MPG Letter #184
Not Every Headline Deserves You, Low and Slow Into the Afterlife, Netflix Just Entered the Cage
Not Every Headline Deserves You
I was having a conversation yesterday about the news and everything going on in the world, and I realized I honestly didn’t know half of it. And that might actually be a good thing. We only have so much energy, attention, and bandwidth in a day. If we spend it all ingesting every Trump headline, every meeting, every scandal, every breaking update, and every little “did you hear what happened?” story, what do we actually have left?
The truth is, most of it doesn’t matter in your real life. It might matter in the big picture, sure, but whether you knew about it at 9 a.m. or not, it still happened. The world kept spinning. Your family still needed you. Your body still needed training, rest, and food. Your goals still needed attention. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good conspiracy rabbit hole as much as anybody. But at some point, trying to uncover every mystery and decode every corruption story becomes its own energy drain.
So maybe being “out of touch” is actually being more in touch. More in touch with your own life. More in touch with your family. More in touch with your purpose. I’ve noticed the less random stimulus I let into my mind, the more energy I have for what actually matters. Protecting your attention isn’t ignorance. Sometimes it’s discipline.
Low and Slow Into the Afterlife
I went down a weird rabbit hole this week. I watched something about the smoked mummies of Papua New Guinea, where elders are preserved and displayed almost like they’re still part of the family and community. It sounds wild at first. They basically dry the body out over smoke, almost like beef jerky, and the process is treated with honor and tradition. One of the guys in the documentary even talked about wanting to be preserved like his father. Then he passed away from malaria, and they ended up documenting the process with him.
At first, your brain goes, “That’s disgusting.” But then I started thinking about it. Is it really that much crazier than cremation? We act like cremation is normal, but you’re literally burning a body down to ash. That’s basically the broiler setting. The smoked mummy thing is more like low and slow at 220. I’m not saying I’m signing up to get turned into brisket, but it did make me realize how much of what we think is “normal” is just what we grew up around.
Then that sent me into a whole other rabbit hole about what happens after we die. In America, it feels like the main options are buried in a box, burned into ashes, or now frozen through cryonics in the hope that some future technology can bring you back. Hundreds of people have actually chosen that route. So maybe the mummy thing isn’t as crazy as it sounds. We all have our own version of preserving the dead. Some go in the ground, some go in the fire, some go in the freezer, and some apparently get smoked for the future.
Netflix Just Entered the Cage
Netflix is stepping into MMA this weekend with the MVP card headlined by Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano, plus Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry and Francis Ngannou vs. Philipe Lins. That is a wild sentence when you really think about it. Ronda coming back, Gina coming back, Nate Diaz and Mike Perry on the same card, Ngannou in the mix, all streaming live on Netflix from the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 16.
The UFC is still the big dog. Let’s be real. No other MMA promotion is really holding a candle to the UFC right now. PFL is in the game, ONE is in the game, other organizations are doing their thing, but the UFC is still the major leagues. The difference here is Netflix has money, reach, and a platform that can put fights in front of people who may not even consider themselves fight fans. So the question is not just, “Is this a good fight card?” The real question is, “Can Netflix make this feel big?”
Because views are one thing. Presentation is another. A fight being on Netflix automatically gives it reach, but we’ll see who actually tunes in, how it looks, how it feels, and whether this is a one-time spectacle or the start of something bigger. Maybe they do one of these every year. Maybe it turns into a real lane for crossover combat sports. Either way, I’m watching with curiosity. Not because I think anyone is taking the UFC’s spot, but because when Netflix steps into the cage, you pay attention.
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I'm a low and slow brisket/jerky person too but , I'm also a cremation by religion and tradition person too