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Colin Jost disputes Pete Davidson’s claim that they were both ‘stoned’ when they paid $280,100 for a decommissioned Staten Island ferry: ‘I was actually stone-cold sober’ – Yahoo Entertainment
- Colin Jost disputes Pete Davidson’s claim that they were both ‘stoned’ when they paid $280,100 for a decommissioned Staten Island ferry: ‘I was actually stone-cold sober’ Yahoo Entertainment
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- Colin Jost says he was ‘actually stone-cold sober’ when buying ferry with Pete Davidson USA TODAY
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Buyer’s Remorse: Pete Davidson Has ‘No Idea What’s Going On’ With the Staten Island Ferry He Bought – Rolling Stone
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It began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne.
Brian Herbst had a banner Alaska vacation. He caught rockfish and halibut, saw moose and bears, stayed in a yurt — and in a moment of perfect timing, managed to snap a photo of a minke whale mid-breach, suspended above the waters of Kachemak Bay.
The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.
On July 12, Herbst was on the Danny J Ferry heading to lunch at The Saltry Restaurant in Halibut Cove when the captain announced that a whale was off in the distance. Using his daughter’s high school yearbook camera and a borrowed lens, he started snapping photos.
As the boat turned, the whale began swimming toward him.
“I was like front row on this, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna get this thing, chah chah chah chah,’ ” Herbst said, reenacting the moment during a video interview from his North Carolina home on Thursday morning.
He knew he’d gotten the perfect shot.
[A killer whale was headed toward a sea otter in Kachemak Bay. Then the otter hopped on a boat — and stayed there.]
Afterward, Herbst sent the photo to The Saltry, which posted the image to its social media page. From there, the photo began to circulate online, garnering thousands of likes with captions like “L E V I T A T E” and “minke whale goes vroom.”
A minke whale breaching is rarely captured on camera, said Marc Webber, a marine mammal research scientist and instructor at the Kachemak Bay campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage.
He said it’s a “remarkable photograph.”
In the photo, the whale’s sharp dorsal fin can be seen on top of its body as well as a white band on its flipper — a defining characteristic of minke whales, according to Webber. While the whale is parallel to the water, it’s actually tilted slightly away, showing off its light underbelly.
It’s not known why the whales breach, powering up out of the water and flying into the air, Webber said. It could be a way to signal to other whales by making a loud reentry into the water, or “some heightened state of excitement or demonstration of exuberance,” he said — but that’s just speculation.
Webber has even received reports of minke whales in which people said they’d seen a large dolphin, not knowing it was a minke and unable to gauge its size. Herbst initially thought the whale he saw was a dolphin, based on what he’d seen in North Carolina.
Minke whales are shy most of the time, ignoring and avoiding boats, so they aren’t often glimpsed by people.
[A creeping mass of insect larvae near a Denali lodge raises the question: ‘Am I hallucinating?’]
The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters. They weigh up to 20,000 pounds and typically measure 25 to 30 feet long as adults, far smaller than their gargantuan counterparts, like humpback, blue and gray whales.
And they’re fast, Webber said. Minke whales eat by making high-speed rushes to groups of smaller fish like herring and anchovies, gulping large mouthfuls. They then strain the water out through their baleen, a fingernail-like structure that hangs down in pieces and acts like a sieve, he said.
Back in Kachemak Bay, the minke whale’s breach was followed by a lunch of halibut tacos for Herbst and his family, who were in Alaska for his mother’s 85th birthday. They made it to Homer right as the weather began to turn windy and cold.
“We just hit it so perfect,” he said. “It was just made to happen.”
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At a ceremony for a new ferry, Putin details phone call with Belarusian leader and mentions Baltic Sea access
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he discussed Belarus’ interest in having access to the Baltic Sea in a phone call with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
“Just today we talked with the President of Belarus on this matter. Our Belarusian friends are interested in being present in the Baltic, interested in developing their own port facilities. You know that I also support it,” Putin said during a ceremony for a new Russian ferry, which he attended virtually.
Belarus is a landlocked country, so it is unclear what practical steps Putin and Russia could take to provide access to the Baltic Sea. However, Russia has customs union with Belarus and shares a long common border.
NATO’s Baltic members — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — are among those most concerned about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
This week, a Ukrainian government official told CNN that Ukrainian intelligence indicates Belarusian “readiness to maybe participate directly” in the invasion.
So far, however, US officials have not seen Belarusian troops “being readied to move into Ukraine” or “that they are moving or are in Ukraine,” a senior US defense official said Monday, adding that the forces inside Ukraine are Russian.
The White House on Wednesday detailed a new slate of economic measures levied against Russia and Belarus, condemning Belarus for “enabling Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
“I’ve asked you to provide all possible assistance. This applies to various places, points, structures where our Belarusian friends could fulfill these options. I won’t go into details now, you know about them,” Putin also said during his remarks. “They are important not only for Belarus, but also for us because this is the development of our infrastructure, an increase in cargo transportation on our coast, for our country. Accordingly, the benefits of Belarus will extend to the Russian economy. We are also interested in this, so I ask you to support all these initiatives.”
A province of Russia, Kaliningrad, is situated between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Sea coast.
Eleven passengers missing in Greece ferry fire
The Euroferry Olympia ship had 239 passengers and 51 crew members on board when it caught fire northeast of the island of Ereikousa, close to Corfu, prompting an evacuation.
Two passengers who were trapped on board the ferry for several hours were rescued and airlifted to Corfu Friday afternoon, the Greek Fire Service confirmed to CNN.
The condition of the passengers, who are male and are foreign nationals, is not yet known.
In a statement, The Hellenic Coast Guard said the men would be taken to hospital.
A search operation to find the missing 11 passengers — eight of whom are foreign nationals and three of whom are Greek — continues.
The Hellenic Coast Guard said 278 people had been initially been rescued — among them one individual who was not on the official passenger list.
According to Reuters, most of the passengers boarded rescue vessels and were taken to the neighboring island of Corfu, where they were then registered.
The ship was sailing under the Italian flag and was en route from Igoumenitsa in northwestern Greece to Brindisi in southern Italy when it caught fire.
The Coast Guard received a call about the fire on the ship around 4:30am local time.
A spokesperson for Grimaldi Lines, owner of the Euroferry Olympia, told Reuters that while the cause of the fire was under investigation there were indications it started within the ship’s hold.
A video published on the Greek news website Proto Thema showed the 600-foot (183-meter) ferry engulfed in flames amid plumes of smoke. “May Day” was blasting from the speakers.
Greek public broadcaster ERT showed live pictures of boats carrying passengers arriving at the port of Corfu.
Speaking on ERT, Corfu Hospital Director Leonidas Roubatis confirmed that three passengers with light injuries had been brought in as a precaution, and that an infant was also expected to be examined as a precaution.
In 2014, 10 people were killed when a car ferry carrying 466 passengers and crew caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy.
Two trapped, hundreds rescued after flames engulf Greece-Italy ferry
ATHENS, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Two people are trapped on a ferry that was engulfed in a blaze as it sailed between Greece and Italy in the early hours of Friday, the Greek coastguard said, after scores of others passengers and crew members were rescued.
The coastguard said in total 239 passengers and 51 crew members had been on board the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia and most of them had boarded rescue vessels transferring them to the port of the island of Corfu where ambulances were waiting.
“We were woken up around 4:20 a.m. Within an hour we had left the ship … We were saved by the crew, which acted fast,” one of the passengers told Skai TV via telephone.
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There were no immediate reports of deaths or severe injuries. One person with breathing problems had been taken to the hospital, according to local health authorities.
Greek media reported that at least 10 were feared missing. Authorities could not confirm the information, saying the operation was ongoing. Hours after the alarm was raised, the ship was still ablaze.
“Two people have been trapped in the garage and efforts are being made to lead them to the deck,” one coastguard official said, adding that a helicopter was waiting to airlift them away.
A video uploaded on Greek news website Proto Thema showed the 183-metre (600 foot) ferry on fire and swathed in huge plumes of smoke. “May Day” was blasting from speakers.
The ferry had sailed from Igoumenitsa, the largest port in western Greece, and was headed to the Italian port of Brindisi, about nine hours away.
The fire, the cause of which was not immediately known, broke out near the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea.
The ferry is part of the fleet of group Grimaldi Lines and has a capacity of up to 560 passengers, according to the company’s website.
Grimaldi Lines spokesman Paul Kyprianou told Reuters that the cause of the fire was still under investigation but there were indications it started from the ship’s hold.
“Damage is severe because despite the efforts the crew was unable to extinguish the fire,” he said.
At least three Greek coastguard vessels and the Italian financial police patrol boat Monte Sperone were involved in the rescue operation.
Ship tracking data provided by Refinitiv Eikon showed the Euroferry Olympia performing a U-turn northwest of the North Corfu channel.
In 2014, 10 people were killed when the car ferry Norman Atlantic carrying 466 passengers and crew caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy.
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Pete Davidson And Colin Jost Joked About Their Ferry On SNL
“We bought a ferry! The windowless van of the sea.”
Once again, Saturday Night Live is making jokes about Pete Davidson’s life outside of the show, but this time the joke is about a recent purchase he made with one of his costars.
It happened during this week’s “Weekend Update,” when anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che were joined by “Guy Who Just Bought a Boat” (Alex Moffat).
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“Guy Who Just Bought a Boat” comes on “Update” to talk about any particular topic, but ends up making terrible, awful, cringey sex jokes that frequently reference his small penis and lacking sexual ability. I promise it’s funny.
It was quickly pointed out that Colin himself is a new boat owner, leading him to invite “Guy Who Just Bought a Ferry” on stage…Pete Davidson, the co-owner of said boat.
Pete quickly made a joke about their co-investor, who he guarantees is a real person.
Then they talked about the sheer size of the ferry, which is when things started to go downhill for Pete.
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Pete was giggling from the moment he came out, but the man really lost it at “Mine’s like a tuna can.”
Colin and “Guy” kept talking about the ferry while Pete happily giggled next to them, and no, he never recovered his composure. Even Colin lost it a little bit!
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Pete could barely squeak out his last line, it was very funny.
Pete Davidson and Colin Jost Just Bought a Staten Island Ferry
For about 24 hours, it was a New York City mystery: Who would pay more than $280,000 for a hulking, orange 57-year-old Staten Island Ferry boat whose engines don’t work?
The answer turned out to be a group of investors that includes two of the most famous natives of the island, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, cast members of “Saturday Night Live.”
Mr. Davidson and Mr. Jost joined a consortium of New Yorkers who placed the winning bid in an auction that ended on Wednesday, according to Paul Italia, a comedy club owner who did the bidding for the group. A spokeswoman for NBC, the network that broadcasts “S.N.L.,” also confirmed the involvement of the two performers.
“Yes, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are involved,” said Mr. Italia, who founded The Stand, a comedy club in Manhattan. “Yes, we bought the boat and we have a general idea of our dream of what we want to do.”
Mr. Italia said they were considering turning the ferry into “an arts and entertainment venue” but added that it was too soon to know what was feasible. “The reality is that everyone who came together on this has a sincere motive to see the right thing happen, to restore a piece of New York,” he said.
Mr. Italia described the buyers as a group of like-minded New York City natives who wanted to save the old boat from being scrapped. He said Mr. Davidson and Mr. Jost got involved because the ferry, known as the John F. Kennedy, “had a special place in their hearts as Staten Island natives.”
Mr. Davidson, who still lives on Staten Island, has made fun of his roots on “Saturday Night Live,” noting the borough’s former gargantuan garbage dump and its abundance of pizzerias and bagel shops.
He starred in “The King of Staten Island,” a 2020 movie in which his character spends his days smoking marijuana and dreaming of becoming a tattoo artist. And lately, he has thrilled residents of the borough by bringing his even-more-famous girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, to visit.
Mr. Jost wrote in his 2020 memoir, “A Very Punchable Face,” that his commute to high school in Manhattan involved riding the ferry every weekday. Mr. Jost, who is married to the actress Scarlett Johansson, no longer lives on Staten Island.
Among the other investors in the boat is Ron Castellano, who described himself as an architect, developer and contractor. Mr. Castellano said the Kennedy had significant historic value as the last of an old style of ferries. The purchasers of the ferry were first reported by Vulture.
The Kennedy, which was commissioned in 1965, was by far the oldest boat in the city’s fleet when it was retired in August, said Vincent Barone, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Transportation.
Despite its age, the Kennedy was popular with riders because it had broad promenades on its decks that provided space for riding in the open air and made it easy for passengers to board and disembark.
The city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services put the ferry up for auction this month, seeking an initial bid of $250,000. After it was lowered to $125,000, Mr. Italia started bidding. But, he said, each of his bids was quickly countered by an undisclosed rival.
The top bids hovered around $140,000 until the Wednesday evening deadline approached. At the last minute, Mr. Italia’s rival bid $280,000, triggering a brief extension during which Mr. Italia placed the winning bid: $280,100.
“He certainly made us spend more money than we wanted to,” Mr. Italia said of the unidentified rival.
But the purchase price is the least of the buyers’ concerns now, he said. The auction website made clear that the boat was being sold “as is” and “where is,’’ which is at the St. George Ferry Terminal along the north shore of Staten Island.
The buyers have about two weeks to move the boat, which is 277 feet long, 69 feet wide and weighs more than 2,100 tons.
Mr. Italia said it would take two tugboats to tow the Kennedy and a lot of money to store it while its ultimate destination is determined. In the meantime, he said, the owners will seek help from the city and the state.
“We’re going to need a tremendous amount of support to get this done,” he said. “It’s a heavy lift.”
Defense Secretary Orders Six Commercial Airlines to Help Ferry Afghan Refugees
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered six commercial airlines to provide passenger jets to help with the growing U.S. military operation evacuating Americans and Afghan allies from Kabul, the Afghan capital, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
Mr. Austin activated Stage 1 of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, created in 1952 after the Berlin airlift, to provide 18 airliners to help ferry passengers arriving at bases in the Middle East from Afghanistan, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
The current activation is for 18 planes: four from United Airlines; three each from American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines and Omni Air; and two from Hawaiian Airlines.
The Pentagon does not anticipate a major impact to commercial flights, Mr. Kirby said.
Capt. John Perkins, a spokesman for the military’s Transportation Command, said on Sunday that the commercial airliners would begin service on Monday or Tuesday and that they would fly evacuees both from the Middle East to Europe and from Europe to the United States.
Captain Perkins said in a telephone interview that the military had requested wide-bodied, long-haul aircraft capable of carrying several hundred passengers. He said that discussions started with the airlines last week and that some carriers had volunteered planes for the evacuation. But, he added, the demand was great enough for Mr. Austin to order more airlines to honor their obligations under the reserve fleet program.
Civilian planes would not fly into or out of Kabul, where a rapidly deteriorating security situation has hampered evacuation flights. Instead, commercial airline pilots and crews would help transport thousands of Afghans who are arriving at U.S. bases in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The commercial airlines would ease the burden on those bases, which are filling up rapidly as the Biden administration rushes to increase the number of flights for thousands of Afghans fearing reprisals from Taliban fighters.
From the bases in the Middle East, the airliners would augment military flights carrying Afghans to Germany, Italy, Spain and other stops in Europe, and then ultimately to the United States for many of the Afghans, officials said.
Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, said on social media, “As a global airline and flag carrier for our country, we embrace the responsibility to quickly respond to international challenges like this one.”
“It’s a duty we take with the utmost care and coordination,” he added.
The airline noted that four of its Boeing 777 planes, which seat as many as 350 people, had been activated.
This is just the third time that the reserve air fleet has been used. The first was during the Persian Gulf war (from August 1990 to May 1991). The second was during the Iraq war (from February 2002 to June 2003).
For the evacuation mission, one of the largest the Pentagon has ever conducted, the military has expanded beyond its fleet of C-17s, the cargo plane of choice in hostile environments, to include giant C-5s and KC-10s, a refueling plane that can be configured to carry passengers.