{"id":94031,"date":"2025-07-21T00:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94031"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:30:20","slug":"when-kisscams-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/when-kisscams-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"When KissCams Go Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI absolutely love that Colbert <\/strong>got fired.  His talent was
\neven less than his ratings.  I hear Jimmy Kimmel <\/strong>is next.
\n Has even less talent than Colbert!  Greg Gutfeld <\/strong>is better
\nthan all of them combined, including the Moron
\non NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show<\/strong>.\u201d
\n– <\/em>It always tickles me when someone praises someone I\u2019ve never heard.  Like, who is
\nGreg Gutfeld?  And why is \u201cMoron\u201d capitalized?  Is that a job?  Like Moron in Chief?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The city \u2013 Fort Lauderdale, FL.  The Place \u2013 Chase Bank<\/em>.  I went to my local branch after receiving an offer of $500 for opening a business account.  Since I\u2019ve been troubled by Citibank<\/em>\u2019s rapidly diminishing branch locations, I was happy to give their competition my business \u2013 especially if I got paid for it.  I sat down with a woman reminiscent of a young Julie Kavner <\/strong>\u2013 in her Rhoda<\/em><\/strong> days playing Brenda (who also worked in a bank).  I decided to not share my observation with the gal.  A smart decision, since her first question to me was the following \u2013 \u201cAre you a member of the adult entertainment industry?\u201d  Why?  Perhaps she\u2019s a fan.  Or maybe seen some of my oeuvre (I quickly made sure my oeuvre wasn\u2019t showing).  Or perhaps it\u2019s my choice in paramours (or, dare I say, spouses).  Or perhaps it was the stack of bills I presented for deposit which gave off a faint but pungent odor.  Nonetheless, I responded with a somewhat convincing \u201cNo\u201d, while making sure my tear-away shorts were fastened tight!<\/p>\n

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You probably wouldn\u2019t be too surprised if I told you someone was outed at a Coldplay <\/em><\/strong>concert.  But what if I told you that someone wasn\u2019t Chris Martin<\/strong>?  Oh, sure, now you\u2019re surprised.  It all happened at Gillette Stadium <\/em>\u2013 just south of my native Boston.  As often happens at these concerts, random audience members were featured on the Jumbotron<\/em>.  The camera settled on a man embracing a woman from behind.  Chris Martin says, \u201cOh, look at these two.\u201d  The woman covers her face and turns around; the man ducks down below the camera.  \u201cCome on, you OK?  Uh, what?\u201d continues Martin.  \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy.  I\u2019m not quite sure.\u201d  I\u2019ll give you two guesses!  It might have all ended there, except someone in the audience filmed the entire encounter and posted it on that Chinese video streaming site that all the kids like.  And that\u2019s how the world discovered Andy Byron<\/strong>, CEO of Astronomer<\/em>, was canoodling with a woman who was most certainly not his wife.  It only got worse when reports indicated that the woman in question was Astronomer<\/em>\u2019s Chief People Officer! <\/p>\n

Byron quickly issued a mea culpa<\/em>, which included this rapturous bit of prose: \u201cWhat was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out on a very public stage.\u201d  Except he didn\u2019t actually say that!  While the incident and video are very real, the apology statement was a hoax, made by a fake Andy Byron!  What wasn\u2019t fake was that Byron did resign.  His former company posted this on Twitter<\/em>: \u201cAndy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted.\u201d  Chris Martin made a statement of his own shortly after the couple ducked out of view of the KissCam<\/em>: \u201cHoly shit \u2013 I hope we didn\u2019t do something bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired.  His talent was even less than his ratings.  I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.  Has even less talent than Colbert!  Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.\u201d – It always tickles me when someone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94040,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94031\/revisions\/94040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}