Sometimes, Representative Lauren Boebert just makes dragging her too easy.

Case in point: in a recent filing with the Federal Election Commission to amend her quarterly earnings, Boebert’s staff listed Utah as the gun-loving GOP member’s home state. And that’s news to all of us because Boebert currently represents the state of Colorado.

Forbes first caught the error Friday morning and reached out to the Congresswoman’s team. Boebert’s spokesperson Jake Settle responded, thanking the news outlet for making them aware of the error and promising he had “flagged it” for Team Boebert. A short time later, Boebert’s office filed another amendment to her Q3 report where her district was back in Colorado. This gaffe marks the latest embarrassing headline for the young Congresswoman who’s been fielding allegations regarding misuse of campaign funds — she reportedly used campaign donations to pay for her business’ rent and utilities back home — and accusations that she, along with Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republican dissenters, helped plan the Jan. 6th insurrection, working with organizers to map out their assault on the Capitol building days before.

Obviously, fudging which state you’re representing on some FEC documents pales in comparison to possibly backing a treasonous insurrection meant to thwart our democratic process, but we have to think it’s just as embarrassing. In fact, the only people we feel sorry for more than whichever intern inevitably gets blamed for this elementary mistake are Boebert’s constituents in Colorado. If she can’t remember which district in which state she serves, that doesn’t give us much hope she’s actually doing anything for the people who elected her.

There’s a lot of things I would do for $9 million. I would walk a mile with a rock in my shoe, even though that’s really annoying. I would watch the complete Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer filmography. I would even order french fries and a Frosty from Wendy’s, but not dip the former into the latter. Want to know another thing I would do for $9 million? Get vaccinated. Heck, I did it for free. This is where Ice Cube and I differ.

Ice Cube has exited the comedy Oh Hell No “after declining a request from producers to get vaccinated,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. “The studio is looking to find a replacement as Ice Cube walked from a $9 million payday.”

The rapper and actor was set to co-star with Jack Black (the premise: Black’s character falls in love with Cube’s character’s mom), but now the production start date — originally set for this winter in Hawaii, which also sounds nice — has been pushed back due to his departure and Black recovering from an injury he suffered for the final episode of Conan.

Throughout the pandemic, Ice Cube has promoted mask wearing. In August, Bacone College in Oklahoma thanked the star and others for a donation of 2,000 face masks to use as personal protective equipment. In April 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, he unveiled “Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self” branded T-shirts, featuring the star in a mask, in partnership with the manufacturer Black Out, with proceeds to benefit frontline health workers.

If someone offered me nine million smackers to star in a movie with Jack Black, you know what I wouldn’t say? Oh hell no.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Well, friends, you should probably just throw out our definitive fast food chicken sandwich ranking now. Because Popeyes just changed the game. Again. In a major way.

Lately, the fast food space has been in a weird place. Ever since McDonald’s dropped its Travis Scott meal we’ve been treated — no, tortured — with cash grab after cash grab, a cavalcade of celebrity-branded meals that amount to little more than remixes of what the stock menu already offers. Even Burger King is wasting our time with this sh*t. A couple of months back they gave us a Nelly meal. Nelly. In 2021.

It’s a cheap, lazy, but ultimately profitable way to get customers hyped for the same old food. So of course the fast food brands are *badap-ba-ba-da!* loving it. This isn’t going to stop until we demand ideas that are a more imaginative.

Enter Hot Girl Meg and the Popeyes Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce Chicken Sandwich, here to save us all. Thanks Meg — the food scene needed this.

When Popeyes dropped their chicken sandwich almost three years back, they single-handedly shifted the fast food landscape. Since that sandwich, almost every fast food brand has re-formulated their fried chicken recipes in an attempt to step up to the new GOAT. Leave it to Popeyes to be the only one who can improve upon the original. While its Megan Thee Stallion branded merch collection would lead you to believe this is just another celebrity cash grab, the flavors themselves prove that there was some actual effort put into this collaboration.

Not only did Megan Thee Stallion meet with the Popeyes culinary team to develop a brand new hot sauce for the collaboration — dubbed “Hottie Sauce” — they also approved Megan to become a Popeyes franchise restaurant owner. That shows Popeyes is putting a lot more faith in Megan Thee Stallion than just cashing in on her famous name and face.

For a limited time, the Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce will be available at all Popeyes nationwide as both a dipping sauce and a new sauce topping for the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich, which means this marks the first official variation on the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich since its launch. There are now three Popeyes Chicken Sandwiches: Original, Spicy, And Hottie Sauce.

We sampled the new Hottie to see how it compares to the OG and if it’s worth ditching your current favorite chicken sandwich for.

Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce Chicken Sandwich

First things first, we have to talk about expectations. I understand why fast food companies take picture-perfect versions of their food for advertisement purposes, but I don’t think they understand just how crushing it is for the customer to see the advertisement and then get… this. No matter how you cut it, this is a sad-looking sandwich, I don’t care how delicious it smells! If In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and Chick-fil-A are all capable of making their food look just as delicious in real life as it looks advertised, I don’t know why Popeyes can’t at least try to make their sandwich look like it wasn’t assembled in the dark.

The advertisement shows a plump sandwich with sauce pouring all over the sides, what I actually got doesn’t give the fried filet as much coverage. Removing the bun proved me wrong, it’s definitely a lot of sauce. A scary amount.

The Hottie sauce gives off a sort of a sweet and sour smell, if you were expecting buffalo or your average wing sauce, this isn’t that. It’s made from a blend of hot sauce, aged cayenne pepper, sugar, and honey and features a way sweeter taste to it than I expected. Tangy sweetness greets the palate and a very gentle dose of heat hovers between bites, but ultimately I wouldn’t even categorize this as even mildly spicey.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich has never been the spiciest sandwich (even the spicy version). Instead of battering the chicken in its spicy breading, Popeyes works solely with the mild batter for its chicken breast filet and the Hottie Sauce works to accentuate that chicken’s already subtly sweet taste, but not in a way that makes it taste grossly candied. It makes the sandwich overall a little more decadent, but each bite is savory, delicious, and tender — with complementary flavors that actually taste like an improvement over the sandwich’s stock sauce.

For as long as this version is available, I don’t see why you’d opt for the original over this. Is it so overwhelming that you’re not going to want to hit it up as a once-a-week meal? That’s probably true. But it’s also overall a better sandwich because the Hottie Sauce is Popeyes’ best sauce, period. We just wish it was spicier.

The Bottom Line:

The Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce Chicken Sandwich is an improvement on an already delicious fried chicken sandwich. This is Popeyes definitive chicken sandwich sauce and although it’s only available for a limited time, something tells me this will end up a permanent menu fixture — it makes an already great sandwich even better.

If you’ve ever wondered why we can’t have good things, blame it all on Mitt Romney and denim vest stan Kyrsten Sinema. On Wednesday, the Utah senator ruined the one thing most of us seem to agree on: Ted Lasso. Romney shared some footage of himself as Lasso for Halloween, with Sinema filling the role of Hannah Waddingham’s character, Rebecca. First of all: How dare they!? Needless to say, the photos have tainted Ted’s pureness, and Seth Meyers isn’t happy about it.

On Thursday night, Meyers dedicated his “A Closer Look” segment to the many things that are happening in Washington politics at the moment. And the first thing he wanted to talk about was Romney and Sinema’s disturbing photo shoot:

“To give you an idea of how things are going in congress right now, here’s a photo Utah senator Mitt Romney posted today of himself dressed up as Ted Lasso serving biscuits to Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema. Man, you know you’re unpopular when you can single-handedly ruin one of America’s favorite TV shows. This is like when Rudy Giuliani ran out of the White House bathroom with his pants around his ankles, George Costanza-style. Or like when Nixon showed up to a press conference dressed as Radar O’Reilly… But this just proves once again that we desperately need Roy Kent in congress, because that picture makes me want to f***ing puke.

You can watch the full clip above.

The Chicago Bulls will not have the services of the player expected to anchor their defense for the entirety of the 2021-22 NBA regular season. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Patrick Williams, the second-year wing who spent his first year in the league establishing himself as one of the sport’s premier young defenders, needs surgery on his injured left wrist.

As a result, Chicago will not have him in the rotation for the foreseeable future.

Williams was the No. 4 pick in the 2020, and while he flashed some offensive ability during his first year in the Association, his calling card was his versatility and tenacity on the defensive end of the floor. He was expected to shoulder a heavy load in the Bulls’ starting lineup this year, taking on the opposing team’s top perimeter player, but while there is some hope he could return if the team makes the postseason, he’s not going to take the floor any time soon.

Previously, Williams suffered an ankle injury over the offseason, but he was able to get healthy in enough time to start all five games this season. The Bulls have started this season 4-1, with Williams averaging 6.6 points, 2.2 rebounds, 0.6 assists, and 0.6 blocks in 25 minutes per game.

Conan O’Brien is making a show on HBO Max, but the industry scuttlebutt about what that show will be has apparently been all wrong so far. According to O’Brien, who ended his late-night run on TBS earlier in the year, some lawyer completely messed up the way people are talking about his new show. Which is probably why he’s clearing the air about what people should expect.

O’Brien addressed it on his podcast this week, denying the notion that he will bring back an old TV format for the modern streaming age. As his co-hosts pointed out, many described the new venture as a “variety show,” which traditionally meant bringing on a variety of performers in rapid succession a la The Andy Williams Show or some early Muppets Show stuff. Late-night TV shows have evolved out of that genre for sure, but O’Brien made it clear that there will be no juggling or vaudeville revival coming on HBO anytime soon.

“I know exactly why that happened, which is someone in the machinery somewhere I think at the network threw the word ‘variety’ in there because we’re in the variety comedy category,” O’Brien said. He actually said the news made a juggler and magician friend excitedly reach out to him about an opportunity to perform on the new show, which obviously will not happen.

“That hit the press and I had friends saying, ‘So you’re bringing back the old variety show?’” O’Brien said, making some jokes about what a modern variety show would look like. And while it’s clear the media reports got the framing wrong here, O’Brien isn’t lacking ideas for what the show actually will be. For starters, it will be a weekly program that will hopefully get him out of the studio a lot more than he could while on air five nights a week.

“I’ve been thinking, we have this world now, this streaming universe, where people can make fewer somethings. And it comes on once a week, and I’m thinking I really want to double down on the things I love,” he explained. “Which involves getting out of the studio and combining a bunch of the elements I think maybe make me a little different. Because whatever I do obviously I’d like to be something that can contribute or feel like it’s needed.

“There’s so many late-night shows now and I feel like I’ve done so much of that,” he continued. “I feel like it should be something that is more unique to me and something that maybe we can spend a little more time crafting. I have a lot of ideas, I have a lot of very specific ideas.”

Fans of his earlier work in late-night will certainly perk their ears up at the thought of Conan on the streets and exploring the space a bit more. But there will be some disappointment in the news that a variety program is out the window. Especially among the juggling enthusiasts out there.

[via Pajiba]

This article originally appeared on 01.30.20

It’s cold and flu seasons, folks. During this time of year, we’re all on a mission to avoid the demon viruses that threaten to invade our bodies and wage Armageddon on our immune systems.

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But no matter how much vitamin C we consume or how diligently we wash our hands, we still have to rely on others to be smart about exposing people to their sick germs. And that goes doubly for kids, who inexplicably do things like lick their own palms and rub communal crayons under their noses.

RELATED: How one mom is coping with not being able to protect her preemie daughter from germs.

That’s why a mom’s recent Facebook post about keeping kids home when they have a fever has been shared more than 170,000 times. Samantha Moriá Reynolds shared a photo of a thermometer with a temperature of 101.4 with the following message:

This morning, Sam woke up and noticed her son wasn’t feeling well.
Sam took her son’s temperature, and wow! A fever.
Sam gave her son Tylenol and then…
Sam did NOT send her son to school.
Even after the fever went down a couple hours later, Sam did NOT send her son to school.
Sam missed work knowing that the well-being of her son and the kids who attend his school is more important than work missed.

Sam’s son was invited to THREE birthday parties over the weekend. Sam’s son has been so excited to go, but he will unfortunately also have to miss them because Sam’s son is SICK. Sam knows passing along a sickness would not be a great birthday gift regardless of how bummed her son may be.

Sam knows her son is still contagious until he is fever-free, WITHOUT medication, for 24 hours. If Sam’s son is running a fever at 7am on Sunday, Sam’s son will also not be attending school on Monday.

Be. Like. Sam.

Some parents will give their kids fever-reducing medication, the fever will go down, the kid will feel a bit better, and off they go to school. But fever meds like Tylenol don’t do anything to kill the virus that’s infecting the kid’s body. They just mask the symptoms of the illness and provide some relief to a miserable kiddo. If a fever goes down with medication, the child is still sick and still contagious.

The same goes for adults who try to tough it out by popping a Dayquil before heading off to work. If you want to infect your coworkers and make them hate you, keep doing that.

Granted, some parents may have a hard time finding childcare or taking time off work, and there’s a lot to be said for employers being understanding and granting leave to care for sick children. Our whole society needs to work together on this front to make sure people don’t feel like they have no choice but to send a sick kid to school. But that starts with parents insisting that their feverish kids stay home from school until they are no longer a threat to other people’s health and well-being.

The coronavirus outbreak keeps making headlines and the mounting death numbers from it are making people nervous, but the truth is that the plain old flu already kills thousands of Americans every single year. This season, more than 8,000 people have already died from flu and flu complications, and we’re still in the thick of the season.

RELATED: All Of Your Reasons To Not Get A Flu Shot Are Horribly Wrong (Also, Really Dangerous)

The best way to keep illness from spreading is to stay away from other people when you are sick and to keep sick kids home until they are fever-free for 24 hours.

Be like Sam. Keep sick kids home. It takes a village to keep us all healthy.

This article originally appeared on 08.27.18

It’s the 21st century, and as a civilization, we’ve come a long way. No, there are no flying cars (yet), but we all carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets, can own drones, and can argue with strangers from all around the world as long as they have internet access.

And yet women are still having to ask their partners to help out around the house. What gives?

Recently, Blogger Constance Hall went on a highly-relatable rant about spouses assuming responsibility for housework, and women everywhere are all, “🙌 🙌 🙌 .”

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Recently while bitching about the fact that I do absolutely everything around my house with a bunch of friends all singing “preach Queen”, someone said to me “if you want help you need to be specific… ask for it. People need lists, they aren’t mind readers.”

So I tried that, asking.. specifics..

“Can you take the bin out?”

“Can you get up with the kids? I’m just a little tired after doing it on my own for 329 years”

“Can you go to woolies? I’ve done 3 loads of washing and made breaky, lunch, picked up all the kids school books, dealt with the floating shit in the pond.”

And yeah, she was right… shit got done.

But I was exhausted, just keeping the balls in the air.. remembering what needs to be asked to be done, constant nagging..

And do you know what happened the minute I stopped asking…?

NOTHING.

Again.

And so I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not your job to ask for help, it’s not my job to write fucking lists.. We have enough god dam jobs and teaching someone how to consider me and my ridiculous work load is not one of them.

Just do it.

Just think about each other, what it takes to run the god dam house. Is one of you working while the other puts up their feet?

Is one of you hanging out with mates while the other peels the thirtieth piece of fruit for the day?

Is one of you carrying the weight?

Because when the nagging stops, when the asking dies down, when there are no more lists….

All your left with is silent resentment. And that my friends is relationship cancer..

It’s not up to anyone else to teach you consideration. That’s your job.

Just do the fucking dishes without being asked once in a while mother fuckers.

Hall’s post touches on the concept of emotional labor, which can be defined as “the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.”

In other words, although Hall’s partner may be the one carrying out the tasks she assigns him, it is still Hall’s job to be the “manager” of the household, and keep track of what things need to get done. And anyone who runs a household knows that juggling and keeping track of chores is just as exhausting as executing them.

At time of publication, Hall’s post was shared nearly 100,000 times. That’s a lot of frustrated ladies!

Women in the comments section seemed to overwhelmingly agree with Hall’s post.

Let’s all learn to share the load…laundry and otherwise.

The 2021-22 NBA season is underway, and the folks over at Tidal teamed up with a collection of NBA DJs to celebrate the music played in arenas. The DJs come from teams across the league, with their playlists spanning decades and oftentimes paying tribute to some of the artists who played a major role in shaping the sound of their various cities.

The seven DJs provide in-arena tunes for the Philadelphia 76ers (DJ Ghost), Milwaukee Bucks (DJ Shawna), Los Angeles Clippers (DJ Dense), Miami Heat (DJ Irie), Los Angeles Lakers (DJ Roueche), Brooklyn Nets (DJay Jung), and Golden State Warriors (Derrick “D Sharp” Robinson). You can check out all of the playlist by clicking the links, but here is a collection of what you’ll find.

DJ Dense: Los Angeles Clippers

“Expensive Pain” by Meek Mill
“Blue Notes 2” by Meek Mill feat. Lil Uzi Vert
“Headlock by Lil Wayne feat. Rich The kid
“Rollin Papers” by Dom Kennedy
“Poke it Out” by Wale feat. Cool & Dre and J. Cole
“Ye” by Burna Boy
“Essence” by Wizkid feat. Tems
“Want it All” by Burna Boy feat. Polo G
“Moon” by Kanye West
“Way 2 Sexy” by Drake feat. Future and Young Thug
“Believe What I Say” by Kanye West
“EVERY CHANCE I GET” by DJ Khaled feat. Lil Baby and Lil Durk
“Gaspar Yanga” by D Smoke feat. Snoop Dogg
“California Love” by 2Pac feat. Roger Troutman and Dr. Dre

DJ Roueche: Los Angeles Lakers

“Big Tings” by The Suicide Doors feat. Jacoby X
“DNA” by Kendrick Lamar
“24” by IDK
“Welcome To The Party” by Pop Smoke
“Drop It” by Tujamo feat. Lukas Vane
“Breakin’ a Sweat (Zedd Remix)” by Skrillex feat. The Doors and Robby Krieger
“Let’s Go” by Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo
“2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted (feat. Snoop Doggy Dog)” by 2Pac
“Still D.R.E.” by Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
“Twist My Fingaz” by YG
“Grinding All My Life” by Nipsey Hussle
“Higher” by The Game
“Roses (Imanbek Remix)” by SAINt JHN
“Turbulence” by Steve Aoki feat. Laidback Luke and Lil Jon
“Bounce Generation” by TJR feat. Vinai
“Nonstop” by Drake
“Whoopty” by CJ
“family ties” by Baby Keem feat. Kendrick Lamar
“Big League” by O.T. Genasis
“In My Zone” by The Suicide Doors feat. Chancer Smith
“Baila Conmigo” by Dayvi feat. Victor Cárden and Kelly Ruiz
“Soul Sacrifice” by Dombresky
“A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” by Fergie feat. Q-Tip and GoonRock
“Song 2” by Blur
“I Love L.A.” by Randy Newman

DJay Jung: Brooklyn Nets

“family ties” by Baby Keem feat. Kendrick Lamar
“Way 2 Sexy” by Drake feat. Future and Young Thug
“Knife Talk” by Drake feat. 21 Savage and Project Pat
“Sharing Locations” by Meek Mill feat. Lil Durk and Lil Baby
“The Scorpion” by Conway The Machine
“KD” by Conway The Machine
“No Time For Sleep” by Bobby Shmurda
“Big Drip” by Fivio Foreign
“What It Feels Like” by Nipsey Hussle feat. JAY-Z
“Hypnotize” by The Notorious B.I.G.
“Gimme the Loot” by The Notorious B.I.G.
“U Don’t Know” by JAY-Z
“Brooklyn’s Finest” by JAY-Z
“Show Me What You Got” by JAY-Z
“Welcome 2 Brooklyn” by M.O.P. feat. Maino
“Jump” by Rupee
“La Mama de la Mama” by El Alfa feat. El Cherry Scom
“In Da Getto” by J Balvin feat. Skrillex
“Set It Off” by Big Daddy Kane
“What’s Up Suckaz” by TJR

Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins returns with his new album, Elephant In The Room — the first full-length project he’s released since 2018’s Pieces Of A Man. While he did release an EP titled The Circus last year, Elephant In The Room is the first chance Mick fans have had to hear him detail his life’s changes since 2018 and he doesn’t disappoint; from the very first bar of the album, he tells us exactly how it’s been and how it’s going to be.

“Give a f*ck if yo’ pockets low, we been living lowkey,” he rhymes on “The Valley Of The Shadow of Death.” “Wonder how we was popping bottles, this far below deep.” It’s clear that some things haven’t changed: Mick’s emotive, vulnerable songwriting remains as compelling as ever, while his stark observations and razor-sharp wit still cut to the bone of any number of real-life topics, from “Things You Could Die For If Doing While Black” to feeling underappreciated on “Scottie Pippen.”

Mick rolled out the album with an engaging, revealing website that detailed his thoughts on crafting the album and on the songwriting philosophy behind additions such as “Contacts.” You can find the website here and use the password “Carefree” to access Mick’s calendar, contacts, notes, reminders, and photos. Listen to the full album below.