Ugly dogs, hot tech CEOs and the dudes rawdogging flights
These are the most interesting things I found on the internet this week!
What’s up everybody!
Sorry for the late send today. User error, forgot to schedule the post. But I couldn’t let you all miss out on this new batch of “conversation starters,” my roundup of the best, most interesting and most entertaining content on the internet in the past week. Read, watch, share!
Also, there is likely to be some changes coming to this newsletter this summer. Can’t wait to fill you in on the exciting details very soon. Until then, enjoy!
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For our Long Read of the Week, we’re discovering the true guy behind the guy. In this case, the doctor used by Tom Brady, Leonardo DiCaprio and seemingly every prominent famous person in Los Angeles. To them he’s part confidant, part miracle man. The New Yorker tells his story.
Anyone who’s ever seen “The Eric Andre Show” knows how little reverence its host has for the norms of show business. But the way Eric Andre hijacks his appearance on the YouTube show “Chicken Shop Date” is one of the funniest and most unhinged things I’ve seen all year.
Last fall, a new media venture promised to reinvent sports coverage in my home state of Oklahoma. I was super excited! Then in what is now an all-too-common story, the publication shut down six months later and left its staff with no jobs. But this post-op piece from The Frontier shows an even crazier story behind the scenes — apparently the site’s “funding” was a lie all along. An insane peek behind the curtain.
We all have different strategies for killing time on flights. But the latest trend in hyper-masculine nonsense is “raw-dogging” flights — no movies, music, food, drinks or bathroom breaks. Just sit there and take it like a man. What a fun and surprisingly deep story from GQ.
Once laughably and almost proudly nerdy and uncool, tech CEOs and workers are now paying $500-an-hour to consultants to make them look hot. “Being handsome is just a skill issue,” says one such consultant, in the most tech-speak way ever. “Anyone can do it.”
In what has the be the most perfect microcosm of geopolitcs, France’s plan to make the Paris Olympics the most environmentally sustainable of all time is being upended by Team USA bringing hundreds of personal AC units for their rooms in Olympic Village. U-S-A baby!!
An 8-year-old Pekingese named Wild Thang is the winner of this year's World's Ugliest Dog Contest. Taking home the $5,000 prize!
Thanks for reading and sharing! Busy busy week in the movie world, but on Friday we’re talking The Bikeriders and Kinds of Kindness plus the world premiere of Maxxxine.