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Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are doing their part to bring back raunchy comedy with Platonic, which stars the pair in an Apple TV+ buddy comedy series about two ex-best friends who lost touch. This tends to happen when people start adulting, and after a pivotal event in one of their lives, they strike up their bond again like a day has never passed. Or do they?

As it turns out, these two friends end up essentially exploding their own lives due to their combined chaotic energy. It’s going to get messy, given that Rose Byrne’s character is not only married but a mother, which doesn’t exactly jibe with the old lifestyle of taking shot after shot at the neighborhood dive bar. Rest argued, though, that this show is what it’s intended to be: breezy fun.

Platonic‘s first season weighs in at 10 episodes, and on the “breezy” note, they each run about 30 minutes in length.

Also, you might think that you know where this show is going, but the chaos is even more maddening than one would expect. As mentioned above, this show is aiming to bring back those decadent laugh fests that were in plentiful supply during Rogen’s earlier career, and Byrne of course starred in one of the raunchiest films of recent memory: Bridesmaids.

Now, however, horse tranquilizers are in the mix. Oh boy.

Platonic premiered on May 24 with three episodes and weekly drops to come.

After the Celtics blew out the Heat in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals to extend the series back to Miami, the Inside the NBA crew closed the show with a segment where they all tried to read sentences in aggressive Boston accents.

Charles Barkley’s sentence featured Ernie at Fenway Park eating chowder on top of the Monster, which saw him mostly fumble over trying to say “Ernie” in a Boston accent, but also led him to discover there are seats on top of the Green Monster. It was at that point that he decided that’s a new goal of his, saying he “would love to sit on top of the monster,” which sent the world’s largest teenage boy, Shaquille O’Neal, into a hysterical fit of laughter.

Kenny Smith was also cracking up, realizing that Chuck was making yet another accidental viral moment with his phrasing, while Shaq nearly fell over on the other side of the desk. Ernie eventually realizes what’s happening and does his usual “c’mon Shaq” routine, while Chuck sits there oblivious as to what’s happening. Shaq even had a terrific callback to last week, asking for another tweet from “Jenna,” referencing when he delighted in Charles reading a Twitter user’s name of “Jenna Tuhls” in what was the closest thing you can get on TV to a Bart Simpson prank.

Shaq can never help himself in these moments, and while this one is pretty funny I’m not sure it is quite on the level of the all-time Inside the NBA phrasing moments with “when a guy’s banging you in the post” and “I smash Trix.”

Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Little Mermaid.

With any modern remake, there will inevitably be some differences between the newer and older versions. With 2019’s The Lion King, the biggest difference was that Beyonce existed in lioness form, while 2017’s Beauty and the Beast introduces a gay character, which definitely did not happen in the 1991 animated version. The 2022 version of Pinocchio implied the wooden toy has a love interest, but that’s a whole other conversation. So with the new Little Mermaid tale, there are bound to be some differences as the story is updated for modern audiences.

The latest remake stars Halle Bailey as the rebellious mermaid who just wants to live among the humans and their silly little forks. One of the biggest (and perhaps most controversial among Disney die-hards) changes is the lyric switch in the popular song “Poor Unfortunate Souls.”

The song is sung by the evil sea witch Ursula, played by Melissa McCarthy, who tricks Ariel into giving up her voice. Composer Alan Menken wanted to switch out some of the lyrics because Ursula’s original song “might make young girls somehow feel that they shouldn’t speak out of turn.” So, the lyrics to the iconic song were altered, even though Ursula is clearly not someone who you should take life advice from.

Speaking of Ursula, the rules for Ariel’s deal are also different, as Ariel doesn’t remember that she has to kiss Eric in order to seal the deal and make her human. Rob Marshall told UPROXX that the change was to avoid a superficial outcome. “I didn’t like the idea that she knew that she had to kiss him because it feels very superficial,” Marshall admitted. “I like that it actually makes what I call the three amigos – our three amigos, Scuttle and Sebastian and Flounder – I love that they have to do the work then.”

Besides the various lyric changes, there are also a few more characters introduced, including Eric’s mother, and he gets a little more backstory that helps round out his character and his motives. His mother discourages him from exploring the waters, which just makes him want to explore even harder. Parents just don’t get it!

(Via Vox)

(WARNING: Spoilers (or maybe not?) for this week’s Power Book II: Ghost episode will be found below.)

The turbulent third season of Power Book II: Ghost has finally concluded thanks to its finale episode that was released. For the past ten weeks, we endured shocking deaths, plot twists, new relationships, and more to bring us to this final episode that featured the return of Tommy Egan and a new war between Tariq and Brayden vs. the Tejadas and Effie. We’re left on quite the cliffhanger to end this season, and while we have many questions, there’ll indeed be answered in season four. Speaking of Power Book II: Ghost season four…

Is There A ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ Season 4 Release Date?

There isn’t a confirmed premiere date for Power Book II: Ghost season four, but we know there will at least be a fourth season. The show was renewed for a fourth season before the season three premiere which is always a good sign. For the upcoming season, Michael Ealy will join the cast as Detective Don Carter, “a rising NYPD officer who was on track to become Police Commissioner, until his wife was killed in a crossfire between rival drug gangs. Vowing to make the streets safer, Carter traded in his tie for a kevlar vest and now leads an elite NYPD drug task force that elicits concrete results against drug related violence.”

Stayed tuned for more on Power Book II: Ghost season four and make sure to check out our season three finale recap here.

‘Power Book II: Ghost’ season three is available to watch on the STARZ app.

Doja Cat has said her new record will be influenced by rave music, then that it’d be R&B, then predominantly rap. Similarly, she’s continued to backpedal on album titles. It started with Hellmouth, then became Moist Holes, and then First Of All.

At the Patrón El Cielo launch party in New York City, the “Woman” singer discussed her new album more. Insider asked her how she picks an album title, and she predictably answered, “Good God. I don’t know.”

She elaborated, “I put my ADHD kind of on display — by accident, I guess,” she said. “I thought that Hellmouth was the name of the album, but then it wasn’t. But I’m good at doing things last minute. So I’ve been firing off random stuff and reading comments and seeing how people receive it and then, you know, saying ‘no’ a lot. ‘Just kidding.’”

“I do think that I finally have a title,” she said, “It’s not First Of All.”

Later in the interview she explained her aesthetic. “It fluctuates. I can’t really define what it is,” she said. “But musically, I’ve been trying to go back and sort of pull from things that were huge influences to me as a kid. You know, like jazz influences and stuff like that. So that’s been a big inspiration for me lately and sort of a defining characteristic of my music.”

The “Top 5, dead or alive“/ Mount Rushmore of Rap conversation resurfaces online every few months, giving fans another opportunity to debate the best lyricists the genre has produced. However, one rapper feels that he’s been unfairly left out of the discussion. Ludacris was a dominant force throughout the 2000s, with a slew of hits and respected guest verses, but recently revealed he doesn’t think he gets enough credit for his lyrics.

Appearing on the All The Smoke podcast, Luda told hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that Jay-Z once offered a theory for fans’ resistance to giving him his flowers. “Jay-Z was one of the ones that said, you know, he don’t think I get the lyrical credit that I deserve because of the visuals,” Ludacris recalled. “People ask me, ‘Why don’t you think get the credit?’ Because I played too goddamn much, that’s what I do! And I wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s why my name is Ludacris because it’s beyond crazy, it’s wild, it’s ridiculous.”

Jay may have a point. Ludacris garnered plenty of attention with his eye-popping, humorous music videos. Whether he was floating upside down through the streets of Atlanta, mauling obnoxious partygoers with cartoonishly muscular arms, or carrying a literal little person on his necklace, Luda went out of his way to make sure the videos for many of his biggest hits were memorable. But maybe they were so memorable for their comedy people forgot to remember that he was rapping his ass off in the songs themselves.

However, he still enjoyed tremendous success in his day, and continues to receive accolades like a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame — albeit for his acting rather than his rapping. That’s kind of fitting when you think about it. Of course, I have a controversial theory of my own, which I shared here.

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – ENOUGH

I do not think I would enjoy being a celebrity. There are positive things about it, I guess, like getting to skip to the front of lines sometimes and getting free stuff every now and then, but overall, on the whole, it does not seem like it would be a good time to me. For a lot of reasons, too. The big one I always think of is, like, what if you’re feeling gross and just slap on gross pajama pants to run to the pharmacy quick to grab Pepto Bismol and you run into a group of people who recognize you from their favorite show or movie? “Oh snap, what’s up, dude?” they say with a look of wild excitement in their eyes. “You got tummy problems today, too?” Then they go out and tell that story to every person they ever meet for the rest of their lives. And what if you get startled when they approach you and you skip back into the display and wipe the whole thing out on your way to the ground and end up on the tiled white floor of a CVS covered in pink diarrhea medicine as a crowd of people snaps pictures to upload to their various social media accounts?

No thanks.

Another pretty good reason was covered in a roundtable over at The Hollywood Reporter this week. We pick things up mid-conversation, with Pedro Pascal, Kieran Culkin, and Jeff Bridges discussing the perils of fame and overeager fans.

PEDRO PASCAL: I remember, earlier on, because of Game of Thrones and the way my character died — speaking of touching — people were super into taking selfies with their thumbs in my eyes.

CULKIN: Wow, that’s a lot of trust.

PASCAL: And at first, I was so earnest and happy about the success of the character in the show, I’d let them! And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection. (Laughter.)

JEFF BRIDGES: I get The Dude. People just dig The Big Lebowski, it’s such a good movie.

CULKIN: Do people shout quotes at you? “This is what happens when you f*ck a stranger in the a**.”

BRIDGES: Oh yeah, the quotes.

So, first of all, and I really cannot stress this strongly enough, please do not jam your fingers into my eyes. Ever. For any reason. Do not even come up to me and ask if you can do it. The answer is no. Let’s just get that out of the way first.

But the other and more important thing here is… this has to be so weird, right? Like, just being Jeff Bridges today, in 2023, decades after The Big Lebowski came out and still getting quotes from the movie shouted at you on the street. My favorite thing about this particular interaction is that the quote Kieran Culkin threw at him wasn’t even one his character said in the movie. John Goodman’s character said that. Poor Jeff Bridges. You can almost hear the exhaustion in his voice when you see the sentence “Oh yeah, the quotes” up there in black and white.

Let’s all agree to chill out with this a little. Or at least to try chilling out a little. I know it’s weird when you see a famous person right in front of you, in the flesh, not inside a screen in your living room. I know it can make your brain short-circuit a little, where you don’t know exactly how to behave. One time I saw Regis Philbin eating crabs at a restaurant in Maryland and I almost had a meltdown. (Take a second here and picture Regis Philbin eating crabs. You get it now, right?) But we need to at least try to stop shouting Big Lebowski quotes at Jeff Bridges. Or, if that’s not doable for you, if you really don’t think you can shut off the valve that runs from your eyes to your mouth, maybe shout quotes his character said and not the loudly profane things John Goodman said while bashing a car with a tire iron. That would be a good start.

Oh, and if you ever see me in a CVS covered in Pepto Bismol after someone startled me and I crashed through an entire display of it, please don’t take my picture and post it on social media. Just get me a towel. Maybe some baby wipes. They’re probably a few aisles over.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – Dudes, let’s go see Barbie

This is the trailer for the new Barbie movie, which is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken and looks absolutely demented in the best way possible. I think… yes, I’ll say it. I’m legitimately very excited about seeing the new Barbie movie in the theater. Which is not something I expected to be saying at any point in my adult life. But here we are. It feels great.

The plot itself sounds interesting enough (“After being expelled from Barbieland for being a less than perfect-looking doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness”), but the trailer takes it to another level. In these 2.5 minutes alone we have: Barbie asking her dance party friends if they ever think about dying; a full-on record scratch immediately after that first thing; Kate McKinnon carrying Birkenstocks; and more. We also have, well, this…

… which is interesting for a few reasons. The first is that it’s kind of hilarious that Will Ferrell is playing an evil businessman in a movie about a beloved children’s toy. The second is that this is not the first time Will Ferrell has played an evil businessman in a movie about a beloved children’s toy. He also appeared in The LEGO Movie as a villain whose name was literally President/Lord Business. This is… it’s cool. I don’t know. I just think it’s cool. I like that we’re letting cool/smart people make weirdo takes on beloved intellectual property and I like that everyone who makes them is like “Hmm I need a business villain for this moviGET ME WILL FERRELL.”

I can’t wait to see him as an evil CEO in a movie about PowerWheels next. I swear I am barely joking about this. Good for Will Ferrell. Good for Greta Gerwig. Good for me, mostly. I am kind of excited to see the face of the kid at the movie theater when I roll up to the ticket counter and say “One ticket for Barbie, my dude.”

A little treat for Brian.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – Your periodic reminder that the titles of the Fast & Furious movies are much better in Japan

Here are some true statements:

• Fast X came out in theaters this week
• The titles of the movies in the Fast & Furious franchise are a chaotic mess with no uniform structure, featuring numbers (2 Fast 2 Furious) and different parts of the title used in different ways (Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7) and a ridiculously confusing thing where the fourth movie (Fast & Furious) has almost the exact same name as the first movie (The Fast and the Furious)
• The titles of these movies in Japan are objectively better

We’ve been over this before. Kind of a lot, actually. It’s one of my favorite things to talk about. And I’m going to talk about it again now, because the title of Fast X in Japan is so, so freaking good. Zero sarcasm here, too. It is so much better than Fast X. I can’t wait for you all to see it. But first, a quick recap.

Wild Speed (The Fast and the Furious)
Wild Speed X2 (2 Fast 2 Furious)
Wild Speed X3: Tokyo Drift (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

See? Already better. And not just because of the uniform structure. I am not lying to you even a little when I tell you that I think “Wild Speed” is a better title for these movies than “Fast & Furious.” And that’s before we get to…

Wild Speed MAX (Fast & Furious)
Wild Speed MEGA MAX (Fast Five)

See you think there’s nowhere to go from Wild Speed MAX, especially after you see they went all-caps for the MAX. “What could possibly be bigger than MAX?” you say, like a freaking idiot who did not even consider the leap to MEGA MAX. The best part is that I think I would see a movie called Wild Speed MEGA MAX without even knowing what it’s about.

That’s not true. The best part is the thing where we went from MAX to MEGA MAX. It’s so beautiful I could cry.

Wild Speed: Euro Mission (Fast & Furious 6)
Wild Speed: Sky Mission (Furious 7)

The sixth movie took place in Europe. The seventh movie featured the whole crew parachuting out of an airplane in cars and Vin Diesel soaring across the Abu Dhabi sky in a million-dollar sports car. I have no notes. The accuracy is to be respected.

Wild Speed: Ice Break (The Fate of the Furious)
Wild Speed: Jet Break (F9)

The thing I like here is that Wild Speed: Ice Break features a scene at the end where a stolen nuclear submarine literally breaks a sheet of ice as it emerges from the water. This is so much better than The Fate of the Furious that everyone in Hollywood should be ashamed of themselves. They should wake up crying twice a week about it. Even the people who don’t work at the studio that made the decision. Everyone is complicit here.

This brings us to the tenth movie. I’m so excited to show you this. I mean… look at this.

Wild Speed: Fire Boost (Fast X)

Perfect. Maybe the best movie title I’ve ever seen. If I ever have twins, I might name them Wild Speed and Fire Boost. They’ll have a lot to live up to, but pressure turns coal into diamonds. I believe in my sweet hypothetical boys. Or girls. I guess Wild Speed and Fire Boost are unisex names.

We all have a lot to consider here.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Hell yes

EVERYBODY

NOT A DRILL

LOOK AT THIS

“Better Call Saul” breakout Rhea Seehorn will be joining Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the untitled fourth “Bad Boys” film. Details of her character – and anything else pertaining to the plot of the movie – are being heavily guarded but no doubt will occur somewhere in Miami.

See, usually, in situations like this, not knowing more about the character Rhea Seehorn is playing in Bad Boys 4 would drive me insane. You can’t just introduce things like “Kim Wexler in a Michael Bay-related movie franchise that has already blown up most of Miami” and then leave me hanging with it. I’m not built like that. Things like this can eat me up.

BUT

I actually like it here. It gives me the opportunity to dream a little bit. And so far I have pictured two things that will almost definitely not happen but can’t be ruled out until they reveal more information.

ONE: Rhea Seehorn playing a ruthless Miami drug lord who feeds her enemies to piranhas and wears shiny designer suits that cost more than your car.

TWO: Rhea Seehorn playing the chief in charge of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and re-creating this exact scene word-for-word.

I know. I know I post this video a lot. Every time I mention Bad Boys. And sometimes even when I’m not talking about Bad Boys. I probably post it too much. In my defense…

I don’t actually have a defense. I just really like that scene. Someone get Rhea Seehorn a cigar and a bunch of basketballs.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Hey, do you guys wanna see Walton Goggins lip-synching the hell out of “Proud Mary” as a tribute album to Tina Turner?

Of course you do.

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From Chris:

Listen, I was all set to write you an email about how Barry is a great show, and one of my favorites so far this year, but not “the best” show on television as you claimed in The Rundown a few weeks ago. But then NoHo Hank fired that wayward missile last week and I have laughed about it every time I’ve thought about it since. So, fine. I’ll relent. Barry is the best show on TV. But if Cousin Greg fires a missile at someone in the series finale of Succession, I’m going to change my mind again.

Okay, three things here…

— Thank you.

— This is a great excuse to post a GIF of the rocket scene again, so… let’s do that.

NoHo Hank was almost killed off way back in the first season. That much we knew because Bill Hader has talked about it before. What I don’t think we knew is how close it came to actually happening. But this week there was a big Barry roundtable (good fake name) with the cast over at the LA Times and… yeah. We barely averted disaster here.

Carrigan: I was almost killed in the first episode.

Goldberg: Can you even imagine the show without NoHo Hank in it?

Hader: We were lining up the shot where you were supposed to get shot, and I went over to our [director of photography] and [co-creator Berg] and I was like, [whispers] “Should we kill him? I don’t think we can kill him.” [Laughter.]

Thank you, Bill Hader. Thank you very much.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To the Iberian Peninsula!

Orcas may be teaching others to attack boats following a spate of strikes on sailboats off the coast of Europe, some observers say.

Everything is fine.

Sailors have reported a series of “coordinated” attacks by a group of orcas, including a May 22 strike on a 26-foot vessel sailing off the coast of Cape Spartel, near the Strait of Gibraltar.

“[Six] orcas arrived, 2 adults very big, 4 smaller ones,” sailor JP Derunes wrote in Orca Attack Reports, a Facebook group dedicated to flagging orca activity. “Both rudders destroyed and blocked … Boat to be hauled off later this week.”

A few notes here:

• The ocean is terrifying
• This is kind of the plot of my beloved and short-lived CBS drama Zoo, the one where James Wolk backhanded a general while demanding to know the location of a demonic sloth
• I want to join the Orcs Attack Reports Facebook page

Moving on.

That attack followed a nighttime strike on May 4, when a Swiss yacht named Champagne, which was also sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar, was attacked by three orcas. They struck its rudder, eventually sinking it, reported Yacht, a German boating news outlet.

Is it weird that I saw “a Swiss yacht named Champagne” and immediately started rooting for the orcas?

Hmm.

Hmmmmmmmm.

I feel okay about it.

Scientists said spikes in aggression may have been started by female orca whom scientists have named “White Gladis.”

[to the tune of “Black Betty”]

WHOA-OA WHITE GLADIS, BAM-A-LAM

WHOA-OA WHITE GLADIS, BAM-A-LAM

White Gladis is believed to have suffered a “critical moment of agony” such as a boat collision, which inflicted trauma on the orca, triggering a behavioural switch that other killer whales have learned to imitate.

To be very clear about it, just to settle any lingering doubt you might have…

Yes, I would absolutely watch a movie or limited television series titled White Gladis about an orca who goes on a revenge spree across Northern Europe and eventually rounds up a posse of other killer whales to help eliminate as many yachts as possible. I would watch that this weekend. Make it a Hard-R CGI action movie from the orcas’ perspective with cussing and violence and have Regina King do the voice of White Gladis.

It could work.

John Wick: Chapter 4 is the highest-grossing John Wick movie so far, “so far” being the operative words because there are more John Wick movies to come. Even after… y’know. (Look, John Wick: Chapter 4 has been out for almost three months, so it’s probably safe to spoil the movie, but I don’t want to ruin it for someone and have them demand to fight me in a crowded club where everyone is dancing while soaking wet. Hate it when that happens.)

During Lionsgate’s earnings call this week, Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake confirmed that a fifth John Wick film is in early development. “What is official is that, as you know, Ballerina is the first spinoff that comes out next year. We’re in development on three others, including [John Wick 5] and including television series,” he said, according to Comic Book. “We’re building out the world and when that [fifth] movie comes, [it] will be organically grown out of how we’re starting to tell those stories.”

He also teased a John Wick video game. Hopefully it goes smoother than the last Keanu Reeves video game:

“We’re now moving across that franchise, not just in the AAA video game space, but looking at what the regular cadence of spin-offs, television really growing that universe so that there is a steady cadence of a franchise that there’s clear appetite by the audience.”

That’s executive speak for “the John Wick video game will be like Donkey Kong, except instead of Mario avoiding barrels while climbing ladders, it will be John Wick running up stairs while shooting bad guys.” I might be slightly editorializing, but that’s the gist, at least.

(Via Comic Book)

Matty Healy should be on high alert. His rumored girlfriend, Taylor Swift, has another musical admirer — Moneybagg Yo.

The “Ocean Spray” rapper has delayed his highly anticipated mixtape, Hard To Love, out of respect for his ‘little baby’ and her upcoming deluxe album, Midnights (Til Dawn Edition). Declaring his love for Swift, the musician took to Twitter to upload a video sharing the news.

“I just got the news my little baby Taylor is dropping tonight. I ain’t gonna lie; y’all know how I feel about Taylor, man. So I think I’m gonna push Hard To Love back just a few days. Y’all be patient with me. Let Taylor have this sh*t,” said Moneybagg while blasting her song, “Lover,” in the background.

Fans of the rapper were not happy to hear about the postponement. One user wrote, “Friend, I’m not downloading her stuff either way. Go ahead and drop it.”

Other users took a moment to laugh at the matter.

Opening up about the forthcoming project, Moneybagg told our hip-hop editor, Aaron Williams, “I’m more vulnerable on this project than I’ve ever been because of what I went through in the last two years. I experienced a lot and endured a lot. I went through a lot. So, this album is really personal, but I know the world is going to relate to it because of the stuff I’m saying and the subject matter. I know people going through what I went through across the globe.”

Hard To Love is out 6/2 via CMG Records/Interscope.

Despite an increasingly intense rivalry that’s only gotten worse since Ron DeSantis officially launched his presidential campaign (in disastrous fashion), the Florida governor is not adverse to pardoning Donald Trump if the former president is hit with federal charges for the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and/or his involvement in the January 6 attacks.

While appearing on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show podcast the morning after announcing his 2024 run, DeSantis was asked if he would pardon Trump or January 6 defendants.

“Do you think the Jan. 6 defendants deserve to have their cases examined by a Republican president?” Travis asked. “And if Trump, let’s say, gets charged with federal offenses and you are the president of the United States, would you look at potentially pardoning Trump himself based on the evidence that might emerge of those charges?”

DeSantis assured the right-wing audience that he’d be big on issuing pardons. Via ABC News:

The governor did not mention either Trump or any specific Jan. 6 cases by name but suggested he was open to the idea.

“We will be aggressive [in] issuing pardons,” he said, arguing that the Department of Justice and FBI had become “weaponized” to pursue political rather than law enforcement goals.

However, DeSantis apparently isn’t waiting until he gets into the White House to start doling out powerful favors. A day after announcing his presidential run on Twitter, the Florida governor signed a law that “exempts spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities under certain circumstances.”

Who happens to own such a spaceflight entity? Why Elon Musk, of course. What a coincidence.

(Via ABC News)