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Mr.Charlie retweeted
41 years ago today Dusty Rhodes cut the legendary ‘HARD TIMES’ promo:
“Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, and got four or five kids, and can't pay the wages, can't buy the food, hard times, or when the auto workers are out of work, and they tell them, go home, and hard times are when a man is working a job, 30 years, 30 years. They give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, hey, a computer took your place, daddy”
(1985)
Mr.Charlie retweeted
VIDEO COMPILATION OF THE LOUDEST AND MOST BRUTAL HITS IN #NFL HISTORY.
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ABSOLUTE INSANITY:
Mr.Charlie retweeted
“Daisy Bell”, the first song ever sung by a computer (1961)
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Mr.Charlie retweeted
In April 1983 Metallica fired their lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine, and put him on a four-day bus ride home. He had co-written four songs on their first album. Metallica went on to sell more than 125 million albums.
The clip is from 2001, when he sat down with Lars Ulrich for the first time in years. He says it without being asked: "Am I happy being number two? No."
He was 21. The band woke him up and told him he was out. "No warning. No second chance." He admits he drank too much and was dangerous. What he never got over was the way it ended, and that they kept his music.
Within months he started his own band, Megadeth. He sold tens of millions of records, won a Grammy, and wrote a bestseller. By almost any measure, a career most musicians would trade everything for.
The numbers.
Time in Metallica: about two years.
Bus ride home: four days.
Songs he co-wrote on Metallica's first album: four. On the second: two.
Metallica's albums sold since: more than 125 million, the most-cited figure.
Megadeth's: somewhere between 38 and 50 million, depending on who counts.
2026: Megadeth's final album closes with his own version of "Ride the Lightning," a song he co-wrote for Metallica 43 years earlier.
Here's what I keep thinking about. He didn't lose. He just had one other path to compare against, and it happened to be one of the biggest bands in history. Tens of millions of records still felt like second place, because the benchmark was the life he was removed from.
You get fired from a band months before its first album. Twenty years later you've sold tens of millions of records of your own, and they've sold 125 million. Is that a win or a loss?
Mr.Charlie retweeted
In 1976, the U.S. government funded one of the most psychedelic short films ever made.
It was filled with odd images and occult symbols.
🎬 from 200 (1976) by Vince Collins.
Mr.Charlie retweeted
A fan parachutes onto the Shea Stadium infield during top of the first inning in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series
What great lines from Vin.. The sheer genius to come up with some solid one liners off the cuff during a live broadcast. Vin really was a great broadcaster. Great voice as well.
Mr.Charlie retweeted
Taking social security at 62, 67 or 70? Let’s break it down with these numbers.
62 - $1800/month
67 - $2400/month
70 - $3000/month
The difference between taking the money at 67 instead of 62 means you miss 5 years of $21,600/yr which comes out to $108,000. By waiting until 67, you only get an additional $7,200 per year. Take that $108,000 divided by $7200 and you get 15. This means it’d take 15 years to break even, putting you at age 82.
Let’s say you wait until 70 for the maximum benefit. The same math we worked above comes out to 12. Meaning it would take 12 years to break even, putting you at age 82.
So here’s my question and why I think the answer is so clear and obvious…
Would you rather have money at 62 or 82?
Comment below and let me know!
Mr.Charlie retweeted
⛔️ SENSITIVE ⛔️ | Uncensored footage of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Mr.Charlie retweeted
This is the last morning of Jonestown, filmed by an NBC crew on November 18, 1978. Within 24 hours almost everyone you see here was dead, including the man behind the camera.
The night before, a man named Vernon Gosney had walked up to an NBC reporter and slipped him a note: “Please help us get out of Jonestown.” Gosney had mistaken reporter Don Harris for the congressman. Congressman Leo Ryan had flown into the jungle of Guyana with the crew to find out whether Jim Jones was holding Americans there against their will. Around 900 members of Jones’s Peoples Temple lived in that settlement.
In the video below Harris sits down with Jones, shows him the note, and asks about people who want to leave. Jones says they’re lying and want to destroy Jonestown.
That afternoon about 15 people left with Ryan’s group and drove to the Port Kaituma airstrip. Temple members pulled up on a tractor and opened fire. NBC cameraman Bob Brown kept filming the shooters until they shot him. Ryan, Harris, Brown, a newspaper photographer and one of the defectors died on that airstrip. Gosney was shot too and survived.
The same evening Jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide mixed into a fruit drink, and some were forced. 909 people died in Jonestown, more than 270 of them children. Jones was found with a gunshot wound to the head.
Did showing Jones that note on camera help those people get out, or did it set off everything that happened next?
Mr.Charlie retweeted
Trump: We were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said why aren’t you putting Russian sanctions—
Collins: But you said you didn’t give anything for his release
Trump: If I didn’t do that, you wouldn’t have him coming back.
Collins: So you did give something.
Trump: You don’t know anything. You’re fake news CNN.
Collins: You’re saying you lifted the sanctions in exchange for his release?
Trump: You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy.
Mr.Charlie retweeted
🚨🔥🇺🇸 What in the ever-living FUCK did I just watch?!
“Then I looked at his ass, and then I looked at his legs, and it might… I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like, it’s like a pile of muscle!
Then I looked at his legs, and I said, Man, his feet are big!”
Did the President of the United States just describe a man’s body in lustful detail on live television?
SERIOUSLY, am I having a STROKE? How TF are you supposed to react to that?!
Writer: Jamie
Mr.Charlie retweeted
Disney has somewhere between 16 and 30 hours of Robin Williams riffing as the Genie that never made it into Aladdin. His will keeps nearly all of it locked up until August 11, 2039.
And the reason goes back to the $75,000 Disney paid him for the part.
That's him in the booth in this clip, and you can see why the tapes piled up. He kept going off script, and the animators more or less had to animate whatever came out of him. Eric Goldberg ended up building the Genie around Robin's old standup bits, and a former Disney exec later said that when he was on, he was doing about 30 jokes a minute.
$75,000 was union scale. His normal rate back then was around $8 million a movie, so he took less than 1% of what he usually got. He said he did it to make something for his kids, and he asked for one thing in return. Disney couldn't use his voice to sell toys and fast food, and the Genie couldn't take up more than a quarter of the ads.
Aladdin made over $500 million. The Genie ended up in Burger King promotions and plastered across bus shelters all over LA. When Robin complained publicly, Disney sources told the LA Times it was sour grapes over the paycheck, and the studio's line was that he'd signed off on the marketing. At some point a Picasso showed up as a peace offering, reportedly worth around $1 million.
He still refused to do the sequel. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, played the Genie instead, and Robin only came back after Disney got a new studio chief in 1994 who apologized in public.
You'd think that was the end of it. Then his estate plan went public in 2015, a year after he died.
His trust gave his name, signature, photo and likeness to a charity and blocked anyone from using them commercially for 25 years. Lawyers back then wrote about it as a way to stop somebody from making a Robin Williams hologram or dropping him into a new movie with CGI, which sounded a little out there in 2015. A former Disney exec later said that clause is why all those Genie outtakes never got turned into another Aladdin movie. When Disney made a short for its 100th anniversary in 2023, the family okayed exactly one unheard Genie line.
Then Sora 2 came out in October 2025, and suddenly anybody could make a fake Robin Williams video in a few minutes. People flooded TikTok with them, fake ads, fake award show bits. It got bad enough that his daughter Zelda posted, "Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad."
Those Genie tapes are going to sit in Disney's vault for almost 13 more years, because a guy who got paid $75,000 in 1992 made sure of it.
Robin Williams voiced the Genie in Disney's 1992 Aladdin for union scale, about $75,000. His usual fee was around $8 million a film.
He said he agreed to that fee to make something for his kids.
There was one condition. Disney would not use his voice to sell merchandise from the film.
In the clip below, Williams records the Genie in the studio.
Aladdin became the highest-grossing film of 1992. The Genie turned up in Burger King promotions, and Williams's voice was used in some of the ads.
Williams said publicly that Disney had broken the deal. Disney sources, per the LA Times, called it sour grapes.
He refused to come back for the 1994 sequel, The Return of Jafar. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, voiced the Genie in it and in the TV series.
In 1994, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the studio when the deal was made, left Disney. Joe Roth replaced him. Disney apologized publicly and reportedly sent Williams a Picasso painting.
For the third film, Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), Castellaneta had already recorded most of the Genie's lines. Disney brought Williams back anyway. He was reportedly paid $1 million this time.
So did Disney break its word, or did Williams regret working for $75,000 once the film became a hit?
Mr.Charlie retweeted
#EnVideo 📹 | Muere padre tras ser aplastado por una cruz durante misa en vivo
El párroco de la iglesia Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro, en Guayaquil, Ecuador, murió este sábado tras ser golpeado por una pesada cruz de madera que se desprendió de la pared en medio de una misa que se transmitía en vivo.
La arquidiócesis de Guayaquil emitió un comunicado informando la muerte del padre Patricio Sánchez:
"Comunicado: Informamos que nuestro querido P. Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, CSsR., quien se desempeñaba como párroco de la iglesia Perpetuo Socorro en la Vicaría Centro, ha partido a la Casa del Padre para gozar de su presencia y su gloria", dijo la arquidiócesis de Guayaquil.
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