Tuesday February 7 Daily Links

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When Death Takes a Holiday it Goes to Oregon

Oregon is now the first “death tourism'” destination. Terminally ill individuals from other states can make the trek to Portland to die with dignity if they meet the requirements of the state law which include having less than six months to live.

At least it’s a one way ticket.

Read more at Daily Mail


Police Avert a Plan to Destroy Baltimore

A Neo Nazi leader and a young woman have been arrested for a plan to destroy the City of Baltimore. They “conspired to inflict maximum harm on the power grid,” Tom Sobocinski, who heads the FBI’s field office in Baltimore, said during a news conference Monday. “The accused were not just talking, but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals.”

Destroy Baltimore? You’re a little late.

Read more at CNN


Tesla Driver Caught on Video Asleep at the Wheel

A California driver was filmed zipping down Route 15 while fast asleep for at least 15 minutes.

Tesla driver asleep at the wheel also refers to how Elon is running the company.

Read more at TMz


ABC News Had A Horned Up Culture

According to former staffers, everyone was sleeping with each other at ABC News and it had a “horned up” culture about it. Why didn’t Matt Lauer work there?

Read more at the Cut.



SPORTS



Tom Brady Will Be Taking a Year Off Before Joining Fox Broadcast

Brady says he’ll use the Gap year to decompress after his NFL career, before joining Fox’s broadcast team. His new boss, Lachlan Murdoch has said once Brady joins FOX he will call their biggest games with Kevin Burkhardt and serve as a brand ambassador.

Great news for Greg Olsen.

Read more at Deadline


Sean Payton Says No More Personal Coach for Denver QB

Looks like the new Head Coach of the Denver Broncos is making some changes. He was asked if the Broncos QB Russell Wilson will still have his own private coach and facilities, he answered, “I’m not too familiar with that. That’s foreign to me — that’s not going to take place. I’m unfamiliar with it. Our staff will be here, our players will be here and that will be it.”

Well Sean, chances are Wilson will still stink

Read more at ESPN


Crypto Out, Booze is Back at SB 2023

Super Bowl ads are not just a watermark for marketing creativity, they’re also symbolic of where we are culturally as a nation. Some years the biggest ads have focused on movies, some years its been tech, and last year it was crypto. This year we will see zero ad dollars spent on marketing Crypto at the Super Bowl, and the lions share of the marketing money is in the category of alcohol.

No matter what happens in the economy, being drunk still works.

Read more at AP News


Shannon Sharpe Puts Ja Morant on Blast

On his Fox show Undisputed, Sharpe scolded Ja Morant for hanging around the wrong type of people. “I wish Ja would realize he’s not a thug. Ja is a really good basketball player. Ja did everything he could to lift himself and his family out of this type of environment and to get away from this, and for some reason, he wants to surround himself with these types of people — why?”

This has nothing to do with you fighting with Ja’s dad does it?

Read more at mediaite.


SF 49ers Wife TikToks the Secret Life of an NFL Wife

You’ve seen what really happens at Taco Bell and Wendys. Now Fred Warner’s wife wants you to know the behind the scenes details of being the wife of an NFL star.

Some of her secrets revealed a life that might not be as fun as she was expecting. She isn’t allowed to spend the night with her man before a game, and he has to be in bed at 10:30 the night before a game.

She obviously never learned the first lesson in Rocky. Women weaken legs.

Read more at NY Post


Mama Kelce Said She'd Happily Toss That Coin

Mom to Eagles and KC players Travis and Jason Kelce says as long as she’s not a distraction to the game she would gladly toss the Super Bowl coin to see which team starts with the ball.

Alright, enough of you three.

Read more at Daily Mail



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



AI Seinfeld Suspended From Twitch For Being AI Homophobic

The endless show about nothing based on Seinfeld and endlessly streaming on Twitch isn’t streaming right now. The experiment has been suspended from the platform for homophobic and transphobic content. The fake Seinfeld character said he was “thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness. Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone,” the made-up character continued. “Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society.”

Guess the AI Seinfeld forgot to say “Not that there’s anything wrong with it.”

Read more at NY Post


Grammy Ratings Best in Years

The ratings are in and the 65th annual Grammy Award Ceremony numbers jumped 30% over last year’s numbers, and beat out 2021 as well with 12.1 million pairs of eyes on the broadcast.

Wow Viola Davis really brings em out.

Read more at mediaite


Which Movie Star Just Got Signed to Voice Animated Elvis?

Netflix’s new adult animated series “Agent Elvis” signed Matthew McConaughey to voice the title role. The storyline for the new series follows Elvis as he holds down a day job as the King, while working a side job in a secret government spy program to battle the dark forces that threaten the country he loves.

Austin Butler is hurt. Will Sasso was robbed.

Read more at THR.


Ben Stiller Will Play Triplets in 3 Identical Strangers Adaptation

The hit doc Three Identical Strangers is being adapted into a television series and Ben Stiller is in talks to play all three brothers who grew up unaware they were triplets and didn’t meet each other until they were older.

This is great they wont need to do hair or makeup. But Steve Guttenberg must be crushed.

Read more at Variety


Brett Easton Ellis is Talking Bout His Generation

The author just published his first new work in 13 years, and in an interview explaining what he sees as a quality of Gen X and particularly the way Gen X reacted to Trump. “And as a member of Gen X, I was interested in why we had gotten into such a hysterical divide. I think part of the reason why Gen X is the most conservative of the generations — much more than boomers, much more than millennials — is that we had the most freedom. We looked to be shocked. We wanted to be offended. We loved dirty jokes. We loved music.”

You wanted to be offended or offensive?

Read more at unherd.com



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