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MOAR Dinosaurs, GM Auto Strike, MoviePass Shuts Down and QB Injuries Jurassic World released Battle of Big Rock Short Film https://twitter.com/jurassicworld/status/1173461348069650432?s=21 Shows humans and dinosaurs living amongst one another. Family of four encounter dinosaurs in the woods that turns into fight of their lives I've always loved Jurassic Park movies. Dinosaurs fascinate me. Could this ever be a reality? Let’s talk dinosaurs for a minute. Ash Ketchum finally wins Pokemon League Championship First time in the 20 year history Ash has won He has traveled across the land, searching far and wide, in an attempt to catch 'em all Twitter Well damn, the kid finally did it… "Which was bigger? LeBron coming back 3-1 against the Warriors or Ash Ketchum winning his first Pokemon league after a 22 year drought?" United Auto Workers kicked off a strike at GM’s U.S. factories at midnight https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/union-set-to-let-gm-contract-expire-raising-odds-of-a-strike GM faces losses of $50M/day GM's first major work stoppage in 12 years. A reminder of the UAW’s firepower: The 84-year-old union represents almost 150,000 workers at GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler factories in the U.S. It’s got a $750 million war chest to keep paying members while they’re on strike. After tenuous recent discussions, GM made the unusual move of publicizing what it had offered the UAW in negotiations: $7 billion in new U.S. factory investments, 5,400 jobs, higher pay, and a proposal for idled plants. The union wasn’t impressed. It wants GM to a) accelerate entry-level workers’ paths to peak wage b) invest more in U.S. factories and c) potentially add models to four plants without future products to produce. The UAW’s dealing with internal chaos, too. A federal corruption investigation has targeted sitting officials, including president Gary Jones. MoviePass shuts down after disrupting the movie industry Founded in 2011, MoviePass offered a $40/month subscription that let you into any theater to watch any movie. Worth it only for the very lonely and movie-crazy. Mitch Lowe was hired as CEO. There were only 20K customers, so he cut the price by 75%. At $10/month, the breakeven price for MoviePass was 1 movie per month, so people signed up. 3M people binged 5% of all movies watched in late 2018. Theaters still charged full price for each ticket, forcing MoviePass to pay the difference — and lose $21M/month ("Amazon lost money for 20 years" — the CEO). So it had to raise prices/add a bunch of restrictions. This Saturday: It's over. The parent company doesn't know when or if it will come back. Globo-theater-chain AMC now offers something like MoviePass. MoviePass "pulled a Napster": it changed the industry even though it didn't survive. Segment 2: Weekend Wrapup We got absolutely slaughtered on the books this weekend. No need to go pick by pick, we pretty much got beat on all of em this weekend. Only Winners: Kansas City -7 // 28-10 over Oakland Buffalo -2 // 28-14 over NYG Dallas -5.5 // 31-21 over Washington Pitt +17 // 10-17 loss to Penn State OSU -17.5 // 51-10 over Indiana Antonio Brown got to play (even though Robert Kraft said he wouldn’t have signed him if he knew about this lawsuit)… he caught a TD Bad day for old QB’s not named Tom Brady: Big Ben (elbow) and Drew Brees (thumb) both getting looked at today. International football back in action: Spurs spanked Crystal Palace 4-0 Roma took care of Sassuolo 4-2 Norwich beating Man City 3-2 Chelsea over Wolves 5-2 Milan beat Verona 1-0 in a game where each team had a man sent off Juventus stymied by Fiorentina 0-0 Monday Thoughts: Could possibly quickly make a joke here about getting slaughtered in gambling this weekend. Blake: Axe throwing conspiracies - all the videos online of axes bouncing off the wall and narrowly missing people. Where are the injuries? Are the companies in bed with the insurance agencies? Vincenzo: Security lines at airports These photos are from ATL this Monday morning at 7am, an airport I hate with all my soul. But there has to be a better way with TSA and travel security. I don't know what it is, but the process should be streamlined, especially for frequent travelers.