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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

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There has always been a strong note of pranking to Terry Bradshaw’s work as a NFL studio analyst at Fox. Bradshaw’s role is ...

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You might think of Werner Herzog’s new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals.  On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting ...