#cru jones

[radcru-awesome]

[wh4thefnk]

Thinking about how off I was, I never thought he was retiring, that is not what he said, but yes, the break lasted shorter than expected, and the workload he’s choosing isn’t as light as he lead people on (* ^◇^)_旦

I’m still stuck on him saying that he wanted to take a step back from Hollywood and focus on his home life. Not even four months go by and he’s back trying to be in the Hollywood loop lmfao

[gregarnott]

Cru Jones, RAD

[lboogie1906]

Michel’le Denise Toussant (December 5, 1970) known mononyously as Michel’le, is an R&Bsinger known for her songs from 1989 to the early 1990s. Her highest charting song is the top ten US Hot 100 hit “No More Lies”. Between (2013-15), she was one of six members of R&B Divas: Los Angeles. She is the subject of Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le.

She is a native of California, and was originally a featured female vocalist of World Class Wreckin’ Cru’s 1987 single “Turn Off the Lights”. She was signed to Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records. In 1989, her self-titled debut album was released. The album contained the single “No More Lies” which peaked at #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the hit R&B singles “Nicety” and “Something in My Heart”. She was certified Gold on April 25, 1990, for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US. The West Coast All-Stars, in which she had a role, scored a nomination for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 33rd Grammy Awards for the single “We’re All in the Same Gang”.

In 1998, she released her second album, Hung Jury, on Death Row Records. She provided vocals on 2Pac’s song “Run tha Streets” on his album All Eyez on Me, and Tha Dogg Pound’s song “Let’s Play House” on their debut Dogg Food.

She contributed to the soundtrack of Dysfunktional in 2003. She has since confirmed through several media outlets that she’s been working on new material and looking for a label for her third album. In 2011 and 2014, she released new singles “Freedom to Love” and “It Still Hurts”, though she hasn’t released an album since 1998.

She was included in No Vaseline on Ice Cube’s 1991 double platinum effort, Death Certificate. She was cast as herself in the stage play Love Jones: The Musical.

She was engaged to Dr. Dre. She was married to Suge Night. She has two children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[itscarshub]

Why one of ASBK's most high profile teams isn't racing in 2025

The decision to close the team behind Penrite Racing SBK – formerly GTR MotoStars – didn’t come easy for owner Heath Griffin, but with both Max Stauffer and Cameron Dunker’s futures all but locked in, the high profile independent effort won’t continue into the 2025 season. Griffin – a former national level racer himself – formed the team in 2020 with Stauffer and Archie McDonald, before later bringing Dunker in for 2021 as a development-type platform competing within the lower tiers of ASBK competition. While Stauffer graduated to the Superbike ranks for 2022 under the guidance of his dad Jamie Stauffer – the 2006 and 2007 ASBK champion with Yamaha Racing Team – and Griffin to begin learning the ropes in the premier class, Dunker won both the national Supersport 300 and R3 Cup categories with GTR.

Image: Foremost Media. As a rookie in 2023, the talented teenager Dunker won the Supersport title in his first attempt, while at the top end of town, Stauffer managed to break through for a first Superbike podium at Phillip Island’s penultimate round. A union with Deon Coote’s title-winning ER Motorsport team – which had split with Honda following Troy Herfoss’ decision to embark on an international career – for 2024 then saw Dunker join close friend Stauffer on YZF-R1M machinery, rebranded as Penrite Racing SBK after Coote had brought in the Australian-owned oil company as title sponsor. His arrival also saw additional personnel added, including decorated technician Paul Free, while on Dunker’s side of the garage he was partnered with former racer Glen Richards. The team’s presence increased significantly, with Stauffer eventually claiming a career-best fourth in the final standings and 16-year-old Dunker finishing seventh. Both will be beginning new chapters from 2025, however, with Stauffer, 20, heavily linked to a seat at YRT alongside Mike Jones following Cru Halliday’s departure, while Dunker has already been announced at MotoGo Yamaha with new Supersport champion JJ Nahlous. Still, it’s unclear if both deals are set in stone. For Griffin, the realities of running a top-level ASBK Superbike operation have taken a toll in recent years in between his own family commitments and running a business from day-to-day, and with the underlying goal of helping to firmly establish the careers of Stauffer and Dunker, his time is now up as a team owner in the sport. From the outside, it never really was clear just how the Griffin/Coote partnership was in fact operating as one behind the scenes, which makes the abrupt end after a single term together even more of a head-scratcher. “We’re not continuing for next year,” Griffin told CycleOnline. “It’s been a hectic workload with two riders on Superbikes and I’ve got my own kids just starting high school and they’re playing rep sports on their own, so just the amount of workload on me for this season has been unsustainable. “It’s been building for a while and I know it seems as though we’ve been ramping up, but the fact is that my goal was always to get Max and Cam into a situation where they can have professional racing careers. After that, I could take a break, and that’s always been the plan.

Image: Foremost Media. “I spoke to those guys probably three months ago and said I was not intending to run a team next year and that we should start looking for alternatives for them in 2025, which I have been doing. They are both looking like they’re going to have good, competitive team rides for next season. “Both will be continuing in Superbike for next year in a competitive situation. It’s been taking too much time from my business and family, and in order for us to take another step forward for next year I would have pretty much had to double that. That just wasn’t possible.” As for Coote, he has indicated that the intention is to continue in the paddock for 2025, complete with ongoing Penrite support. Speculation that Honda will be back on the grid in an official capacity appears unfounded at this point, while Coote is yet to confirm if he has plans to rebuild a proper ER Motorsport team or if he’s going to partner an existing organisation for the second time in as many years. Both options, he says, are on the table. Source link Read the full article

[senseofnewness]

i cannot stand glen powell with every ounce of my being and i’m sorry i’ll say it i don’t care for daisy edgar jones or paul mescal either. THOSE MET GALA PHOTOS ARE UNFORGIVABLE

while i agree with glen, he's too clean cut, very t*m cru*se

I WILL NEVER AGREE FOR PAUL AND DAISY, they have such a cute friendship and tbh don't give a damn about phoebe, maybe she deserved it

[christophe76460]

SE VANTER DE LA CROIX.

Galates 6.14 "Quant à moi, je ne veux me vanter que de la croix de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ"

"Le chrétien ne se glorifie pas seulement de la croix, il se glorifie de la croix seule. Il ne se glorifie de rien d’autre. . . .

Il y a là un caractère exclusif, ce qui signifie que pour le chrétien, c'est la chose principale de l'histoire, l'événement le plus important qui ait jamais eu lieu. Cela signifie que pour lui, il n’y a rien qui s’en rapproche en termes de signification. Cela veut dire qu'il repose tout sur cela, que cela signifie tout pour lui, qu'il est ce qu'il est à cause de cela. Il s'en glorifie.

Je veux poser une question à tous les chrétiens.

Est-ce que vous vous glorifiez de la croix ?

Ou dites-vous simplement : Bien sûr, j'ai toujours cru, j'ai été élevé dans ce sens.

Pouvez-vous parler ainsi de la croix ?

Le test du chrétien est qu’il s’en glorifie, qu’il s’en réjouit, qu’il s’en vante. C'est tout pour lui, sans cela il n'a rien.

Il doit tout à cela, cette croix est le centre de son univers à tous égards. C’est ce que signifie se vanter."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, La Croix : la voie divine du salut (Crossway, 1986), 54-55

[us-cj]

Environmentalism has been rebranded into climate change and is nothing more than a sales pitch for politicians and wealthy industrialists betting on the new trend. Recall, the “Climate Gate” scandal broke on November 17th 2009. But by now there are several associated issues, such as “Glacier Gate” (1) and “Amazon Gate” (2), and it is time to figure out what it all means.

Climate Gate was the release (by a hacker or an insider) of thousands of e-mails and commented source codes from the Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU). There is enough fascinating material to write books about it (3), but one of the e-mails that have attracted most attention is one from November 1999 where Phil Jones of CRU wrote to Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes (the authors of the famous “hockey stick” graph that suggested unprecedented warming during the last century) saying: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” By itself, that could mean anything, but the source code of the related computer program makes abundantly clear that they substitute Keith Briffa’s original tree ring temperature proxy with Hadley’s instrumental record from 1961 onwards in order to hide the apparent decline in temperatures indicated by the tree-ring data (4).

The general impression that one gets from reading the material is that a small group of generously funded researchers have been torturing the temperature data from all over the globe to get it to show a 0.8ºC increase over the last 150 years, and, amazingly, they (together with Al Gore, MSM, IPCC and others) have managed to convince most people that such an increase is unprecedented, caused by human CO2 emissions, and disastrous for all life on the planet.

One of the other main issues in the climate gate scandal is that the Hadley Climate Research Unit has resisted releasing data and methods, so that other researchers could verify their results. The scientific method in general requires researchers to make their data and methods available for independent replication, and the British Freedom of Information Act specifically requires publicly funded institutions to do so, but the hacked e-mails make clear how the involved climate researchers have resisted and evaded legal and reasonable information requests.

Glacier Gate, on the other hand, is the debunking of the claim in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than in any other part of the world and could “disappear altogether by 2035 if not sooner”. This statement has proven to be completely unfounded, and one glaciologist, Professor Cogley at Ontario Trent University, believe the IPCC has misread the date in a 1996 report which said the glaciers could melt significantly by 2350. The IPCC has now officially retracted the statement (5), but what makes it particularly embarrassing is that the IPCC chairman had ridiculed Indian scientists who refuted the claim, calling their work “voodoo science” (6).

Amazon Gate is another example of the flimsy evidence on which the IPCC have based their claims of climate calamities. In the Working Group II report of 2007 they state that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation” on the basis of a non peer-reviewed WWF report whose lead author, Andy Rowell, is a free-lance journalist. If you follow the reference used by WWF, it leads to a 1999 article in Nature about the impacts of logging. IPCC could have used that reference, as it is at least peer-reviewed, but the problem may have been that the Nature-article mentions nothing at all about climate change (2).

However, by now it doesn’t matter much what the evidence shows or does not show. The Climate Change Train is going at full speed and it is difficult to get off. Many institutions, which jumped on the climate change bandwagon before the Copenhagen summit, have committed themselves and their budgets to climate change activities instead of their usual activities, and now find it difficult to backtrack...

SOURCE: This is "The Runaway Climate Train", by Lykke Andersen. Lykke Andersen is the Director of the Center for Economic and Environmental Modeling and Analysis (CEEMA) at INESAD.

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(1) See summary at The Sunday Times “World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown” https://web.archive.org/web/20100124015736/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

(2) See summary by James Delingpole at the Daily Telegraph “After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate” https://web.archive.org/web/20100213010322/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/

(3) That has already been done. See, for example, “Climategate: Caught Green-handed” by Christopher Moncton [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20Climategate%20Scandal.pdf] or “Climategate: The CRUtape Letters” by Steven Mosher and Thomas Fuller [https://www.amazon.com/Climategate-Crutape-Letters-Steven-Mosher/dp/1450512437/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264982554&sr=1-1]

(4) See analysis by Steve McIntyre https://climateaudit.org/2009/12/10/ipcc-and-the-trick/#more-9483

(5) See The Times: https://web.archive.org/web/20111007072623/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece

(6) See The Guardian: https://web.archive.org/web/20130908063242/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/09/india-pachauri-climate-glaciers

[thewineauctionroom]

New Post has been published on https://wineauctionroom.com/now-is-the-time-to-invest-in-wine/

Now IS the time to invest in wine

A year ago, the New Zealand Herald posed the question “Is Now The Time To Invest In Wine?”.  In talking with several wine specialists in New Zealand, including our team at The Wine Auction Room, the answer was a resounding yes. And this answer holds true today.

At The Wine Auction Room, we’ve noticed local wine auctions are following global trends. Liv-ex is the global fine wine trading platform that tracks fine wine resale prices through its various indices. As measured by the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index, wine proved a better investment in recent years than traditional equity markets, such as the Dow Jones or gold. Recent sales through local auction houses have proven the market has softened compared to previous years, making this a great time to purchase well-cellared wines in the secondary market to boost your investment portfolio.

New Zealand offers some tremendous wines worthy of a seat at any international table. With interest tapering, we are now seeing some of the more popular brands such as Stonyridge Larose and Te Mata Coleraine being secured at values ~20% less than paid in 2021. Lesser-known contemporary New Zealand Bordeaux blends, such as Te Motu and Newton Forrest, offer consistently great value for their tremendous quality.

This investment value is not just limited to local wines. We’ve noticed similar trends for international wines – from premier cru to village classes, savvy buyers are collecting wines that will do them proud in years to come.

To help our buyers, we note the cellaring conditions of the wine prior to being consigned to auction, and quality wines from consistent temperature-controlled storage always pique the interest of discerning buyers.  Cellaring conditions are one of the key things to look at when buying wines on the secondary market.  Look out for wines that have been consistently stored in temperature-controlled conditions on release from the vineyard.

Critic scores are another indicator that can help guide your investment purchases. Scores greater than 95 points (of 100) or 18 points (of 20) are worthy of your attention. Of course, scores of 100 (or 20) are reserved for the finest of wines for their time – keep an eye out for them and be sure to read the tasting notes to understand when the wine will be in its prime.  Our upcoming auction is littered with 100-point wines – offering a wonderful investment opportunity for the shrewd buyer.

Of course, depending on when and how these wines were purchased by our vendors, the results still offer a generous return. As with all investments, it can take time to realise the increase in value.  Your investment equation can be summed up in three hows…. How you buy, how you store and how long you hold for.

The Wine Auction Room hold regular monthly auctions in a variety of formats.  Live/online, virtual/online and fixed-time online only.  We publish our catalogue with plenty of time for you to complete your research and cast your bids. Of course, our team are always on hand to provide you with detailed advice.  Simply call us and we can talk through your investment aspirations.

[choses-dingen]

«The Fabelmans» de Spielberg: retour aux origines

Avec « Fabelmans », son 34e long-métrage, le papa d'« E.T. » et d'« Indiana Jones » raconte son enfance, sa famille, le pouvoir de l'image et la nécessité de croire en ses rêves. C'est magnifique, intime et bouleversant.

  Dire « je » pour la première fois, sans se dissimuler derrière des récits peuplés de requins, de dinosaures ou d'extraterrestres. Raconter Steven avant Spielberg. Son enfance et l'enfance de son art. Part profondément intime et personnelle qui intègre le premier choc cinématographique, un secret de famille et le divorce de ses parents (une mère fantasque, pianiste empêchée, et un père sérieux, ingénieur, pionnier en informatique), les petits films amateurs et les brimades antisémites. L'histoire du cinéma débute avec un train qui entre en gare. L'histoire de Spielberg avec le cinéma commence avec un train qui déraille. Nous sommes dans les années 50. Il a cinq ans quand ses parents l'emmènent dans une salle de cinéma voir Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde, de Cecil B. DeMille. A la fois fasciné et effrayé, il découvre la magie du cinéma et le pouvoir de l'image. Le lendemain, il rejoue la scène du déraillement avec son train électrique et comprend que tout est question de mise en scène. Une vocation est née : sa vie sera vouée à faire des films.

On peut voir ce retour aux origines qu'est The Fabelmans, comme une forme de thérapie. Et ce, dans son rapport à la mère, au père, à ses pairs, à son identité. Le cinéaste le plus rentable de Hollywood, génial faiseur de blockbusters, a attendu 76 ans. Le fait que ses parents ne soient plus de ce monde - sa mère Leah est morte à 97 ans en 2017 et son père Arnold est mort à 103 ans en 2020 -, et le confinement ont été des éléments déclencheurs pour passer à l'acte car l'idée du film l'habitait depuis des années mais il faut oser se raconter, raconter ses parents.

Dans Steven Spielberg - rétrospective, publié il y a 10 ans aux Ed. La Martinière, il avouait : « J'ai depuis longtemps en moi une histoire sur ma famille que je suis trop lâche pour raconter. Je le ferai un jour. Mais c'est difficile, car cela signifie porter à l'écran devant le monde entier certains évènements très personnels concernant ma mère, mon père, mes trois soeurs et moi-même. » Il faut effectivement parfois une vie. A l'issue de la projection de The Fabelmans au Festival de Toronto en septembre dernier, Steven Spielberg déclara : « Je ne crois pas que quiconque ait su en mars ou avril 2020 où en serait l'art, la vie, ne serait-ce qu'à une année de distance. J'ai juste ressenti que si je devais laisser quelque chose derrière moi, qu'avais-je vraiment besoin d'éclaircir et de déballer à propos de ma maman et mon papa et mes soeurs ? Ce n'était pas maintenant ou jamais, mais presque. »

 Hanté par l'enfance et le passé, le cinéaste a toujours jalousement gardé sa vie privée même si on avait déjà des morceaux du puzzle distillés au gré des films depuis ses débuts. Des détails d'enfance jamais anodins. « Il n'y a presque pas un de mes films dont je ne puisse retrouver une trace dans mon enfance », avoue-t-il. Enfant perdu, père faible, mère indigne sont des motifs spielbergiens qui se déclinent inlassablement. L'empreinte des origines est matière d'inspiration. Rencontres du 3ème Type (1977). par exemple, raconte comment les humains et les extra-terrestres apprennent à communiquer à travers la musique (figure de la mère) et les ordinateurs (figure du père). E.T. l'extraterrestre (1982) est né d'une blessure d'enfance et parle de solitude, de divorce, d'absence du père. Arrête-moi si tu peux (2002) est l'histoire d'un escroc qui, meurtri par le divorce de ses parents, ne cherche au fond qu'à retrouver sa mère.

En s'autorisant a se raconter, Spielberg affronte son histoire familiale et dévoile que c'est sa mère l'irresponsable dans le couple (il a longtemps cru que le divorce de ses parents était dû à son père). Mais il reste avant tout un raconteur d'histoires. Le Samy Fabelman de l'écran, c'est lui et pas tout à fait. L'autoportrait où se mélangent superbement candeur et amertume est partiellement autobiographique. Optimiste convaincu, plein de tendresse et de délicatesse envers ses parents aujourd'hui disparus, Spielberg se place du côté lumineux de la vie, édulcore sa réalité parfois très sombre (l'antisémitisme dont il a souffert adolescent, les tensions avec son père, le vrai visage de sa mère...) et suit les conseils de cette maman fantasque qui l'a poussé à rêver grand et l'a encouragé dans l'art cinématographique alors que son père n'y voyait qu'un hobby. Il avait dédié son remake de West Side story à son père. Arnold venu sur le tournage mourut du covid avant la sortie du film. Sans qu'il n'y ait de dédicace, The Fabelmans s'impose comme une ode à la mère dont l'intime secret est révélé par un film de vacances. C'est une nouvelle fois la conscience du pouvoir des images.

  Avec son 34ème long-métrage, Spielberg goes home et reste au sommet de son art. Est-ce pour autant un chant du cygne ? Le réalisateur de Jurassic Park et Minority Report n'en est pas là. « Ne croyez rien de tout cela ! a-t-il affirmé alors qu'il planche déjà sur d'autres projets dont une nouvelle version de Bullitt avec Bradley Cooper.

Fabienne Bradfer dans Le Soir

[radcru-awesome]

Our Family Picture 2021

Awesome ! 100 plus likes on our Digital Practice page , thanks to all the support ! Our Construction (EDC) Every Day Carry When we Build , its like an Adventure, and in every adventure we always gear up , so here is a list of our every day carry on site construction Tribute to Indiana Jones all time classic adventure which my kids and I enjoyed. Nothing beats Harrison Ford and Hat. Enjoy , Learn and Build For Youtube Viewers https://youtu.be/iFiWtYlbR7E Click the link to view the video

[wh4thefnk]

https://www.tumblr.com/profoundpersoncollective/731286093733986304/of-course-alabama-and-hollywoods-biggest-pervert

I’m so glad someone posted the screenshots for this because I know I regularly bring up how he really did follow that 21 year fitness influencer with a double PhD in butt workouts and the male gaze (I am not shaming her, this is just the reality of her content - her account is still up btw) but it hits different seeing it. In September 2021, mind you, when he had likely already been entertaining his future wife for a while. And okay maybe he didn’t know how old she was (she still looks young imo) but it’s still so dumb to be doing these shenanigans on your professional work account at the big age of 40. Such lame loser sloppy vibes, I’m sorry to the Mr Baptista fans. 🥴

Gosh. And he knows how to use fake social media (Cru Jones) but there he was using his official instagram as Tinder allegedly… of course these ladies wouldn’t bother to look twice at a Cru Jones… but a Chris Evans? Mmm… maybe that was the whole point.

[sushantjaisy]

European Heat Wave IELTS Reading Answers: Let’s Prepare for IELTS With the Best Content!

If you are preparing for the IELTS reading answers, you need to go through this article to check out European heat wave IELTS reading answers. Let’s also get equipped with the knowledge about IELTS reading band score, IELTS online classes, IELTS reading, and the ethics to write IELTS reading answers. Let’s fetch the information from this article.

Also Read: The History of Glass: IELTS Reading Answer

European Heat Wave IELTS Reading AnswersIELTS Reading Answers Part One

IT WAS the summer, scientists now realize, when felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: global warming at last made itself unmistakably Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying of a trickle and thousands of heat- related deaths. But just how remarkable it is is only now becoming clean.

IELTS Reading Part Two

The three months of June, July and August were the warmest ever recorded in western and central Europe, with record national highs in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland as well as Britain. And they were the warmest by a very long way Over a great rectangular block of the earth stretching from west of Paris to northern Italy, taking in Switzerland and southern Germany, the average temperature for the summer months was 3.78°c above the long-term norm, said the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, which is one of the world’s lending institutions for the monitoring and analysis of temperature records.

Part Three

That excess might not seem a lot until you are aware of the context — but then you realize it is enormous. There is nothing like this in previous data, anywhere. It is considered so exceptional that Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s (Erector, is prepared to say openly — in a way few scientists have done before — that the 2003 extreme may be directly attributed, not to natural climate variability, but to global warming caused by human actions.

To read more, click here.

[snakebitebmx]

Head over to the site to read Lee Sultemeier's recap from Helltrack Fest that went down this past weekend in Texas

www.snakebitebmx.com/getting-loose-with-lee-helltrack-festival/

[themoviefort]

Episode 6: RAD with Hollywood Mike Miranda

It’s Hollywood Mike Miranda... up in the fort with Hollywood Mike Miranda! 

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The Movie Fort is back and I’m still pinching myself that this episode happened because BMX legend Hollywood Mike Miranda came up to the fort for a screening of the 1986 film RAD. 

Out of all the classic movies to come out of the 1980s, arguably no film has the cult following that RAD continues to have to this day, no matter what millennial pop culture writers claim. Yes, it was a box office bomb but found a thriving second life in video stores as millions of BMX obsessed kids around the country made it one of the top VHS rentals for several years running. (Back in the day, video rentals were charted like The Weekly Top 40 and RAD perpetually hovered near the top.) However, as VHS tapes gave way to DVDs and video stores were rendered extinct by streaming, RAD became a collector’s item that spawned a thriving bootleg market. Due various rights issues, it was never officially available on DVD until this year when a limited edition  4K restoration was released. (It immediately sold out and discs are going for $100+ on eBay.) 

But, in even better news, RAD is now available for digital rental or purchase on most streaming services. Click here to rent or buy on Amazon and watch along with us. 

Finding a copy of RAD on the shelf at your local video store was an ‘80s kid’s version of the winning the lottery because it was always rented out. 

The Two Greatest Showdowns of the ‘80s: Daniel LaRusso vs Johnny Lawrence and Cru Jones vs Bart Taylor.  While RAD remains a picture perfect time capsule when it comes to everything that was so ‘80s about the ‘80s, what makes it unique in the realm of sports movies is that outside of Cru, played by Bill Allen, and his rivals on Team Mongoose, 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Bart Conner and twin brothers Chad and Carey Hayes, the rest of the Helltrack field is filled out by the top BMX racers of the era playing themselves.  And Hollywood Mike Miranda was one of them. 

The Two Most Iconic Mustache Duos of the ‘80s: Thomas Magnum and his red Ferrari and Hollywood Mike Miranda and his pink Hutch. 

I’ve been fortunate to be friends with Hollywood for several years and the fact that he came over to our house to watch RAD still makes my brain short circuit as I write this. We’d been talking about doing a screening for months and it was such a memorable night that I want build a time machine to go back to 1986 and tell my younger self what we’re up to in 2020.  Before we fired up RAD, Hollywood and I watched the Dodgers beat the Angels. Along the way, we crushed a pizza and drank a few RAD themed amber ales from Alosta Brewing Company, a local brewery. And when those ran out, we may have drank a Modelo or two. 

The description on the can is a chef’s kiss of perfection and the koozie is one that RAD fans will appreciate.  When it came to the main event of watching RAD, Hollywood spun some fantastic tales about making film and what it was like to be in a movie directed by Hal Needham (you might know him as the director of Smokey and the Bandit and a slew of other classics).  

We also talked about being at ground zero for the creation of BMX when he was a kid growing up in California’s Inland Empire and the thrill of becoming friends with his childhood hero Evel Knievel. (Yes, that Evel Knievel. As if there’s another one.) 

And Hollywood’s story about Shaq and Bart Conner? It really happened.