Michael Inskip

Tech Executive, Marketing Guy and Entrepreneur

[Patrick McNeil @cbepbp]

Bombshell in the Q today with American John Moreland purchasing the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada. Has said he wants to keep team in Boisbriand.

Interestingly enough he also owns an incoming USHL expansion team in California.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Claude Lemieux carried the torch for Montreal on Monday before Game 3…

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones ❤️💙

[Jason Luongo @JasonL_Capital]

SpaceX's IPO is less than a month away.

The largest IPO in history.

Here are 7 publicly traded companies with confirmed SpaceX contracts:

[Le Biais Financier 🧠 @Le_Biais_Fi]

Demain, SpaceX fera son entrée en bourse à une valorisation ridicule de 1.75 Trillion de $ et ce sera bien évidemment la plus grosse IPO jamais
faite.

Et au lieu d'acheter SpaceX, je me suis intéressé à sa supply chain avec notamment 4 fournisseurs que je vous présente 👇🧵

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Notice how everyone else has wine besides Trump!

He doesn't drink or do drugs and never has.

This may sound silly, but that really does give you a major advantage.

I know because I don't either and have experienced the almost superhuman clarity of mind that comes from it!

[Sean Shapiro @seanshapiro]

Porter Martone's year at Michigan State came with intention in the weight room. He gained 12 pounds, lost 3 percent body fat and became NHL ready.

I caught up with Will Morlock about how it happened and why it's an ideal case study for other CHLers.

https://t.co/VSl3xLhHtb

[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

25 BORING HUSBAND HABITS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WIFE SEE YOU DIFFERENTLY BY JULY:

1. Put your phone face down when she walks into the room. Every single time.

(Save this before disappearing).

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

My BIGGEST Bass EVER!!!💥 #shorts #fishing #newshorts https://t.co/BHbOw1bkj8 via @YouTube

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

National Post https://t.co/CpkeW91bhN via @nationalpost

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

Max at his home away from home; @quartierhockey

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

@elonmusk @boringcompany Can you help the Canadian Government who is planning to spend up to 90B (75B USD) to build a high speed train from Toronto to Quebec City?

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

Some exciting photonics technology for AI, Quantum, Space and Defence applications.

https://t.co/Fa9ooOmoPd

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

Big smallies released 🐟🏈 #fishing #bigcatfeverrods #icefishing #fish #fi... https://t.co/6WiFbFrhgI via @YouTube

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

PIERRE CRUSHED IT ON JOE ROGAN:

-He defended Canada against 51st state comments

-He was very charming

-He REFUSED TO CRITICIZE CARNEY on foreign soil

-He rightfully so, defended that Castro is not Trudeau’s father

-He respectfully & tactfully didn’t fall into conspiracy theory traps

-He did a beautiful job explaining his role as the Opposition & how keeping the government to account is the most loyal thing one can do

Joe Rogan showed a great deal of respect for him, his intelligence & they both laughed hysterically when Joe asked him

“How did you lose?!”

People don’t realize, that as much as Joe Rogan is painted as “far right”, he’s logical and I consider him well balanced.

There’s a reason why he has the biggest podcast in the world.

Pierre did an incredible job.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Fighting for 🇨🇦 jobs and tariff-free trade with our American friends on the world’s biggest podcast.

Thank you @joerogan for an amazing show.

Full episode: https://t.co/m3SKOhGuWT

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING 🚨 President Trump stuns the World by announcing a $300 Billion dollar deal. For the first time in 50 years, we are opening a US Oil refinery

IT WILL BE IN BROWNSVILLE TEXAS

THIS IS HUGE 🔥

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚨America Just Changed the Economics of War… With Light

For years Iran built a strategy around one brutal equation.

Launch thousands of cheap drones.
Force the defender to burn through million-dollar interceptors.
Bleed the defense dry.

It was simple math.

A Shahed drone costs roughly $30,000.

Stopping it with traditional missile defenses can cost hundreds of thousands… sometimes over a million dollars per intercept.

Repeat that attack a thousand times and suddenly the defender is spending billions just to stay alive.

Iran understood this.

They designed an entire doctrine around it.

Flood the sky with cheap weapons.
Overwhelm air defenses.
Make defense more expensive than offense.

But something just changed.

The United States Navy has now deployed HELIOS, a directed-energy weapon mounted on an American destroyer operating near Iran.

HELIOS is not a missile.

It is a laser.

And it runs on something every warship already produces…

Electricity.

No missile to reload.
No magazine to empty.
No resupply ship needed.

As long as the ship’s generators are producing power, the weapon keeps firing.

That means the cost of stopping a drone is no longer measured in missiles.

It is measured in electricity.

In practical terms…

Destroying a $30,000 drone can now cost less than the power bill of a large apartment building.

That single change breaks the entire economic foundation of drone saturation warfare.

For years Iran invested in the strategy that made Shahed drones valuable.

Cheap.
Numerous.
Disposable.

But if directed-energy weapons like HELIOS can burn drones out of the sky at near-zero cost…

The math flips.

Suddenly the attacker is spending money…
while the defender spends almost nothing.

CENTCOM has already released footage showing HELIOS mounted on a U.S. Navy destroyer in waters near Iran.

Earlier tests confirmed the system successfully destroyed multiple drones during live trials.

Now the system is deployed where hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles have been passing through the same airspace.

This is not a laboratory experiment anymore.

This is a real battlefield.

And the world is about to find out whether the future of missile defense is not another interceptor…

But a beam of light.

Because when America decides to change the physics of war…

It usually succeeds.

#SilentMajoritySpeaks
#AStoneGroove

[Michael Inskip @MichaelInskip]

Blues superfan inducted into St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame https://t.co/egeBPnVeVa