If you enjoyed these pods last off-season, not only will they be brought back with @wagner13454 but we will be auditing our process and takes from 2026 for some show of accountability and a way for us to improve as players. For members of the Patreon, I will be providing a lot of extra's for each episode - truly unique to the space. the offseason work doesn't start when the season ends - it starts now and if want non stop analysis all off season, come be a Meatball patreon.com/cw/u32383693

We trained a robot to play football. How? Self-play for 140 years in a virtual World Cup. Meet the #Messinator:

Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything

If you’re serious about growth, be serious about accountability. If you’re serious about abundance, be serious about gratitude. If you’re serious about intimacy, be serious about vulnerability. If you’re serious about discipline, be serious about delayed gratification.

Doesn’t get bigger than this. Thank you to the fans for helping #SpiderManBrandNewDay make cinematic history – it’s now the highest-grossing domestic release of ALL TIME at the North American box office. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, exclusively in theatres. spidermanbrandnewday.movie/

Playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day for two months physically grew the brains of the people who played it. A 2014 study in Molecular Psychiatry scanned participants before and after two months of daily play and found increases in grey matter in three regions involved in memory, planning, and fine motor control. The study was led by Simone Kuhn at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She gave 23 adults a Nintendo DS and told them to play Super Mario 64 for at least 30 minutes a day for two months. A control group played nothing. MRI scans taken before and after showed that the Mario group had measurable increases in grey matter in the right hippocampus, the right prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum, and the increases were not found in the control group. The hippocampus is where the brain stores spatial maps. Super Mario 64 is a game built entirely around navigating three-dimensional space, jumping between platforms, remembering which doors lead where, and building a mental model of a world that does not exist. The brain treats a virtual world the same way it treats a real one: it maps it, stores it, and grows to accommodate it. The prefrontal cortex handles planning and strategy, which the game demands constantly. The cerebellum handles timing and coordination, which every jump requires. The brain was not just entertained. It was being trained, and the tissue responded the same way muscle responds to a weight: it got bigger. Kuhn said the results suggest that video game training could be used as a therapy for conditions where these brain regions are reduced, including post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and age-related brain shrinkage. The prescription is a plumber in a red hat, 30 minutes a day. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2416…

If your fantasy team is mathematically out, now can be the most useful stretch of the season. “What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.” - Wendell Phillips ✍️ Explore what you can do with the last three weeks of the fantasy season in the latest musing. (Link in reply)

“The world is collapsing.” That was @ProfessorJiang_ response when I asked him what was front of mind for him right now. Professor Jiang predicted the last global shifts before many people saw them coming. Now he’s back making new predictions about what happens next. After our first conversation reached 16 million views, I wanted to speak with Jiang again to really understand why he believes the world is entering such an uncertain period and what he thinks we should be paying attention to next. Professor Jiang is a Yale-educated geopolitics expert who studies history, power and human behaviour to understand how the events of today could shape the future In this conversation, we discussed things like: - Why he believes the current global order is changing. - How the US dollar became the foundation of the modern economy. - Why wars, technology and economics are more connected than most people realise. - His predictions for America, China, AI and the future of global power. - How history can help us understand where the world may be heading.
 Jiang doesn’t just look at individual events - he looks at the bigger systems behind them and asks what happens when those systems start to change. The longer I spoke to Jiang, the more I realised that the world doesn’t change by accident. It changes because of decisions, incentives and human behaviour. Understanding those forces might be the key to understanding what happens next... Out now on all platforms ❤️👊🏾