Kind of a shocker – Germany is already out of the World Cup

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Germany entered the match as -700 favorites to advance. According to BetMGM sportsbook insights, 99% of the money wagered was on Germany to qualify! I’ve never seen a betting situation like that – all the money placed on a bet that would have paid next to nothing.

They lost to Paraguay, a team that the USA beat 4-1.

The USA team has so far managed to recover from their embarrassing loss to Turkey. (Turkey lost all of their other games, scoring no goals.)

Thanks to a red card, the USA had to play a man short for the final 25 minutes against Bosnia, but still managed to advance to the round of 16 for the first time since 2002. They are not expected to advance farther because the red card also means that star player will not be eligible to play the next game against Belgium.

Robin Byrd nudity in Bang My Box (2026)

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Documentary from HBO

You may not know who she is if you didn’t spend a lot of time in NYC in the last quarter of the last century, but Robin Byrd was an absolute fixture on New York cable television (Channel J) for two decades, in a raunchy show co-produced by Robin and the infamous Screw Magazine. “Baby, Let Me Bang Your Box” was her theme song. Each episode featured Byrd in a skimpy bikini, in front of a red wall with a hanging sign reading “The Robin Byrd Show.” Many of her shows were aired live, and would occasionally take viewer calls. Her guests were porn stars and strippers, who sometimes got naked.

She became better known outside NY when SNL, another New York institution, ran several parodies of the Robin Byrd Show in the late 90s, featuring Cheri Oteri as Robin.

Here is an excellent summary of her career from The Guardian


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Video
The video above is not really worth your time, but the documentary is pretty interesting. There is some additional nudity from guests on her show, male and female. I didn’t capture it, since the old tapes of her show are in very poor shape, and the guests are either anonymous strippers or porn stars that you can see naked in much better quality with a Google search. There is also some nudity from Robin today, although she is 70ish and morbidly obese.

Before her Manhattan Cable days, Robin appeared in some adult films. She had a small part in a very famous one, Debbie Does Dallas (1978)


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Bambi Woods, Robin Byrd – Debbie does Dallas (1978)

What Is the Definitive Movie About America?

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It’s an interesting question. Which films have caught, if not the essential nature of America, at least the zeitgeist of America at a particular time.

There are some odd selections among these ten, including some mediocre-to-poor films, and films that say absolutely nothing accurate about America.

I’ve always argued that Casablanca is the film that best reflects what we want to be, and Idiocracy is the one that portrays what we really are.

I would include, as a joint entry of films that accurately portray America as I knew it in the time of my youth and childhood, two comedies by Bob Clark: Porky’s and A Christmas Story.