If it goes into effect, a controversial bill may spell trouble for Georgia as entertainment companies voice their opposition.

Disney, including its TV and movie subsidiaries Marvel and ABC Studios, Netflix, and The Weinstein Company threatened to boycott the state if the bill is signed into law by Gov. Nathan Deal. Other large media companies have voiced their opposition to the bill (but didn't threaten to boycott the state), including Viacom, Time Warner, Starz, and AMC, and growing.

The Free Exercise Protection Act, as the bill is called, would allow religious clergy and faith-based organizations the right to reject performing same-sex marriages and providing "social, educational, or charitable services," as well as the right to refuse employment of those who violate their religious beliefs.

Passed by the Georgia legislature and sent to Deal, the bill will become law if Deal signs it or does nothing before the May 3 deadline.

Georgia has become a hotbed for Hollywood productions over the past decade because of its abundance of tax credits for TV and film productions. It is the fourth-largest state for film production in the US.

According to The Wrap, entertainment productions generated nearly a billion dollars of revenue in one year for the Peach State. One Georgia Tech economics professor said it would be "disastrous" for the state if the bill goes through and Disney pulls its productions.

Here's a look at the TV shows and films that may be affected if Georgia's anti-gay bill goes into effect:

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"Captain America" movie franchise (Marvel)

"The Walking Dead" (AMC)

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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was livid at ABC's "The View" on Twitter after its panel of hosts, namely Whoopi Goldberg, slammed retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson for supporting him.

".@TheView T.V. show, which is failing so badly that it will soon be taken off [the] air, is constantly asking me to go on," he tweeted.

He went on to tweet that the show became a "total disaster" after Barbara Walters left and that ABC was wasting people's time.

Trump also promoted another tweet that called all of the panelists "brain-dead puppets."

The flurry of tweets followed up Carson's interview on the program earlier in the day. Goldberg and the other panelists chastised Carson, a former Republican presidential candidate, for supporting a "racist" like Trump in the GOP primary.

"You have aligned yourself with a man who has bashed women, made countless racist remarks, and you're Ben Carson," Goldberg said. "Why would you align yourself with that?"

But Carson said looked at both the "good and the bad" of Trump's candidacy. He said there was no perfect candidate running and pointed out that the real-estate mogul owned an inclusive resort in southern Florida.

"You look at when Donald Trump first went down to the Palm Beach area and a lot of the clubs down there would not accept Jews and blacks," he said. "He insisted on Jews and blacks and he helped to break that open."

Carson continued: "Has he said some things that I wouldn't say or you wouldn't say? Of course."

But Goldberg wasn't satisfied with his answer.

"You can say that till the cows come home. But this guy, I'm sorry, he's a racist and he's not good for the country," she said. "You're Ben Carson, you're so much better than this," Goldberg added.

Another panelist, Joy Behar, then jumped in. She asked how Carson could support Trump after the GOP frontrunner infamously compared Carson's temperament to that of a "child molester." However, Carson didn't budge.

"If it was about me, I'd be offended. But it's about America, and we have to save this nation," he said. "Tell me a politician who doesn't tell lies?"

Trump, who appeared on "The View" last September, previously fumed about Goldberg and Behar. In January, he said: "Whoopi Goldberg is terrible. Very sad!"

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Though many are loath to admit it, Mick Jagger is a fashion icon. Everyone from Harry Styles to fashion label Yves Saint Laurent have copied his trend-setting style.

And when he has something to say about style, men need to listen up. Here's a great example regarding flip-flops.

"People just don't dress up like they used to," Jagger recently lamented to Rolling Stone. "When people went to the theater, everyone dressed up. I don't really miss that."

"But do you like going to the theater and seeing a bloke with not very nice legs in shorts and flip-flops?" Jagger asked.

And the answer to that question is an unequivocal "no." Unless you're about to catch some rays at the beach, or are heading to a shower in the gym locker room, your feet should never touch flip-flops.

Why? Because they're inferior shoes, and they don't cover up much — including your disgusting feet.

"Men's toes are, in general, unsightly," Donnie Kwak, editor at Complex magazine, told Mashable last year.

We couldn't agree more.

Men don't take care of their feet like women do. They don't get pedicures, and they don't wash their feet as often as they should — or sometimes at all.

No one needs to see that.

Keep your feet inside a cool summer shoe, like a pair of white sneakers or a pair of boat-shoe-alternative moccasins to avoid grossing anyone out.

Your summer social life will thank you.

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With studios now spending nearly as much for marketing blockbusters as they do on the actual movies these days, a return on investment for these tentpoles is more important than ever.

And with Warner Bros.’ “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” opening in theaters virtually everywhere around the world this weekend, the stakes are high for the studio. Especially if you believe the rumors of how much the company has put into it.

The anticipated showdown between Henry Cavill's Superman and Ben Affleck's Batman launches a planned franchise based on the DC Comics characters, which Warner hopes could be as massively profitable as Disney's Marvel universe.

To achieve that, Warner Bros. would have to spend like Disney, and word around the industry is that by the time the movie is out this weekend, it will cost the studio around $400 million to release.

It’s not such an insane number when you break it down. If the production budget for “Batman v Superman” is in line with previous Warner superhero movies (“The Dark Knight Rises” and “Man of Steel”) then it's $225-$250 million (the studio has not commented on how much the movie costs). Disney spent $250 million to make “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

If you then add the usual $150 million for worldwide marketing that studios spend on a movie of this size, that gets you to around the $400 million figure.

To keep the studio in the black on the film, it must be released far and wide. "Batman v Superman" is opening in the US in over 4,000 locations by Friday (rarely done for a movie not being released over the summer) and it's going to the world's largest movie market behind the US, China. Often studios won’t open a film there until later due to regulatory issues and the fear of piracy, but Warner Bros. is going against the grain and hoping for a big payoff.

Early projections estimate the film’s global box office to be at $350 million (it will be released on 35,000 screens worldwide) by the time Easter weekend is over. 

That would be more than “The Dark Knight Rises” or “Man of Steel” opened with, but below movies like “Age of Ultron” ($392.5 million), “Jurassic World” ($524.9 million), or all-time earner “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($529 million). 

But looking outside of the all-important opening weekend, the movie also has to have staying power.

All the above titles, except for one, grossed over $1 billion worldwide in their respective theatrical runs, and to play in the Disney sandbox, Warner Bros. has to hit that number with “Batman v Superman.”

On paper, it looks very possible, but the one thing that could hurt the movie is word of mouth, which could become poisoned if fans agree with critics who have been down on the film.

Critics don’t make or break a movie of this size, but if, after this weekend, audiences globally think how the critics do (the movie has a current rating of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes), that affects repeat trips or people who were waiting to see it after the insanity of opening weekend. Which then makes it harder to hit that $1 billion mark.

The one title above that didn’t make $1 billion is “Man of Steel,” Warner Bros.’ previous DC movie that introduced us to Cavill as Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder, who also helmed “Batman v Superman,” the movie had a good opening weekend of $116 million on 4,207 theaters, but then shot down 64.6% in ticket sales its next weekend on the same number of screens. Again, due to poor reviews and word of mouth. 

Warner Bros. is hoping history doesn’t repeat itself. If it does, Disney will still look like the winner.

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She owned Thursday nights on television with her hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal," and "How to Get Away with Murder."

She got to make things up for a living — something she'd thrived on since childhood.

But Shonda Rhimes was unhappy. She was overworked and unhealthy, and she didn't feel like she was living her life to the fullest.

So she embarked on a yearlong experiment in which she'd agree to any and every request that came her way — in her personal or professional life.

As she describes in her 2015 book, "Year of Yes," over the course of that year, she stepped out of her comfort zone and learned what it means to be truly successful. Here are six life-changing lessons she learned.

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1. You'll never know if you can get your way until you ask

Jimmy Kimmel had been requesting Rhimes' presence on his show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," for years, and Rhimes had politely declined each time.

Once her Year of Yes began, however, there was no way out. She agreed to appear on the show, except for one thing: The interview wasn't live.

"If I have to be on TV, if I have to do something as scary as 'Kimmel,' Rhimes writes, "we're going to do it my way or we don't do it at all."

In other words, Rhimes learned that if there's a will, there's a way. She'd always assumed that appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel" was out of the question for her because it had to be a live interview — and she was terrified of making a fool of herself on live television. But when her assistant communicated her request, Kimmel's team was able to make it happen.

Rhimes was begrudgingly proud of herself for overcoming her fear: "I said yes to something that terrified me. And then I did it. And I didn't die."

2. Other people benefit when you get over your fears

Shortly after Rhimes, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991, began the Year of Yes, she received a phone call from the president of Dartmouth, asking her to give the commencement speech in 2014.

Though she was terrified, she agreed.

As she reveals in "Year of Yes," she rewrote her entire speech during the plane ride to New Hampshire. While onstage, she calmed down when she stopped focusing on herself, and started thinking about the students in the audience as younger versions of her:

Whatever I'm going to say is not for me. It isn't for the outside world. It doesn't matter how people react to it or judge it. I'm not talking to anyone but these graduates sitting in front of me. This is just for them.

The speech encourages students to "be a doer, not a dreamer," among other advice. You can watch it below:

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3. Making time for love is a priority

Perhaps the most important "yes" Rhimes uttered was in response to her youngest daughter's question: "Mama, wanna play?"

Rhimes was heading out the door, all dressed up for a fancy event, but she kicked off her heels and sat down on the floor to spend 15 minutes playing with her three daughters.

Though she was late to the event, Rhimes writes, "That little fire inside of me has been reignited. Like magic. Let's not get carried away. It's just love."

Now, she says, whenever her kids ask her to play, she says "yes."

She urges readers to take at least 15 minutes a day to "play" — whether that means hanging out with their kids or indulging in a long bath or a manicure. In other words, those 15 minutes should be filled with love — for others or for yourself.

A lot changes when you leave your job for good: the freedom to choose what to do with most of your hours, your mental focus.

And then there are the visual changes. David Letterman has proven a man's look can change a lot in retirement, as he's stepped out since leaving CBS's "Late Show" with a huge, bushy beard and, more recently, what appears to be a shaved head.

Letterman also looks distinctly happy. Following his 33-year career in late-night hosting, he's been exercising by the beach in the Caribbean and visiting his hometown. This is a man who looks like he doesn't have a care in the world.

See how David Letterman has been living it up in retirement below:

David Letterman's last day as host of the "Late Show" was May 20, 2015. Celebrities including Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin showed up for the occasion, and Letterman wished his replacement Stephen Colbert well on the gig.

Days later, Letterman attended the Indy 500 in his hometown of Indianapolis. You can see the stubble of a man who has defiantly quit shaving.

Letterman joined his old musical sidekick from the "Late Show," Paul Shaffer, for the annual Little Kids Rock Benefit in October. The beard was already getting pretty bushy.

You can now watch TV shows from your Hulu account in virtual reality with Samsung's Gear VR.

How does that work?

Once you put the Gear VR on your face with the Galaxy S6 line, S7 line, or Galaxy Note 5, you select the Hulu app. You're then transported to one of several "environments," which include a cool modern luxury living room, a big screen theater, and a beautiful beach.

Then, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show in whatever setting you choose.

Unlike Netflix in VR, the Hulu app has a VR section where you can watch videos filmed in 360-degrees, including the first-ever VR film from Hulu — "The Big One" — and a bunch of other shows. 

This is what it looks like in the Hulu Gear VR app. The main focus in these "environments" is the giant screen.

You can select the Hulu videos you want to watch by scrolling with the touch-sensor on the Gear VR.

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And here's the movie theater "environment." Notice how you're the only one there — the way it should be every time!

When you do a movie as giant as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the press tour is so long and spans multiple countries in such a short time, that actors are asked to react to the film’s reception before general audiences have even seen it.

That’s what happened when Yahoo Movies UK sat with the film’s cast and director Zack Snyder, and asked them what they thought of the negative reviews the film is getting (it currently has a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes). 

“What is going to really matter, I believe, is what the audience says,” Henry Cavill said. “Because they’re the ones who are buying tickets, they’re the ones who want to see more of this kind of story, or not. So the audience’s voice is loudest, and after this weekend, the audience will at least partly have spoken.”

Ben Affleck, sitting next to Cavill, chimed in with, “I agree.”

Snyder has been getting the brunt of the criticism for his polarizing directing style, full of slow-motion shots and washout-out photography. He said he’s a comic-book guy and that he “made the movie based as much as I could on that aesthetic.”

Amy Adams said that the film wasn’t made “for the critics,” and Gal Gadot, who has received the most praise for her performance as Wonder Woman, added that Snyder did “fantastic work” in setting the basis for future films centered on DC Comics characters.

Meanwhile, Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Lex Luthor, keeps out of these kinds of conversations because he doesn’t read anything about the movies he’s in.

“I don’t even watch the movies I’m in,” he said. “I get very critical.”

Watch the whole video here.

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Sometimes reality really is weirder than anything you could possibly imagine.

James Meyers of Concord, North Carolina, was arrested Tuesday morning for not returning a 2002 VHS rental of the infamously panned comedy “Freddy Got Fingered,” written, directed, and starring Tom Green (originally released in 2001).

According to local station WSOC-TV, Meyers was driving his daughter to school on the Concord Parkway when he was pulled over for a broken tail-light.

The officer ran his license and found that there was a warrant for his arrest from 2002 for “failure to return rental property.”

“The officer said... 'apparently you rented the movie "Freddy Got Fingered" and never returned it.' I thought he was joking,” Meyers told WSOC-TV.

The officer allowed Meyers to drop his daughter off at school and go to work as long as he promised to turn himself in when he got off work.

Meyers did go to the police department Tuesday evening, and he was handcuffed and brought in front of the magistrate, where he was charged. The misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of up to $200.

The warrant was filed by J&J video in February of 2002. The rental store has since gone out of business.

Meyers is due back in court on April 27. 

Tom Green caught wind of what happened and tweeted this on Tuesday:

Green, who was a popular comedian in the late-1990s thanks to his MTV show “The Tom Green Show,” was doing stand-up in Australia when he heard what happened, and spoke about it on the Australian TV show “The Project.”

He said he called Meyers and when he got him on the phone, gave him the line from the movie, “Daddy, would you like some sausage?”

“It’s an example of how bureaucracy can get out of control,” he said.

Why did Meyers have “Freddy Got Fingered” for 14 years? He admitted to the officer he only vaguely remembers renting it. Sounds about right for a movie that many consider one of the worst ever made.

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Garry Shandling died at the age of 66 on Thursday, his representative confirmed to Business Insider.

TMZ initially reported that Shandling had died.

The comedian, best known as the star of "The Larry Sanders Show" on HBO, was taken from his home in Los Angeles to a local hospital and pronounced dead, according to LAPD, Reuters reports.

The circumstances of his death are not fully known, though TMZ reports that Shandling suffered a heart attack.

In addition to the groundbreaking HBO series, which ran in the 1990s and was cocreated by Shandling, the comedian did stand-up and was regularly featured on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."

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Apple is developing an original show, online services executive Eddy Cue told the New York Times. 

The show is about apps, and it will feature real people who aren't speaking from a script. The subject matter makes a lot of sense — Apple is in touch with a lot of interesting app developers.

According to the report, Will.i.am is working on the project, in addition to two veteran TV industry executives. One executive, Ben Silverman, has been an executive producer on network shows like "Jane the Virgin" and Netflix shows like "Marco Polo." 

However, Cue said that the series doesn't necessarily mean that Apple plans to develop a roster of shows like Netflix or Amazon. 

"This doesn’t mean that we are going into a huge amount of movie production or TV production or anything like that,” Cue told The New York Times. 

Previously, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Apple was bankrolling a scripted series about Beats founder and rapper Dr. Dre. Apple has also backed music videos from rapper Drake.

Last year, Apple released a new version of its Apple TV streaming service that allowed developers to write apps designed for the TV screen.

Apple has been trying to put together a streaming TV service for years, with Cue heading the effort, but CBS CEO Les Moonves, a likely partner, has said those plans are on hold. 

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There's something strange about Tribeca Film Festival's 2016 documentary line-up.

It includes a film produced by the man who's been linked to jump-starting mass, unfounded hysteria over vaccinations.

That man is Andrew Wakefield, and in 1998 he infamously — and wrongfully— presented a paper claiming that a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), could be linked to the onset of autism.

In the fallout from his error-riddled presentation, his so-called findings were discredited in close to every way possible: The paper was retracted. Wakefield was stripped of his medical license, found guilty of "abusing a position of trust as a medical practitioner," and found guilty of "dishonesty" in his studies.

You wouldn't know it from looking at Tribeca's website, however. Here's how they describe the film, called "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe":

Digging into the long-debated link between autism and vaccines ... [the film] features revealing and emotional interviews with pharmaceutical insiders, doctors, politicians, parents, and one whistleblower to understand what's behind the skyrocketing increase of autism diagnoses today.

As for its producer, Andrew Wakefield, all Tribeca says about him is this:

Andrew Wakefield, MB.BS., is an academic gastroenterologist who practiced medicine at the Royal Free in the UK publishing over 140 scientific papers. In 1995, he was contacted by parents of autistic children with stomach issues; he learned that these conditions often occurred immediately following an MMR vaccine.

In pursuit of this possible link, Dr. Wakefield led an initial study of twelve children with both stomach and developmental issues.

The report, published in The Lancet, would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of medicine.

Not surprisingly, the festival is already getting a lot of heat for its choice to include the movie in its line-up.

Documentarian Penny Lane, who received the Tribeca Film Institute's Documentary Fund (not the same entity as the film festival) in 2012 and recently produced a film about a doctor who "built an empire with his goat-testicle impotence cure," wrote a scathing public letter to Tribeca on Facebook about its choice.

"Dear Tribeca Film Festival, I love you but you made a very serious mistake," Lane wrote.

She adds: "Your online film festival guide helpfully suggests if I’m interested in Vaxxed, I might also be interested in the category of 'documentaries.' Well, as a documentary filmmaker who spent eight years making a film about a quack: yes ... I am interested in your choice to screen Vaxxed and what it means for documentaries."

Who is Andrew Wakefield and how did his infamous vaccine study go so viral?

Back in 1998, when Wakefield was still working as a physician, London's Royal Free Hospital held a press conference to publicize a paper he'd written (which has since been retracted) for the esteemed medical journal The Lancet.

The paper was about vaccinations.

In it, Wakefield claimed that one vaccination in particular, a popular inoculation for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), could be linked to the onset of autism, a serious neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction.

In the weeks and months to come, scientists, doctors, and public-health experts jumped to point out the multiple flagrant weaknesses in his paper.

But the damage was done. And its aftereffects continue to be felt today, from vaccination rates that declined in the wake of Wakefield's publicity to new outbreaks of measles and other illnesses for which perfectly safe inoculations exist.

The new film, whose official synopsis, according to Indiewire, doesn't even allude to any of the above, is set to premier Sunday, April 24, at the Tribeca Film Festival.

According to the Tribeca Film Festival website, the documentary "features revealing and emotional interviews with pharmaceutical insiders, doctors, politicians, parents, and one whistleblower to understand what's behind the skyrocketing increase of autism diagnoses today."

Here's the statement Tribeca provided to The Cut on its decision to include the film:

"Tribeca, as most film festivals, are about dialogue and discussion. Over the years we have presented many films from opposing sides of an issue. We are a forum, not a judge."

Business Insider has reached out to Tribeca Film Festival and will update this post as needed.

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On A&E's "60 Days In," seven innocent people went undercover in an Indiana jail to reveal issues in the system. Maryum Ali, daughter of Muhammed Ali, was one of these participants. Here she explains her most terrifying moment of the experience. 

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White Walkers may be author George R.R. Martin's most terrifying creation, and for makeup artists, bringing the "Game of Throne" characters to life takes an insane amount of time and effort.

The sixth season of "Game of Thrones" kicks off on April 24th.

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Netflix says that it has been throttling its video on wireless networks like AT&T and Verizon for over five years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The company told The Journal that this practice, which lowers the quality of video streams, capping them at 600 kilobits per second, is meant to "protect consumers from exceeding mobile data caps."

Netflix said that watching two hours of HD would use up to 6 gigabytes of data, The Journal reports.

The streaming service does not, however, throttle T-Mobile or Sprint. It said that this was because "historically those two companies have had more consumer-friendly policies."

Netflix was not immediately available for comment.

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There's a growing threat to Playboy on Snapchat, and the legacy media company has looked into buying it, Business Insider has learned.

Playboy is considering all sorts of options, including a sale or partial sale of itself, but is also looking at buying younger companies to stay relevant. One of those companies is Arsenic, a growing media company that crowdsources sexy images of women and has grown rapidly on newer social-media platforms.

In early March, the company had on average more than 500,000 views on Snapchat every day and close to 1 million followers on Instagram, double what Maxim magazine has and close to a quarter of Playboy's 4.5 million. Arsenic's daily views on Snapchat almost rival the circulation of Playboy's magazine, which dropped from about 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 in recent years.

According to a person with knowledge of the talks, Playboy approached the young startup to become its millennial brand and attract a new audience to the legacy publication in an effort to revive itself. The terms of the deal and where it stands in light of the sales news are unknown. Arsenic declined to confirm or comment on any talks between the parties.

"We admire Playboy and, in particular, their rich history, but we decline any further comment," Arsenic CEO Billy Hawkins told Business Insider. "We're simply focused on our future."

Playboy did not respond to request for comment.

While Arsenic has built its following on being young, raw, and edgy, Playboy has moved in the opposite direction. Last fall, the company announced it would stop publishing nude photos, saying they had become outdated because of the plethora of free pornography on the internet.

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported news of Playboy's sales talks. The company could be reportedly worth as much as $500 million. Arsenic has raised $750,000 from Arena Ventures and Wavemaker Partners, according to Pitchbook.

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Seth Meyers singled out 2016 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Kasich for issuing bad public apologies.

The politicians were just part of Meyers' breakdown of recent ap0logies in the media in a segment called "Sorry Not Sorry" on Wednesday's episode of "Late Night."

The host called out Republican candidate John Kasich for his apology for saying that women "left their kitchens" in one of his earlier races.

"Of course, people were offended! It's like Kasich is on medication and one of the side effects is 1952 mouth," Meyers joked.

In the apology, Kasich began listing the women whose careers he has supported. Meyers filed this infraction under the category, "I'm sorry... but you should know I have [insert insulted demographic here] friends."

"Mom, she's a woman; wife, woman. Uh, Beyonce was on in the car this morning, total woman," the host mocked.

In the case of Clinton, Meyers pointed out the many times the Democratic candidate had to apologize for using a personal email account for work-related messages while serving as Secretary of State. Each time she was asked about the mistake and had to repeat her apology, her annoyance visibly grew. Meyers categorized her concessions as "I'm sorry... that no matter how many times I apologize for this, you're going to make me apologize again."

Meyers took a stab at what Clinton was probably thinking each time she had to say sorry: "And I'd like to apologize in advance for snapping the neck of the next person who asks me about this."

Watch Meyers explain these and other "Sorry Not Sorry" examples below:

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Blade, the on-demand transportation startup sometimes called "the Uber for helicopters", is offering a special service for users heading to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April. 

For $695 a seat, the startup will be shuttling people from Van Nuys Airport to Palm Springs, close to where Coachella will be taking place. Users can also pay $4,170 to book an entire six-seat helicopter. 

The roughly 130-mile journey between Los Angeles and the Palm Springs area can take several hours in a car, depending on the severity of traffic. In 2015, a record-breaking total of 198,000 people attended Coachella, which takes place over two weekends in April.

The helicopter flights, Blade's founder and CEO Rob Wiesenthal says, will take just 55 minutes. 

When guests arrive to Palm Springs, they can relax in Blade's exclusive lounge, where they can enjoy a full bar that includes George Clooney's Casa Amigos Tequila. 

Blade is also partnering with Uber to provide transportation to and from the Blade lounges at Van Nuys Airport and in Palm Springs. The price of the Uber SUV ride will be included in the $695 fee, and Uber drivers can take travelers' bags directly to their hotel if preferred. 

People wanting to try out the service can book their trips on both the Blade and Uber apps. Flights will be available starting March 25 through the end of Coachella April 24. 

This is Blade's first foray on the West Coast.

"We believe that the West Coast is underserved by short-distance aviation — especially helicopter travel," Wiesenthal told Business Insider. "There is no better partner to explore the potential of this market than with Uber."

Blade operates and manages the logistics of the helicopter flights it offers on its app; it doesn't own any aircraft. For Coachella, Blade will be offering seats on Airbus EC-130 helicopters. 

The company started out offering flights between New York City and the Hamptons, and from Manhattan to area airports. It now also offers seats on private jet flights between New York and Miami through a service called BladeOne, as well as helicopter trips to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod.

During the Sundance Film Festival in January, Blade offered helicopter service between Salt Lake City and Park City, but was asked to cease operations over concerns of disturbing the local elk population. The startup also recently helped coordinate speedboat trips between South Beach and the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, helping performers like Tiesto and deadmau5 make it backstage in time.  

Blade has raised venture capital from Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Discover Communications CEO David Zaslav, IAC's Barry Diller, Alex von Furstenberg, Raine Ventures, and iHeart Media chairman Bob Pittman. Both Pittman and Schmidt are licensed to fly helicopters and jets. 

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If you've felt like Netflix's catalog of movies and TV shows has shrunk over the past few years, that's because it has.

Since January 2014, the number of titles available on Netflix in the US has shrunk by 31.7%, according to AllFlicks, a site that tracks Netflix's catalog.

At the start of 2014, Netflix had 6,494 movies and 1,609 TV shows available (8,103 total), while as of March 23, it had 4,335 movies and 1,197 TV shows (5,532 total). That means Netflix's selection of movies dropped by 33.2%, and its TV shows dropped by 25.6%.

Why is this?

One potential reason is "exclusivity." Netflix has made a huge push into "original" shows and movies, and into exclusive global licenses more generally.

In January, Netflix’s head of content Ted Sarandos, announced that Netflix will release a whopping 600 hours of original content this year. That's 25 days of binge-watching. And Netflix has said it will roughly double its 2015 output of original shows to 31 in 2016.

On the movie side, Netflix has made a splash in the mid-range market by sweeping up titles at Sundance, and is reportedly putting up $90 million for a new Will Smith movie.

Sarandos and other Netflix executives have also repeatedly stressed that the company is more focused on exclusive titles than those available on other platforms like Amazon Prime.

Netflix believes these originals (and exclusives) and going to be what keeps consumers plunking down their monthly subscription fees — but they are expensive per-title. So we might continue to see a trimming of the amount of titles in Netflix's catalog, though Netflix's originals will accrue a back catalog over time (it have only been making them since 2013).

There's also been some industry buzz that Netflix could begin to face challenges licensing old shows from legacy TV giants, who have increasingly begun to view Netflix as a competitor to the future of their business.

Along with a decrease in titles, we might also see a continued rise in price as Netflix leans in to originals.

Last fall, CEO Reed Hastings hinted at this: "The more we have incredible value, the more we have amazing originals, then we are going to be able to ask consumers for more to be able to invest more," he said.

In plain English: original content is better, but you are probably going to have to pay more for it.

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Charlie Cox had to seriously step up his game to play the title role in Marvel's first Netflix series, "Daredevil."

"The truth is, before I did this show, I'd never really been in shape, I never really had a gym membership, and I'd always just occasionally go for a run, that kind of stuff," Cox told Business Insider.

On "Daredevil," which just released its second season, Cox has to perform extensive fight scenes, exhibit great flexibility, and just look all-around awesome in the superhero suit. For a guy who wasn't a gym rat to begin with, it takes commitment to keep his fitness level high.

"It was such hard work to get into shape, that when we finished the first season, just on the off-chance that we were going to do it again, I didn't let myself completely go," Cox said. "I just couldn't bear the idea of having to start over again."

"He's committed. He's the real deal," Cox's personal trainer and the creator and president of Arazi Fitness, Naqam Washington, told us.

Regarding his training style, Washington said, "Nowadays, people train to get optimal movement from their body. They train like an athlete. And I have an MBA and MMA background, so it works well with Charlie. We did modern, sport-specific, MMA movement."

Here's how Cox stays in "Daredevil" shape:

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Cox eats lots of meals and lots of carbs each day.

"Be really militant with your food and the regularity of your food," the actor said. "One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle."

Washington explained that most of the work revolves around food intake.

"You grow or you lose weight outside the gym, and basically, a lot of it is what you eat," Washington explained. "So if Charlie wants to gain weight in lean muscle mass, his caloric intake has to be more than his energy expenditure, mathematically. If you want to lose weight, your energy expenditure should be more than your caloric intake."

Cox works out three to six days a week, depending on where in the production schedule "Daredevil" is.

"I never do seven days [in a week], because you are supposed to rest. I tend to do five days," Cox said. "Before the show, when we're building up to shoot the show, I try to do six days a week. I try to get myself into good enough shape so when we start shooting, I can concentrate on the show and the acting part of it and not worry about it so much. So basically, I can do weeks where I do three or four times a week."

"He normally gives me an hour and 15 minutes," Washington said of the duration of Cox's workouts. "If I can sneak and take an extra 15-20 minutes, I'll take it. But he's usually strict, because he's so busy."

Cox's workout includes isolating body parts, but in a modern way.

"One day you go in, and do your shoulders. And the next day, you do your legs, and the next day after you do your biceps," Cox explained.

But if you think that sounds pretty standard and old-school, Washington says these aren't the isolated exercises of your '90s action heroes.

"Remember back in the day when people used to work out one body part per day and try to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger and want to lift 200 pounds or whatever, some madness like that? Nobody works out like that now," Washington told us. "We'll do some primary muscle, but in a sport-specific, functional way, not the heavy three sets of 12, then you rest... We did none of that."