Will this be on your movie list? 🍿
Mel Gibson just wrapped filming
on “The Resurrection of the Christ”,
and it's not a small project.
The movie was shot over about 7 months and is reportedly coming out in two parts, with a budget around $250 million.
That's a huge jump from the original The Passion of the Christ, which already had a massive impact when it released.
Splitting it into two parts suggests it's going a lot deeper into the story this time instead of trying to fit everything into one film.
@assface_private hey man. I've been a follow of yours for a few years now.
Just wanted to tell you that I appreciate your analysis. I banked on puts today.
Hope you have a good weekend.
What radicalized you?
For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget.
So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around.
But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country.
Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising.
Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level.
And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂
@assface_private I took calls after SPY filled the Thursday gap at 2:45. Your alert was confirmation 👍
SPY went 1 cent for closing the gap prior to that and that was another clue to wait
Why hasn’t nattokinase replaced statins?
Joe Rogan discussed a study where 1,062 people took it for a year.
Ultrasound showed their arterial plaque shrank 36%.
This enzyme stops new blockages and reverses existing plaque.
Why not mainstream yet?
@memeticsisyphus Lots here talk about getting in trouble for reading books because class was easy.
I legit had a classmate who always read books, never paid attention, said it was easy, and was a C student. I found it hilarious.