Movies I've Watched On Airplanes
The song from this 2017 Pixar movie won an Oscar, and the great-grandmother's rendition of it had me bawling
Coco
When this four-star general and future Secretary of Defense was asked to serve on the Theranos Board, he went to Barnes & Noble and bought a book called "How to be a Board Member"
Jim Mattis
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye
ORD
O'Hare (Chicago)
"Can't read about girls unless they are gone. Will these girls be gone at any point."
"A BOMBSHELL Interview With HOTSHOT Debut Novelist Kelsey McKinney" (SharkWeekFan)
I watched this latest installment of an action franchise last weekend, where they a) introduced a new character who made no sense, b) brought a character back from the dead, c) sent two characters to space, d) retconned the story so the main guy's dad was a NASCAR driver who died during a race? 10/10 highly recommend
F9: The Fast Saga
This hasn't come up yet in the trial but I love how stupid it is: at some point Holmes bought a dog and insisted to everyone that actually it was this kind of animal
Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
DTW
Detroit
"Back in my day we called it 'hating for the cycle.'"
"Why Did Adam Schefter Say “Clean Sweep” Like This?" (Quincho)
I got halfway through this movie that won JK Simmons his Academy Award, but it got too intense so I turned it off and watched Notting Hill instead
This WSJ reporter wrote "Bad Blood" and was the biggest thorn in Elizabeth Holmes's side; he recently won a courtroom motion against her lawyers (they tried to put him under gag order by adding him to the witness list)
John Carreyrou
Rude - MAGIC!
IAH
Houston
"The enormous backlash from the fans processing on air comments made by me and during this broadcast under rights from Major League Baseball have become factors that may end a--my--broadcast career, and now the force from Castellano's bat has met the ball, creating a drive oriented towards the far end of the left side of the outer field, which may push this game to a four against zero situation."
"Scoopbrain is a Contagious Illness" (Old School Zero)
The guys who played Coach Taylor and Landry reunited in this 2018 comedy that had no right being as delightful as it was; the westie terrier in the movie was also in Widows and a Netflix show that year
Game Night
Fill in the blank on the text exchange between Holmes and her BF/COO Sunny Balwani:
Holmes: "You are the breeze in desert for me. My water. And ocean. Meant to be only together tiger"
Balwani: "______"
OK
New Soul - Yael Naim (I will also accept The Macbook Air Song)
MSY
New Orleans
"It is difficult
To make a haiku about
Giannis Antetok"
"Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Championship Inspires Confusing Poetry" (IWasSayingBooUrns)
Jason Mantzoukas joked that every person he talked to in 2016 told him they watched this movie on a plane; it also featured Dakota Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Cousin Greg, and Colin Jost
How To Be Single
Theranos' legit lab director quit in 2014. They replaced him with a personal doctor of COO Sunny Balwani, who specialized in this kind of medicine
Dermatology
Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Nine Days
MCO
Orlando
"Sounds like this guy has got to be placed on the PUP list."
"Local Dog Undergoes Successful ACL Surgery" (Halley's Comment)