Called Out

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Hey, wanna hear something fucked up? Cool. But first, some backstory:

12/11/07:
Rodrigo Gracie, Crosley Gracie, Platinum Heaven Productions, and Applebox Entertainment announce their intentions to launch a reality show called Settle Your Grudge, in which real people involved in personal disputes are trained in BJJ so they can settle them on the mat; a "famous face" would be hosting the show.

2/12/08:
CagePotato finally catches wind of it. We take the anti- stance, calling the concept "'tarded." To quote ourselves: "[I]s hand-to-hand combat ever the best way to settle disputes between managers/employees and teachers/students? At that point, haven’t we conceded that society has basically failed? ... That 'Cop vs. Con' episode alone would be enough for me to stamp 'DENIED' on this bitch."

2/17/08:
This posting shows up on RealityWanted.com, claiming that Tito Ortiz will be involved in a new reality show in which real people involved in disputes will be trained so the beef can be settled in a cage-fight. Sample line: "UFC Champion Tito Ortiz is going to train you to battle out your problems in the Octagon!! We are looking for ALL SHAPES AND SIZES to walk into the ring and settle it once and for all!!!!"

2/19/08:
CagePotato comes across the posting, assumes that Tito Ortiz is the "famous face" involved in Settle Your Grudge, and posts this. To quote ourselves: "The posting reinforces what initially skeeved us out about the show’s concept to begin with — their attitude that when personal disputes get too heated, “the only way to [resolve them] is to fight it out!” It’s like they’ve never realized that losing a fight makes the average person more hostile afterwards, and winning a fight often makes the winner even more of a prick than he was in the first place."

3/14/08:
Dan Frenkel of Applebox Entertainment reads our previous post, and leaves us this comment: "First off, I would like to comment that our show starring Rodrigo and Crosley Gracie is in no way affiliated with Tito Ortiz or his show. Second, although real its just simple ENTERTAINMENT. It still beats watching crap like “who wants to marry a tranny”. If you don’t like it do us all a favor and don’t watch it. And if you really don’t like it think about auditioning, whimpy!" For a moment, we have an urge to pretend to be journalists and contact Frenkel so he can set the record straight in a more official sort of way. Then we realized that we really, really don't care about Settle Your Grudge or Tito's show, beyond the fact that there are two shows based on the same 'tarded concept, which is kind of amusing. Our lives resumed as before.

Then this happened.