Brian Bremser

an inside sales professional with a winning personality who also happens to be passionate about film and music

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

Meet Noah—he’s one of the guys who works in our kitchen.
A few days ago he was heading home after his shift, held the door open for a lady, and they chatted for a minute. While they talked, she noticed his work shoes were completely worn out.
She ate her meal and left… but then came back a little later with a gift card so Noah could buy himself a brand-new pair of shoes. She dropped it off with a manager and slipped out before he could thank her.
If you’re the kind person who did that, Noah would love for you to come back in so he can thank you face-to-face.
If you’d rather stay anonymous, please know he (and all of us) are so grateful. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Michael Caine married Shakira Caine in 1973, and more than 52 years later, they’re still together ❤️✨

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1992, Roger Ebert married Chaz Hammelsmith while friends raised quiet eyebrows and colleagues made their usual predictions. Nobody gave them five years.

The years passed, and they proved everyone wrong. Then, in 2002, cancer arrived. Surgeries took his jaw, then his voice, and finally his ability to eat or drink.

The man who had spent decades sharing his thoughts lost the very tools he had always relied on.

Chaz stayed.

She travelled with him to interviews, screenings, and public events. She read his notes aloud. She finished his sentences. For seven years, she became the voice he no longer had, quietly ensuring the world still heard what he wanted to say.

Roger Ebert died on April 4, 2013. Chaz was holding his hand. He looked at her one last time and smiled.

A colleague later said what Roger believed: Chaz didn’t just complete his sentences. She completed him.

Many love when life is easy. Chaz loved through surgeries, setbacks, and years that tested them both. She stayed when ordinary life became impossible, showing up every day without asking for credit.

Cancer took much from Roger. But it never took the person who kept showing up beside him.

And in the end, that mattered more than anything else.

[𝐎𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 @opolot_ronnie]

Marlon Jackson, the Motown legend and former member of the Jackson 5, married his high school sweetheart Carol Ann Parker on August 8, 1975.
They have been married for 52 years

[Mark Palmer @MarketPalmer_]

My neighbor retired in his mid-50s.

I asked him if part of him ever misses having a job.

He thought for a second and said:

“Nope. Now my job is taking care of my lawn. Working on my golf game. Grilling meats. And I get to be with my wife and kids at any time.”

He’s always got a smile on his face.

Love to see it!

[Steve @Steve11302]

It’s my birthday today🥰

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

On my flight today they announced it was our pilots last flight ever.

He was retiring after 29 years & this was his last time being the captain.

The whole plane gave him a big standing ovation when he landed.

He shook all our hands, thanked us, & was tearing up as we got off the plane.

Really human moment I am grateful we all got to experience.

I'm so bullish on humanity.
People are good. ❤️🙏

[FAMOUS WOMEN @Kevin10919728]

Happy Birthday GINA GERSHON

[Jayson Kennedy @ghoulbasement]

Great looking Blu-ray despite being the "worst" option of available BD/UHD editions. Well worth grabbing if found cheap.

[vm ❊ @tentwentysixpm]

now watching.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

NEWS: Governor Wes Moore, along with Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott, have overseen an over 40% decrease in homicides in Maryland putting the state on pace for its lowest homicide rate in over 40 years. That’s huge.

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Beautiful photo of Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson's widow embracing Chadwick Boseman at the premiere of 42.🖤

[𝘾𝙈 @charlesmore25]

DENZEL HAD NO MONEY ON HIS FIRST DATE, SO PAULETTA PAID FOR THE CAB. TODAY, 38 YEARS LATER, THE COUPLE IS WORTH OVER $280 MILLION

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

At only 26 years old, Tyra Ivory from Macon, Mississippi, took a bold step and became one of the youngest Subway franchise owners in the United States.
Turning her vision into reality, she acquired and opened her own location, stepping into full entrepreneurship in an industry where young Black women are still rare at the ownership level.
Tyra’s journey shows what happens when determination meets opportunity — going from employee mindset to business owner and building something that can create real generational impact.
This is a powerful example of young Black excellence turning dreams into ownership. Big congratulations to Tyra Ivory for leading the way! 👏🏾

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

On the day John Ratzenberger walked into an audition room in 1982, he had a plane to catch.

He had been living in London for nearly a decade — acting, writing, performing improv comedy across Europe with a two-man theatre group that had played to standing-room-only audiences for 634 consecutive shows.

He had appeared in small roles in some of the biggest films of the era: *Star Wars:
The Empire Strikes Back*, *Superman*, *Gandhi*, *A Bridge Too Far*

He was a working actor, but
nobody's idea of a household name. That day, he was in Los Angeles on a writing assignment, and his ticket back to London was already booked.
He had one audition before he left.
A new sitcom about a bar in Boston.

Both Ratzenberger and another actor, George Wendt, were reading for the same role — a minor patron named George who had a single line: "Beer!" It was barely a part at all.

But Ratzenberger wanted the work, so he went in, and the moment director Jimmy Burrows told him he was there to audition, not have a conversation, he felt the energy in the room go cold.

By his own account, all the blood rushed out of his body. He delivered a forgettable read. The casting director thanked him on the way out — the polite, final kind of thank you that everyone in show business learns to recognize.

He was almost through the door when something stopped him. Not calculation. Not strategy. Just the instinct of a man who had spent a decade doing improv and knew that the moment before you leave a room is sometimes the best moment you'll ever have.
He turned around.

"Do you have a bar know-it-all?"
The producers didn't know what he was talking about. So he told them. Every bar in New England, he explained, has one — some guy who acts like he has the knowledge of all mankind stored between his ears and is not even slightly shy about sharing it.

He had grown up around exactly this type: a man named Sarge at his father's regular bar, who could answer any question with absolute confidence whether he actually knew the answer or not. The room would ask Sarge the length of a whale's intestine and Sarge would shoot back: "Baleen or blue?" And somehow, everyone deferred to him anyway.

Ratzenberger launched into an improvisation right there — the Boston accent, the lean against an imaginary bar, the slightly too-long explanations of facts nobody had asked for. The producers watched. Then they laughed. Then they asked him to do more.

George Wendt got the role of the bar regular, renamed Norm Peterson. And the producers, convinced by five minutes of improv from a man on his way out the door, wrote an entirely new character into the show.

His name was Clifford Clavin. United States Postal Service.
Cheers debuted on NBC on September 30, 1982, to nearly catastrophic ratings — finishing 77th out of 100 shows that week.

The network came close to canceling it in the first season. But the show found its audience, and then it found a much bigger one, and then it became one of the most beloved television series ever made. It ran for 11 seasons.

Ratzenberger appeared in 273 of 275 episodes.
Cliff became the man at the end of the bar with the white socks and the questionable facts and the magnificent certainty — the guy everyone tolerated and secretly enjoyed, the kind of person every room has and everyone pretends to find annoying and would immediately miss if he disappeared.

Ratzenberger was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986. By the time the show ended in 1993, Cliff Clavin was embedded in American culture as one of the great comic characters in the history of the medium. Cheers! 🍻

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani did more for the working-class in 100 days than Trump did in both terms combined.

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Meet Brionna Pratt, a determined Black woman who passed the bar exam on her fifth attempt after spending over $25,000 on prep courses, tutoring, travel, and exam fees. After facing every setback, she finally passed.👏

[Lugar Cinema🎬 @LugarCinema]

Ridley Scott va a recibir un Oscar Honorífico.

Con sus más y sus menos, pero que haya gente que dude de que es historia del cine me parece una locura.

Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, American Gangster, Black Hawk Down, Marte, Thelma & Louise, etc.

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