SHIVER KING

We are gonna go extra hard this winter!

My wife made mini bagels for the quail eggs she picked up 🔥

@KayTheRunna Solid run!

Weekend long run 🏃‍♂️ A slow run is better than no run ✌🏾

Shiver King tracks 💯

Almost time for new runners.

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

/1🚨EXPOSED — Biden CIA’s War on Motherhood: Newly released CIA documents reveal the Biden Administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

Solid

@AmazingZoltan @ShawnRyanShow with @TuckerCarlson and Mike Baker, obviously.

Who's the other guy?

@Arbormate @RRstates That’s wild, I don’t think our ER has ever closed down, that I’m aware of anyways.

@RRstates @jercephus Day 2 of hospital emergency room closed. In the worst snow storm of this year. That is where our health care is at.

Question for my Canadian Friends. Do you like our health care? Are you self employed? Do you carry extra insurance?

@gijaneishere Is that for yourself our your entire family?

@jercephus $1280 a month for me. Still high deductible. Only have it for catastrophic. We used to have catastrophic policies available but of course not anymore. Chances are I won’t need it, so pretty much pissing it away every month.

Question for my American Friends. How do you feel about your health care? What do you pay? And you self employed?

@bloodshotblnkrs I’ve always had good luck, maybe it’s because we live in a smaller town. Wife and kid were in and out of emergency in under 20 minutes last week. Lack of specialist would be our biggest issue.

@jercephus I like that I won't go into generational debt if someone in my family gets severely sick or injured. Other than that, it sucks. Our emergency rooms look like third world war zones that we have to wait in for 5+ hours on a good day.

@JoanOfArc287 Impressive! And I’ve heard O care wasn’t good

@jercephus Dumped insurance 12 years ago. Pay cash. Even hospital visits. HC has been destroyed by O care

A house we were looking at just went for 100k over asking, all because Trump wanted to bomb some brown people.

@JoshuaBarzon @tyromper Came here to say the same thing 💯

@tyromper You are one of the best on here, brother. Keep it up!

Probably don't say this enough..... But THANK YOU. Thank you to everyone that engages with my content, follows me, subscribes, supports, & shares this beautiful journey of life together. I am extremely grateful for this community on X & the great positive energy & impact we've all created. It's EASY to tear others down, complain, divide, & post RAGE BAIT. Most on X go this route, especially those trying to grow a big following. It humbles me that 99% of my posts & the replies are positive, encouraging, & uplifting! Whether you lurk a lot & follow along or actively engage I genuinely appreciate every one of you. I hope you have the best night ever. ❤️

Buy shit from your friends businesses and try and get free shit from strangers. Not the other way around.

@masongrahamfoos It stayed iced up for sure! Still going strong

@jercephus How frosty did your beard get this winter?

205!! Down 13-14 lbs on the year. Be happy with 10-20 more.