A Harvard Business School graduate took a risky dig at billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca on a recent episode of "Shark Tank" — and it almost paid off.

College friends Jon Staff and Pete Davis recently appeared on the show to pitch their startup, Getaway, which rents out tiny houses in the woods for city-dwellers looking to unplug.

Staff and Davis, who have already raised $1.2 million in seed funding, walked on the show seeking a $500,000 investment for 5% equity at a valuation of $10 million.

They set their sights on Sacca, a legendary angel investor who made early bets on Uber, Twitter, and Instagram— and shares the cofounders' love of the outdoors. The Upstate New York native owns two wood cabins on Lake Tahoe, in addition to an estate in Great Falls, Montana.

Davis took a shot at Sacca in what looked like an attempt to guilt him into an investment.

"You have brought and shepherded much technology into this world, and you know technology needs a counter-balance. We can provide a counter-balance," Davis said. "You can pay amends for helping bring Twitter into this world. And this is the anti-Twitter."

It seemed to work. Sacca offered up $500,000 for 7.14% stake at a valuation of $7 million.

This would have been a better deal for Sacca than Gateway's prior investors had been offered. Staff and Davis worried taking Sacca's offer would irritate their most loyal backers, and ultimately turned it down.

Still, Staff, who is CEO, admits it was a tempting offer.

"You get caught up in it, for sure. ... Chris Sacca is a big deal. I didn't really know that fully. But all my Silicon Valley bro-friends are like, 'Chris Sacca, dude, like what!" Staff says, putting on a Southern California accent.

"But ultimately … it doesn't matter how famous you are, even if you can add more value because you're Chris Sacca. It's like, I have people who backed me from day one, when this was totally a crazy idea, and I can't give you a better deal than they're getting and go face them."

They walked away empty-handed.

Sacca later tweeted that he was into the idea, but couldn't find evidence to support a $10 million valuation.

Within 24 hours of the episode's airing, 100,000 visitors came to Getaway's website, compared with its typical 1,000 to 3,300 visitors a day. The company also experienced an uptick in reservations. Davis said the company's half a dozen tiny houses are booked through the end of summer.

Getaway's houses, which range from 160 to 200 square feet, are located within two hour's drive of Boston and New York City. Each home comes with s'mores supplies, board games, heating and electricity, and the creature comforts of home. They rent for as little as $99 a night.

Staff and Davis hope to bring the cabins to 30 US cities by 2022. 

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Apple Music and Spotify are bitter rivals for streaming music subscribers, and apparently, behind-the-scenes music industry talent.

Apple hired former Spotify VP of Content Steve Savoca in January, an Apple spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. 

At Spotify, he served as the global head of label relations, according to a Billboard report from last summer when he left the Swedish streaming giant after five years.

He'll be doing the same thing for Apple that he did for Spotify — heading up label relations based out of New York, focusing on relationships with smaller, independent labels, especially internationally, Business Insider has learned. 

He was reportedly one of Spotify's first US employees. Before that, he held roles at Domino Records and other labels. Spotify's current head of label relations is Rob Harvey.

Apple Music's leadership, including Jimmy Iovine, have said in recent weeks that its service needs to do more than have the same catalog of songs as Spotify. Apple Music's content chief, Larry Jackson, outlined his goal for the product in December: 

"Make something that’s the intersection of all things pop-culture. To make it more than just a utility. I like to think of it as a place where the best creative thinkers in music can congregate and come up with different ideas.”

Apple said in December that its streaming music service has over 20 million paid subscribers. Spotify said in October that it had 40 million subscribers. 

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The first season of "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath" has wrapped, but its revelations about the notorious church will be hard to forget.

After splitting from the church in 2013, "King of Queens" star Leah Remini gave other former Scientologists a platform to discuss their reported harrowing experiences on the A&E series.

She was joined by former high-ranking people in the organization who each have their own stories about the secretive teachings, alleged shady business dealings, and purported abuses of its followers, former members, and their families.

The church declined to take part in the series. It says that the statements Remini and the other contributors to the show have made about Scientology are false and driven by a desire to profit or gain publicity from their time in the religion.

Here are all the most shocking revelations about Scientology according to the show:

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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was under investigation in multiple countries and lived on a ship to supposedly evade any one country's jurisdiction.

Scientolology's former international spokesperson Mike Rinder explained that in the early years of Scientology, the church was under investigation for being a cult. In fact, Australia banned the religion in 1965 after its investigation.

L. Ron Hubbard lived on a ship called the Apollo. Rinder described it as the “floating headquarters for Scientology.” Since he was being investigated by the UK and other countries, Hubbard found that he could sail away when necessary into international waters and away from the jurisdiction of any one country.

L. Ron Hubbard based Scientology on his claim that he healed himself from war injuries — a claim that "Going Clear" author Lawrence Wright says is fabricated.

Lawrence Wright, the author of the best-selling book on Scientology, "Going Clear," says his research found that Scientology's documentation of Hubbard's injuries and military service was faked.

Wright said his research into Navy documents found that Hubbard had no serious injuries, which Wright sees as a major fault in the church's foundation.

Additionally, Wright said he found that Scientology's claims that Hubbard received many military service awards and records were false. In response, Wright said, the church told him that the records were "sheep-dipped" — that the military created a whole set of fake documents to cover up Hubbard's covert military duties.

"That's the person that the church has to protect," Wright said. "With encasing [Hubbard] in this myth, they try to cover the efforts of people like me and others to uncover the truth."

David Miscavige rose to lead Scientology by capitalizing on Hubbard's death.

After steadily rising through the ranks and becoming Hubbard's most trusted advisor, David Miscavige announced the founder's death in 1986. Hubbard's passing was framed as an intentional decision by him to leave his body in order to go on to even higher levels of spiritual being.

“The core belief of Scientology is that you are a spiritual being," Remini explained. "L. Ron Hubbard had reached, obviously, the highest level of Scientology there was to reach, promoting this idea that there’s an afterlife, and he found the answer to it by deciding to discard this body to go explore new OT levels. All of this is bulls--t. L. Ron Hubbard died of a stroke.” 

As Hubbard's closest advisor, Miscavige assumed the leadership of Scientology. His official title is Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center. But according to Rinder, David likes to refer to himself as "the Pope of Scientology."

Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat's parent company, is an intensely private person.

As his company prepares for a potentially blockbuster IPO, the 26-year-old's public profile is almost nonexistent. He rarely gives interviews, never tweets, and doesn't have a public Facebook account. Even his Snapchat account isn't widely known outside of his inner circles.

Curiously though, Spiegel does choose to regularly share his taste in music through Hype Machine, an app that lets you share tracks you're listening to from places like SoundCloud and Spotify.

We recently perused Spiegel's public Hype Machine account to see which tunes he's listening to ahead of Snap's big IPO. The LA native mainly likes dance pop, but he occasionally sprinkles in other genres with the likes of Bob Dylan.

On Wednesday, he listened to Louis The Child's "Love Is Alive," which Billboard described as a "sweetly-empowering" dance pop track from LA producer Elohim. He also 'loved' the song "Phones Down" by Lost Kings, a moody track with the chorus, "Why don't you put that f**king phone down / Darling, so we can be alone now."

The song he’s ‘obsessed' with the most — a metric Hype Machine uses for tracks played the most frequently by an account — happens to be “Yea, Babe, No Way” by LANY, a youthful pop band from LA.

Spiegel's love for music has been well documented over the years— he's even considered running a music label within Snapchat at one point. Snap was the main sponsor for last year's Santa Monica Pier Twilight music festival.

You can peruse Spiegel's full listening history on his Hype Machine account. Snap cofounder Bobby Murphy also uses the service, but he doesn't share tracks as regularly.

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Bill Paxton hopes that viewers will come to his new CBS show, "Training Day," with an open mind.

The series is based on the the popular 2001 film of the same name, which won Denzel Washington an Oscar for playing a rogue detective whose new partner, a rookie narcotics officer placed by Ethan Hawke, is spying on the veteran cop.

"I think the show is a departure from the original in many ways," Paxton told Business Insider recently.

"They have to kind of just take a ride with us," he continued. "It’s 'Training Day' – you’re gonna do a ride-along. Come with us and see where it takes you. Leave your preconceptions at the door. We’re talking about a movie that is considered an iconic modern masterpiece that displays contemporary actors of the last few generations, won the Academy Award for Denzel Washington."

Mirroring the characters in the film, the 61-year-old actor steps into the role of Det. Frank Rourke opposite Hollywood rookie Justin Cornwell, 28, as Kyle Craig. The young actor's credits include just single appearances on Fox's "Empire" and NBC's "Chicago P.D.," as well as an unnamed role in the 2015 Spike Lee movie "Chi-Raq."

"It’s been a cool dynamic. And I gotta say I love Justin Cornwell, a new actor in town," Paxton said, "which is kind of funny, because it’s like art imitating life. I’ve been in Hollywood for 40 years counting and he’s only been out here for a couple months."

Paxton said the show is definitely lighter than the movie, which didn't exactly leave audiences with an upbeat feeling.

"It was a very R-rated, dark, gritty, tragic story of complete nihilism and corruption," he said. "This has corruption in it, and there’s some nihilism in it. There’s certainly some cynicism in it, but it is a moral story that could have some hope in it."

And as for his spin on the Denzel Washington role, the former "Big Love" star said he tried really hard to understand how a young man could start a police career and then end up working outside the system and hopes viewers get that from the show.

"These are cops who go after the worst of the worst," the actor said. "It’s beyond the racial politics that are happening in police forces and stuff. That’s a whole other animal. These guys are going after people that are really bad. And they try to catch them in the commission of a crime and try to take them down. Frank’s the kind of guy who wants to take the guy into the gunfight. He doesn’t want to go through the legal system, which can be very corrupt, depending on who’s representing you. So you gotta leave it at the door a little bit."

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Construction company 84 Lumber seems to be deliberately looking to provoke controversy with its Super Bowl ad, which depicts a Mexican mother and daughter embarking on an arduous journey, apparently to leave their country of origin.

As the two cross the country by foot, truck, and train in the 90-second long "The Journey Begins" spot, the girl picks up scraps of material on her way, in the color of the Mexican flag, which she stitches together by firelight.

The ad ends with viewers being invited to see the conclusion of their story at a dedicated website, which promises "content deemed too controversial for TV," which will be unveiled at half-time during the big game this Sunday.

A spokesperson for Brunner, the creative agency behind the ad, confirmed to Adweek "the conclusion is about immigration."

It is well-known that President Donald Trump has taken a hard line on immigration and has promised to build a border wall that Mexico will pay for — so there's little doubt this ad will stoke some fires on game day.

And, as Adweek points out, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that was 84 Lumber's intention after all.

84 Lumber said last month the first cut of its ad was rejected by Super Bowl broadcaster Fox for being too political. The ad had featured a "wall" blocking people from looking for work in the US.

At the time, Brunner CEO Michael Brunner sent Business Insider this statement:

"Fox rejected our original commercial because they determined that some of the imagery, including ‘the wall’ would be too controversial. So we went back and revised the spot to make it acceptable to them. 84 Lumber challenged us to create a thought-provoking 90 second spot that would tell the world who 84 Lumber is and what they stand for – a company looking for people with grit, determination and heart, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they look like. And while that full story will no longer be told on TV at the Super Bowl, we all believe too strongly in that message to leave it on the editing room floor. So we are going to launch it during the Super Bowl and make the full story available online."

Fox is reportedly charging advertisers just over $5 million for a 30-second advertising slot during the Super Bowl this year, suggesting 84 Lumber paid in the region of $15 million for this ad.

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President Donald Trump continued his feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday morning, criticizing the actor for both his past job as governor of California and his current role as host of the new "Celebrity Apprentice," which he inherited from Trump.

"Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice...but at least he tried hard!," Trump tweeted.

Trump has previously knocked Schwarzenegger for getting lower ratings on the "Celebrity Apprentice" than he did as host.

"Schwarzenegger got 'swamped' (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for being a movie star," Trump tweeted after the first episode.

On Thursday, during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president joked, "I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings."

Schwarzenegger responded to Thursday's jab in a video posted on his Twitter account.

"Hey Donald, I have a great idea," Schwarzenegger said. "Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV, because you're such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job. Then people can finally sleep comfortably again."

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Singer Frank Ocean’s father, Calvin Cooksey, has filed a defamation lawsuit against his son over something the singer posted on Tumblr. 

According to TMZ, Cooksey wants $14.5 million in damages because he claims his son falsely accused him of using the word “faggot” in a revealing Tumblr post last summer. 

“I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty,” Ocean, who is openly bisexual, wrote. “That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t. Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist.”

Cooksey — who has reportedly called himself a singer, writer, and inventor — claims that the content in the post has damaged his financial opportunities in the music and film industry. This isn’t the first multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit Cooksey has filed against a music figure. In 2014, he filed a $142 million lawsuit against legendary hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons for calling Cooksey a “deadbeat dad.” 

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The popular augmented reality (AR) app has generated astounding results, surpassing $1 billion in revenue after launching just this past July, according to SensorTower.

For comparison, Clash Royale, another app that is closing in on $1 billion in revenue, grossed $550 million in its first seven months.

And although daily revenue on Pokémon Go has fallen in the six or so months since its launch, the game is still pulling in up to $2.5 million every day globally. 

The continued success of Pokémon Go could be the result of three factors and can serve as an example for how publishers and marketers should approach mobile apps moving forward: 

• Strong franchise recognition. The Pokémon phenomenon began as a successful Game Boy game, before becoming a popular TV show and splitting into the other markets. This instant recognition gave the company the ability to generate massive interest in its launch. It could also have leaned on nostalgia from older users that played the game when they were younger.
• Utilizing smartphone capabilities. There is nothing particularly innovative about Pokémon Go’s gameplay, however, the app does cleverly utilize everyday smartphone capabilities, namely mapping technology and the phone camera, to create an AR-esque novelty that users found highly engaging.
• Leveraging national events. Pokémon Go reinvigorates usage and user spending by offering limited-time events tied to national holidays, such as its successful Halloween offer. The in-game event boosted revenue 133% between October 25 and 29, to reach $23.3 million globally. For context, the app generated $10 million from October 18 to 22.

Over the past eight years, developers have flocked to create mobile games as smartphones became a mainstream consumer device. Technological evolutions including faster processors, larger screens, more input points, and better overall graphics capabilities, combined with dropping prices, brought the ability for gaming via smartphone to audiences larger than ever before.

In that growth and through that transition, smartphones as a gaming arena experienced its own evolution. More developers flocked to this medium, and the gaming sections of app stores became saturated. While mobile gaming apps using an up-front paid downloading model, wherein consumers paid a typically nominal fee to download an app, flourished in the early days of mobile gaming, the deluge of apps led to a change in monetization strategy.

More apps started using the free-to-play (F2P) model, wherein a consumer can download an app for free, and is then later monetized either via in-app purchases or in-app advertising. Since that transition, most consumers have been conditioned to expect quality mobile gaming apps for little or no cost.

Jessica Smith, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on mobile gaming that examines how the mobile gaming market has been affected by the transition to F2P monetization.

It also takes a close look at how saturation in the mobile gaming category, combined with the standard F2P model, has led to numerous issues for developers, including spiking marketing costs, the premium on acquiring users who will spend heavily within a game (called whales), and the impact that it's having on mobile gamers who do not spend in-app. The report then identifies innovations in mobile app marketing and engagement that seek to alleviate the issues of F2P and inadequate monetization in the fact of mounting marketing costs.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• The mobile gaming app market is so big it makes other app categories seem small by comparison. Mobile gaming apps accounted for 20% of active apps in Apple's App Store in March 2016, according to AppsFlyer. That’s more than double the second most popular category, business apps.
• It's only going to keep growing as quality smartphones become more accessible and more consumers look to their smartphones for gaming. In the US alone, 180.4 million consumers will play games on their mobile phones in 2016, representing 56% of the population and a whopping 70% of all mobile phone users, according to estimates from eMarketer.
• This quick growth is resulting in numerous growing pains. Saturation in the market has led to the dominance of the free-to-play (F2P) monetization model, which in turn has led to sky-high marketing costs.
• As marketing costs for mobile gaming apps has skyrocketed, so has the tendency for apps to focus on the very small segment of players who spend money in-app. This has resulted in game mechanics that optimize the amount of money being spent by this small user group, which can often alienate the large swath of users who do not spend money in-app.
• There are numerous new solutions coming to market that offer developers and publishing houses a diverse selection of monetization models which combine in-app purchases with other methods.

In full, the report:

• Sizes up the current mobile gaming app market and its future growth trajectory.
• Examines the role of free-to-play (F2P) games in the greater mobile gaming ecosystem.
• Identifies the major threats and opportunities inherent in the current mobile gaming market and in peripheral markets such as marketing.
• Explains the current monetization conundrum wherein the vast majority of revenue comes abysmally small segments of mobile gamers.
• Presents new approaches and solutions that can help mobile gaming apps monetize without alienating swaths of mobile gamers.

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Sony's PlayStation 4 is a ridiculously popular game console, with over 50 million sold since launch in 2013. At this point, nearly four years later, there are dozens of fantastic games on Sony's console.

But with that wealth of games comes a major problem: storage space.

The standard issue PlayStation 4 comes with a measly 500 GB of storage space. Sounds like a lot, right? As most PS4 owners will tell you, it fills up mighty quickly. With many major games these days coming in at 30 - 80 GBs, you can easily fill that storage space with a dozen games or so.

A frustrating juggling scenario emerges from this situation — many folks find themselves deleting older games as a means of playing new ones. That's not such a big deal if you're playing mostly single-player, narrative-driven games that you're unlikely to re-visit. But with more and more games these days — stuff like "Overwatch," for instance — people are sticking around for months at a time.

So, what's the solution?

It's true: An external hard drive is your most logical choice. Unfortunately, the current PlayStation 4 doesn't allow for external hard drives. You can unscrew a panel on the side of your PS4, remove the internal hard drive, and replace it with a new one. It's a whole thing.

Or, even better, after the upcoming PlayStation 4 system update ("4.50"), you can just plug an external hard drive in and immediately expand your storage dramatically. How dramatically? Up to 8 TB. That's sixteen times more storage space, in case you're wondering.

Pretty great!

The one caveat is that the external hard drive has to be of the USB 3.0 variety — any hard drive you buy in 2017 should be compliant with this, but do yourself a favor and check the box/ask a sales associate if you're unsure.

There are a couple of other neat features in the PS4 system update that are worth knowing about:

• Custom wallpapers are finally being added, so you can use in-game screenshots as the background on your PS4's main menu.
• Sony's streamlining several menus, including the "Quick Menu" (which comes up from a push-and-hold of the PlayStation button) and the "Notifications" menu (which has been simplified into a single list).

It's not clear exactly when the 4.50 system update will arrive for all PS4 owners, but anyone in the beta program gets access starting on Friday, February 3. That said, we expect it'll roll out to everyone in the next few weeks. If you want to read all the details from Sony, check out the blog post right here.

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On Thursday's "Late Night with Seth Meyers," the host used his "A Closer Look" segment to delve into the "bizarre" second week of Donald Trump's presidency, and boy was there a lot to cover.

There was the time when Trump celebrated the start of Black History Month by praising abolitionist Frederick Douglass, though, as Meyers put it, "it seemed pretty clear that not only did Trump not know who Frederick Douglass was, he also seemed to think Douglass, who died in 1895, might still be alive."

"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice," Trump said in remarks that made the abolitionist seem oddly contemporary.

Things didn't get better for Trump as reports surfaced of the calls he made to world leaders that ran the gamut, including seemingly threatening Mexican President Pena Nieto that he was going to bring US troops to fight the drug cartels in Mexico because "you have a bunch of bad hombres down there." Trump also reportedly told Nieto on the call, "You aren't doing enough to stop them."

And then while on the phone with the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Trump cut the call short and told Turnbull, "This is the worst call by far" of the ones he's had with world leaders.

"How antisocial do you have to be to not get along with f---ing Australia?" Meyers said. "Australians are the most laid-back people on earth."

Meyers points out that all of this — along with Trump's executive order placing a controversial temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from several predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US — has led to the president having a majority disapproval in opinion polls, and he got there so quickly it set a record: It happened in only eight days.

"Or as Trump puts it, 'We have accomplished something faster than any president in history,'" Meyers joked.

Watch Meyers' complete "A Closer Look" segment below:

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Stephen Colbert thinks that the annual National Prayer Breakfast was neither the time nor the place for President Donald Trump's attack on Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"The National Prayer Breakfast has been around since Eisenhower, right? It's a solemn occasion, and it's always an opportunity for presidents to bring people of all faiths together and solemnly share what is most sacred to them," the "Late Show" host said on Thursday night, before playing a clip from Trump's speech at the event.

At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Trump wanted to "pray" for Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Celebrity Apprentice" ratings, which have been lower than Trump's previous season of the NBC reality show.

"You heard that correctly — your ears did not deceive you," Colbert said after playing the clip. "The president used the National Prayer Breakfast to insult Arnold Schwarzenegger. I hear tomorrow he's going to roast Rosie O'Donnell at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."

Colbert was more impressed by Schwarzenegger's video response to Trump's jab later on Thursday. In it, the movie star and former California governor suggested that he and Trump should switch jobs, so that "people can finally sleep comfortably again."

"Oh, damn! Is this the War of 1812? 'Cause the White House just got burnt," Colbert said.

Watch Colbert's response to Trump's inappropriately timed insults below:

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Stephen Colbert believes Donald Trump has been stealing from his "Colbert Report," and he's calling the president out.

Colbert's anger was stoked when he saw that Trump used the terms "on notice" in a tweet about Iran's launch of a missile.

"I notice that Trump keeps stealing from me," the host said. "On my old show, I put people 'on notice' on my on notice board."

"And this is not the first time Donald Trump has ripped me off," Colbert continued. "I came up with the whole over-the-top TV character who's desperate to be loved, doesn't believe in facts, and has a pet eagle. That's mine."

Colbert presented a pretty convincing case, but there's more.

"We both ran for president," he added. "Only one of us knew it was a joke. So for stealing my old act, I'm putting Donald Trump on notice."

He then dusted off the "on notice" board from Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" and brought it in to officially put Trump on notice.

"Do you have any understanding the effect that just had?" Colbert said. "Exactly the same amount of effect as you putting Iran on notice: zero."

Watch the video below:

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If you want to get an unfiltered glimpse inside the real Donald Trump, there's no one better to turn to than Howard Stern.

The legendary shock jock has traveled in the same celebrity orbit as the business mogul turned reality-show star turned president for decades, and has had Trump on his show numerous times (Trump was even at Stern's wedding to Beth Ostrosky).

So in the last week, where polls show that Trump's approval rating is historically low, you have to wonder how he's taking it all. Stern has some thoughts, and it sounds like he thinks Trump cares quite a bit about his public perception.

"I know something about Donald Trump," Stern said on his radio show recently.

"He really does want to be loved, he does want people to really love him, that drives him a lot. I think he has a very sensitive ego. And when you’re president of the United States people are going to be very, very critica,l and I think in his mind right now he’s saying 'I want to protect the country'… I think his motive is 'People will love me because I’m going to keep terrorists out of the country.' I think he’s genuinely shocked when people come back and say, 'Wait a second, there’s more to this.'"

Stern went on to say that he and Trump talked a lot over the phone when Trump announced his presidency, and, along with Stern telling him he was a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter, he tried to talk Trump out of running.

"I said, why would you want to be the president of the United States — you’re not going to be beloved," Stern said. "It’s going to be a f---ing nightmare in your life."

Stern — who still considers Trump a friend, though Stern voted for Clinton — said he was surprised at the political views President Trump has taken.

"I don't believe that he's had some rethink on abortion — he's playing to his constituency, which is this religious right," Stern added.

And when it comes to the press and Hollywood being critical of Trump, Stern believes that's the deepest wound of all.

"He loves the press, he lives for it," said Stern. "He loves people in Hollywood. He only wants to hobnob with them."

Stern's theory is that Trump's whole run for presidency was just a negotiation maneuver to get more money out of NBC while he and the network were discussing a new season of "The Apprentice."

Now that Trump is president, Stern is concerned about the health of his friend.

"This is something that’s going to be detrimental to his mental health because he wants to be liked, he wants to be loved, he wants people to cheer for him," he said.

"There are people who are better suited for this kind of thing," Stern said of the presidency, "and he didn’t need this in his life."

Listen to Stern's thoughts on Trump as president below:

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Super Bowl 51 is set to air on Fox on February 5 and, as usual, the big game's broadcast will be stuffed to the brim with big-money ads, reportedly costing $5 million for a 30-second slot.

Brands are now starting to share their ads and teasers as the Super Bowl draws closer.

We'll be keeping you up to date with all the latest commercials, teasers, and other Super Bowl ads news.

Scroll down to see what we know so far about the Super Bowl ads (we've organized all the news in alphabetical order, by brand.)

84 Lumber

Construction-supply company 84 Lumber has splashed out an estimated $15 million on a 90-second ad — its debut Super Bowl spot, AdAge reported. The ad, created by Brunner, will air in the second quarter, before half-time and aims to recruit new employees. 

However, the first cut of the ad has had to be scrapped after Fox rejected it for being "too political," Campaign first reported. The creative had featured a wall blocking people looking for work in the US.

The final version seems, if anything, even more controversial. The ad appears to show a Mexican woman and her daughter on an arduous journey to find work. 

A website for the ad also asks viewers to "complete the journey during halftime," suggesting that the end of the duo's journey is "too controversial for TV."

Audi

The automaker is returning to the Super Bowl for the ninth time, with an ad created by agency Venables Bell & Partners, according to Adweek.

Last year's spot featured David Bowie's "Starman":

Avocados from Mexico

Avocados from Mexico told Business Insider in December it was coming back to the Super Bowl in 2017. It's the third year in a row the brand has advertised in the big game.

This year's ad will be focused on promoting the fact that avocados are healthy, something the company was not explicitly permitted to do so in the past due to old FDA rules.

Here's the ad itself:

February is always an awkward month for new movies. All of the Oscar darlings are already out along with the holiday blockbusters. And if you’re here, you’re probably looking for the best new movie to catch in theaters while you impatiently await the Oscars later this month. 

This week is a mixed bag, with some great documentaries and indie films in the mix of some not-so-hot-looking horror and romantic titles, because Valentine's Day is coming and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

Despite the duds, February 2017 is already looking like it won't be as bad as January.

Here are the best and worst movies out right now, as rated by critics on Metacritic:

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THE BEST: "I Am Not Your Negro"

Metacritic score: 96/100

Summary: This documentary uses author James Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to explore current racial tesnsions in the United States.

What they’re saying:“It is a searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten.” —The Hollywood Reporter

"Oklahoma City"

Metacritic score: 74/100

Summary: This documentary traces the events that led to the Oklahoma City bombing, the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. 

What they’re saying:“Oklahoma City suggests that conspiracy theories today have consequences for tomorrow — a message with terrifying implications in an age of fake news.” —The Los Angeles Times 

"Dark Night"

Metacritic score: 61/100 

Summary: The lives of six strangers intersect when a violent massacre occurs at a suburban cineplex.

Who’s in it: Anna Rose Hopkins, Robert Jumper, Karina Macias

What they’re saying:“At once a glib play on words and a sobering rumination on the mindset of a suburban America simultaneously obsessed with and plagued by gun violence.” —Variety

Actress Margot Robbie playing disgraced US figure skater Tonya Harding in the movie "I, Tonya" has been a talking point on the internet since news broke of the project's development last March.

The film follows Harding's rise in US figure skating in the early 1990s and the infamy that came after two men who were hired by Harding’s then-husband, Jeff Gillooly, attacked Harding's rival Nancy Kerrigan at a competition leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics. 

So far we've caught a glimpse of the "Suicide Squad" star dressed in her early-'90s best to play Harding:

And now we can see Robbie's moves on the ice. On Thursday, the Daily Mail posted video from the set of "I, Tonya," showing Robbie as Harding skating on ice.

It looks like Robbie is going all in for the role. 

"I, Tonya" currently doesn't have a release date.

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Netlfix's new zombie comedy, "Santa Clarita Diet," really benefits from binge-watching.

I say that because the premiere episode is not good. If the show, which premieres on Friday, were on some kind of weekly schedule, I wouldn't be back for for the second episode. Thankfully for "Santa Clarita Diet," Netflix is about binge-watching and there's a marked improvement from the first episode to the second, which are both directed by Ruben Fleischer ("Zombieland"), and that may hook viewers. Smartly, Netflix sent critics the entire first season of 10 episodes to review.

Created by Victor Fresco ("Better Off Ted"), "Santa Clarita Diet" stars Drew Barrymore, who is also an executive producer, as suburban wife and mom Sheila; Timothy Olyphant as her husband Joel; and Liv Hewson as their teen daughter Abby. They live in the cookie-cutter city of Santa Clarita, a suburb about an hour north of Los Angeles for those who want to escape the urban jungle and raise their family.

Reserved and skittish when we first meet her, Sheila begins to feel ill. As her illness escalates, so does her impulse to act on her raw desires. She's diagnosed as undead by the geeky boy across the street, Eric (endearingly played by Skyer Gisondo). Sheila pulls her family into the spiral of finding ways to satiate her hunger for human flesh while upholding the appearance of normalcy that defines Santa Clarita.

The problems with the first episode include a search for the right balance between a gory zombie show and family comedy. Barrymore and Olyphant don't help matters. She seems a little too flippant about her zombie transformation and Olyphant, a veteran of dramas like "Deadwood," is way too intense in moments.

Plus, if we're to make the connection between being undead and the monotony of suburban life, then we need to get a better feel for that life. Are they unhappy with their marriage? Is the sex bad? Will Sheila lose it after one more PTA bake sale? How bad are their jobs as real-estate agents? The opening episode has to establish Sheila's malady (in a whole lot of disgusting ways) so quickly that we don't really get a sense of any of that.

Things begin to fall into place on the episodes that follow as Barrymore and Olyphant sink into their roles. She gets to play to her goofy and irreverent side and Olyphant's inclination for severity begins to fit the situation better. That's not to say that the show's problems get ironed out, but there's great improvement.

Through it all, Hewson as daughter Abby is a pretty solid player and makes the most sense in the context of the show. Like a teen who decides nothing really matters when there's trouble at home, Abby begins to withdraw from school and follow her wilder side.

Fans of the zombie-comedy genre will enjoy the show's more gory and disgusting elements. Sheila vomits... a lot, tears into people with her teeth, and does things like point to part of a man's severed arm and say, "This is the filet mignon for humans." The show is vague about what exactly caused Sheila's transformation, so zombie aficionados may enjoy theorizing about that.

In the end, "Santa Clarita" is both a zombie show and a comment on suburban life, though it never quite nails either tone. It's best when it plays to the comedy/heist/murder elements of both keeping Sheila's hunger at bay and hiding her strange secret from the neighbors.

Watch a trailer for "Santa Clarita Diet" below:

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Eminem isn't stepping away from politics under President Trump.

The rapper joins Big Sean on the latter's new album, "I Decided," out Friday. On the track "No Favors," Eminem provides a verse that calls Trump a "b----," continuing Marshall Mathers' trend of resorting to name-calling.

Eminem also goes after Trump where it may hurt the real-estate mogul more.

"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a b---! / I'll make his whole brand go under," he raps.

Eminem, rapping in his imitable rapid-fire style, also goes after his "haters" and copycats in the boastful song.

Other targets include Ann Coulter and, more strangely, the pop star Fergie.

Eminem has of course generated controversy for his lyrics throughout his career, and went after George W. Bush in the protest song and video "Mosh."

You can listen to Big Sean's "No Favors" with Eminem on Spotify below:

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Mariah Carey is back with a new breakup single, and the rapper Vince Staples has delivered one of his most rousing tracks yet.

Music is easier than ever to get and harder than ever to sort online, so we've picked the best songs out this week that you can easily stream right here:

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Mariah Carey - "I Don't" (feat. YG)

She might not do any vocal gymnastics on her new single, but Mariah Carey is gloriously to-the-point in her kiss-off (after her own personal engagement recently fell through).

Vince Staples - "BagBak"

The 23-year-old California rapper is already showing he's one of the singular talents of his generation. With a groaning industrial production, the quick-hitting single touches on racial politics and President Donald Trump, keeping it colorfully real throughout.

"Tell the one percent to suck a d--- because we on now," Staples says. He doesn't sound like he's kidding around.

Sampha - "Reverse Faults"

Sampha's gorgeous, propulsive electronic soundscape ushers in even more stunning singing from the English artist.