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A few controversial things I believe:
1) A grown man with a family has no business getting on a ladder to put up Christmas lights.
2) a larger vehicle is safer than a smaller vehicle. Put your family in an SUV. Period. Crash ratings are a scam.
3) Pitbulls are a public nuisance.
4) politics is a total waste of time. Putting energy towards it is inversely correlated to happiness.
5) earning money is hard. $100k a year is a lot of money. Twitter acts like it’s easy but it isn’t.
6) sports betting is a disaster for society. Quietly destroying a lot of men’s lives.
7) waiting till 35 to think about kids is a huge mistake. These folks are all going to regret not having more, earlier.
8) SEC and Big10 schools are the new Ivy League. Wealthy families want to send their kids there, not Harvard or Stanford.
9) religion is making a comeback. And the people who get serious about it end up with better lives.
10) marrying a doctor or a lawyer is high status, but low enjoyment. These folks live stressful lives with very little flexibility.
11) vaping and weed are better for your body than alcohol, but worse for your career and life. They remove ambition and energy and make you less social.
12) giving our kids 75 vaccines is going to go down in history as a net-negative on society.
13) technology won’t actually advance a lot from here. Our physical worlds will largely be the same 20 years from now.
14) driverless cars are 20 years away. Waymo won’t make it out of the major cities with 25 mile an hour speed limits.
15) Virtual reality won’t become a thing. Nobody has any use for it.
16) 99% of people have no use for AI and it has reached 90% of its potential utility. Massive waste of electricity on the whole.
17) Web3 is a joke. Crypto is worthless. Bitcoin is a fad and is 100% speculative. Massive waste of electricity. Solves a problem that doesn’t exist.
18) electric vehicles will not become mainstream. They do more harm to the environment than good. Creating them and disposing of them is an environmental catastrophe.
19) Starlink is a miracle and ads 10x more value to society than the previous 5 things on this list combined. Elon needs a Nobel prize.
20) the fed has done a great job over the last 3 years with rates.
21) nuclear power is the only way forward. Solar and wind are not sustainable and are a total waste of money. Oil and gas is the only viable solution today and America should invest heavily in more production.
22) Silicon Valley influencers and Tech titans are out of touch with the true needs of Americans. They could benefit by spending some time in a Walmart. Most people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table. They don’t need another app for their meta glasses.
What’s something you believe that isn’t a common belief? Which one am I wrong about?
To me, the most impressive part about this guy is that he even properly wove the play-by-play into the conversation.
Franzke asked him about his job and mid sentence goes “as there’s a hit to left and the Nats have a 1 out base runner” like a total pro.
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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is
Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?
And somehow that is the whole point
I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it
From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again
When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak
The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them
But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus
Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it
A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it
And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care
And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off
He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard
That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show
We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product
That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was
And that is exactly why we keep watching
Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!
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According to a new CNN poll, 13 out of every 10 Democrats oppose having to show a photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
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From the "it can always be worse" department: 15 years ago yesterday. Nowata hit -31F, the wind chill at Medford was -47F, and Spavinaw had 27 inches of snow! ticker.mesonet.org/ #okwx #okmesonet

ALT Graphic titled “15th Anniversary of the Lowest Temperature Ever Recorded in Oklahoma — Feb. 10, 2011: -31°F at Nowata.” A map of Oklahoma shows minimum air temperatures from that date, with widespread subzero readings across the state. The coldest value, -31 degrees at Nowata in northeastern Oklahoma, is circled. A list on the left shows other towns with temperatures in the negative 20s. Mesonet branding appears at the bottom.
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This performance of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" on the Lawrence Welk Show is pure gold.
The maracas guy understood the assignment.
Some of ya’ll don’t follow your parents on social media and it shows.
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I’d give anything to be able to listen to Rush during Trump 47. I think about it all the time. So miss Rush.
I don’t get these small town schools that don’t want the summer league using their baseball & softball fields, those kids are your future.
I don’t know who in the chain of command approved this design change but this new spindle design with the mounting bolt cast into the spindle is junk. @JohnDeere @SurePointAg @DawnEquipment
Please make this happen.
🚨 #BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee has introduced legislation to ABOLISH TSA
TSA is nothing more than security theater and has NEVER thwarted a single terror attack.
All they do is grope and harass Americans attempting to travel, while making airports miserable.
They have to go!
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🚨 #BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee has introduced legislation to ABOLISH TSA
TSA is nothing more than security theater and has NEVER thwarted a single terror attack.
All they do is grope and harass Americans attempting to travel, while making airports miserable.
They have to go!
Brandt and I visited a landlord at their family home tonight. This cellar was built from native sandstone blocks in 1916, a new house was built over top of it in the late 60’s by a crew my neighbor and my grandfather ran in the winter. Cool to see it so well preserved!
A sport still worth watching.



























