I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
"Michael, I'm going to talk about America's team... the Philadelphia Eagles."
@NickFoles had to let @michaelirvin88 know who he thinks America's team is. 😂
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In Wolf of Wall Street, Jon Bernthal says he improvised “Ma, we got chicken or what?”
“It was never even supposed to be my mother’s house. They just wired us for sound just in case.”
“Again, even though there was no lines written in the scene, it was supposed to be something we were gonna shoot in five minutes.
“It was just supposed to be a shot of me working out.”
“We worked out this whole relationship and, you know, yelling to the mother in the house.”
“And I remember the next day… Marty walked in… and he said to me, ‘Man, I saw what you did yesterday. It was great, it was great.’
The city of Phoenix Arizona started a ‘Photo Safety Program.” They setup speed cameras that take a photo if you go 11 mph over the speed limit
🚨 A private company then comes to your door to serve you the ticket and get your signature, dressed very similar to Amazon
The city outsourced the ticket program to a company called Verra Mobility
The private company handles basically everything, they
- Installing and operating the cameras
- Processing of the images
- They mail the notice
- They then go out and serve people who don’t respond their ticket
The private company Verra Mobility gets a base fee of about $3,000 per camera per month plus $20 for every ticket that gets paid
This creates a clear incentive to pursue collection aggressively
This is insane… We now have private companies with access to all our information….. sending people out to actually serve and collect money….
British Airways and Norwegian Airlines made a bet that whoever lost at the World Cup had to change their profile picture to the other one for the day 😂
🚨📣 Vozinha mengenai apa yang dia ucapkan ke Messi seusai pertandingan:
"Aku menghampirinya, dan bahkan sebelum aku sempat bicara banyak, dia langsung memelukku dan berkata: 'Kerja bagus. Kau kiper yang sangat hebat. Rakyatmu pasti sangat bangga padamu.' Mendengar hal itu dari sosok seperti Leo sungguh sangat berarti bagiku."
"Aku berterima kasih dan menjawab: 'Terima kasih, Leo. Kau yang terbaik.' Lalu aku meminta baju pertandingannya, dia tersenyum dan berkata: 'Tentu saja. Akan kuberikan padamu di lorong ganti.' Momen seperti ini akan selalu aku ingat seumur hidup." ❤️🇨🇻🇦🇷
Sungguh keindahan sepak bola dan kerendahan hati dua sosok luar biasa! ✨🤝
¡HONOR, CABO VERDE!
➟ En la primera Copa del Mundo de su historia.
➟ Empataron ante la Selección de España de Lamine Yamal, Pedri, etc.
➟ Empataron ante la Selección de Uruguay de Fede Valverde, Muslera, Loco Bielsa, etc.
➟ Sumaron sus primeros puntos en su historia de las Copas del Mundo.
➟ Llevaron hasta prórroga a la Selección de Argentina de Messi en los dieciséisavos.
➟ No perdieron ningún partido en los 90 minutos en todo el mundial.
➟ 3 de sus 4 partidos fueron ante Campeones del Mundo (España, Uruguay, Argentina).
➟ Aunque fue su primer mundial, parece que llevan jugando toda su vida jugando mundiales.
➟ Nos regalaron la mejor historia del mundial.
➟ Quedaron eliminados pero se ganaron el respeto de todo el mundo.
DE PIE ANTE LA SELECCIÓN DE CABO VERDE.
Boater who fell off the Santa Barbara coast reportedly swam for five hours toward an offshore oil rig, saying he felt guided by what he described as an “angel,” with a harbor seal appearing to nudge him along.
In January 2022, California sea urchin diver Scott Thompson fell overboard in the Santa Barbara Channel during a night dive and was left stranded as his boat drifted away. Wearing only a T-shirt and shorts, he was forced into a grueling five-hour swim through freezing 52°F waters toward the faint lights of a distant oil platform.
During the ordeal, a harbor seal appeared and stayed alongside him, at times nudging and circling as if to keep him going. Thompson later said the animal’s presence gave him the strength to continue when exhaustion set in. Guided by the platform lights, he eventually reached the structure and was rescued by workers, suffering from severe hypothermia and dehydration. He later described the seal as a “guardian angel.”
The goalkeeper you see prostrating in front of you is genuinely living the best days of his life.
This is Benjamin Asare, Ghana’s 33-year-old goalkeeper, who made three saves today and kept a clean sheet against England before celebrating after the game with this prostration.
What makes his story special is that almost nobody knew who he was. For most of his career, he played in Ghana’s second division. On top of that, his financial situation was so difficult that he had to work on cocoa farms for three straight years just to support his family and keep his football dream alive.
The remarkable part is that Asare kept pushing until he earned a move to Ghanaian top-flight side Accra Hearts of Oak in 2025. He then received his first-ever call-up to the Ghana national team during the World Cup qualifiers, where he played six games and conceded just one goal.
Asare went on to become the first Ghanaian player in history to represent his country at a World Cup while playing in the domestic league. He also made six saves across games against Panama and England and didn’t concede a single goal.
Glory to those who never stop working for their dreams. To every Ghanaian reading this: congratulations. You should be proud. Stories like Benjamin Asare’s are what make football beautiful, and seeing one of your own rise from cocoa farms to the World Cup stage is something worth celebrating. 🇬🇭❤️
Wow. This isn’t clickbait.
I don’t say this lightly. He has the potential to be one of my favorite players in history.
Incredible that I wasn’t high on the pick at the time but his attitude alone is gravitating.
PETE HEGSETH: “We took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities last year. This war wasn’t started because they were close to getting nuclear weapons, it started because they still had nuclear ambitions.”
Hegseth accidentally tells congress that Iran posed no imminent threat to America.