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[BMill @millercaster]

Just gonna leave this here…

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

This might be the greatest sports highlight ever

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

How did he not get this right? 😂🤣😂

[Romi Bean @Romi_Bean]

This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today

(IG: Erosbrousson)

[PHNX Diamondbacks @PHNX_Dbacks]

And your winner…Geraldo Perdomo 😂

[Former Republican 🇺🇸 @Sjacobs2020]

Okay, I'm gonna be honest.
This gay club looks fabulous.

They've got everything. Sweaty men wrestling, guys on motorcycles in leather jackets, gold everywhere, and the Village People performing.

[Redpill Drifter @RedpillDrifter]

“I didn’t quit music. I quit the circus.”

- Layne Staley

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

From Nova to Nueva York 🤝

Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, & Josh Hart are the 1st teammate trio to win both an NCAA title (2016 Villanova) & an NBA title (2026 Knicks),

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

[BMill @millercaster]

@PHNX_Dbacks Why should Pavin ever be in the lineup again?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I realize a lot of folks are unaware of the significance of the USMNT's victory tonight against Paraguay.

To put it into context, it'd be like if Texas A&M were good at anything.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

Not one member of Metallica ever appeared on sesame street. Master of puppets my ass.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Weeks into filming The Breakfast Club, John Hughes made a decision: Judd Nelson had to go.

It wasn't a passing frustration. Molly Ringwald later described Hughes as angrier than she had ever seen him — not the managed tension of a director having a rough day, but something final. Something absolute. The set went still. Everyone understood what it meant.

Nelson had arrived with a commitment that made people uncomfortable. Trained in the method tradition at the Stella Adler Conservatory, he had decided before shooting began that he would never step out of character. Not between takes. Not at lunch. Not for anyone.

The character was John Bender — hostile, wounded, probing for weakness in everyone around him, turning every room into a test of who would break first. Staying in that character continuously meant staying sharp and needling and unpredictable. The set, much of the time, felt like the library in the film.

His primary target was Ringwald.

She later said she understood. She could see the method behind the provocation — that the discomfort Nelson created between takes was the same discomfort that made their scenes together feel raw instead of rehearsed. She was a professional. She recognized a professional working.

Hughes did not see it that way.

When he said he wanted Nelson removed, the cast faced a quiet crisis. Bender wasn't a supporting role. He was the engine — the force pushing every other character toward the truth the whole film was built around. Recasting weeks in, with the chemistry already forming, wasn't a minor adjustment. It was a potential collapse.

So they walked in together.

Ringwald went first — the person Nelson had been targeting, the one whose discomfort had set everything off. Ally Sheedy went. Anthony Michael Hall went. Emilio Estevez went. They told Hughes that what looked like provocation was commitment. That the discomfort was the point. That Bender was working because Nelson was working.

Paul Gleason — the veteran playing Principal Vernon, a man who had spent a career learning to tell the difference between someone causing problems and someone solving them unusually — added his voice. Nelson deserved to finish.

Hughes listened. He changed his mind.

Nelson stayed. He fought for every corner of the character — including the scene where Bender describes his father burning him with a cigar. Hughes wanted the cruelty to read as careless, accidental. Nelson pushed back hard. He had built this character from the inside, and the inside required deliberate damage — a father who chose to hurt his son, because only that specific intentional cruelty could explain the specific intentional damage Bender aimed at everyone around him.

He won that argument too.

The scene plays exactly as Nelson wanted it. Bender describes his father with the flat affect of someone who processed horror by draining all the feeling out of it. The emptiness is more disturbing than anger would have been. Roger Ebert, reviewing the film on its release in February 1985, called Bender the strong center of the movie.

The Breakfast Club cost around a million dollars to make. It earned fifty-one million. It became one of the defining films of a generation — not as a time capsule, but as something that kept finding new audiences for decades, because what it said about identity, and the gap between who we appear to be and who we actually are, was true enough to stay true.

Nelson said afterward that Hughes was one of the only directors he ever worked with who genuinely wanted collaboration — who would hear a better argument and change his position. Working with others later made him understand how rare that was.

He also said, simply, that he never wanted to be difficult. He just didn't want to fail the character.

He didn't fail him.

But the Bender that ended up on screen — the one generations of teenagers recognized as the most honest portrait of a certain kind of hurt they had never seen named before — exists because four young actors walked into a hard conversation with their director and asked him to give a fifth one more time.

A film about strangers choosing to protect each other was saved by strangers choosing to protect each other.

*That's either a coincidence. Or it was always the only way it could have worked.

[BMill @millercaster]

@elsathora this is why you go to a small town with a lake for the 4th of July. Stuff like this tends to happen in small towns.

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

Reason #5059 why women live longer than men

[BMill @millercaster]

@LegionBoomerTN @FreddyLA7 @tylershough2 @Saints @PelicansNBA JJ Watt already told him he has him covered in Houston.

[BMill @millercaster]

@RedditCFB Not accepting SNAP is probably hurting the Tide’s numbers.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Gene Wilder only agreed to play Willy Wonka if he could make his first entrance with a limp that suddenly turned into a somersault. His reasoning was brilliant: the audience would never know when Wonka was telling the truth. Perfect casting.

[BMill @millercaster]

@DaddySeatoo @84and0 @CryingJordan By a country kilometer, you mean.

[Cruz Oxenreider @TheRealCruzOx]

CFB Game 116/221
#12 South Carolina vs #17 Auburn
September 25th, 2010