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At 11, Lionel Messi was just under 4 feet 2 inches tall and taking nightly injections in his leg just to grow. Yesterday, at 38, he scored a World Cup hat trick and tied the all-time record for most goals in World Cup history.
His body couldn't produce enough growth hormone, the hormone that tells your body to grow. Without treatment, doctors said he would reach only 4'7" as an adult. The injections cost around $900 a month. His family couldn't afford them.
Two of Argentina's biggest clubs, River Plate and Newell's Old Boys, saw his talent and passed on paying for the treatment. FC Barcelona didn't. Carles Rexach, their sporting director, wrote a contract on a napkin in 2000 to secure the 13-year-old. The club covered his medical bills. He came over, grew to 5'7" (the average height for an Argentine man), then went on to score 672 goals for Barcelona alone, more than any player has ever scored for a single club in football history.
Messi has won the Ballon d'Or (given annually to the world's best footballer) 8 times, more than anyone in history. He has 46 team trophies. His 474 goals in La Liga (Spain's top football division) lead the all-time list by more than 160. His 414 career assists are a world record, meaning he set up more goals than most players score across their entire careers. In 2012 alone, at 25, he scored 91 goals in 69 games, breaking a Guinness World Record from 1972 and outscoring 13 entire La Liga clubs in a single season.
Yesterday, in his record sixth World Cup, he scored three more to reach 16 total, tying Miroslav Klose's record set across 4 World Cups between 2002 and 2014. At 38, he became the oldest player to score multiple goals in a single World Cup match. He was substituted in the 80th minute to a standing ovation, then turned to his coach and cried.
The napkin Barcelona signed in 2000 has now produced over 910 career goals.
Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.
ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”
One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.
Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.
P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”
“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”
“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”
“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”
“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”