Wednesday April 20: Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 4.20


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Bill O'Reilly? More Like Karen O'Reilly

Bill O’Reilly got pissed at the airport giving shit to the guy at the JetBlue counter. We were all waiting for him to say Fuck it, I’ll do it live, but he let us down.

Watch the video on Twitter.


SPORTS



Jerry West Is Not Happy With Winning Time, Demands Retraction

Jerry West thinks Winning Time is fucking bullshit, especially in its portrayal of him, and he wants a retraction. He sent a letter to Adam McKay saying the show “caused great distress to Jerry and his family.” The Winkelvi are about to do the same thing to Aaron Sorkin.
Read more at Variety.


Angels Radio Broadcast Gets Pranked

The Angels radio broadcast got pranked into thinking Gerrit Cole was gonna buy a buncha laptops for poor kids if he lasted two innings Tuesday night. He did not. And now no one will respect the Angels radio broadcast team ever again.

Listen at Barstool.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3414598/listen-angels-radio-broadcast-gets-duped-into-believing-gerrit-cole-promised-an-underprivileged-school-600-macbooks-if-he-pitched-two-innings-tonight


The Ole Pussy Pinch Move Pisses off MMA Fighter

Pussy pinching might not be a hero’s move in MMA fighting but its not against the rules either. But the pinched fighter was pissed, howling, “Ouch! She Pinched My P*ssy! What the F*ck!”

Was she wrestling Trump?

Read more at Barstool

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Will Smith Bobblehead Day?

It was Will Smith Bobblehead day at Dodger stadium and everyone was excited to get one.

Wouldn’t a Chris Rock bobble head make more sense?


Hooters Gives Big NIL Deal to Father and Son

Hooters and John Daly? Sounds like a January 6 reunion.


Did Reds Team President Jinx His Team When He Dared Fans to Leave?

The president of the Cincinatti Reds dared fans to desert them, suggesting it would be more profitable for the Reds to pick up and move anyway. And now his team has lost seven straight games.

Call his bluff, Reds fans. Call his bluff.

Read more at Mediaite.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Shawn Mendes Has Got A Secret

Shawn Mendes has something he wants to get off his chest but he can’t bring himself to say it – yet. And he posted as much on Twitter. What could it possibly be!?

Read his statement on Twitter.


Netflix Stock Crashes After Bad Quarter And Projections

Netflix lost about 700k subs this quarter and is projected to lose another 2 million. Their stock lost 25% of its value and now they’re talking about cracking down on password sharing and making a new tier of subscription that has commercials but costs less. Start counting down to a streaming service bundle with commercials aka Cable TV 2.0.

Read more at the AP.


Jon Stewart's Streaming Numbers Are In The Tank

Jon Stewart’s yet another talk show that’s tanked on a streaming network. His latest episode had just 40k viewers. He needs to get cast in the second season of Squid Game if he wants anyone to watch what he’s doing.
Read more at Bloomberg Quint.


Rockstar is Editing Transphobia Out of GTA V

Rockstar was accused of feeding transphobic behavior because it was creating trans characters designed to irritate fearful gamers, and provide an outlet to abuse those characters. Others accused the game maker of creating trans characters in a way that ridiculed them. The new version appears to have addressed some of these issues.

So what about the 99 other offensive things. Like umm…murder?

Read more at arstechnica


New Season of Red Table Talks Makes No Mention of Slap Talk

Jada PInkett released a trailer for her upcoming podcast season and there’s lots of guests on the list, but nothing that indicates she’ll be talking about the incident at the Oscars.

She’s not going to talk about it until she gets paid. #chrisrockrules

Read more at Daily Mail


Roseanne Barr Claims Witch Hunt!

In a new doc, Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood, Ms Barr is claiming to be the victim of a witch hunt, and also blames ambien and censorship for her woes.

You’re not a witch. Maga isn’t the same thing as a witch.

Read more at The Daily Beast.


Bethany Frankel Wipes Out on Rollerskates

Frankel was at the opening of Rockefeller Center’s new roller rink, showing off on her wheels when she went down hard.

Bethany, you finally entertained us.

Read more at TMZ


Outside Lands Fest Announces its Big Headliner

Green Day will be the big attraction at the San Francisco Outside Lands fest this year.

This is the biggest news of 1994.

Read more at sfgate.


Jessica Simpson Talks About Dropping 100 Pounds

On The Real, Simpson shared that setting small goals over a period of three years helped her to finally drop 100 lbs.

100 pounds is nothing compared to the huge weight loss she scored dumping Nick Lachey.

Read more at CNN


Jessica Simpson Talks About Dropping 100 Pounds

On The Real, Simpson shared that setting small goals over a period of three years helped her to finally drop 100 lbs.

100 pounds is nothing compared to the huge weight loss she scored dumping Nick Lachey.

Read more at CNN


Kid Cudi is Done with Ye

Cudi is featured on a track with Ye on an album coming out this week, so Cudi wanted to clarify that he’s done working with Kanye. He went to twitter to clarify.

Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got w Pusha. I did this song a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye. I am not cool w that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz thats my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye

You waited this long?

Read more at stereogum



TRENDING & VIRAL



Girl Gets Hurt in TikTok and Becomes an Amazing Stitch Trend

This adorable little sound that came out of this kid became fodder for Tiktok in a hurry.

Congrats honey you finally went viral but you won’t feel good about it


Bottlecap Baseball is Badass in Japan

MLB take note. This is how you make the game more exciting.

Via Twitter


Self Proclaimed Fat Bully Confesses and Makes Amends

An Oklahoma comedian says he used to bully kids in first grade and is tracking them down so he can apologize and buy them pizza.

This would be more impressive if you kept it between you and your victims.

Read more at NY Post.

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