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UFC superstar Conor McGregor f-bombed on live television while donating one million dollars to charity Wednesday. McGregor appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity” to make a public donation to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity launched after the 9/11 tragedy to help families of emergency first responders who died in the line of duty. Frank Siller, CEO of Tunnel to Towers, lost his brother Stephen Siller on 9/11 when he was trying to help others at the World Trade Center. McGregor apparently couldn’t contain his excitement while speaking to Frank, and clearly couldn’t control his words, either. “Frank, I’m honored to support you,” McGregor said. “I wanted to say, your brother Stephen is a fucking – excuse me, is a hero.” McGregor immediately realized his tongue-slip and corrected the swear word very quickly, but the show was live, so there was no way for him to retract it or for the producers to edit it out. However, McGregor made a very fast adjustment and … [Read more...] about Conor McGregor F-Bombs On Live TV While Making A Million-Dollar Donation

Conor McGregor is now a spokesman for Burger King, and his first commercial is hilarious. The Irish-born fighter is promoting the restaurant’s new spicy chicken sandwich. Who better to promote a spicy chicken sandwich than one of the most braggadocios fighters on the planet? Nobody is more qualified. Burger King signs Conor McGregor to promote its spicy chicken sandwich. pic.twitter.com/IU6xshkzmI — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 5, 2018 I’m honestly not even sure if they gave McGregor a script before they started shooting. Seems more likely to me that somebody just told him to pretend the sandwich was Floyd Mayweather, and then they let the camera roll. I love him shouting out all the haters at the very end of the video. Classic move from the UFC superstar. McGregor has become such a huge brand, it’s incredible. He was a nobody only a few years ago, and now he’s one of the most famous athletes on the planet. That’s what happens when you make a name for … [Read more...] about Conor McGregor’s Burger King Commercial Is Laugh-Out-Loud Funny

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The disappearance of a supportive financial institution, which may have given them their first business credit card or mortgage, hits a bit different for foreign-born entrepreneurs. T he 3.2 million foreign-born entrepreneurs operating businesses in the U.S. are key drivers of innovation, with immigrants most famously starting Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Google, Tesla and Yahoo. That’s even as foreign-born founders have had to work harder to overcome obstacles that include the thorny mess that’s U.S. immigration policy . The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, now operating under FDIC receivership, will be one more obstacle many of them will have to overcome. “Immigrant founders have a harder time raising capital and whenever there are events like this, it only makes things harder,” Payam Pourtaheri, an Iranian immigrant who is cofounder and CEO of Agrospheres, tells Forbes by email. Some immigrant … [Read more...] about For Many Immigrant Founders, Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Is One More Hurdle To Jump

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Power of Words “Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen are temporary.” – President Biden (2021) “We have in recent months seen some inflation ... I personally believe that this represents transitory factors.” – Janet Yellen (2021) “Inflation is likely to be transitory.” – Lael Brainard (2021) “Economists continue to believe that higher inflation is transitory.” – Reuters (2021) “Transitory has different meanings to different people.” – Jerome Powell “Fed officials have worked to clarify that their meaning behind “transitory” inflation is quite different from the public’s.” – Washington Post (2021) “Powell admits the Fed got it wrong on inflation, and says they should stop calling it ‘transitory’.” – Fox Business News (2021) “Democrats are in a tricky position [having] made a tactical error. Their initial messaging strategy labeled inflation as … [Read more...] about What Is Transitory Inflation? (2) The Politics

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin When I hear Dungeons & Dragons within a word or two of the word movie, my reaction is generally something like this: But the new trailer for Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is shockingly . . . really great, and if we can trust the trailer’s good D&D energy, then I think we have a film that’s worth looking forward to at last. The Chris Pine-led adventure film appears to actually understand and appreciate what an actual session of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming is like. This is fan-service, but it’s fan-service for actual fans and it’s genuinely funny and awesome. Here, watch first then we’ll talk: So, in very broad strokes, this looks like the kind of campaign where the Dungeon Master (or DM) has tried pretty hard to craft a serious story only for the players to basically turn it into a running gag. All that hard work over “unleashing the great evil” turns into … [Read more...] about The New Dungeons & Dragons Movie Looks Surprisingly Great

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell testifies before a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON  – The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, a decision that will land amid a brewing political storm over the U.S. central bank’s oversight of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and with the financial world hanging on the words of one man: Jerome Powell. In the second institutional crisis faced by Powell during his five-year tenure as Fed chief, SVB’s March 10 failure has drawn scrutiny across the political spectrum, with calls to reform the central bank’s governance and oversight reminiscent of what happened after a furor over Fed officials’ stock trading erupted in 2021. Two of the Fed’s 12 regional bank presidents resigned as a result of that scandal and … [Read more...] about Fed’s Powell faces political storm, policy minefield over SVB oversight

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Blake Shelton just marked the end of an era on “The Voice.” Season 23 of the singing competition is the final one for the founding coach, and Tuesday night’s episode marked a major milestone — the very last time the country crooner will ever hit his red button, turn his chair around and select a singer in the show’s blind auditions. It was an emotional moment for Shelton and for the teen he picked for his team. The momentous occasion kicked off when Grace West took to the stage to belt out a classic Pam Tillis hit, “Maybe It Was Memphis,” as all four coaches — Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance the Rapper and Niall Horan — sat with their chairs facing away from her. But it didn’t take long for Shelton to take notice. As soon as the 19-year-old started singing, the panel’s resident country music expert smiled and mouthed the lyrics, and before West could finish singing the word “Memphis” in the chorus, Shelton … [Read more...] about Blake Shelton Turns Chair For The Last Time On ‘The Voice’: ‘I’m Finished!’