Hot 100
1 Last Night, Morgan Wallen 2 Flowers, Miley Cyrus 3 Kill Bill, SZA 4 Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift 5 Creepin', Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 6 Calm Down, Rema & Selena Gomez 7 Die For You, The Weeknd & Ariana Grande 8 Fast Car, Luke Combs 9 Snooze, SZA 10 I'm Good (Blue), David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 11 Unholy, Sam Smith & Kim Petras 12 You Proof, Morgan Wallen 13 Something In The Orange, Zach Bryan 14 Rich Flex, Drake & 21 Savage 15 As It Was, Harry Styles 16 Rock And A Hard Place, Bailey Zimmerman 17 Under The Influence, Chris Brown 18 Cruel Summer, Taylor Swift 19 Thinkin' Bout Me, Morgan Wallen 20 Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2, PinkPantheress & Ice Spice 21 Favorite Song, Toosii 22 Thought You Should Know, Morgan Wallen 23 Thank God, Kane Brown With Katelyn Brown 24 Sure Thing, Miguel 25 All My Life, Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole 26 Ella Baila Sola, Eslabon Armado X Peso Pluma 27 Karma, Taylor Swift Featuring Ice Spice 28 Just Wanna Rock, Lil Uzi Vert 29 Cuff It, Beyoncé 30 Vampire, Olivia Rodrigo 31 Fukumean, Gunna 32 Lavender Haze, Taylor Swift 33 Players, Coi Leray 34 Need A Favor, Jelly Roll 35 Dance The Night, Dua Lipa 36 Love You Anyway, Luke Combs 37 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 38 Superhero (Heroes & Villains), Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown 39 Bad Habit, Steve Lacy 40 La Bebe, Yng Lvcas x Peso Pluma 41 Golden Hour, JVKE 42 Religiously, Bailey Zimmerman 43 Spin Bout U, Drake & 21 Savage 44 Cupid, Fifty Fifty 45 Search & Rescue, Drake 46 Barbie World, Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice With Aqua 47 Next Thing You Know, Jordan Davis 48 Escapism, RAYE Featuring 070 Shake 49 Un x100to, Grupo Frontera X Bad Bunny 50 Until I Found You, Stephen Sanchez 51 Shirt, SZA 52 Paint The Town Red, Doja Cat 53 Made You Look, Meghan Trainor 54 Wait In The Truck, HARDY Featuring Lainey Wilson 55 All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey 56 Everything I Love, Morgan Wallen 57 Chemical, Post Malone 58 Heart Like A Truck, Lainey Wilson 59 Going, Going, Gone, Luke Combs 60 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee 61 Dancin' In The Country, Tyler Hubbard 62 Daylight, David Kushner 63 Lift Me Up, Rihanna 64 Eyes Closed, Ed Sheeran 65 TQG, Karol G x Shakira 66 Try That In A Small Town, Jason Aldean 67 Tennessee Orange, Megan Moroney 68 Jingle Bell Rock, Bobby Helms 69 Princess Diana, Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj 70 Tomorrow 2, GloRilla & Cardi B 71 A Holly Jolly Christmas, Burl Ives 72 Where She Goes, Bad Bunny 73 Bebe Dame, Fuerza Regida X Grupo Frontera 74 I Remember Everything, Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves 75 I Like You (A Happier Song), Post Malone Featuring Doja Cat 76 What It Is (Block Boy), Doechii Featuring Kodak Black 77 Nobody Gets Me, SZA 78 Rich Men North Of Richmond, Oliver Anthony Music 79 Super Freaky Girl, Nicki Minaj 80 Dial Drunk, Noah Kahan With Post Malone 81 What Was I Made For?, Billie Eilish 82 Seven, Jung Kook Featuring Latto 83 Wait For U, Future Featuring Drake & Tems 84 Last Christmas, Wham! 85 Handle On You, Parker McCollum 86 Por Las Noches, Peso Pluma 87 Memory Lane, Old Dominion 88 Area Codes, Kaliii 89 Bury Me In Georgia, Kane Brown 90 PRC, Peso Pluma X Natanael Cano 91 What My World Spins Around, Jordan Davis 92 Ain't That Some, Morgan Wallen 93 Wild As Her, Corey Kent 94 Peaches & Eggplants, Young Nudy Featuring 21 Savage 95 I Wrote The Book, Morgan Wallen 96 Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, Bizarrap & Shakira 97 Meltdown, Travis Scott Featuring Drake 98 Put It On Da Floor Again, Latto Featuring Cardi B 99 Bloody Mary, Lady Gaga 100 Watermelon Moonshine, Lainey Wilson
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Billboard 200 (Album Chart)
1 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 2 Midnights, Taylor Swift 3 SOS, SZA 4 Her Loss, Drake & 21 Savage 5 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 6 Heroes & Villains, Metro Boomin 7 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 8 American Heartbreak, Zach Bryan 9 Lover, Taylor Swift 10 Utopia, Travis Scott 11 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 12 Folklore, Taylor Swift 13 It's Only Me, Lil Baby 14 The Highlights, The Weeknd 15 Harry's House, Harry Styles 16 1989, Taylor Swift 17 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 18 Diamonds, Elton John 19 Manana Sera Bonito, Karol G 20 Gettin' Old, Luke Combs 21 reputation, Taylor Swift 22 Renaissance, Beyoncé 23 Starboy, The Weeknd 24 My Turn, Lil Baby 25 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 26 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 27 Certified Lover Boy, Drake 28 Ctrl, SZA 29 Evermore, Taylor Swift 30 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 31 This One's For You, Luke Combs 32 I Never Liked You, Future 33 Greatest Hits, Queen 34 If I Know Me, Morgan Wallen 35 Hollywood's Bleeding, Post Malone 36 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 37 Genesis, Peso Pluma 38 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 39 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 40 Goodbye & Good Riddance, Juice WRLD 41 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 42 Take Care, Drake 43 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 44 What You See Is What You Get, Luke Combs 45 Endless Summer Vacation, Miley Cyrus 46 Growin' Up, Luke Combs 47 Scorpion, Drake 48 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 49 Barbie: The Album, Soundtrack 50 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 51 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 52 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 53 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 54 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 55 ANTI, Rihanna 56 Planet Her, Doja Cat 57 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 58 Graduation, Kanye West 59 Thriller, Michael Jackson 60 Views, Drake 61 The Mockingbird & The Crow, HARDY 62 Almost Healed, Lil Durk 63 7220, Lil Durk 64 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 65 Wasteland, Brent Faiyaz 66 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 67 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke 68 Religiously. The Album., Bailey Zimmerman 69 Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa 70 ASTROWORLD, Travis Scott 71 Beautiful Mind, Rod Wave 72 =, Ed Sheeran 73 Savage Mode II, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin 74 A Gift & A Curse, Gunna 75 Blonde, Frank Ocean 76 Different Man, Kane Brown 77 Starting Over, Chris Stapleton 78 AM, Arctic Monkeys 79 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 80 Fine Line, Harry Styles 81 Legends Never Die, Juice WRLD 82 5-Star, Stray Kids 83 Hamilton: An American Musical, Original Broadway Cast 84 The Melodic Blue, Baby Keem 85 SoulFly, Rod Wave 86 beerbongs & bentleys, Post Malone 87 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 88 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar 89 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 90 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 91 Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert 92 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish 93 Queen Radio: Volume 1, Nicki Minaj 94 Leave The Light On, Bailey Zimmerman 95 Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson 96 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 97 Purgatory, Tyler Childers 98 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 99 Pink Tape, Lil Uzi Vert 100 More Life, Drake 101 Death Race For Love, Juice WRLD 102 Indigo, Chris Brown 103 Honestly, Nevermind, Drake 104 YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny 105 Flower Boy, Tyler, The Creator 106 ÷ (Divide), Ed Sheeran 107 Hozier, Hozier 108 T R A P S O U L, Bryson Tiller 109 Stoney, Post Malone 110 Over It, Summer Walker 111 The Fame, Lady Gaga 112 Portals, Melanie Martinez 113 Curtain Call 2, Eminem 114 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 115 Speak Now, Taylor Swift 116 Bluebird Days, Jordan Davis 117 Gemini Rights, Steve Lacy 118 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 119 Like..? (EP), Ice Spice 120 ?, XXXTENTACION 121 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston 122 The Name Chapter: Temptation (EP), TOMORROW X TOGETHER 123 Currents, Tame Impala 124 F*ck Love, The Kid LAROI 125 Metallica, Metallica 126 Nevermind, Nirvana 127 Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey 128 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 129 DS4EVER, Gunna 130 Desvelado, Eslabon Armado 131 Pray 4 Love, Rod Wave 132 Greatest Hits, Pitbull 133 For All The Dogs, Drake 134 2nd EP 'Get Up', NewJeans 135 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 136 This Is What ____ Feels Like (Vol.1-4), JVKE 137 Channel Orange, Frank Ocean 138 Twelve Carat Toothache, Post Malone 139 Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 50 Cent 140 Back In Black, AC/DC 141 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 142 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: Metro Boomin Presents (Soundtrack), Metro Boomin 143 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, Kid Cudi 144 50 Number Ones, George Strait 145 Greatest Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 146 Moana, Soundtrack 147 Pa Que Hablen.: I., Fuerza Regida 148 Swimming, Mac Miller 149 Red Moon In Venus, Kali Uchis 150 The GOAT, Polo G 151 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection, Bon Jovi 152 Danado, Ivan Corenjo 153 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 154 Christmas, Michael Buble 155 All Time Greatest Hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd 156 Nostalgia, Rod Wave 157 Rave & Roses, Rema 158 Austin, Post Malone 159 After Hours, The Weeknd 160 Whole Lotta Red, Playboi Carti 161 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, Lewis Capaldi 162 Hope, NF 163 21, Adele 164 Who Is Nardo Wick?, Nardo Wick 165 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 166 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 167 Hard To Love, Moneybagg Yo 168 Mercury - Act 1, Imagine Dragons 169 -, Ed Sheeran 170 Been One, Rylo Rodriguez 171 All I Want Is You, Miguel 172 Meteora, Linkin Park 173 Saturno, Rauw Alejandro 174 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season), Karol G 175 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West 176 Dawn FM, The Weeknd 177 Evolve, Imagine Dragons 178 Ready To Be: 12th Mini Album (EP), TWICE 179 The Christmas Song, Nat King Cole 180 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 181 Confessions, Usher 182 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits, Elvis Presley 183 [Hybrid Theory], Linkin Park 184 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack), Vince Guaraldi Trio 185 Justice, Justin Bieber 186 Merry Christmas, Mariah Carey 187 Encanto (Highlights), Soundtrack 188 Only Built For Infinity Links, Quavo & Takeoff 189 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 190 Hall Of Fame, Polo G 191 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 192 I Am Music, Lil Wayne 193 FACE (EP), Jimin 194 Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne 195 SEVENTEEN 10th Mini Album: FML (EP), SEVENTEEN 196 I Am > I Was, 21 Savage 197 Greatest Hits, The Notorious B.I.G. 198 Eternal Atake, Lil Uzi Vert 199 Tyler Hubbard, Tyler Hubbard 200 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector, Various Artists

Global 200
1 Flowers, Miley Cyrus 2 Calm Down, Rema & Selena Gomez 3 Kill Bill, SZA 4 Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift 5 Die For You, The Weeknd & Ariana Grande 6 As It Was, Harry Styles 7 Unholy, Sam Smith & Kim Petras 8 I'm Good (Blue), David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 9 Creepin', Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 10 Last Night, Morgan Wallen 11 La Bebe, Yng Lvcas x Peso Pluma 12 Ella Baila Sola, Eslabon Armado X Peso Pluma 13 Until I Found You, Stephen Sanchez 14 I Ain't Worried, OneRepublic 15 Save Your Tears, The Weeknd & Ariana Grande 16 Another Love, Tom Odell 17 Seven, Jung Kook Featuring Latto 18 TQG, Karol G x Shakira 19 La Bachata, Manuel Turizo 20 Cupid, Fifty Fifty 21 Golden Hour, JVKE 22 Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, Bizarrap & Shakira 23 Escapism, RAYE Featuring 070 Shake 24 Under The Influence, Chris Brown 25 Un x100to, Grupo Frontera X Bad Bunny 26 Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2, PinkPantheress & Ice Spice 27 Cruel Summer, Taylor Swift 28 Something In The Orange, Zach Bryan 29 Blinding Lights, The Weeknd 30 Heat Waves, Glass Animals 31 Snooze, SZA 32 Me Porto Bonito, Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone 33 Sure Thing, Miguel 34 Rich Flex, Drake & 21 Savage 35 Levitating, Dua Lipa 36 Starboy, The Weeknd Featuring Daft Punk 37 Stay, The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber 38 Perfect, Ed Sheeran 39 Cold Heart (PNAU Remix), Elton John & Dua Lipa 40 Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52, Bizarrap & Quevedo 41 OMG, NewJeans 42 Idol, YOASOBI 43 Shivers, Ed Sheeran 44 Cuff It, Beyoncé 45 Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood 46 Daylight, David Kushner 47 Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Post Malone & Swae Lee 48 Mockingbird, Eminem 49 Someone You Loved, Lewis Capaldi 50 Titi Me Pregunto, Bad Bunny 51 People, Libianca 52 Ditto, NewJeans 53 Yandel 150, Yandel & Feid 54 Hey Mor, Ozuna Featuring Feid 55 Bones, Imagine Dragons 56 I Wanna Be Yours, Arctic Monkeys 57 Made You Look, Meghan Trainor 58 Fast Car, Luke Combs 59 Bad Habits, Ed Sheeran 60 Believer, Imagine Dragons 61 Like Crazy, Jimin 62 Ojitos Lindos, Bad Bunny & Bomba Estereo 63 Dance The Night, Dua Lipa 64 Viva La Vida, Coldplay 65 Shape Of You, Ed Sheeran 66 Vampire, Olivia Rodrigo 67 Blank Space, Taylor Swift 68 Classy 101, Feid x Young Miko 69 Unstoppable, Sia 70 Yellow, Coldplay 71 You Proof, Morgan Wallen 72 Lavender Haze, Taylor Swift 73 Snap, Rosa Linn 74 Where She Goes, Bad Bunny 75 Jimmy Cooks, Drake Featuring 21 Savage 76 LaLa, Myke Towers 77 Summertime Sadness, Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais 78 Que Vuelvas, Carin Leon X Grupo Frontera 79 Just Wanna Rock, Lil Uzi Vert 80 Superhero (Heroes & Villains), Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown 81 Bad Habit, Steve Lacy 82 Paint The Town Red, Doja Cat 83 Without Me, Eminem 84 Fukumean, Gunna 85 Lovely, Billie Eilish & Khalid 86 La Jumpa, Arcangel & Bad Bunny 87 Shut Up My Moms Calling, Hotel Ugly 88 Karma, Taylor Swift Featuring Ice Spice 89 Baby Shark, Pinkfong 90 Por Las Noches, Peso Pluma 91 No Role Modelz, J. Cole 92 Beso, Rosalia & Rauw Alejandro 93 PRC, Peso Pluma X Natanael Cano 94 Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears 95 All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey 96 Counting Stars, OneRepublic 97 Miss You, Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 98 Sprinter, Dave & Central Cee 99 El Azul, Junior H x Peso Pluma 100 Here With Me, d4vd 101 Riptide, Vance Joy 102 Bebe Dame, Fuerza Regida X Grupo Frontera 103 AMG, Gabito Ballesteros, Peso Pluma & Natanael Cano 104 Take Me To Church, Hozier 105 Circles, Post Malone 106 Thinkin' Bout Me, Morgan Wallen 107 Easy On Me, Adele 108 Players, Coi Leray 109 Take On Me, a-ha 110 All My Life, Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole 111 What Was I Made For?, Billie Eilish 112 Despecha, Rosalia 113 Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles 114 Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo, Feid 115 Chemical, Post Malone 116 Sunroof, Nicky Youre & dazy 117 Super Shy, NewJeans 118 Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio Featuring L.V. 119 Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses 120 Style, Taylor Swift 121 Provenza, Karol G 122 When I Was Your Man, Bruno Mars 123 Barbie World, Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice With Aqua 124 Wasted On You, Morgan Wallen 125 Baby Don't Hurt Me, David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 126 Shallow, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 127 Favorite Song, Toosii 128 Lift Me Up, Rihanna 129 Last Christmas, Wham! 130 Set Fire To The Rain, Adele 131 Moonlight, Kali Uchis 132 Eyes Closed, Ed Sheeran 133 See You Again, Tyler, The Creator Featuring Kali Uchis 134 Efecto, Bad Bunny 135 Miracle, Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 136 Dandelions, Ruth B. 137 Lady Gaga, Peso Pluma, Gabito Ballesteros & Junior H 138 Can't Hold Us, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton 139 Too Many Nights, Metro Boomin Featuring Don Toliver & Future 140 0.440972222222222, Tiesto Featuring Tate McRae 141 No Se Va, Grupo Frontera 142 TQM, Fuerza Regida 143 Shake It Off, Taylor Swift 144 Wait For U, Future Featuring Drake & Tems 145 Cardigan, Taylor Swift 146 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee 147 Hype Boy, NewJeans 148 Search & Rescue, Drake 149 Kick Back, Kenshi Yonezu 150 Fragil, Yahritza y Su Esencia x Grupo Frontera 151 Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 55, Bizarrap & Peso Pluma 152 I Am, IVE 153 Lover, Taylor Swift 154 Rock And A Hard Place, Bailey Zimmerman 155 Every Breath You Take, The Police 156 Popular, The Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna 157 Dreams, Fleetwood Mac 158 Something Just Like This, The Chainsmokers & Coldplay 159 Columbia, Quevedo 160 Flower, Jisoo 161 Don't Blame Me, Taylor Swift 162 Fin de Semana, Junior H X Oscar Maydon 163 Romantic Homicide, d4vd 164 Enemy, Imagine Dragons X JID 165 Jingle Bell Rock, Bobby Helms 166 Money Trees, Kendrick Lamar Featuring Jay Rock 167 Bloody Mary, Lady Gaga 168 Moscow Mule, Bad Bunny 169 Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana 170 El Merengue, Marshmello & Manuel Turizo 171 Queencard, (G)I-DLE 172 Amargura, Karol G 173 Thunder, Imagine Dragons 174 El Gordo Trae El Mando, Chino Pacas 175 Qlona, Karol G & Peso Pluma 176 Creep, Radiohead 177 Sabor Fresa, Fuerza Regida 178 Tattoo, Loreen 179 Ch y La Pizza, Fuerza Regida X Natanael Cano 180 Nonsense, Sabrina Carpenter 181 Shirt, SZA 182 Antifragile, LE SSERAFIM 183 Trance, Metro Boomin, Travis Scott & Young Thug 184 Coco Chanel, Eladio Carrion & Bad Bunny 185 (It Goes Like) Nanana, Peggy Gou 186 Tulum, Peso Pluma & Grupo Frontera 187 Late Night Talking, Harry Styles 188 Shut Down, BLACKPINK 189 Primera Cita, Carin Leon 190 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 191 Chorrito Pa Las Animas, Feid 192 Glimpse Of Us, Joji 193 What It Is (Block Boy), Doechii Featuring Kodak Black 194 Santa Tell Me, Ariana Grande 195 Subtitle, Official HIGE DANdism 196 About Damn Time, Lizzo 197 ETA, NewJeans 198 Ta OK, DENNIS E MC Kevin O Chris, Maluma & Karol G 199 Monotonia, Shakira + Ozuna 200 X Si Volvemos, Karol G x Romeo Santos

Artist of the Year
1 Taylor Swift 2 Morgan Wallen 3 SZA 4 Drake 5 Luke Combs 6 Zach Bryan 7 The Weeknd 8 21 Savage 9 Miley Cyrus 10 Post Malone 11 Metro Boomin 12 Peso Pluma 13 Travis Scott 14 Harry Styles 15 Bad Bunny 16 Olivia Rodrigo 17 Bailey Zimmerman 18 Rod Wave 19 Lil Baby 20 Beyoncé 21 Lil Uzi Vert 22 Ed Sheeran 23 Karol G 24 Lil Durk 25 Ice Spice 26 Gunna 27 Chris Brown 28 Doja Cat 29 Kendrick Lamar 30 Tyler, The Creator 31 Jelly Roll 32 Future 33 Juice WRLD 34 Kane Brown 35 Nicki Minaj 36 Lainey Wilson 37 Jordan Davis 38 Fuerza Regida 39 Grupo Frontera 40 Rihanna 41 Rema 42 Elton John 43 Billie Eilish 44 Dua Lipa 45 Miguel 46 Selena Gomez 47 Chris Stapleton 48 HARDY 49 Toosii 50 Eminem 51 Steve Lacy 52 Fleetwood Mac 53 Sam Smith 54 JVKE 55 Lana Del Rey 56 Noah Kahan 57 Coi Leray 58 J. Cole 59 Ariana Grande 60 Lizzo 61 Eslabon Armado 62 David Guetta 63 Michael Jackson 64 Mariah Carey 65 Lady Gaga 66 Kanye West 67 Meghan Trainor 68 Frank Ocean 69 Bebe Rexha 70 Kim Petras 71 Tyler Hubbard 72 Nat King Cole 73 Metallica 74 YoungBoy Never Broke Again 75 Fifty Fifty 76 Brenda Lee 77 Queen 78 Jason Aldean 79 Stephen Sanchez 80 Megan Moroney 81 Tyler Childers 82 Brent Faiyaz 83 Michael Buble 84 Bruno Mars 85 Elvis Presley 86 NewJeans 87 Young Thug 88 Creedence Clearwater Revival 89 Burl Ives 90 Melanie Martinez 91 Bobby Helms 92 Kali Uchis 93 P!nk 94 Imagine Dragons 95 Guns N' Roses 96 Coldplay 97 Andy Williams 98 The Kid LAROI 99 Kelly Clarkson 100 Polo G

Look I know its a commonly held opinion but farm arrays is actually pretty good aside from all the raindeer, it has strange plants grow in several places, in some rooms you can see multiple plants growing in the background, seemingly placed there intentionally. Giant collums and pillars in the backgrounds of some of the rooms draped over in what appears to be cloth. Giant support beams in the first few rooms of hunter mode. And Massive stone heads leading to the underground fissure. Makes you wonder what was the purpose of the farm arrays and what was the purpose of the giant structures? Why is this place connected to a giant communication hub? A direct fissure leading deep to the underground where nothing can climb back up but is also the connection to the outside world? And finally another connection to the outside world were unknowing creatures kept swept away? We learn from the farm arrays echo that the farm arrays seem to be a field type place, possibly a farm of sorts. Yet why here? Why in this direct place on the map? Aesthetically speaking I think farm arrays is pretty good, all the music choices put in it makes it a pretty good last to final area if you follow the old path, especially distance and emotion thread. Distance is a pretty good somewhat melancholic piece, making you realize you are following the footsteps of a long dead race who tried to grasp at the impossible (ascension). Not to mention distance plays near what appears to be a humanoid graffiti art dotted in tattoos, possibly an ancient without all its heavy jewerly and accessories on it. And then emotion thread, once again a melancholic piece that plays on your final raindeer ride as you grow closer and closer to your final destination, then realizing through the final dream image as survivor or monk that your journey to find your family has been in vain, and maybe there is another fate that awaits you, not to find your family but to FIND your family. All this plus the threat music is kinda good. Farm arrays may not be a good region mechanically speaking but it sure as hell is one of my favorite regions purely for the mood it conveys

Anything by this band is Gospel. Fuckin' Legendary.

Now, Let's Begin:

Hi, Eggheads. I'm in your thoughts.
Hey Look MA! I made ya something.
Might get married soon, can't wait to consummate, but only so that I can get a good nights rest afterwards.
Thinking about my Soulmate, she said she's a pickle.
My Mom approves.
i wanted nail polish, thought I should get red.
I get what I want now, when I walk the streets.
My precognition is becoming reliable and less shrouded in symbolism of my person subconscious.
Feelin' Myself.
Food. Drink. Clothes. Marijuana. Money.
I See Images in my Mind. Then my Eye Show Me Correspondence within "External Reality".
Train stop. Late at night. Fetty-cane debris.
Found some extra charging cords
.And Nail Polish: ASAP Apple
Should paint my toes. Don't want to paint my Right hand.
Left hand already painted.
Dark blue.
Stole it from Target.
Second bottle of it.
Gave first bottle away to a dude with huge Cross tattoo who was having a spiritual experience in the park.
Color 609: Midnight Mod.
Should paint my toes. I like to chew on the nails on my right hand.
Found a dollar this morning on the train. Folded up. It was next to a lady wearing all yellow. Banana lady didn't want it when I pointed it out. She looked like she was trying to project Wealth.
Sometimes, I am Curious George.
Looking forward to experiencing the man with yellow hat archetype.
I got off the train and ate the food that was on the garbage can that I had jumped on the train to backtrack and investigate. And did the healthy line of Coke that was wrapped in the dollar.
Came clean: Soulmate had an article waiting to throw at me.
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Found of THC vape pen. Stole a charging cable.
Lost the THC vape pen, before I could charge it.
Had an emotional breakdown because not knowing the precise time it slipped from the side of my backpack drives me fucking insane. Hard to derive a specific lesson, other than - CAN'T LET GUARD DOWN.
Do I feel cool when I puff on things? Maybe. Ok, of course I fuckin' do, have any of you assholes ever smoked anything>!!>!>>!>! It's awesome.
Do you smoke?
You got any?
I love THC vape pen. It's like a wand. I feel like a Magician.
I feel like The Sorcerers' Apprentice when I strut around with those things.
I gonna walk around Moscow with one.
Don't call me Harry Potter, I don't care if it fits. I don't care if Harry's middle name is James. I always preferred his Godfather. Anyone that can turn into a big black dog and is named after a star fucks in my book. And everyone in my book? They fuck. Harry named his son, James Sirius Potter. I mean, I love to smoke pot, but that's like 'I love my Dad, so I want my last name to be Dad's name."
My last name, literally translates to 'Scotsman':

German: occupational name for a peddler or a nickname for someone who always had something to sell from Middle High German schotte ‘peddler’. German (Schött): metonymic occupational name for a tax collector from Middle Low German schot ‘tax’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from either German Schotte ‘Scotsman’ or German Schote ‘pod’.

Some nerd shit, if you ask me.
Special Message to My Favorite ^{most trusted} Twin Flame : Long Distance Spitting (she's a rapper - they all were back then)
the 1950's... glad the culture from the Era is almost dead. Yuck.
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Saw Victoria in person. Didn't try to have sex with them.
I did pick them up in a loving embrace though. It's nice that I can try to have sex with someone online, and eventually, because I am projecting ghosts, it isn't awkward in person.
It's very much like how I had to project the Queen of Heaven and Hell onto my poor queer Christian Science housemate last Spring.
Poor Kelsi.
At least she was there to support me.
And help me get organized.
One day, we were doing some weeding, which would psychologically prime me to start blurting things out, and I'm like, talking to my poor housemate like she is my wife, and shit and....
Let's see some highlights of what I told her:
-Revealed my darkest secret about molesting the family dog when I was teenager because I was horny. (God, I think it was like 16, too, pretty late to be exploring with God's creatures, but fuck... who am I too judge younger Jacob, besides the Judge of All Creation. Do they make fun of you here if your parents bail you out????FATHER!!!)
The intoxication of the impulse evaporated when our Boston Terrier, Reggie, didn't reciprocate any desire for the experience.
Consent was always been sexy for me.
Reggie was good to me. He never brought it up again,
but sometimes... I'd see him walking around the yard, or the house, and I'd be like,
"fuckin' Regg, I know he wants it...."
Anyway, Reggie is dead. My step-dad ran him over on my Mom's birthday one year.
So we got Lily.
She also a Boston Terrier. I didn't try to instigate a sexual experience with her, because (like they all say) it was a one time thing, and I sort felt weird for like 20 years because of the first time.
Lily is dead, too. She died last year. My Mom called me to tell me Lily was dead, then in the same conversation, she told me her estranged father, Patrick, had died as well.
Priorities.
Mom's pain from her relationship with her Father broke my fuckin' heart.
No worries. I redeemed. Here is Lily, we called her the Soul Sucker, because if you looked into her eyes, it was like, 'good God Lil, what have you seen?'
All this talk about death has me feeling a certain type of way. Might DM, Victoria, and try to have sex with them later.
The Owl Stocking Cap reminded me that I love the word Stalking.
So does my Twin Flame.
Solved Multi-World theory. I'm Famous Now, Here's My Headshot. Bored of time/space now. And your inability to Master it.
I bet I can get CJ McCollum to sign my Bible.
This is my little brother, Nic. His middle name is James, also.
My quest to become my True Self has pulled us apart a little bit over the last 7 years.
I had my first episode when he was graduating High School. I got him this hat as a Grad Present...
I don't think he got what I was foreshadowing....
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Wrote out some notes and called it, "The 4 Pillars of my Get-Outta-Jail and On Me Card"
Gonna write an essay style intrusion into my mind. Here are the topics. Self-limited for time and sanity. Neither limit observed properly.

1. Personal Anima & the Great Balancing Act (Divine Femininity Projections of the Collective)
2. Personal, Number, and Card Magic
3. Thoughts on: the Nature of the healing/growth power of Soulmate and Twin Flame Relationships
4. Personal Projections and why they are Psychologically Rigid

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Twin Flame replied to a dumb link I sent her about how I am not so secretly playing both sides.

7 23 10
I had drawn cards earlier in the day and was looking for 7 and 10.
Already had one hit. 7'10" clearance on a wooden rail bridge.
Sparrow St. Between 19th and 21st.
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Reminds me of a bird.
Birds everywhere lately.
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Jack Sparrow, too.
Uh, Jack the Pumpkin King.
Uh, Jack Bean Stalk.
Uh, Jack from the Shining.
Uh, I don't know, did I forget any important Jack's.
Ok. All other Jacks are irrelevant.
Unless, it's 2am and I want a fuck ton of Tacos.
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My Anima's name is Jackie. She was born 4/20/65. She was my Mom's bestfriend and died 3 days before I was born in 1987. When I first woke up to my True Self in Feburary of 2016, Jackie told me that she is like Lyanna Stark and I am like Jon Snow.
She is my real Mother, we swapped at birth, somehow, and I am the King in hiding.

Jacqueline: Origin and Meaning
The name Jacqueline is girl's name of French origin meaning "supplanter". Jacqueline originated as a feminine form of Jacques, the French variation of James, and therefore Jacob.

My (birth) Mom's (pretty sure I did come from inside this one) name is MeChelle.
She says I was named after Jackie, but my Dad, Randy, had a boa constrictor named Jake, as well. There was always some ambiguity over which I was named after. I'm rep'n Girl Power this lifetime, but man, what could have been....
Anyway, feast your eyes on this Visually Suggestive Clusterfuck of Prophetic MS Paint Fuckery.
Moist Monday
Help Me Inhale With You Monday
Capitol of the State of Oregon, on Monday, 6/12/23: Salem
A fancy myself a Storm Chaser, but I just watch Youtube. Even - on Monday.
(Kurt says Fuck You In Particular)
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Sent a Journal Entry to my Soulmate. I like to the explore the 'obsessed messianic complex stalker vibe' style.
Not the first to do. Well, kinda.
Wrote the "The Birds Shit Every Where," in red in my latest entry.
A Crow shit on my backpack last night.
Briefly wasn't sure if it was chewing tobacco or roach remnants.
Spirit guide indicated, "It's bird shit, you fuckin' retard. You don't need to try to smoke everything."
They say that Roaches will be the only thing to survive when World War III starts and the nukes start flying. I have been evolving to survive exclusively on Roaches, to prepare for the inevitable outcome that will be perpetuated by the ignorance of Mankind (Once again! PLOT TWIST! JK ITS THE SAME OLD FUCKING STORY)
After meditation, I didn't smoke the crow poop.
Sparrow reminds me of Swallow.
Is it bird?
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“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”

― Bill Maher
I think Bill Maher is a fuckin' ignorant loser, and I have a feeling I will have the opportunity to explain it to his face. He isn't ugly. He is handsome. Maybe I will get swept away by his charm and walk away thinking Bill Maher deserves to be propped up because he has something interesting to say. But I fuckin' doubt it!
Sent a pic of a Tiny Bible to Soulmate. She confirmed that I am insane.
Twin Flame say's she can't Swallow my Bible.
We'll see.
Take #97.
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July 9th, 2016
My Soul, speaking as Kurt: "You have to believe that she trusts you. You have to believe that she can feel you. You have to believe that she loves you. You have to believe that there are forces at work greater than you are capable of understanding. Do you accept these things?"
I am, Jacob: "Yes."
K: "Do you accept that you are the resurrected Jesus Christ, fully manifested into objective reality, for the first time in ... God Only Knows How Long?"
J: "Yes."
K: "Then you know, that if Lana Del Rey is truly who you are supposed to marry, you should be able to say anything and still make it happen. Correct?"
J: "Yes."
K: "What is the DUMBEST thing you could say, that would prove you are God, if you are still able to marry her."
J: "I could say I am going to Kill her. That would be hilarious, but it's going to look really bad!"
K: "She wants you to say it."
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After Credit Easter Egg:
T is for Testical
Juniper, Guardian of My Soul
Mystical Forest Guardian
I Think This Is Important Knowledge
Bonus Tombstone: "Called or not called, the god will be there"
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BECAUSE YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE:
Told Soulmate, my bliss is just brushing my teeth in the bathroom while she poops. You know, just the comfortability and closeness of it all. And I told her how I imagine being in awe of her beauty....
SHE DOESN'T KNOW THIS IS WHAT THE GIFT OF FUTURE SIGHT SHOWED ME!

"Do you have anything additional you want to say about public urination?" - Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), valiantly trying but ultimately failing to get Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) back on track during a Congressional hearing.

The Struggle Israel

As the political temperature in Israel continues to rise, the limits of its special relationship with the United States are being tested.

• A longtime, staunch supporter of Israel, President Biden has found himself struggling to maintain the alliance as the country continues its antidemocratic lurch to the extreme right. Biden said he remains “very concerned” about the political turmoil in the country provoked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempted judicial coup. At a press conference in Durham, NC, Biden said, “[Israel] cannot continue down this road, and I’ve sort of made that clear. Hopefully the prime minister…can try to work out some genuine compromise, but that remains to be seen.”
  
• Biden said he does not intend to interfere with the judicial reform power grab, but has made his opposition to it clear, and later went on to say that it is his hope that Netanyahu abandons the pursuit altogether. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir reportedly plans to propose the creation of a new national security force in parliament, after Netanyahu gave the proposal a go-ahead on Monday.
  
• Netanyahu responded to Biden’s public concerns by expressing gratitude for Biden’s years of support for Israel and promising to seek a “broad consensus” over the legal reforms, but also included a soft dig, saying that Israel “is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressure from abroad, including the best of friends.” Ben Gvir, leader of the ultranationalist Jewish power party was far more exacting in his response, asserting that Israel “is not another star in the American Flag…I expect the U.S. president to understand that point.”
  

Members of Congress have also begun to meaningfully question the implications of unwavering, unquestioned support for Israel.

• Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have spearheaded an effort to urge president Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to investigate whether Israel is using American weapons to commit human-rights abuses against Palestinians, which would violate United States law. A letter to this effect, written by Bowman, was signed by eight additional House members: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cori Bush (D-MO), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Betty McCollum (D-MN), André Carson (D-IN), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).
  
• The letter concludes with a request that the Biden administration “ensure US taxpayer funds do not support projects in illegal settlements,” amid the new Israeli government’s recent “alarming actions.” The Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act stipulate that American weapons supplied to other countries can only be used for self-defense, and cannot be used to commit human-rights abuses.
  

This moment should be an inflection point for the United States’ relationship with Israel, but such a diplomatic reckoning has been a long time coming. Israel is currently under control of the most far-right government in its history, led by officials who oppose the two-state solution favored by the Biden administration. The U.S. and Israel have had repeated run-ins over construction of illegal settlements and eliminationist rhetoric, such as when Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a Palestinian village to be “erased,” before later saying that there is “no such thing” as Palestinian people at all. That Netanyahu was also bff with disgraced former president Donald Trump during his tenure (and apparently remains so today) has also soured many Democrats and American Jewish organizations on the Israeli government. In the simplest terms: the Biden administration seems to be coming to the realization that the United States cannot purport to be a champion of democracy at home and abroad and continue an unquestioning alliance with a nation squarely headed for dictatorship.

Look No Further Than Crooked Media

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Under The Radar

The Senate approved legislation on Wednesday to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for American wars in Iraq. The decisive 66-30 vote is a historic step towards formally acknowledging the catastrophic failure of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of Americans. If you can believe it, all of the votes against the repeal came from Senate Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement saying he opposes the repeal of the Authorizations for Use of Military Force because of “threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists.” The implicit and at times explicit fearmongering from McConnell and his war-hawk GOP colleagues is that repealing these authorizations will project “American weakness,” by contrast to two decades of failed wars based on lies, the ultimate sign of strength. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) issued a statement saying that the repeal “is an important step to prevent any president from abusing these AUMFs, reaffirm our partnership with the Iraqi government, and pay tribute to the servicemembers who served in Iraq.” Kaine and other senators have pushed to repeal the AUMFs for years in an effort to return war powers to Congress, where the Constitution envisions them.

What Else?

The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s “alleged” hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels will break for a month. Sure thing, guys. Take your time.
Eric Davis, the judge overseeing the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News, isn’t buying the excuse that Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch is “too infirm” to testify at the trial.
A group of tech overlords and industry executives has called for a six-month pause in developing more advanced artificial intelligence, citing potential harms to society.
After banning nearly all abortions last year, Idaho will soon become the first state to prohibit minors from interstate travel for the procedure, which Republicans have begun referring to as “abortion trafficking.”
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz continued to deny allegations of union busting in front of a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, where Chairman Bernie Sanders (pretty accurately!!) accused Starbucks of waging “the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of our country.”
The GOP-controlled North Carolina state legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill eliminating permit requirements to buy a handgun in the state.
Twitter temporarily suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Tuesday after she repeatedly posted references to a “Trans Day of Vengeance” organized by “Antifa.” Not for nothing, but considering how heavily the community has been persecuted in this country, a “Trans Day of Vengeance” sounds like a really good time, Marjorie. Thanks for the idea!
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) will return to the Senate the week of April 17 following the completion of his treatment for depression at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Correction: Yesterday I misattributed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green as (R-CO) instead of (R-GA), conflating her designation with that of Rep. Lauren Boebert (actually R-CO). My apologies to the good people of Colorado, who clearly already have their hands full.

You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding Me

The Kentucky state legislature has passed a sweeping bill banning gender-affirming health care for trans minors, restricting which bathrooms and lockers they can use, prohibiting discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and allowing teachers to use the names and pronouns assigned to trans minors at birth against their wishes. The passage overrides the veto of Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) and is firmly opposed by state medical associations, education officials, and parents of trans children. State-Sen. Max Wise (R-KY) introduced the hotly-contested legislation, and defended it by saying that its goal is to “strengthen parental engagement and communication in children’s education while protecting the safety of our children.” State-Sen. Karen Berg (D-KY) rightly called this for the crock of shit that it is, saying, “To say this is a bill protecting children is completely disingenuous. And to call this a parents’ right bill is an absolutely despicable affront to me personally.” Berg’s own trans son killed himself just weeks before the bill was introduced.

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Light At The End Of The Email

In an unusual (but good and cool) move, nine influential members of Congress from New York are pressuring Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to support the state’s climate-focused Build Public Renewables Act.
The North Carolina state elections board removed two officials for violating state law after they refused to certify their county’s 2022 election results, citing rabid conservative conspiracy theories.
The News Guild of New York took over the New York Times newsroom today in protest of its contract, which expired two years ago and still has yet to be renegotiated.

Enjoy

helena on Twitter: "Im not even saying this to be mean he really looks like if pitbull had been present for the Chernobyl disaster as a baby"

This is from 2022-07-30 to 2022-08-26

Here are the new singles & albums for Friday August 26th 2022.
Singles :

• A Thousand Horses - Another Mile
• Aaron Watson - The Old Man Said (Radio Edit)
• Adam Brand - Changing Tunes
• Adam Doleac - Close That Tab
• Adam Hattaway and the Haunters - Salt
• Adam Hood - Livin' Don't Give a Damn
• Adam Sanders - All Summer Long
• Aidan Canfield - The Only Good
• Alex Williams - No Reservations
• Allie Colleen - Feels Like
• Amythyst Kiah - Pensive Pop
• Andy Grammer & Fitz and The Tantrums - The Wrong Party (with Fitz and The Tantrums)
• Anna Vaus - Kinda Don't Ever
• Anne Wilson & Matthew West - Me on Your Mind
• Anthony Wilkerson - Country Carpet
• Ashley Cooke - getting into
• Austin Burke - When I'm Drinkin'
• Austin Plaine - House of the Ruin
• Bailey Zimmerman - Where It Ends
• Ben Burgess - Heartbreak
• Ben Gallaher - Still a Few Cowboys Left
• Big 50 - Sure Don't Hurt
• Bill Anderson - Someday It'll All Make Sense (Bluegrass Version)
• Blackberry Smoke - Ain't Got The Blues (Acoustic Home Demo)
• Blackberry Smoke - One Horse Town (Studio Demo)
• Blackberry Smoke - Pretty Little Lie (Studio Demo)
• Blackberry Smoke - Up The Road (Acoustic Home Demo)
• Blake Branscom - Jim Beam & King James
• Blake Shelton - No Body
• Brandi Carlile & Allison Russell - You're Not Alone [Feat. Brandi Carlile]
• Brandon Davis - Wheels on the Truck
• Brandon Lay - Every Girl is You
• Brandon Lay - Old School Country Music
• Brett Kissel - Watch It
• Bri Bagwell - Trenches
• Brian Callihan - Everybody's In Love
• Brian Callihan - Want Me Sober
• Brian Fuller - Burn Me Out
• Bryan Martin - FAFO
• Caleb Caudle - Forsythia
• Carly Rogers & Kentucky Music Mafia - Fight
• Carolyn Miller - Why Do I
• Carter Lybrand - Time for That
• Casee Allen & Neal McCoy - I Blame It All on My Roots
• Casey Cattie - champagne campaign
• Casey Daniels Band - Blue Collar Dollar
• Catie Offerman - Get A Dog
• CeCe Winans & Gabriela Rocha - Believe For It (Eu Creio)
• Charley Crockett - The Man from Waco
• Chayce Beckham - Keeping Me Up All Night
• Chris Buck Band - Thank God for Good Friends
• Chris Canterbury - Sweet Maria
• Christine Kindred - Love Dies
• Clay Hollis - Coast Is Clear
• Clayton Anderson - Indiana
• Cody Hibbard - Different Now
• Colt Ford - Country as Truck
• Conner Smith - Orange And White
• Corey Kent - Hood of That Car
• Courtney Patton - Never on the Hurting End
• Craig Campbell - Things You Do In A Truck (feat. Trea Landon)
• Craig Morgan - How You Make A Man
• Crawford & Power - Cryin'
• Cypress Spring - Out Here
• Dan + Shay - You (Acoustic)
• Daniel E. Johnson - I Don't Love You Too
• Dave Brinker - Juniper and Sage
• David James - Wreck My Weekend (Stripped)
• David Tribble - Forever Love
• Dean Miller - The Gun Ain't Loaded (But I Am)
• Dixie Darling - Nothing To Lose
• Dolly Parton - A Smoky Mountain Christmas
• Donovan Woods & Natalie Taylor - Hang On To Me
• Dr. John - End Of The Line [Feat. Aaron Neville]
• Drew Baldridge - First
• Drew Green - This Miller Lite of Mine
• Dustin Bird - Hating On Love
• Dustin Huff - Good Dog
• Dusty Black - Them Boots
• Dylan Marlowe - Why'd We Break Up Again
• Easton Corbin - Real Good Country Song
• Eli Howard & The Greater Good - Stay In My Lane
• Emily Nenni - On The Ranch
• Emma White - 30s - Live (Acoustic)
• Eric Church - &
• Eric Van Houten - Billboard
• Everette - Songs From Kings Of The Dairy Queen Parking Lot: Side B
• Flatland Cavalry - Mountain Song
• Florida Georgia Line - Round Here (Live From Joe's Bar, Chicago / 2012)
• Frank Ray - Getcha Some
• Fuzzy & the Rustbelts - Take Me to the River (Live)
• Gabe Lee & King Margo - Dishes Ain't Done
• Garrett Hedlund - Best Ones
• Gary LeVox - Get Down Like That
• Grace Leer - Ones Before Me
• Grace Tyler - Buckle of the Bible Belt
• Gray Robinson - For the Weekend
• Gretchen Peters - The Matador (Live)
• Greylan James - I Hope She Hears These
• Haley & Michaels & Jim Brickman & Mat and Savanna Shaw - Peace Joy Love
• Haley Mae Campbell - Didn't Have to Drink
• Hannah Ellis - Country Can
• Hannah May Allison - Love Him Forever (Acoustic)
• HARDY & Lainey Wilson - wait in the truck (feat. Lainey Wilson)
• Hayden Baker - At Least I'm Here
• Hunter Hayes - Could've Been You
• Hunter Phelps - Bird Dog
• Hunter Thomas Mounce - Way Too Much
• Ian Munsick - More Than Me
• Jackson Emmer - Hi Tops, Lo Tops
• Jackson Emmer - Wild Sage, Desert Rose
• Jackson Reddy - Dance Floor Dreams
• Jacob Bryant - Addicted to Heartbreak
• Jade Eagleson - Shakin' In Them Boots
• Jaden Hamilton - Guess Is as Good as Mine
• Jake Aldridge - Rather Be Me
• James McCoy Taylor - Great Again... again
• Jason Brownie - Love You Every Time
• Jenna Paulette - Slow Drawl
• Jesse Labelle - My Last Broken Heart
• Jillian Jacqueline - Better With A Broken Heart (Acoustic Live In Studio)
• Jillian Jacqueline - Magic (Acoustic Live In Studio)
• Joe Costa - Belakali
• Joe Peters - The Whiskey Will EP
• Johnny Dailey - Got Married
• Jordan Davis - Next Thing You Know
• Josh Gallagher & Taryn Papa - Mercy
• Josh Gallagher & XAR & Adam Warner - Hot Girl Shit
• Josh Kelley - Walking In Memphis
• Josh Logan - Good Time for a Good Time
• Josh Meloy - You Here Tonight
• Josh Melton - Close Enough
• Julia Cole - In A World
• Julia Cole - Rather Be Crazy (Acoustic)
• Kane Brown - Go Around
• Kasey Tyndall - Babies (Acoustic)
• Kat & Alex - Mi Casa (We Bought a House - Spanish Version)
• Katie Pruitt - Something About What Happens When We Talk
• Kaylin Roberson - Placeholder
• Kelsea Ballerini - THE LITTLE THINGS
• Kendell Marvel - Don't Tell Me How to Drink (feat. Chris Stapleton)
• Kendi Jean - Georgia (On My Mind) [Live]
• Kenny Chesney & Old Dominion - Beer With My Friends
• Kenny Foster - Dreams Change
• King Margo - Your Fix
• Kip Moore - If I Was Your Lover
• Koe Wetzel - Creeps
• Kris Kristofferson - The Pilgrim
• Kyle McKearney - River Rain
• La Maquinaria Norteña - Bola De Envidiosos
• Lainey Wilson - Watermelon Moonshine
• Landon Heights - Me and The Bottle
• LANY - Congrats
• Larkin Poe - Georgia Off My Mind
• Lathan Bryant - Why I Called
• Lauren Duski - World Before You
• Lauren Weintraub - Ex Appeal
• LeAnn Rimes - awakening
• Lexie Hayden - Breaking Up
• Liddy Clark - Potential
• Little Big Town - Better Love
• Logan Tucker - Lookin'
• Lucas Hoge - Soak It Up
• Lucius - love is the disaster
• Lynchburg - From a Migrants Pen
• Mackenzie Carpenter - Can't Nobody (Acoustic)
• Maddie & Tae - Spring Cleaning
• Madeline Edwards - The Wolves
• Madison Rodges - When You See It
• Mae Estes - Your Hands
• Marcus King - Blues Worse Than I Ever Had
• Marcus King & Zac Brown Band & Jamey Johnson - Stubborn Pride
• Margo Price - Been To The Mountain
• Marlon Williams - Easy Does It
• Matt Jordan - One More Round
• Matt Lang & Tyler Joe Miller - Never Met A Beer
• Megan Davies & Jaclyn Davies - When You're Gone
• Michael Ray - The Warehouse Sessions
• Michael Ray - Time Marches On (The Bootlegger Sessions)
• Mickey Guyton - Somethin' Bout You
• Mipso - Modern Love
• Mitch Rossell - Seeing Her
• Mitchell Tenpenny - Always Something With You
• Mitchell Tenpenny - Good and Gone
• Morgan Wade - Acoustic Sessions EP
• Muscadine Bloodline - Evinrudin'
• Music Travel Love - Stay with Me
• Natalie Murphy & Rioville - Something I Can Dance To (Rioville Remix)
• Nate Smith - Whiskey On You (Acoustic)
• Nathaniel Rateliff & Here It Is - Famous Blue Raincoat
• Nick Wayne - Hey Hey Hey
• Nikita Karmen - Get Even
• Nikki Lane - Born Tough
• Noah Hicks - Making Up My Mind
• October Rose - Missing Piece
• Parker McCollum - Handle On You
• Parmalee - Girl In Mine
• Peyton Parrish & Jonathan Young & RichaadEB - How Far I'll Go
• Priscilla Block - Off The Deep End
• Pug Johnson and The Hounds - Extended Play
• Rachel Wammack - Like Me
• Rayne Johnson - Honey!
• Rich O'Toole - Love on a Sunday
• Riley Green - Hell Of A Way To Go (Acoustic)
• Rob Mayes - BEER'CUZ
• Ron Pope - Dreams
• Ross Copperman - Secrets
• Russell Dickerson & Cheat Codes - I Remember
• Ryan Nelson - Bad Tattoo
• Ryan Robinette & Jesslee & Justin Champagne - Chillbilly
• Sam Grow - Over Me By Now
• Sam Morrow - More
• Sam Williams - Ragdoll
• Sara Berki - Good Enough
• Sarah Allison Turner - John Denver
• Sarah Darling - Live from Layman
• Sarah Lake - Johnnie
• Sean Stemaly - Outskirts
• Sequoia Newland - Turtle Soup
• Shawn David - Hell Raisin' Ways
• Shelby Darrall & The Boat Boys - Girl From The Bar (feat. Shelby Darrall)
• Shelby Lee Lowe - The Fame Sessions
• Sheryl Crow - Circles
• Sierra Ferrell & Early James - Real Low Down Lonesome
• Smithfield - Life & Living
• Spencer Crandall - Didn't Do
• Spencer Crandall - Mustang
• Spencer Crandall - The Ballad of the Mustang
• Stefanie Joyce - Marlboro Reds & Motel Rooms
• Stephen Kellogg - To the Ones Who Need It Most
• Sterling Drake - In the Pines
• Steve Moakler - You Being You
• Steven Lee Olsen - House A Home
• Sundance Head - Hard Act To Follow
• Sundance Head - Heaven Shines Down On You
• Sunny Sweeney - Married Alone (feat. Vince Gill)
• Tanner Usrey - Take Me Home
• Taylor Acorn - Psycho
• Teague Brothers Band - Pipeliner
• Tebey - Sink with the Sun
• Temecula Road - By You
• The Band Of Heathens - Take to Begin
• The Hobbs Sisters - If You Wanted To
• The Infamous Stringdusters & Anders Osborne - Black Muddy River
• The Lowdown Drifters - Cheating On A Memory Chapter 2
• The Martial - Down In My Heart (Acoustic)
• The Morning Jays & Nicholas Jamerson - Gambler (Acoustic)
• The Ransom Brothers - Jesus Dancing
• The Roads Below - Unplugged II
• The Tuten Brothers - Look Back At It
• The War and Treaty - That's How Love Is Made
• Thomas Csorba - If I Give My Soul
• Thomas Rhett & Ben Rector - What Makes a Man
• Thomas Rhett & Nicky Youre & dazy - Sunroof (feat. Thomas Rhett)
• Todd Cameron - Bench Seat Revival
• Todd Snider - Big Finish (Live)
• Tony Kamel - Show Me How to Live
• Trampled by Turtles - On the Highway
• Travis Denning - Might As Well Be Me
• Trea Landon - Lost Right Now
• Trevor Martin - Derby Glen Ln
• Trey Lewis - How Bout We Don't
• Troy Cartwright - Must Be Lonely
• Troy Cartwright & Kyle Clark - Bad Day To Be A Beer
• Ty March. & Phillip Good - It's All Good
• Tyler Cain - New Old Friends
• Tyler Hubbard - Dancin' In The Country
• Tyler Rich - Trucks Don't Lie
• Upchurch - Superstar
• Vincent Mason - Made 4
• Walker Hayes - That Dog'll Hunt
• Ward Davis - Another Bad Apple
• Warren Zeiders - One Hell of an Angel
• Wayland - Lakehouse
• Wesley Dean - Never Goin' Back to the Darkside (Live Video Recording Feb 2, 2022)
• Whelan Stone - High Bar Low
• Wight Lighters - Truly Doubt It
• Will Hoge - Queenie
• Will Overman - Spend It All
• Willie Nelson & Lucinda Williams - Live Forever
• Wynn Williams - I Love Her for Leaving
• Zach Williams - Big Tent Revival

Albums :

• A Thousand Horses - Broken Heartland
• Adam Brand - All Or Nothing
• Alex Key - Neon Signs and Stained Glass
• Branden Martin - 001
• Bri Bagwell - Corazón y Cabeza
• Canaan Cox - Canaan Cox
• CJ Solar - The Future's Neon
• Delta Rae - Acoustic
• Dylan Scott - Livin' My Best Life
• Early James - Strange Time To Be Alive
• Gretchen Peters - The Show: Live from the UK
• Hannah May Allison - Thank God For All The Boys
• Ingrid Andress - Good Person
• Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley - Our History: 18 Original Tracks
• Jordan Fletcher - Chapter 1
• Josiah Siska - Three Chords at a Time
• Kameron Marlowe - We Were Cowboys
• Kelsey Waldon - No Regular Dog
• Kolby Cooper - Boy From Anderson County To The Moon
• Mac Powell - New Creation (Deluxe)
• Marcus King - Young Blood
• Mitch Bradford - Close
• Pat Green - Miles and Miles of You
• Steve Moakler - Make A Little Room
• The Charlie Daniels Band - Volunteer Jam 1 - 1974: The Legend Begins (Live)
• The Ransom Brothers - Resurgence
• Thomm Jutz & Lincoln Grounds - Hayrides & Heartbreaks
• Valerie June - Under Cover
• Vandoliers - The Vandoliers
• Wade Bowen - Somewhere Between the Secret and the Truth
• Watchhouse - Watchhouse (Duo)
• Will Hoge - Wings on My Shoes

Spotify Playlist
As always, if there are any missing, feel free to reply to this post.
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Have a nice weekend! :)

If you're not familiar with Othram, they're a private lab specializing in forensic genealogy. They've assisted with a number of notable cases which you can read about on their wikipedia page here. Below are their (public) pending and active cases; some are being funded and some have completed funding.
1932 Rat River John Doe - In December 1931, an unknown criminal giving the pseudonym 'Albert Johnson' led the RCMP (Canadian Federal Police) on a 7-week manhunt across the Arctic. With the help of indigenous guides, the 'Mad Trapper of Red River' was located and killed during a battle in February 1932. Link
1960 'Little Miss Nobody' - On 31 July 1960, a teacher looking for rocks at a creek discovered the partially buried remains of a young child, estimated to be 3-6 years old. The girl had been burned and deceased 1-2 weeks earlier. She had a full set of pristine baby teeth, and was found wearing shorts, a blouse, and male adult flip-flops that had been cut to fit her feet.Link
1974 Will County John Doe - In November 1974, hunters found the skeletal remains of a man in the creek head of a partially wooded area. Link
1978 Rutherford John Doe - In August 1978, cops responded to a boat ramp fire at the Poole Knobs Campground. What was initially thought to be a pile of burning trash was in fact the remains of an unidentified male who'd been wrapped in a blanket and shot 4 times, 2x in the face. Link
1980 Stilly John Doe - A young man, discovered the unidentified man while fly-fishing in July 1980. The remains were caught on a logjam in the river. Link
1980 Larksville Baby John Doe - In August 1980, a bulldozer operator working at the West Side Landfill in Larksville, PA came across what he believed to be a doll. After closer inspection he realized it was a newborn boy. It is now believed that he might have lived for 1 to 3 days after birth. Link
1978 Will County Jane Doe - In April 1981, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found off I-80 near Route 30 in New Lenox, Illinois. Link
1982 Milwaukee Jane Doe - In March 1982, a young African American woman's body was discovered floating between two metal barrels which were tied to a nearby pier in the Milwaukee River. She may have been in the river for as long as 3 months before she was found. Link
1986 Oneida Jane Doe - In October 1986, a hunter in Two Mile Canyon, outside Malad, Idaho discovered a partial human skull. Link
1988 Laramie County Baby John Doe - In February 1988, a deceased baby boy was discovered in a culvert. He'd been wrapped in a blanket and had air in his lungs and stomach, indicating he'd been born alive. Link
1988 Owen County Jane Doe - The unknown woman was found in May 1988 partially nude with the exception of a pair of dark brown men’s dress socks. She was missing portions of her left hand and she had a stick-and-poke tattoo of the name “Steve” on her upper right arm. Link
1988 Saginaw John Doe - In October 1988, cops found the body of a young African American man (a teenager) who'd died only hours prior. Link
'Mary Anderson' - In the Fall of 1996, a woman under the pseudonym 'Mary Anderson' checked into an upscale hotel in Seattle, paid cash, gave false information, and was eventually discovered deceased in her room, with a suicide note and a COD of cyanide poisoning. Link
1996 Christmas Tree Lady - In December 1996, a groundskeeper at a cemetery discovered a woman's remains in the section designated for infant burials. She was found with a small 8" Christmas tree and 2 $50 notes. She had alcohol and valium in her system, and a plastic bag over her head. An accompanying note read 'Deceased by own hand...prefer no autopsy. Please order cremation with funds provided. Thank you. Jane Doe'. Link
2000 Vernon County John Doe - In January 2000, hunters came across skeletal remains of a man. Link
Knoxville Lady in the Lake - In March 2000, a woman's remains were discovered by fishermen in Melton Hill Lake. Link
2001 Johnson County Angel Baby Doe - In November 2001, the remains of a newborn baby girl was found on the side of a road, wrapped in a jacket. The baby had been born alive, likely outside of a medical facility, and had only recently died. Link
2002 Weld Baby John Doe - In September 2002, a newborn baby boy was found deceased outside a car repair shop, under a bush. The baby had been wrapped in a blue blanket with the words 'Skate Bear' and a corresponding graphic. The baby had been born healthy around 10pm - 2am the prior evening. Link
Brianna Maitland Disappearance - On 20 March 2004, cops found a green 1985 Oldsmobile Delta backed into the side of an abandoned barn. The driver, Brianna Maitland, was nowhere to be found. Othram is testing DNA from the scene. Link
2004 Haywood John Doe - In May 2004, the body of an unidentified man was found in a grassy area off exit 7, eastbound I-40 in Haywood County, North Carolina. He had several injuries consisted with being hit by a motor vehicle. Link
2005 SHSU Baby Jane Doe - On May 4, 2005, people rummaging through a dumpster located at a student residence at Sam Houston State University pulled out a trash bag containing the body of a deceased black female infant with the umbilical cord and placenta still attached. Link
2005 Spring Grove Doe - Masonry workers were in a basement of a century-old home cleaning the ash pit from an upstairs firepit. One of them pulled out a large chunk of debris, which they recognized to be a skull. Cops believe the skull had been there since before 1967. Link
2011 New Castle Jane Doe - In June 2011, the remains of a woman were found in a wooded area of a park, including a skull and jaw bone. Link
2012 Opelika Jane Doe - In January 2012, a a young girl's partial skull and other remains were found near a mobile home. She'd been abused and neglected for many years; she was malnourished, blind in her left eye, and had many injuries, including broken bones. In 2016 cops received a tip that the girl may have attended a nearby Vacation Bible School in 2011. Photos from the School were released; cops believe the child in the photos is the unidentified child. Link
2014 John Sharkey Doe - In January 2014, contractors working along a Mississippi creek discovered an African-American child's skull in a drainage canal while clearing brush. The boy, aged 5-7, had been deceased for several years. Preliminary DNA results indicate he has relatives in the area. Link
2019 Columbia Baby Jane Doe - Employees of a tire store found a small backpack hidden inside of a tire, inside of which were the decomposing remains of a female baby. Link
2020 Cowlitz County John Doe - In February 2020, skeletal remains were found by a longshoreman at a dock. A nearly complete skeleton was found in the area, buried in thick blackberry bushes. Link
2020 Knoxville Baby Wyatt - A male infant was found by fishermen in March 2020 near the bank along the Melton Lake Greenway. The baby was 34-week-gestional-aged and appeared to have some birth-related trauma to his head. Link
2020 Galveston John Doe - in May 2020, the deceased black man was found on a beach in Galveston, Texas. Link
2020 Eastpark John Doe - In July 2020, hunters discovered a young man, mostly skeletonized, lying face-down. He'd been shot. Link
2020 McCollum Park John Doe - In September 2020, a man living in a homeless camp in McCollum Park went to dig a hole to bury his trash, but when he was digging, he discovered a large bone. He reported the remains to the cops who found more remains, including a skull. The skull's teeth showed that the man had an 'overjet' or 'buck teeth' and an inability to keep his lips together at rest (called 'lip incompetence'). Link

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It is the end of the semester and I need to procrastinate my papers and juries, so might as well do a write up on Kamelot album covers starting with Karma. I might make this a reoccurring thing with the rest of the album covers if people like this.
I have always loved a good album cover, there is a lot of times I will pick an album to buy or listen to solely based on the cover or package design. I also think a good cover can elevate an album to be even better. That being said, I have never looked too closely at Kamelot's covers even though they are one of my most listened to bands of all time. I think this mainly stems from the fact that when I began to listen to Kamelot the album covers came up as small little four pixel displays on an crappy mp3 player, paired with the low quality resolution of their earlier albums. Then with their later albums, in my opinion, being somewhat bland cover wise I never looked deeply at the covers. This is not to say that I don't love their covers, Epica, Black Halo, Ghost Opera, and Poetry for the Poisoned have some of my favorite covers and perfectly depict the music within the album, I have just never looked deeply at them as I have with other albums.
That brings me to today when I was listening to Karma and started really looking at the cover, once again procrastinating. I noticed a lot of things I haven't before and wanted to type it all up and see what others thought of the covers.
Starting with the aspect we are probably all most familiar with, the woman who is centerstage. Masked, and with a necklace that looks a lot like the K logo and beads in her hair. Looking closely at her tattoos they seem almost egyptian in nature, like hieroglyphics. Especially the figures on her left arm which can be rather hard to see. I have always thought the ending of Elizabeth III: Fall from Grace sounds rather Egyptian like, so I would hazard to guess this is Elizabeth. I don't know if Egyptian is the correct word to use here, if someone can put forth a better one I'd like to hear it.
The round object behind her, I noticed today, is a clock, very fitting with the lyrical content of the album.
Moving onto the last area, the background. It looks like it is in some atrium with steps leading to a lower area, a pool of blood. On the steps there are markings, different than the ones on the woman's arms, these appear to be more runic in nature. The room above the pool of blood is collumed with a few paintings hung on the walls, one of which is the Kamelot logo.
All of these details roughly align with the song Elizabeth, seeing how it is based on Elizabeth Bathory, a purported serial killer. It was rumored she bathed in the blood of the virgins she killed to sustain her youth and beauty. Of course, that is all folklore.
Taking a look at the physical release, it doesn't add much. A picture on the back, of the band, in what looks to be the same atrium. The CD and inside back cover is the clock that appears on the front. The booklet does not offer much in terms of pictures, just some low resolution random objects, some more distinct than others, such as a picture of a naked woman next to Glenn Barry's portrait. The only other distinct object is a landscape picture of a castle in the distance behind the track listing. Something I noticed about the track listing, on the back cover it is all in white except Elizabeth and Requiem for the Innocent, which are in red. In the inside of the booklet, only Requiem for the Innocent is in red.
This is all I was able to pick out, if anyone can see anything else I'd love to hear it. Also let me know your thoughts on all this and if I should do it for some of the other covers when I have some free time!
Edit: I should note, the only physical version I have of this is the CD. I am unsure if a vinyl was ever made. With the other albums I will probably compare the CD release and the vinyl release, since I have most of them on vinyl as well as CD.
Edit 2: Here's an album of pictures of the cover, disc, and booklet
https://imgur.com/a/wzyqZZ7

Our homes were gone. Our people on the run or being slaughtered like so much livestock. We Elves had always though ourselves superior to the other races. The Dwarves, noble and old yes but thick headed and stubborn. The Orcs, brutish barbarians with more scares than brain cells. The Merfolk, reclusive people that dwelt in the oceans. Then there are the Humans, Mankind. A race that if lucky you will live to be 80 years old. My people don't consider you an adult until you are 60. They are a race of children. Their short lives fill with the hardships we have long since overcome. However. Our hubris has doomed us. We opened a magic portal to another plain, one we hoped to plunder. We were wrong.
The portal was to a mad hellscape, yes rich in resources but also abominations. The denizens of this world craved blood and death and flesh. We opened their world to ours and they flooded in. Before we had chance to react our people were diying by the hundred.
My people fled, the Dwarves locked their holds to us and broke all bonds of aliance, the Orc would rather kill us than aid us and we have no fleet to seek the Merfolk. Our last hope was Humanity. Long ago we had built a great wall at one end of a valley that join the Human lands and our own. In pitifully mockery they had built their own on the other end its size and grandeur not even half of our own.
Now the last of my people press themselves to that wall and plee for aid for mercy, some demand it of them but it is fear that drives them. I pound my fists on the giant oaken doors my palms bloody from the effort. We can hear the monsters coming. Smell the smoke and blood on the air. Our last few hundred soilder form a thin line between us and them.
"STEP AWAY FROM THE GATES!" Booms a magical voice from the walls fallowed by lock metallic clunks from inside. Slowly inch by inch the door swing out but through the widening gap I see armoured figures. My heart practically stops. They send soilders to kill us in our darkest day. I can hardly say we didn't deserve it. We damned rivers for our gain causing drought and famine to the human settlements downstream. We offered not aid when plague and disease ran rampent though their land. The Humans were always short lived ignorant children in our eyes the butt of jokes. I stagger back from the doors. Clearly others have come to the same conclusion the weap or run others simple step back in shock.
"Company, advance! At the double!" With that as one the collum or armour and spear and sheild martches from the gatehouse at a jog. To my surpise not one lowers their spear the jog past us though our group rank upon rank of spearman, archer and cavalry there are even a few Demi-orges fully armoured with great broadswords and sheilds. The run past us and beyond our thin line of men. They split and form two curved lines acrchers in the back spearman make a wall of death in front.
After the wave of military comes cart after cart some pulled by humans or young orges others pulled by horses. The spread out and begin collecting as many Elves as they can wounded, old, women and children are all loaded into carts I even see a few human mages running around healing those most critical.
"Inside the wall quickly!" Shouts a powerful voice behind me. There aside a powerful warhorse in full plate is the human High-King Pentacost. Not Just the local Duke or Monarch of the area but the Highest member of the Human lands. He is waving my people in his white cloak flowing in the wind. He see an old Elven woman stubble she is probably ten time his age she is struggling with some young children I know they are not hers, their elegant family tattoos do not match anywhere. The children are orphans. Alone save for this relic of my kind. Without though the High-King dismounts and runs to her side waving a medical cart to them as he does so. The Woman has broken bones her pained expression is evidence of this I move over to help load the cart as a mage treats her. She refuses to leave until all the children have been accounted for.
Mighty cannons atop the wall fire at the horde aproching from my land. The King gentle lifts the old Woman onto the Cart her shrivelled face wet with tears of pain and gratitude. Pentacost turns to me "You had better get inside. As soon as you are all safe my men will pull back." His words are punctuated by more Cannons. "Why would you do this? You were always treated as a Joke to us, lesser beings. Why would you do all this to help us?" He looks at me his brown eyes showing compassion and kindness where I would have thought resentment and anger. His next words shook me to my core. "It's the right thing to do." He nodded to the gates and I looked back to see we were the only ones left besides the soilders who were even now fighting a retreat to the gates. I turn as I ran into the Human kingdom and looked back as the last few of the King's men held back the monsters. Selling their lives for ours. For mine.
I weapt, not for what we lost, but for how we had misjudged these people so badly.

Anthony Tolliver sits at his locker quietly sifting through his things, currently losing a game of hide and seek with his gold necklace.
These days, the 34-year-old can get through a postgame relatively unnoticed, as Portland media congregates toward the Damian Lillards and CJ McCollums — and now the Carmelo Anthonys — of the world. After nearly 700 league games played, he isn’t exactly the one people run to for game quotes or explanations, but his memory is still razor-sharp, especially when he recalls those long, depressing nights with Ben McLemore during their lone season together in Sacramento.
By 2016, things were different. Night and day from when McLemore was drafted three years prior. He was their consensus pick, so much so that ownership attempted to move into the top 5, as high as secnd overall to snag him.
“We got the best player in the (draft) at seven,” majority owner Vivek Ranadivé said at the Kings’ draft headquarter and team viewing party.
Tolliver wasn’t there yet in Sacramento when Ben McLemore got drafted in 2013, but Mike Malone was. McLemore absolutely loved Coach Malone, as most players who’ve played for him will tell you. To this day, before every Denver game, McLemore and Malone will step aside to catch up on each other’s families and lives. Privately, Malone expresses a great amount of joy for his landing in Houston and his success.
Malone cared about his players. Deeply. Sometimes, it would get the best of him, to a point where he couldn’t contain his emotions. But his guys were ready to run through a brick wall for him. Malone loved McLemore and wanted to develop him, taking his scoring talents at Kansas and wanting to parlay them to a premier offensive role at the pro level.
Malone trusted McLemore, enough so to run offensive sets for him and not wanting to draft another player at his position. He instilled confidence in McLemore. He always felt he could be an All-Star, and spent a great deal of time with him, both on and off the floor. During the course of games, of course, McLemore would mess up from time to time. He’s a rookie; it’s what you’re supposed to do. But Malone let him ride out those mistakes, understanding the best way for players to get into a groove is by playing, not sitting.
Those Kings won just 28 games that season, but Malone wouldn’t be given much time to improve on that. The following season brought underlying tension between coaching and management, stylistic differences, an injury to DeMarcus Cousins and more losses, and Malone was fired after an 11-13 start. This would continue a trend in which McLemore saw four head coaches in each of his first four seasons.
His last one, Dave Joerger, was anything but like Malone. He had a considerably shorter leash. If McLemore wasn’t shooting well, he would yank him, sometimes for large chunks of the game. He didn’t quite trust McLemore, which is fine, every coach has his own style. But for a young team trying to develop players, it isn’t the best approach, especially for a highly sought after draftee. It was a microcosm of McLemore’s time in Sacramento, some positive moments but not a lot of trust by the coaching staff and front office.
For young players, that’s as important as anything. A team is a relationship at the end of the day. You want to be able to confide in your coaches and vice versa. Young players depend on those older and more experienced than them for guidance, for the experience. But when those in charge don’t provide a haven, it can be tough.
But it’s well-known that the Kings had a toxic culture for years. And that, combined with the venemous world of social media, didn’t make the early years easy for him.
“It was difficult, man,” McLemore told The Athletic. “Especially coming in the league young and dealing with a lot of adversity. Ups and downs, trying to better myself and figure out ways to fix it and be at the right place, right time mentally. As I got older and matured, being around veterans and more experienced guys, getting advice from them, being a part of this new organization (helped); the guys like James (Harden), Russ (Westbrook), Tyson (Chandler), EG (Eric Gordon), Tuck (P.J. Tucker) — guys like that who have been in the game for a while and have dealt with adversity and know how to deal with it.”
In the time the two spent together in Kings uniforms, Tolliver has good memories of being around McLemore.
“One of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet,” Tolliver said. “He’s a hard worker. Someone who stays in the gym, and stays disciplined in what he’s doing. He wants to be good, wants to stick around. He wants to have a spot. He’s just a good dude. Anytime I see him, I cheer for him.
“To me, more important than being a good basketball player is being a good person, and he’s got that down. And he’s had a lot of crazy stuff happen in his life, he’s had some loss in his life. I’m just rooting for him as a whole for all the adversity he’s gone through.”
Being his teammate and friend, Tolliver had a first-hand experience seeing McLemore fight through adversity. Inconsistent playing time, coaching changes, system changes, shooting slumps, tragedy and everything under the sun.
“His brother passed [one] year ago,” Tolliver said. “That was after I was with him. But he’s had some other not-so-favorable stuff happen to him as well. Me, as an ex-teammate, we’re not like best friends or keep in touch crazy, but I’ve always tried to support him as much as I can from afar, give him my thoughts and prayers through social media and actually pray for him and not just say it. Putting praying hands and moving on to the next slide, but actually praying for him and his family. Him being a St. Louis boy, that’s another connection we had, being from Missouri. It’s definitely tough losing anybody, but losing young family members is always a little bit tougher.”
That tumultuous 2016-17 season would end up being the last for McLemore in Sacramento.
After four up and down years, the team decided to go in another direction, declining his team option and making him a free agent. The Cousins trade to New Orleans had quite a deal of drama surrounding it, but had brought Buddy Hield to town, and with him came a large chunk of McLemore’s would-be minutes.
It was the first time McLemore had experienced free agency of any kind, but he was young and still highly touted in some NBA circles, having been a top-10 pick from college basketball powerhouse Kansas, and still a sniper in the NBA.
There was interest from teams, but one man, in particular, wanted McLemore more than anything: David Fizdale, then head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies.
“Fizdale had really recruited Ben,” McLemore’s manager, Hazem Al-Gibaly, told The Athletic.
Having been in Sacramento his whole career to date, McLemore had never gotten to experience playoff basketball. The closest he had was his frequent trips to Cleveland to watch LeBron James and the Cavaliers roam the top of the Eastern Conference. The two had a good relationship, stemming from McLemore’s time as a young Jayhawk.
“I loved him coming out of college when he was down in Kansas,” current teammate Tyson Chandler said. “I thought he was one of the more complete players in the draft. His physical stature, the way he could shoot the ball, his athletic ability. He’s made for the game.”
Like Chandler, LeBron had always been high on McLemore’s talents and constantly kept in touch. But something sitting in those seats at Quicken Loans Arena showed him what he had lacked so far, and McLemore stated he needed to be in that atmosphere.
He would sign a two-year contract with Memphis, worth $11 million, for that very reason: playoff basketball. The scrappy Grizzlies were coming off a hard-fought, six-game slugfest with the Spurs and their outlook still looked favorable.
But it wasn’t meant to be. Shortly after signing, Zach Randolph and Vince Carter, two of the team’s staples and veteran leaders, departed for Sacramento, ironically enough. McLemore, spending his summers in Los Angeles, broke his foot during the popular UCLA runs. He entered into a 12-week rehab program, missing training camp, preseason and a chunk of the regular season.
By the time he was healthy and returned to the rotation, however, Memphis was already behind the 8-ball. The Grizzlies were under .500 and having internal issues stemming from coaching style and rotations to the players individually. Just eight games after McLemore had returned, with the team sitting at 7-12, Fizdale was abruptly fired. Gone was the coach who had lobbied the hardest for his services. J.B. Bickerstaff, Fizdale’s replacement, wasn’t nearly as high on McLemore as his predecessor, and his playing time from that moment on was inconsistent. Eight minutes here, 20 minutes here, a DNP there, it just never was solidified. Averaging just 7.5 points per game on .346 shooting, it was the worst year of his professional career.
The average Grizzlies fan might have just glanced at the box score and declared McLemore an average or sub-par player. But oftentimes, people forget that these NBA players go through life with the same and have trials and tribulations as we do. Can that affect on-court performance? Most definitely.
“A lot of people look at us as bigger-than-life figures,” Tolliver said. “It almost seems like we’re machines. No, we have struggles. We have real life that happens to us, just like you guys. There are hard times, there’s loss, there are broken relationships. A lot of things happen in our life just like everyone else. Yeah, we make good money and live a cool life, but that doesn’t shield us from the hardships of life that everyone goes through.”
This past summer, McLemore found himself in a familiar situation. He was a free agent once again, only this time, the phone wasn’t ringing as much as before. It was an unfamiliar place for McLemore, being touted so highly coming up and always on an NBA roster, no matter how good or bad they were.
There was another short stint in Sacramento that had ended in him being waived for roster flexibility. There was a 10-day signed in Toronto that never was, due to a CBA complication.
Plans were in place to work out for teams once the playoffs were done. The most important thing, when you’re not actively on an NBA team, is staying ready. McLemore has two tattoos on his neck in Arabic, a tribute to his best friend and manager, Hazem, of Middle Eastern descent, one that says ‘humble,’ and the other, ‘hungry.’ It’s been his motto since he played basketball at Kansas.
It’s hard to stay in game shape when you’re not playing, but working out twice, three times a day keeps you engaged. Apart from the physical workouts, McLemore prepared himself mentally. It was a humbling period for him, but there was too much talent that teams would eventually call. He had to be ready. Those who know and work with McLemore say that one of his best attributes is his coachability, both on and off the floor. He doesn’t have a large ego, despite being a lottery pick. His work ethic is unquestioned, and he learns from anyone who has something to say.
When Al-Gibaly and McLemore got together in their offseason Los Angeles base, they had to evaluate all options. This time around, there would be an added importance of getting involved in a situation that would really benefit him.
In total, there were three concrete offers on the table. One from an Eastern Conference team — a guaranteed deal and a defined role, but it wasn’t a winning team. Another team, in the Western Conference, had extended a guaranteed offer, but it didn’t look like the best opportunity from a minutes standpoint. At this point, even a fully guaranteed deal wasn’t enough if McLemore didn’t get a chance to really showcase his skillset.
McLemore and Al-Gibaly were at Joe & the Juice, a popular coffee shop and juice bar located in Hollywood, when the third offer came in. It was Daryl Morey and Houston on the phone, offering a non-guaranteed deal. The Rockets were one of the teams McLemore had worked out for and were attractive for a number of reasons. McLemore was a fan of their style of play, interested in playing for a winning team with the opportunity for playoff basketball. He held coach Mike D’Antoni in very high regard, well aware of his ability to bring the best out of players.
But the deal wouldn’t have been made possible without the interest of Morey. Houston’s GM operates in the venture capital realm, looking for players who might be undervalued and still have relatively high ceilings. Morey saw a player that hadn’t been placed in a favorable situation and opportunity. At worst, McLemore in Houston was an inexpensive move that wouldn’t work out. At its best, it was a steal.
There was no assurance that McLemore would make the team, but he was going to give it his best shot. He jumped at the chance to go to Vegas for Houston’s unofficial minicamp with other veterans looking to make the roster.
The Rockets held team workouts, often twice in a day. But it was the work he did alone that allowed him to stand out in the dry Vegas heat. He watched film, studying his new team to better acclimate himself, learning their tendencies. During individual workouts, they practiced a lot of the kind of shots McLemore would be getting in a Rockets offense. Running to the corners, slots and wings for catch-and-shoot looks. Running the floor in transition for dunks and layups. Making adjustments from his time in Sacramento and Memphis, where he would take a decent amount of midrange looks.
He also sought out the opinion of the coaching staff, asking what he needed to do to make the team and help them win. McLemore took an inner look at his deficiencies, knowing he was far from a perfect player. One of his goals is to win Most Improved Player, and he wants to be one of the premier 3&D wings in the league. That isn’t possible without a great improvement in his defense, and both he and the Rockets knew that.
Houston knew he could shoot already, but being energetic, going up for rebounds and running to the corner are things that would make an impact on them.
“I think that’s the reason why I’m here, to do the little things,” McLemore said.
All in all, this process helped build trust between McLemore and the coaches. It’s one thing for staff to trust a player to perform in different situations on the floor, it’s another for the player to trust the coaches that they have his best interest at heart. Helping the team also helps himself.
“There’s been a ton of guys throughout my career and in general that have gone to places,” Chandler said. “Either the place they were at didn’t suit them and their talent, or it just took them a little while to understand this league, what it’s about, and their place. I’ve always loved Ben’s game, and with the right opportunity, he could blossom and be a great player. We’ve always seen spots throughout his career, but I think he’s really starting to put things together now, and his confidence is starting to grow. He’s the type of player, the more his confidence grows, the better it’s going to be, because he has all the tools.”
It’s late in October, and dusk is setting upon Houston. It’s the moment where the sky — much like the city’s weather — is unsure of what it wants to do.
McLemore walks into a midtown establishment, relatively unknown to the patrons in mid-celebration. He waltzes through the tables, using his 6-foot-3 shifty frame to weave around objects like coming off a pindown, making his way to the back of the room to greet the DJ before taking a seat by the deck.
For the fast-moving city that is Houston, this is a very lowkey setting. But it’s relaxed and free, much like the team culture he’s been adopted into.
“I think coaches do an excellent job of giving him freedom, giving him confidence,” Chandler said. “He’s playing alongside other great players so that in itself helps you learn how to sharpen your tools. But yeah, the culture is a laid-back atmosphere that expects you to do your job. This is the type of place a player can thrive in.”
“I just want to continue to work each and every day on my game,” McLemore said. “That’s what I’m doing now so I’m in a great situation with the Houston Rockets. Great teammates, great veterans around me. It’s a great experience to have that joy back in the game again, happiness. It’s been amazing and I’m taking full advantage of it. I live with the results because I know I put hard work and effort into it.”
Through 23 games, McLemore is thriving as a Rocket. Earlier last week, he put together back-to-back games of at least 25 points, the first time in his career. He also made a career-high eight 3-pointers in a key road win over the Toronto Raptors. His net rating of 13.9 ranks seventh among NBA players seeing the floor for at least 20 minutes. He’s brought a healthy combination of shooting, athleticism and solid defense, especially when Houston has been short of bodies.
“Ben’s playing great,” D’Antoni said. “We always thought he was going to play well. He’s too coachable, plays too hard, and plays defense. If it’s just a matter of shooting, if you watch him he’s got a great form, so why wouldn’t he play well? There was no reason other than just feeling comfortable and getting into a role.”
“I try to keep the game as simple as possible,” McLemore said. “I learned that over the years of my career. Trying not to do too much. Playing my game and having fun, running the floor, being athletic, shooting the 3, guarding things like that. I think that’s pretty much defined in my role here. My purpose is to find my role and be the best in my role. That’s what I need to perfect and be consistent each and every night. Over the few weeks of preseason and training camp, I think I kind of showed that I can be consistent, which I lacked over the years. I think mentally and physically I’m locked in.”
Off the court, he’s formed a rapport with his teammates. His late brother, Kevin McLemore, was a big fan of Westbrook’s game, and Westbrook is a big fan of his big brother. It’s a common sight to see them joking around before practice, as well as Harden.
“Yeah, he just never had an opportunity, but just certain situations aren’t great for other guys,” Harden added. “He’s finally around some vets that know what they want (to) accomplish, and he knows his role. Whether he misses or makes shots, I think his energy and his spirit he brings every game is something that’s huge for us.”
“The training staff calls me Benjamin,” McLemore jokes. “That’s not my government name, but they call me Benjamin. Some of the guys (Westbrook and Harden) call me Benny. B-Mac, Savage, whatever. But most of the time I’m hearing Benny and Benjamin.
“Makes my job easy to make their job easier by doing the things I do. Running the floor, making shots defending, and taking the pressure off of them when James is getting doubled or Russ is running the show. Just spotting up and spacing, things like that, and making plays.”
At one point in the season, McLemore went through a bit of a shooting slump, missing 22 of his 29 3-point attempts. In his previous stops, he would have been taken out of the game immediately. But here, the team doesn’t ever want him to stop firing.
“Yeah, encouraging, for sure,” McLemore said. “I just had a talk with Coach Brett about that, because over the previous years in my career, things like that have happened. But here, they try to continue to build your confidence and go out there with the mindset of playing freely and playing your game.
“I think coming in young and having six or seven coaches within each year, as a young player coming in with different coaches and system changes, stuff like that, it definitely affects you a little bit mentally. But over the years I learned and grew as a player, and understood the game as well. So it helped me a lot. Being here and being in a great situation I’m in has helped me get better.”

I wanted to see if I could name 100 current players in the NBA, their team (or the one to which they were just traded), and give a decent analysis of their game without using any references. If they were on a roster in 2018-2019, they are fair game. So here we go:

1. Donovan Mitchell (Jazz) Up and comer, knows how to score, will be freed up a bunch this next season.
2. Mike Conley (Jazz) All-star caliber point guard who can score off the dribble.
3. Derrick Favors (Pelicans) Big ol' Faves just getting boards. Tried to add a 3 to his game but it didn't work out.
4. Joe Ingles (Jazz) Great shooter, handles the ball well but has a hard time running point and scoring at the same time. Australian. World class trash talker.
5. Chris Paul (Rockets) All-time great point guard with the pettiness of a li'l b*tch.
6. James Harden (Rockets) Possibly the best scorer of all time. Step back three is literally unguardable.
7. Seth Curry (Mavs) The other Curry. Great shooter, decent ball handler and passer.
8. Steph Curry (Warriors) All time great shooter, excellent ball handling. Can be a weak spot on defense.
9. LeBron James (Lakers) Consider by many to be the GOAT. The only thing that can stop him is father time.
10. Kevin Durant (Nets) One of the best players of all time. A wet jumper. Can be a thin skinned li'l snek.
11. Russell Westbrook (Thunder) Plays like a bull dog. Can get out of control but this man is a freak.
12. Paul George (Thunder) Had some injury trouble but has ice water in his veins. One of the best 3's in the league.
13. Kyrie Irving (Nets) Insane handles, shot can be streaky, the Earth is flat.
14. Georges Niang (Jazz) Great shooter, just a touch slow to be a great defender for his size.
15. Steven Adams (Thunder) Great big man, selfless, offensive rebounds, kiwi. Great interviews.
16. Andre Roberson (Thunder) Great defender and shooter, out this season cuz injured.
17. Anthony Davis (Lakers) Considered top 5 player in the league. Likes playing power forward. Long, athletic, powerful, can score from anywhere.
18. Raul Neto (Jazz) Brazilian, plays super tough, good passer and finisher, decent shooter, kinda small.
19. Blake Griffin (Pistons) Big and strong and can dunk and shoot.
20. Andre Drummond (Pistons) Big and strong and can dunk but can't shoot.
21. Kristaps Porzingis (Mavs) 7'3 unicorn, can move well and is a decent shooter. Hopefully not injured in the future.
22. Ben Simmons (76ers) perpetual rookie of the year. Tall point guard, can defend and rebound well, amazing passer, can't shoot.
23. Joel Embiid (76ers) Big boi who can score well, move well, and is a great defender.
24. Rudy Gobert (Jazz) 2x DPOY. Amazing blocking instincts. Hopefully can develop more touch around the rim.
25. Kawhi Leonard (Raptors) One of the best 2 way players in the league. Super strong. Quiet boi.
26. Kyle Lowry (Raptors) Thiccc. Solid passer and shooter. Takes charges well. Super smart.
27. Lonzo Ball (Pelicans) Great instincts, good defender, weird looking shot. Jury is still out on him.
28. KAT (Wolves) Amazing talent, hasn't had a great organization around him. 7 ft. tall and can shoot.
29. Andrew Wiggins (Wolves) Amazing athletic gifts, hasn't lived up to expectations. Great Runescape player.
30. Al Horford (76ers) Great scorer and defender at the 5. Can shoot well.
31. Terry Rozier (Hornets?) Can get super wet real quick, but a little emotionally immature. Sick handles.
32. Ekpe Udoh (Jazz) Killer rebounder. Has a great book club.
33. Damian Lillard (Blazers) Killer instinct. Amazing finisher, solid shooter and passer.
34. CJ McCollum (Blazers) Great passer and shooter, runs the floor super well. Brought Jennifer into our lives.
35. Enes Kanter (Celtics) Good offense, not great defense. He's tough but also a drama queen. Can't go back to Turkey.
36. Al-Farouq Aminu (Blazers -> ?) A black Joe Ingles. Can pass and score. Great shooter.
37. Jeff Teague (Wolves) Solid point guard. Can pass and score. Super quick.
38. Devon Booker (Suns) World class scorer with nobody around him yet.
39. DeAndre Ayton (Suns) Tall and has a high ceiling. Good scorer, getting better at defending.
40. Isaiah Thomas (Wizards) He is kind of smol but can hopefully come back to being a world-class scorer like he was on the Celtics for a year.
41. Paul Millsap (Nuggets) Great player and great guy. Can guard bigs and smalls. Good shooter and rebounder.
42. Nikola Jokic (Nuggets) The big honey. Loves farming and soda. Can score from anywhere. Amazing passing and vision.
43. Jamal Murray (Nuggets) Can light it up when he gets hot. Solid defender. Really quick.
44. Ricky Rubio (Suns) Lovely hair. Great passer. Limited scoring ability.
45. John Wall (Wizards) Worst contract in the NBA. Great scorer. Low-effort defender.
46. Bradley Beal (Wizards) Great scorer, solid defender. Super quick.
47. Otto Porter Jr. (Suns) Great scorer and defender. Good shooter.
48. William Cauley-Stein (Kings) Great face tattoos. Good scorer and rebounder.
49. De'Aaron Fox (Kings) Super quick, great passer and shooter.
50. Jabari Parker (Bulls -> Wizards...?) Good scorer, hampered by injuries. Lost his confidence imo.
51. Alex Caruso (Lakers) Up and coming point guard. Good scorer and passer. Receding hair. Accountant.
52. Josh Hart (Pelicans) Didn't give that one guy tickets. Great scorer.
53. Brandon Ingram (Pelicans) Small Kevin-Durant-Like frame. Great scorer, but can be streaky. Moderate defender.
54. Rajon Rondo (Lakers) Amazing passer and bball IQ. Not a great shooter. Punched Chris Paul.
55. Jimmer Fredette (Suns -> Warriors) Amazing college player, has yet to translate to the NBA. I think it's because of a bad mindset. Unwilling to work into a system.
56. DeAndre Jordan (Nets) Great rebounder and post player. FTs have gotten better.
57. Giannis Antetokuompo (Bucks) The Greek Freak. Long AF and can dunk everything. Still developing.
58. Malcolm Brogdon (Bucks) Solid ball handlepasser, great shooter.
59. Bojan Bogdanovic (Jazz) Great shooter and solid defender.
60. Victor Oladipo (Pacers) The Black Panther. All-star level scorer. Hope he gets healthy soon.
61. Marc Gasol (Raptors) Solid post player and shooter. Great court vision. Man gets drunk.
62. Pau Gasol (Bucks) Also a great post player. Getting old. Actually, already old.
63. Brook Lopez (Bucks) Splash mountain. Solid post player. Good defender.
64. Robin Lopez (Bucks) Side-show Bob. Good rebounder and defender.
65. Dante Exum (Jazz) Good slashing point guard. Decent shooter. Solid defender. Always hurt.
66. Derrick Rose (Wolves) What could have been. Once MVP. Great shooter and finisher and passer. Super fast.
67. Trae Young (Hawks) Exciting up and comer. Great shooter. Sweet handles. Good passer.
68. Andre Iguodala (Warriors) Amazing defender, solid scorer. Financially responsible. Getting old.
69. Draymond Green (Warriors) Looks like Donkey. Amazing free-safety style defender. Will probably score more this next year.
70. Klay Thompson (Warriors) All-time great shooter. Amazing defender. Loves his dog.
71. Zaza Pachulia (Pistons) He killed Kawhi. Kind of big and slow, but works hard.
72. Andrew Bogut (Warriors) Good defender and rebounder. Sets great screens.
73. Quinn Cook (Warriors) Can shoot and pass and finish. Good for 15 minutes of offense.
74. Alfonzo McKinnie (Warriors) Can pass and shoot, terrible free throws somehow.
75. Collin Sexton (Cavs) Up and comer. Solid forward. Can score well and defend alright.
76. Dwyane Wade (Heat) Name spelled weird af. Always an amazing scorer, even at 100 years old. Solid defender.
77. Dirk Nowitski (Mavs) Mavs all timer. Won our hearts in 2011. Great free throws and a wet midrange.
78. DeMar DeRozan (Spurs) Killer midrange, needs to shoot more 3's. Solid defender.
79. Patty Mills (Spurs) Always ready to score even though he's kind of small. Solid shooter, scrappy defender.
80. Matthew Dellavadova (Cavs) Super scrappy. Solid ball handler, not a killer shooter.
81. Jae Crowder (Grizzlies) Streaky shooter but can light it up, solid defender, decent finisher, decent passer.
82. Kyle Korver (Grizzlies) All time great shooter. High bball iq. Getting old, but can still defend pretty well.
83. Aron Baynes (Celtics) Great center off the bench. Solid defender and post player. Can shoot the 3.
84. Gordon Hayward (Celtics) Potentially excellent, but recovering from injury. Good scorer, shooter, ball handler, and passer. Solid defender.
85. Jason Tatum (Celtics) Will be one of the best scorers in the league during the next 10 years. Mamba mentality. Solid defender.
86. Jaylen Brown (Celtics) Great scorer, quick defender, solid shooter. Good passer.
87. Clint Capela (Rockets) Has that li'l blonde patch in his hair. Great rebounder and can run the pick and roll well.
88. Denis Schroeder (Thunder) Also has that li'l blonde patch in his hair. Can be a streaky shooter but able to bring a spark off the bench.
89. Rodney Hood (Blazers) Can also be a streaky shooter but can give you offense when your team is struggling. Decent defender. Mostly a scorer.
90. Kyle Kuzma (Lakers) Great shooter, likes wine with LeBron. Solid defender and scorer, but makes his money by shooting.
91. Rudy Gay (Spurs) Can bring some really solid offense, great rebounder, solid defense.
92. Jeff VanVleet (Raptors) Played an amazing finals series. Capable of some amazing yeets. Solid passer, shooter, and scorer. Quick, but kind of small of the defensive end.
93. Austin Rivers (Rockets) Brings some offense. Quick guy. Good shooter and passer, decent defender.
94. Tobias Harris (76ers) Solid 4 who can shoot and defend well. Brings great offense.
95. Markelle Fultz (Magic) He's got those yips, but hopefully will overcome them. Potentially amazing handles and scoring.
96. Spencer Dinwiddie (Nets) Great scorer. Super quick. Solid shooter. Solid defender.
97. Jrue Holiday (Pelicans) Great ball handler, shooter, and scorer. Solid defender.
98. Kemba Walker (Celtics) Excellent scorer and ball handler. Solid defender. He'll get a lot of love in Boston.
99. Nick Stauskus (Cavs) Can bring some excellent shooting. Brings a spark off the bench.
100. Jimmy Butler (Heat) Great scorer, defender, all around player. Perpetual all star. Game closer.

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Dang, that was tough but a good time. I highly recommend this activity when you're at the bar with your bois.
EDIT: Have yall really never heard of Jeff VanVleet smh

Heads-up!: Initial info on the second-annual MkeBucks game meet-up! This year we get to see which Bucks Reddit friends are the best at shooting free throws ON THE FISERV FORUM COURT—plus you all might make me get a Plumlee Face tattoo—more details in the post!
Also, thanks again to Matt Velazquezjournalsentinel for his fantastic MkeBucks AMA on Monday!
The game is set to start at 7 p.m. central time (22 Nov. at 1 a.m. BT, 22 Nov. at 1 a.m. EET, 22 Nov. at 12 p.m. AET).

Projected starting lineups

Bucks
PG - Eric [can anyone find his middle name? Does he even have one?!] “Aqua Dagger” Bledsoe
SG - Malcolm Moses “Brogdon” “Our President” “Brogdon” Brogdon
SF - James Khristian “Khris” “Kha$h Money” Middleton
PF - Giannis [I don’t think he has a middle name?] “The Greek Freak” Antetokounmpo
C - Brook Robert “Splash Mountain/Brookie The Wookie/BroLo/Muscle Comb” Lopez
Head coach - Michael Vincent “Not a Potato” Budenholzer
Trail Blazers
PG - Damian Lillard
SG - C.J. McCollum
SF - Jake Layman
PF - Al-Farouq Aminu
C - Jusuf Nurkic
Head coach - Terry Linn Stotts

Injury and inactives report:

Bucks
DeVante Jaylen “D.J.” Wilson - questionable (hamstring)?
Donte [does he have a middle name?] “The Big Ragu” DiVincenzo - out (left quadriceps strain)
Trevon Tyler Duval - out (“vague ocular issues”)?
John Allen “Ol’ Flat Ass” Henson - out (torn left wrist ligament)
Trail Blazers
Seth Curry - questionable
Maurice Harkless - out
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This is just one of many tales I plan to unearth from a long-forgoten folklore.
INTRODUCTION
I may not be the best story-teller there is, but what I offer will be unique and exists solely to explore an almost extinct series of what I can only assume are stories.
I ask of my readers to instruct me in how to better my style for their own enjoyment and if they find the content engaging. Not that I would stop decyphering these tales, but if no one finds them intriguing I will put it on the backburner for a while and publish them to a different community.
For the remainder of this chapter my motivation for writing and the origin of the stories will be made clear.
If it is only the stories you seek, this prologues is inconsequential.
PROLOGUE
With the passing of my great grand-mother I was granted the chance to remember a bit of my childhood. We drove to her old house in the country to clean it up, find any relevant paperwork but mostly to throw away all the junk she hoarded for the better part of a century.
I say "house" because it could no longer be a "home" ever since her accident. The old hag was as healthy as a ninety-something year old farmer could be, but she had a tendency to overwork herself ever since her husband succumbed to frostbite during the war and bone fractures were not uncommon every few months.
The final nail in the coffin was when she dislocated both arms, fractured a hip and broke her leg. How she managed to so nimbly navigate a few acres of wild pasture in the heat of June but sliped on the stairs during a cold evening is beyond reason, but her habit of over-indulging in plum vodka might have something to do with it.
After that final accident her daughter decided she could no longer be left to her own devices so she lived with my grandparents for a good couple of years, and despite her constant pleas she was not allowed to go back and tend to her farm house. The neglicence showed when we uncovered what was left.
Forget painting the walls, no matter how much clay and mortar you would use, they were certain to cave in during the first heavy storm. Those small, branch-like cracks in the corners grew like a wild thorn bush to the point where they crossed in the middle.
The paint wasn't cracked, most of it had turned to dust and the few remaining spots revealed three distinct coatings, pink, azure and cream. The country folk where I come from had lost all sense of aesthetics after they abandoned the old white and red murals with straw-thatched-roofs style.
Had the two clay buildings on either side of the yard been instead a single two story construction, it would have certainly collapsed by now.
Luckily, the five rooms and one hallway that comprised the house were spread so far apart there were four separate entrances, if you ignore the two attics and cellar. And out of the thresholds to those four entrances a fine bonfire could be made as they were all neatly sitting in piles of wood boards and a few smaller wooden wedges used for adjustment.
Once said wood was cleared out, we took turns wrestling with the rusted locks, so heavy they threatened to mame you, should one of them decide to give unexpctedly and land on your foot.
This all proved a vain effort as the doors themselves would have caved in at the first healthy kick. It's hard to imagine how a woman pushing a hundred endured winter when the shabby wooden doors to her kitchen and living room had cracks splitting half-way across, but it definetely explains how my great grandfather's frostbite crawled up from his toes after he came back from duty.
I assume spirits distilled with ancient tradition and farmwork greatly improve blood-flow.
The rooms were what you'd expect. Moth-eathen sheep-hide carpets were doing their best to cushion the cacophony of our boots on the creaking floorboards, rotted from all the leaks when no one was there to arrange about a dozen buckets for catching rain-water.
We stacked all furniture in corners, put all textile items in large trash bags and piled up all the coroded utensils in the yard where an old television set and a small fridge with no freezer kept them company. My parents told me I was free to wonder about, maybe play with the animals while they figured out what to do with the glass and ceramic ornaments. It was not nostalgia but great sorrow that walk brought back in me.
"Dust in the Wind" is all my mind would conjure. Past cobwebs heavy with dust and stairs so crooked I had to hold on to the railing there was a small stack of potatoes sprouting roots up to my neck strait as a bamboo shoot and white as porcelaine, in the corners of the cellar. A few ducklings were strutting about in a large puddle next to the sand pile reduced to less than a quarter of its height due to sheer wind storms.
The dogs tried barking me down but gave up after a pathetic few minutes while distressed chicken climbed up and down the attic ladders. There was a kitten stomping around in the cereal crates, stinking of rat feces and mouldy grain. The neighbours did a good job of feeding the animals for what we payed them, but that was about as much as they did for the poor unkempt souls.
To get to the garden you had to pass through a large wooden shed of sorts, the lower leverl meant for horses and carts and the higher for hay. As soon as I opened the smaller of the doors that double as walls, I heard the crashing of many roof tiles inside. I stepped over the hip-tall wood barrier and thought twice when I saw the support beams which I carelesly ran across and swung from as a teen slightly chubbier than I now am had one of their ends planted i the ground, foring forty five degree angles with the walls they were supposed to connect to the support pillars in the middle.
I sat down on one of the few intact pegs of a ladder and examined the interior over a quick smoke. Cart-wheels, rakes, shovel and larger would implements I didn't understand were strewn across the floor and had to be overcome every time you wanted to access the outhouse. That old granny was doing some cross-fit every time she had to use the toilet. Another of the wooden devices caught my attention. A sort of hanger made of a bunch of thick stilts and some twine held an untreated sheep-hide, soggy from the rain.
That took me back to the conversation that brought about me discovering a certain book. A conversation I had with a sweetheart of mine back when I was only sixteen.
"Here. You can have it back."
"Done already?"
"It's not exactly a difficult read."
"I know. I don't reccomend books I haven't tried myself, but a day is still a bit execisve. Were you doing anything else?"
"Not really. It's the cheapest way of entertaining myself. I sometimes go up to one of those old people clearing out their library and buy whatever I can carry. Ever had something printed on skin(though commonly translated to leather, in my language that can refer to any type of tanned or untreated hide, even human skin)?"
"No, but now that I think about it. I saw one as a child. Supposedly, my great grandpa got it from one of his squad mates. It was this large leather-bound volume. The pictures were really weird, something like tribal tattoos. Even though I could read I didn't want to take it because I couldn't understand the script. It was all cursive, really faded ink. You could make out the letters if you squinted a bit, it was our alphabet, but it was some old dialect. Almost every sentence started with a capital "I"(not a word in my mother language). Judging by the illustrations it was some sort of story-book. I'm pretty sure I saw some werewolves and other weird humanoids I can't compare to any modern-day fiction, but there were also famous historical rulers and a lot of medieval age men-at-arms."
I went back to my family. They were ready to go home. They found the papers they needed and decide they would take care of the mess next trip. I asked if I could take some reading material from the library. They pointed to a garbage bag large enough to carry a body and said they're throwing away everything else.
Surely enough, it was there, in all it's glory. It wasn't actually printed on leather, rather leather-bound, and not cow leather-at that, the seams made it obvious it was made of some smaller animal's hide, but the pages were nevertheless interesting.
They weren't faded, as you'd think, the only noticeable brown spots were clearly stains. This was most likely paper made out of hemp. The ink kept most of its integrity, the letters, while faded a bit down the middle had very dark outlines and a sharp silhouette. The lineweight also made it very easy to read. It was a very stylized script, with hooks at the ends of lone lines and very fat middle bodies.
There was a lot of decoration. Most chapters began with large illustrations taking up at least half of the pages, sometimes its entirety and the edges of the pages were most of the time decorated by celtic-looking patterns, simmilar to what remains of the Beowulf sagas, but not as complex or what old monks put in to transcriptions of the testament.
These collums, despite being inked, often had turqoise or redish glow-like effects somehow applied bellow the bulk of the line, almost as if a brush of thin water paint was put across before the pen or maybe quill put in the lines.
Most of this oddly proportioned, heavy volume was, indeed, written in some old variation of my language, I could imediately tell most of the nouns of slavic or ancient origins and the rest were a matter of swapping suffixes and prefixes around the roots of words; but some were written in a few other languages. The only one I recognized by the accents was hungarian, but I could definetely make out some germanic and slavic elements in the others.
The illustrations were of a gorgeous black and white surrealism, often depicting a single human, whose trade you could tell by clothing, beard length and tools at his belt, sometimes there were monsters that were just misshapen humanoids, and sometimes there was a single tool, like a rake on a field with suprisingly modern foreshortening to simulate depth. Some scenes were obviously religious Christian depictions like the crucifiction or Saint George, the dragon slayer, some looked very simmilar to historical figures from my country, but most looked to general to point to any other reference I had.
Despite my inability to make out even a single sentence completely due to the odd syntax and short connecting words foreign to me, I knew what I had to do.
I vouched to take this tome of myths and folklore, do my best to piece together the fragments I can translate in modern English and hope the stories strike some simmilarity with the stories of other people's cultures in an attempt to understand what the writers intended to pass down to future generations.
As a student of the humanities, it was my duty to not let this flame burn out, so I grabbed the book, along with this pig-bladder ball I found(I felt a bit of an odd animal-based item high in that moment) and stepped in the car to take me back home where I could consult sources on the internet and bring back some legends.
UPDATE 1 As of September of 2017 I have made out half a dozen traditional fairy tales which I feel no need to investigate at the moment. I will eventually come back and bring these versions back to life so people can contrast and compare the details between interpretations, but right now I'm looking for something more original, that I can't recognize from popular culture or local tradition. On a side note, these versions contain a lot more animals that not only talk and occasionaly help the hero, but have a soul, passions and intentions of their own. I have fixated on this story for now which seems to mimic the urban legends and often proven cases of people being raised by animals. I hope you Enjoy
STORY I: HUNTER
Illustration: A malnourished young man, with surprisingly sinewy limbs and a caved in belly, standing half-squatting over a small fire, pounding a rock into the dirt with his left hand, duste flying out and in his right hand which is almost completely black and behind him holding a long thin object(perhaps a stick or bone).
His feet are firmly planted on a canvas ov leaves or bushes, in the background there are many black specs that could represent either a dry field or the night sky and on the very edge of the frame, on the right you see the hind legs and stuffy tail of an animal that is proportioned to be the height of the man's legs, which are bent. This animal could be a dog, wolf or fox by my judgement. It looks to be leaving the frame, by the arangement of its legs; going somewhere else, not simply standing poised.
The man's head looks a bit too small for his body. He must be young as only some of his sharp chin and sides have streaks representing stuble not at all simmilar to the other depictions of men here which have thick wavy beards. The moth is just a dashed line the cheekbones are protruding and join the laughline in a thin curve. The eyes are just dark beads with a few thick lines slightly angled inward for brows. The forehead is furrowed with one thin line slightly curved in the middle and another smaller one the size of a hyphen on top. The hair looks short and spiky at first glance, but it's all to one side, like some sort of "scene" or "emo" haircut, probably indicating it is dirty, midlength and swiped to one side. The ears are not visible.
There are decorative collumns on all sides of the title and illustration page, but the following pages only have one collumn to the central side each. On this first pages the four collums are interwoven in the corners, where they meet, except for the lower-right corner, where I assume a mistake had been made, because the lines go straight for too long compared to the other corners and in the middle it looks like a stamp or sigil was placed over the mistake as the falcon's wings common in so many coats of arms can be made out while the rest is an inky splotch.
Title: I chose the title "Hunter", although my original idea was "Hunter of Men", but I figured that could be used for another story. The original title looks to me like it has the root word for hunter, despiter having a weird augmentative suffix that I haven't ever seen used. It may also be "The Bruised One", "The Purple One", "The Hunted One" or "The Eggplant Man". I believe "Hunter" is the closest aproximation when read in context.
The Story: "Hunter" is the name of our titular character. His origins remain unclear as there is a two pages and a quarter's worth of text where the only words I can make out are "farmstead", "brook" and "went".
His is the story of a man living among a pack wolves in the forests of Azuga, so it can be assumed that the criptic fragment is the story of him being left in the wilderness or going there to retreat from society. In the middle of that fragment there is a smaller crude illustration of an elderly woman as judged by her scarf striking a young boy with a broom.
Only the boy's torso, head and one arm that's absolving the strike and protecting his face can be scene from the left edge of the drawing, but I'm assuming it's "Hunter". There is a tall haystack behind the woman and no other person in frame.
A fragment of text to the right of the drawing, written with dialogue markers reads "Devil-cub"(were it localized it could be interpreted as "Demonspawn" or through a strange reading and relation to the tradition of the Draco, it could also be wolf cub, said in a demeaning manner).
This is a local way of reffering to kids and young people who are unruly and untame, even uttered by their parents when they cannot accept their efforts wheren't enough to civilize their children. It can be said in an affectionate nag, or a disgusted realization.
This drawing could either depict a young "Hunter" being chased out of the village by their mother or a wild "Hunter" unsuccesfully trying to enter civilization after living in the wilderness. Either way, we see the character of the story being shunned by locals.
Past this mysterious set-up it is clearly stated that he lived amongst a the beasts of the wild. He was accompanied by a roaming pack of wolves. They never separated during winter, but the wolves would often leave on hunts during the summer months, sometimes missing for days at a time, but always returning to the same spot, near a small cave entrance surrounded by undergrowth and bushes.
Hunter subsisted on stinging nettles, berries and rabbit. The latter he hunted while his pack was away and always shared with them. Despite having no trouble sleeping with wolves, which only frightened him when they growled at each other or fought too violently, Hunter was scared of bears and deer, which in turn were just as scared of him.
Whenever hunter saw one, he ran downhill where the trees were easier to climb, not looking back. He also frightened at the sound of horses neighing and dogs barking, which is why his trips to pastures where he drank from the utters of unattended cows were rare and why he would never partake when his pack brought in a lamb.
He was jealous of the bear for catching fish right out of the stream and licking honey from hives, things which he could never do and which gave him nightmares after he was stung and had to hide in a muddy swamp until the bees left.
Despite all this, he did find his own delight in his "Black Brew"(may mean Coal-Based Drink or Dirty Water or a combination), which he was taught how to prepare by an old lady who was a saint(literally) who lived in a hut hiddenn in the thickest of the forest. He never knew where the hut was during the day but he could always find it, if he went into the cave and ate of the thin mushrooms on a night with no moon. The Black Brew helped him hunt for days on end, without tiring, helped him run across the fields without fatigue, but also let him sleep during cold and wet times. The only lady also taught him to make fires, burn the deadwood all around him. His pack always retreated when he made the flames, but returned while the coals were still warm and helped him through the nights.
The fire was his undoing. During the second winter month he made a fan on a stick out of tree-bark and made the greatest flame he ever built to celebrate. He even boiled water in an old copper pot he found with mint leaves and treesap. But the smoke was too tall. He saw a man with a lantern and sword in hand cut the bushes below. He saw them before, but in a party. Men with torches and spears. searching the night a week ago. He knew it was for the girl.
The wolves ate the girl, but only after she fell by herself from a cliff and into a rocky cave. Her skull was cracked and her eyes still when they got to her. They left only the bones. For that Tisa came back with a bloodied leg and still limped. He was going to ask the old hag how to heal Tisa, but now the man with an iron helm and steel coat was coming to kill them all. Hunter had already eaten the mushroom.
Tisa howled, then the others howled. Hunter howled with them. He jumped all the way to where the man was, and the pack ran down. The man fell over when he saw Hunter. Hunter knew the people did not like him. His teeth were twisted and too long unlike other men who could bite into an apple. His nails were always bloody unlike other men who had only mud on their fingers. His feet had thick skin so he could run across fields and bushes, unlike other men who wore the skins of animals on their feet.
The soldier stood up when his lantern flame went out. He ran for Hunter, sword above his head in one hand, screaming the scream men scream. Hunter hissed louder than the man and belched then jumped and was already on a tree-branch where the man could not swing. Then the wolves came. They collapsed the man and tore his arm so that he could not hold a sword then they fell back and ran circles around him, stopping only to growl. Hunter came down on the man's chest and the man coughed blood.
The man weezed and looked to the sky. Hunter held a bone and plunged it in the man's eye. The man found his voice but so again it was gone in a few moments. The wolves began to bite and gnaw on the man but Hunter barked at them until they stopped. They walked slowly away to go around the hill where it's not so steep and easy to climb back to the cave and bushes, but lights appeared in front of them. It was more men.
They carried torches and spears and pitchforks. They wore thick wool coats and some had steel on top. No one ran, but the gang of men stepped closer. Hunter yelled at his pack, from the bottom of his gut, yelled like no man could but they only stepped back and came back to him.
The men held their spears at the ready as one of them approached with a hand in front, speaking slow but loud. Hunter dropped the bone from his hand and ran at the man. He jumped and kicked with his knee. And when he came down to the ground the man's head was stuck to his knee and his face was flat and bloody. Other men ran with their sharp spears and the wolves ran to either side and up the hills into the trees while men threw their spears at them. Hunter now only howled and when only Tisa was left of the wolves and weeping, he turned to run too.
Hunter grabbed Tisa and jumped but stopped and fell down with a pain in his back and four tickles through his ribs.
For the first time Hunter could not scream. Hunter dragged his leg hard across the ground with bushes and rocks bloodying his foot until a rock hit the man with the pitch-fork in the head and the pitch-fork came loose.
He picked up Tisa over his shoulder and ran for a cliff edge and jumped with shouting and thrown rocks behind him. Hunter felt the pain in his back again and saw that he fell into a pool of water and it was muddier because of him. He heard Tisa cry and saw her paddle to him. For a minute there were lights from above, but they went away.
Since then Hunter never saw any men and they never saw him, but Hunter could only crawl and weeze.
He lived off of roots and mushrooms and whatever Tisa brought to him. The pack ran but he could not catch them, only Tisa stayed. He never made it back to the cave and never burned a fire again but he swore to outlive the ilk of men and when they all burn and cut each other, let the forest reclaim where they put their cottages. Hunter always crawls in Azuga's woods. He cannot run or climb now, but he is unseen in grass and mud and jumps like a snake when he sees something in front of him.
END I will continue to try and piece together the first part of the text and little bits and details, sometimes whole phrases I couldn't get right now, but this was a rough translation and re-composition of what I found.
To my knowledge, the old hag in the woods is the only character that is simmilar to known folk tales.
For now, I will keep reading and looking into clues. The parts of this book I can best understand are re-tellings of well-known battles and bits of history, but right now I'm focused of stories. Most of them have to do with the forests of Transilvania and the lives of farmers, so I will do my best to find a well-told or untold narrative that I can translate and interpret.
In the meanwhile I would love to know if any readers know a simillar story from elsewhere, if they enjoyed this effort of mine.
My eyes have been constantly darting from the screen to my notes and back again so errors are bound to appear, but in time I will weed them out and even publish revisions to previous interpretations of a story to rebuild it completely.

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Good work and suggestions /rva. I reached out to a radio station and got some studio time so I'll have access to some good equipmunk and a forum to broadcast. This will help with the digital upload platform and with exposure as this will be the contributing factor to getting interesting guests, Meade Skelton isn't going to come on the podcast if the show only has 12 subscribers, am i right?
So I can either do in studio interviews or record on location and play at the station which sounds ideal. So I still need equipment, yarbles and kickingpplisfun I might take you up on those mics and determine production quality.
Really like the concept of a crowdsourced Q&A part of the podcast too so let's keep that in mind.
To all the people who reached out offering assistance. I'll enlist that help, for sure. This show isn't about me, so any means to get the best info and entertainment on the show is the goal at this point.
What should this show be called? I have some ideas but it's wide open.
Meade can you record an intro song for me? Or one of the DJ's on here can you make a cool intro that won't be as racist as Meade's will be?
I called my buddy Max from Max's Positive Vibe Cafe, he has had a pretty interesting life and agreed to let me record him in the next 2 weeks. But will need to line some other interviews up ASAP. So if you have access to interesting people, let me know and I'll reach out, schedule and start recording.
Updated List Below.
People I plan on podcasting with:
• Someone in Monroe Park
• x-mayor Rudy McCollum
• The homeless man Billy that lives near my place downtown
• Someone in our police department
• The hotdog salesmen Walt outside of Fantastic Thrift
• The sweet old lady who falls asleep on our community access city hall feed
• Jake Croker
• Becky Brown
• Local Entrepreneurs
• Students, VCU, Union, UofR
• Restaurant people, Cooks, Dishwashers, Bartenders
• The migrating Krusties of Spring
• A Local fishmonger
• A Hispanic fisherman from Ancarrows
• Tim Barry
• Happy the Artist
• Noah O
• A bunch of elderly people that have lived in RVA their whole lives
• Capt. Mike Ostrander
• Mark Holmberg
• The lady who owns the abandoned Bee store downtown
• A Firefighter
• Someone from short pump (jk)
• Chinatown bus driver
• Kuwaiti foreign exchange student
• Local brewmasters
• You guys
• Meade Skelton
• The guys who play the bucket drums
• Ron Garber from sportsbackers
• Strippers
• Bev from Bev's Ice cream
• Ed Trask
• A farmer
• Confederate flag bearer
• Ralph White
• The owner of Auto Connection
• Nathan Burrell
• Maybe Bill Bevins (he looks blazed on TV so he might actually be interesting)
• A guy with his Caprice painted like a soft drink or some kind of candy
• Ronnie the guy that works on the VW Van
• The guy that started Soul Ice
• The angry weather forecaster on facebook

• John Lugbill
  
• Dirtwoman
  
• Gene Cox
  
• Eddie Slipek
  
• IFEELSORRYFORYOURVA
  
• Ron Melancon
  
• Restauranteurs/food truck owners (Carnard427), RVA Coffee Stain, Matt Newman of the Richmond Comedy Coalition, Zoe Romano (she basically ran the Tour de France last year), Katie Davis or Matt Brotka from the Salvation Tattoo Gallery, someone from the Virginia Film Office, the Byrd Theatre proprietor, a home inspectothe owner of Pollard & Bagby or another popular apartment rental company, the president of the CVSA, one of the Ukrops, the guys who run RVAspecials and RVAlunchspecial...
  
• NOBS Brass
  
• Jamie Betts
  
• Beer
  
• Kool Aid Man