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Anti-Woker, Patriot, Rider, Christ Follower

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Just finished recording our Aug. 5 episode on the intriguing dynamics of brand marketing, specifically, why some campaigns flop while others hit the mark — insights from Jaguar and Bud Light. Visit https://t.co/HCgsAk5qk5 or follow us on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts - thanks!

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@EnesFreedom @WNBA @NBA @StateFarmArena @WNBAComms @TheWNBPA @AtlantaDream @valkyries The WNBA is nothing more than a woke, racist, gender-confused organization. They'll self-destruct before they ever give CC and SC any props.

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@SawyerBrownBand Well said, SB.

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@NGeorgiaMts You gained me, Craig! And same on the straight party vote for red!

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@TrollinJabronis @Brewers Well, even though your criticism is pretty accurate, their 42-years-without-a-pennant budget probably doesn't allow for a million dollar marketing staff. I'll give 'em a little grace.

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@MLFootball Oh, I think we know what is going on. But, "It takes all of us."

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@NFL_DovKleiman As if the @nfl isn't the biggest joke on the planet already, they need refs to protect Dak all night. Sheesh.

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@jimmyfailla Two awesome guys!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

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@D_onald_trump47 A. Consequences.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

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@KatieZacharia Welcome to the jungle, Katie! Praying for you!

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@DodgerBlue2025 @surfer_guy @ClayTravis Oooooh, "Just a bit outside."

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@tjamchaney @NBBear2 @ClayTravis Apparently.

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@s_liquigan @SonOfThucydides @ClayTravis Check. Next?

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As I sit in the waiting room at Moffitt Cancer Center, this popped up in my feed. A lesson for pessimists everywhere.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight Garrett Mitchell reached over the wall in center field and took a home run away from the San Diego Padres.

He did it with an insulin pump in his back left pocket.

He fell to the 14th round out of high school because of what is in that pocket.

Start in the third grade.

He told his mother he did not feel well. He was going to the bathroom about once an hour and his stomach hurt.

Shannon Van Dyke had her son's blood sugar tested. A healthy number is around 80. The meter would not give her a number at all. It just read HIGH. The real figure was over 600.

"I remember my heart dropping, being afraid, and not knowing what to do or what our future looked like."

He got the pump at 10. She began setting an alarm for 2 or 3 in the morning to test him while he slept. She has said those years felt like having a newborn.

He kept playing. He carried a bag everywhere with snacks, insulin and sugar in it.

By his senior season at Orange Lutheran High School in California he was one of the best young outfielders in the country, and scouts had him going somewhere in the first three rounds.

He went in the 14th. The Oakland Athletics took him.

His coach at UCLA, John Savage, said the diabetes hurt his draft value. There were, in his words, lingering questions about it.

His agent Scott Boras later put a number on what it cost. Without the condition, Boras said, Mitchell could have been a top 5 pick.

So he turned the Athletics down and went to UCLA instead.

In three seasons there he hit .327. He hit 15 triples, second most in the history of that program, and his 12 in 2019 set a UCLA record and led all of college baseball.

In June of 2020 the Milwaukee Brewers took him 20th overall in the first round. He signed for $3,242,900.

"My hands were shaking."

Now here is the part that tells you what this actually costs him.

On September 13 of this year, Milwaukee took him out of a game in the middle of the afternoon. He was not injured.

"We took him out precautionary. He had high blood sugar."

His manager Pat Murphy added that it happens a lot going from a night game to a day game, and that the team keeps working on it.

That was three and a half weeks ago.

Tonight he robbed a home run in a game San Diego had to win, and Milwaukee is going to the National League Championship Series.

His mother once described the pump like this.

"You will notice it in his back left pocket. It never leaves his body, even when he's playing."

[CC Sabathia @CC_Sabathia]

This is what it’s all about man…bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, your best guy vs. one of the best closers…attacking the fast ball early, reading the slider, staying in the count, scraping a 103 mph foul ball, ball game. OCTOBER!

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@DaveWave714 @gtconway3d Well, that would be quite a list, wouldn't it?

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

It appears to me the Republican establishment is not doing much to win the midterms so they can blame the loss on Trump & kill MAGA after this election. They really think they can take back control from the people. They are so small.

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@aairwaves is having quite a night at @ChicagoOHare. FIVE (that's right, 5!) gate changes, followed by 90 minutes sitting on the plane at the gate. Do you think that's the end? Nope. They just timed out the pilots and we'll be awaiting a new cockpit crew. Sweet!

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Gosh, @NCAA - you've apparently hired sme of the worst officials on the planet to oversee the Badgers/Irish game at Lambeau.