Today's insane job posting from LinkedIn. What it means: Working 60-80 hours a week, and there will be no work-life balance. They don't know how to do the job they're asking you to do. You figure it out and they'll take credit. I'm not looking for work, yet I get recommended red flag hell jobs.

She's not in my district, but I'd vote for Kat.

Fun Mat Elfring fact: During my teens, I'd go into the AOL chat room "Backstreet Boys," with the user name RealNickCarterBSB and tell people I was Nick Carter and thinking about leaving the band to become a farmer. This was in 1997, so I may have traumatized people with my farm trolling.

Happy Friday the 13th. Press "X" for Jason.

The only thing that worries me about AEW getting hot is more WWE fans at shows. What? chants last week, mistimed tables chants last night. Occasionally you realize just how deeply the fed has poisoned the well of pro wrestling fandom.

According to what was just said on Good Morning America, the attacks on Iran have cost $11 billion. Considering there are ~350 million people in the US, we each paid $34 a person--within a week--to bomb the hell out of a country. Our taxes do not work in American's favor.

This is good stuff. I think another step our state needs to take is to tax corporations and real estate companies thst buy houses and turn them into rentals. That's becoming an issue out by me.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

The 3 genders

Here's an actual unpopular opinion for when you're talking to someone online: It's very appropriate to say, "I don't know enough about that to form an opinion about it." Or... in short. "I don't know."

Yes, I am Religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

I woke up 2 hours early and couldn't get back to sleep because I had a dream that a dude who has been an asshole to me via email came to my house to continue being an asshole. I woke up very angry.

A "radical leftist" is someone who is left handed who can do a kickflip on a skateboard. I'm 50% of the way there.

If you're traveling and annoyed by long lines, remember that the TSA agents have been working without pay for a month because of a partial government shutdown due to ICE reforms and funding for other agencies. This year, $73.58 billion for ICE. www.usaspending.gov/federal_acco...

I'm terrified for the first person to swear in front of him.

We're back with a new podcast episode! Kicking things off earlier than normal, I'm reviewing #WWE2K26 Showcase Mode. It'll eventually be on Apple, YouTube, and Spotify, but here's the RSS Feed for right now. feeds.captivate.fm/casual-yelli...

To all the people that followed me because my wishing teachers well the day after the time change: You will be disappointed. I mainly talk about wrestling and nonstop promote my silly podcast @casualyellingpod.bsky.social. Nailed the plug.

So, still weird and surreal to hear my name be said by the announcer in #WWE2K26. I'm no longer "Mat El-Ron." Wrestle Buddies still lives again in WWE games. Yes, you can also pick "Hayner" as a last name as well.

My son came home "sick." He's in elementary school and was falling asleep in class, even though he fell asleep last night an hour and a half earlier than he does during the week.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

I hope for the best for all the teachers in most American states today. It's the first school day after daylight savings time, and you're all about to have a bunch of tired, cranky kids, forced to start entering your classrooms, not wanting to engage in anything.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

I saw some huge news on Good Morning America this morning. Timothée Chalamet said nobody cares about opera and ballet and people are mad. That's where we're at with being angry now? What is this, 2010?

Ahh yes. My annual reminder that daylight savings time is fucking stupid and pointless.

I give a real hot take here. I don't watch WWE anymore. I barely watch AEW. I watch Super Wrestlers and Mystery Wrestling. This is where I am at in my wrestling fandom.

See y’all at #AEWcollision tonight.

Hi! Casual Yelling is back. It's time to review every mode of #WWE2K26, starting with Showcase Mode, going over CM Punk's WWE career. Links to various sites below:

Hi! Casual Yelling is back. It's time to review every mode of #WWE2K26, starting with Showcase Mode, going over CM Punk's WWE career. Links to various sites below:

I want to start a YouTube channel where I go around the world and take on the toughest food challenges. I go in. I start the challenge. I eat a normal portion of food at my own pace. I ask for a doggy bag during the challenge. I lose every time.

My dad's job was creating fonts, used on a plethora of products: Keep Wrangler, Akira Manga, Terminator 3, Contra (the game), etc. He's worked with a lot of major corporations licensing his fonts. However, my favorite is that one of his fonts was licensed for this Xzibit album cover.

I forgot to add one major fantastic change... In create-a-wrestler, you know how you can select a bunch of names the ring announcer says for your wrestler, but it's limited? Well, one of the new names included is "Elfring." I'm technically in the game.

Oh... embargo is up. WWE 2K26 is very good from exhibition gameplay perspective. Showcase Mode is bland. CM Punk doesn't want to be there and it gets stale quickly. I haven't dived into MyRise yet. I'll have more takes when Casual Yelling returns, breaking down each mode.

There's currently two different types of political ads in Chicagoland. 1. "This person backed ICE and took money from billionaires that backed MAGA politicians. Our candidate stood up to ICE and President Trump" 2. (The person in question from previous ad) "I love my family and I'm down to Earth!"

Anyways.

I'll do another weird one. I once received hundreds of death threats on Twitter after saying that the sound mixing was off during an ABC New Year's Eve performance by BTS. ... ... I was also doxed. ... ... Also, the sound mixing was super off. The beats were too high and vocals too low.

I was a punch up writer for two TV pilots for Sony: one that starred Andrew Dice Clay and one starred Vanilla Ice. Dice, Ice baby.

Best dude to work under while I was at GameSpot. Incredible bummer to see him laid off again.

I'm here to announce, I have purchaed HBO Max for $33.5 billion dollars. From now on, please call the service HBO Mat. Also, @lastweektonight.com has been renewed for 50 seasons. Now, you're stuck in this job until long after you've left this mortal world, John Oliver. #OneLove #CabbageWife

Second episode recorded this morning! Ep1: The only time I headlined a comedy show Ep2: How I became an accidental journalist for a decade Also, there's going to be a lot of WWE 2k26 episodes too because it's that time of the year. Now... AEW... make a good game please.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Well... there goes my hope for Danhausen appearing on Mystery Wrestling in a You Are Cursed Match.

One episode recorded this morning!

It’s also like…. The fun of D&D is playing with your friends. That’s like the whole point. What are you replacing with this AI? Friendship?

I just got a YouTube ad for AI trained to be a D&D DM. ... ... ... I just.... I fucking hate AI, especially as a replacement for creative work. I hate the people that fund AI. I just hate so much about it.

I think if you lay off more than 50 people in one go, one of the affected should be picked by lottery to smack you in the nuts with a hammer. One hammer-to-testicle strike per 50 people. I bet this could fix the economy in 3 hits.

In the past year, here are some of my accomplishments: -Strongest Mat Elfring ever -Greatest Mat Elfring ever -Punched out a Kangaroo and became the Kangaroo King -Went to Mars and punched an alien -Made gasoline legal again -Slept -Did a 720 splash onto a whale -Threw a 900mph fast ball

Reminder: Trump's illegal tariffs cost the American people $175 billion. The average family paid $1,700. You deserve your money back.

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Fake news.