Matt Rife and business partner Elton Castay purchased Ed and Lorraine Warren's Connecticut house after being first offered it by the family. The property holds roughly 700 paranormal artifacts, original case recordings, and the Annabelle doll — and Rife is terrified enough that he is almost never there.
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A looping tangent about Michael Jackson's vitiligo leads Theo to pull up an account of Jackson's 1996 'They Don't Care About Us' video shoot in Rio de Janeiro's Dona Marta favela. The story is extraordinary: the governor opposed it, police refused to enter the area, yet Jackson proceeded — protected by the personal guarantee of Marcino VP, one of the city's most powerful drug lords, who asked for nothing in return. Theo and Matt both find the story genuinely moving — a superstar choosing to be with marginalised people despite institutional opposition, asking a drug lord for permission instead of the government.
In 1996, Michael Jackson shot his 'They Don't Care About Us' video in Rio de Janeiro's Dona Marta favela with approval from a drug trafficker, against government wishes.
Michael Jackson defied the Rio de Janeiro governor and police to shoot his music video in the Dona Marta favela in 1996 — the only reason he could do it safely was that drug lord Marcino VP personally guaranteed his protection. No money changed hands, just an agreement.
Erin Brockovich describes data center expansion as 'a full-on assault' hitting communities across water, electricity, noise, air pollution, and land loss. She calls it the biggest bipartisan conversation she's seen in her 30-year career — and warns that tech companies didn't see the coming backlash.
Demanding an emergency fund balance on a first date is the wrong approach. What you're really looking for is someone with character, maturity, and a direction — not a perfect financial snapshot. You can build a budget in 20 minutes; you can't build character that fast.
The fear of not being financially ready to have children is almost always a failure to run the real budget. On $110K a year, you can afford a child. What you can't afford is the fantasy nursery, the bigger car, and staying home on one income without a plan.
You've already said enough. The enabling, the financial dysfunction, the fear it'll land in your lap — if you can't say yes with full confidence, the answer is no. Tell Mom to rent a cheap one-bedroom, sell her house, and buy a condo near the grandkids instead.
Bobby watching a father hold his baby triggered an existential moment: he and Andrew might be missing fatherhood. They priced out adoption ($40K–$70K private, $0–$2K foster care) and briefly considered adopting a child to timeshare like a condo.
In 1950, 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today it's roughly 1 in 10. Capitalism and economic growth did that — nothing else has ever worked at scale. The challenge now isn't generating enough wealth; it's building the political will to distribute it.
The manosphere begins with genuinely useful advice — get fit, be ambitious, find a partner. But it rapidly devolves into dominance, misogyny, and crypto university grifts. The most famous manosphere figures are running $50-a-month Ponzi schemes, exploiting the very loneliness they pretend to cure.
Throughout human history, only 40% of men have ever reproduced. Romantic success has never been guaranteed — it has always required effort, self-development, and resilience. The incel movement's core lie is telling men they're owed something that no man has ever been owed.
The most common word Scott Galloway has heard in his life is no. That's not a failure — it's the mechanism through which great yeses are earned. For shy young men, the path forward is simple: approach people, accept rejection, repeat. Resilience to discomfort is the only real competitive advantage.
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