Jeopardy! news these days has alternated between varying levels of sadness over the death of Alex Trebek and uncertain controversy with various guest hosts dealing with comments they’ve made outside of the game show’s studio. But thankfully we do have a bit of normalcy to report: contestants are blanking on very easy questions (for most people) and social media reacting with outrage.
The latest in this fabled, ahem, genre of Jeopardy! clip came on Wednesday night in Double Jeopardy with a category called Funny Business. A contestant went right for the $2,000 question, which was a clue about a comedian who took part in the movie A Star Is Born. The clue even came with a picture of the comedian, an extremely famous one: Dave Chappelle.
But despite Chappelle’s ubiquity in the comedy world, no one on stage seemed willing to pull the trigger on the signaling device and get some free Jeopardy! money.
they showed a photo of Dave Chappelle on Jeopardy and nobody could come up with a responsepic.twitter.com/sgRrD5xnRJ
There is something very funny about guest host Ken Jennings smiling and saying “that’s Dave Chappelle” to the contestants playing. It certainly seems like something Jennings would know if he were at one of the other podiums on the stage, but perhaps that’s why he’s the GOAT and hosting the show, not seeking their first win among two other competitors.
In any event, people really struggled with very smart people not knowing who Chappelle is, and they had a lot of Chappelle’s Show GIFs ready to express their frustration on Twitter.
Nobody on Jeopardy knew who Dave Chappelle was and the clue just was a picture of him! I-
Perhaps those playing are simply not comedy fans. But it’s yet another example that a culture’s working knowledge of trivia is always in flux. And apparently those writing the clues were right to make it the hardest question in the category.
Last month, the trial for Nipsey Hussle’s tragic murder became the latest thing to be affected by the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic. It forced the late rapper’s loved ones to wait additional time for the trial to begin after its December date was delayed and, unfortunately, the wait for the trial’s start will continue as it was pushed back once again.
According to the New York Daily News, the trial was postponed after Robert J. Perry, the judge who presided over the case, announced his retirement.
“His attorney discussed it with him, and [Holder] agreed to put it over,” a source told New York Daily News. “The next hearing will be a 0 of 30, meaning the earliest the trial could happen is 30 days from that date.” It’s unknown at the moment who will replace Judge Perry and preside over the trial when it begins next month, February 24.
This marks the third time the trial has been delayed over the last year. Last May, it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic as all LA County clerk offices and courtrooms were closed at the time due to the virus.
“Mr. Holder, as you know, this is an important case and a serious case,” Perry said at the time. “These cases take time to get ready for trial.” Seven months later, the trial received a second postponement. “I really don’t know how we can realistically expect to see this case go to trial anytime in the next 90 days or more,” the judge admitted after the December delay. Hopefully, the trial can get underway on the rescheduled February 24 date.
While some notable conservative voices have turned on Marjorie Taylor Greene for her QAnon beliefs and amplifying other wild conspiracy theories, the lawmaker from Georgia continues to serve in the House of Representatives. Now that Greene has become a member of the House her past statements and conspiracy theories have seen new attention, most of which were spread on social media in the past.
According to Media Matters, the latest of those to resurface is a bizarre claim that a space laser was responsible for starting a deadly wildfire in California in 2018 as part of a long list of bizarre claims that have had anti-semitic overtones.
Rep. Greene is a proponent of the Camp Fire laser beam conspiracy theory. She wrote a November 17, 2018, Facebook post — which is no longer available online — in which she said that she was speculating “because there are too many coincidences to ignore” regarding the fire, including that then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wanted to build the high-speed rail project and “oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires.” She also speculated that a vice chairman at “Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” was somehow involved, and suggested the fire was caused by a beam from “space solar generators.”
Greene added: “If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”
A secret Jewish space laser is far from the only completely outlandish thing Green has openly supported or suggested both before and after she was elected to congress. There’s, of course, the completely baseless claim that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud, which resulted in a failed, deadly coup attempt in early January at the US Capitol in DC.
And as Media Matters pointed out, Greene has expressed belief in QAnon, conspiracies about school shootings, 9/11, and other popular conspiracies among right-wing corners of the internet. CNN also reported that Green has “repeatedly” supported executing Democratic leaders for various claims of treason.
Perhaps in a related move, the social media accounts for the representative appear to be losing tweets, as reporters speculated Greene may be removing some wilder statements from her account as scrutiny of conspiracy theories past and present
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account has deleted 19 tweets in the last 12 hours.
Greene is also scrubbing her Facebook of old posts and videos from 2018 and 2019 where she spread conspiracies and endorsed violence against Democratic lawmakers. pic.twitter.com/3HoVGU2VZR
Lil Baby has done a lot in his relatively short career. The Atlanta native landed the best-selling album of 2020 with My Turn while also learning a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for 2021. He’s also a Grammy-nominated artist who is now taking his talents outside the music world in his latest endeavor. During an interview with XXL the “We Paid” rapper revealed plans to open a restaurant in Atlanta within the coming months.
“I have a new restaurant and I’ma open it in Atlanta,” he said when speaking about his ventures outside the music world. “It was supposed to be open by January, but we had to finish the stages, so maybe, February, March.”
He also revealed what dishes attendees can expect to be served and the environment he hopes to create in the upcoming establishment. “You know, lamb chops, lobster tails, rice, stuff like that,” he said. “A little music, alcohol. Stuff like that.”
The new restaurant could be the first of many endeavors outside of rapping for Lil Baby. Last month, Meek Mill revealed that he, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, and 21 Savage would all be joining forces to kickstart a new “music platform” that they hope to launch at some point in 2021. “Me lil baby Durkio tryna get somebody in Silicon Valley to build us our own music platform we can be majority owner in,” he said, adding, “We will pay!! We need top Silicon Valley steppers please!”
Mardi Gras usually draws 1.4 million people to the streets of New Orleans in February or March, as people party their hearts out for Fat Tuesday. The Carnival season actually begins in January, so in a normal year, Mardi Gras festivities would already be underway.
A big part of Mardi Gras celebrations are the parades, and a big part of the parades are the colorful floats made for the occasion.
Seriously:
Since we’re still knee-deep in a pandemic, streets packed wall to wall with people would be a bad idea. So the people of New Orleans are having to get creative with their Mardi Gras celebrations, and boy are they delivering.
Instead of the traditional floats, thousands of New Orleans residents are transforming their homes into colorful “house floats.”
According to the Associated Press, the idea took root the morning of November 17, after the city announced that parades wouldn’t be happening. Megan Joy Boudreaux posted a joke on Twitter, saying: “We’re doing this. Turn your house into a float and throw all the beads from your attic at your neighbors walking by.”
The idea genuinely grew on her, and she started a Facebook group called Krewe of House Floats, which quickly grew and spawned dozens of neighborhood groups to discuss local plans.
The house floats are every bit as bold and beautiful as the floats we usually see gliding down the streets during Mardi Gras and are an innovative solution to the pandemic parade problem. Perhaps people will tour the house floats the same way people go around to look at Christmas lights.
Check these out:
Megan Boudreaux explained to the AP that it’s almost like a reverse parade, and that people can still throw things at one another. “That’s actually a very socially distant activity,” she laughed.
When a deadly pandemic alters life for more than a year and steals the fun out of normal traditions, we don’t give up, we get creative. These house floats will surely bring a smile to people’s faces and soften the blow of not being able to celebrate Mardi Gras in the usual way. And just think of the unique memories this year’s “parade at home” will create.
Way to pull through under tough circumstances, New Orleans. Hopefully next year you’ll be back to packed streets, parade floats, and partying all together again.
The Mighty Ducks are officially back in March, and so is Gordon Bombay. Disney+ shared a trailer for the new TV series based on the movie property that eventually named an NHL team in the 1990s, with a slightly new twist on a familiar story. The series, which premieres March 26 on the streaming platform, looks to revive the Mighty Ducks movies and takes the series back to Minneapolis where it began.
Mighty Ducks: Game Changers appears to cast the team called the Ducks as the bad guys, at least initially. The teaser trailer shows a smaller kid cut from the Ducks, leaving a crestfallen young boy looking for a new team.
“I want you to think about all the other kids who’ve been told they’re too small or too slow. They just want to get out there and play,” Lauren Graham’s character tells a young boy. “Let’s start our own team. All we need is an ice rink.”
That’s when Emilio Estevez shows up, apparently the guy running the zamboni and selling skate rentals at The Ice Palace where the underdog version of the Mighty Ducks are likely to be reborn. This time, though, the underdogs appear to be wearing yellow and brown and will be the scrappy underdogs a more established teal team will take on.
In a lot of ways, the narrative arc for the series makes sense. Decades into the Mighty Ducks franchise, you can’t just pretend they’re still underdogs. And the first look shows a pretty talented Ducks team, though we do see at least a few goals from the underdogs, too.
We’ll have to wait and see how things go in March, but it’s clear Bombay is back and looks ready to lead a new team to unexpected glory.
Our tireless pursuit to find the best bottles of scotch whisky at every price point has landed us in one of the first prime price points. Bottles of scotch between $40 and $50 are where things really start to get interesting. This is the range where the blended scotch gets really good and the single malts start to pop.
Granted, those single malts are still pretty young. But they’re solid and offer a nice baseline for newcomers to sippable Scotch whisky.
As for the prices of each of these bottles, well, that’s going to vary greatly depending on which coast you’re on (it simply costs more money to get this stuff to the West Coast, folks), which state you’re buying the bottle (local taxes range wildly), and which store you’re in. Because as Pappy proves, stores can charge whatever they want for this stuff depending on demand.
All of that being said, these bottles are going to be worth the search and the cash. The defining factor for each bottle’s inclusion on the list is that it is a great tasting bottle of scotch at a fairly accessible price point. Sure, you can get two quality bottles of bourbon for the price of most of these bottles. But where’s the fun in that?
This single malt from Diageo is a great gateway to single malt. The juice is aged for 12 years mostly in ex-bourbon barrels and blended with a few ex-sherry cask-matured whiskies before it’s cut with that iconic Speyside water and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
This is a delicate sip of whisky that leans into notes of dried florals and sweet fruits counterpointed by spicy oak and worn leather. The palate lets the spice amp up a bit while the fruit touches on both orange oils and orange blossoms with whispers of bourbon vanilla, dried fruits, and fresh honey. The end really holds onto that lightness while fading fairly quickly, leaving you with a cedary leather, more of that sweet fruit, and almost creamy vanilla.
Bottom Line:
This Diageo single malt was originally conceived for the travel market, meaning it was only found at duty-free shops. Its wild popularity allowed this one to go worldwide and we’re all luckier for it. Try it in a highball and cocktail. It also works really well as an easy-sipping scotch on the rocks.
SIA Whisky is the result of Carin Luna-Ostaseski’s passion for the good stuff from Scotland. Luna-Ostaseski successfully launched this whisky through Kickstarter, making the first crowd-sourced whisky. The actual juice in the bottle is a blend of Speyside, Highland, and Islay juices with a 60/40 grain whisky or malt whisky ratio.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a marrying of bright orange zest with a five-spice matrix lurking underneath. The citrus really brightens things up as hints of vanilla pudding, honey, buttery toffee, and fatty nuts balance out the flavor with a very distant wisp of that Islay smoke. The end is well-rounded, nutty, and full of vanilla cream, all finishing on a slightly sweet smoky note.
Bottom Line:
This really is a solid newcomer to the world of blended scotch. It’s very sippable on the rocks but also builds a nice cocktail.
The blend is a “pure malt” blended whisky, meaning that it’s made only with single malts (usually blended scotch is made with both grain and malt whisky). In this case, the juice is pulled from all over Scotland with a focus on Speyside, Highland, Lowland, and Island malts, including a minimum of 15-year-old Talisker, Caol Ila, Cragganmore, and Linkwood.
Tasting Notes:
This sip draws you in with the smells of an old, soft cedar box that’s held black pepper, sweet fruits, and oily vanilla pods next to a hint of green grass. The taste really holds onto the cedar as the fruits lean tropical with a hint of dried roses pinging in the background. The end builds on that by adding a note of spicy tobacco, a splash of sea spray, and a distant billow of campfire smoke.
Bottom Line:
A lot of people love this bottle (us included). If you can find it, it makes one of the best highballs you’ll ever taste while also working perfectly well as a sipper on the rocks or a cocktail base.
This Island whisky from the Inner Hebrides is designed to marry the sea to the earth. The juice spends ten years resting in ex-bourbon barrels literally next to the sea. The juice is then married and put into ex-sherry barrels for a finishing maturation. The result is proofed with local water and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
Slight wafts of apricots and plum lead towards a sharp black pepper spiciness and a very distant whiff of sweet smoke. The stonefruit keeps a throughline in the sip as the spiciness leans more fresh ginger and choco-coffee bitterness peeks in (especially when water is added). The medium-length end touches on the fruit, spice, and bitter notes with a final touch of that smoke ending the sip.
Bottom Line:
This is a really easy-drinking dram thanks to that fruity nature. Pour it over some rocks and sip or mix it into a killer cocktail.
This is a classic bottle of peated malt. The Islay whisky is made with locally peated smoky malts and then primarily matured in ex-sherry casks for the years. Those casks are married and then cut with local lake water before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear sense of stonefruit, orange oils, and earthen peaty smoke that greets you. The palate leans into the iodine and earthiness with plenty of campfire smoke next to black pepper, vanilla, and an underlying nuttiness. With a little water, a coffee bitterness arises next to a hint of black licorice. The end really embraces the smoke, adding fattiness like an old meat smoker as the fruit and nuts make a final appearance on the very slow fade.
Bottom Line:
This is the ultimate peat introduction. It’s bold, forceful, and imbued with Islay peat at every level. It’s also going to vary pretty wildly where the price is concerned. Try it on the rocks first to take the harsher edges off and go from there.
This Highland malt is the cornerstone of the much-beloved Dewar’s Blended Scotch. This whisky is a very accessible single malt that spends 12 years resting before it’s married and proofed with that soft Highland water and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
The heart of the nose is in the mingling of pear and honey with a hint of Christmas spice, especially nutmeg. The palate expands on that with a lush maltiness, creamy vanilla, mild spice, and more of that honey and orchard fruit. The end gets slightly nutty and bitter with a little water as the honey, fruit, and spice linger on the senses.
Bottom Line:
This is a solid sipper but really shines as a cocktail base.
This Speyside whisky really exemplifies the Spanish sherry tradition. The juice is aged in ex-sherry casks and then built to highlight the plummy, nutty, and dried fruit depths of those flavors in blending and proofing.
Tasting Notes:
Imagine ripe bananas fried in butter with a vanilla pod next to a touch of ginger and sherry mustiness. The palate really lets the dried fruit kick in as the mouthfeel leans creamy vanilla as hints of roasted nuts, spicy stewed prunes, and pipe tobacco mingle with a slight note of lemon oil. The finish is long with a bit of that plummy sherry leading the fade as a final note of savory fruit pops at the very end.
Bottom Line:
This is a really interesting sipper in this age range. It does need a little water (which will reveal some coffee and dark chocolate bitterness with a herbal edge). Still, take your time with this one.
Glenmorangie The Original is the ultimate gateway scotch, especially to the Highland brand’s long list of specialty finished whiskies. This juice spends ten long years resting in ex-bourbon casks before blending, proofing, and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Peaches swimming in creamy vanilla are countered by a rush of bright lemon zest. The palate really lets the vanilla shine with a mild maltiness next to hints of dried flowers and orange rinds. That orange lightens on the medium-length end as the vanilla fades with a hint of spice and wood, leaving you with a final burst of that bright citrus and creamy peach.
Bottom Line:
While this is a really solid “on the rocks” sipper, it’s best used in cocktails. Try it in your next Rob Roy.
This Highland expression has made a big comeback after a hiatus. The whisky is all about the sherry casking, having spent 12 years maturing in both Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso sherry casks. The juice is then married and proofed with soft Highland waters and bottled with no other fussing.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a hint of spicy stewed pears up top next to a creamy vanilla pudding that’s been cut with a touch of fresh ginger. The palate goes full mulled wine with plummy sweetness — Christmas spices, hazelnuts, and dried fruits. The end is very jammy and spicy while fading slowly through the senses.
Bottom Line:
This makes an awesome Manhattan (well, Rob Roy technically) or old fashioned while also being a perfectly fine sipper with a little water.
Master Blender Dr. Rachel Barrie helped reinvent Speyside’s BenRiach last year with a whole new batch of releases, including this one. The juice is triple-barreled in ex-bourbon, ex-sherry, and new (or virgin) oak. Those whiskies are then blended to create this very drinkable dram.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a subtle vanilla cake foundation that’s tinged with orange oils, cedar, and lemon custard. The taste touches on red berries, peaches and cream, and more of that cedar while also reveling in cinnamon spice with a baked buttermilk biscuit body. The stonefruit and creaminess last the longest, as the sip fades fairly quickly and surprisingly lightly through your senses.
Bottom Line:
This has no business being as sippable as it is at this price. It’s really well-rounded and barely needs any water to take the edges off.
Denver Nuggets rookie R.J. Hampton entered the NBA with considerable talent. While he hasn’t been able to showcase his skills frequently at the highest levels just yet, that comes as no surprise, simply because Hampton was drafted by a ready-made team and placed in a position to develop his skills in a future-facing manner. To that end, Hampton hasn’t been making a ton of news in the early going, appearing for only 36 minutes in the first month-plus of his NBA career, but he offered a surprising and amusing reveal in an interview this week.
Hampton’s godfather is Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back and Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders. For any child, it might be pretty cool to have a certified legend as a close family friend but, well, Hampton had no idea until later than you may think.
“For the first eight or nine years of my life, I never knew why I called him Uncle Prime,” Hampton told Rohan Nadkarni of Sports Illustrated. “And then one day, my dad was out of town. I think my mom was at work. And [Sanders] comes to pick me up from school. He’s in the carpool line, and my teachers are going crazy. I’m nine years old like, what are they talking about?”
In addition to the confusion in his early life, Hampton said that it didn’t really hit home until he was “12 or 13” years old and his recognition of Sanders’ fame came via a television reveal.
“I was about 12 or 13, and I was at my friend’s house and we’re watching NFL Network,” Hampton said. “They were counting down the 100 greatest players, and they had [Sanders] at like number eight. I was like, ‘Whoa, I did not know this.’ I had no idea the first 12 years of my life this is one of the greatest football players to step on the field.”
This is actually refreshing in some ways, simply because Hampton was able to simply have a mentor in Sanders and it didn’t matter to him whether his godfather was one of the most famous athletes in the country. At the same time, it is admittedly funny to think about everyone around Hampton knowing Sanders’ gravity, all while he just didn’t put it all together.
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are in the Super Bowl for a second consecutive year after beating the 49ers last year in a thriller for their first Super Bowl title in decades.
The defensive coordinator tasked with slowing Mahomes and the Chiefs’ spectacular offense that day was Robert Saleh, who is now the New York Jets head coach, and he remembers vivid details about watching Mahomes go to work in the fourth quarter, erasing a 20-10 Niners lead with 21 fourth quarter points on them. Saleh was asked recently what advice he’d give to the Bucs as they look into trying to contain Mahomes, and he offered up a rather hilarious description of Mahomes’ “little old man jog” between plays that can lull a defense into thinking he’s tired or his feet hurt.
Mahomes saw that description and even the former MVP couldn’t help but laugh at how his shuffle was depicted by Saleh.
It really is an accurate statement, as Mahomes goes from shuffling his feet as he moves from play to play, appearing to walk gingerly, to going full speed, eluding and evading defenders to extend plays to either throw downfield or taking off for a big gain on the ground. It is certainly something to make sure you don’t allow to creep in mentally and think you have him worn out, and given the Bucs’ best weapon as a pass defense is their pass rush, it’ll be critical to their chances of winning that they go full bore all game to disrupt Mahomes (and not get demoralized when he makes something out of nothing).
The GameStop saga on the stock market has already brought unlikely things to fruition, like Ted Cruz agreeing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And now it may have brought Jon Stewart to Twitter to complain about Wall Street sticking it to the little guy.
Thursday’s news that free stock trading apps like Robinhood were preventing customers from buying shares of heavily shorted companies like GameStop and AMC drew outrage from all corners of the internet and the real world. The coming days will likely see investigations and hearings on Capitol Hill and perhaps some consequences for impeding the finances of millions of customers, likely for the benefit of the extremely wealthy. But one unexpected potential consequence of all this mess was the former host of The Daily Show joining the social media network where Donald Trump is no longer allowed.
On Thursday, many pointed to a tweet from an account called “@jon_actual” that many felt was Jon Stewart. And, yes, whoever it was used their first tweet to complain about the GameStop situation.
This is bullshit. The Redditors aren’t cheating, they’re joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years. Don’t shut them down…maybe sue them for copyright infringement instead!! We’ve learned nothing from 2008. Love StewBeef
“This is bullshit. The Redditors aren’t cheating, they’re joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years,” the tweet said. “Don’t shut them down…maybe sue them for copyright infringement instead!!”
The tweet also said “we’ve learned nothing from 2008,” a reference to the financial crisis started largely by cascading debt and defaults in the housing industry. The tweet was signed with “love” from “Stewbeef,” which made many believe it was, indeed, Stewart behind the account.
That speculation certainly grew when one-time member of The Daily Show and noted friend of Stewart, Stephen Colbert, retweeted the lone tweet and said “a friend of mine joined Twitter.”
Well, one thing changed since 2008- a friend of mine joined Twitter. https://t.co/XowK9xXu4D
Despite the evidence suggesting this is Jon Stewart finally on Twitter, it’s important to know there isn’t any solid confirmation here. And Twitter’s own verification system is currently on pause, so don’t expect a blue checkmark to confirm your suspicions anytime soon. Still, it seems logical that it’s Stewart, which is why the account with a single tweet as of Thursday night is followed by hundreds of thousands of people eager to see him rip into Wall Street via a new medium.
There’s a lot that GameStop’s wild ride has caused that’s impossible to anticipate, and that will continue in the coming days, but Stewart joining Twitter is certainly one of the most unexpected ones we’ve seen yet.
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and the clue just was a picture of him! I-
(@thoughtfulth0t) January 28, 2021
