Tim Tebow, Taika Waititi and the Russian gamblers who bet on a fake cricket league
These are the best things I found on the internet this week!
What’s up party people!
I’m back with my weekly “conversation starters,” after taking last week off to celebrate my birthday. As you know by now, the internet never stops, so here’s the best articles, videos and other content that the past two weeks had to offer.
What’s the coolest story or thing you found on the internet this week? Reply to this email and shoot me a link. Would love to hear from you.
In case you needed further proof that degenerates will bet on anything, a group of Russian gamblers were tricked into betting on a completely made-up cricket league in India. Complete with HD broadcast cameras, a commentator and walkie talkies for the umpire to tell the amateur players what outcomes were needed, the scam went on for weeks!
This week’s Long Read of the Week, from the cover of New York Mag: a profile of Nathan Fielder, one of the weirdest people ever featured on television. His brand of extreme cringe comedy in “Nathan For You” is too much for me to handle, but this was one of the most revealing and entertaining celebrity profiles I’ve ever read.
Bold strategy cotton — a college volleyball coach in Louisiana literally cut his entire team. All 19 of them. How’d it work out for him? Three months later, he got fired.
Bryson Dechambeau hit the driving range with Tim Tebow for a “speed session,” which roughly translates to swinging as hard as you possibly can for an hour straight. Somehow, their gym session together was even more impressive.
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America, and its cult-like following praises its “democratization” between age and socioeconomic groups. This New Yorker story asks…will pickleball unite the country, or divide itself first?
Jeff Bezos was having a new 400-foot-long superyacht built in the the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Small problem — the boat is too tall to pass under the bridge out of port. Bezos petitioned to have the 95-year-old bridge taken apart so his boat could leave, but the citizens refused, and now the boat may not even be completed.
A man in Greece survived for 18 hours in the open sea by clinging to a half-inflated ball that was lost at sea some 80 miles away. As Tom Hanks in Castaway would say….WILSON!
The New York Times dropped a long profile of Taika Waititi before the release of his Thor: Love and Thunder, which you can either read as a definitive look at one of Hollywood’s most prolific and beloved filmmakers…or a concession for access because Marvel knew the movie wasn’t going to be well received. Either way, we’ll take it!
Thanks for reading and sharing! I’ll be back on Friday to talk movies!