{"id":33372,"date":"2012-06-27T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33372"},"modified":"2020-07-01T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:06:58","slug":"you-heard-it-here-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33372","title":{"rendered":"You heard it here first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-33373 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/peeniss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/peeniss.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/peeniss-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019ve been watching\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>\u00a0this season, because I\u2019m a Howard Stern fan, and it\u2019s been kind of unavoidable. But anyway, the people in the photograph are \u201cEric &amp; Olivia,\u201d a music duo with Eric on guitar, and Olivia doing vocals.\u00a0 To their credit, I liked their act, and I think Olivia is definitely a pleasant singer, and I find her to be quite beautiful.\u00a0 But the operative word in that statement is \u201cact,\u201d because I think that\u2019s precisely what\u2019s going on here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Stern grilled them in their initial audition, and inquired about their relationship, to which they both bashfully collided with, until they both attested to being \u201cjust friends.\u201d\u00a0 Stern would proceed to zero in on Eric, and ask him if he really were happy with the arrangement, to which he sheepishly hesitated, stuttered, and then spit out the clich\u00e9d line that she is indeed beautiful, but they\u2019re just friends and the music comes first.\u00a0 Regardless, they made it past the first round, and went to Vegas for their second audition.\u00a0 Stern would claim that Las Vegas would be the perfect place for Eric to make his move, only as the self-proclaimed King of All Media can do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Personally, I\u2019m convinced that the whole just-friends thing is all an act, or at least part of an act, and there\u2019s a plan in motion once they made it to the second round.\u00a0 If the duo makes it past Vegas, they enter the stage of the competition where the fans\u2019 vote has a large part in their survival in the competition.\u00a0 Needless to say, with the brainless masses in control of contestants\u2019 fates, it gets to a point where talent takes a backseat to overall popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That being said, I\u2019ve got a nickname for Eric &amp; Olivia:\u00a0<strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong>.\u00a0 If they make it past the second round, then I fully expect Eric to become Peeta, and once in front of a nationally televised live audience, will come clean and attest to having feelings for Olivia.\u00a0 Olivia will play her part of the aloof Katniss and be shocked, and the storyline and drama of a longing partner versus the duo\u2019s quest for fame and success might be compelling enough for the viewers at home to continuously vote them safely in the competition to see what happens next.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost too obviously coincidental to the secondary plot of\u00a0<em>The Hunger Games<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Considering the show is not immune to controversy and fake acts, like the country singer with brain damage who stutters but seemed to be able to repress it when he sang, who lied about his military history and injuries and really didn\u2019t have a stutter, my theory of an ambitious young couple faking their relationship and slowly re-writing it on a weekly basis to garner attention wouldn\u2019t be too far-fetched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Anyway, Eric &amp; Olivia did indeed make it past the second round, and the next time we see them on America\u2019s Got Talent, it will be live; and fans at home will play a large part in deciding their fate.\u00a0 So when the duo nails their next performance, and Eric emotionally \u201cslips\u201d some \u201cfeelings\u201d towards Olivia in their post-performance interview, remember you read about it here first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">May luck be ever in their favor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been watching\u00a0America\u2019s Got Talent\u00a0this season, because I\u2019m a Howard Stern fan, and it\u2019s been kind of unavoidable. But anyway, the people in the photograph are \u201cEric &amp; Olivia,\u201d a music duo with Eric on guitar, and Olivia doing vocals.\u00a0 To their credit, I liked their act, and I think Olivia is definitely a pleasant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You heard it here first<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,69,49],"class_list":["post-33372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-television","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33374,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions\/33374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}