Welcome to Screencaps, “America’s Best Daily Column,” as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn’t for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let’s have some fun.
Shaq doesn’t plan to run out of money in his lifetime
The NBA legend says you won’t have to worry about him turning into one of these former athletes who goes broke down the road. During an appearance on the “Dinner Party,” Shaq Diesel, 54, revealed how he’ll be on a fixed income when he turns 55 in March, but he definitely won’t be broke in retirement.
“I would always see this filthy rich guy. I’m talking rich, Four Seasons, Rolls-Royce. I asked him, I was like, ‘How do you stay rich?’” Shaq told the Dinner Party podcast hosts. “He said, ‘Shaq, if you have $100, you want to save $50, but if you want to be wealthy, you play with $25 and you save $75’. So after I heard him say that, I would start to get endorsement checks and not even turn them in. I had so much money coming in, I put a lot into annuities.”
On March 6, 2027, those annuity checks start hitting Shaq’s account. How much are we talking? Let’s just say Shaq’s not going to be sweating Social Security checks at 62. This guy has done well for himself.
“Next year I get a lot, almost for the rest of my life. So 55, 60, and 65. That was my fail-proof, just in case the investments don’t work and this and that. I don’t like to brag but I think at 55 I’ll probably get $1,000,000 a month.”
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****That’s not supposed to be financial advice. We’re just relaying a financial success story.
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Are the Costco receipt analysts really that happy or is it required to work the doors?
Last night, Mrs. Screencaps and I went on a date night to get dog food and one observation that I was left with was the happiness of Costco workers who check receipts and check your membership ID at the door.
WORST TIME TO SHOP AT COSTCO MAY BE WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, WITH ONE DAY DRAWING THE MOST CROWDS
I’m hoping we have a former, or current, Costco worker who reads Screencaps who can add some context. Are you required to have a very personable attitude? Are you instructed to draw balloons on the back of the receipts for the kids? How are these people so damn happy?
I get that most of the people are bridging the age gap until reaching Medicare and they might be semi-retired. But, still, it feels like I’d experience an agitated worker here and there who’s sick of working for Costco.
So far, that just hasn’t happened and we’ve been going to this store for like 10 years.
• William in Reisterstown, MD clarifies his Costco food deal email: Yes, was talking about the tenders they sell in the food court. Give them a shot. I thought they were quite GOOD.
Woke 3.0 is here
Did you see this national anthem from last night’s game in San Francisco? If you thought Woke 2.0 was bad when Biden had dudes with breast implants parading around the White House, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! These idiots are going to be insufferable.
Speaking of idiots, look who’s about to return to the States. Elections have consequences. And this one has me shook. If there’s a silver lining, this will be good for content.
How hard is it to do blower business in California?
• Guy G. tells us: We make a blower, that is 100% electric. Sells for 3x the price of a standard gas unit. We make it because CARB won’t allow sale into CA. That’s not 100% true. For about $40k, you can get a waiver.
California has gotten so bad, and so business unfriendly, that some engine manufacturers no longer allow engines into the state, and have voided their warranty for existing engines.
Golf is moving to automation, as we’ve seen. The one-time cost makes it appealing, as help is harder and harder to find. The old guys who only want to operate the fairway mower can only work part-time. Turf professionals are hard to come by, and a lot of young workers don’t actually want to rake bunkers, or mow hillsides.
The two largest golf mower manufacturers are increasing their prices again. A new triplex fairway mower is running around $120,000. Electric models aren’t that much more, and automation is going to be the standard before long.
Kinsey: My thing about the EV golf course mowers is that they don’t leave straight stripes. It’s absolute chaos stripes. It looks like a drunk suburban mom laid the stripes in her Jeep Commander. I’ve been pro-automation at the golf courses, I’m just hoping for advances.
By the way, if you’re a golfer and your course is in the middle of a forest, you can thank Guy G. for clear fairways. He sells world-class blowers. #notsponsored
A message from Arizona
• Bo T. writes: We made it thru the summer here in VOTS and now it’s patio season again. I’m grilling some Costco country-style ribs tonite in fact. CFB rankings crack me up right now because all the “favorite” teams are gonna get in at the end of the day…there’s a reason the SEC decided to eliminate their conference championship game.
For all those people freaked out about the mid-term elections, I’d just remind everyone that the job of the media and the politicians is to spread fear and panic. Make sure you have the essentials (won’t name them here because it will cause a problem but it rhymes with food, nuns, and camo). Be self sufficient, have a reasonable plan (not the zombie apocalypse) and you will be good to go for 98%…it’s your choice for the other 2%. Don’t let the fear merchants run your life…there’s too much good to be had. As always, God Bless America.
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• Phil S. checks in from Florida: Good day sir! I know one Texan already chimed in, but seriously, Texas what happened? Blue? I understand Austin, but everywhere else? I live in Florida so I don’t have to change my name and pronouns to Fleet Admiral Gial Akbar this/what. I’m still not allowed to play JV girls soccer, and I don’t need to make a Molotov cocktail to throw at a local small business because of baby seals or whatever. I was certain the Texas state flag was just George Bush and an eagle. This whole thing never looked good, but when your closest red ally betrays you, it hurts man. I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.
Trav, we know what you mean
I asked Mrs. Screencaps this morning if she wanted me to get out the decorations so she could get started on the holiday season. It was a test. Would she completely give in? To her credit, she said that wouldn’t be necessary. She’s currently respecting fall, but that could change in the next seven days because snow flurries aren’t too far to the north.
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And that’s it for this first Friday in November with the Ravens below .500 and MY Bengals on a clear collision course with the hated Steelers for the AFC North. Let’s have a great weekend watching college football. We’re running out of regular season weeks. Take advantage. Host those basement watch parties.
Go get after it.
