John Royal
@johnroyal.bsky.social
Attorney, Reformed Sports Writer, Uncle
https://johnroyal.substack.com
https://johnroyal.substack.com
I know Alabama/Auburn is the big game, but the USC/UCLA game is a beautifully gorgeous uniform matchup.
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I know Alabama/Auburn is the big game, but the USC/UCLA game is a beautifully gorgeous uniform matchup.
No ESPN, no. I don’t have to consider a 3-loss UT team as a playoff team. It’s bad enough Notre Dame is a shoo-in, but that doesn’t mean I have to now consider a team that lost to Florida.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
No ESPN, no. I don’t have to consider a 3-loss UT team as a playoff team. It’s bad enough Notre Dame is a shoo-in, but that doesn’t mean I have to now consider a team that lost to Florida.
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Steve Sarkisian is about to do some politicking that will put Mack Brown to shame.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Steve Sarkisian is about to do some politicking that will put Mack Brown to shame.
So the question is: Are Aggies gonna Aggie or is Sark gonna Sark?
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
So the question is: Are Aggies gonna Aggie or is Sark gonna Sark?
Dear Kirk Herbstreit, please SHUT UP when the official is talking, especially when the official is calling out the penalty. You have the entire rest of the game to spout off your nonsense.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Dear Kirk Herbstreit, please SHUT UP when the official is talking, especially when the official is calling out the penalty. You have the entire rest of the game to spout off your nonsense.
MRI machines terrify me. So of course I had to get an MRI this week. open.substack.com/pub/johnroya...
Tom Cruise May Have Dove From 120 Feet and Held His Breath for Six Minutes, But I Survived a MRI, So Who's the Big Shot Now, Tom? Huh?
or, it's Medical Test Time Again
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
MRI machines terrify me. So of course I had to get an MRI this week. open.substack.com/pub/johnroya...
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Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can all focus on the more important things, like acknowledging that Die Hard is a Christmas movie
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can all focus on the more important things, like acknowledging that Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Hey! Hey! LBJ! Have you seen this @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social?
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
LBJ & the Great Society - Ken Burns
This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to occupy the White House. A figure of extraordin...
kenburns.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Hey! Hey! LBJ! Have you seen this @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social?
I'm not a Eagles fan, but damn it, did you have to blow a 21-point to the Cowboys?
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm not a Eagles fan, but damn it, did you have to blow a 21-point to the Cowboys?
God, these Fox Sports announcers working this UH/TCU game are awful.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
God, these Fox Sports announcers working this UH/TCU game are awful.
Mayor Whitmire must be pissed off about this.
Following a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal granted a temporary restraining order. Emmanuel could go home. bit.ly/44fzJ7M
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Mayor Whitmire must be pissed off about this.
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
Trump is going to demand that Roger Goodell cancel Monday Night Football.
Oh hell yeah an ad from jeffrey Epstein’s victims saying release the files is airing during Monday night football!
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump is going to demand that Roger Goodell cancel Monday Night Football.
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Terrible day to be literate
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Terrible day to be literate
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My only takeaway from Georgia-Texas is Sark always looks like he has just been informed the FBI is downstairs.
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
My only takeaway from Georgia-Texas is Sark always looks like he has just been informed the FBI is downstairs.
This is a really fun story on "Half and Catch Fire," a series set in Texas computer industry in the early-80s that aired back in the 2010s. Hunt it down and watch if you can find it.
for our "Texas Canon" series, I wrote about Halt and Catch Fire, the underrated AMC show about the '80s Dallas tech boom, and how it reminds us of why we were optimistic about tech in the first place: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
One of TV's most underrated shows gave Texas' tech past its due
Texas rarely gets the prestige treatment. One AMC drama pulled it off.
www.chron.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is a really fun story on "Half and Catch Fire," a series set in Texas computer industry in the early-80s that aired back in the 2010s. Hunt it down and watch if you can find it.
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I hereby apologize to Eyes Wide Shut for thinking it was hyperbolic
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I hereby apologize to Eyes Wide Shut for thinking it was hyperbolic
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These girls were misled and abused by powerful men who thought that the rules didn’t apply to them, that they could get away with anything. There should be justice.
Release the files.
Release the files.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
These girls were misled and abused by powerful men who thought that the rules didn’t apply to them, that they could get away with anything. There should be justice.
Release the files.
Release the files.
Wait, is that New York Jets owner Woody Johnson mentioned in this email exchange?
2017: Jonathan Farkas emailing w/ Epstein about "seeing" someone, then mentioning his wife, Somers, who got an appointment from Trump to the White House Fellowship Commission.
Epstein warns Farkas about the other woman.
2025: Somers Farkas was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Malta in October.
Epstein warns Farkas about the other woman.
2025: Somers Farkas was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Malta in October.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Wait, is that New York Jets owner Woody Johnson mentioned in this email exchange?
Am I wrong in assuming that "Kaslowitz" is really supposed to be "Kasowitz"? If so , it's always weird when my old law firm pops up in Trump-adjacent email dumps.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Am I wrong in assuming that "Kaslowitz" is really supposed to be "Kasowitz"? If so , it's always weird when my old law firm pops up in Trump-adjacent email dumps.
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But Whitmire’s version of “keeping Houston safe” looks a lot like selling out the people of Houston for political convenience.
This is what happens when your biggest concern is pleasing the powerful instead of protecting the vulnerable.
This is what happens when your biggest concern is pleasing the powerful instead of protecting the vulnerable.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
But Whitmire’s version of “keeping Houston safe” looks a lot like selling out the people of Houston for political convenience.
This is what happens when your biggest concern is pleasing the powerful instead of protecting the vulnerable.
This is what happens when your biggest concern is pleasing the powerful instead of protecting the vulnerable.
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