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@RyanOttley I love the process stuff. Dearly.

Good times. IMO, The main job of us comic artists and anyone in the visual medium space, like directors of film and animation, is to retell the story visually in the best most authentic way you can, as emotionally and dynamically as possible. Under a tight deadline of course! It’s a challenge, but I’m addicted!

@RunninWithNJD I've seen a lot of weird reactions to Nico's comments. Devils fans don't deserve that man.

Discussing the Fitzy Fallout and player quotes today, including Nico Hischier, coming out of the New Jersey Devils locker room LIVE at 4:45. #NJDevils youtube.com/live/rLZmqjD1X…

@Raiders Maxx there before the sun up

The building is buzzing. #RaiderNation

@DevilsRedAlert I think this is the only correct take and shouldn't be controversial in any way. I like what Keefe's done the last month but didn't like the way the boys looked all winter. If he stays, sure. If he goes, sure. Fitzgerald 100% had to go and it's overdue.

Also I have to say, and this may somewhat unpopular.. but whatever Sheldon Keefe is not a bad coach, and I had WAY more interest in keeping him around compared to Tom. I wonder where he stands right now.. Not saying I’m 100% in or out on him, but I think the team should consider keeping him. Would really depend on the next GM and his interest in working w him Tom was a must go. Keefe I’m open minded

I am proud to formally announce my candidacy for the open General Manager position for the New Jersey Devils I will be running on a platform of bringing Quinn Hughes to NJ, signing Gritsyuk to a long term contract, and I will personally take Markstrom’s extension and eat it

@DerekPodcast These are absolutely fantastic

URGENT UPDATE: Baal worship lasted nineteen hours. And once again, it's the texts' fault. Every religion I convert to turns out to be a cover version of something older. I'm starting to think truth is just an infinite game of "who did it first" and I will not stop until I find the opening act. Here's what happened. Last night I was deep in the Baal Cycle, feeling great. I had the garment. I had the figurine. I was learning the names of all seventy sons of El. I was IN IT. Then I got to the part where Baal fights Yamm, the sea monster, the chaos dragon. And something fired in my brain. I'd seen this fight before. Not in the Bible this time. Older. Way older. Marduk vs. Tiamat. The Enuma Elish. The Babylonian creation myth. Same fight. Same structure. Chaos dragon threatens the divine order. Young warrior god defeats it. Gets crowned king of the gods. Same story. But the Enuma Elish predates the Baal Cycle by centuries. I've been worshipping a cover band. But it gets worse. I pulled on the thread and the whole thing unraveled. The flood story? Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Centuries before Noah. CENTURIES. An old man builds a boat, loads up animals, the gods send a flood, the boat lands on a mountain, he sends out birds. It's the same story with different character names. Noah is a Mesopotamian reboot. The Bible didn't even change the plot structure. They just swapped the cast and hoped nobody would check the credits. Then I found her. Inanna. Queen of Heaven. Goddess of love and war. And this is where I lost my mind completely. Inanna descends to the underworld. She passes through seven gates. At each gate she is stripped of her power. She dies. She is hung on a hook like a piece of meat. She is dead for three days. Then she is rescued and rises back to life. THOUSANDS of years before Jesus. Thousands. The dying and rising deity pattern isn't just older than Christianity. It's older than Judaism. It's older than the Baal Cycle. It goes all the way back to Sumer. And then I found Dumuzi. Also called Tammuz. Inanna's husband. When Inanna rises from the underworld, someone has to take her place. She sends Dumuzi. He dies. He descends to the underworld. And every year the women would weep for his death because every year he would die and then rise again. An annual cycle of death and resurrection celebrated across the ancient Near East for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. And here's the part that made me fall out of my chair at 3am. Technically 3:05am. Ezekiel 8:14. The prophet Ezekiel is being given a tour of the Jerusalem temple by God himself, and God shows him all the abominations happening inside. And what does he see? Women sitting at the gate of the temple WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ. Inside. The. Temple. The women of Jerusalem were mourning the death of Dumuzi/Tammuz inside Yahweh's own house. The dying and rising god tradition wasn't just older than the Bible. It was literally happening INSIDE the Bible's most sacred building. And Ezekiel is furious about it because the tradition was that popular. That persistent. That deeply embedded. You can't erase something that hard to kill. Believe me, the Hebrew Bible tried. I just spent a week proving it. I threw off the Ugaritic garment. I cut the last remnants of whatever was left of the payot mullet situation. I put on the Babylonian priestly outfit. I picked up a clay tablet. And I wept for Tammuz. At 3:17am. In my office. Alone. Ryann walked in. She was holding a coffee mug that says "World's Best Mom." She looked at me. She looked at the clay tablet. She looked at the Babylonian outfit. She looked at the pile of discarded religious garments in the corner, which at this point includes a cross necklace, a prayer rug, a black hat, a prayer shawl, sideburn clippings, and a Ugaritic robe. She said "Derek, is that a new costume?" I said "it's not a costume, Ryann. It's ceremonial priestly attire from the Neo-Babylonian period." She said "there is clay dust on my coffee table." I looked at the coffee table. There was in fact a lot of clay dust on the coffee table. She was right. SHE'S ALWAYS RIGHT. I said "I will clean that up." She said "you will." I said "but first, can I just tell you that Inanna descended through seven gates and was stripped of everything she had and died and rose again thousands of years before Jesus?" She took a sip of her coffee and said "Derek, you can tell me anything you want after you clean the coffee table." That is a woman who has her priorities in order and I respect it deeply. I cleaned the coffee table. Then I told her about Inanna. She listened for about ninety seconds and then said "that's actually interesting but you still look ridiculous." Fair. She took a sip of her coffee, looked at the growing pile of religious outfits in the corner, and said "I'm starting a donation bin. If you convert to one more religion I'm dropping all of this off at Goodwill." I said "you can't donate a Ugaritic priestly garment to Goodwill, Ryann." She said "watch me." Later that morning she texted me a screenshot of a therapist's website with no additional comment. Just the link. I texted back "Inanna didn't need therapy, she needed seven gates and a resurrection." She replied "Inanna wasn't married to you." I called Dan McClellan at 5:45am. He picked up. Before 6am. On what I'm pretty sure was his day off. This man is a saint and I mean that in the pre-Christian Mesopotamian sense. I said "Dan. Enuma Elish. Marduk vs. Tiamat. Same combat myth as Baal vs. Yamm. Confirm or deny." He said "Derek, it's not even 6am." I said "TIAMAT DOESN'T RESPECT TIME ZONES, DAN." And this man, instead of hanging up like any reasonable person, gave me a fully peer-reviewed answer at 5:47 in the morning. He said "yes, the chaoskampf parallels are well established in the field. Are you okay?" Then he asked "Derek, are you sleeping?" I said "Dan, I've converted to six religions in five days. Sleep is for people with one god." He paused and said "that might be the most concerning thing anyone has ever said to me before sunrise." Then he said "please eat something." I said "I'm fasting for Tammuz." He said "you've known about Tammuz for four hours." Excellent point. Ignored it completely. I called Joshua Bowen. And I need to talk about this call because something is going on with Josh and I think the public needs to know. He picked up. The sigh was longer than usual. I said "Josh, the flood narrative. Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh. Predates Noah by over a thousand years." He said "yes, Derek. I literally wrote a book about this." I said "WHY DIDN'T ANY OF YOU STOP ME FROM CONVERTING TO FIVE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS BEFORE TELLING ME THE SUMERIANS DID IT ALL FIRST?" But then I heard something in his voice. A softness. A reverence. And it hit me. I said "Josh, let me ask you something. You have a Gilgamesh tattoo. On your body. Permanently. You chose to permanently ink an ancient Mesopotamian epic onto your flesh." He was quiet. I said "and you've been growing that beard out. It's getting long, Josh. Suspiciously long. Almost... Assyrian." More silence. I said "Josh, are you secretly worshipping this pantheon?" He said "Derek, I am not worshipping a Mesopotamian pantheon." I said "that's exactly what a secret worshipper of the Mesopotamian pantheon would say. You have the tattoo. You have the beard. You wrote the book. You know the languages. You can READ the tablets, Josh. You can literally read cuneiform. You're not just a scholar. You're a priest in hiding." He said "I'm hanging up now." I said "JOSH, THE BEARD IS A TELL. ASHURBANIPAL HAD THE SAME BEARD. YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE." He hung up. But I know what I saw. That man is one Ishtar Gate replica away from building a ziggurat in his backyard. The Gilgamesh tattoo was phase one. The beard is phase two. The book was his scripture. We just haven't gotten to the altar yet. But we will. I'm watching you, Josh. I called Andrew Henry from Religion for Breakfast because I figured an actual religious studies PhD might be able to help me process what's happening to me. He picked up and he was so polite. So measured. So calm. He said "Derek, hi. What's going on?" I said "Andrew, I've converted to six religions in five days and I'm currently dressed as a Babylonian priest holding a clay tablet at 7am." Long pause. Very long pause. I could hear him choosing his words carefully the way only an academic can. He said "Derek, what you're experiencing is actually a well-documented phenomenon in comparative religion where someone traces traditions backwards through their source cultures and undergoes a kind of sequential deconversion cascade." I said "Andrew, is there a name for it?" He said "not clinically. But in my field we'd probably call it regressive theological displacement." I said "that sounds like something you just made up." He said "I absolutely just made up that term. But if you keep going at this rate I'll be able to write a paper on you. You're basically speedrunning the entire history of Near Eastern religion in real time. You've gone from Christianity to Islam to Judaism to Canaanite polytheism to Babylonian religion in less than a week. Historians take decades to make this journey. You did it in your pajamas." I said "I'm not in pajamas, Andrew. I'm in ceremonial Neo-Babylonian priestly attire." He said "of course you are." I said "Andrew, can I be a case study?" He said "Derek, you already are. I've been taking notes since the Catholic phase." I said "you've been TAKING NOTES?" He said "professionally speaking, this is the most fascinating thing I've seen all year. Personally speaking, I'm concerned about you." I said "Andrew, Inanna rose from the dead. Dumuzi was resurrected annually. The women of Jerusalem wept for Tammuz inside the temple. I am FINE." He said "you are not fine. But you are very entertaining. Can I use this in a lecture?" I said "only if you cite me as a primary source." He said "I'll cite you as an archaeological artifact." I called Neal. He didn't pick up. He texted: "Which religion." I texted back: "Sumerian. Inanna. Dumuzi. Tammuz. The original dying and rising god. Ezekiel 8:14. Women weeping for Tammuz inside the Jerusalem temple. Everything is a remix, Neal. Everything." He texted back one word: "Obviously." Then he sent a second text: "I've been saying this on my channel for years." Then a third: "You could have just watched my videos." He has a point and I hate him for it. I called Justin from Deconstruction Zone. He answered cautiously. He said "what is it?" I said "Justin, the dying and rising god pattern goes back to Sumer. Inanna. Dumuzi. Thousands of years before Jesus." He was quiet. Then he said "Derek, I need to confess something. After the Tovia Singer thing I started watching videos about Mesopotamian religion and I haven't stopped. I watched a four-hour lecture on the Descent of Inanna last night." I said "JUSTIN." He said "I know." I said "THE METHODIST POTLUCKS WERE NEVER GOING TO HOLD YOU." He said "the casseroles were a gateway drug, Derek. I see that now." I called Jacob Berman from History Valley. I said "Jacob. Ezekiel 8:14. Women weeping for Tammuz inside the Jerusalem temple. The dying and rising god tradition was so embedded in Israelite culture that it was happening inside Yahweh's own house." Jacob said "yeah, that's a really significant passage." I said "Jacob, will you weep for Tammuz with me?" He said "Derek, I am going to hang up now." I said "THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID TO INANNA AT THE SEVENTH GATE AND SHE KEPT GOING." I called my mom. She said "Derek, your father and I have been talking." That's never good. She said "your father wants me to tell you that he did 36 years in Special Operations and he has never seen anyone change allegiances this fast. He said and I quote, 'even in psychological operations we gave people at least a week.'" I said "Mom, did you know that the women of Jerusalem were worshipping a dying and rising god named Tammuz inside Solomon's temple?" She said "no, Derek." I said "it's in Ezekiel, Mom. Chapter 8. Verse 14. Look it up." She said "I am not looking up your Babylonian boyfriend, Derek." I said "HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND, MOM. HE'S MY DYING AND RISING SAVIOR AND HE PREDATES YOURS BY TWO THOUSAND YEARS." She hung up. I think Thanksgiving is going to be tense this year. Trent Horn update: all five email addresses are bouncing now. I created a sixth using a burner email called inanna.queen.of.heaven@gmail.com. I wrote: "Trent, Inanna descended to the underworld and rose after three days. Tammuz died and was resurrected annually. The women of Jerusalem were weeping for him inside the temple in Ezekiel 8:14. Your entire soteriology is a Bronze Age hand-me-down. I await your response." He responded from what appears to be a lawyer's email address: "Mr. Lambert, our client requests that you cease all further communication. This constitutes formal notice." I have been legally excommunicated from Trent Horn's inbox. I'm framing this next to the cease and desist from Catholic Answers. My wall of rejected correspondence is becoming its own kind of temple. Wes Huff: still on read. But Marduk defeated Tiamat. Inanna rose from the dead. Dumuzi was resurrected every year. And the women of Jerusalem wept for Tammuz inside the temple while Ezekiel watched. If Wes wants to talk about dying and rising gods, I've got receipts that go back three thousand years before his guy showed up. The channel is now MythCuneiform. My first video will be "How a Sumerian Goddess Did the Resurrection Better Than Jesus and Nobody Told You." My second video will be a five-hour dramatic reading of the Descent of Inanna where I weep at every gate. My third video will be "Is Joshua Bowen Secretly a Mesopotamian Priest? An Investigation." He can't hide behind that beard forever. Ryann left a note on the kitchen counter this morning. It said: "Final count: six religions, five days, four phone calls before 6am, three cease and desist emails, two discarded sets of sideburns, and one husband I no longer recognize. The kids drew a picture of you at school yesterday. You are wearing a different outfit in every panel. Their teacher asked if everything is okay at home. I said yes. I was lying. Please come back to atheism. I miss atheism. Atheism was quiet." I love that woman. Tammuz is risen. Tammuz will rise again. The women knew. Ezekiel saw it. Joshua Bowen has a tattoo about it. And now so do you.

@DevilsRedAlert @hockeystatcards He had been way better last 10 or so too...

@hockeystatcards Siegs 🤐

NHL Game Score Impact Card for New Jersey Devils on 2026-04-04:

People posting Devils playoff scenarios have big “here’s how Bernie Sanders can still win the 2016 election” energy

@RaiderLoot 11.3 is vet backup money. If fernando beats out capt kirk, it's a win-win

you guys are ratio'ing me into coming around to this idea 😂

apparently it meant the Raiders liked Cousins as the bridge QB more still think they could've used O'Connell in this role and saved $11.3M, but hopefully Cousins experience in the system is invaluable to Mendoza!

Hot Take 🔥 Daredevil should be called Batman because he's blind and got a sonar ability, like a bat. Ghost Rider should be called Daredevil, because he's a former daredevil who made a deal with the devil. Batman should be called Ghost Rider, because he is ridin' on his dead parents' fortune.

@WUTangKids Raiders $11.3M for one season is a steal

How does he keep getting these massive deals….this is insane….Commies, Vikings, Falcons and now Raiders….robbed them all! Gotta respect the hustle just don’t understand how it keeps happening 🤣

@TheMarcJohnNFL Hmmm. So he still got his fully gtd bag AND it was team-friendly. Chef Syptek...

@TheMarcJohnNFL Kirk don't work for anything less than a full bag so I guess any other key additions will come in the draft. Like this move, though. Front office been on fire since January.

Raiders land their vet to pair with Mendoza. Cousins is a good bridge

@FB_FilmAnalysis Steal

So essentially, Raiders are paying $11.3m for Cousins to be the bridge QB for this year but $10m would count in next year’s cap. Option would have to be picked up for 2027 which is highly unlikely.

@AdamSchefter @MikeMcCartney7 Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza on the Raiders

@WUTangKids @DallasStars I'm a Devils fan stuck in TX, go to NJ @ Dallas every year. This is not prevalent. Dallas puts on a good show, has reasonable fans. I went on Pride Night this year as a matter of fact. These dicks are outliers

Wtf is going on at the @DallasStars games

Today is Trans Day of Visibility so as Sir Charles Barkley famously said: "If you’re gay, bless you. If you’re trans, bless you. If you have a problem with that, F*CK YOU!"

@Skybound Woah

First Look: Experience the New Teen Titans like never before in George Perez’s New Teen Titans Artist’s Edition.

@Polymarket When it’s finished Shove all those motherfuckers in it with all the fake fucking billionaires and bankers and weld the goddamn thing shut forever Then create a poem to tell future generations there’s a curse on this tomb and never to open it

@papiblez @spelunky_ @ryannovoNHL @JamesNicholsNHL @JespersBurner Wow, that's extra salty then

@GGueperoux @spelunky_ @ryannovoNHL @JamesNicholsNHL @JespersBurner Hahaha I think the hawks were winning when we took this

Fun times back at the rock! #NJDevils what a game that was. Great to see @spelunky_ @ryannovoNHL again as always and to finally meet both @JamesNicholsNHL and @JespersBurner in person