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@world_tourists_ I have been to all the MLB ballparks, and the one in the picture is too small, and I don’t recognize it. Have never been there, but agree with Louisville as others have guessed.

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This guy spent $3,140 on chocolate pudding and got 1.25 MILLION free airline miles
His name is David Phillips and in May 1999 he was a 35 year old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion
It was offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in, doubled to 1,000 miles if you mailed them in by May 31
He did the math on the cheapest Healthy Choice product he could find
Individual chocolate pudding cups were on sale at his local Grocery Outlet for 25 cents each, meaning $2.50 of pudding could buy him 1,000 airline miles
The airlines themselves valued those miles at around $20
He drove a van from store to store across California with his mother in law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around the Sacramento area and ended up with 12,150 pudding cups stacked from his garage to his living room
When suspicious cashiers asked what he was doing he told them he was "stocking up for Y2K"
The early bird deadline was 3 weeks away and there was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade
He would donate all 12,150 cups if their volunteers peeled the labels off first
This donation also got him an $815 federal tax write off on top of everything
He mailed the barcodes in by the deadline and then heard absolutely nothing back for 2 months
His friends told him corporations always get out of promotions like this and his kids even started asking him if he got scammed
Then a giant package showed up at his door with paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, which made him a lifetime AAdvantage Gold member at American Airlines and was worth around $150,000 in flights
The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000 and the London Times wrote about him a week later
Over the next 5 years he flew his entire family to 43 countries, and in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based the movie Punch Drunk Love on him
Adam Sandler made a movie about him and he paid for the ticket with pudding



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@OGsDontFold Feel free to use mine, but it’s a piece of glass. Might want to photoshop in your own finger

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@StephenJam82655 @tcgoldrush Not sure about Day 1 or 2, but you can wait in line for admission in the Draft Theatre, and you end up with a less crowded spot near the front, at least in Detroit 2024.

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@tcgoldrush Yeah I don’t get it either but I hate big crowds and standing for hours…now if I am sitting up front MAYBE
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This is beyond unappealing. Literally standing there for what?
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Pittsburgh broke the all-time round one attendance record with 320,000 fans tonight, topping the 275,000+ who attended in Detroit in 2024, per the NFL.
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@tcgoldrush I did Detroit two years ago. Crossed it off my bucket list. Not in a hurry to do it again. Only did Day 2 and 3.

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Meet Russell Shepard. Former NFL wide receiver who's now running a porta-potty business.
Year 2 he made $1M? (more than ever in the NFL)
It started when he played for the Giants. He noticed the city filled with trash at night. By morning? All gone. He knew someone was making bank on all that waste.
So with his NFL earnings, Russell bought:
- A vacuum truck with a 2,000-gallon tank
- 125 portable toilets
- 50 hand wash stations
- 20 holding tanks
- Some nearby land
His first few months of recurring revenue:
- Month 1-2: $6k
- Month 2-3: $12k
- Month 3-4: $18k
By year 2 they'd hit $1M in revenue. Now multi-millions.
How it grew so fast? reviews and referrals.
His company Shep Boys manages waste from construction sites to disaster zones. Simple model, recurring revenue, commercial contracts.
I will say - I've never been so close to throwing up when visiting a small business before.
But Russell doesn't care what it smells like. He cares what it pays.
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@mooseoutfront Just saw this on FB. Wondered why they had such bad seats! Then remembered what was down the RF line in the Dome.

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@Joseph_Duarte We had left the upper deck already, but watched the end from the 100 level tunnel


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