{"id":175800,"date":"2025-09-28T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:54:08","slug":"why-isnt-there-tickling-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175800\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn’t There Tickling in MMA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

One consequence of sudden spikes of audience growth is that some people are still finding out what PTFO actually does, three times a week, when we\u2019re not investigating an increasingly terrifying series of billionaires.<\/p>\n

Here, for instance, is one YouTube comment on the video above:<\/p>\n

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But what lennaretm\u00e4gi maybe does not realize is that this specific episode, brought to you by PTFO correspondent Dave Fleming, is an idea we greenlit a year ago. It\u2019s an idea that we saved. If anything: it is the opposite of disposable.<\/p>\n

We wanted to take you on a journey to a rat laboratory, in Germany; and a hotel ballroom in Rochester; and the armpit of a fighter nicknamed \u201cSexual Chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n

PTFO\u2019s stated mission is to do stupid things smartly and smart things stupidly.<\/p>\n

Both, preferably, in the same episode.<\/p>\n

And if you want a sense of how real this collective ethos is\u2026<\/p>\n

My 40th birthday was yesterday.<\/p>\n

And this clip from the thing that my crazily overworked staff colluded with my friends and family to create \u2014 without me knowing! \u2014 embodies this mission:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I feel loved.<\/p>\n

Tickled, even.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s much else a person can ask for.<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Pablo<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One consequence of sudden spikes of audience growth is that some people are still finding out what PTFO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-175800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}