Wednesday June 7 Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 6.7


NEWS STORIES

 



Chris Christie Launched His 2024 Run

It’s official. New Jersey’s other big man has joined the race with a speech that was actually pretty good.

He’s got a great resume but he’s overweight, so the fat joke writing factory is already in production.

Read more at WaPo


New York is Smoking Canada, Eh

The smoke from Canadian wildfires made its way down to New York, filling the entire tri state area with shitty bad air and a thick smokey haze. And photo ops galore.

Finally something to cover up the dog piss and trash smell.

Read more at Accuweather


Nikki Haley Town Hall Underwhelms

The audience for presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s CNN Town Hall was down 80% from Trump’s ratings.

Haleys comet has a better chance of winning.

Read more at mediaite


Baltimore Nurses Save Passengers Life on Plane

A woman and her boyfriend were flying home from a Bahamas vacation when a fellow passenger stopped breathing. They’re both licensed nurses and quickly went into action to save the man who had no pulse and was turning purple. By the time they made an emergency landing, he was breathing on his own.

Too bad they weren’t on Logan Roy’s flight.

If they don’t get free airfare for life…

Read more at People.com.


Viral Idiots Are Out in Force in Yellowstone

We’re only about a week into the summer season and we’ve already got a list of moron tourists to roll our eyes at. Just this week we’ve seen two tourists getting too close to bison, one couple standing on a hot spring, and now an idiot filming himself hulking out and chasing bears. Authorities say he faces prison time for charging after two seperate bears.

Maybe don’t rush to bring him in and just wait till he gets himself mauled.

Read more at TMZ



SPORTS



Baseball Makes the Cover of The Atlantic

The Atlantic says Baseball saved itself at time when the sport was on its last legs.

Look how many people are talking about baseball now

Read more at The Atlantic


Let the PGA LIV Merger Backlash Begin

The families of 9/11 victims are furious that the American helmed PGA has decided to merge with the Saudi LIV league.

We understand, but they have a ton of money.

Read more at TMZ


Aaron Rudgers Has a Fun Weed Smoking Handshake

Aaron and Sauce Gardner were photographed sharing a new fun secret handshake that involves miming smoking weed.

Nothing cooler than seeing someone practice being cool.

Read more at NY Post.


Damar Hamlins First Full Practice

For the first time since his on field collapse, Damar Hamlin worked out with the team for a full practice sesh.

Lets see who folds first, him or the bills.

Read more at TMZ


Jake Paul Has Locked His Film Debut

Paul is set to star in an action combat sports drama where he will play a small-town youth rising to global fame as a pugilist. “As someone who has always believed in pushing boundaries and taking risks, I can’t wait to bring this unique story and my brand to the big screen. This is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter in my career,” Paul said in a statement.

Well it’s a little on the nose but alright lets try it.

Read more at THR


Rowdy Fan Gets the Ole Stiff Arm

This was more entertaining than the game.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Pete Davidson Has Smokers Remorse About That Ferry Thang

We’ve all bought something stupid while drunk or high and regretted it later, but most of us never bought a city ferry cause we got high.”I have no idea what’s going on with that thing,” Pete said about the impulse purchase. “Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry. And we’re figuring it out.”

Unless you guys get a casino license the dream is over.

Read more at People.


Elliot Page Was Getting a Lot of Action on the Set of Juno

In his new memoir, Elliot Page wrote about an affair with his co-star Olivia Thirlby that lasted through most of the filming of Juno. He recalls that Thirlby “looked directly at me and said point-blank, ‘I’m really attracted to you.’” “At that we started sucking face. It was on. I had an all-encompassing desire for her, she made me want in a way that was new, hopeful. It was one of the first times someone would make me c-m, the first time I would open up,” Page wrote.

Why weren’t any of these scenes added to the movie? Can we get a BTS cut?

Read more at Page Six.


Cuba Settles

Cuba Gooding Jr. will not go to trial to defend a civil suit alleging sexual assault. The actor settled the case just prior to trial for an undisclosed sum.

Who knew Cuba had undisclosed cash to spend? There goes that Snowdogs cash.

Read more at USA Today


Burn It Down Books Outs Hollywood History of Misconduct

Reporter Maureen Ryan says her book will address among other things, a major lawsuit against SNL, toxicity and bias on the set of Lost, and the trouble on set of the Goldbergs.

Well this sounds like a fun beach read for the summer.

Read more at THR


Arnold Says No Afterlife

Heaven is a fantasy, and we’ll never see each other again after we die, said Arnold Schwartzenegger in an interview with former co-star Danny Devito.

Is that one of the bedtime stories you told your kids?

Read more at unilad.


Norman Lear Backs Writers Strike

At almost 101 years old, Lear took to Instagram to say he stands with the striking Writers Guild. “I have been, at my core, a writer. A writer who struggled and anguished to put words to paper that would provoke, create conversation, humanize us, help us see each other — words that would matter. I wrote in the very first year of television, when writers were revered. I now watch talented writers struggle to earn a living wage without the path to a career like mine. I stand with writers and the Writers Guild of America, my union. The industry is stronger when we stand together to protect our collective community.”

Norman at 100 still fighting the good good.

Read more at Deadline


Jennifer Coolidge Still Pissed at Her Characters Hubby

“I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. He deserves some bad treatment, and possibly a death himself,” Coolidge told “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White in the latest installment of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.

Jennifer you’re out. They’ll handle it from here.

Read more at huffpost.



TRENDING & VIRAL



Apple Promises to Get Rid of that Damn Duck

Apple is finally going to correct that annoying autocorrect that keeps changing fuck to duck everytime you try to use the word in texts.

That’s ducking great.

Read more at CNN



The Idol Ratings Are Pretty Good

The reviews were unkind to HBO’s The Idol, but the ratings are solid- on par with Season 1 of The White Lotus.

The ratings may be great but still nothing compared to britney spears instagram.

Read more at Forbes



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