After getting publicly humiliated by Idaho officials who did not appreciate his baseless claims of election fraud, Mike Lindell is already moving full steam ahead on his latest crackpot theory. This time around, the MyPillow CEO claims to have found some extremely old Americans who allegedly voted in the 2020 election. We’re talking centuries old, but naturally, Lindell has very little in the way in specifics to back up his latest stunt. Via Salon’s Zachary Petrizzo on Twitter:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s new claim tonight: he’s found someone who was 850 years old who voted in the 2020 election, but he won’t say from what state the alleged voter was registered. Lindell adds that he and his team have identified 2K people over the age of 200 that voted in a mysterious state that he wouldn’t name.
You can see a video clip of Lindell’s wild new claim below:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s new claim tonight: he’s found someone who was 850 years old who voted in the 2020 election, but he won’t say from what state the alleged voter was registered.
It goes without saying that Lindell has not found a smoking gun proving election fraud with these latest shenanigans. While deceased or impossibly old Americans occasionally showing up in voter rolls does happen, it’s very minimal, and there’s no vast conspiracy behind it. The “dead voter” theories start popping up immediately after the 2020 election, and experts explained to the Associated Press that this sometimes happens because of human error or a software issue. More importantly, election workers routinely catch these rare occurrences and correct them. In short, Lindell’s proof is as dead as his mysterious voters.
Tomorrow will mark Kim Kardashian’s debut as a Saturday Night Live host, and preceding the episodes are always some promo videos. Well, the ones for this week have dropped, and in them, Kardashian and musical guest Halsey shut down a proposal from Cecily Strong.
After Kardashian introduced herself and Halsey, Strong said, “Oh my gosh, this crazy thought just occurred to me in this exact moment right now: Should we start our own girl group?” Halsey was quick to respond, “Absolutely not.” Kardashian added, “We already said no when you pitched that backstage.” Strong replied, “OK, you could hear me. I wasn’t sure because security had me in a headlock.”
In another bit, Strong asked Kardashian if she was nervous about doing the show. She responded by asking if she has to write sketches, memorize lines, or if anybody else will look as good as her. The answer to all of those was no, to which Kardashian replied, “This is so easy.”
Meanwhile, it has been rumored in recent days that Kanye West has been helping Kardashian prepare for her big night: E! News cited “a source” as saying, “Kim has consulted with Kanye and asked for feedback. She values his opinion creatively and artistically. They’ve talked about some different ideas and he has been very supportive.”
On occasion, things break your way in the world of sports handicapping, and Week 4 of the 2021 NFL season was an example in this space. The result was a 5-0 performance and, for the most part, each win seemed to be the right side for good measure. Will we rest on our laurels? Absolutely not. In fact, Week 5 brings its own challenges, and we’ll hand out five selections below.
In the meantime, let’s take a glance at the progress through four weeks and twenty picks.
Last Week: 5-0
2021 Season: 14-6
Come get these winners.
Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets UNDER 45.5 points
What a hideous matchup for the good folks of London to witness. The Falcons have not been much fun to watch this season and, with the exception of last week’s victory over the Titans, the Jets haven’t been anything special either. Honestly, I have a slight lean to Atlanta as less than a field goal favorite, but the total is also quite appetizing. Seven of the last ten London games have gone under the total and these are two offenses I don’t trust. Throw in body clock concerns and the fact that Atlanta is without its top two receivers, and we will be rooting for early morning punts and field goals.
Cincinnati Bengals (+3) over Green Bay Packers
This is a simple sharp/public split. The world is on Green Bay. The sharp side is Cincinnati. It is reflected in the ticket count and money on both sides. Cincinnati may be without Joe Mixon but, honestly, that could be a positive thing if it nudges them to throw more often against the Packers. Home underdogs please.
Cleveland Browns (+2) over Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers got us home last week, but we’re fading this time around. This is a “buy low” spot on Cleveland, as the bandwagon seems to be emptying on the Browns. I buy Cleveland’s defensive front. I buy their running game here. Bottom line? I think the Browns are the (slightly) better team and they’re getting two points in a road venue that isn’t exactly intimidating for the opposition.
San Francisco 49ers (+5) over Arizona Cardinals
The undefeated Cardinals have been rolling, but this has been a spot I’ve circled all week. Arizona is 2-6 as a home favorite under Kliff Kingsbury and this number should be three or so in my mind. I do not trust the Cards just yet. Take the candy.
Kansas City Chiefs (-2.5) over Buffalo Bills
I honestly can’t tell if this is square or not. Usually, the Chiefs are a very public team, but they’ve been shakier than expected and the Bills won by about a million points last week. That leads us to a very rare spot in which Patrick Mahomes and company are home favorites by less than a field goal. There is certainly a concern that the Chiefs won’t be able to get stops, but Buffalo’s offense (and Josh Allen) hasn’t been quite as good as you may think. Lay the small number.
Matthew McConaughey has been “making calls” about running for governor of Texas and he’s reportedly polling higher than the current governor Greg Abbott (to quote Phoebe Bridgers, “suck my d*ck, Greg”), but he hasn’t made any decisions yet. The actor discussed what’s going through his mind on the New York Times podcast, Sway.
“One side of the argument is, McConaughey, exactly. That’s why you need to go get in there,” he told host Kara Swisher. “The other side is, pfft, that’s a bag of rats, man. Don’t touch that with a 10 foot pole. There’s another— you have another lane. You have another category to have influence, and get done things you’d like to get done, and help how you think you can help, and even heal divides. Maybe it’s much better outside of politics.” Use your powers for good, like boosting sales of Lone Star beer.
McConaughey also discussed the restrictive abortion ban in Texas:
Yeah, now, the abortion — this new SB 8, six week abortion ban — I’m not going to come out and tell you right now on this show, here’s where I stand on abortion. We’ve been trying to figure out that, and how to play God with that situation, since the beginning. But this latest move by Texas? It’s a little bit of… feels like a back to front sort of Roe v. Wade loophole that they’re trying to get into. It’s a — feels a little juvenile in its implementation to me. Like, hey, we’ll pay for bounties if you call in and see somebody going in there. And also, you know, how it deals — and doesn’t really — isn’t responsible for rape and incest, that’s — I got a problem with that. And also, six weeks. Six weeks? If you’re saying that your discussion of abortion is even on the table to consider, six weeks does not really make that a honest consideration.
In less political issues, McConaughey discussed how he’s going to die. “I got a feeling that I’m going down as part of the food chain,” he said. “I’d much rather go down that way than [getting] shot down in a drive by. You know, I’ll take one where it’s part of the natural order. There’s some grace in that. It may be ugly and painful and bloody, but at least it’s part of the natural order. And for that, I’ll purchase. And after I’m gone, I hope to say I partook.” That’s worthy of a tombstone: Here Lies Matthew McConaughey, He Partook.
Yesterday marked the publication of a new Adele profile in British Vogue. The feature notes that while Adele worked on the album with folks like Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, and Ludwig Göransson, there are no featured performers on the album. Adele said, “It’s not that I don’t want to. It’s not calculated. It’s just never been right for some reason.”
However, it looks like there will still be some notable non-Adele voices on the album. A separate Adele profile was also published in the US edition of Vogue yesterday, and in it, Adele notes that Tyler The Creator and Skepta will be making appearances on the album, but not as featured artists.
The piece describes listening to a new track, of which Adele says, “The next song is the one I wrote when I went to the studio the day after Angelo [Adele’s son] said, ‘I can’t see you.’” It goes on to note that the song incorporates voice notes from Tyler and Skepta. Adele explained, “I thought it might be a nice touch, seeing as everyone’s been at my door for the last ten years, as a fan, to be like, ‘Would you like to come in?’”
The Skepta appearance is noteworthy also because it was rumored around this time last year that he and Adele were dating. Shortly after those rumors surfaced, though, Adele seemingly addressed them by referring to herself as a “(single) cat lady.”
As for the style of the song, the feature describes it, “A certain combination of elements — sexy ’70s groove, heavy strings, heavier lyrics — immediately calls to mind Marvin Gaye.” It continues, “What’s Going On was a ‘very big reference’ on the album, turns out.”
It’s been nearly nine months since Donald Trump got the boot from the White House. But if you think all that time spent golfing in the Florida sun and crashing weddings at Mar-a-Lago have chilled him out a bit… well, you’d be dead wrong. He’s still a bloviating old man who’s as full of as many racist opinions and bad takes as he was when he was in office. Which is why his drunk uncle comments about Haitian immigrants are, sadly, unsurprising.
As Raw Story notes, the former president showed up on his good pal Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Thursday night, and was ready to vomit up some of his deepest, darkest, dumbest thoughts and not be called out at all for it. Really, it’s Hannity’s fault. He got the former POTUS all riled up by reminding him of his promises to obliterate the Taliban. That somehow then led to what Trump described as “the one other thing no one talks about,” then dropped this repulsive soundbite:
“You know, there’s one other thing that nobody talks about. So we have hundreds of thousands of people flowing in from Haiti. Haiti has a tremendous AIDS problem. AIDS is a step beyond, AIDS is a real bad problem. So hundreds of thousands of people are coming into our country, and if you look at the stats, if you look at the numbers, if you just take a look at what’s happening in Haiti, a tremendous problem with AIDS, many of those people will probably have AIDS, and they’re coming into our country. And we don’t do anything about it, we let everybody come in! Sean, it’s like a death wish. It’s like a death wish for our country.”
There… are no words.
You can listen to the clip below:
“There’s one other thing that nobody talks about” — Trump fear-mongers about Haitian migrants bringing AIDS into the US pic.twitter.com/5Ij6IupRBq
What a short rise, followed by a perpetually long fall for Michael Flynn, who may be a QAnon cheerleader no more. The retired lieutenant Army general served as Trump’s national security advisor for a whole month, after which he was convicted for his lies to the FBI and later banned by Twitter for spreading wacky QAnon nonsense. Now, it seems that Flynn’s on the bad side of QAnon and is being forced to step up and clarify that, no, he is not a Satanist and is not down with Lucifer. Wait, what?
Granted, the accusation from QAnon that a public figure might be down with Satan is not unusual. After all, a former follower of the right-wing group recently apologized to Anderson Cooper for believing that the CNN host ate babies. Such bizarre (and frequently harmful) conspiracy theories are kind-of QAnon’s thing, and everything started to go wrong (again) for Flynn when he apparently (as detailed by the Daily Beast) delivered a sermon (for a Nebraska church) that used language that left QAnon followers scratching their heads:
“We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them. We will be the instrument of your will, whatever it is. In your name, and in the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe.”
It was the “sevenfold rays” and “legions” language that caused problems, which led Flynn to find himself speaking with an obscure YouTube channel called Truth Unveiled TV to defend himself. Host Paul Oebel asked Flynn whether claims that he’s “flipped on the side of the devil” have any truth to them.
Flynn wasn’t having it. “All of these people that talk about turning to whatever…” he declared. “People need to stop overthinking what everybody is saying.” So… not exactly a denial? I kid, I kid. Yet this is a perfect example of how QAnon is turning on their own, all after Flynn endured Jimmy Kimmel’s ridicule for coming forward as a QAnon fanboy and promptly forgetting the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. What a messy story, but it sounds like Mike Flynn needs to find a new right-wing group with which to hang because, seemingly, not even QAnon is buying what he’s been selling.
Halloween doesn’t arrive until the end of the month. You know that you’re already in the mood for candy, though, and similarly, the streaming services are all-in already, hopefully with few tricks and a lot of treats. To that end, Netflix knows what you’re craving this week, and apparently, this includes the weirdest dating show in existence and Dave Chappelle’s supposed final comedy special on Netflix, along with a spooky WWE-themed special and the final season of a fan-favorite series that stars one of TV’s most infamous tough guys, all for your binging pleasure.
That is to say, if you’re not still rewatching Seinfeld episodes (Seasons 1-9), which came to the streamer last week, then here’s what you will want to check out. Sexy Beasts puts personality above looks with a second installment that covers contestants in elaborate prosthetics and makeup. A romantic comedy series arrives to distract you from the whole world, and the same goes for a series full of crime-bound sports figures and their representatives acting very badly. Not only that, but Pokémon fans and baked-goods aficionados will enjoy these offerings for the sweetest of impossibly constructed treats. Dig in because there will be more new offerings on tap next week, too.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) the streaming platform this week.
The Closer (Netflix comedy special streaming 10/5)
Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy run with Netflix has been a lucrative one for both parties. This combined body of work includes The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones, and the supposed final chapter is called The Closer. There’s no telling whether Chappelle and Netflix’s common goodwill (after CEO Ted Sarandos helped him receive The Chappelle Show license back, along with millions of dollars) will result in a re-upping of a deal beyond this sixth stand-up special, but for now, the The Closer (with returning, Emmy-award winning director Stan Lathan) is closing things out.
Sexy Beasts: Season 2 (Netflix series streaming 10/7)
Well, no one expected this show to return so soon, so I guess that one could consider it a… force of nature? It’s a nightmare of a concept, and one can’t look away from the trainwrecky aspect of people going into hours of prosthetic work to go on a date. And I’m not sure, really, if these contestants find it more or less hurtful to be rejected without any consideration of looks? That’s either so much better or so much worse than the usual dating hell out there. Yet obviously, someone did this poor rabbit dirty. Will Rob Delaney return as well? Surely, he can’t let the bunny down.
Escape The Undertaker (Netflix interactive special streaming 10/5)
Following Bandersnatch, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend, and You Vs. Wild: Out Cold, this new interactive special features WWE Superstars aplenty. Uhhh, The Undertaker’s living in an extreme haunted house and The New Day tag team is simply trying to survive his wrath. I’m not gonna lie, this is awfully perplexing stuff, but let’s go with the spirit of the season as the Costumed Gods would prefer.
On My Block: Season 4 (Netflix series streaming 10/4)
This coming-of-age comedy, filled with street-savvy teens and Emilio Rivera as Uncle Chivo, takes one final trip around the inner-city block. An unburied secret causes more conflict, but the friends will have to band together and learn not to avoid the past.
Bad Sport: Season 1 (Netflix series streaming 10/6)
Sports and crime intersect in this show, which dives into personal accounts from athletes, coaches, and law enforcement. Expect to see the 2002 figure skating scandal (out of Salt Lake City), a weed-smuggling scandal surrounding an Indycar driver, a horse hitman committing insurance fraud, a basketball point-shaving scheme, and more bad boys who fell from grace.
Here’s the latest food competition series, and this one arrives with creative and innovative bakers who team up with engineers to build truly wild culinary creations. The judging criteria is tough, too, and it includes not only taste tests but also engineering stress tests. Yes, there’s an edible skyscraper involved.
Emily Osment stars as Chelsea, who’s recovering from a recent dumping, but she’ll be alright because she’s Harvard educated and soon-to-be a successful novelist, right? Also, she moves in with four roommates, all of whom aren’t terribly intelligent (everyone from her own bubble-headed sister to a lawyer-turned-healer to an Instagram influencer and a rather vacuous personal trainer), but they’ll end up becoming her new family.
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle (Netflix film streaming 10/8)
Heck, why not? Ash and Pikachu encounter Koko, who grew up alongside Zarude in the jungle. There appears to be an environmental bent here with Koku realizing that his home might be under threat from humans.
Here’s a full list of what’s been added in the last week:
Avail. 10/3 Scissor Seven: Season 3 Upcoming Summer
Avail. 10/4 On My Block: Season 4
Avail. 10/5 Escape The Undertaker
Avail. 10/6 Bad Sport
Baking Impossible
The Blacklist: Season 8 Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
The Five Juanas
Love Is Blind: Brazil
There’s Someone Inside Your House
Avail. 10/7 The Billion Dollar Code
Sexy Beasts: Season 2 The Way of the Househusband: Season 1 Part 2
Avail. 10/8 A Tale Dark & Grimm
Family Business: Season 3 Grudge / Kin
LOL Surprise: The Movie
My Brother, My Sister
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle
Pretty Smart
Avail. 10/9 Blue Period
Insidious: Chapter 2
And here’s what’s leaving next week, so it’s your last chance:
It’s been four years since Bonobo’s epic 2017 Grammy-nominated Migration came out. Now this week, the much-anticipated follow-up, Fragments, has been announced.
It features yet another sterling list of featured artists that shows Bonobo’s Simon Green ability to keep his finger on the pulse. Out January 15 on Ninja Tune, the Fragments tracklist include collaborations with Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, O’Flynn, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.
Green calls the Woods collaboration the “centerpiece” of the record and that working with arranger and strings player Atwood-Ferguson helped the album’s musical themes emerge, saying in a statement, “Recording orchestral musicians in actual studios helped bring the songs ‘out of the box’ even more.
The lead single, “Rosewood,” is out now and it’s very clearly inspired by the Detroit techno of producers like Moodymann and Theo Parrish. In fact, Green says much of the album is about the dance floor, but that “the positivity isn’t just in the uptempo rhythms: even the most introspective and melancholic pieces have joy in them.”
The artwork for the “Rosewood” visualizer and for the album cover are by Neil Krug, who also designed the visual concept for Migration.
Listen to “Rosewood” above, and below, find the Fragments art and tracklist, as well as Bonobo’s upcoming tour dates.
02/18/2022 — Nashville, TN @ Wildhorse Saloon
02/19/2022 — Newport, KY @ PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation
02/20/2022 — Columbus, OH @ EXPRESS LIVE!
02/21/2022 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
02/25/2022 — Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall
02/27/2022 — Boston, MA @ Royale
02/28/2022 — Washington, DC @ Echostage
03/02/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
03/05/2022 — Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
03/06/2022 — Montreal, QC @ Mtelus
03/09/2022 — Toronto, ON @ History
03/10/2022 — Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Hall
03/11/2022 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
03/12/2022 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
03/13/2022 — Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
03/15/2022 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Palace
03/17/2022 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
03/18/2022 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
03/19/2022 — Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
03/21/2022 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum
03/22/2022 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
03/24/2022 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
04/20/2022 — Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live
04/21/2022 — Hamburg, DE @ edel-optics.de Arena
04/23/2022 — Berlin, De @ UFO im Velodrom
04/24/2022 — Cologne, De @ Palladium
04/25/2022 — Munich, De @ TonHalle
04/26/2022 — Zurich, CH @ Xtra
04/28/2022 — Paris, FR @ Le Centquatre
05/03/2022 — Brighton, UK @ The Brighton Centre
05/04/2022 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
05/06/2022 — Manchester, UK @ Victoria Warehouse
05/07/2022 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
05/08/2022 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
05/16/2022 — London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall
05/17/2022 — London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall
05/18/2022 — London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall
Fragments is out 1/15 via Ninja Tune. Pre-order it here.
As all the members of the former powerhouse girl group, Fifth Harmony, slowly begin to make their way toward solo careers, Lauren Jauregui is more than ready to start her own. Following in the footsteps of her peers, Camila Cabello and Normani — who recently turned heads with her “Motivation” follow up, “Wild Side,” featuring Cardi B — Lauren has released the introductory single for her brand new solo project Prelude tonight.
We’ve heard a little bit from Lauren before, with singles like “Expectations,” “More Than That,” and “50ft,” but with her new single, “Colors,” she’s introducing an EP for the first time. Of the track, Lauren said she’s having an actual conversation with herself in the song.
“When you paint a wall, you have to paint over what is underneath. The song is a literal conversation. When everyone is gone, it’s just you and I. You can paint on the wall, but you can’t erase them all. I’m letting myself know that no matter what is going on, I need to be okay with myself. You can’t run away from yourself, because all of your layers are still going to be there. You need to learn to see them and accept them.”
Check out the new song above and look out for more from Lauren coming soon.
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