Scott Caldwell
@scottcaldwell
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Believer. Dad. Entrepreneur. Whisky drinker. Writer. Traveler. Film geek. Music lover. Web3 enthusiast. Eternal optimist.
Dallas, TX
Joined December 2008
@thomasfain @VailResorts Oops, TF, you included "and the striking ski patrol" on accident there! I'm sure you JUST meant to direct your complaint to @VailResorts, the publicly-traded company that owns & operates 42 mountain resorts in four countries and who brought in $2.89 BILLION in revenue last.
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@MuseZack Let alone a terrifying read of a 1903 Rudyard Kipling poem?!?. Give that trailer editor an Academy Award. .
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@ManMadeMoon @musingtrader @Photoshop Hell yes. SAAS is one of the single biggest SCOURGES of our modern era. Full stop. I am 100% on board with their desire for predictable revenue. I also recognize it takes 10s of thousands of man hours to update these products. By all means OFFER said option. But don’t force me!.
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@HockeyMomTired @thomasfain @VailResorts 100% agreed. Should easily be $30 for the value they provide. I mean, one daily lift ticket for an adult's over $300. So if @VailResorts would give up just one of those, they could boost 3 Ski Patrollers from $21 to $30 for a 10-hour shift! The math is comically low.
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@g_paul229 @martinezec76 @AbbiePetit @BrianneKohl Had an ex-girlfriend one time ask "What's the name of that 80s actor? He was all messed up on drugs and got clean and now he's in that robot movie with @GwynethPaltrow?". Answer: @RobertDowneyJr . 'That robot movie with Gwyneth Paltrow.' Best description of Iron Man, EVER.
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@suchnerve Next it'll be fire-fighters. And they'll want to offer a Freemium model where if you call 911 to report a fire you have to listen to 3 commericals before they'll connect you to a dispatcher, but for just $89.99/mo you can get Fire Production+. .
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@gordon_stayton @thomasfain @VailResorts Fair question! Well, contrary to my beliefs growing up, Ski Patrol is not—in fact—a bunch of zany twenty-something ski bums constnatly involved in shenanigans!. Ski Patrol's actually responsible for ensuring the safety of skiers/boarders on the mountain by providing emergency
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@SwannMarcus89 I mean, if they can't read the label as "Hydrogen Peroxide" rather than "bleach" then the odds of them catching her reference to his widely-publicized kinks is probably understandable. Although, Rachel probably should have gone with a UV light reference for safety. 😏.
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@jimsamthomp @thomasfain @VailResorts 100%. And for first-responders on skis? It's honestly insulting.
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@EJH_Jr @pisa_lisa @blackelizathorn But also still deferential to those cultural norms and traditions in a small, subtle, but important way (for those who DO care about such things).
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@willahmed Have you seen his trucks? I don't think the guy in charge is worried too terribly about "design principles" at the moment. .
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@jtbthought I mean, there's a strong case to be made that @sethmeyers told jokes so good he changed who the the president was going to be in 2016. and he's been put in a @LateNightSeth Closer Look purgatory ever since, for his crimes. .
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@Goji_Saurus I mean, two VERY different tracks, but I'd say they're both winning the game they wanna play. I don't know why it has to be either/or.
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@emilykmay Woof. Yeah, yesterday was my stepkids' 10th Birthday. Met 'em when they were 3. Haven't seen them since May, haven't talked to them in a month, wasn't allowed to communicate. Broken.
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@MuseZack It will never NOT melt my brain that we went from the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 to the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Only 66 YEARS between this article in The NY Times (9 weeks prior to the Wright Bros 1st flight!) & “That’s one small step for man…”
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@Douggernaut_2 “Never more than 12” is just a thermonuclear bomb of dialogue. Gets me amped EVERY TIME.
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@VodkaMuse I thought it was more of a CTRL+ALT+DEL situation that just reset her mood. Or is that the move where you add a pinky to the mix? 😏.
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@emilykmay AND doin it cuz his bro's name was sullied with a hateful slur on account of the woman he's dating. "Say it in the street it's a knock out." 🤷🏻♂️. People gettin REAL comfy saying whatever nonsense comes into their mind, and thinking a running camera prevents any accountability. .
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@KevinMKruse @mrbobodenkirk Seconded. Geez. MY blood pressure spiked this week on account of this!.
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@dieworkwear This is a people who have been accepting different actors on television from Darrin on Betwitched, through Becky Conner on Roseanne, and Aunt Viv on Fresh Prince, up through Marty McFly and Dumbledore. Keen powers of observation aren't necessarily our forte.
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@brendengallager Seriously. The man gave us Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo, and Air. Two of those he wrote! Along with Good Will Hunting and The Last Duel. And they want to reduce him to a Boston bro at every turn. No wonder he drinks.
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@TristanSnell I will never forgive Garland for just SQUANDERING the last 4 years. Complete dereliction of duty.
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@mehdirhasan @mehdirhasan, we've been over this! FIRST they're going to replace the Affordable Care Act with something so much better. THEN we've got to get through Infrastructure Week. Then, HOPEFULLY, his tax returns will finally be cleared for release. That should clear the docket for his.
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@YNB I mean, there was less "wall" talk this time, but how the threat of mass deportations doesn't inspire some degree of outrage and support or comments about Puerto Rico is beyond me!.
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@NycAuntie @LaurelieGylmaur @webdevjeffus @itskatemcgate @TOtstot @BrianneKohl If I’m ever President, expect an executive order by which, upon a child’s birth, a tribunal must be convened made up of: 1) family member, 2) close friend & 3) coworker or neighbor (collectively representing the 3 strata the child will operate in). They must unanimously approve!.
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@BillBrasky2620 Is he mansplaining green screen performance to the woman who’s been in the MCU 4 years and 3 movies more than he has?. Not to mention 8-Legged Freaks, The Island, The Spirit, Jungle Book, Lucy, & Ghost in the FREAKING Shell…?!? Bro. 🤦🏻♂️.
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@pattymo And let’s give respect to my man Alan Tudyk for turning in another classic character role.
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@ArmandDoma Look, it's ONE thing to explain condoms, Plan B, ovulation predictor strips, pregnancy tests, paternity test kits, prenatal vitamins, testosterone supplements, male performance enhancement pills, horny goat weed, feminine deoderant sprays, feminine wipes, hair removal cream, wax.
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@lawindsor Not to mention Orrin Hatch, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, & Sheldon Adelson's WIFE! I mean, come the hell on. 🙄. I'll always love that both Bill Belichick, AND Dolly Parton declined the award from him though. 😂.
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@StephenKing And ironic choice of memes considering only one candidate has worn clown makeup and helped McDonald's sell french fries in the last few weeks. .
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@memilies I mean, to be fair, we're just taking our turn. There was like a 30-year run where the above applied to Bond. She's catching the 40+ midlife crisis version where he's navel-gazing, reckoning with his own mortality (& late-stage empire collapse). American spies are in our prime!.
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@RichardERoeper @nytimes Thank you Richard. I for one would have her evicted from the theater. Same as talking, or being on your phone. I didn't buy a ticket to your karaoke session. She can wait for the "Sing-along" special screening rerelease, or the alternate release on Disney+/Hulu/Max! 😒.
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@LukeBarnett Also, time to reset the pricing. Like, I know inflation's rough, but you can't charg $16/$18/$22/ticket and $9 for a bucket of popcorn and expect people to come in droves. You can BUY a digital movie for $25 or less, own it forever, and watch it with as many people as you want. .
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@cstegman Haha, amen. If I look HALF as good as @Ernie_Hudson when I hit 78 (taking into account the already melanin-deprived disadvantage), I will consider it a colossal success! 🦾.
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@NC_Skins_WFT @thomasfain @VailResorts Always! When in doubt, blame the voiceless unwashed masses without access to a PR team.
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@KevinMKruse Weeeell, THIS is awkward. They say never meet your heroes. I guess having your heroes eavesdrop on your mom & her estate planning conversations should probably be added to the list.
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@MikeDrucker I think he should start a podcast. Give him 2 years of aww, shucks earnestness, a few hundred rounds of Madden or Jet Set or Crazy Taxi. and a few million dollars of DNC backing behind it. and maybe by the next cycle Rogan won't be the only kingmaker!.
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@followme202here @thomasfain @VailResorts 🙄 I'm sorry I didn't take the time to review their Q3 earnings report and do a more detailed analysis of their P&L. I'm clearly using it as a short-hand to indicate the size of the company. The ticker's MTN, I'm sure you can find whatever KPIs you require there.
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@BOOMERANG_117 This industry is hard on women, they "age out" so quickly. I guess the studio's hedging their bets with someone who's looked exactly the same for the last 20 years. .
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@meg_bowman @gordon_stayton @thomasfain @VailResorts Oh for sure, there's a whole deep-dive exposé waiting to happen on the shoddy living conditions the whole thing is built on. .
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@hutchinson But sure, let's get rid of @PeteButtigieg and give the Road Rules All-Star guy a shot at it. .
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@TayMc7 @thomasfain @VailResorts Haha, I mean, I think they're basically THERE, right?!? 😂. But @VailResorts' real estate investment team right now.
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@joshgad Did I miss the part where Democrats ACTUALLY talk about taking guns away from people? Pretty sure reasonable background checks, not allowing violent offenders to get them, closing gun show loopholes, etc are more about PREVENTING access, not a takeback.
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@6seasonspodcast I’m not gonna lie, as a very clearly white person, if @ImKeithDavid offered a subscription where he would encourage me on a semi-regular basis, I’d probably break my wrist trying to get my wallet out so fast….
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@hankgreen Petty English major, but that might have been the thing I hated most about our post-9/11 politics, having to hear 43 just absolutley BUTCHER that word. Nuclear. New-klee-urr. Anything else is nails on a chalkboard.
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@GinaIppy Wait, you mean Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl?" From 1983's masterpiece An Innocent Man?. They thought it had "sinister vibes"?!? THAT song?!? Yeah, they deserved to be blocked. And for history to forget their name.
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@ArmandDoma That is a NEXT LEVEL, 3D CHESS, JEDI MIND TRICK turn of phrase if I ever herad one. .
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@JoJoFromJerz Don Jr: "Daaaad! I can't get rid of Kimmy. She's too much a part of the organization at this point. Make her go away!!!". Mandarin Mussolini: "No problem, I've got just the thing. ".
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@YNB @washingtonpost @latimes Even Woodward cares more about timing it for a book release than letting the American people know while it's happening. 😒.
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@mmpadellan I will be wrestling with the results of this election for the rest of my days I suspect.
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@UniversalExile Perfect tweet. No notes. I feel like there's also a (c)rook joke in there somewhere, but my head's too tired to crack it.
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@RedDragon733 I do still wish they'd give Sam a proper serum upgrade. The things he's able to do with the wing suit, and now with the shield, just keep expanding exponentially it feels like. So it loses some of the "grounded" nature of the earlier films. He fully embodies the heart though!.
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@antistyle @thomasfain @VailResorts Well, I wouldn't go THAT far! I don't know the guy. And while it's easy to pile on for anyone who's complaining about their "Vail experience," for all I know he went with his grandpa 40 years ago when it wasn't what it is today, and he's been saving 10 years to afford to go back.
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@PhilipRalph9 Oh, @parksandrec for sure! First season was ok, but a little uneven and trying too hard to ride the Office vibe. Retooled by Season 2 and that show was an absolute banger the rest of the way.
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@etkralicesi I also love how the whole animation is done in the same style as the Scott Free production studio logo reveal. And featured a MUCH better Gladiator II title treatment!.
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@JoshMalina Damn you @JoshMalina, don’t you GET my hopes up! I adore Sports Night and would LOVE another season of some kind. It was the 1-2 punch of SN & Dead Poets that made me a lifetime @MrJoshCharles fan, & cemented my Sorkin devotion. I’d love to see Casey & Dan behind the desk again….
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@DisavowTrump20 That'd be amazing. But could it really happen?!. I personally like the Biden steps down immediately "for health reasons." She becomes 47th president. We still get to chalk it as a win for progress, and we ruin all of the tangerine tyrant's merch in the process. .
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@isaiah_bb How are you handling the end of that friendship? It must be hard to lose someone close like that just before the holidays.
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@MoragMitchell3 Bueautifully put. I've read this before, but it's proven no less accurate with time!. And all of that leads me to feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I encounter someone who still supports him or identifies with him. It's bafflling on a level I can barely articulate. The next.
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@SahilBloom @elonmusk Isn’t that too low a bar though? Like, I have 100 bots, even 1000, and I get them all verified, can’t I monetize the crap out of that if I’m focused on shady efforts? What’s a few thousand bucks if I’m gaming a multimillion NFT drop… or toppling a democracy?.
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PARENTS! PSA: Lookin for something good to watch tonight? Might I suggest My Dad the Bounty Hunter? Voice cast led by @lazofficial, @YNB, @jamiechung1 (w/ @RobRiggle among others) is outstanding, soundtrack is bangin, writing is great, & themes are universal!
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@BenjaminCrew1 DUE. TO. PIRACY. @wbpictures & @warnerbros employees… you know what you need to do. Be on the right side of history….
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@benphillips76 I love that they brought it into SNL though. Brilliant timing! Mulaney killed it on that one.
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@TheCinesthetic That orange-skinned old guy who was in Home Alone 2? EVERYTHING he touches just goes to hell.
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@Markness @thomasfain @VailResorts I mean, that's kinda like saying "If cruisers had known there was a hurricane, they wouldn't have spent a fortune on a cabin. ". 1) Blame @VailResorts. The company can did $2.89B in revenue last year, and they've been able to afford $1.59B in stock buybacks & dividends the last.
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@CurlyMcNulty Well 2003 also had Bad Santa, which is a stone cold classic for adults. But I'd say 2011's Arthur Christmas is great, 2019's Klaus on Netflix is excellent. And even the 2018 Grinch (form Illumination) has gotten decent penetration. Although none have probably eclipsed Elf or LA!.
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@OjisanKaichou @thomasfain @VailResorts Interesting, but not accurate. If we went SUPER back of the napkin math, and say that Ski Patrollers make $50,000/yr each, which is rounding up (average per ZipRecruiter seems like it's more like $48,750). Then, let's say there are 300 of them, which seems to be pretty close to.
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@emilykmay 3-almost 10. Logged more hours with them (other than last 8 months) than either biological parent, and would have passed up their bio dad (for total time since birth) in only another year or so. Gutted already, can't imagine how much worse it would've been in another 3 years. 😮💨.
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@OnyxAurelius @jtbthought @sethmeyers @LateNightSeth Oh, I'm sure that's what Seth tells himself before bed each night. Helps keep the night terrors away. I mean, we'll never know, so no point in arguing about it.
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@ThatAldenDiaz SWAGGER. FOR. DAYS. Good lord, Put Ke Huy Quan in everything. From now on. The Quanaissance has been such a delight to witness. ❤️👏🏻.
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@cassiesrey 100%. Absolutely pitch perfect. I thought her show was a delight, and she was one of the best things about The Marvels. I hope she gets time to shine in a Young Avengers vehicle of some kind.
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@ManMadeMoon I dunno who I first saw post it, but I REALLY wish we'd remake BAD movies. Like, how many HUNDREDS of films had a banger of a premise but were just either sloppily written, edited to death by committee, in the hands of the wrong director, or just weighed down by budget issues?.
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@whstancil Just a TOTAL pass. He'll drop that utterly deranged word salad, and the headlne will read:. "Trump Outlines Challenges With Retail Category Nomenclature Amidst Concerns of Rising Prices".
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Not too late to up your reading game this year. Charlie Munger has 20 picks. http://t.co/m2QtGUnBPh via @FarnamStreet.
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@MaximShtraus @thomasfain @VailResorts Did you miss the part where this is the result of MONTHS of stalled negotiations? They were talking about this in October!. None of them WANTED this strike. But when the multibillion dollar conglomerate won't play ball for months on end, that's what strikes are for. .
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@thedigitalyenta Just spitballing here, but has anyone seen what @mackenziescott's up to today?.
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@jtlevy Kinda like when they were called “Indulgences” & the Catholic Church used to sell them back in the Middle Ages. EXACTLY as the Founders intended! 🙄😉.
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@followme202here @thomasfain @VailResorts Here's their last filing, you can go crazy. Regardless, the idea is that they can absorb a $2/hourly increase in Ski Patrol wages. Especially if Vail Resorts could afford $1.59 BILLION in stock buybacks & cash dividends over the past three fiscal years. .
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@lawindsor I swear, if I see ONE "This was the moment when he became presidential" post in 2025 I will BURN. IT. ALL. DOWN.
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