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BDC Now: Silly Reporter, Kristen Wiig was Naked in That Other Movie

By Doug Saffir

September 29, 2014

5 minutes to read

When you ask someone about what it’s like to be fully nude in a film, you better learn from this reporter’s mistake and be certain that it was in the movie you’re supposed to be interviewing them about. That, a crazy end to the MLB season, and much more, today on BDC Now.

Baseball Was Exciting on Sunday and It Had Nothing to Do With Derek Jeter

It’s no secret that baseball consists waiting periods broken up only by occasional feats of athleticism. For seven straight months. Basically, baseball is agonizing most of the time. But on some days, like Sunday, baseball has moments that make you willing to endure more than three hours watching grown men not doing all that much. We’re talking about Washington Nationals outfielder Steven Souza Jr. and the catch he made that probably earned him a steak dinner from his teammate, pitcher Jordan Zimmerman. You see, Zimmerman was 103 pitches, eight innings, and two outs into a no-hitter when Florida Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich laced a line drive into the gap in left-center field. Most days, that’s the end of Zimmerman’s ace performance. But Souza Jr. wasn’t having any of that. He tore across the grass, flung himself into the air with no regard for his well-being, and somehow managed to snag the ball. Final game of season ended. No-hitter completed. Pandemonium at Nationals Park achieved. Steak dinner likely secured. Baseball may be boring most days, but sometimes it just comes down to having the right Natitude.

Even Adults Have to Do Their Homework

Let’s all go ahead and make a promise right now: If any of us are ever going to interview someone on live television to discuss that person’s most recent work, let’s promise to actually read, watch, or otherwise consume that work. That way, none of us will get two questions into the interview and start blabbering about full-frontal nudity when that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. And if you’re at all unsure about whether this is a promise worth making, please watch Chris Parente, an entertainment reporter in Denver, sit down for a live interview with Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader to discuss their new movie, “Skeleton Twins.’’ The only problem was that Parente had not seen it yet. So after exchanging niceties and asking Wiig and Hader to describe the film, Parente goes off the rails, asking Wiig what it was like to do a nude scene for the movie. Well, Parente should have done his research, because Wiig’s nude scene was in an entirely different film, “Welcome to Me.’’ Oops! So like we were saying, go ahead and make that promise because, at the very least, not everyone is going to handle being asked about their nudity as well as Wiig did.

We Know It’s Important, But Where’s the Drone Footage?

Protests nowadays are a dime a dozen. Everyone has an issue and can find at least ten friends to stand alongside them and complain about it in public. But what can a group with real issues, like the people of Hong Kong protesting for their right to self-government, do to stand out among the angry crowds? Get a drone to fly overhead, of course! The future of technology is now, and if you don’t have a GoPro or a drone involved, you’re never going to get the attention you deserve. So it’s a good thing that Apple Daily had a drone on hand to fly over Hong Kong’s business district and capture thousands of people withstanding tear gas and ignoring demands that they disperse. With any luck, the drone footage will put this protest on the map, because it really is important that China is keeping Hong Kong’s hope for true democracy just out of reach and there’s basically nothing the city’s people can do about it.

Coca Cola is Appealing to Your Inner Selfie Fiend

If you needed any further proof that the narcissism of social media is the absolute worst, here it is: Coke tried to sell more soda by putting people’s names on their cans and bottles… and it worked. The Wall Street Journal found that after 11 years of declining soft-drink sales in the US, Coca-Cola Co. saw a 0.4 percent increase in summer sales from last year to this year. The company is crediting it’s “Share a Coke’’ campaign, and trust us, the “share’’ in “Share a Coke’’ is no accident – this campaign was born to be a social media hit. Coke targeted young people by only using the 250 most popular names for teens and millennials. The company created “virtual bottles’’ that could be shared on social media. The WSJ report even found that more than 500,000 pictures of sodas-with-names-or-phrases-on-them had been tweeted, which is why your feed has been inundated by pictures of soda cans with “BFF’’ on the side. That’s half a million pictures of ordinary cans of soda! And all of this probably has very little to do with people wanting to share a Coke. It’s because people like to share themselves. Coke is just the vehicle for them to tweet another picture of themselves making a weird face.

Killer Whales Are Better at Working Together Than Humans

Humanity’s got a lot of problems: We can’t find peace in the Middle East, climate change is going to turn every coastal city into a not-so-fun water park, and the global economy is in pretty rough shape. But there is one group that’s got this whole cohabitation and cooperating thing figured out. Don’t laugh, but it’s killer whales. Look, we know they’re not going to solve the world’s economic troubles or find a way to broker peace in the war-torn corners of the world, but they know a thing or two about working together to achieve a common goal. Just look at this video: These whales are hungry and decide they want some shark for dinner. What do they do? They work together to swim circles around a tiger shark, tire the fish out, then drown it and eat it. That’s team work! Everybody eats, everybody goes home happy. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could pull that off?