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I'm not very bright but isn't that the point of a tariff?
Reduce profitability for companies that import?
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Some good names on the list but the Earl Campbell jersey is a strong choice.
The Phillies are wearing NFL jerseys on the plane when they leave tonight for their road trip to Toronto and Miami. I'm sure there'll be plenty of photos later on here. But here's a small sample of guys I spoke to directly about their jersey choices. You might see a story about this from me somewhere later this week:
Jeff Hoffman - Marvin Harrison (Colts)
Weston Wilson - Chad Johnson (Bengals)*
Garrett Stubbs - Jake Elliott (Eagles)
Orion Kerkering - Saquon Barkley (Eagles)
Rob Thomson & Austin Hays - Brian Dawkins (Eagles)
Kyle Schwarber - Icky Woods (Bengals)
Edmundo Sosa & Johan Rojas - Devonta Smith (Eagles)
Zack Wheeler - Deion Sanders (Falcons)
Caleb Cotham - Earl Campbell (Oilers)
Carlos Estevez & Tanner Banks - Jalen Hurts (Eagles)
Max Lazar - Jalen Ramsey (Dolphins)
Tyler Phillips - Randall Cunningham (Eagles)
Brandon Marsh - Michael Vick (Falcons)*
Taijuan Walker - Ricky Williams (Saints)
Nick Castellanos - Tua Tagovailoa (Dolphins)*
* - Didn't actually talk to these guys about their choices but saw them at their lockers.
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OldGuysLearnAI retweeted
Borrowed from a FB page for Softball, but thought it applied to all sports:
This is how it should be 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
“People always asked "Why do you pay so much money for your kid to do sports”? Well I have a confession to make; I don't pay for my kid to to do sports. Personally, I couldn't care less about what sport she does.
So, if I am not paying for sports what am I paying for?
- I pay for those moments when my kid becomes so tired she wants to quit but doesn’t.
- I pay for those days when my kid comes home from school and is “too tired" to go to her training but she goes anyway.
- I pay for my kid to learn to be disciplined, focused and dedicated.
- I pay for my kid to learn to take care of her body and learn how to correctly fuel her body for success.
- I pay for my kid to learn to work with others and to be a good team mate, gracious in defeat and humble in success.
- I pay for my kid to learn to deal with disappointment, when they don’t get that placing or title they'd hoped for, but still they go back week after week giving it their best shot.
- I pay for my kid to learn to make and accomplish goals.
- I pay for my kid to respect, not only themselves, but others, officials, judges and coaches.
- I pay for my kid to learn that it takes hours and hours, years and years of hard work and practice to create a champion and that success does not happen overnight.
- I pay for my kid to be proud of small achievements, and to work towards long term goals.
- I pay for the opportunity my child has and will have to make life-long friendships, create lifelong memories, to be as proud of her achievements as I am.
- I pay so that my child can be in the gym instead of in front of a screen...
- I pay for those rides home where we make precious memories talking about practice, both good and bad.
-I pay so that my child can learn the importance of time management and balancing what is important like school and keeping grades up
...I could go on but, to be short, I don't pay for sports; I pay for the opportunities that sports provides my kid with to develop attributes that will serve her well throughout her life and give her the opportunity to bless the lives of others. From what I have seen so far I think it is a great investment!” – at California, USA
Someone needs to get @olive_york on this...
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OldGuysLearnAI retweeted
Lancaster County native and former @PennFusion_SA and @ReadingUnited standout Keegan Rosenberry has been named Colorado Rapids captain.
Photo by @Photog_JohnB
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Is she drinking a Yuengling?
High heels haven't been innovated in 200 years and this may be a smart technical solution to make shoes elegant and comfortable at the same time and when one just needs
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Show saved my life.
Got caught in a rip current and was tiring fast. Somewhere in my brain, I remembered watching an episode of Magnum where he said the SEAL record for treading water was 24 hrs and how a big part of it is mental and to get in a rhythm.
Relaxed and it worked.
And so, on December 11th, 1980, it began…
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This debut episode of Magnum, P.I. introduced the world to Thomas Sullivan Magnum. It was the first television show to incorporate the issue of post-traumatic stress among Vietnam veterans in a way that was thoughtful and respectful.
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Magnum played an integral part of my childhood. If you read closely, you just might notice subtle and not so subtle references to Magnum in the pages of my novels. Have you found them?
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Know a family that does this. They fly under the radar have 5 - 6 M SF, mostly debt free.
You say you want to be rich and are willing to take risks?
Try this on for size:
A friend has assembled a real estate portfolio cash flows $10m+, no debt, no partners. Started with a $500k purchase.
What's the angle?
He's purchased environmentally contaminated properties no one will touch. The good stuff - industrial dry cleaning plants, metal plating, tanneries.
Purchases from Fortune 100s and re-leases to folks that don't ask questions.
"Everybody wants to be a rich real estateur, nobody wants to take on no hundreds of millions of personal liability"
- not Ronnie Coleman
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Worked with a guy who's dad and uncle are currently between the 40s and 50s in units.
It's amazing the compounding effects, once you have a model that works.
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In 2008, someone I worked with mentioned living in Naples, FL and the overall effect of the GFC was a paper decline in wealth.
I was too dumb until reading this today, to equate the lack of need for mortgages with wealthy areas and why they weather downturns so well.
The reason prime real estate (Central Park, Bal Harbour, Beverly Hills etc) don't go down if rates go up is simple.
Rich people don't even need the mortgage unless they feel like getting one.
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Sounds like housing in 2008...
I changed my mind. Why?
A Crumbl insider whistleblower just slid into my DMs.
This is JUICY info! Here you go:
“Crumbl is expanding too fast. 500 locations last year and 900+ this year.
As you pointed out, sales from stores will be cannabalized by stores that open up closer to them.
Crumbl franchisees are “flipping” their stores and using the profits to open up new ones.
Reason?
New Crumbls in a good area do very well in their first year - to the tune of $2M+
Franchisees are using first year numbers to sell in today’s market but those stores aren’t hitting those numbers in 2nd and 3rd year.
The numbers are still above $1M…and you’re taking about 30% of that home…so about 250-300k per store is still decent profit.
Crumbl isn’t welcoming new franchisees anymore, so the current franchisees believe they’re in a good position to keep building new locations and selling them after the first year and then rinse and repeat.
Can someone from the outside buy into Crumbl? Technically, yes, but it’s complicated and you kind of have to know someone on the inside to make it happen, but it is possible.
Current franchisees are trying to leverage their ownership in a way where they get to sell out of their current locations to either open up new locations in the SAME territory OR buy new territories from other franchisees that are looking to get out of Crumbl completely (there were a ton of those last year)
Current franchisees are starting to sell stores for as low as $400-500k, taking a massive hit in the process.
The labor is pricey at Crumbl - at one point they were mandating 75 people to be hired on day 1 for any new store opening!
I believe this number is down to 45 now, and this might be due to Crumbl finding ways to cut labor cost using technology.
Back in March/April, they had postings for Mechatronics Engineers - basically, engineers that have a background in food robotics.
One of the most grueling, high turnover and labor intensive tasks at Crumbl? The mixing.
Crumbl is actively trying to solve this problem and if they are able to employ robotics to automate this process?
It’s a game changer and can cut labor costs significantly. Crumbl also talked about selling their own pre-packaged dough. Why?
Because at the end of the night, there’s always leftover dough that they’re either going to donate or…THROW AWAY completely.
This is another thing that Crumbl can really capitalize on IF done right.
The reason why that TX location is going to do well is because a) it’s in a no name town where there’s no competition and b) it’s a brand new location so the buzz will be there for at least 3-6 months.
However, I would bet that the franchisee who opened that up must have the territory for that area, and he’s going to open up more in that area.
Not because he wants to, but because he will probably be forced to because if he doesn’t - Crumbl corporate will just give that territory to someone else OR give a neighboring territory to someone else and it’ll be competition for that franchisee.
Why does Crumbl want to build so many stores worldwide?
Because the founders are trying to sell this in the next few years - and the sale price is going to have a “B” at the end of it. $1bn. $5bn. $10bn. Who knows.
But that’s why they want to open up as many locations as possible AND that’s also why they’re expanding globally now (they opened up in Canada and they’re launching London very soon). Unfortunately when a franchise gets this big, the goalposts change and the founders are focused on something else.
However, the founders are clearly very smart and Crumbl is not really a cookie company - it’s a tech company. That’s why they’re banking on a billion dollar sale precisely because they have their own tech which they use for their Kitchen app, POS system, etc.”
TL;DR?
Crumbl isn’t dying but same store sales hype dies fast
FWIW I still think it’s delicious.
Milk Bar is overhyped! @mhp_guy signing out
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Will #SMB owners and marketing managers find AI generated social media content valuable?
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If the download includes the Zillow rent estimate, you can use it to give yourself an estimated "cap rate" - which is a quick way to identify potential investment opportunities.
Zillow's gonna hate me but....I wrote a script to scrape the listings from the search results, and download them as a csv 🤯
Drop a comment 👇 + like and I'll send you it + directions on how to run it (must be following)
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