Mark E King

Writer/Producer of the feature film "Car Dogs" available on iTunes. Instagram: @markeking Scottsdale AZ/LA 🇺🇸

[Mark E King @MarkEKing]

@NBCOlympics https://t.co/rQTAaGoMd7

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[IcyVert @IcyVert]

Same girl btw. Turns out she’s just filthy at hockey on every stage.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

TAYLOR HALL OPENS THE SCORING IN GAME 6!!

[Jon Elder @BlackLabelAdvsr]

I'm seeing my feed flooded with posts about Europeans realizing that they were lied to about America.

The consensus of their posts is that America is safer, more prosperous, and more welcoming than they were told.

This might be the most powerful effect of the World Cup.

[Ben Chase @BenGChase]

We have Italians discovering free refills,
Japanese discovering unlimited chips and salsa, and Germans road tripping the country becoming Ella Fellas.

In this USA 250 simulation, it’s quite simple, we’re winning the World Cup.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is so insane😭😭😭

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The vibes couldn’t be more immaculate in America right now

[JBook. @JBook_37]

Seeing all the foreigners visit the United States for World Cup and talk about how amazing of an experience they are having and how fortunate Americans are makes me happy. You take for granted how fortunate we are, when people come here and have a good time, that's pretty cool.

[Guillaume Huin @HuinGuillaume]

There is simply no equivalent to the Fifa World Cup.
Not the Super Bowl. Not the Olympics.

You have ducks wearing soccer jerseys in the streets of Mexico, random German bros like Freddy going full National Geographic mode on X documenting the beating heart of America while South Koreans are wearing sombreros and dancing to Gangnam style in a taqueria.

As a European at heart, seeing people from Germany, Scotland, France, Spain and so many more discovering the endless and exceptional energy that makes this country so beautiful is an unparalleled joy.

As a French living in Chicago, I cannot even explain how happy it makes me to see my US friends finally feel the magnetic power of the World Cup on home soil.

C'est magnifique.

[AO @AmericanOutlaws]

Yall heard that?

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Chris Richards 83/83 completed passes are the most passes with 100% accuracy by any player in a FIFA World Cup match since 1966 👏

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

The entire USMNT squad joined in for the postgame prayer after their World Cup victory over Paraguay. 🙏🇺🇸

Mark McKenzie led the prayer.

[Katerina Dimitratos @KDimitratos]

World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:

[Jon Alba @JonAlba]

This is real America my friends. Don't let anyone tell you it can't exist.

[Mark E King @MarkEKing]

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[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

So far this World Cup has been a great reminder that we make too many assumptions about one another, and that the vast majority of humanity is awesome.

It's been pretty damn refreshing, honestly.

[Skylar Skye @SkylarSkye3]

Why does everyone hate American tipping culture?

I’ve never had as good service anywhere else in the world before. Staff go above and beyond to make you feel welcome and that you have everything you need. If anything I’m happy to tip more

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.

[Mr.K @Realsociedad10m]

W杯でアメリカ行かれる方へ
宿泊先のホテル近くに Texas Roadhouse があったら即GO‼チェーン系のレストランですけどコスパ最強のステーキが食べられます。 特に Ribeye が最高

[OutKick @Outkick]

The Scotts have discovered chicken fried steak 😂