An alleged Ponzi scheme left NFL players asking where their investments went. They also had questions for an ex-GM. The self-described serial entrepreneur was found dead in the pool of his New Jersey home. @AdamKilgoreWP on a troubling story.
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@DeanTTraining Gotcha. I’ve been working with the idea the actual number doesn’t matter THAT much if the results and physique keep improving and you’re clearly in a certain range
@BJ_owns I see yesterday’s and today’s in the Substack app but don’t see them in Spotify. I do see yesterday’s on the Free feed but not on the subscriber feed.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Since clear-cut & common sense rules no longer seem to apply to college football, may as well find an Arizona judge to file an injunction against this
Bam Adebayo tonight:
- 83 points, 2nd-most in a game in NBA history
- 36 made FT, most in NBA history
- 43 FTA, most in NBA history
- 22 3PA, tied for 3rd-most in a game in NBA history