Restaurateur, Author, Columnist, Podcaster, Travel Host Founder of Extra Table. Sober 42 yrs. 45 years in hospitality. Building people, places & stories ONWARD!

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Are you actually funny, or are you just shocking? Mary Ryan Brown weighs in on the challenge of clean comedy. Episode 16 with Mary Ryan Brown Watch or listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart — links in bio. Ya Gotta Eat! #comedian #standupcomedy #cleancomedy
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Chamath: France Won’t Fix Itself. The Bond Market Must Force Its Hand. “I think the people have a responsibility to understand the numeric reality in which they are living. (The French) are living in a state that is spending more than any communist utopia that they hoped to achieve. Yet the outcomes are broken, which means the system is broken, and you need to reset that. And the government will not reset it on its own, and so the bond vigilantes will have to do it for them. I think they need to break the back of the French government.” Jason: “Okay, there it is. There's the mandate.” Chamath: “I think you need to take France to 8% and just break them.” Jason: “Yeah, and then all of a sudden, austerity measures, immigration, all this stuff is going to be taken a lot more seriously.” Chamath: “At least it'll all be on the table, and they will have to sort out what they're willing to give up. But right now, if you can skate through this moment, then these things continue to fester, and it is a tinderbox that at some point, again, we know what the trail of breadcrumbs can lead to in terms of fomenting this societal rage. You cannot allow that to happen. And so the government has a responsibility now to nip this in the bud in a structural way.”
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Elsie wants more Mississippi artists to have their moment. The Elsie Experience is this Friday, October 23, at 7 PM at The SwitchYard in downtown Hattiesburg. Tickets are available on Eventbrite! #elsie #mississippi #music
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Elsie takes us backstage at America’s Got Talent, where a last-minute song rearrangement, overpreparing, and one very memorable “no” made an already intense moment even tougher. Episode 17 of Ya Gotta Eat with Elsie is out now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart.
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Musk acaba de lanzar esta nueva posibilidad 😆. Que locura tan maravillosa ❤️
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All are welcome to join The Pine Belt Princess Party! 🤠 Elsie joins the show to talk about her love for Mississippi and wanting the best for her home state, including the formation of a new political party! Episode 17 of Ya Gotta Eat with Elsie drops Wednesday at 5AM. #elsie
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The devotion and focused energy @davidsenra is bringing to his podcast is next level. Not surprised, yes impressed. The year 1 lineup and growth is so awesome to see.
I started this podcast a year ago. It’s been the best year of my life. Thanks to everyone for watching and to every guest for the incredible conversations 🫡 In order by appearance: Daniel Ek Michael Dell Brad Jacobs Todd Graves Michael Ovitz James Dyson Patrick O’Shaughnessy John Mackey Tobi Lutke Jimmy Iovine Jason Fried Brian Armstrong Marc Andreessen Eric Jorgenson Tony Xu Evan Spiegel David Baszucki Adam Foroughi Dana White Strauss Zelnick Rick Rubin Ivanka Trump Gustav Söderström Ed Catmull Steve Stoute Scott Wu Jonathan Ross Eric Glyman Jeff Zalaznick DHH Micky Malka Lulu Meservey Travis Kalanick Sam Altman Torsten Reil Doug Leone Zach Dell Mati Staniszewski Luca Ferrari Peter Rahal Ronnie Fieg 41 down, many many thousands to go…
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A love letter to Southern women. Finding what works is one thing. Knowing how to keep digging, evolving, and making it better is another. You can catch Mary Ryan and Landon out on tour now. Check the link in her bio so you don’t miss out on the fun. #comedian #southernwomen
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Falcon 9 flew more missions in ONE YEAR than the entire Space Shuttle program flew in 30 years • The entire Shuttle fleet: 135 missions from 1981–2011 • Falcon 9 in 2025 alone: 165 launches SpaceX exceeded the Shuttle program’s entire lifetime mission count by 30 launches in just 12 months And Falcon 9 also launched more times than every other orbital launch vehicle combined that year At the Shuttle program’s historical average cadence, reaching 165 missions would have taken roughly 37 years Falcon 9 did it in ONE And the hardware reuse comparison is just as insane: • Space Shuttle Discovery — 39 flights across roughly 27 years • Falcon 9 booster B1067 — 37 flights in just over 5 years B1067 first flew on June 3, 2021 By August 25, 2026, the same booster had launched and landed successfully 37 times A single Falcon 9 first stage came within TWO flights of the most-flown Shuttle orbiter’s lifetime flight count in about one-fifth of the time What once took decades of launch operations now happens within a single year of Falcon 9 cadence SpaceX turned reusability into an industrial-scale operation
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This is the most important video on the internet right now for parents to watch.
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Have you ever seen a bison run a bear over?...
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This video of a bison charging a bear appears to be AI-generated, not authentic footage. Wildlife guide Bo Welden, falsely credited as the source, states it is not real and not his video. crbcnews.com/articles/6ab5e…
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BREAKING: Google launching TPUs in space NEXT WEEK on SpaceX falcon 9 to test AI data centers orbit ITS HAPPENING
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It’s just a joke. Mary Ryan Brown talks about the fine line between satire and offending your audience. Sometimes, you've just got to let people be mad. Episode 16 of Ya Gotta Eat with Mary Ryan Brown is out now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart. Ya Gotta Eat!
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"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything" You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition. One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them. A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math? "Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up. My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes. "The social disruption will be enormous!" Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach. Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already? A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up. Accelerate.
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Sometimes the advice you hear growing up doesn’t fully click until years later. “If you write it, speak it. If you speak it, write it.” Now, that’s exactly what Mary Ryan is doing through comedy, storytelling, and the characters she creates. Ya Gotta Eat! #comedian
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It’s supposed to be hard… do it anyway.
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I’m convinced 90% of a founder's job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on
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“Pressure is privilege.” - Billie Jean King Mary Ryan Brown may feel the pressure, but like any strong woman in the spotlight, she lets that fuel her. Check out the full episode #16 of Ya Gotta Eat wherever you get your podcasts. #comedian #character #standupcomedy
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