BeauBenken's Fireside Chats

[dshans]

Well, now I'm using Alan Page and Sean Cwynar, anymore examples?

How many do you feel you need? The landscape is scattered with "eligible" Irish football players who have made a mark beyond and outside of football.

 

[Walter White]

Chinedum Ndukwe

Chinedum Ndukwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://nuwayfoundation.org/pdfs/bio_CNdukwe.pdf

 

[Walter White]

Mike Anello-
Working for General Catalyst, a venture capital and growth equity firm in Boston.

Building on his experience with St. Baldrick’s Foundation at Notre Dame, Anello put together an event in Boston. With the assistance of several ND alums—and even a few former BC football players—the event was a huge success, raising more than $30,000 to help fight children’s cancers.

Anello still competing in life after football | Inside the Irish

 

[BeauBenken]

Find the ones you can't live without and hold them close this holiday season. So many people I'm blessed to have met and be involved with including so many of you. I'm very happy to be acquainted with all of you.

So remember that Christmas is a celebration of the good in the world. Put behind you your worries and troubles for just 24 hours and love your family, your friends, and your fellow man.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season!

 

[Old Man Mike]

A statement so outrageous that Beau deserves to be shunned for all IE awards.

Happy Holidays and Blessings to Everybody.



* well, I TRIED to use italics for sentence one, but.... Leprechauns again.

 

[chicago51]

Find the ones you can't live without and hold them close this holiday season. So many people I'm blessed to have met and be involved with including so many of you. I'm very happy to be acquainted with all of you.

So remember that Christmas is a celebration of the good in the world. Put behind you your worries and troubles for just 24 hours and love your family, your friends, and your fellow man.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season!

This^ Reps to You

Merry Christmas. God Bless

 

[Irish Insanity]

Find the ones you can't live without and hold them close this holiday season. So many people I'm blessed to have met and be involved with including so many of you. I'm very happy to be acquainted with all of you.

So remember that Christmas is a celebration of the good in the world. Put behind you your worries and troubles for just 24 hours and love your family, your friends, and your fellow man.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season!

Phenominal post.

A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you!

 

[ohara831]

A terrific post, indeed! May everyone here have a Blessed Christmas Holiday and a Happy New Year!

 

[BeauBenken]

Still love these young men and this program despite the outcome tonight.

Prayers to Kap and any other banged up warriors.

Thank you to all the seniors and players leaving for everything you've done.

To all the returning players, the offseason starts now.

Go Irish.

 

[BeauBenken]

The Builder

The Builder

I saw them tearing a building down --
A team of men in my hometown.

With a heave and a ho and a yes yes yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.

And I said to the foreman, "Are these men skilled?
"Like the ones you'd use if you had to build?"

And he laughed and said, "Oh no, indeed.
"The most common labor is all I need.

"For I can destroy in a day or two
"What takes a builder ten years to do."

So I thought to myself as I went on my way...
Which one of these roles am I willing to play?

Am I the one who is tearing down
As I carelessly make my way around?

Or am I the one who builds with care,
To make the world better because I was there?

 

[Old Man Mike]

Beau, nice poetic sentiment, and almost a mantra of the intelligent sector of the environmental community. VERY tough to be a creator/builder when you are not only doing the more difficult build-vs-destroy work, but almost impossible if you're trying to do something which has conventionality, therefore regulation and fear, arrayed against you.

Keep up your spirit. Do something that makes you feel like your day was worth while each day. Even the "losses" are easier to absorb then. I was a teacher. That was one "accepted" way.

 

[BeauBenken]

I was a co-anchor on a sports radio show that covers Delaware County sports tonight. It was pretty fun. It was a basketball game which is admittedly not my forte, but I know enough.

Apparently I did a "hands down" better job than the previous co-anchors and will likely be asked back multiple times.

 

[Fbolt]

congrats

 

[Andy in Sactown]

I was a co-anchor on a sports radio show that covers Delaware County sports tonight. It was pretty fun. It was a basketball game which is admittedly not my forte, but I know enough.

Apparently I did a "hands down" better job than the previous co-anchors and will likely be asked back multiple times.

Good job Beau!

 

[BGIF]

I was a co-anchor on a sports radio show that covers Delaware County sports tonight. It was pretty fun. It was a basketball game which is admittedly not my forte, but I know enough.

Apparently I did a "hands down" better job than the previous co-anchors and will likely be asked back multiple times.

Lookout Dickie V!

Hear Comes Beau!

 

[BobD]

I was a co-anchor on a sports radio show that covers Delaware County sports tonight. It was pretty fun. It was a basketball game which is admittedly not my forte, but I know enough.

Apparently I did a "hands down" better job than the previous co-anchors and will likely be asked back multiple times.

 

[BeauBenken]

Hah While it's a small business currently and volunteer work as of now, they plan to sell lots of advertising out this season. And they'd pay me 50 bucks a game as a regular.

I was willing to do this free and just for fun, but 50 dollars a game? Hell yea! haha

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Talented and rich too!

 

[ohara831]

Congrats! I know you will do a terrific job!

 

[BleedBlueGold]

20 "Big Lebowski" Facts That Will Make You Love This Movie Even More

 

[BeauBenken]

My family owns a small business. Could anybody point me in the direction of a non-biased coverage of what Obamacare is and how it will affect us?

 

[Whiskeyjack]

My family owns a small business. Could anybody point me in the direction of a non-biased coverage of what Obamacare is and how it will affect us?

This was posted 11 months ago on reddit, but it remains the best unbiased explanation of the PPACA I've ever seen.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Thank you, Whiskey; very comprehensive coverage of topics there.

 

[Mr. McGibblets]

If I had the power to do so, I would re-open the thread titled "Geographic Coincidence" from a year ago prior to the OU game. I was rolling. Many solid Picture posts and a Kevin Bacon reference.

 

[irishog77]

If I had the power to do so, I would re-open the thread titled "Geographic Coincidence" from a year ago prior to the OU game. I was rolling. Many solid Picture posts and a Kevin Bacon reference.

That was a thing of beauty!

Although, how did this one escape scrutiny:

So, Bob Williams went to high school in Wilkes Barre, PA - Rocket Ismail went to high school in Wilkes Barre, PA - Rocket played for Lou Holtz at ND - Lou Holtz had a part in The Blind Side with Sondra Bullock - Sondra Bullock was in Loverboy with Kevin Bacon.

I don't remember either one of them in that flick. I remember Dempsey bangin' cougs to pay his college tuition, him almost bangin' his mom, his girlfriend finding out about him bangin' cougs, his girlfriend ultimately being alright with him bangin' cougs in the end, Mel from "Mel's Diner" trying to whip Dempsey's @ss, Dempsey minoring in Japanese, and a gay waiter at his parents' anniversary party offering up a "Frosty Beverage." But I don't remember Sandra Bullock or Kevin Bacon.

 

[Irish#1]

That was a thing of beauty!

Although, how did this one escape scrutiny:



I don't remember either one of them in that flick. I remember Dempsey bangin' cougs to pay his college tuition, him almost bangin' his mom, his girlfriend finding out about him bangin' cougs, his girlfriend ultimately being alright with him bangin' cougs in the end, Mel from "Mel's Diner" trying to whip Dempsey's @ss, Dempsey minoring in Japanese, and a gay waiter at his parents' anniversary party offering up a "Frosty Beverage." But I don't remember Sandra Bullock or Kevin Bacon.

I'm pretty sure neither were in that movie.

 

[Mr. McGibblets]

Actor Paul Walker was killed in a car accident this evening.

 

[peoriairish]

Because there is a lot of speculation going around......
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Per Paul Walker's rep, he did pass away tonight. <a href="http://t.co/Lt4ea5NzSE">http://t.co/Lt4ea5NzSE</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/abcnews">@abcnews</a></p>— Tom Loy (@TomLoy247) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomLoy247/statuses/406988667362607104">December 1, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[BeauBenken]

Confused why this ended up in my thread, but that's truly a shame.

 

[peoriairish]

Confused why this ended up in my thread, but that's truly a shame.

Because we've missed you Beau. We've missed you and are trying to grab your attention.