since I crunched a bunch of tape this year, figured I would show my thoughts going into the #NFLDraft2020 tomorrow
*These opinions are my own and are in no way affiliated with the Cleveland Browns
**I am an independent contractor for the Cleveland Browns who charts NCAA games
I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.
"You want that Animal Style?"
I paused.
I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.
"...Animal Style."
"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"
I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.
"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."
Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"
I stopped. Even the potatoes?
"The potatoes also become animals?"
"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."
"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."
"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"
I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"
"It's, like, how many patties you want."
"How many is the most honorable?"
"...Four is a lot."
"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."
She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.
It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.
I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.
For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.
They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.
So tell me, America.
The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?
And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?
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Issuing long term debt for football stadium renovations presents an interesting opportunity cost discussion. Should the university of Florida system be issuing debt for this instead of other system priorities?
The Economist on the U.S. economy’s consistent growth outperformance relative to other advanced countries:
“America’s outperformance began decades ago, but in the 2020s it has become vast. And it is likely to last. The latest IMF forecasts show American growth besting the rest all the way to 2030 and beyond….
Many of America’s advantages are hard to emulate. The country’s continental scale, single language, natural-resource wealth and the fiscal space that comes from issuing the world’s safe asset give it a unique economic advantage over Europe…
But America also shows just how much other rich countries are failing to live up to their economic potential.”
#economy @EconUS@TheEconomist
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
🚨 COSTCO CEO JUST ATE HIS OWN PRODUCT ON CAMERA — THEN SAID SOMETHING NOBODY EXPECTED
Costco’s CEO Ron Vachris just sat down and did the “CEO eats his own product” test… and went straight for the $1.50 hot dog combo.
Then he says it: the price isn’t changing.
No increase. No timeline. No “we’ll revisit.”
In 2026… while food prices keep climbing… this one thing is locked in place.
First the McDonald’s CEO goes viral eating his own $12 "product."
Now the Costco CEO eats a $1.50 hot dog.
Same move… completely different message.
Which one actually feels more real to you?
Oil up, Markets down, the chaos has officially arrived.
Stop watching the red candles and start watching the legends.
WATCH & SAVE the only strategy that survives a crash.
JUST IN: The U.S. House votes to OVERTURN Trump’s tariffs on Canada, 219–211.
Six Republicans join Democrats to pass the measure: Reps. Bacon, Massie, Kiley, Fitzpatrick, Hurd and Newhouse.
I thought acquiring Greenland was because Denmark and the Europeans weren’t doing enough to protect it from China and Russia, why is he upset that they are now taking its defense seriously? Or was it never actually about that?
Every effort to reduce housing cost by subsidizing demand will result in increasing Home prices
The only ways to make homes more affordable in the long run is to increase supply or reduce demand