As the one year mark approaches of my Dad's passing.. I've started to see him in my dreams more and more over the past week or two. He's never said anything, just noticed his presence. He's either been standing in a corner or sitting among a crowd, observing what's going on.
@JackBox after driving away, noticed I was charged for the wrong item and given the wrong food. Was supposed to be the siracha loaded curly fries, got charged for a burger and given tiny tacos ๐ญ
If your toe is barely on the 3 point, is it a 2 or 3? If you canโt see a sliver of green on a sideline catch, is it in or out of bounds? Offsides is offsides ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
@Clippers_steve@msericalynnok@_All_ofa_Sutton My first coaster was Viper at Six Flags and that fucked me up for a while cause of how rough it is on your head. I love them now and will get on any coaster lol
Bill Burr and Adam Lefkoe realize mid-podcast that Shaq might actually be a flat-earther, and cannot let it go.
SHAQ: "You don't think earth is flat?"
LEFKOE: "Do you?!?"
SHAQ: "One time I took a 25-hour flight and the plane never did this. [makes motion with hands] That's all I said. And I stayed up the whole time looking out the window just to make sure."
BURR: "You're going to determine whether it's round or flat by looking out the window? What are the scientists wasting all their time with all of these apparatuses? Just look out the window."
SHAQ: "I just like to ask questions."
"Stefon Diggs, Deebo Samuel, Tyreek Hill. ... There are a lot of high-profile wide receivers on the street." ๐
@AdamSchefter lists some of the free agent wide receivers the Raiders can look to bring in ๐
Lost a 10 year fan who spent thousands on tickets and jerseys. Hope it was worth passing on 2 players with generational talent for โfit with garlandโ
I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.
"You want that Animal Style?"
I paused.
I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.
"...Animal Style."
"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"
I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.
"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."
Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"
I stopped. Even the potatoes?
"The potatoes also become animals?"
"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."
"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."
"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"
I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"
"It's, like, how many patties you want."
"How many is the most honorable?"
"...Four is a lot."
"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."
She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.
It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.
I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.
For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.
They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.
So tell me, America.
The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?
And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?