Well shucks, I thought, and yes that quaint Midwestern word appears in my internal monologues, Well shucks, that bastard looks like me.
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The turnout is way more than I expected — aw, shucks!
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Bortles is Eli Manning with 40 percent less Aw Shucks.
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"Oh shucks, I love the kids so much," Lockett told CNN.
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I'm ready for anything he has," Hunt told UFC Fight Week. "Shucks.
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The next one I liked was 60A's AWFUL SHUCKS (based on "aw shucks"), because I have no patience at all for shucking corn, and would probably fall right into the category of those who are terrible at it.
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Shucks, get behind a tree and I'll hit you with an optical illusion.
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He is a master of delivering partisan blows with an aw-shucks smile.
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It was aw-shucks with just the right amount of shade mixed in.
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Shucks, I once even had an inmate ingest parts of a fire-alarm.
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The first three themers manage well enough, but AWFUL SHUCKS is my personal favorite; the combination of the unique AW to AWFUL change, and the new meaning of SHUCKS made it stand out enough to use as the last theme answer.
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Carol puts on a good show, going into her gee-whiz golly-shucks mode.
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And shucks, it turns out that the new box can't play your old games.
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They know his aw-shucks rectitude, combined with real-time written recollections, guarantee riveting testimony.
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She has a winning combination of an aw-shucks sensibility and a first-class brain.
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His "aw shucks" manner and Ward Cleaver bonhomie could never fully disguise a fierce political ambition.
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It's not just the "aw shucks" gaffes or occasional handsiness or protective-father-figure-on-steroids quips.
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Most of the main characters embody an "aw shucks" demeanor that falsely posits itself as anti-bro.
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He's an approachable aw-shucks everyman, and his version of Sully gives off a subdued fatherly appeal.
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Flake is tall and coiffed; he has a natural non-orange tan and an aw-shucks smile.
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She shucks off tradition and patriarchal expectations in favor of art, music, nature and her bosom friends.
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He hosted "Saturday Night Live," where he adroitly exhibited his genuine aw-shucks bearing for comic effect.
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Tester, if he could make the election about his pleasing, aw-shucks personality, would do just fine.
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His schmoozing shucks-and-aw obeisance to the president is only rivaled by his desire to win.
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At 88, Warren Buffett's white hair, bushy eyebrows and aw-shucks grin hardly make for an intimidating visage.
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He recently told me, in an aw-shucks manner suggesting that big, risky, now what-do-I-do?
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For her part, Claire is continuing the "aw shucks" routine while Durant quizzes her about the G213 rumors.
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Graham was tall and handsome, with a disarming aw-shucks demeanor and a Southern twang to his voice.
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Similarly, Louis C.K. tried to aw shucks his way through the issue on his Netflix special Louis C.K.: 2017.
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Shucks. If I can only pick one, then it's "Our Only World," Wendell Berry's most recent collection of essays.
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It's like a roast but without the "Aw, shucks you know I love your work" thing at the end.
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There's something mildly sinister about the interlopers, with their ingratiating smiles, aw-shucks mannerisms and continued refusal to leave.
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But Swift's business persona seems to have no place in the sweetly aw-shucks persona she's established with her music.
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McWhorter recalled being taken in, as so many cops had been before, by Martinez's "aw-shucks kind of guy" persona.
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He is a business-savvy politician whose aw shucks, heartland American demeanor sits at odds with his elite university degrees.
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Which is why the 2-hour movie finale can't escape the giddy feeling that, shucks, we're getting away with it.
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This aw-shucks blog series, apparently pegged to the first anniversary of Donald Trump's election, is only slightly more skeptical.
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More fundamentally than all this, though, the slumped-shoulders shucks seems not to be a part of Ramirez's physical vocabulary.
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Mr. McCartney was the exception, radiating aw-shucks kindliness and preaching heartfelt peace and love in many of his songs.
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Corker may be trying to pull off an "aw shucks" kind of excuse for trying to urge more presidential calm.
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He showed up for postgame interviews with his shoulder pads still on and an aw-shucks smile on his face.
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There is a pat, practiced rhythm to red carpet interviews, a give and take of sycophantry and aw-shucks ego.
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His poorly written apology song wouldn't fly and certainly wouldn't evoke an "Aw, shucks!" response from a room full of press.
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When this whole show started, it looked like I was just an aw-shucks visitor coming to Westworld for the first time.
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As he speaks, he quickly shucks a live diver scallop, which he then grills and tops with yuzu hollandaise and yuzu kosho.
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At 34, he still possesses an "aw, shucks" quality to his demeanor, a shyness and eagerness that leaven his cool-kid cred.
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And they do, especially Mr. Bernthal, who gives Sam an aw-shucks friendliness that belies the strength behind his wounded body language.
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A former Democrat who is in his first Senate term, Mr. Kennedy has a disarming, aw-shucks manner that masks tough-mindedness.
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Perfection. But the cutest scene is when her parents go in for a double kiss and she shows off her aw shucks face.
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And not in a smarmy, gooey or even smoldering way, but in an aw-shucks, slightly broody but also cheerful, pouty-lipped way.
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"The thing about Rex is, he's got this big Texas aw-shucks thing going on," a Russia expert who knows Tillerson told me.
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Since the campaign, Pence has played on his "aw shucks" second-fiddle role, even joking about how much poorer he is than Trump.
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And Chad, a handsome man with haunted eyes, a soft drawl and an aw-shucks charm, says he used to be a teacher.
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Despite his efforts to sidestep his comments with his aw-shucks attitude, make no mistake: His rhetoric is based solidly in white nationalism.
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"Aw shucks, what an eccentric character," Fallon seemed to be saying to the man who promised to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
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Aw-shucks handsome man and Mark Ruffalo look-alike Nick Viall is no longer on, or slated to appear on, a reality television show.
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Absurd like a Lonely Island sketch and aw-shucks tender like MattyB, this song exists both as straightforward fun and meme-culture eye-roll.
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But they certainly don't create something like that so they can just, "Aw, shucks," make it easier to figure out what the weather is.
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But that doesn't stop Deepwater Horizon from playing things as big as it possibly can, whether it's Vidrine's villainy or Mr. Jimmy's aw-shucks sainthood.
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"One of the things that helped him be successful was his whole premise that he was this even-keeled, respectful, aw-shucks guy," Sullivan said.
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There is Matt Wilpers, 33, the aw-shucks Georgia guy who ran Division I college track and might throw a country tune into his ride.
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Like Grace Jones, I want to be known as a woman who shucks her own oysters, so I ask Stubbs to show me the best technique.
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Shock and Awe-Shucks, Bless You Child Rambunctious Romping Futile Escapism Unhinged Showmanship Doubly Determined We hope you have as much fun celebrating as we do.
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The streaming service did it with the aw-shucks sci-fi joy of Stranger Things and the unstoppable boundary-breaking of Orange Is The New Black.
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That was what happened with the aw-shucks routine put on by Neil Gorsuch last year, and this go-around, there is somehow even less suspense.
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Shucks, says RDR2's focus on languid, manual labor and campfire hangouts, wouldn't it be easier to go back to the way things used to be?
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Mr. Lutken's Guthrie avoids aw-shucks sentimentality; Mr. Teirstein demonstrates remarkable instrumental versatility; and the sparkling Ms. Loomis mugs winningly as she takes a fiddle solo.
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Peyton Manning and Favre appeared in more national ad campaigns during their playing days, and their aw-shucks demeanor endeared them to fans across the country.
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At its core "Okja" is intended to evoke aw-shucks responses about the girl and pig, a computer-generated creation whose level of realism comes and goes.
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I endorsed this choice of hero: Franklin, 17, was so wholesome, strong and naïve; a happy high-school powerhouse; an "aw-shucks" killer at a county fair.
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Keaton's performance as Ray is what keeps The Founder moving, his affected accent and aw-shucks demeanor slowly morphing into something more calculating and even, perhaps, sinister.
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He has become a public performer over the past three years, cultivating a disarming "aw shucks, lordy, lordy" persona while covering his damaging actions with milky platitudes.
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And so the stars eat ludicrously hot wings, sit with a therapist they've never met, engage some aw-shucks huckster to connect them to the other side.
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That sort of "aw shucks" equivocating made sense in the years immediately after everyone learned about pickup artistry, but now it's a gimmick that everyone sees directly through.
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Gone is the professorial, aw-shucks Senator from Tennessee, and before us instead is a highly motivated, focused, and sometimes-Hulk-smash-mad John Brown of the climate movement.
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The film stars Teresa Palmer (Lights Out) as Clare, a young woman visiting Germany who crosses paths with an aw-shucks English teacher named Andi (Sense8's Max Riemelt).
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But different languages can still put a wrinkle in your conversational flow, even with all the handy translation apps also on tap to help turn zut alors into shucks!
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" After the first debate, Manley said there were questions about "if he's the right person to take on Donald Trump, given his aw-shucks mannerism sometimes and his earnestness.
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It's not exactly a genre Ubisoft is known for (sorry, Tom Clancy's EndWar), and those aw-shucks-goofy rabbids wore out their welcome nearly as soon as they arrived.
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Mr. Met — with his wide, perpetual grin; his aw-shucks demeanor; and a noggin that would never fit on the 7 train — hardly seems like a native New Yorker.
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But ultimately it was the bluster of Trump and other populist conservatives that brought many of those voters into the fold — not Pawlenty's flannel shirts and aw-shucks demeanor.
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"Customers have told me that they've driven from as far away as Arizona just to come eat these," Leo says as he shucks a dozen oysters with his mom Maria.
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I also have no doubt the aw-shucks Jimmy Stewart impersonator did all three — not out of partisanship or venality, but out of an unspeakably arrogant naïveté and self-absorption.
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In the locker room afterward, when asked if he had indeed been crying, Manning mostly stayed in character, shrugging his shoulders as he gave reporters his usual aw-shucks grin.
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Hypothetically, Spider-Man: Far From Home, premiering, July 2, could have been two hours of Peter Parker saying "Aw, shucks," to the camera, and I would have applauded at the end.
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She's at times confessed to screwups—like when she stumbled in an interview while discussing Israel and Palestine—but has also turned her lack of knowledge into endearing aw-shucks moments.
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Russell dials down the aw-shucks charm he's shown in previous roles, instead echoing the world-weariness his father demonstrated in John Carpenter's The Thing (a clear spiritual cousin to Overlord).
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Andrew Garfield's gosh-shucks performance lays on the corn too thickly, especially during the frankly awful scenes where he romances an easily flattered nurse (Rachel Griffiths) by gawping blankly at her.
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Yet because they were billed as personable robot friends, they offered little instruction on how to find said commands and liberally returned "aw, shucks" error messages to any off-script query.
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"If a Girl Isn't Pretty" — written in the midcentury by, you guessed it, two white male Broadway composers — is the sound of a paternalistic shrug, a headshake of gee-shucks empathy.
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It was interesting, a lot of the women were much tougher on him, they weren't having any of the aw, shucks, aw it's Mark Zuckerberg thing, which I thought was interesting.
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The North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, rode the white steed through snowy fields, galloping between dusted trees, pausing for an aw-shucks-I'm-on-a-horse smile at the camera.
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There is the retired trial lawyer, the environmental scientist, the junior politico, the Army veteran, the labor leader, the telegenic businessman and two aw-shucks-we're-running-because-we-can-ers.
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A good but not a once-a-generation talent in the way Asuka is, she was blessed with a can't lose gimmick and a natural aw shucks charm to go with it.
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Given his "aw, shucks, I'm a nice guy," primary campaign, Kasich could be the perfect fit for Trump to appeal to moderate Republicans and to balance out the nominee's fiery, controversial rhetoric.
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Hailing from the heartland of America, Pai, the second-generation son of medical doctors, has a disarming, aw-shucks, demeanor that belies his Harvard education, elite legal pedigree and inside-Washington resume.
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Linda Greenhouse So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative.
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Many of the younger people in the crowd took notes as Ms. Baker and Ms. Herzog, with aw-shucks humility and deadpan humor, shared anecdotes about their artistic processes and experiences together.
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More than attracting white working-class voters or adding an "aw shucks" persona to the ticket that will spawn a million dad jokes, the ability to reel in cash is Kaine's actual specialty.
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Wow, we're from Silicon Valley and we are wildly educated and make millions of dollars but shucks, understanding this whole "privacy concerns" stuff that arises literally every time we launch something sure is tuff!
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Now Minnesota's most popular politician is weighing whether her home state appeal — forged through carefully cultivated bipartisanship in Washington and an aw-shucks-I'm-just-like-you persona — will translate on a national stage.
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Gilmore Girls can get sweet to the point of saccharinity without someone around to undercut its aw-shucks quirkiness, and Jess's city-kid bewilderment at Stars Hollow's bucolic charms helps balance things beautifully. 221.
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The thing about Dale Murphy is that whenever he'd hit a home run, he always had that 'aw shucks' kind of gait around the bases, like, 'I'm sorry, bro, I'm just doing my job.
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Still, there are great swatches of his book that are stunning and ring so true; When I mention them he doesn't give the faux aw-shucks of a celebrity who's used to constant praise.
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As the stellar core falls in on itself, it shucks off its surrounding envelope of matter and forms violent jets of energy that propel that matter out into space at nearly the speed of light.
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Garfield, certainly, gives the project his all, investing Doss with aw-shucks country charm, and it's hard not to be moved watching him hoist badly injured men onto his shoulders and carry them to safety.
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As we watched the clowns in their baggy pants and floppy shoes dancing around with big smiles -- or tears -- painted on their faces, everyone sat on wooden bleachers and absently dropped the shucks onto the grass.
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The book's tone alternates, sometimes within a single paragraph, between the citation-heavy pop psychology of a TED talk and the aw-shucks wisdom of a homily at a prosperous stone church in a D.C. suburb.
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But if it's the vice presidency, if a cabinet position is where he needs somebody with my experience, then I'm not going to go back to Texas and say, 'Aw shucks sir, I'm gonna go fishing.
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Tip "You're going to butcher it the first time; it's O.K.," says Rigo Alvarado, 27, who shucks hundreds of oysters a night behind the raw bar at Connie and Ted's, a seafood restaurant in West Hollywood.
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His kitchen crew shucks more than 500 pounds of lobster weekly, shipped live from Maine and also sourced from the Long Island Sound, kept cold (not frozen) and submerged in tanks until their time is up.
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — As this seasonal resort town shucks off the remnants of winter and prepares for the crowds that start descending in late spring, it still cannot shake a palpable anger, lingering from last summer.
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Asked why Clemson's three recent semifinal victories in the playoffs had been so lopsided — the combined score is Clemson 98, Oklahoma/Ohio State/Notre Dame 20 — Tigers Coach Dabo Swinney tried to aw-shucks the question away.
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With a soft voice and an aw-shucks grin, Utecht, the son of a Methodist minister, was so disarming and eager to please that it was difficult to imagine that he played a violent game like football.
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A film about Old Hollywood, set inside the fictional Capitol Pictures in the 803s, it doesn't just take pains to create the look and feel of happy-go-lucky musicals, aw-shucks westerns, and Roman epics; Hail, Caesar!
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A film about Old Hollywood, set inside the fictional Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, it doesn't just take pains to create the look and feel of happy-go-lucky musicals, aw-shucks westerns, and Roman epics; Hail, Caesar!
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He's an aw shucks Southern boy at heart, and his voice swells with pride every time he talks about being able to play these songs on the road, 250 days out of the year for three years straight.
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With a wide smile, he shucks the ear and takes a bite, then passes it around to others in the crowd before getting back to his mission: selling farmers on the merits of President Donald Trump's trade war.
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It's all nuts, and the actors couldn't be having more fun, including Ralph Fiennes as an exacting auteur, Channing Tatum riffing on Gene Kelly, and Alden Ehrenreich giving it his aw-shucks all as singing cowboy Hobie Doyle.
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Well into the show on Friday night, the fans were turned off, and the difference was remarkable: Act VI — featuring Nina; Ned; and my two favorites, the aw-shucks Sam and the petty, surprisingly sympathetic Charlie — actually rollicked.
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Because what I saw was a Mark Zuckerberg who kind of came with an aw-shucks attitude where he was on the charm offensive, trying to get these members of Congress to be okay with the concept of Libra.
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Though Dylan, the granddaddy of 'em all, just lets his music do the talking as per usual, Young got in some aw-shucks zingers while Waters took a more brooding, contemptuous — and pointedly controversial — approach to his pet issues.
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" And while no one would describe Hillary Clinton as a shrinking violet, recall her aw-shucks assertion during a recent debate: "I never thought I'd be standing on a stage here asking people to vote for me for president.
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You could tell by Gobright's aw-shucks turn during a post-film question-and-answer session in San Francisco last month that the kind of attention afforded the likes of Honnold and Caldwell was a foreign concept to him.
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As if shedding a skin, the film shucks off its elegiac, white-gloved manners to explore a slippery realm of secrets, lies and moral uncertainty that eventually leads her to consult a priest for advice on how to proceed.
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Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of PFC Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield in full aw-shucks mode), the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, given in recognition of his service in the Battle of Okinawa.
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With his boyish smile, stoic grace and aw-shucks Georgia demeanor, Kuchar, 39, has the temperament to deal with his disappointment at Royal Birkdale on Sunday, even if it proves to be his last best chance to win a major title.
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At the outset, he's pathetically weak and incapable of destroying anything but the nearly-dead, but given time, love, and exposure to a thousand acts of violence, Donnel transforms from a "aw shucks" raiser of pigs into a walking nightmare.
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" During his lifetime, Rhoades received (almost exclusively) fawning praise for defeating formal constrictions, expanding the definition of what art could be and "being edgy" with overtly racist, sexist and bigoted themes under the "aw shucks" banner of "just being a little politically incorrect.
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The western star, Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), is an authentic aw-shucks cowboy kid, but the studio has decided to change his image by shoving him into a sophisticate's role in the Broadway adaptation, to the fury of its director (Ralph Fiennes).
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He had a Jimmy Stewart aw-shucks air about him and a way of working my first name into every other sentence, but he wasn't above having a beer on the water or sharing cold-eyed appraisals of his colleagues on Capitol Hill.
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Sanders goaded reporters into participating in what she couched as an aw-shucks, good-natured, can't-we-all-just-get-along holiday kumbaya, but the real effect of the exercise was to underscore the disdain this White House harbors for the press.
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This exchange occurs in all four—1937, 1954, 1976, and 2018: But seeing as it is the first remake to be made in the era of memes, it's easy to see how Lady Gaga's pleased "aww shucks" look has captured the internet.
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As the winner of the Most Valuable Player Award in the Super Bowls following the 2007 and 2011 seasons, the soft-spoken, normally inconspicuous Manning instantly became a national personality — in part because celebrity was in such contrast to his aw-shucks demeanor.
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As Sebastian, a down-on-his-luck but oh-so-passionate jazz pianist determined to open his own club and save the music he loves, you could say that he reaches peak Gosling, that signature combination of aw-shucks sheepish smile and moody pensiveness.
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Not the "aww shucks" kind, but the kind where our President is not afraid to tell the American people what is happening in our economy and in our global engagements, not afraid to share views that aren't politically popular, and not afraid to admit mistakes.
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How could you not cheer Daniel Bryan, the everyman of average looks and average physique, with an aw shucks smile and as normal a domestic life as you can get when it's two pro wrestlers—his wife is Brie Bella—raising a family together?
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Together with an eager, inexperienced white colleague, Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult, all big eyes, golly gee and aw shucks), Bernard and Joe devise an elaborate subterfuge to buy a bank building, thus becoming the landlords to the very moneymen who deny loans to black clients.
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In these tender moments, "The Zookeeper's Wife," directed by Niki Caro ("Whale Rider"), from an anemic screenplay by Angela Workman, shucks off its modesty and transforms into the sentimental portrait of a beautiful woman and the animals she cares for like a devoted parent.
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Baby-faced Bachelorette dude Connor Saeli, who made quite the towering impression on our girl Hannah earlier this year on After The Final Rose, has continued his aww-shucks earnestness streak through the first two episodes of the season, so we're pretty sure he's there for love.
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When asked about her career, which includes major successes on stage and on screen in films like "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Opening Night," her responses take the form of screwball anecdotes imbued with an aw-shucks innocence suggestive of her Midwestern roots: Things just happened.
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A lucky handful churn out features for the New York Times Magazine and GQ for $2 a word and then deliver half-apologetic aw-shucks accounts of their success on the Longform podcast, which dispenses romantic tales of literary striving to a mass of naive supplicants.
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Zoolander did not have this much gore, nor was it as much of an a la mode derangement as Bret Easton Ellis's interpretation of the same themes, which at some point shucks off the constraints of logic, reasonable structure, and all common sense to run buck-wild.
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Of course, the sale comes with the usual statements of positivity from the publisher, like the opportunity to grow, create new media, reach new audiences, strengthen ad sales and aw shucks, look at how far we've come from being a lil ol' media startup in 1998.
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Acting alongside George Clooney in Clooney's 2008 football screwball comedy Leatherheads and Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's 2012 fracking drama Promised Land, Krasinski's played variations on the beloved golden boy as secret villain, and in weaponizing his aw-shucks air, managed to be more intriguing than the stars.
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So it's telling that in Sunday's episode, "A Generation Too Late," the writers allow DeMunn a moment in the buff when Charles shucks his robe to dismiss a man who tries to corner him outside a steam room for an unwanted conversation — full-frontal as a power move.
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Ree Drummond, best known as The Pioneer Woman, has transformed her carefully curated brand of 'aw, shucks' homemaking into a Food Network show, a line of cookware available at only the finest Walmarts, and a combination restaurant and gift shop that currently averages around 6,000 customers each day.
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Also tagging along is Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), a goofy failson stoner who sweet-talks his way into a job in the first episode and spends the rest of the series deploying a combination of aw-shucks naïveté and careful chess moves to maintain leverage over his hapless relatives.
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There is no more disciplined candidate in the 2016 field than the 74-year-old Vermont senator — none — and a quick scan of the transcripts of recent debates reveals his metronomic recitation of succinct anti-Clinton attack phrases repeated over and over and over with deadly, aw-shucks efficiency.
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Despite the hard right-wing record which will track him throughout the election cycle, he set himself up as a member of his generation, a fan of MLK and JFK, and an "aw shucks" kind of guy whose family and his faith are the most important aspects of his character.
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Neil Gorsuch perfected the role last year, with his aw-shucks demeanor and his disingenuous regrets that, gosh, it just wouldn't be right to express his views about almost any legal case or issue that had come before the court in the past, or might one day in the future.
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And as you'll see in this performance from the 2012 Tonys, from the stalwart, aw-shucks earnestness on Andrew Rannells's face as he outlines his beliefs to the blank amazement on Brian Tyree Henry's face as Rannells bursts into his camp to the deadpan simplicity of the musical's joke structure — everything just works.
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Another reason to raise an eyebrow at the aw-shucks I'm-not-here-to-impose-my-will-on-anybody deference peppering Mr Gorsuch's dodge-and-weave performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month is more than 300 pages long: his book, "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia", published in 2006.
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The two men, both sons of the Midwest with a neat line in folksy, aw-shucks modesty, spent quite a lot of their 90-minute clash stressing how much they respected each other's faith and essential decency, even as they sparred about tax rates, how to fight terrorism and other questions of policy.
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" So it goes on this meanspirited good time — the second single from Mr. Combs's self-titled debut album, which was released last week — that coats all its anger in aw-shucks geniality, with a chorus that owes at least a little something, or more, to Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere.
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"His aw-shucks country-doctor affect notwithstanding, Mr. Northam is a shrewd politician whose decade in office — six years as a state senator, and now as lieutenant governor — has made him highly regarded in Richmond, including among Republican lawmakers, who tried to recruit him to switch parties in 85033," the Post editorial board wrote.
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TO SEE George W. Bush on stage in Charleston on February 15th, exuding that old aw-shucks charm, as he told corny jokes and wisecracked about his supposed lack of intelligence, was to recall the presidential standup act that disappeared so suddenly, back to Texas, almost as if his eight years in the White House had never happened.
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Adding to the unlikeliness of Mr. Mendes's ascent is that he managed to gain a real industry foothold by being not on trend but decidedly off, relying on an acoustic guitar in place of electronic dance beats; a mostly anonymous team of collaborators, instead of brand-name producers; and an aw-shucks persona, without any trace of bad boy.
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The kid's a walking charisma bomb, and Wright takes full advantage of that fact at every turn, whether it's in a grin-inducing long take that follows a celebratory Baby grooving down the street to "Harlem Shuffle," or in a heart-pumping foot chase that highlights Elgort's towering frame, obvious athleticism, and aw-shucks charm all at the same time.
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There were other things, for better or worse: the aw-shucks way in which he was manipulated by Red Wings' brass into taking lower wages despite being the game's most popular player; his struggles with support for a union dreamed up by linemate Ted Lindsay; and his slumming it for Amway and other undistinguished companies in his post-career life.
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Walton's manner of speaking in private — deep voice prowling from subject to subject, sarcasm alternating with aw-shucks exclamations of joy — would be familiar to anyone who has seen him on TV. He is probably best known, in this century, for his work as one of basketball's most distinctive and ubiquitous sports broadcasters, a career he started in the 1990s, after his playing days ended.
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But the truth is that America is a nation that values humility and self-effacement in its leaders which is why it Ronald Reagan's "Ah, shucks" warmth resonated so deeply with the American public, as did Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE biting his lip and feeling our pain.
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Because when we go back to the Philippines with I Got a Feeling and it's the biggest thing in the world, and I'm thinking, he was like, 'Yo, I got a new house,' I was like, 'Ah, shucks, I can't wait to see that house in the Philippines,' and I'm thinking he lived in a big old house in Manila, so then we're driving, I'm like, 'Yo bro, it's like the same route that we went to your old province,' he was like, 'Yeah, what are you talking about,' so I was like, 'There was nothing but huts there, what are you talking about?
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