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Most black&white folks see life thru different lenses—including even Kornheiser&Wilbon. They view outgoing Auburn BB coach Bruce Pearl completely differently. Kornheiser raved about liking Pearl. Wilbon criticized Pearl as divisive&said he hoped he was forced out. I’m w/Wilbon.

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Mike Wilbon, who is usually thoughtful, said he was glad to see Bruce Pearl step down at Auburn because he was “divisive.” This is simply untrue. Also, did Wilbon say the same about Gregg Popovich when he stepped down? Of course not:
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Mike Wilbon, who is usually thoughtful, said he was glad to see Bruce Pearl step down at Auburn because he was “divisive.” This is simply untrue. Also, did Wilbon say the same about Gregg Popovich when he stepped down? Of course not:

Clay Travis

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Auburn Men's Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl on Barack Obama: "Rather than uniting us as a country... he divided us! Everything was black and white... everything was [about] the obstacles that were against my players from being successful!" Dan Dakich Bruce Pearl
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OutKick

2,925,564 views • 1 year ago

Quentin Tarantino says Bruce Willis originally wanted to play Vincent or Jules in Pulp Fiction before he convinced him to take the role of Butch. Tom Segura : “How was casting? Bruce Willis is so great in the film. Was it an immediate yes from him?” Quentin Tarantino : “We weren’t even going out to Bruce Willis.” “At the time, he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world.” Tom Segura : “When you first watch the film, it’s almost shocking. You’re like, ‘Bruce Willis is in this?’” Quentin Tarantino: “Absolutely.” “One day he told me, ‘I read your script. I want to play Vincent.’” “I told him I already had John Travolta lined up for Vincent.” “He said, ‘Okay, then what if I play Jules?’” “He even suggested making Jules a white guy.” “I told him I’d think about it.” “I thought about it all night and realized I just couldn’t do it.” “The character was written as a Black guy.” “When I called him back, he completely understood.” “But I told him, ‘I still think you should be in this movie.’” “I asked him to read the script again with Butch in mind.” “I told him I saw Butch as a classic 1950s leading man.” “I said, ‘Forget Vincent. Forget Jules. Just think about Butch.’” “He agreed to read it again.” Quentin Tarantino: “The next day I called him.” “He said, ‘Quentin, I’m in.’”
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Quentin Tarantino says Bruce Willis originally wanted to play Vincent or Jules in Pulp Fiction before he convinced him to take the role of Butch. Tom Segura : “How was casting? Bruce Willis is so great in the film. Was it an immediate yes from him?” Quentin Tarantino : “We weren’t even going out to Bruce Willis.” “At the time, he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world.” Tom Segura : “When you first watch the film, it’s almost shocking. You’re like, ‘Bruce Willis is in this?’” Quentin Tarantino: “Absolutely.” “One day he told me, ‘I read your script. I want to play Vincent.’” “I told him I already had John Travolta lined up for Vincent.” “He said, ‘Okay, then what if I play Jules?’” “He even suggested making Jules a white guy.” “I told him I’d think about it.” “I thought about it all night and realized I just couldn’t do it.” “The character was written as a Black guy.” “When I called him back, he completely understood.” “But I told him, ‘I still think you should be in this movie.’” “I asked him to read the script again with Butch in mind.” “I told him I saw Butch as a classic 1950s leading man.” “I said, ‘Forget Vincent. Forget Jules. Just think about Butch.’” “He agreed to read it again.” Quentin Tarantino: “The next day I called him.” “He said, ‘Quentin, I’m in.’”

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70,384 views • 1 month ago

It's over. In this video, Abroad in Japan flat out admits that he had been living in Japan for 10 years and does not speak Japanese. So after defaming a friend of mine (Oriental Pearl) and talking about how he is so in tune with the Japanese because he is a local, the whole time, his Japanese was so bad that he could not even understand the local news. This smug asshat had the audacity to call Oriental Pearl a lying grifter who is misrepresenting Japan when he doesn't even know enough Japanese to fact check her. Oh and then he cut the audio out of a moment where she was laughing uncomfortably because she was being sexually harassed and then pasted it with different footage to make it look like she was laughing at the homeless. By the way, this moment where he admits his Japanese is beginner level is at the end of the video where less than half the viewers will see it. You know, so that way he can go around masquerading as someone who can handle complex conversations with Ken Watanabe or Hyde followed by not showing the parts where he is having someone translate for him because he can't understand what they are saying. This guy is a massive fraud and I know he is intentionally hiding it because everyone and their grandmother thought he was fluent until I said something on my YouTube channel. Now he will use this term "conversationally fluent" which I think a lot of people believe means he can handle basically any conversation that you would see in your normal life. I think he purposefully says that to misrepresent his actual skill level to people who don't know anything about language learning. He even openly admitted in this video that he regularly misrepresents how long he has been in Japan so that people won't judge him negatively for not learning their language. S when Chris says "conversationally fluent" what he actually means is he has the language ability of a 7 year. Sure he'll understand you when you talk but if you say ANYTHING complex, he can't understand you. Also when he says, "I'm conversationally fluent" he is saying that he is illiterate. You know all of those videos of Kai Cenat humbling himself to become a better reader? That level of reading is vastly better than Chris's reading level in Japanese. I mean this absolute liar while go out there and pretend he is prepping for the JLPT N1 like he is a master of Japanese yet 2 years after that video comes out, here he is saying his Japanese is ass and he's basically a beginner and hasn't studied in 8 years. Then this year he says, "Actually I completely failed the JLPT N2 when I tried to take it 11 years ago but it was because someone's cellphone went off in the middle of the test. That magically made me forget all of my Japanese." Well, it's not like he's the only one in that friend group who can't speak Japanese. His terrorist supporting friend Connor can't speak Japanese either. Neither can Garnt. After 6 years. None of these people in this group outside of Joey, who grew up speaking the language, actually respects Japan enough to do the most basic thing which is learn the language. Yet they'll be like, "Yeah, I wouldn't go back to England. That place sucks."
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It's over. In this video, Abroad in Japan flat out admits that he had been living in Japan for 10 years and does not speak Japanese. So after defaming a friend of mine (Oriental Pearl) and talking about how he is so in tune with the Japanese because he is a local, the whole time, his Japanese was so bad that he could not even understand the local news. This smug asshat had the audacity to call Oriental Pearl a lying grifter who is misrepresenting Japan when he doesn't even know enough Japanese to fact check her. Oh and then he cut the audio out of a moment where she was laughing uncomfortably because she was being sexually harassed and then pasted it with different footage to make it look like she was laughing at the homeless. By the way, this moment where he admits his Japanese is beginner level is at the end of the video where less than half the viewers will see it. You know, so that way he can go around masquerading as someone who can handle complex conversations with Ken Watanabe or Hyde followed by not showing the parts where he is having someone translate for him because he can't understand what they are saying. This guy is a massive fraud and I know he is intentionally hiding it because everyone and their grandmother thought he was fluent until I said something on my YouTube channel. Now he will use this term "conversationally fluent" which I think a lot of people believe means he can handle basically any conversation that you would see in your normal life. I think he purposefully says that to misrepresent his actual skill level to people who don't know anything about language learning. He even openly admitted in this video that he regularly misrepresents how long he has been in Japan so that people won't judge him negatively for not learning their language. S when Chris says "conversationally fluent" what he actually means is he has the language ability of a 7 year. Sure he'll understand you when you talk but if you say ANYTHING complex, he can't understand you. Also when he says, "I'm conversationally fluent" he is saying that he is illiterate. You know all of those videos of Kai Cenat humbling himself to become a better reader? That level of reading is vastly better than Chris's reading level in Japanese. I mean this absolute liar while go out there and pretend he is prepping for the JLPT N1 like he is a master of Japanese yet 2 years after that video comes out, here he is saying his Japanese is ass and he's basically a beginner and hasn't studied in 8 years. Then this year he says, "Actually I completely failed the JLPT N2 when I tried to take it 11 years ago but it was because someone's cellphone went off in the middle of the test. That magically made me forget all of my Japanese." Well, it's not like he's the only one in that friend group who can't speak Japanese. His terrorist supporting friend Connor can't speak Japanese either. Neither can Garnt. After 6 years. None of these people in this group outside of Joey, who grew up speaking the language, actually respects Japan enough to do the most basic thing which is learn the language. Yet they'll be like, "Yeah, I wouldn't go back to England. That place sucks."

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143,619 views • 7 months ago

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Senator Tim Scott was visibly emotional on CNN as he remembered his friend and fellow South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. SCOTT: “Well, Jake, gosh, America’s lost a true statesman.” “We don’t have many left. But he was a true statesman.” “But I’ve lost a friend. It is a morning of mourning for me.” “It’s a powerful reminder that life is fleeting, that we are not here very long.” “If I were to tell stories about Lindsey Graham, one of the most important stories is that when I was a new senator, he welcomed me in.” “He knew that my path was different. He understood the power of change in South Carolina and how much our state had changed. But he was one of the first folks in the Senate to welcome me in with open arms.” “And I will say that I do a South Carolina Prayer Breakfast every year in D.C. And I called Lindsey the first time, and Lindsey said, ‘Tim, if this thing starts before 10 A.M., I’m not coming because I’m not going—even if Jesus comes back before 10 A.M.’” “And I just laughed out loud. And of course, it started at 8:30. And who walked in the door at 8:31? Lindsey Graham.” “He was just the kind of committed person that you don’t really appreciate how committed he was to America.” “I can’t think of a more committed public servant to this country.”

Overton

190,524 views • 1 month ago

Knowles: The man barely ever sleeps… Mockler: Trump has repeatedly fallen asleep in cabinet meetings, and I reject Michael's framing that he was transparent with the Wall Street journal. What he said to the Wall Street journal is that he is in perfect health. He's in perfect shape. This is exactly what trump criticized Biden for. He is now doing the exact same thing. We see trump falling asleep in the middle of press conferences on camera. We all see it. We see his swollen ankles. We see his black, bruised hands. He's reportedly taking 3 to 4 times the recommended dose of aspirin, which shows that his judgment is clearly off. His health is deteriorating far more than the white house house is revealing. But what I find the most concerning, I think the most concerning out of all of this has to be the insecure projection in regards to the autopen. So he removed Biden's portrait and he replaced it with the autopen. But when trump is asked when Trump is asked about multiple pardons, including the pardon of the binance founder or even the pardon of the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, Trump says, quote, I don't know him or I don't know the guy, so you can't in one breath accuse Biden of using the autopen then not even know who you pardoned yourself. It's either one of two things. He doesn't know who he's pardoning on a daily basis, or he does know. And he willingly pardoned the former Honduran president who trafficked 500 kilos of cocaine into the U.S. Michael, which one do you think it is?
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Knowles: The man barely ever sleeps… Mockler: Trump has repeatedly fallen asleep in cabinet meetings, and I reject Michael's framing that he was transparent with the Wall Street journal. What he said to the Wall Street journal is that he is in perfect health. He's in perfect shape. This is exactly what trump criticized Biden for. He is now doing the exact same thing. We see trump falling asleep in the middle of press conferences on camera. We all see it. We see his swollen ankles. We see his black, bruised hands. He's reportedly taking 3 to 4 times the recommended dose of aspirin, which shows that his judgment is clearly off. His health is deteriorating far more than the white house house is revealing. But what I find the most concerning, I think the most concerning out of all of this has to be the insecure projection in regards to the autopen. So he removed Biden's portrait and he replaced it with the autopen. But when trump is asked when Trump is asked about multiple pardons, including the pardon of the binance founder or even the pardon of the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, Trump says, quote, I don't know him or I don't know the guy, so you can't in one breath accuse Biden of using the autopen then not even know who you pardoned yourself. It's either one of two things. He doesn't know who he's pardoning on a daily basis, or he does know. And he willingly pardoned the former Honduran president who trafficked 500 kilos of cocaine into the U.S. Michael, which one do you think it is?

Acyn

467,356 views • 7 months ago

Judge Joe Brown Exposes Barack Obama. Obama’s Name Is Fake, His Birth Certificate Is Fake & He Is One Of The Richest Men Alive With An Off-Shore Trust Fund In Indonesia. Americans Have Been Lied To 🚨 “Mean, why you attacking somebody black? I said black people didn't put this up. They didn't have anything to do with this. I heard them planning it. Well, I, the Obama administration did well that said Obama. What did he do for the black race? Nothing. Question. You might ask who's the richest man to ever be? You as president? Uh, um, it's not Trump. No, it's Barack Obama. You know how his adopted Father Lolo? So Toro was one of the 10, 15 richest men on Earth. And when he died, he left a trust fund in Indonesia with three equal beneficiaries. Barack Obama, then known as Barry, so Toro, 'cause he was adopted and his two siblings. So he has a whole false claim about what his background is. But when he got in the White House, he'd been working for a law firm that represented his daddy. He got lauded by Goldman Sachs, who financed most of his daddy's, uh, American investments. He protected British petroleum when they had to blow out in the Gulf, because guess what? His trust fund had heavy investments in bp. So we get through this whole mantra and even, uh, affordable care. Obamacare, you know who drafted it? Senior Tennessee Republican Senator or Dr. Bill Fris when he was Republican Senate Majority Leader. Why? His family founded Blue Cross Blue Shield and most of the HMOs, his family's making a killing. So he retired from the Senate in 2010 when the Obama administration got passed his drafted act from 2003, his game. And I don't have any problem with Trump either. I'm looking at Lois Black unemployment rates since Lyndon Beans Johnson. More money to historically black colleges and universities at any time since Lyndon Bain Johnson. I mean more Americans back to work. You know, like, what did you get for the last three oh oh, and then this, you know, that joke that they do about George W. Bush, uh, feeding, uh, Michelle Candy. The inside thing on that is, it's the same candy he fed her husband when he was six, seven years old. See, the So Toros in the bushes go back 40 some years.”
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Judge Joe Brown Exposes Barack Obama. Obama’s Name Is Fake, His Birth Certificate Is Fake & He Is One Of The Richest Men Alive With An Off-Shore Trust Fund In Indonesia. Americans Have Been Lied To 🚨 “Mean, why you attacking somebody black? I said black people didn't put this up. They didn't have anything to do with this. I heard them planning it. Well, I, the Obama administration did well that said Obama. What did he do for the black race? Nothing. Question. You might ask who's the richest man to ever be? You as president? Uh, um, it's not Trump. No, it's Barack Obama. You know how his adopted Father Lolo? So Toro was one of the 10, 15 richest men on Earth. And when he died, he left a trust fund in Indonesia with three equal beneficiaries. Barack Obama, then known as Barry, so Toro, 'cause he was adopted and his two siblings. So he has a whole false claim about what his background is. But when he got in the White House, he'd been working for a law firm that represented his daddy. He got lauded by Goldman Sachs, who financed most of his daddy's, uh, American investments. He protected British petroleum when they had to blow out in the Gulf, because guess what? His trust fund had heavy investments in bp. So we get through this whole mantra and even, uh, affordable care. Obamacare, you know who drafted it? Senior Tennessee Republican Senator or Dr. Bill Fris when he was Republican Senate Majority Leader. Why? His family founded Blue Cross Blue Shield and most of the HMOs, his family's making a killing. So he retired from the Senate in 2010 when the Obama administration got passed his drafted act from 2003, his game. And I don't have any problem with Trump either. I'm looking at Lois Black unemployment rates since Lyndon Beans Johnson. More money to historically black colleges and universities at any time since Lyndon Bain Johnson. I mean more Americans back to work. You know, like, what did you get for the last three oh oh, and then this, you know, that joke that they do about George W. Bush, uh, feeding, uh, Michelle Candy. The inside thing on that is, it's the same candy he fed her husband when he was six, seven years old. See, the So Toros in the bushes go back 40 some years.”

Wall Street Apes

998,414 views • 2 years ago

Make Something Wonderful is 250 pages of Steve Jobs in his own words, speaking directly to you. The book contains some of Steve's ideas that I've never found anywhere else. Notes from the book: 1. He didn't care about being right. He cared about being excellent. 2. His mind was never a captive of reality. 3. He said working with great people gives you access to wisdom that you can't buy for love or money. 4. He believed technology should be streamlined and practical, simple and sophisticated, and that it should be a tool for enhancing creativity as much as productivity. 5. He believed you should ambush your customers. Meet them where they are. 6. His ideas were not arguments, but intuitions. He had a true inner freedom and an epic sense of possibility. 7. He gave an extraordinary amount of thought to how best to use our fleeting time. 8. By the time he was thirty he was the public face of a Fortune 500 company. 9. At Apple’s first board meeting he put his bare feet on a conference room table. 10. He said you should think of your life as a rainbow arching across the horizon of this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear. 11. He possessed unbelievable rigor that he imposed first, and most strenuously, on himself. 12. He saw clearly (1) what was not there, (2) what could be there, (3) what had to be there. 13. He said early Apple employees were more like poets and painters than cold technologists. That the passion they put into their products were completely indistinguishable from other creative fields. He said their work was a form of love. 14. He had a verbal mastery that was obvious at a young age. He used simple, descriptive language, told stories, and repeated lines and ideas that were important. 15. He thought it was inevitable that computers would be the dominant medium of human communication. He said this in 1983. 16. He had a talent for spotting markets full of second-rate products. 17. He said you could tell how important a product was based on the amount of time people spent interacting with it. As a result he thought it was inevitable that more design talent would shift from the automobile (1 or 2 hours a day) to computers (6+ hours a day). He said this in the 80s. 18. He said that books kept him out of jail and that it’s a shame there are so many mediocre teachers. 19. Like many great entrepreneurs before him, Steve knew what he wanted to do, but didn't know how to do it yet. He said he wanted to make an insanely great computer that was the size of a book. What he described sounded a lot like an iPad. He said this in the 80s. 20. He believed that you should use your unique set of talents to make things that make the lives of other people better. Most people just take. He said "the ability to put something back into the pool of human experience is extremely neat." 21. He would tell his team “You work for Apple first and your boss second.” He felt strongly about that. 22. He was constantly placing the products he was making in a historical perspective, like comparing the Macintosh to the invention of the telephone. 23. He believed you needed to give yourself more time to make mistakes. He said his taste got more refined as he made mistakes. He said that making mistakes over a long period of time made his aesthetics better. 24. He said the key ingredient to making something great was time. 25. He said he wanted to spend his life building things. He could have retired to a beach in his 20s and thought that was disgusting. 26. He was interested in learning how to hone a company down to its essence. 27. You read this book and a thought jumps out at you: How many people are willing to go through a decade of failure without quitting? Steve had the capacity to take pain. 28. He believed it was better to focus on what you're actually passionate about, instead of what you think will make you the most money. He made the most money that way. 29. He listened to older, wiser entrepreneurs and let them shape and mold his thinking. 30. He wasn't afraid to fail, but had to coach himself to adopt that trait. He didn't want to fail, but he wasn't afraid of it. 31. He said don't let your differentiation evaporate. 32. He said if you let your differentiation evaporate the only solution is innovation. 33. He believed great ideas don't map onto corporate hierarchy. 34. He was incapable of thinking that his work and his life were different, separate things. 35. He said the most important things in life are not the goal-oriented, materialistic things. He said you should tap into the world’s magical, mystical, and artistic sides. 36. He paid attention to subtle insights. He was guided by intuition. 37. He didn't believe in the concept or a career, or think it was wise to follow well-worn paths laid out by others. 38. He said most people make the mistake of not thinking about death. He said: "For me it’s the opposite: to know my arc will fall, makes me want to blaze while I am in the sky." 39. He thought Walt Disney had a great idea: Edit before you make it. 40. He said no amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story. 41. He believed storytellers were the most powerful people in the world. 42. He believed if you didn't have great people you were doomed. 43. He found great people by looking at great results and finding out who was responsible for them. 44. This is how he interviewed people: "In an interview I will purposely upset someone: I’ll criticize their prior work. I’ll do my homework, find out what they worked on and say, “God, that really turned out to be a bomb. That really turned out to be a bozo product. Why did you work on that?” The worst thing that someone can do in an interview is to agree with me and knuckle under. What I look for is for someone to come right back and say, “You’re dead wrong and here’s why.” 45. He believed the job of the leader was to make sure the work is as good as it should be, and to get people to stretch beyond their best. 46. He believed the job of the leader was to cajole, and beg, and plead, and threaten at times—to do whatever is necessary to get people to see things in a bigger and more profound way and to have them do better work than they thought they could do. 47. He believed the priorities of the leader were (1) recruit, (2) set an overall direction, and (3) inspire and cajole and persuade. 48. He believed a creative company should have a risk-taking, creative environment on the product side and a fiscally conservative environment on the business side. 49. He believed you have to choose what you put your love into really carefully. 50. He had a remarkably consistent set of values that he held dear: Life is short; don’t waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creation—and we can push it forward. 51. He thought when deciding what to work on that you should ask yourself: "What do I give a shit about?" And then go do that. 52. He would never sell Apple. Not for all the money in the world. 53. He believed you should master the basics, simplify the product line, and focus on the gems. 54. He believed marketing was about values. That the world is noisy and you should focus on telling customers what you believe in and what you stand for. 55. He believed one way to invest in yourself is by exploring uncharted paths that are different from your past experiences. You know it's an uncharted path when you have no idea where it will lead. 56. He believed that people that think they’re following a safe path pay the highest price of all. They won't realize it for a decade or two — and by then it's too late. 57. He didn't believe in resting on laurels or sleeping on wins. Make something great. Then do it again. 58. He imagined what reality lacked and set out to remedy it. 59. He believed in straight forward, clear communication. If the work isn't good enough you have to tell them straight: "This isn't good enough. I know you can do better. You need to do better. Now go do better." 60. He remained driven by a mission to "put something back into the pool of human experience." 61. He believed in the basics: great product, great marketing, great distribution. 62. He believed you must keep up with innovations in distribution. 63. He believed brands take decades to build. 64. He would capture the evolution of his own thinking by emailing himself. 65. He viewed Apple has the world's premier bridge builder between normal people and the exploding world of high technology. 66. He wanted to demystify technology. 67. He believed excellence was a habit and we are what we repeatedly do. 68. He believed you should be curious about what came before you and you should spend time to learn about it. 69. He believed you simply could not mix messages when selling something new. A customer can barely handle one great new idea, let alone several. 70. He said it's a circus world and you'll never know what's around the next corner. 71. He believed in management by values. Which means (1) find people that want the same things you want and (2) figure out the best way to get those things along the way. 72. He believed in the mantra: Finding the right people is half the battle. 73. He said you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life. 74. He believed everything is temporary — there is no such thing as safety. 75. He believed that your life is a story and that you should remember that your life is a story and that you should always act like your life is a story. 76. He believed in rejecting dogma, which he defined as living with the results of other people's thinking. He said that dogma can be so loud that it can drown out your own inner voice and you should avoid this. 77. He believed a great place to start was by improving a product you hate. If you can make something you love, you can convince other people to love it too. 78. He said all glory is fleeting and you should just get back to making something wonderful. I'm really proud of the episode I made about this book. You'll learn a lot from Steve by listening to it. You can watch/listen to it in full here, or in your favorite podcast app.
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Make Something Wonderful is 250 pages of Steve Jobs in his own words, speaking directly to you. The book contains some of Steve's ideas that I've never found anywhere else. Notes from the book: 1. He didn't care about being right. He cared about being excellent. 2. His mind was never a captive of reality. 3. He said working with great people gives you access to wisdom that you can't buy for love or money. 4. He believed technology should be streamlined and practical, simple and sophisticated, and that it should be a tool for enhancing creativity as much as productivity. 5. He believed you should ambush your customers. Meet them where they are. 6. His ideas were not arguments, but intuitions. He had a true inner freedom and an epic sense of possibility. 7. He gave an extraordinary amount of thought to how best to use our fleeting time. 8. By the time he was thirty he was the public face of a Fortune 500 company. 9. At Apple’s first board meeting he put his bare feet on a conference room table. 10. He said you should think of your life as a rainbow arching across the horizon of this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear. 11. He possessed unbelievable rigor that he imposed first, and most strenuously, on himself. 12. He saw clearly (1) what was not there, (2) what could be there, (3) what had to be there. 13. He said early Apple employees were more like poets and painters than cold technologists. That the passion they put into their products were completely indistinguishable from other creative fields. He said their work was a form of love. 14. He had a verbal mastery that was obvious at a young age. He used simple, descriptive language, told stories, and repeated lines and ideas that were important. 15. He thought it was inevitable that computers would be the dominant medium of human communication. He said this in 1983. 16. He had a talent for spotting markets full of second-rate products. 17. He said you could tell how important a product was based on the amount of time people spent interacting with it. As a result he thought it was inevitable that more design talent would shift from the automobile (1 or 2 hours a day) to computers (6+ hours a day). He said this in the 80s. 18. He said that books kept him out of jail and that it’s a shame there are so many mediocre teachers. 19. Like many great entrepreneurs before him, Steve knew what he wanted to do, but didn't know how to do it yet. He said he wanted to make an insanely great computer that was the size of a book. What he described sounded a lot like an iPad. He said this in the 80s. 20. He believed that you should use your unique set of talents to make things that make the lives of other people better. Most people just take. He said "the ability to put something back into the pool of human experience is extremely neat." 21. He would tell his team “You work for Apple first and your boss second.” He felt strongly about that. 22. He was constantly placing the products he was making in a historical perspective, like comparing the Macintosh to the invention of the telephone. 23. He believed you needed to give yourself more time to make mistakes. He said his taste got more refined as he made mistakes. He said that making mistakes over a long period of time made his aesthetics better. 24. He said the key ingredient to making something great was time. 25. He said he wanted to spend his life building things. He could have retired to a beach in his 20s and thought that was disgusting. 26. He was interested in learning how to hone a company down to its essence. 27. You read this book and a thought jumps out at you: How many people are willing to go through a decade of failure without quitting? Steve had the capacity to take pain. 28. He believed it was better to focus on what you're actually passionate about, instead of what you think will make you the most money. He made the most money that way. 29. He listened to older, wiser entrepreneurs and let them shape and mold his thinking. 30. He wasn't afraid to fail, but had to coach himself to adopt that trait. He didn't want to fail, but he wasn't afraid of it. 31. He said don't let your differentiation evaporate. 32. He said if you let your differentiation evaporate the only solution is innovation. 33. He believed great ideas don't map onto corporate hierarchy. 34. He was incapable of thinking that his work and his life were different, separate things. 35. He said the most important things in life are not the goal-oriented, materialistic things. He said you should tap into the world’s magical, mystical, and artistic sides. 36. He paid attention to subtle insights. He was guided by intuition. 37. He didn't believe in the concept or a career, or think it was wise to follow well-worn paths laid out by others. 38. He said most people make the mistake of not thinking about death. He said: "For me it’s the opposite: to know my arc will fall, makes me want to blaze while I am in the sky." 39. He thought Walt Disney had a great idea: Edit before you make it. 40. He said no amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story. 41. He believed storytellers were the most powerful people in the world. 42. He believed if you didn't have great people you were doomed. 43. He found great people by looking at great results and finding out who was responsible for them. 44. This is how he interviewed people: "In an interview I will purposely upset someone: I’ll criticize their prior work. I’ll do my homework, find out what they worked on and say, “God, that really turned out to be a bomb. That really turned out to be a bozo product. Why did you work on that?” The worst thing that someone can do in an interview is to agree with me and knuckle under. What I look for is for someone to come right back and say, “You’re dead wrong and here’s why.” 45. He believed the job of the leader was to make sure the work is as good as it should be, and to get people to stretch beyond their best. 46. He believed the job of the leader was to cajole, and beg, and plead, and threaten at times—to do whatever is necessary to get people to see things in a bigger and more profound way and to have them do better work than they thought they could do. 47. He believed the priorities of the leader were (1) recruit, (2) set an overall direction, and (3) inspire and cajole and persuade. 48. He believed a creative company should have a risk-taking, creative environment on the product side and a fiscally conservative environment on the business side. 49. He believed you have to choose what you put your love into really carefully. 50. He had a remarkably consistent set of values that he held dear: Life is short; don’t waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creation—and we can push it forward. 51. He thought when deciding what to work on that you should ask yourself: "What do I give a shit about?" And then go do that. 52. He would never sell Apple. Not for all the money in the world. 53. He believed you should master the basics, simplify the product line, and focus on the gems. 54. He believed marketing was about values. That the world is noisy and you should focus on telling customers what you believe in and what you stand for. 55. He believed one way to invest in yourself is by exploring uncharted paths that are different from your past experiences. You know it's an uncharted path when you have no idea where it will lead. 56. He believed that people that think they’re following a safe path pay the highest price of all. They won't realize it for a decade or two — and by then it's too late. 57. He didn't believe in resting on laurels or sleeping on wins. Make something great. Then do it again. 58. He imagined what reality lacked and set out to remedy it. 59. He believed in straight forward, clear communication. If the work isn't good enough you have to tell them straight: "This isn't good enough. I know you can do better. You need to do better. Now go do better." 60. He remained driven by a mission to "put something back into the pool of human experience." 61. He believed in the basics: great product, great marketing, great distribution. 62. He believed you must keep up with innovations in distribution. 63. He believed brands take decades to build. 64. He would capture the evolution of his own thinking by emailing himself. 65. He viewed Apple has the world's premier bridge builder between normal people and the exploding world of high technology. 66. He wanted to demystify technology. 67. He believed excellence was a habit and we are what we repeatedly do. 68. He believed you should be curious about what came before you and you should spend time to learn about it. 69. He believed you simply could not mix messages when selling something new. A customer can barely handle one great new idea, let alone several. 70. He said it's a circus world and you'll never know what's around the next corner. 71. He believed in management by values. Which means (1) find people that want the same things you want and (2) figure out the best way to get those things along the way. 72. He believed in the mantra: Finding the right people is half the battle. 73. He said you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life. 74. He believed everything is temporary — there is no such thing as safety. 75. He believed that your life is a story and that you should remember that your life is a story and that you should always act like your life is a story. 76. He believed in rejecting dogma, which he defined as living with the results of other people's thinking. He said that dogma can be so loud that it can drown out your own inner voice and you should avoid this. 77. He believed a great place to start was by improving a product you hate. If you can make something you love, you can convince other people to love it too. 78. He said all glory is fleeting and you should just get back to making something wonderful. I'm really proud of the episode I made about this book. You'll learn a lot from Steve by listening to it. You can watch/listen to it in full here, or in your favorite podcast app.

David Senra

206,359 views • 1 year ago

Paul Schrader talks about the racism in "Taxi Driver" (1976, Scorsese): "Interviewer: In 'Taxi Driver' (1976), was the Harvey Keitel character originally black or white? Schrader: Well, you’ve gone right to the heart of the matter. The film is riddled with racism, and Travis, the main character, is a racist not by conviction but by fear. He is everything by fear. He has very few convictions about anything except immorality, but when you feel the pressure coming down, when you feel the world shrinking, one naturally looks for enemies, and what better enemies are there than people who are not like you? Travis’ enemies are people who are at ease. He hates people who are comfortable. He himself is extremely uncomfortable. He’s not at ease anywhere, so he hates. Travis admires the politician but also hates him because the politician is at ease, especially in the world of women. This is where Travis’ feelings about blacks emerge. He sees the blacks out there almost as animals. He sees them out there having fun, out there jiving with women. He sees them dancing and relaxed. He’s so uptight himself and so constipated and attenuated that for him the blacks begin to be some kind of a focus for the thing he can’t have, that relaxation he lacks. So the racism starts to run through the film. It starts to rear its head very overtly. You see him looking at these people and you know it’s not a matter of conviction, because he doesn’t have any real beliefs or strong theories about blacks. It’s just that he has this thing about people who are at ease. The logical conclusion of the film would have been that all the people he ki!!ed were black. It was in my mind when I wrote the script that he ki!!ed only black people, but that was just too much. Marty and I were just too terrified of it. I mean, the film explores the borders of bad taste as it is, and there is just so far you can go in the commercial cinema before people get up and throw stones at you. I think that if we had followed his racism to the natural conclusion, which is him ki!!ing three black guys, the audience would have just said, “Holy f**k, that’s just too much.” So we made them white, which is a thin cover. Somebody asked Pauline Kael if the film was racist, and she said, “No, it’s not racist, because he doesn’t ki!! black guys at the end.” She missed the point completely. His actions are racist, and the only reason he doesn’t ki!! black guys at the end is that we didn’t want anybody st@bbed in the theaters. That’s my opinion. Marty may dress it up and put it in a different language, but the racism of the film really is quite clear. I think it’s possible to distinguish between the racism of the main character and the racism of the filmmakers. I mean, Marty and I and De Niro are racists to the extent that all people are racists. I think it’s part of the job of a writer or anybody worth his salt to explore his closets. We’re all in the dirty-laundry business. An artist gets to a certain point where he says, “I’m not afraid to explore my Jewishness,” “I’m not afraid to explore my homicidal tendencies,” “I’m not afraid to explore my s**ual deviations,” “I’m not afraid to explore my racism." I mean, the whole f***!ng film takes place in his head. New York consists of a lot more than Forty-second Street and Broadway. All you see of New York is his very peculiar vision of it, and he has a very sordid view of things. You only see blacks through his eyes, and the only exception is the black he works with, who he borrows money from. You are given no alternative view of reality. One of the rare things about Taxi Driver is that this character, Travis Bickle, has been in a lot of movies, but you’ve always been given another perspective on him. In 'In Cold Blood' (1967) you see him through John Forsythe’s eyes. In 'Psycho' (1960) you see him through Martin Balsam’s eyes. In 'White Heat' (1949) you see him through Edmond O’Brien’s eyes. But this is as though you see White Heat solely through Cagney’s eyes, which makes for something very different, because Cagney is very mentally disturbed in that film. You have the same situation here. You’re getting Travis’ perceptions of the world, which are very distorted and unrealistic." (Paul Schrader's interview with AFI, 1976)
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Paul Schrader talks about the racism in "Taxi Driver" (1976, Scorsese): "Interviewer: In 'Taxi Driver' (1976), was the Harvey Keitel character originally black or white? Schrader: Well, you’ve gone right to the heart of the matter. The film is riddled with racism, and Travis, the main character, is a racist not by conviction but by fear. He is everything by fear. He has very few convictions about anything except immorality, but when you feel the pressure coming down, when you feel the world shrinking, one naturally looks for enemies, and what better enemies are there than people who are not like you? Travis’ enemies are people who are at ease. He hates people who are comfortable. He himself is extremely uncomfortable. He’s not at ease anywhere, so he hates. Travis admires the politician but also hates him because the politician is at ease, especially in the world of women. This is where Travis’ feelings about blacks emerge. He sees the blacks out there almost as animals. He sees them out there having fun, out there jiving with women. He sees them dancing and relaxed. He’s so uptight himself and so constipated and attenuated that for him the blacks begin to be some kind of a focus for the thing he can’t have, that relaxation he lacks. So the racism starts to run through the film. It starts to rear its head very overtly. You see him looking at these people and you know it’s not a matter of conviction, because he doesn’t have any real beliefs or strong theories about blacks. It’s just that he has this thing about people who are at ease. The logical conclusion of the film would have been that all the people he ki!!ed were black. It was in my mind when I wrote the script that he ki!!ed only black people, but that was just too much. Marty and I were just too terrified of it. I mean, the film explores the borders of bad taste as it is, and there is just so far you can go in the commercial cinema before people get up and throw stones at you. I think that if we had followed his racism to the natural conclusion, which is him ki!!ing three black guys, the audience would have just said, “Holy f**k, that’s just too much.” So we made them white, which is a thin cover. Somebody asked Pauline Kael if the film was racist, and she said, “No, it’s not racist, because he doesn’t ki!! black guys at the end.” She missed the point completely. His actions are racist, and the only reason he doesn’t ki!! black guys at the end is that we didn’t want anybody st@bbed in the theaters. That’s my opinion. Marty may dress it up and put it in a different language, but the racism of the film really is quite clear. I think it’s possible to distinguish between the racism of the main character and the racism of the filmmakers. I mean, Marty and I and De Niro are racists to the extent that all people are racists. I think it’s part of the job of a writer or anybody worth his salt to explore his closets. We’re all in the dirty-laundry business. An artist gets to a certain point where he says, “I’m not afraid to explore my Jewishness,” “I’m not afraid to explore my homicidal tendencies,” “I’m not afraid to explore my s**ual deviations,” “I’m not afraid to explore my racism." I mean, the whole f***!ng film takes place in his head. New York consists of a lot more than Forty-second Street and Broadway. All you see of New York is his very peculiar vision of it, and he has a very sordid view of things. You only see blacks through his eyes, and the only exception is the black he works with, who he borrows money from. You are given no alternative view of reality. One of the rare things about Taxi Driver is that this character, Travis Bickle, has been in a lot of movies, but you’ve always been given another perspective on him. In 'In Cold Blood' (1967) you see him through John Forsythe’s eyes. In 'Psycho' (1960) you see him through Martin Balsam’s eyes. In 'White Heat' (1949) you see him through Edmond O’Brien’s eyes. But this is as though you see White Heat solely through Cagney’s eyes, which makes for something very different, because Cagney is very mentally disturbed in that film. You have the same situation here. You’re getting Travis’ perceptions of the world, which are very distorted and unrealistic." (Paul Schrader's interview with AFI, 1976)

DepressedBergman

102,144 views • 2 months ago

Jon Bernthal says a night in jail made him realize he had to completely change his life. Jon Bernthal: “I was walking my dogs, and I see there’s a house party. These assholes are at this party, and there’s an old couple playing the didgeridoo. I see this one guy and I just fucking lock on to him. He was the ringleader. He goes up to this old woman who’s playing the didgeridoo next to her husband, and he puts the didgeridoo on his dick so it looks like she’s blowing his ***** there’s something about that that just fucking pissed me off. Then he locked on to my dog. He called Boss over, and when I called Boss back, he held onto him. There’s just something about my dogs and my family and my friends. I just can’t take that shit, man. I grabbed Boss from him and started walking away. His buddy pushed me in the back, and I turned around and hit him. He got knocked out standing up and crashed his head on the pavement. His buddies jumped me, the police came, and it became this huge mess. They ended up taking me away because the guy wasn’t waking up. And I’m sitting there handcuffed to this bench, and I remember being locked up when I was a kid. I had to piss so fucking bad, and I couldn’t even move. I had to ask somebody for permission to go to the bathroom. And the cops are in my ear saying, ‘If he doesn’t wake up, you’re done.’ And I knew right there on that bench, I said to myself, ‘Look, man, this is gonna go one or two ways. If he doesn’t wake up, I’m going down, and I’m going through that room that way. I’m done with family. I’m done with friends. And I’m gonna be the devil.’” Jon Bernthal: “And it was a scary feeling because I wasn’t scared. It was peaceful. I was ready to be that guy. But I said, ‘Lord, if you can just wake this guy up. If you can just change this, I am done, man. I’m done with the bullshit. I’m done with the drinking. I’m done with the messing around. I’m gonna commit to my lady. I’m gonna commit to my work. I’m gonna be about making a family. I’m gonna trim all the fat off my life. If you just give me the shot.’” Jon Bernthal: “Sure enough, this guy ended up waking up. And right after that, I had an audition for The Walking Dead. July 3rd, 2010, one year later, I was on set for The Walking Dead. I got married right after the first year of The Walking Dead, and that’s really when my life changed in every single way. I started working different. Started behaving different.”
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Jon Bernthal says a night in jail made him realize he had to completely change his life. Jon Bernthal: “I was walking my dogs, and I see there’s a house party. These assholes are at this party, and there’s an old couple playing the didgeridoo. I see this one guy and I just fucking lock on to him. He was the ringleader. He goes up to this old woman who’s playing the didgeridoo next to her husband, and he puts the didgeridoo on his dick so it looks like she’s blowing his ***** there’s something about that that just fucking pissed me off. Then he locked on to my dog. He called Boss over, and when I called Boss back, he held onto him. There’s just something about my dogs and my family and my friends. I just can’t take that shit, man. I grabbed Boss from him and started walking away. His buddy pushed me in the back, and I turned around and hit him. He got knocked out standing up and crashed his head on the pavement. His buddies jumped me, the police came, and it became this huge mess. They ended up taking me away because the guy wasn’t waking up. And I’m sitting there handcuffed to this bench, and I remember being locked up when I was a kid. I had to piss so fucking bad, and I couldn’t even move. I had to ask somebody for permission to go to the bathroom. And the cops are in my ear saying, ‘If he doesn’t wake up, you’re done.’ And I knew right there on that bench, I said to myself, ‘Look, man, this is gonna go one or two ways. If he doesn’t wake up, I’m going down, and I’m going through that room that way. I’m done with family. I’m done with friends. And I’m gonna be the devil.’” Jon Bernthal: “And it was a scary feeling because I wasn’t scared. It was peaceful. I was ready to be that guy. But I said, ‘Lord, if you can just wake this guy up. If you can just change this, I am done, man. I’m done with the bullshit. I’m done with the drinking. I’m done with the messing around. I’m gonna commit to my lady. I’m gonna commit to my work. I’m gonna be about making a family. I’m gonna trim all the fat off my life. If you just give me the shot.’” Jon Bernthal: “Sure enough, this guy ended up waking up. And right after that, I had an audition for The Walking Dead. July 3rd, 2010, one year later, I was on set for The Walking Dead. I got married right after the first year of The Walking Dead, and that’s really when my life changed in every single way. I started working different. Started behaving different.”

vintae

120,101 views • 5 days ago

A Carnegie Mellon professor walked onto a stage in 2007 and gave an hour-long lecture to 400 people about achieving your childhood dreams. He did not tell the room that the entire talk was actually written for his three kids, who would grow up without him. His name was Randy Pausch. The date was September 18, 2007. The video has since passed 20 million views, and the book that followed spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Pausch was 46 years old, had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer a month earlier, and had been told he had three to six months of good health left. He did not walk onto that stage to talk about dying. He walked onto it to teach a single lesson hidden inside another one. Here is what I missed the first time I watched it. Pausch opened by doing push-ups on stage. He told the audience he was in phenomenally good shape, in better shape than most of them, and anyone who wanted to cry or pity him was welcome to get down and match him. The room laughed. Then he said the line that sets up the entire hour to come. We cannot change the cards we are dealt. Just how we play the hand. That was the frame. Everything after it was a demonstration. The lecture was officially titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and Pausch did spend the first 40 minutes working through his actual childhood list. Zero gravity. Playing in the NFL. Writing an entry in the World Book Encyclopedia. Being Captain Kirk. Becoming a Disney Imagineer. He walked the audience through which ones he got, which ones he didn't, and what the gap between wanting and getting had actually taught him. The framework inside those 40 minutes is the part most people remember, and it is the one Pausch delivered with the most force. He called it the brick wall. He said the brick walls in your life are there for a reason. They are not there to keep you out. They are there to give you a chance to show how badly you want something. They are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people. Read that again slowly. He is not saying brick walls are a test you have to pass. He is saying brick walls are a filter nature uses to separate the people who actually want a thing from the people who only like the idea of wanting it. That is a completely different claim. Most people treat obstacles as unfair. Pausch argued obstacles are the mechanism by which desire gets proven, and without that mechanism the whole concept of wanting something would be meaningless. Every dream he achieved, he achieved by treating the wall as a signal that he was close, not a signal that he should stop. The second framework he taught the audience is the one almost nobody teaches in any classroom. He called it the head fake. He pulled it from football. Coaches teach young kids to tackle by having them run drills that look like they are about tackling, but the real lesson being embedded is teamwork, grit, how to take a hit and get back up. The kid thinks they are learning football. They are actually learning something much larger, and they will not realize it until years later. Pausch said the best teaching in the world is head fake teaching. You get people to learn the thing they need by dressing it up as the thing they already want. This is the technique behind Alice, the programming software he built at Carnegie Mellon. Kids thought they were making animated movies and games. They were actually learning to code. Pausch said one of his proudest claims to fame was that he had taught programming to a generation of students who had no idea they were being taught programming at all. And then, with about three minutes left in the lecture, he ran a head fake on the room. He asked the audience if they had figured out the first head fake of the talk itself. The room went quiet. He said the lecture was never actually about how to achieve your childhood dreams. It was about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma takes care of itself and the dreams come to you anyway. Then he asked if they had figured out the second head fake. Even quieter. He said the talk was not for the four hundred people in the room. It was for his three kids. Dylan was six. Logan was three. Chloe was eighteen months. They would grow up without their father, and he knew it. Pausch had spent an hour on stage pretending to give career advice to strangers because he needed to record something his children could watch when they were old enough to understand who their dad had been. The entire architecture of the lecture was a message in a bottle disguised as a keynote. The filtered brick-wall philosophy, the football stories, the dreams he chased and the ones he missed, the line about playing the hand you are dealt, all of it was something a father wanted three small children to internalize after he was no longer there to say it in person. That is the moment the video stops being a lecture and starts being something else entirely. Pausch died on July 25, 2008, ten months after giving it. His final sentence on stage was that he had given the talk tonight, and then he walked off. The applause lasted nearly a minute before the camera cut. Most professors spend their entire careers trying to say one true thing their students will remember for a week. He said one true thing his children will remember for the rest of their lives, and the rest of the world is still watching the footage.
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A Carnegie Mellon professor walked onto a stage in 2007 and gave an hour-long lecture to 400 people about achieving your childhood dreams. He did not tell the room that the entire talk was actually written for his three kids, who would grow up without him. His name was Randy Pausch. The date was September 18, 2007. The video has since passed 20 million views, and the book that followed spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Pausch was 46 years old, had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer a month earlier, and had been told he had three to six months of good health left. He did not walk onto that stage to talk about dying. He walked onto it to teach a single lesson hidden inside another one. Here is what I missed the first time I watched it. Pausch opened by doing push-ups on stage. He told the audience he was in phenomenally good shape, in better shape than most of them, and anyone who wanted to cry or pity him was welcome to get down and match him. The room laughed. Then he said the line that sets up the entire hour to come. We cannot change the cards we are dealt. Just how we play the hand. That was the frame. Everything after it was a demonstration. The lecture was officially titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and Pausch did spend the first 40 minutes working through his actual childhood list. Zero gravity. Playing in the NFL. Writing an entry in the World Book Encyclopedia. Being Captain Kirk. Becoming a Disney Imagineer. He walked the audience through which ones he got, which ones he didn't, and what the gap between wanting and getting had actually taught him. The framework inside those 40 minutes is the part most people remember, and it is the one Pausch delivered with the most force. He called it the brick wall. He said the brick walls in your life are there for a reason. They are not there to keep you out. They are there to give you a chance to show how badly you want something. They are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people. Read that again slowly. He is not saying brick walls are a test you have to pass. He is saying brick walls are a filter nature uses to separate the people who actually want a thing from the people who only like the idea of wanting it. That is a completely different claim. Most people treat obstacles as unfair. Pausch argued obstacles are the mechanism by which desire gets proven, and without that mechanism the whole concept of wanting something would be meaningless. Every dream he achieved, he achieved by treating the wall as a signal that he was close, not a signal that he should stop. The second framework he taught the audience is the one almost nobody teaches in any classroom. He called it the head fake. He pulled it from football. Coaches teach young kids to tackle by having them run drills that look like they are about tackling, but the real lesson being embedded is teamwork, grit, how to take a hit and get back up. The kid thinks they are learning football. They are actually learning something much larger, and they will not realize it until years later. Pausch said the best teaching in the world is head fake teaching. You get people to learn the thing they need by dressing it up as the thing they already want. This is the technique behind Alice, the programming software he built at Carnegie Mellon. Kids thought they were making animated movies and games. They were actually learning to code. Pausch said one of his proudest claims to fame was that he had taught programming to a generation of students who had no idea they were being taught programming at all. And then, with about three minutes left in the lecture, he ran a head fake on the room. He asked the audience if they had figured out the first head fake of the talk itself. The room went quiet. He said the lecture was never actually about how to achieve your childhood dreams. It was about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma takes care of itself and the dreams come to you anyway. Then he asked if they had figured out the second head fake. Even quieter. He said the talk was not for the four hundred people in the room. It was for his three kids. Dylan was six. Logan was three. Chloe was eighteen months. They would grow up without their father, and he knew it. Pausch had spent an hour on stage pretending to give career advice to strangers because he needed to record something his children could watch when they were old enough to understand who their dad had been. The entire architecture of the lecture was a message in a bottle disguised as a keynote. The filtered brick-wall philosophy, the football stories, the dreams he chased and the ones he missed, the line about playing the hand you are dealt, all of it was something a father wanted three small children to internalize after he was no longer there to say it in person. That is the moment the video stops being a lecture and starts being something else entirely. Pausch died on July 25, 2008, ten months after giving it. His final sentence on stage was that he had given the talk tonight, and then he walked off. The applause lasted nearly a minute before the camera cut. Most professors spend their entire careers trying to say one true thing their students will remember for a week. He said one true thing his children will remember for the rest of their lives, and the rest of the world is still watching the footage.

Ihtesham Ali

56,794 views • 4 months ago

Ready For Your Mind To Be Blown? Conspiracy Theorists Are Right Again In this clip, The “Chief of Disguise for very high level agencies”, including the CIA meets with President George W Bush. She talks about wearing full face masks so they could “Walk around as someone else” This was broadcasted to the entire world “Are y'all ready for this one? We all know now that we live in the Twilight Zone. Left is right, up is literally down. I'm gonna play a video from this woman in just a second. If you have ever noticed that our president looks different than what he used to, members of Congress look different than what they used to, even celebrities, they'll disappear for a while, come back. We know it's not the same person. She used to be the chief of disguise for very high level agencies. I'm going to play a clip. Just listen to what she has to say. I was chief of disguise. What all did that entail? The office I worked in was like the queue in James Bond. We were the cue for the CIA and the intelligence community. What's the most memorable moment from being in the sky, sweetie? I mean one that has to stand out I went to the White House and I briefed George HW Bush the president at the time while I was wearing a full-face mask so we're sitting like this close together and I'm telling him that I'm going to show him the best disguise that we have. And he's looking for a bag, like where is it? I said, well, I'm wearing it, and I'm going to take it off. And I reached to start taking it off, and he said, stop. And he got up, and he walked, and he looked, and he looked, and he couldn't, he didn't know it was a mask. He wasn't sure what I was wearing. He sat back down, he said, okay. So I took it off, and I was holding it up in the air so he could see it. My whole head, it had hair and a face and a neck. So you could walk around as someone else. Absolutely. And that would be the disguise. Absolutely.”
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Ready For Your Mind To Be Blown? Conspiracy Theorists Are Right Again In this clip, The “Chief of Disguise for very high level agencies”, including the CIA meets with President George W Bush. She talks about wearing full face masks so they could “Walk around as someone else” This was broadcasted to the entire world “Are y'all ready for this one? We all know now that we live in the Twilight Zone. Left is right, up is literally down. I'm gonna play a video from this woman in just a second. If you have ever noticed that our president looks different than what he used to, members of Congress look different than what they used to, even celebrities, they'll disappear for a while, come back. We know it's not the same person. She used to be the chief of disguise for very high level agencies. I'm going to play a clip. Just listen to what she has to say. I was chief of disguise. What all did that entail? The office I worked in was like the queue in James Bond. We were the cue for the CIA and the intelligence community. What's the most memorable moment from being in the sky, sweetie? I mean one that has to stand out I went to the White House and I briefed George HW Bush the president at the time while I was wearing a full-face mask so we're sitting like this close together and I'm telling him that I'm going to show him the best disguise that we have. And he's looking for a bag, like where is it? I said, well, I'm wearing it, and I'm going to take it off. And I reached to start taking it off, and he said, stop. And he got up, and he walked, and he looked, and he looked, and he couldn't, he didn't know it was a mask. He wasn't sure what I was wearing. He sat back down, he said, okay. So I took it off, and I was holding it up in the air so he could see it. My whole head, it had hair and a face and a neck. So you could walk around as someone else. Absolutely. And that would be the disguise. Absolutely.”

Wall Street Apes

997,939 views • 2 years ago

Quentin Tarantino recounts seeing his first blaxploitation film with an all-Black audience at nine years old. The movie was Jim Brown’s “Black Gunn,” and the experience changed his life forever… “During this time, my mother was dating a football player named Reggie. So in an effort to score points with her, Reggie asked to hang out with me. Being a football player, he asked her, "Does he like football?" She told him “No, he likes movies.” Well, as luck would have it, so did Reggie. And apparently, he saw every blaxploitation flick that came out. So late one Saturday afternoon, Reggie, who I had never met before, dropped by the apartment, picked me up and took me to the movies. He took me to a part of town I had never been before. I had been to the big movie theater districts in Hollywood and Westwood, but this place was different. This theater row had huge cinemas on both sides of the street, which went down for about eight blocks. I realized when I got older, Reggie took me to the theater district in downtown Los Angeles, located on Broadway Boulevard. All of them were blaxploitation films. Films I had never seen, the new movie on Broadway, having opened just last Wednesday, was Blaxploitation superstar Jim Brown's new motion picture, "Black Gunn." I had seen the TV spots a lot that week, and it looked really exciting. I even remember the radio spot proclaiming, "Jim Brown was gonna get the mother who killed his brother." Well, "Black Gunn" was definitely the movie Reggie wanted to see. One being the connoisseur that he apparently was, it was the only one of the movies playing he hadn't seen. Also, it was pretty fucking obvious he dugged Jim Brown. This thing, the Saturday night showing of the brand new Jim Brown movie, the huge auditorium, I mean, it was probably 1400 seats, wasn't exactly packed, but it was definitely busy and buzzing with anticipation. My little face was the only white one in the audience. This was to be my first movie in a, except for me, all black movie theater in a black neighborhood. This was 1972. Then, on a downtown Saturday night, Jim Brown's new movie, "Black Gun," began flickering through the film projector shutter gate for an extremely excited audience of about 850 black folks, 800 of them male. And frankly, I've never been the same. To one degree or another, I've spent my entire life since both attending movies and making them, trying to recreate the experience of watching a brand new Jim Brown film on a Saturday night in a black cinema in 1972. There was no comparison. When Jim Brown sat behind his desk and Bruce Glover, Crispin’s father, and his other white gangster henchmen threatened him, and Gunn hits a button under the desk and a sawed off shotgun dropped in his lap (see below), the massive theater full of black males cheered in a way the nine-year-old me had never experienced in a movie theater before. At the time, living with a single mother, it was probably the most masculine experience I'd ever been part of. And when the movie ended with a freeze frame of Jim Brown as Gunn, the guy behind Reggie made me proclaimed out loud, "Now that's a movie about a bad motherfucker!" Sadly, after that night, I never saw Reggie again, and to this day I have no idea what happened to him." From Quentin Tarantino’s book Cinema Speculation
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Quentin Tarantino recounts seeing his first blaxploitation film with an all-Black audience at nine years old. The movie was Jim Brown’s “Black Gunn,” and the experience changed his life forever… “During this time, my mother was dating a football player named Reggie. So in an effort to score points with her, Reggie asked to hang out with me. Being a football player, he asked her, "Does he like football?" She told him “No, he likes movies.” Well, as luck would have it, so did Reggie. And apparently, he saw every blaxploitation flick that came out. So late one Saturday afternoon, Reggie, who I had never met before, dropped by the apartment, picked me up and took me to the movies. He took me to a part of town I had never been before. I had been to the big movie theater districts in Hollywood and Westwood, but this place was different. This theater row had huge cinemas on both sides of the street, which went down for about eight blocks. I realized when I got older, Reggie took me to the theater district in downtown Los Angeles, located on Broadway Boulevard. All of them were blaxploitation films. Films I had never seen, the new movie on Broadway, having opened just last Wednesday, was Blaxploitation superstar Jim Brown's new motion picture, "Black Gunn." I had seen the TV spots a lot that week, and it looked really exciting. I even remember the radio spot proclaiming, "Jim Brown was gonna get the mother who killed his brother." Well, "Black Gunn" was definitely the movie Reggie wanted to see. One being the connoisseur that he apparently was, it was the only one of the movies playing he hadn't seen. Also, it was pretty fucking obvious he dugged Jim Brown. This thing, the Saturday night showing of the brand new Jim Brown movie, the huge auditorium, I mean, it was probably 1400 seats, wasn't exactly packed, but it was definitely busy and buzzing with anticipation. My little face was the only white one in the audience. This was to be my first movie in a, except for me, all black movie theater in a black neighborhood. This was 1972. Then, on a downtown Saturday night, Jim Brown's new movie, "Black Gun," began flickering through the film projector shutter gate for an extremely excited audience of about 850 black folks, 800 of them male. And frankly, I've never been the same. To one degree or another, I've spent my entire life since both attending movies and making them, trying to recreate the experience of watching a brand new Jim Brown film on a Saturday night in a black cinema in 1972. There was no comparison. When Jim Brown sat behind his desk and Bruce Glover, Crispin’s father, and his other white gangster henchmen threatened him, and Gunn hits a button under the desk and a sawed off shotgun dropped in his lap (see below), the massive theater full of black males cheered in a way the nine-year-old me had never experienced in a movie theater before. At the time, living with a single mother, it was probably the most masculine experience I'd ever been part of. And when the movie ended with a freeze frame of Jim Brown as Gunn, the guy behind Reggie made me proclaimed out loud, "Now that's a movie about a bad motherfucker!" Sadly, after that night, I never saw Reggie again, and to this day I have no idea what happened to him." From Quentin Tarantino’s book Cinema Speculation

Gangster Cinema Central

107,540 views • 2 months ago

Charlamagne tha God built his name on *The Breakfast Club* by being the guy who says the quiet part out loud‼️. He trolls interviews, hands out “Donkey of the Day,” and regularly goes at rappers whose music, attitude, or relationship to the culture he doesn’t respect‼️. It’s not random shade—it’s a consistent pattern‼️. When he doesn’t like someone, he doesn’t just critique the music. He questions their authenticity, their respect for hip-hop, and sometimes their place in it‼️. Post Malone became one of the clearest, longest-running examples of that style‼️. The first major clash happened in 2015 during Post’s early *Breakfast Club* appearance‼️. Charlamagne came in aggressive‼️. He mocked Post’s look (commenting that white people with cornrows look stupid), asked if he was a culture vulture, tried to bait him into saying the N-word, and hit him with “What are you doing for the Black Lives Matter movement⁉️” Post stayed calm and later called Charlamagne a troll whose job is to get a reaction‼️. The interview became infamous because Post didn’t fold, which only seemed to fuel Charlamagne more‼️. Things escalated in 2017 when Post told *Rolling Stone* that if people want lyrics, emotion, or something to think about, they shouldn’t listen to hip-hop—they should put on Bob Dylan‼️. Charlamagne immediately gave him Donkey of the Day, arguing that Post came up off hip-hop (“White Iverson”) and then dismissed the genre that launched him‼️. In the same *Rolling Stone* profile, Post went further: “He’s not a good person‼️. He hates me because I’m white and I’m different.”‼️ Charlamagne’s response was direct‼️. He said he doesn’t dislike people because they’re white—he disliked Post at the time because he thought he was “wack.”‼️ He added that he actually likes “Rockstar” and told Post to keep winning and give back to the Black community in some form‼️. That was his public defense: it wasn’t race, it was taste and perceived disrespect for the culture‼️. He kept it going‼️. In 2020 he told Wallo that if he could kick one person out of rap, it would be Post Malone, calling him a “fake Future.”‼️ He admitted he might just be hating and later walked it back a bit, saying he didn’t even despise him that much‼️. Then in 2022 on *Impaulsive* with Logan Paul, Charlamagne laid out the fuller version of his issue‼️. Post came from hip-hop, got on *Breakfast Club*, then made comments that treated rap like it had no depth or meaning‼️. Charlamagne saw that as hypocritical‼️. He argued hip-hop is nuanced—you can go from Future to Kendrick—and Post’s take felt like someone who only heard the party/lean side of the genre‼️. He even joked about “mayonnaise records.” That interview was him explaining the dislike without fully walking it back‼️. This is the pattern‼️. Charlamagne has checked plenty of rappers on air (Birdman walked out, Master P shut him down, etc.)‼️. With Post it became personal and prolonged because Post represented something Charlamagne has always been vocal about: artists who profit from the culture then talk about it like it’s lesser or disposable‼️. Whether you see it as gatekeeping, hating, or just him being himself, he rarely hides it‼️. He frames it as honesty and cultural protection‼️. Post framed it as a hater who couldn’t stop his success‼️. Both versions have lived in public for years, and Charlamagne has never really pretended he was just being nice‼️.
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Charlamagne tha God built his name on *The Breakfast Club* by being the guy who says the quiet part out loud‼️. He trolls interviews, hands out “Donkey of the Day,” and regularly goes at rappers whose music, attitude, or relationship to the culture he doesn’t respect‼️. It’s not random shade—it’s a consistent pattern‼️. When he doesn’t like someone, he doesn’t just critique the music. He questions their authenticity, their respect for hip-hop, and sometimes their place in it‼️. Post Malone became one of the clearest, longest-running examples of that style‼️. The first major clash happened in 2015 during Post’s early *Breakfast Club* appearance‼️. Charlamagne came in aggressive‼️. He mocked Post’s look (commenting that white people with cornrows look stupid), asked if he was a culture vulture, tried to bait him into saying the N-word, and hit him with “What are you doing for the Black Lives Matter movement⁉️” Post stayed calm and later called Charlamagne a troll whose job is to get a reaction‼️. The interview became infamous because Post didn’t fold, which only seemed to fuel Charlamagne more‼️. Things escalated in 2017 when Post told *Rolling Stone* that if people want lyrics, emotion, or something to think about, they shouldn’t listen to hip-hop—they should put on Bob Dylan‼️. Charlamagne immediately gave him Donkey of the Day, arguing that Post came up off hip-hop (“White Iverson”) and then dismissed the genre that launched him‼️. In the same *Rolling Stone* profile, Post went further: “He’s not a good person‼️. He hates me because I’m white and I’m different.”‼️ Charlamagne’s response was direct‼️. He said he doesn’t dislike people because they’re white—he disliked Post at the time because he thought he was “wack.”‼️ He added that he actually likes “Rockstar” and told Post to keep winning and give back to the Black community in some form‼️. That was his public defense: it wasn’t race, it was taste and perceived disrespect for the culture‼️. He kept it going‼️. In 2020 he told Wallo that if he could kick one person out of rap, it would be Post Malone, calling him a “fake Future.”‼️ He admitted he might just be hating and later walked it back a bit, saying he didn’t even despise him that much‼️. Then in 2022 on *Impaulsive* with Logan Paul, Charlamagne laid out the fuller version of his issue‼️. Post came from hip-hop, got on *Breakfast Club*, then made comments that treated rap like it had no depth or meaning‼️. Charlamagne saw that as hypocritical‼️. He argued hip-hop is nuanced—you can go from Future to Kendrick—and Post’s take felt like someone who only heard the party/lean side of the genre‼️. He even joked about “mayonnaise records.” That interview was him explaining the dislike without fully walking it back‼️. This is the pattern‼️. Charlamagne has checked plenty of rappers on air (Birdman walked out, Master P shut him down, etc.)‼️. With Post it became personal and prolonged because Post represented something Charlamagne has always been vocal about: artists who profit from the culture then talk about it like it’s lesser or disposable‼️. Whether you see it as gatekeeping, hating, or just him being himself, he rarely hides it‼️. He frames it as honesty and cultural protection‼️. Post framed it as a hater who couldn’t stop his success‼️. Both versions have lived in public for years, and Charlamagne has never really pretended he was just being nice‼️.

(st_ides)

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It would seem that Bruce Gray is saying that certain generationally different parts, if assembled in a certain way, could cause a P320 to fire unintentionally. He said he's never seen this problem manifest in the wild but he was apparently able to create such an unsafe situation in testing with various parts. I know Sig makes continuous rolling changes to their guns, some are pretty significant. I documented a number of them with the P365 when I was investigating issues with it years ago. They made significant changes to the fire control parts which addressed most of the concerns I had with the pistol at the time. If what Bruce says is true, that parts like an old take down lever and safety lever being installed in a newer pistol, along with other changes, can cause a situation where the gun fires unintentionally, that needs to be thoroughly investigated. I'm not sure exactly what Bruce is hinting at here as the details are a bit vague, but it sounds potentially serious (about 8 minutes into the video). Towards the end of the video he said in a week or so they would be announcing some new products that would “nibble around the edges”of the issues that might cause problems with the P320… I found that statement to be at odds with other things he said in this video, in particular there’s no way except for one that the P320 can fire unintentionally. He even said he "knows what’s going on" with the P320 and their new products will address these problem(s).🤷‍♂️ As of right now I personally would avoid putting aftermarket slides, strikers and fire controls in my P320's until more information becomes available. I would avoid mix-matching parts between guns. I’ll explain why with a link to another video I discovered where a P320 with an aftermarket slide is doing the exact same thing that the Wyoming Gun Project video showed. I’m also going to track Gray Guns to see what parts they ultimately offer to "fix" the issues Bruce alluded to towards the end of the video. Here's the link to the original video on FB:
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It would seem that Bruce Gray is saying that certain generationally different parts, if assembled in a certain way, could cause a P320 to fire unintentionally. He said he's never seen this problem manifest in the wild but he was apparently able to create such an unsafe situation in testing with various parts. I know Sig makes continuous rolling changes to their guns, some are pretty significant. I documented a number of them with the P365 when I was investigating issues with it years ago. They made significant changes to the fire control parts which addressed most of the concerns I had with the pistol at the time. If what Bruce says is true, that parts like an old take down lever and safety lever being installed in a newer pistol, along with other changes, can cause a situation where the gun fires unintentionally, that needs to be thoroughly investigated. I'm not sure exactly what Bruce is hinting at here as the details are a bit vague, but it sounds potentially serious (about 8 minutes into the video). Towards the end of the video he said in a week or so they would be announcing some new products that would “nibble around the edges”of the issues that might cause problems with the P320… I found that statement to be at odds with other things he said in this video, in particular there’s no way except for one that the P320 can fire unintentionally. He even said he "knows what’s going on" with the P320 and their new products will address these problem(s).🤷‍♂️ As of right now I personally would avoid putting aftermarket slides, strikers and fire controls in my P320's until more information becomes available. I would avoid mix-matching parts between guns. I’ll explain why with a link to another video I discovered where a P320 with an aftermarket slide is doing the exact same thing that the Wyoming Gun Project video showed. I’m also going to track Gray Guns to see what parts they ultimately offer to "fix" the issues Bruce alluded to towards the end of the video. Here's the link to the original video on FB:

Military Arms

61,431 views • 1 year ago

Cleric recounts past involvement in 1980 bank robbery, claims spiritual transformation By: Zagazola Makama A cleric with the Church of Christ in Nations, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, has publicly recounted his past involvement in a bank robbery carried out in 1980 in Jos. Dachomo, who has been described as a controversial figure, disclosed this in a recent interview with a foreign media He said he was part of a gang that successfully carried out the operation and made away with a substantial amount of money in Plateau state. According to him, the robbery was led by a close associate at the time. “He came to my room while I was sleeping. I didn’t know that I was operating with 14 demons until Jesus encountered me. That night there was war. He came with seven angels. I was just an observer, seeing the drama that is being done on my life. Jesus ordered the seven angels to strike the enemy. In fact, they were killed instantly. I took the covers of those images that were killed and I covered myself as if I’m dead. But the master Jesus said there was somebody that we have not killed. Go, fish him out. When they were coming, booting other corpses, then I had to stand up and begin to beg. I was asking for forgiveness. Forgive me, forgive me. I will never do that again.” He further admitted his past criminal involvement, stating: “Because I went in 1980, it was our gang that robbed a bank in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. 1980, they made away with a lot of money. It was my best friend that led the operation.” The cleric added that the encounter marked a turning point in his life: “I didn’t know that I would come and encounter God and God really helped me. That day that I encountered Jesus, I went outside. I tried my best to smoke cigarette or cool it. The power of smoking was broken in my life.” The cleric stated that his life later took a different turn following what he described as a personal spiritual encounter, which led him to abandon criminal activities and embrace a religious path. H e added that the experience marked a decisive break from his past, including the cessation of habits such as smoking. The public confessions by reverend Dachomo has generate mixed reactions, with some viewing them as testimonies of transformation, while others call for scrutiny and historical verification of the claims. Sheikh Yusuf Haruna Baban Chinedu, popularly known as Baban Chinedu, accused the pastor of fabricated the stories about meeting Jesus after a 1980 bank robbery in Jos. He is lying! I want you to listen and know that first of all, this man is a complete hypocrite and a total liar. I swear, it was a gun that shot them! Angels? He claims Jesus came down with seven angels who struck them and killed fourteen people while he hid in the blood? You see, even the angels God sent down… only managed to kill fourteen people and lost track of where that one man was?” The sheikh alleged Dachomo hid among corpses and was rescued by a gang member named Emmanuel, not Jesus: “He was begging Jesus for God’s sake to forgive him and spare his life. He claims that was where he met Jesus… By Allah, he is lying! … It was a gun that shot them! No Jesus descended there; he is lying to you.” He added. A lady told me; she heard him when he was shot, and he still has the scar from that wound on his left side. … He is lying! At that time, it was the police, Nigerian security agents, Nigeria Police MOPOL who she said shot them.” Baban Chinedu accused Dachomo of transitioning from “practical, street-level bandit” to “spiritual bandit” and inciting religious conflict.
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Cleric recounts past involvement in 1980 bank robbery, claims spiritual transformation By: Zagazola Makama A cleric with the Church of Christ in Nations, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, has publicly recounted his past involvement in a bank robbery carried out in 1980 in Jos. Dachomo, who has been described as a controversial figure, disclosed this in a recent interview with a foreign media He said he was part of a gang that successfully carried out the operation and made away with a substantial amount of money in Plateau state. According to him, the robbery was led by a close associate at the time. “He came to my room while I was sleeping. I didn’t know that I was operating with 14 demons until Jesus encountered me. That night there was war. He came with seven angels. I was just an observer, seeing the drama that is being done on my life. Jesus ordered the seven angels to strike the enemy. In fact, they were killed instantly. I took the covers of those images that were killed and I covered myself as if I’m dead. But the master Jesus said there was somebody that we have not killed. Go, fish him out. When they were coming, booting other corpses, then I had to stand up and begin to beg. I was asking for forgiveness. Forgive me, forgive me. I will never do that again.” He further admitted his past criminal involvement, stating: “Because I went in 1980, it was our gang that robbed a bank in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. 1980, they made away with a lot of money. It was my best friend that led the operation.” The cleric added that the encounter marked a turning point in his life: “I didn’t know that I would come and encounter God and God really helped me. That day that I encountered Jesus, I went outside. I tried my best to smoke cigarette or cool it. The power of smoking was broken in my life.” The cleric stated that his life later took a different turn following what he described as a personal spiritual encounter, which led him to abandon criminal activities and embrace a religious path. H e added that the experience marked a decisive break from his past, including the cessation of habits such as smoking. The public confessions by reverend Dachomo has generate mixed reactions, with some viewing them as testimonies of transformation, while others call for scrutiny and historical verification of the claims. Sheikh Yusuf Haruna Baban Chinedu, popularly known as Baban Chinedu, accused the pastor of fabricated the stories about meeting Jesus after a 1980 bank robbery in Jos. He is lying! I want you to listen and know that first of all, this man is a complete hypocrite and a total liar. I swear, it was a gun that shot them! Angels? He claims Jesus came down with seven angels who struck them and killed fourteen people while he hid in the blood? You see, even the angels God sent down… only managed to kill fourteen people and lost track of where that one man was?” The sheikh alleged Dachomo hid among corpses and was rescued by a gang member named Emmanuel, not Jesus: “He was begging Jesus for God’s sake to forgive him and spare his life. He claims that was where he met Jesus… By Allah, he is lying! … It was a gun that shot them! No Jesus descended there; he is lying to you.” He added. A lady told me; she heard him when he was shot, and he still has the scar from that wound on his left side. … He is lying! At that time, it was the police, Nigerian security agents, Nigeria Police MOPOL who she said shot them.” Baban Chinedu accused Dachomo of transitioning from “practical, street-level bandit” to “spiritual bandit” and inciting religious conflict.

Zagazola

28,784 views • 5 months ago

👤: Do you two ever meet up alone in your private lives? 🦚: Outside of work? No, because our tastes are completely different. He likes golf and doesn’t drink alcohol at all, while I like drinking and don’t play golf. 👤: What was the other members’ reaction when you formed a subunit together? 🐤: Actually, Donghae was the first one to say something about it. Since we’d been promoting as a group for so long, it seemed like Heechul and I would never form a subunit together. So when we finally did, everyone said it felt really refreshing. 🦚: That’s right. We were like oil and water. Even from the fans’ perspective, they all knew we weren’t compatible at all, so they wondered, “What would happen if these two got together?” That’s what made it so fun. 👤: What about when you were living together in the dorm? 🐤: We shared the same room. My bed was on the left, and Heechul’s bed was on the right. My bed and all my belongings were white, while everything on Heechul’s side was red. 🦚: Even his computer was completely white. His blanket, everything. As for me, everything was red, even my pillow. 👤: I’m curious. Since your tastes were so different and everything was opposite, didn’t you constantly clash or argue? 🐤🦚: We fought all the time. We had really big fights! 🐤: Back then, because we were so different, and we were young and hot headed, we’d think, “Why is he like that? Why is he so different from me?” But after we reached our forties, we started accepting those differences. 🦚: Yeah. After one of our fights a long time ago, Leeteuk said to me, “Heechul, let’s not fight anymore. You’re the only friend I have.” That really broke my heart. At the time, I was going out and hanging out with lots of friends every day. When I heard that, I started trying to understand Leeteuk. But when did I truly open my heart to him? Our personalities are really different. I remember after we finished our Indonesia tour, we were eating with the staff. Leeteuk never drinks alcohol. Do you remember? I even posted it on Instagram when we shared a drink together. 🐤: That’s right! 🦚: For someone who doesn’t drink at all, having even one glass means they’ve given up and compromised on a lot of things. From that moment on, our relationship became much stronger.
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👤: Do you two ever meet up alone in your private lives? 🦚: Outside of work? No, because our tastes are completely different. He likes golf and doesn’t drink alcohol at all, while I like drinking and don’t play golf. 👤: What was the other members’ reaction when you formed a subunit together? 🐤: Actually, Donghae was the first one to say something about it. Since we’d been promoting as a group for so long, it seemed like Heechul and I would never form a subunit together. So when we finally did, everyone said it felt really refreshing. 🦚: That’s right. We were like oil and water. Even from the fans’ perspective, they all knew we weren’t compatible at all, so they wondered, “What would happen if these two got together?” That’s what made it so fun. 👤: What about when you were living together in the dorm? 🐤: We shared the same room. My bed was on the left, and Heechul’s bed was on the right. My bed and all my belongings were white, while everything on Heechul’s side was red. 🦚: Even his computer was completely white. His blanket, everything. As for me, everything was red, even my pillow. 👤: I’m curious. Since your tastes were so different and everything was opposite, didn’t you constantly clash or argue? 🐤🦚: We fought all the time. We had really big fights! 🐤: Back then, because we were so different, and we were young and hot headed, we’d think, “Why is he like that? Why is he so different from me?” But after we reached our forties, we started accepting those differences. 🦚: Yeah. After one of our fights a long time ago, Leeteuk said to me, “Heechul, let’s not fight anymore. You’re the only friend I have.” That really broke my heart. At the time, I was going out and hanging out with lots of friends every day. When I heard that, I started trying to understand Leeteuk. But when did I truly open my heart to him? Our personalities are really different. I remember after we finished our Indonesia tour, we were eating with the staff. Leeteuk never drinks alcohol. Do you remember? I even posted it on Instagram when we shared a drink together. 🐤: That’s right! 🦚: For someone who doesn’t drink at all, having even one glass means they’ve given up and compromised on a lot of things. From that moment on, our relationship became much stronger.

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Yesterday, Muyiwa Riversongz OBE (OBE) posted this video. Someone tried to rob him and damage his car, and he called the police. The police could not find the white guy who was involved and then treated Muyiwa like a suspect because he was black. Muyiwa was being diplomatic, but I will say it as it is. This is the state of our nation. I have spent 36 years of my life in this country and practiced law for 25 years. I have visited prisons and police stations all over the country. I have seen a lot of black people in prisons who were innocent but pleaded guilty because they did not know the meaning of that or because they did not get a lawyer as they thought they could defend themselves. No, get a lawyer even if you are a lawyer. An incident happened years ago, and the police invited me to meet with them. I was already a Solicitor and was going to go until I spoke to two friends of mine who are also lawyers. They laughed and said, “Dele, don’t be stupid. Many innocent people are in jail. Go with a lawyer even if you are a lawyer.” I was shaken by that statement. I spoke to an elderly man later, and he said the same thing. Listen closely, if you have any issues with the police, and no matter how little, get a lawyer. I remember speaking to Muyiwa about this matter. To treat him like a suspect (A man honored by this nation) shows that there is racism in this country. Most times, it is covert and sometimes overt. Don’t play if you don’t want to be a victim. Our people don’t like to pay lawyers. They think they can talk, are educated, or are innocent, even in family matters. Get a lawyer before your life gets messed up. Many young black kids can’t do anything with their lives today due to criminal records. They are told to accept a caution, and they will let them go. Be careful out there. #deleolawanle #muyiwaolarewaju #ukpolice #racism
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Yesterday, Muyiwa Riversongz OBE (OBE) posted this video. Someone tried to rob him and damage his car, and he called the police. The police could not find the white guy who was involved and then treated Muyiwa like a suspect because he was black. Muyiwa was being diplomatic, but I will say it as it is. This is the state of our nation. I have spent 36 years of my life in this country and practiced law for 25 years. I have visited prisons and police stations all over the country. I have seen a lot of black people in prisons who were innocent but pleaded guilty because they did not know the meaning of that or because they did not get a lawyer as they thought they could defend themselves. No, get a lawyer even if you are a lawyer. An incident happened years ago, and the police invited me to meet with them. I was already a Solicitor and was going to go until I spoke to two friends of mine who are also lawyers. They laughed and said, “Dele, don’t be stupid. Many innocent people are in jail. Go with a lawyer even if you are a lawyer.” I was shaken by that statement. I spoke to an elderly man later, and he said the same thing. Listen closely, if you have any issues with the police, and no matter how little, get a lawyer. I remember speaking to Muyiwa about this matter. To treat him like a suspect (A man honored by this nation) shows that there is racism in this country. Most times, it is covert and sometimes overt. Don’t play if you don’t want to be a victim. Our people don’t like to pay lawyers. They think they can talk, are educated, or are innocent, even in family matters. Get a lawyer before your life gets messed up. Many young black kids can’t do anything with their lives today due to criminal records. They are told to accept a caution, and they will let them go. Be careful out there. #deleolawanle #muyiwaolarewaju #ukpolice #racism

Dele Olawanle

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