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I know. It's "lots." So many that... it's not even worth naming all of them! And again, even the companies that move their headquarters, they keep the core of their business in California. Oracle(I gave you a 3rd) runs from it's California offices. It's where the majority of it's workforce is and where they're programmers are. And if California didn't have to subsidize so many Red States, their own States taxes would be a LOT lower. ... "what the word losing 40 million a year means?" What is "the word?" You realize that's multiple words, right? Also, I said literally nothing about their P&L. I said you don't know what the word "subjective" is. See, when I did it, I actually used a word. When you did it, you used... a sentence. You also realize that... still doesn't mean someone is funny or not, right? Do you understand why he was canceled? -Do you get he still had the highest viewership, 2.4M a night? -Do you understand people 18-49, the most valuable demographic has largely cut the cord and they're now streaming. So despite his viewership still being dominant, the more important demographic, among which he was...again, still the most popular, well there were less of them watching the show live... as people did in the good old days when Iowa was still the top program. They now stream the show, fast-forward the commercial. What do you think that causes? That's rhetorical, it causes advertisers to pay FAR less in advertising fees. This, NOT the success of the program of the perception of Colbert being "funny," which again, is...objectively...subjective, led to the advertising dropping from 440M per annum to ~220M. That's a 160M a year loss purely due to how people consume Television. It wasn't some larger statement about who is "funny," though with the moron we have running the country suing people for free speech, and paramount going through a merger, that...very likely played a role. In any event, that you thought comedy wasn't subjective isn't NEARLY as stupid as you thinking a TV show that tapes in New York City somehow contributed to California's value to the United States in terms of GDP and more importantly, where 5 of the largest 10 companies in the WORLD are located. I can't imagine someone saying California is important and coming back and answering, 'err...why, because a show they tape in New York City that loses money!' Please Christ tell me you have someone manage your retirement for you. I don't care if they charge 10% per year, you seem like the type who'd invest in DJT or Trump Steaks while saying "Crypto isn't real money! Suckers! I'll never!"

Eh... maybe Wrestling less could help, but there's more concussions in Freestyle. I'm not sure what Shapiro's future looks like. He could definitely grow into a solid 163 or 74KG, but... I still like Duke with 3 years of PSU Wrestling and time to grow. He's so damn slick. One sleeper at 86KG is Sinclair. 3 more years of building his body up, he could be a great fit there. I like Hamiti a lot. I think he's a bit slicker than Mesenbrink, but life gets in the way for a lot of these guys. I'll also add, I don't know if Ross can do it in 3 years, but I think in 7 years, he is going to be a REAL threat. The kids are well on their way.

Oh...I think you mistake me. I know about the suspension his final year at Auburn for Baseball. How he blamed TB for that(I'm not sure that was intentional, but he held a grudge). And I understand he only played 2/3rd of the games, but the question is was he really THAT great or is it more "what could have been." He had 9-10 games and they had Marcus Allen, but he wasn't really splitting carries, he was walking right in and getting 20 a game. But still, he had one year with more than 700 yards. He had like 550, 580, 950 and then 700 in 11 games. So again, it's a "what could have been." Nobody questions his athletic ability. His size, his size, his speed, he hit the hole as hard as a ***I have a limited vocabulary*** on prom night... though he got more than 3-4 pumps in before he was brought down. All of the stuff you're telling me is how great he COULD have been... BUT for these issues that held him back. I think it's clearly what could have been. But he never got there. OJ Simpson ran for 2000 yards in a 14 game schedule. Bo played 11 games a couple years and ran for 700 and topped out at 950. I posted a couple links... yes, he only played partial seasons...which makes you think, again, "what could have been." Even in Baseball, he was healthy through his age 27 season and he was never the best player on his team. Hell, he was never one of the 4-5 best players using WAR(which is the best and most comprehensive way to compare players). He was the most amazing, but... end of the day, 4 years, 8.3 WAR. Eric Davis played at the same time. His career through 27, he put up almost 3X the WAR He was a very poor defensive player(even for LF)... despite some incredible highlight caliber plays. For his career, he had a couple of good seasons, but even the All-Star nod was fan voting and less about how actual ability. I loved Bo. I was a very little kid when he played, but I learned how to read by reading the sports section. Actually a funny story, but in 3rd grade, my teachers thought I couldn't read. They wanted to hold me back. My Dad would buy me the history of Baseball, each seasons Baseball preview, Baseball Encyclopedia, the history of the Super Bowls and I'd spend hours reading them. But I guess I didn't pay attention or something. So I'm at this meeting and they call me in and they ask me to read the sports section and... well, I still remember when it was. The Milwaukee Brewers had let Paul Molitor leave to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays despite a last minute intervention by Brewers owner, and acting commissioner Bud Selig. The teacher was proven wrong, my Dad told me good job and I.... left the room with tears welling up(he was my favorite player)! I also read his auto biography. The one in which he talks about killing a pig with a rock or he talks about killing birds throwing rocks at them. I think he'd have been an all-time great, but he just.. never got there sadly. So, it's more of a "what could have been."

I'm pretty sure I know the play you're talking about. Was it vs Seattle? The one where he just ran into the tunnel? He didn't even look like he was running fast. And then you can see on the screen, Seattle had a CB who was one of the fastest in the league. I want to say it was Kenny Easley(SP?) but he was probably the greatest safety in NFL history, so I think I'd remember it was him.... but anyway, whoever it was, they had an angle on Bo. They were not on the playside, so they took off on an angle toward the ~10. It's been a while since I saw a breakdown of the play, but they highlighted this one dude because he was like a 4.35 40 guy and he had SUCH an easy angle on Bo. I mean, give most of us the right angle and we can get there. You have like 90 yards! The way Bo just out ran that guy and everyone else, he was gliding. Again, I wish he would have just played Football for 4-5 years, won a few MVPs and ran for 8-9K yards, then played Baseball for the next 15. The freak injury cost him a lot and he still had a lot of highlights, but... it really was more what he COULD have done. This is what this man did with NO training camp. You miss training camp now due to a holdout, nobody is counting on you to stay healthy. You're not in FB shape. He walked from the Baseball field, right to the Football field and the position you get beat up the most. He also didn't life weights. His legs were too strong. When he was tackled vs the Bengals, everyone else would have just gone down, but he was so strong, he injured his leg(I've seen trainers and others say that had he lifted and trained, he may have had stronger tendons and ligaments and he doesn't suffer that injury... but I haven't a clue if that's true). Still, I just think about what if. What if Tampa doesn't draft him after getting him suspended from Baseball? What if he starts his NFL career 2 years earlier and doesn't have a multi-year layoff? What if he JUST plays Football? In the end, his career...it was better, but his total numbers are similar to AJ Dillon's. That's just...not right! https://stathead.com/football/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&player_id1=JackBo00&player_id2=DillAJ00

It was an EXCEEDINGLY low bar and... yet still fell well short. But we have certainly found something we agree on! Funny... but that'd be one of the most successful companies of the last 20 years had they paid 5M dollars for Netflix in 1998. The Texas company literally laughed at them. Then when Netflix had a little more success, they could have bought them for 50M in 2000. Again...nope. By 2008, they were worth 3.8B...and Blockbuster's 9K stores dwindled down t...one. Incidentally, Netflix, California company now had a 500B market cap. ... you don't know what the word "subjective" means, do you? The ratings for everything are declining. I think it's...very telling that in the midst of the most radical change in the American Economy in over 150 years, when I made mention of the importance of California, you went to Late Night TV and Almonds... Jesus... some people really can't escape that bubble and only see the world though social media clips online.

I would say if I was talking about subsidizing the Red States it would be completely ridiculous. California is driving what GDP growth there is, it's driving your 401Ks, your ROTH IRAs and if you have a self managed fund... well, if you're not invested in companies from California, you're...almost certainly losing money. About 34% of SPY is from California(it's significantly higher if you look at the companies that are actually in California, that innovate in California...again, like Tesla who's engineering department is in California but headquarters are often elsewhere for tax benefits. That's the US Market. So yes, what they pay in taxes is extraordinarily important, but almost inconsequential relative to the larger point I was making. It's just the easiest target for the intellectually lazy to take shots at. They ignore the 5 move violent states per capita are Republican States, they just imagine they're all blue.

I am at a loss as to why you'd conflate "a few cities" with the larger sentiment. Cool. "Lots." That's a very detailed explanation. Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. Let me ask you this...do you think the US would allow... lets say...NVDA, AAPL, AVGO, QCOM, META to move to another Country? No, of course not. Even when Tesla "moved," from California, to Delaware to Texas(basically whenever Elon doesn't get his way)... their Engineering Department remains in California. Why is this? Because that's where all the Engineers go. That's where the money is. California has the 4th largest GDP in the world, ahead of Japan, India.. It trails just the US, China and Germany...and it'd likely move ahead of Germany and...the US MAY move below China if California was not part of the United States. California is the most important State in the Union. Texas, New York, Alaska... they're important as well, but in terms of innovation, I made a statement and a couple people got a bit emotional about the political leanings of California... which is odd as I didn't bring up Politics. The SINGLE strongest bargaining Chip Trump had when it came to China... was being able to buy Semiconductors that are created in California. The entire world is lining up to buy them. You have an industry that's projected to generate 1 Trillions dollars per annum by 2028 and...it is ALL controlled by California. You have leaders of industry like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison begging... literally begging Nvidia to "take our money, please, take our money first," it's so important to their Company. How about the companies that protect ALL of that information we keep online? California. This is all a moot point as neither California, nor Texas nor... any of the States that make up our Great Country are leaving, but while it's cute for everyone to constantly trash California, you MAY want to stop and consider it's contributions to making the United States great before making some ignorant comments about how what California could have been... 'if only.' If only what? You agreed with their politics? Imagine what Texas could be if they had any regulations and didn't shut down when it was 30 degrees out because they have a 3rd world power grid or what Florida could have been if Meth didn't become the States pastime. Nonetheless, I stand by what I said.

I...absolutely believe this. Where is Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom located? PANW, QCOM, SMCI... Oklo... Tesla...which has since pulled up stakes, but in this scenario, California is it's own Country and... obviously wouldn't let them leave. And before people talk about EVs that... is NOT what makes Tesla an important company. In fac, their EV sales are...almost inconsequential. They should be a fraction of the size of Toyota if it was just about their cars. But it's not, it's about the Robotics. Rocket Labs... I mean, you could go on and on, but... you have all of the AI companies, you have the software and hardware and then you have the internet defense companies like PAWN, CRWD and the like. And California would need what from the rest of the US that they wouldn't be able to buy? I started at the end and just noticed people talking about farming and the like... no, that's...not the issue. I'm talking about the technologies that are changing the world and revolutionizing the US Economy and...moreover the Global Economy. The Technology that the Biden Administration thought was too important and powerful to put it in the hands of China or the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar...Israel. If California didn't have to pay out to the Federal Government, their Economy would be even stronger. So yes, there's no question California is more important to the US than the rest of the US is to California. The fact that you do have so much farming and that they're on the coast and were it necessary could easily have an endless supply of potable water for for their farming and...what do you suppose they would need from the US? And again, in this scenario, each side is cut off to the other sides resources, technology, what have you. If you find that so amusing Robby... you may want to educate yourself. What did Trump say was the most important Technology and his priority to ensure the United States remain the world leaders in? AI. That ALL originates in California.

Really? I don't know, why don't you look at Semiconductors. The most important technology in the world right now. That's a pretty big one.

This one always gets me. You have a 240 LB RB going downhill and a LBer coming at an angle to meet him. I mean, Bo was INCREDIBLY powerful. He ran over dudes... but a smaller RB is going to win that battle most of the time. It'd be more shocking if Bo was stopped there. I just think that was so infamous because Bo was a huge name and Bosworth was a huge name, both were very high picks. Boz started out strong, had that shoulder injury(this is before I would have actually watched it, but I have watched the 30 for 30 on why it was so big). Mainly though, people were in awe of Bo and disliked Bosworth. I still think that's the most overhyped play in NFL history. There are times Atwater met Bo in the hole and Bo just ran through him. That's more impressive. Atwater coming downhill, squared up, full head of steam and Bo just hitting the hole and putting the 6'3 225LB Atwater on his back? Are we EXEPCTING this LBer to make the tackle here without Bo gaining more yards?

I'd agree with your friend. I don't think he ever had 1000 yards. I know he had a year with like 33 HRs, but a low BA. He was on the verge. Could have easily popped off a few 1500-2000 yard seasons and it wouldn't have surprised me or he could have hit 50 HRs, but he got hurt before he could have. Deion ended up being the MUCH better two sport star.

And... what is it now? The State that supports the Red States the most? The State where most innovation is done? If... in some wild scenario, California became it's own State, the US would need it more than it would need the US(assuming you don't just go in and take what you need by force).

Again... really not the point, but you tell me. Look at a trade made by Paul Pelosi(we'll assume it all came from Nancy) and tell me what information wasn't readily available to the public? I invested in a stock that went from .77 cents to 22 dollars(I only had a couple thousand shares and sold early, but still). A LOT of people invested in PLTR at 6-7 and then a WHOLE lot at 20 and that's up ~800% this year. Just big returns isn't evidence of guilt. But, again, just have it all done in a blind trust by a Fiduciary. It's pretty simple. My good friend manages well over 1B for one of the largest investment firms in the world. He told me to buy Nvidia in 2015(I didn't... but I did buy it by 2020). He told me to buy AVGO two years ago. I did. So if you want to play this game where you pin the this all on one person, give me something more than...720%.

I don't really want to get into a whole big thing here, but... she's been invested in NVDA for a long time. Anyone who manages their own portfolio knows that's... not that shocking given her main holdings(and of course it's her Husband who manages their finances). I mean, just NVDA is up 3300% or so from 2020. But...whatever. Have them all put it in a blind trust. Everyone is invested in Nvidia, SPY is mostly like...7 companies that make up 1/3rd of it's value. It's the trades where Biden announces a subsidy for EVs or Trump announces he's rolling back the export controls to the Middle East and China(which he did for semiconductors) and you see people from those parties buying large blocks of call options that pay out 400-500% that are the most egregious. But again, whatever, call it the Pelosi act. I don't care who gets crap for it. We do some really stupid things as a Country. I've got most my money in Nvidia and I was shocked Trump rolled back the sanctions on China which has resulted in a...IDK, 15-20% pump for AMD, NVDA, SMCI. So big fan personally... but not sure it's best for the Country.

I'm thinking Duke and McEnelly will be the '74 and '86 in '28. McEnelly could eventually go up to '97... but he was the most impressive Freshmen this year. Starocci...everything else aside, he was one of the all-time greats as much because of his defense as anything else. So for McEnelly to push him and Keckiesen and then take 3rd, I thought that was impressive. You'd be looking at a guy likely on the grind for 4 if not for the Covid year. And '74, instead of looking at who can make the cut, I think Duke will grow into that weight. Mesenbrink could obviously be the guy as well. Not sure his style plays quite as well in Freestyle(though, he'll likely prove me wrong).

Yeah... and the guy talking about how he has not...morality(not exactly how he put it, it was MUCH harsher) could NOT stop trashing him for his recruiting updates! Now, he's NOT talking about it...AND HE'S GETTING TRASHED FOR THAT! Talk about a no-win situation...

I'm gonna guess Jax comes out and wins a commanding match. He'll get a few more TDs and kinda extend the gap in this match... (I didn't think that at all, I thought Vito would win).

You're interested in Nickal's pettiness? And you're framing this as someone else acting "cool" by pointing out this drives view and yet; So we DO care about the podcast, but not about the two of them Wrestling? Your posts seem incongruent.

And you're losing Keegan and Melvin apparently. So... yeah, it really doesn't make sense to "break up" with Bassett. Even if Keegan is "only" the Hunter Stieber to Logan, you still have Miller and that's still a lot of talent to just... "break up with." I think that will either propel Okie State or keep PSU on top.

I thought he was not drinking coffee and thought caffeine was a drug. I thought he was that level of Mormon. Maybe he's eased up on that, I don't know. I'm not very religious and find a lot of hypocrisy in it. I get giving guys a 2nd chance. I would have had zero problems with him bringing Gross in and people LOVE the story about Marstellar in this sport because we love redemption stories. I don't really have a strong opinion about Cael's role in this. I don't know how much he has to do with Brooks, I don't know how realistic it is to expect him to boot a kid going for his 5th for an accusation of theft. He HAS just been quiet. He's quiet when he wins, when he loses. But if Starocci is accused of rape...and I've had a million things going on, I'm still not sure if there's actually an accusation or an accusation via Bartlett... that's gotta be hard for Cael to deal with. If there's hazing and that weird stuff going on... he needs to speak up about that. No room for any of that Diddy stuff in the locker room! (That's speaking in a "modern" way @forkemaz). I just don't know how much of this Cael should address. 1-Hazing- yes. Come out strong. 2-RTC guys popping? Eh...what's he say? 'He made a mistake and that's something he'll have to deal with, we don't believe in taking short cuts?' Not much to say there. 3-Starocci? I still don't know. Whatever he does, it doesn't take much to dirty a program, it takes a LOT to clean it up though. Penn State goes 4-5 years with absolutely nothing(Which is unlikely with College kids) saying or doing something stupid... I would say DT and Okie St kinda have the 'moral high-ground' now for...whatever that's worth.

No... it doesn't, but the post I was replying to do and YOU jumped in and said; So you didn't say it, but you jumped in to me commenting on it and said this. Do you know what an inference is? It's "modern speak," as opposed to the Old English I'm used to! Yeah...that's...SO modern. "Mongloid?" You think that, "gay" or "you have aids," is MODERN? Reetarded is older than any of them. How old are you that this is modern? I don't talk to a lot of people who say "that's cancerous," as part of their normal vernacular, but when you use a term like "sociopath," or some asinine medical diagnosis, it sounds ignorant.... it sounds like a teenage girl whining about the girls she's like...'uh, just so over already...it's like...just toxic, ya know.' But got it, saying stupid things is "just speaking in a modern way."

So...THIS is our argument for why he's a narcissist? If you think he's a dick, fine, but do you understand what a narcissist is and how rare they are? Yet, it's become a stand-in for, "I don't like that person." Yes, they're Jesus Freaks...or to the faithful....Followers of Christ or whatever is respectful. That's kinda what they do. Their WHOLE thing is forgiveness. I don't know what athlete doesn't evoke God when they REALLY screw up and apologize? You didn't answer why he's a narcissist. I don't like the Brands. I just think they're dicks. I do not think they are narcissists. There's...maybe 1 or 2 people I can think of that I know that based on all the 0 years of any form of medical training I'd categorize as narcissists and I could be wrong on them. It's up there with "on the spectrum," I'm "neuroodivergent," when...it's more common if you're under 30 to be self diagnosed as neurodivergent than not and... oh, gas lighting. That's one I've seen used a lot. Yeah, or maybe I just DON'T remember you asking 10 times in the last week because I haven't seen you 10 times in the last couple months!

She seems... weird. Like her and Kyle Snyder may have met under different circumstances...for a "QV." I believe that's how she met Belichick(at least it's the rumor). Just a weird situation there... but I am hardly going to cry over AJ Ferrari.

I thought he started talking to her when she was 17 and then didn't actually meet her until 18, brought her into the locker room when she was 18 and...then I have no idea. I've just seen people editorializing. "There was a power imbalance." I don't know WTF that means. He wasn't a boss and while going after a HS girl when you're in College is creepy, if he didn't sleep with her until she was a Freshmen... So I assume there's more to it, but I have...really no idea.

I was mostly indifferent. I didn't see it until later, but...Ferrari was the biggest clown then. It certainly didn't bother me. Speaking of which, I'm not keeping up on this real close. Is there someone who has come out and said, "Carter Starocci raped me," or is this Beau saying he did it? I don't need her name or anything, just...is there an accuser other than Bartlett.