re: Mike Richards Out as ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Amid Cascade of Scandals (updated)

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it's not really any secret that an attractive girl who dresses immodestly is going to make herself more of a target for the type of dirtbags that are looking for such targets.

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Yeah but that's what we want from TV and movies. Sexy chicks in sexy outfits entertaining us. Hollywood ain't gonna make the money with plain janes in button up blouses. So if that's what's required from the profession, it doesn't seem like too much to ask to keep it at least somewhat professional.

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Where does the luck come in?

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Everywhere. Not as the sole determining factor. But as a gigantic variable.

We're generally lucky to be born in this era, not earlier eras when more children died before adulthood, more men died on the job (or in wars out of their control), and more women died in childbirth. We're lucky to have safe water to drink, air-conditioning, and abundant food.

Many of us are lucky enough to have an absence of major illness, disabilities, largely intact family structures. More lucky individuals come from families where parents read to their children from a young age, nurturing their intellectual development, tutoring them, and pushing for their academic achievement and social development.

Talent is far from the determining factor in any field - especially not for something as capricious as acting. Talented actors and cute kids (and she was a cute kid) are in essentially limitless supply. Even the opportunity for a major role in one (let alone multiple) network shows is so unlikely that most responsible parents should refuse to submit their children to the disappointment, even when the children are outstanding actors with good maturity.

Intelligence (which is also heavily influenced by luck since we do not determine our genes, do not determine our health status, and do not determine our environment - all of which heavily affect intelligence) is also only one of multiple variables determining whether a student will have the opportunity to begin or finish a PhD after being both good enough and lucky enough to graduate from college. Projects can be derailed by funding, mentor failures, technical obstacles which prove insurmountable, or being scooped by a competing research group.

We're talking about a person who has every rational reason to understand her enormous good fortune.

Wonder if Simmons addresses this. He's been complaining about cancel culture ever since his "open mic night" comment went over terribly.

And people who watch the show could give zero fricks about what he said a decade ago and would've never hear about it nor will ever hear it. What a clown show Jeopardy has become.

All they did was bring light to some obscure podcast.

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Where does the luck come in?


Everywhere. Not as the sole determining factor. But as a gigantic variable.

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yes - at the end of the day aren’t we all lucky to some extent? She’s lucky she wasn’t still born, lucky she wasn’t born in a time when television didn’t exist, lucky to not have been sucked into a black hole, lucky she didn’t die in her sleep last night, lucky Mike Richards said “booby” on a podcast 10 years ago, and on and on. Not the sole determining factor as im sure there was some hard work and determination somewhere along the way (though arguably she was lucky to have parents that instilled those values in her). Just super lucky.

What happened to Blossom ? Last I heard, she was a co-host, right ?

What about Austin Rogers or James Holzhauer?

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arguably she was lucky to have parents that instilled those values in her

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In what sense is that arguable? It's obviously true that children born to intact families have gigantic advantages. If someone doesn't know that they don't understand the effects on almost every aspect of our lives.

That's setting aside the issues of being massively more lucky when you get cast in and subsequently enriched by being in one, let alone multiple, sitcoms.