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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Got a question for this week’s mailbag? I am asking — nay, demanding — that you let me have it.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Made my girlfriend hold mitts for me in the garage gym so yeah you could say it’s pretty serious.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Last night I was at a bar where someone loaded up the jukebox with Jimmy Buffet. I’ll say this, it succeeded in altering the vibe.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Say happy birthday to my dog, who is four today.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Grandpa says your kids should have fewer dolls.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It is Tuesday and therefore I am seeking your best questions for this week’s mailbag column. What’s on your mind? You can talk to me. No one else understands you.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I don’t like it that Florida has good hockey teams. I will never like it. It’s unnatural.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

An honest ROFLMAO off moment

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Walking my dog yesterday after dinner we passed someone’s garage where a group of men had gathered under a “This Is Steelers Country” flag to watch the NFL draft. First of all this is western Montana my guys. Second I hope NFL Santa brought you what you wanted, whatever that may be.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Going to the movies in 2025 is awesome. AMC has an ad where they explain what a movie is, how it's made of lights and sounds. Then they have an ad where two performers act out different kinds of movies, in case the audience thinks all movies are the same. Then Nicole Kidman says, "movies...nice"

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

[deeply ignorant man who has refused to learn new things as he ages] ‘Well if all this stuff is real then how come I personally don’t know about it?? Explain that, smart guy!’

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We used to be a proper society, that would lock this dweeb in a locker before he finished his asinine question

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Got a question for this week’s mailbag column? Taking on all topics, from WrestleMania to UFC to my controversial decision to throw my name in the hat as the new pope.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It must be such an exciting time in the international espionage community. Like you’ve been trying to get hits off big league pitchers for years and suddenly they bring in a Little League kid from the bullpen. Everybody gets to pad some stats now. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

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Kevin Brady @realkevbrady.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My dude here is the best writer in the combat sports space and this is just another brilliant entry.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Just letting you know that I got dressed up and then kicked ass at the Easter egg* hunt at my friend Kasey’s house. *Jello shots

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Thomas McCulloch @tmac816.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This RULES!

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Wrote something new on the absurdity of life or whatever for the ol’ Substack. thefightinglife.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Finally watched Anora. Not since Michael Clayton have I seen a movie whose title did so little to prepare me for the ride I was about to go on. But I enjoyed it.

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Brown Anthony™ @anthelonious.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Black Mirror pitch: POTUS destroys democracy in 90 days. Everyone watches it happen on their phones. The opposition party leaders are 85 years old and post "Hey, stop" once a day. Toiletries are locked behind glass. An evil online bookstore sends Katy Perry into space for feminism. [fin]

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

For an administration so obsessed with “efficiency” these people sure are spending an incredible amount of time and money and energy on keeping one man locked up in another country. But maybe that’s just what happens when your only guiding principle is: we can do whatever we want.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

One problem with surrounding yourself with sycophants is that you don’t have anyone to tell you, dude you think you are maintaining but you are not maintaining and everyone can tell.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After doing some painting and sprucing up my living room I needed some new art. I got this dope Minotaur piece from @chloecumming.bsky.social’s online shop and I love it. She has lots of great stuff on there so if you’re in the market I highly recommend.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Katy Perry spaceship reminds me of when Bezos sent William Shatner into space and all the reporters asked “hey how did you feel up there?!” and Shatner was like “horror and disgust…emptiness and profound dread at the infinite gaping maw” and then the reporters had to be like haha cool! Neat!

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It was 40 years ago TODAY that Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns had one of the greatest fights of all time which coincidentally kicked off a modern era of pay-per-view and premium cable sports and had all kinds of 1980s technological innovative weirdness about it. sports.yahoo.com/boxing/artic...

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40 years later: How Hagler-Hearns heralded a new age of boxing with an all-time classic fight

40 years ago, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns put on a legendary boxing match that was a sign of things to come in both the sport and its broadcast future.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Well dammit, it’s Tuesday again. Hit me with those mailbag questions. What’s on your mind after UFC 314 and all the other madness of this bizarre world?

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My daughter was watching Hamilton on TV and as I passed in and out of the room I had to ask myself: — is this actually terrible? — do I just think that because I didn’t start at the beginning and I’m only seeing snippets? — and it’s a recording of a stage show? — but it does seem awful right?

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Moonbeam @moonbeamz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Me: want to get a drink tonight? Them: no, I have to do karate class after work because my boss won’t sell the cyber truck

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This is a good question and I think it’s at least partially an echo chamber effect. The UFC leadership, the fighters, many of the loudest fans, they’re all MAGA types anyway. So to them it all seems natural. Of course we should use our events for Dear Leader worship. Why wouldn’t we??

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

One thing I like about watching UFC events with my non-sports fan girlfriend is she asks the questions I don’t even think to ask anymore. Such as: why does Joe Rogan insist on holding people by the shoulder as he interviews them after a fight?

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is just to inform you that I was a witness at my friend’s wedding and it was glorious. By it of course I mean my suit.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today on the way to school my daughter started listing all the expenses adults have to deal with: “job taxes, city bills, rental cars…” Damn she’s right it really is all too much sometimes. Especially the rental cars.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

She never misses an opportunity to destroy her ketamine addicted dad.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Got a question for this week’s mailbag? If you don’t tell me I will literally never know.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Telling his wife it’s fine he just needs a 21% tariff on imports from Vietnam and then he’ll be good to go, promise.

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

When people tell you who they are…

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Got a poem in this if you even care. pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sometimes when I’m going out to a nice dinner or something I have to try on every pair of pants I own just to convince myself that my first choice was the right one. Anyone else?

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