Johnny Heck

@NeroBlackstone @oyemnassxo It's visual. Kingpin wanted this, but he is alone. Matt is blind. He has no prison like Fisk.

@oyemnassxo I cannot be the only person who struggled to read this. What the fuck do you mean he dreamed him being with Vanessa in beach? Can someone translate this fucking post?😭

The ending of the finale is one of tthe greatest ever, matt made fisk thinking he won while he dreams him being with vanessa in beach, while in reality matt is in jail, THIS IS PEAK #DaredevilBornAgain

@FiredUpCoug Fuck man. Some of you need to get over it.

How Disney can save the Star Wars franchise in two simple steps: 1) Declare that Kathleen Kennedy's sequel trilogy is non-cannon. 2) Replace it with Timothy Zahn's trilogy.

@Rick_Devens Bruh.

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@EvelDick @historyrock_ Telling him to not look into one particular light.

@historyrock_ Hip replacement surgery

Wonder what they’re talking about 😂

@_SHAAMUUU_ Isn't this before Thunderbolts*?

#Daredevilbornagain So she's 100% not locked up in the raft anymore.

@nut_history Wrigley.

What's the oldest ballpark you have attended in person? Fenway Park for me.

@DesireeAmerica4 Can I pay less if I want?

Wendy’s CEO was ready to drop $20 million on new digital menu boards. ​The goal? To change the price of your burger in real-time. If the drive-thru got busy, your lunch suddenly cost more. ​They called it "dynamic pricing." We called it what it was: a $20 million investment to price-gouge the consumer. ​But then the internet exploded. The backlash was so fierce and so fast that Wendy's folded almost overnight. ​They tried to play us, and we shut it down. Never forget who actually holds the power. ​What corporate giant needs this kind of reality check next?

@anishmoonka Worked at a McD's in high school. The play area was absolutely gross. Parents would leave loaded diapers in the ball pit. Kids were always puking everywhere because hey, what could happen after giving them fried, greasy food and sugar.

McDonald's killed those PlayPlaces on purpose. Drive-thrus now pull 70% of their US sales, and every ball pit was sitting on floor space worth more as a second drive-thru lane. The first PlayPlace ever built, in Chula Vista in 1971, had boosted that store's sales by 63%. Other stores wanted in. By 1991, McDonald's was the biggest playground operator in America with over 3,000 locations. By 2013, the count hit 5,500. Then the way people order changed. Digital orders through the app, self-order screens, and delivery now make up 40% of sales in McDonald's biggest markets. A drive-thru lane and a kiosk keep making money every minute they run, while a ball pit makes nothing and costs a fortune to maintain. The legal bill made it worse. In 1999, McDonald's paid the US Consumer Product Safety Commission $4 million for failing to report more than 400 kids injured on the old Big Mac Climber jungle gym, including 20 with concussions or skull fractures and 80 with broken bones. A 1995 settlement had already cost them $5 million. Insurance costs climbed for stores that still had playgrounds. In 2011, an Arizona researcher tested 50 fast food playgrounds and found dangerous bacteria in 49 of them. COVID gave them cover to finish the job. On March 16, 2020, McDonald's shut every US PlayPlace overnight. By August, CEO Chris Kempczinski told Time magazine: "I don't know if we've got ball pits in our future." That November the company launched "Accelerating the Arches," a multi-billion dollar remodel plan built around drive-thru, delivery, and digital. McDonald's poured $2.4 billion into store upgrades in 2023 alone. Roughly 2,000 more stores are getting major remodels this year. During those same vanishing years, McDonald's total sales grew from $100 billion in 2019 to nearly $130 billion in 2024. That extra $30 billion was built on drive-thru windows and mobile phones while the play areas disappeared.

@CollinRugg These MFs stayed in the balloon despite what happened. Also, Temecula sucks.

NEW: Man walks out to his backyard to find 13 people in a hot air balloon basket looking back at him in Temecula, California. The resident, Hunter Perrin, says he was watching TV on Saturday morning when he got a knock on his front door from his neighbor. "We walked into the backyard and there's this basket full of 13 people, just sitting in the backyard looking at us," Perrin said. According to one of the hot air balloon riders, the pilot had to make an emergency landing because there wasn't enough wind and they had only a little fuel left. The pilot tried landing in the street but ended up in the backyard. No one was injured, and there was no property damage. Video: HPerrin / YouTube

@Jeremybtc Worked a year at a McD in high school. Employees would steal boxes of cups and french frie containers when Monopoly season was there.

For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging. > McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987. > Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million. > The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone. > McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it. > By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest. > A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces. > The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson. > Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry. > His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces. > He stole the winning pieces. > Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit. > He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it. > He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly. > That mistake gave him 12 years. > At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted. > Then it grew. > Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize. > His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family. > One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper. > Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital. > McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years. > The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years. > In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest. > They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house. > The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone. > Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it. > Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece. > Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid. > The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11. > One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century. > Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year. > Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in. The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.

@jtimsuggs Was at Celebration in Anaheim. Amazing electrify.

This trailer for The Force Awakens isn’t just one of the best trailers for a Star Wars movie, it’s one of the best trailers for any mainstream blockbuster. I’ll never forget watching this on repeat back in 2015. The hype leading up to Episode VII remains unmatched.

@PhonyReality Wooof

Who is the better winner of new era Survivor? 🤔 — Kenzie Petty (season 46) — Maryanne Oketch (season 42) #Survivor

@SurvivorPenner Penner for Traitors?

Watching episode 8. And all I can say is CIRIE! My god is she fantastic TV.

@Rick_Devens You're cool as hell.

On #Survivor 38 I found a clue for the idol above the shelter. It was literally a drawing of the shelter with an arrow pointing to exactly where the idol was. That's what I had in mind going straight to our fake idol at tribal on #Survivor50.

@anishmoonka When was the arrest part?

Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area. Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free. A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there. Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video. For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after. Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion. The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.

Imagine, if somehow, at the end of Avengers: Secret Wars, Superman and/or the Justice League showed up, even for a cameo. @MarvelStudios @DCOfficial @JamesGunn

@TheCinesthetic ...on shrooms.

Imagine sitting in a theatre in 1999 & seeing this for the first time.

@lite_thespark Been to Anaheim twice, Chicago, and Orlando. I only do the 4-day (or two singles). Lottery for big panels was fine for me and friends. Win some, lose some. The VIP wasn't good for me.

Okay people who have gone before - Have you purchased the VIP pass and is it really worth it compared to the general 4 day tickets? It’s 5x more expensive but there’s definitely benefits…unsure those are worth the additional cost.

@EvelDick I would rather not wonder wtf that accent is/was. A popper from the 19th century eating pudding after being in the rain?

Do you want to see T'kor on Big Brother again this summer?

@EvelDick Agreed. People are sometimes happiest before they end it all, because they know.

Every time I come across this video it just makes me sad... He sounds like an all right guy. But I guess if you're going to go, that wasn't a bad way to go