Back to episode — Episode 1462 Scott Adams - Things in the Headlines That Make me Laugh and Cry
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ning ceremonies were the lowest viewership since 1988. Now it's not just a story that there were fewer advertisers, but at some point the advertising is not enough to support the event. And I think we're pretty close if not already there. So there's a really very real chance that Megan Rapinoe legitimately intended just to make the world a kinder, nicer place that's more welcoming and fair for ev…
← Previous segment →story, if you don't know, is that Lionel Messi was always told he was too small, literally too short to play professional soccer. And he went from too short to play to the best player in the world in the biggest sport.
Here's the tragic part. Where he's lived for 21 years — I think he was playing for Barcelona — he has to leave the team because they have financial problems and they can't afford it. He has to take his family which has lived in this one place for 21 years, basically his entire adult life. I think his kids were raised there and everything else. And he has to leave because they have debt and they can't afford to pay him. He offered to play for half his pay so he didn't have to move his family.
Do you know how much that gives up? It was like a difference between 1.5 million dollars per game and 700,000. I mean, still a ridiculous amount of money, but he offered to play for half. They couldn't afford him. He's got to leave.
I got to tell you that of all the stories I read today — you know the news is full of tragedies and death and stuff — I don't know why, but that bot
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hered me the most. Here's a story that I made a little note to myself that this almost made me cry. But that's not true. It actually made me cry. I saw a couple of people on Twitter today giving me some at least partial credit in one case for helping somebody quit drinking. Ed Latimore was mentioned. And as famously a non-drinker as am I. And I have to tell you, you know most of you know my stor…
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