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Rob Lowe

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Hollywood actors in Marvel movies use a 'Marvel doctor' for HGH

I want to be in [a Marvel movie] just so I can meet their 'doctor feel good'. I want an excuse to have Elvis' bag man come in and hook me up. Because my man, Kumail Nanjiani... I see him in Eternals. And I'm like, 'whatever's going on, I want some of that.'

This is a widely speculated industry secret but cannot be definitively 'proven' as fact without medical records.
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Magic Johnson doesn't physically write his own tweets

I found out that Magic Johnson does not physically do any of the tweets, which may explain some of it. It's articulated clearly across the room or while he's doing 17 other things as a titan of industry. And then there is a woman whose job is to figure out what he's talking about and make it a tweet.

This has been widely accepted as true by fans and media after this and other similar reports.
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The NFL shield logo hat is the dopest hat ever

There's no Team hat is their Championship hat nothing. Other than that NFL hat which by the way, I thought this is the dopest hat I've ever seen because I'd never really seen one other than on a ref.

Purely a matter of personal taste, though the internet largely mocked it.
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Sign stealing is baked into the DNA of baseball; the Astros just took it to a different level with technology

If people get really really honest, sign stealing and that kind of low-level stuff is baked into the DNA of the game, but the institutionalized sign stealing with camera and once electricity becomes involved in the situation as ran into problem totally different thing.

Sign stealing has indeed been part of baseball for over a century, which is a verifiable historical fact.
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Jose Altuve was clearly acting shady during his 2019 walk-off celebration

I remember watching it... and Going something's and this is before any of the there was even a whiff of the cheating scandal and I thought something was really bizarre about his behavior after that walk off... Greatest moment of his career and he tells he doesn't want to take his shirt off because his wife is shy.

MLB's investigation found no evidence of buzzers being used, though the theory remains incredibly popular among fans. Altuve's 'shy wife' excuse is still widely mocked.
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Every man should try to be the best version of himself, including skincare and manicures

I believe that every guy should try to be the best version of themselves. Not just with how they look but with everything manicure and pedicure... you know I started a men's skincare line because their egos... guys need to take care of the skin.

This is a subjective lifestyle recommendation.
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Monday Night Football has lost its sense of occasion and gone to the dogs

For whatever reason they've let Monday Night Football go to the dogs and it's been that way for a while... Five six seven seasons, they don't have the cameras. They don't have coverage... There's no sense of occasion. They're literally telling you this is Monday and this is football, but you feel like you're watching a game that could be on any day anywhere.

This was a common media criticism at the time, which eventually led to ESPN spending big to hire Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to restore the 'sense of occasion.'
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I like to root for excellence and the inevitable winner

I like the Red Sox and I like the Yankees. I like the storyline and I like teams that are great. I like excellence. I root for the inevitable. My brother Chad is a longtime Browns fan and Bengals fan and he just dwells in his misery. He's the exact opposite of me in that way. I like people who are good at what they do.

This is a personal philosophy on sports fandom.
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LeBron James carries the ball on every single possession

I love LeBron, but we used to call carries. He carries on every possession. Every possession. He palms and also he's got that hand out [stiff arm]. So he's allowed to hand check.

While technical 'carries' are rarely called in the modern NBA, it is a subjective complaint about officiating trends.
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The Kobe/Shaq Lakers would destroy the Steph Curry Warriors because no one can guard Shaq

I think that the Kobe/Shaq three-peat team would destroy Steph Curry's team. Because who would guard Shaq? ... If they're going to bomb from outside and beat you, they will beat you, and that's it. But they're not coming inside, so just let them do it. Live and die by the three.

This is an eternal 'what-if' debate in sports, making it inherently subjective.
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You can't have depth and substance as an actor if you are good-looking or funny

There's a sort of sense that you can't have depth and substance and also be [good-looking]... and it's the same thing with comedy.

This is a common subjective complaint among actors (the 'pretty person' bias), which is impossible to objectively prove or disprove.
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Beards are the reason Civil War movies don't get made anymore

I also think the problem is beards. Beards are out. A lot of beards. You think, well, actually, beards are not. I'm in this room. I know there's one, two, three, four and a half. That's a lot of beards in the room. Now it's time to revisit the Civil War.

This is a humorous observation on casting and production trends.
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The West Wing convinced a generation of people that political compromise is the way to solve everything

The West Wing... you kind of convinced a generation of nerds that got into politics that compromise would be the way to solve everything. [Lowe responds]: The movie version, it never really works out in the real world.

The 'West Wing effect' is a well-documented phenomenon in political science regarding public perception of governance.
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If you don't have any edge as a person, you are just a Canadian

You always have a little bit of dick in you. If you don't have any edge, you're just a Canadian.

This is a humorous generalization about Canadian politeness versus the 'edge' required in Hollywood.
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I want a movie studio to pay for me to use performance-enhancing drugs for a role

I want to get to a point where I have a studio pay for me to be juiced up with the top doctors with all kinds of performance enhancing... I want to do a Marvel movie so somebody gets me ripped and puts me on drugs that I would never do in my real life.

While Lowe hasn't publicly taken PEDs for a role, many other actors are rumored to, and his desire is a subjective career goal.

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