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UpperWestside

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  1. It's not got a whole lot to do with the play calling in the red zone. This is on the guys on the field to figure it out. It's been a season long issue, but it's on the players to make some big plays in those situations. Last year you could just give it to Skattebo and he did his thing. Brown is good, but not that level of good.
  2. I never bought a new TV once I moved. I watch everything on my laptop. Kinda got used to it and found I don’t miss a TV. You are probably correct though about how these apps would work better on a TV.
  3. Love Defector! Best subscription I have ever had. Used to go to their birthday celebrations and live podcasts they did when I lived in NYC. Great group of writers. There has never, ever been a player even remotely like this guy. There is really not enough superlatives to adequately say just how good he is.
  4. My guys will win against Tech IF Leavitt has a big game and can make 4 or 5 good plays on the run. Big ask from a guy whose wheels aren't at 100 percent, but do what you gotta do I guess. I don't blame the defense for last week's rout and I think Dillingham punted that game since he knew he had no QB. If Leavitt has a big game then that means Tyson does as well. If the ground game can just hit 150 overall that'll be enough to win as well. We also owe them for last year's loss. If we lose we lose, but I feel that our defense will hopefully get enough pressure from the ends to keep it close going into the 4th quarter. @Iceman good luck and Fork'em!
  5. Israeli Nazis. What a time to be alive.
  6. I think what we’re figuring out is that many of these stories are impossible to tell if they aren’t done in the form of mini-series/season. This is especially so when it’s a story about someone most of us know very little about.
  7. I never had any of these apps, but I would have done the same thing you did if I had been. I only have Britbox, AcornTV and PBS Masterpiece. Those apps are all worth it to have.
  8. It’s almost as if this guy is not on the up and up.
  9. This is someone I met back in 2002 at a Sunday morning service at a Church of Christ up in Gainesville. Coach Robinson was there singing and with his family. He was a mountain of a man when I met him that day. I have been friends with members of his family for almost 25 years now. Seeing him battle when he could just give up is who I have known him to be. He’s a good human being that tries to do right by people, but his diagnosis is pure hell to deal with. https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2025/10/08/mike-robinson-desoto-football-head-coach-health-issues-battle/
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  10. This one nailed America in 2025. Really I could say it got modern society in any developed nation right as well. Keanu was great in this and I enjoyed Rogen’s character as well as the one played by Ansari. It was funny at times, but it had moments I think everyone here can relate to in your own life. This was one of those movies that should make you smile once it’s over.
  11. Josh Johnson is really good in my opinion. I also like Sarah Cooper. They just have styles that I like. I have not seen near as much of Shane Gillis as others here like Derka have, but I like him too. Roy Wood Jr. would be another favorite. I have met him in-person twice and he’s as cool as he seems. Just a good guy trying to make someone’s day better with laughter. I also have a friend that is a comedian back in NYC named Calise Hawkins. She has no filter on what she’ll say to the audience and it was fun to go see her in-person at the NYCC when she’d perform.
  12. Those statues are one of the wonders of the world. The carvings are just stunning and we can now know that the way they got them into place was by using timber. I am certain you already know this, but the archaeological record shows that they made fires on the island. This is one they were forced to leave because they used up all the wood available to them. I will not call them great conservationists.
  13. One of the things that irks me when Polynesians seafarers are mentioned is that they went island hopping only out of necessity. This is fundamentally not true, but the “history” of this culture was largely written by Europeans until the 20th century. They were explorers as well. They wanted to find new places beyond the horizon. They understood how to travel the world’s most beautiful yet harshest ocean. I would imagine that they lost many great navigators in their attempts to explore and find new places, but they kept going. They spread Polynesian civilization across the widest swath that anyone ever has in human civilization history. It is why I hold them and their sailing feats above anyone else that took to the world’s oceans in search of what was out there. That they can still use these ancient methods to accurately travel is, to me, incredible. I have watched up close for the last year what Polynesian culture is like and one thing that stands out is their love of the Pacific Ocean. Everywhere you go on the Windward side of Oahu you will see people out on the water in canoes. It’s still an integral part of life here on these islands as well as every other island group in the Pacific. I still have to marvel that the Polynesians who left the Marquesas Islands a millenia or so ago were able to find the Hawaiian Islands. The seamanship and expertise with this ocean to pull that off has no equal.
  14. I'm an American and I'm glad that Charlie Kirk is burning in hell. I'm also glad that that moron woman that got killed on January 6th is there too.
  15. I applaud your stream of consciousness in all its splendor.
  16. This details that Polynesians made their way to the west coast of South America 800 years ago. Not just a theory, but one backed up by DNA evidence. People who were called savages by European sailors as late as the 18th and 19th centuries made landfall using Polynesian methods with no modern equipment. Anyone interested in how the world’s oceans were explored should definitely spend time reading about Polynesian navigators. https://www.history.com/articles/polynesian-sailors-americas-columbus
  17. If there is a Mt. Rushmore for navigators this man belongs on it. He was the one who successfully brought the Hokulea from Hawai’i to Tahiti using no modern equipment to prove that the ancient Polynesian Wayfinders were as good as any explorers in history. https://daily.jstor.org/pius-mau-piailug-master-navigator-of-micronesia/
  18. This book is really good and I would highly recommend reading it. It will give you an excellent overview of how the Pacific was settled and why that was and is so important. It’s science based and not just conjecture. Micronesian stick charts are talked about as well as how Polynesians could listen to the ocean to find their way is fascinating. The Pacific was like an enormous highway system to them. The Hokulea voyage in 1976 really hammers home just how ridiculously good Polynesians were at ocean voyages. I tell people that while Euros were busy trying to get out of the Mediterranean the Polynesians were settling islands thousands and thousands of miles apart and we know it was them because of linguistics. The languages all shared common characteristics, but were from the same basic language.
  19. I was going to mention this yesterday, but didn't. Polynesian seafarers and explorers were many, MANY magnitudes better at exploring than any European was. There shouldn't be any debate on that. Their ability to traverse an ocean that the rest of the continents could fit into is the most incredible seafaring accomplishment in history. They were doing this with no instruments to guide them nor did they have the ships that Columbus had. What they did have was an absolutely amazing ability to remember their history of exploration through the telling of stories over centuries upon centuries. There is no close 2nd to them, at all.
  20. Maybe you'll find Sue's dad there dealing stud.
  21. The comment from Leo's daughter when she met Penn's character made me laugh. Don't remember the exact line, but she told him he wears lifts in his shoes right after she made fun of his shirt. One of the more memorable exchanges in the movie to me.
  22. Matsuzawa did an IG Live in the locker room. Took a still image from the video. Coach Chang called him The Tokyo Toe as well. Great nickname. He also broke Jason Elam’s record for consecutive field goal makes as he is now 20-20 on the season. That’s unreal to be that accurate and have that much power in your leg.
  23. Alejado’s last two games have him at 69-101 for 870 yards with 6 TD passes and another rushing TD. He had 413 yards tonight and 457 last game against the AFA. If he was 6’3” he’d already be a starter at a P4 school. I hope he stays here because he is not your typical freshman QB and Chang will let him throw the pill all he wants.
  24. One of the best things about games at the TC Ching campus stadium is you can walk on the track behind the visitor bench and watch the game if you want to.
  25. The story is amazing on its own for sure. Then you watch him kick and he just has a cannon for a foot. I also like the sign calling him “The Tokyo Toe” as mentioned above. Looks like he’s a baseball fan as well with the celebration he has on successful field goals.
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