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Construction worker and part of the Aaron Rogers book club

[Mizzou Mark @mizzou_mark]

In 2011 a hail storm left my family stranded in Nebraska for 3 days that destroyed planes and rental cars. An Iowa state fan kept me company by talking football then gave up his spot on the plane so my family could get home. They’re forever a cut above the rest for me.

[TJ @TJHitchings]

1. Looks like my dad and I both had the same idea.

2. A story about Dave that definitely won’t be in the book, because I doubt he knows it even happened:

In 2019 I was an intern, and I was struggling to find my footing at Barstool. Was doing a bunch of odd jobs in the video department, but nothing consistently on a major scale. All signs / conversations were pointing to the end of the summer being the end of my internship, and the end of my time at Barstool. That August I saw that Dave, who I had never spoken to at the time, was looking for a new right hand man to replace Frankie, and was going to host interviews to find a new candidate (the same interviews that gave us both Max Dolente and One Month Ethan). I knew that while maybe I wasn’t qualified to take Frankie’s spot, this may be my realest opportunity to sell myself as to why I needed to stay at Barstool.

I didn’t tell anyone, but I showed up to the interviews, and pitched myself to Dave. I was terrified, but he told me that if I was willing to put this much effort into a plea just to be at the company, and I had the raw abilities I did at the time, there had to be room for me somewhere. My internship was extended shortly after, I was full timed in January 2020, and I have been working my dream job ever since.

I don’t know if Dave has any recollection that this even happened, or if he would even care, but I look back on it as a moment of graciousness that he absolutely did not have to give me, a random intern, to keep me on the pirate ship, but I am eternally thankful every single day that happened. Excited to see which stories make the book. https://t.co/MV3Lu93vhL

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Nothing like listening to the old head ball coach @stoolpresidente try to read his own book about how he built @barstoolsports

Happy Book Release Day

[Sean Plott @day9tv]

@GGemini19 Weakness is stored in the hair

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

What does @FreddyLA7 do now? I don’t want him to stop complimenting our country

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"They would never be happy unless JD Vance walked out and I punched him in the nose."

Bill Maher says some critics were never going to be satisfied with his interview of Vice President JD Vance.

Responding to complaints that he didn't challenge Vance aggressively enough, Maher told FOX News Digital that some viewers only wanted a confrontation—not a conversation.

"I don’t play that game," Maher said. "I like to actually talk to people."

[Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com @tonjkb]

Kevin Spacey: The Right stood up for my due process, the Left didn't.

"The right and very significant figures on the right like Douglas Murray—"

"Love him."

"Incredible man who Evan also represents."

"Ah, all the troublemakers."

"People like Douglas and others on the right have been so publicly supportive of me and believe that I was not given due process and have been out there for me and supporting me."

"Yeah, cuz you're bad and they're bad."

"Fine, if that's what you want to think. But on the left, not a single journalist has stood up and said anything in my favor for nine years."

[La Giornata Tipo @parallelecinico]

L’altro giorno in WNBA, durante il match tra Indiana Fever e Phoenix Mercury, Sophie Cunningham dopo un diverbio con DeWanna Bonner, l’ha indicata per 36 secondi consecutivi facendola impazzire.
La Bonner ha poi sbagliato il libero del fallo tecnico, e la Cunningham ha continuato ad indicarla.
Quel gesto è diventato virale.
Quel gesto è letteralmente sfuggito di mano.
Quel gesto è perfetto in ogni situazione della vita.

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

More people will see this meme than every WNBA game combined this year.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.

[Keith Murphy @KeithMurphy]

This is disappointing. Trent's comments after his colleagues were all fired were heartfelt, empathetic, and real. He was not mean-spirited or hateful.

iHeart apparently wants no local sports shows on KXNO, so it's better for Trent to go elsewhere.

Good luck, Trent. Thank you.

[Mint Blitz @MintBlitz]

Halo Campaign Evolved's 4 Player Warthog :')

[Chris Williams @ChrisMWilliams]

Pretty SOFT stuff here from @iHeartRadio. Totally gutless.

Trent did the right thing and was not over-the-top in any way, shape or form. He was honest, and that's what listeners want. Not some "yes man" corporate robot.

If he goes on there and starts talking World Cup pretending nothing happened, Trent loses all credibility. And he wasn't even an iHeart employee!

Love Trent. He'll be just fine.

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

This is what happens when you’re a 1990’s normal person lol.

Far right call you a bitch ass leftist and the far left calls you a fascist.

I’m just pro markets, anti insane culture shit, and wanting the best for everyone with real results instead of performative politics 🫣

[BLÅCK @VibesUrbaines]

Michael Shanks literally saving the day every chance he gets

#SaveStargate

[DSM Police Scanner 🎆 @ScannerDSM]

Just about 30 minutes ago, a wrong-way driver hit abandoned vehicle on I-235 near Penn Ave, tries to flee, hits DMPD cruiser, tries to run on foot, then fights responding officers.

Watch the entire video below.📽️⬇️

[Annie Agar @AnnieAgar]

making lions fans cry (again). this was an honor, love you grace and jarod ♥️

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

🙋‍♂️#SaveStargate