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Legends never die, dude. I'll tell your story... There are many sides to Danny McBride: he’s starred as the iconic character Jesse Gemstone in the cult classic TV series The Righteous Gemstones, a show he also wrote and created—just as he did with Vice Principals and Eastbound & Down before...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

In this brutally honest, darkly funny, and deeply human memoir, paramedic Trevor Wain takes you through one full year on the job. Each day brings a new call, a new patient, and a fresh reminder that truth is always stranger than fiction. From tragic to ridiculous — cardiac arrests, collapses in supermarkets, patients who need help but don’t want it, and even the odd child with their finger stuck somewhere it definitely shouldn’t be — Trevor captures the raw, unfiltered reality of ambulance life.

Work is just life. And life is messy. For years, Jason and his maintenance crew pulled off a miracle. They kept a cancerous, ancient, rust-bucket of a machine running with a basic workaround, simply because the machine needed to run and the company refused to fix it. Every day they succeeded, they were rock stars. But the day the outcome slot machine finally spit out a loss, Jason was instantly labeled "uncaring," "lacking common sense," "willful and reckless," and "just plain stupid."