Mission Forge / Mission Park / 51 degrees / NW 1 mph / 86% Humidity
It was such a privilege to Q our newest F3 Omaha AO: Mission Forge! Where you can get your two favorite things together! A smoke and a pancake? No. A Smurph and a beatdown!
The Q hit the intro with only minor stumbling. Today is May 16, 2022, which is the anniversary of the FIRST Academy Awards ceremony – May 16, 1929. So, we will have Oscar Burpee Trivia: Question #1:
Martin Scorsese won his first and only Oscar for Best Director in 2006 for this movie.
One PAX was all over this faster than you could say CHOWDAH!
A: The Departed
Bobby Hurleys x 7
Mosey to the south soccer fields for…
WoR:
Sun Gods x 20
Imperial walkers x 20
Tappy Taps x 20
Big Ones x 20 sec (max mumble chatter)
Plank / Pigeon
29 SSH IC (only the first 16 out loud; the others silently because all of the movies at the 1st Oscars were silent movies)
Like the Best Picture category, there are too many nominees for PAX that wanted to do a few extra burpees today…
Burpees x 5
(For those keeping track at home, yes, 5 Burpees + 16 SSH out loud + 29 SSH total = 5/16/29)
Mosey to the north soccer fields for…
Pre Thang: Of Merkins and Men
From mid-field, we murder bunnied to the end of the field and did
Merkins x 20
The we murder bunnied back and did
LBCs x 20 IC
Rinse and Repeat x 2
Programming note: Hard Hat wins the Oscar for Best Murder Bunny. We like him, we really like him, so he led us in 20 LBCs for his acceptance speech…
Q#2:
Only three movies have ever won what is known as THE BIG FIVE Academy Awards (categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay). Name the movie that won The Big Five in 1991.
Some clever guesses…But we were silent when it came to the correct answer:
A: Silence of the Lambs
Burpees x 7
Mosey to the pull up bars for
Tha Thang: Say Any–Thang
Count off in Groups of 3
One Pax with get a coupon and Cusack (holding a coupon above your head like it’s a boombox) from your group to the pull up bars. 10 pull ups (or 5 Blockees) and Cusack back to push the next PAX member in your group.
Perform these exercises and talk about your favorite movies:
⁃ Air Squats
⁃ Monkey Humpers
⁃ Big Boys
Around this time I could hear Ozark serenading the PAX with his best Peter Gabriel! T-Claps!
⁃ Heels to Heaven
⁃ Dry Docks
⁃ Diamond Merkins
⁃ Bobby Hurleys
⁃ Alternating Lunges
We made it to here when we called Omaha,. In our group, we had a fun time talking about Pulp Fiction (the Q’s favorite), that time Rowdy met Adam Sandler, great movies, and classic scenes…
⁃ Bonnie Blairs
⁃ E2K (right elbow)
⁃ E2K (left elbow)
⁃ Merkins
⁃ Mahktar Ndjayes
⁃ SSH
⁃ Burpees
Q#3:
Only two movie sequels have won Best Picture. Most recently, the Lord of the Rings won in 2003. What was the first movie sequel to win best picture in 1974?
Ozark made the PAX an offer they couldn’t refuse: No burpees.
A:The Godfather Part II
Bobby Hurley’s x7
6MOM:
Beast Mode 30 seconds / Alt. Knee Taps x 20 / plank 30 seconds / Gator Spears x 20 / chilcut 30 seconds / gator tails x 20
Mosey back to the ShovelFlags
Q#4:
This movie has the most swear words in it of any other Best Picture Nominee, including 550 F-bombs.
Band Camp got this %#@! right!
A: The Wolf of Wall Street
Bobby Hurley’s x 7
Countarama: 24
Then Ozark made the Q an offer he couldn’t refuse: A trivia question!
What was the first Best Picture winner that had an Nc-17 rating?
Hmmm… My first guess was The Exorcist…. Ozark then said I was in the right time frame… The French Connection? Then he said 1969 and it hit me like a cab in the middle of the street: Midnight Cowboy!
COT
Like an Oscar speech that gets serious out of nowhere, I told the PAX I wanted to talk about a recent tragedy in my neighborhood. A teenager recently died of a fentanyl overdose on my street. In my previous job, I worked these kinds of drug cases and the story here was an all too familiar one.
After speaking with people about this tragedy and the dangers of this horrible drug, I realized that most people are unaware of how serious a problem this is for our community. They don’t know that fentanyl is in our community and our young people are overdosing.
Overdoes deaths in the US are at an all time high. This is primarily due to fentanyl. This is different from the opioid crisis we have seen before – where prescription drugs get sold on the street or are otherwise abused. With fentanyl, most of it comes from overseas and is made with homemade pill press machines. There is no quality control, so no one knows how much fentanyl is actually in each pill. It takes only 2 milligrams – about the weight of the tip of a pencil – to cause an overdose. Law enforcement estimates that half of all the fentanyl pills contain a lethal dose.
It’s also incredibly addictive. Users have to constantly stay high or they have withdrawal symptoms. This causes them not to eat. Not to sleep. And do whatever they can to get their next fix.
This unbelievably dangerous drug is here. It’s In our community, in our schools, it’s in our neighborhoods, and it’s on our street. Teens can get it very easily now.
Talk to your neighbors, your friends, your family, and anyone that knows a teenager. This danger is unprecedented and we as HIM need to protect our community.
Cheap Seats graciously took us out in prayer.
With Gratitude,
Gator