This panel talk is more like a professional wrestling match:  It’s all about the theater. And Mark is the one getting tag-teamed by the Bro’ Boys. Clearly, we are not going to see much in the way of actual—or serious—discussion. Absurdity works best when it appears within an environment of normalcy and convention. But is this a normal or conventional environment?

Will Mark accept Cricket Bro’s challenge and take off his shirt? Or will we learn that Cricket Bro’s muscled physique is not real, after all? And who cares, anyway?

Why can’t these clowns just have a nice, contentious debate based on the actual focus of the conference? There are certainly plenty of videos on YouTube that Rivera could have cribbed from. Hopefully, she did exactly that, and we’ll see some of it in the coming days.

Oops! This is May 1^st, not April 1^st. Forget what I wrote in the previous paragraph… !