David Hoffman

Writer/Producer. NY - LA. Co-author of WHO KILLED JFK?, available on Nov 17th.

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[David Hoffman @david_C_hoffman]

Officially available for preorder - Who Killed JFK? The book drops 11.17.26.

[David Hoffman @david_C_hoffman]

@geraldposner 11.17.26

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

These 9 to 5 bloopers are adorable.
Dolly Parton wasn’t just brilliant, she had one of the greatest laughs of all time.
“Know what’s green and smells like Miss Piggy?… Kermit’s finger.” 😂🤣

[Jordan Eshelman @anime_esh202]

On 4/23/03 The White Stripes played Jolene by Dolly Parton on their second week long night on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. It was the first time I heard Jolene. My mother told me it was a song by Dolly. My maternal grandmother found her record with it and played it for me. Months later in November. I stood front stage center to the last show of the Elephant tour. And they played Jolene. Moment Jack White played it I heard a woman shout “It’s Jolene!”. Thank you for writing that song Dolly. So many memories attached to it. I’m sure going to miss you! Rest in peace. 💔😢❤️🤍🖤🎸🥁

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.

Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.

“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.

“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.

It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: https://t.co/zHcKsPYfeC

[David Hoffman @david_C_hoffman]

@timgproject Absolutely, would love that. Fan of the show.

[David Hoffman @david_C_hoffman]

Officially available for preorder - Who Killed JFK? The book drops 11.17.26.

[David Hoffman @david_C_hoffman]

Officially available for preorder - Who Killed JFK? The book drops 11.17.26.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Lou Gehrig discussed Babe Ruth's called shot on an NBC radio broadcast on October 6, 1932, only five days after the World Series game at Wrigley.

The recording then went unheard for roughly 88 years before author Dan Joseph surfaced it in 2020.

It is the only known audio of Gehrig discussing the called shot.

That combination of timing and rediscovery makes the recording unusually valuable evidence in one of baseball's oldest debates.

[JFK Assassination Chokeholds @JFKChokeholds]

Did the FBI seek to blackmail Warren Commission critics?

Bombshells flying out of the just released Assassination Records Review Board audio tapes of Closed Session Meetings of the Board.

Researcher @BleauPaul is covering it over at the Education Forum.
https://t.co/tqVIGsrx8W

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

🚨Coming tomorrow🚨

We thought we'd heard the last new words from Ted Williams, that we'd never have more to learn from the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived.

We were wrong.

[Dick Russell @DickRussell1]

Thank you so much Daniel, and would love to do your show. I've two relevant books coming out soon, the first on "Who Killed JFK?" co=authored with Rob Reiner and David Hoffman in November, then next January "Breaking Open the Disclosure Dam" on UAPs. So I'd like to time an appearance with one of those.

[Vassiliki Souladaki @Vsouladaki]

As a Greek, I was introduced to Homer almost as soon as I learned to read. His epics are among the first great works we encounter at school, and they remain a living part of our cultural consciousness.
Given that, I really don't care whether Christopher Nolan has remained completely faithful to Homer or has taken creative liberties.

What truly matters is that he has brought Homer back into the world's imagination. If his film encourages people to return to the Odyssey, discover the Iliad, or venture further into the treasures of classical literature, then it has already accomplished something extraordinary. Any work of art that sends people back to the source has, in my view, made a genuine contribution to culture.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

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.