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[brenda Payne @brendapayne62]

Actually the Democrats are all about handing out money…just not to the American People. @JasmineForUS how did you amass a net worth of $9M since being in Congress for 5 years? Will you submit to an audit to be transparent to the American people how that happened on a salary of roughly $175K a year salary?

[BiLL @TheRealDespain]

@BmMangus @alex_m_taylor22 Sawvell needs fired. Multiple egregious mistakes/choices last night.

[NFL @NFL]

.@aidanhutch97 visits kids at the Mott Children's Hospital and has written many of their names on his water jugs before games.

After his injury on Sunday, those kids sent him some beautiful words of encouragement. 🥹💙 (via @MottChildren)

[Mr Reagan @MrReaganUSA]

Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

You and your boy (both 25 handicaps) arguing about your golf game at the bar:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybertruck in Wyoming Winter

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

COVID death rate:

0-19 years old 0.0003%
20-29 0.002%
30-39 0.011%
40-49 0.035%
50-59 0.123%
60-69 0.506%

0-69 0.063-0.082%.

https://t.co/iqrUBqsclT

Yet they did this to children.

Why?

[alexis amber 💌 @daiquiriheiress]

ok but they kinda ate w this headline

[Brandon The Truth 💯 @BCTheTruthl]

@toxicking Tell her to "chill out"

[The Par Train @TheParTrain]

Ok I’m gonna say this one more time.

If you work at a golf course, if you know someone who works at a golf course, please share this message far and wide.

PUT WATER JUGS BACK ON THE COURSE.

🥵

[Per Sources @PerSources]

@TheNBACentral Obamas didn't invite her huh

[Kaleb Earls @K_Earls32]

@TheNBACentral Stop giving her attention. We do not care.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Jim Nantz signs off from his last Final Four 🙏

"Thank you for being my friend." https://t.co/en9YCvWstt

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Dawn Staley wants to see Caitlin Clark and women's basketball grow together 🙏

(via @TaylorRooks)

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Game of Thrones is the #1 most watched TV show ever.

It holds the record for most Emmy Awards (59) & most Emmy nominations (161).

In just about every publication, GoT is ranked as one of the best shows of all time.

Ironically, it was originally written to be “unfilmable.”

In the late 1970s, George R.R. Martin quit his teaching job to try to become a full-time writer.

Martin had some success selling science fiction short stories and novellas, but then in 1983, his novel “The Armageddon Rag” was such a commercial failure that it “essentially destroyed my career as a novelist.”

Desperate for work, Martin went out to Hollywood and secured a job as a staff writer in television.

The money was good but the work was frustrating.

Later talking about what spurred him to write “A Game of Thrones”—the first book in his “Song of Ice and Fire” series—Martin said,

“I worked in Hollywood for about 10 years, from the late ’80s to the ’90s. I’d been on the staff of The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. All of my first drafts tended to be too big or too expensive. I always hated the process of having to cut.”

So Martin left Hollywood—“I said, ‘I’m sick of this, I’m going to write something that’s as big as I want it to be.” He decided,

“I’m going to write something just as big as my imagination, I’m going to have all the characters I want, and gigantic castles, and dragons, and direwolves, and hundreds of years of history, and a really complex plot, and it’s fine because it’s a book. It’s essentially unfilmable.”

“The irony is, of course,” Martin said, “that’s what became filmed.”

Takeaway 1:

Martin began writing Game of Thrones because he was “sick of” TV producers telling him his scripts were “too big or too expensive.”

“It’s very important to know what you don’t like,” Jerry Seinfeld says. “A big part of innovation is saying, ‘You know what I’m really sick of?’ … ‘What am I really sick of?’ is where innovation begins.

Takeaway 2:

Martin wrote the world and the characters he wanted to exist.

Rick Rubin famously began making hip-hop albums because the hip-hop albums at the time didn't sound like the music in the hip-hop clubs he loved going to.

Still to this day, Rubin says: "I just try to make my favorite music…I make what I want to exist."

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“When the book started hitting the bestseller list…I immediately started getting interest from Hollywood. I had a number of meetings with people who said, ‘this is the next Lord of the Rings franchise.’ But they couldn’t get a handle on the size of the material, the very thing that I set out to do. I had all these meetings saying, ‘There’s too many characters, it’s too big — Jon Snow is the central character. We’ll eliminate all the other characters and we’ll make it about Jon Snow.’ Or ‘Daenerys is the central character. We’ll eliminate everyone else and make the movie about Daenerys.’ And I turned down all those deals.” — George R.R. Martin

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[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Ma’am please 😭

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

“DID WE JUST SEE WHAT WE THINK WE JUST SAW?!” 🤯

Kevin Harlan's call during Furman vs. Virginia was ICONIC

(via @CBSSports)

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Absolute BENDER.

Time to hang up the skates kid. This life ain’t for you. @spittinchiclets

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Which lineup are you taking?

(via @zgvisualz1)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Best way to fight misinformation is to respond with accurate information, not censorship