Thursday October 14: Daily Links

THURSDAY 10.14


NEWS STORIES

 



Firefighters Concerned About Fire Danger to Ronald Regan's Home

The ranch that was once called the Western White House in Santa Barbara was evacuated due to a nearby wildfire and fire crews rushed to protect the Reagan ranch.

Did anybody tell them that Reagan is already dead?

Read more at deadline.


TSA Says a Lot More People Are Showing Up at Airports With Guns

The TSA says that so far this year, they’ve confiscated 4,650 firearms at checkpoints. Most of them were loaded. That’s already topped the full year record for 2019 showing that incidents are on the rise.

This would only work for the nonstop Texas to Miami flights.

Read more at CNN


Walmart, FedEx, UPS to Operate 24/7

The White House says that “three of the largest goods carriers in the country, Walmart, FedEx and UPS, will make commitments towards moving to 24/7, working during off peak hours,” a senior administration official said. The plan is meant to alleviate supply chain bottlenecks that are causing shortages of everything everywhere.

This is great news for coke dealers everywhere

Read more at The Hill


Prince Williams Wants Super Rich To Focus On Earth Not Space

In a recent interview, Prince William said that our great minds should be “trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live”. Amazon has already repaired the planet with 2 day shipping, now it’s time to bring that to Mars.

Read more at the BBC.



SPORTS



JR Smith Stepped on a Beehive While Golfing

Former NBA champ J.R. Smith had to leave the game during his first college golf tournament. While looking for his ball he found a nest of angry bees instead.

Are you okay honey?

Read more at NY Post


Marc Cuban Won't Tolerate Unvaxxed Players

The Mavericks owner says people want him to shut up about the vaccine, but he has no plans on being silent.

“If you work for me, I require my employees to be vaccinated, unless there’s a doctor’s reason where they can’t be. Like you, I don’t want my kids to be at risk. So the consequences of you not being vaccinated is I’m not gonna shut the fuck up. I’m gonna be in your motherfucking ear driving you motherfucking crazy.

Hey, how bout trading for Kyrie?

Read more at Mediaite.


LeBron's Media Company Is Worth $725 Million

LeBron James just sold a minority stake in his media company that brings its valuation to $725 million. Guess we’re gonna have another half dozen Space Jam sequels coming our way and the creation of the SJU.

Read more at Axios.


James Harden Weighs In On Kyrie Situation

James Harden was asked about the situation with the Nets and Kyrie and he…didn’t seem thrilled.


Raiders Conspiracy: Is The NFL Trying To Oust Mark Davis?

One Twitter user is throwing this out there: the NFL wants Mark Davis OUT of their owners club and the leaked Gruden emails are all a part of that plan – mainly due to how much the league hated his dad. Billionaires must also hate bad haircuts.

Read the Tweet on Twitter.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



The Internet is Crazy About This Robin Williams Impression

Canadian actor Jamie Costas created a YouTube video of what looks like a scene from a Robin Williams biopic. It’s got people hungry for a real biopic and they like Costas for the lead.

Yeah, it’s great to see what Robin Williams would be like if he wasn’t funny and had no charisma.

Read more at etcanada.


Howie Mandel Fainted at Starbucks

The comedy and AGT star passed out at a Woodland Hills Starbucks in LA. Paramedics brought Howie to a nearby hospital.

It was either low blood sugar, or sticker shock at the price of a latte.

Read more at people.com


Mick Jagger Sang Karaoke in Nashville

While hanging out in Nashville, the Rolling Stones frontman crashed a bachelorette party and sang karaoke, completely unnoticed. Just a week ago Mick hung out in another small bar without anyone recognizing him.

“I went to Printers Alley and sang ‘Honky Tonk Women’ in a karaoke bar. I crashed a bachelorette party on a pedal tavern. They loved my Goo Goo Clusters. We all ended up at the Wild Beaver riding a mechanical bull.”

Mick, are you starting to worry you’re losing your fame?

Read more at rockcellarmagazine.


Kourtney Kardashian's Pussy Shots Called Tacky

Kourtney posted some pics of her and her man getting handsy at Disney and then posted a shot of a sliced watermelon in between her legs with the caption “Is plant-based good for your pu$$y? Yep, you read that right. Read up on how a plant-based diet can improve your vaginal health at the link in our bio.”

The internet, it seems, finds this to be tacky.

Remember when Kourtney was the normal one?

Read more at The Sun


Katie Couric Says She Had Bulimia

In her new memoir, Katie Couric said she struggled with the eating disorder for eight or nine years. “Like so many women of our generation, I aspired to be thin and lanky and all the things I’m not,” says Couric with a laugh. “I think back on my formative years when Twiggy was all the rage and that period of time in the ’60s. And there seemed to be an ideal body type, which was extremely thin.”

Honey you were never that thin.

Read more at People.


Netflix is Cool With Employee Walkout Over Chappelle Special

The executives at Netflix are not cancelling Dave Chappelle but they’re also fine with unhappy employees staging a walkout to express their unhappiness with the special.

First time in his career Chappelle is walking a crowd.

Read more at THR.


Yay Another Beatles Doc

There’s this little band you may not have heard of called The Beatles and they got a brand new doc coming out featuring documentary footage of them putting together Let It Be that’s never been seen before. Finally, a deep dive into the Beatles.

Watch the trailer on Digg.



VIRAL & TRENDING



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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Best Albums of the Last 25 Years As Chosen by Musicians

Pitchfork asked 33 performers what their favorite album is from 1996 forward.

33 musicians all picked the Foo Fighters.

Read more at Pitchfork.



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