Jay Leno: When I was doing The Tonight Show, I was making 30 million a year, which was ridiculous. Okay, and NBC said, "Well, we're going to have to cut half the crew."
You know, so we had a big meeting and I said, "All right, by a show of hands, how many feel I should take a 50% pay cut so we can keep everybody?" Well, I got outvoted.
Boy, I got screwed on that one. But really, I already have $15 million. I'm doing pretty good, you know, I never thought I'd get this far.
And you know something? They were the best crew for the rest of the days. You know, everything was always terrific. It was a union crew, everybody made a good living.
You know, guys would come up and show me the car they bought or the house they got around the corner or whatever it might be.
And it didn't cost me anything, really, because I had plenty of money. I was making plenty of money.
Just saw an Instagram reel that said:
“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”
And that shit just fucked me up.
Dan Campbell has a special spot in his heart for high school football.
I asked the Lions head coach if he had a message for players and coaches beginning their seasons. His answer was as fantastic as you’d expect it to be.
Wild to me that people can work 8-12 hours a day 5 days a week for 50 years and argue that this is the best system humans can come up with and people who make your entire net worth every 12 seconds shouldn't be taxed more.
“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.”
— Carl Sagan
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
DID YOU KNOW?
1. American milk is illegal in Europe. Too many chemicals.
2. US bread is considered cake in Europe. Too much sugar.
3. American eggs are illegal in UK. They wash off the natural protection.
4. US meat is banned in 160 countries. Because of hormones.
5. American apples are coated with wax that is also used for cars.
6. In the US, 60% of food contains stuff banned in other countries.