon-to-open UFC Performance Institute, which is available free of charge to them and their coaches to use to learn best practices in training techniques, recovery, weight-cutting and many other areas.” Is there a secret reason for this retreat or is it just a corporate circle jerk?
You’re a UFC Fighter. With three months until the WME-IMG fighter’s retreat, are there steps you can take right now, to maximize your brush with the boss?
You’re Jake Shields. You attended a protest of a protest at Berkeley and tweeted video, “The aftermath of me helping a guy after being jumped by thugs. The police and 100’s of civilians stood and watched.” Brietbart fans labeled you as a hero for your rescue. Given your two fight losing streak outside of the UFC, is this a chance to make your career great again? And if so, how?
You’re an Anti-Trump Organization. These are serious times. Now you’ve been pushed into a situation you can’t control. You don’t like having to rely on a baseball bat, 2 x 4 or anything else, but multiple reports are telling you about the questionable ways of masked protesters and what they stand for. So now with their arrival throughout this country and throughout your television land, risky business now be taken care of. In public, if you will, as they fills your screen now with violence, like you’ve never seen before. So how can you protect all your little doggies and all your little padners out there in television land by getting ready for the coming of these midnight riders?
CRAP ACCENT QUESTION: I’ll ask a question with a crap accent, Eugene and Nate have to answer with a crap accent. Viewers decide who had the worst. (SEAN CONNERY) You’re the National Basketball Association. Your Rookie Transition Program (RTP) has been put on blast for incorporating sexual stereotypes and suspect scenarios including semen sucking jezebels turkey basting their way to pregnancy and players pockets. Vocativ cited a source who suggests that “essentializing women in this way leads to seeing them as less than human and paves a path for violence”. How do handle this risky bidness, live and in public, if you will?
You’re Omarosa, communications director for the White House office of public liaison. The blacks don’t seem to like the Trump Administrations’ Black History Month activities. Vice President Mike Pence mixed up the month with Freedom Day and celebrated a white man instead of any historically relevant black Americans. President Donald Trump referred to Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,” at a Black History Month listening session you organized. With the Washington Post whipping out a 2015 quote where you claimed, “I’m a die-hard Democrat. Come on. I’ve got Hillary Clinton tattooed on my left arm.” If you’re not Sally (Yates) slowriding Trump, how do you make amends?
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from President Trump’s economic advisory council after his company bungled the Muslim Ban transit boycott and lost more than 200,000 customers. You, on the other hand, are staying on, forcing the “travel ban” and climate change on the meeting agenda. You tweeted, “I believe this is doing good, so will remain on council & keep at it. Doing otherwise would be wrong.” A day later, you doubled down, tweeting, “Activists should be pushing for more moderates to advise President, not fewer. How could having only extremists advise him possibly be good?” What lessons, if any have you learned from Uber’s internal and external kerfuffles?
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Welcome If I Did It the show where we solve PR kerfluffles from the world of MMA and beyond. This week we look at WME-IMG’s fighters’ retreat, Jake Shields vs the Black Bloc and more.
You’re WME-IMG. Yahoo’s Kevin Iole broke news of your planned UFC fighter’s retreat scheduled for this May in Las Vegas. “Athletes, musicians, actors/actresses and celebrities from many different genres who are represented by WME/IMG will appear at the retreat and will either offer presentations or be available to the fighters to ask questions. The fighters will be given a primer on the soon-to-open UFC Performance Institute, which is available free of charge to them and their coaches to use to learn best practices in training techniques, recovery, weight-cutting and many other areas.” Is there a secret reason for this retreat or is it just a corporate circle jerk?
You’re a UFC Fighter. With three months until the WME-IMG fighter’s retreat, are there steps you can take right now, to maximize your brush with the boss?
You’re Jake Shields. You attended a protest of a protest at Berkeley and tweeted video, “The aftermath of me helping a guy after being jumped by thugs. The police and 100’s of civilians stood and watched.” Brietbart fans labeled you as a hero for your rescue. Given your two fight losing streak outside of the UFC, is this a chance to make your career great again? And if so, how?
You’re an Anti-Trump Organization. These are serious times. Now you’ve been pushed into a situation you can’t control. You don’t like having to rely on a baseball bat, 2 x 4 or anything else, but multiple reports are telling you about the questionable ways of masked protesters and what they stand for. So now with their arrival throughout this country and throughout your television land, risky business now be taken care of. In public, if you will, as they fills your screen now with violence, like you’ve never seen before. So how can you protect all your little doggies and all your little padners out there in television land by getting ready for the coming of these midnight riders?
CRAP ACCENT QUESTION: I’ll ask a question with a crap accent, Eugene and Nate have to answer with a crap accent. Viewers decide who had the worst. (SEAN CONNERY) You’re the National Basketball Association. Your Rookie Transition Program (RTP) has been put on blast for incorporating sexual stereotypes and suspect scenarios including semen sucking jezebels turkey basting their way to pregnancy and players pockets. Vocativ cited a source who suggests that “essentializing women in this way leads to seeing them as less than human and paves a path for violence”. How do handle this risky bidness, live and in public, if you will?
You’re Omarosa, communications director for the White House office of public liaison. The blacks don’t seem to like the Trump Administrations’ Black History Month activities. Vice President Mike Pence mixed up the month with Freedom Day and celebrated a white man instead of any historically relevant black Americans. President Donald Trump referred to Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,” at a Black History Month listening session you organized. With the Washington Post whipping out a 2015 quote where you claimed, “I’m a die-hard Democrat. Come on. I’ve got Hillary Clinton tattooed on my left arm.” If you’re not Sally (Yates) slowriding Trump, how do you make amends?
TEACHABLE MOMENT. You’re Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from President Trump’s economic advisory council after his company bungled the Muslim Ban transit boycott and lost more than 200,000 customers. You, on the other hand, are staying on, forcing the “travel ban” and climate change on the meeting agenda. You tweeted, “I believe this is doing good, so will remain on council & keep at it. Doing otherwise would be wrong.” A day later, you doubled down, tweeting, “Activists should be pushing for more moderates to advise President, not fewer. How could having only extremists advise him possibly be good?” What lessons, if any have you learned from Uber’s internal and external kerfuffles?
KID NATE’S HEEL TURN
EUGENE’S LOST BATTALION
THANKS FOR JOINING US. FOLLOW US on Twitter @eugeneSrobinson, @kidnate@alexeiauld. PLEASE GIVE THIS A THUMBS UP and leave comments on YouTube, read Eugene at Ozydot.com and be sure and check out all three of us on Amazon.com
“We’ll be back next week with another installment of If I Did It and we don’t know what we’ll be talking about yet because the PR mistakes have yet to be made.”
Pull down the blinds, encrypt those communications, Kid Nate is locked in the MMA Bunker and ranting about the state of the business, including rumors of Conor McGregor vs Manny Pacquiao. Be sure to subscribe to MMA NATION on YouTube and itu…
Pull down the blinds, encrypt those communications, Kid Nate is locked in the MMA Bunker and ranting about the state of the business, including rumors of Conor McGregor vs Manny Pacquiao.
Join Kid Nate + Michael Hutchinson right after the fights for the complete results, review and reactions to Bellator 170 featuring Tito Ortiz vs Chael Sonnen. Be sure to subscribe to MMA NATION on YouTube and itunes, and check us out on Soun…
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