Month: January 2022

The Minnesota Vikings were supposed to be a playoff team this season, but after an 8-9 season filled with frustrating losses (eight of their nine defeats were by one score), it felt like time for some changes in Minneapolis.

Vikings ownership apparently felt the same way, as they fired coach Mike Zimmer after eight seasons in Minnesota, as well as GM Rick Spielman as they look to clean house and hit the reset button.

Zimmer posted a 72-56-1 record over his tenure, headlined by a 13-3 campaign in 2017 that saw them reach the NFC title game, but they never put together back-to-back seasons in the playoffs under Zimmer and after two straight sub-.500 seasons, it just felt like time to move on. Letting Spielman go also gives Minnesota a chance for a completely new vision, which one would think would include looking to turn the page from the Kirk Cousins era if possible, getting younger and rolling the dice on being more dynamic offensively.

The talent in Minnesota will make it one of the more attractive jobs on the market, and it’ll be fascinating what direction they go with their next head coach. The Vikings opening makes for five head coaching vacancies this summer, along with the Dolphins, Jaguars, Raiders, and Broncos, with the potential for more to open up, such as Houston.

The Miami Dolphins have been knocking on the doorstep of the playoffs the past two seasons under coach Brian Flores. After a 5-11 campaign in his first year in 2019, Miami has gone 19-14 since, just missing out on the Wild Card in the AFC in both seasons. Typically, that kind of improvement would see a coach get a fourth year, but on Monday, the Dolphins announced Flores was out in Miami.

It was a bit of a curious move from a football standpoint, particularly given the turnaround the team saw from a 1-7 start to a 9-8 finish, but it seems minds were made up in Miami possibly earlier this season. There are rumblings that it wasn’t performance so much as Flores rubbing some in the organization the wrong way — owner Stephen Ross mentioned “collaboration” in his press conference announcing the firing — but the bar for the next head coach will be high given the performance of Miami the last two seasons in coming close to the postseason.

As for the rumors that Flores was being fired to clear the way for Jim Harbaugh’s return to the NFL, owner Stephen Ross (a Michigan alum) directly shut that down in his press conference.

One would expect that, just like in Denver where Vic Fangio was fired after three seasons, the Dolphins will look for an offensive mind to follow a defensive coach, particularly someone who they believe can unlock Tua Tagovailoa’s full potential at quarterback.

The comedy world suffered a major loss yesterday when it was revealed that Bob Saget had passed away at 65. The actor and comedian, best known for shows like Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos as well as his stand-up comedy, has so far been mourned by many in the entertainment world, including his Full House co-stars. Now, John Mayer, with whom Saget shared a close bond, has offered his thoughts.

Posting a blank white image on Instagram late last night, Mayer wrote, “I love you, Bob. I will never forget you. I will visit you often in my memories, and I hope I get to see you in my dreams. I will tell my kids about you. I’m taking you with me forever. I love you, Bob.”

Saget and Mayer have been seen out and about together on numerous occasions over the years, including as recently as last September, when Sagat shared a photo of himself and Mayer with comedian Ms. Pat. A couple weeks after that, Sagat marked Mayer’s October 16 birthday by sharing a photo of himself and Mayer and writing a tribute to his friend (that Mayer probably cherishes now more than ever): “I am so fortunate to be able to walk through this life with one of the best friends someone could wish for. As anyone who’s fortunate enough to have him as a friend knows, John Mayer is a most caring, compassionate, clearest person — who loves giving back the love he receives. And if you know him as someone that you deeply appreciate as an artist and person, what you feel from him is exactly who he is. And he’s one of the few people that, on his birthday, I cannot get him a gift certificate for guitar lessons. And not only brilliant, but funny AF. Happy Birthday John. Love you so much my brother. Oh, it’s Bob.”

Meet Christopher Key the self-proclaimed “Vaccine Police” who kicked off the new year by embarking on a nationwide tour to arrest Democratic governors while wielding a flamethrower and a small arsenal of guns. After announcing that his first stop would be Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, you’d assume Key would already be locked up by now, but nope, he’s still making videos for his legion of followers as part of his anti-vaxx, anti-mask crusade.

In his latest report, Key is now touting the ultimate cure for fighting COVID that he claims to be using himself. That cure? Drinking your own urine. Via The Daily Beast:

“This has been around for centuries,” he added. “When I tell you this, please take it with a grain of salt,” the anti-vaccine advocate warned while saying people might now think he is “cray cray.” “Now drink urine!” he continued. “This vaccine is the worst bioweapon I have ever seen,” he concluded. “I drink my own urine!”

When reached for comment, The Daily Beast reports that Key confirmed his support for “urine therapy” and referred to anyone who gets vaccinated instead as “foolish.” Unsurprisingly, Key isn’t the only right-wing figure steering people towards a dubious COVID cure. On the Friday night episode of his show, Tucker Carlson touted Viagra as the hot new treatment.

“Who thought Viagra would save us from the pandemic?” Carlson said while pushing a highly questionable article from The Sun about the boner pill supposedly saving a COVID patient in the U.K.

(Via The Daily Beast)

The Righteous Gemstones Halo Report is a weekly recap feature that assigns between zero and five halos to people, things, events, and general topics from each episode. There is very little to this beyond an excuse to highlight cool stuff from a good show and make jokes. And do crappy drawings of halos in MS Paint. We’re having fun.

ZERO HALOS

Having your thumbs ripped all sideways

I like that we’re learning more about Eli Gemstone’s past and how he got to be a massively wealthy televangelist. Did I foresee that involving minor-league professional wrestling and a stint as a heavy named The Maniac Kid whose real-life finishing move involves grabbing someone’s thumbs and ripping them asunder so they point in a direction that is not otherwise biologically feasible? No. No, I did not. But that’s just a failure of imagination on my part. I can and will do better going forward.

Please do not do this to my thumbs. Or any other body part of mine. I do not think I will like it.

Any of this

Three important notes here:

• This little scene set the table for so much this season, and especially for this two-part premiere, between the introduction of the Gemstones streaming service and the first mention of the journalist who is coming for them all
• It did so while also included the words “throuple” and “snack”
• I’m sorry but I howled a little when they cut to this poor guy with his legs twisted about like the thumbs of anyone who crossed the Maniac Kid

Just an A+ sight gag. I hope he makes a full recovery by, like, episode four and vows revenge from inside a hollowed-out volcano. The best part about this show is that we can’t entirely rule it out.

ONE HALO

Kelvin Gemstone

On one hand, Kelvin is slipping through the cracks a little and appears to be neglecting my sweet Satanic prince Keef in favor of his buff Jesus squad, which is not acceptable to me in any way.

On the other hand, he is rocking this sweet jacket with a tiger on the back for reasons that were never made super clear, as is only fair and appropriate. And he was the only one smart enough to bail on the creepy murder cabin back when it was just a creepy cabin.

What I’m saying is that he has good instincts but makes bad decisions. One halo. For now.

Sea turtles, generally

Tough break, I guess, but you gotta crack a few eggs to put a Jesus flotilla in the ocean. Literally. You have to crack a few sea turtle eggs. I didn’t screw up that metaphor. It wasn’t even a metaphor at all, really. Just bad vibes all around for the sea turtles.

That said, the introduction of a sea turtle habitat means there is now a non-zero chance we see Eric Andre riding a sea turtle like a jet ski before this season is out. Checkov’s Sea Turtle. It probably won’t happen but if it does I am going to look freaking brilliant. That’s what’s important here.

TWO HALOS

Mickey Mouse

The relationship between Judy and BJ fascinates me on so many levels and “got hitched in a mermaid wedding at Disney World officiated by Prince Eric” only adds to it. I would watch an entire show about just them. I would watch a two-hour special episode just about this wedding. Imagine how happy BJ would be in Disney World. Imagine Judy cussing out Goofy for some trivial reason.

I am not joking. Please make this.

Keef

I love Keef very much and I want him to be happy. Kelvin should treat him better. My working theory is that Kelvin drives him away again but this time, instead of returning to his Satan pals, he starts his own mega-church and becomes a millionaire. Good for Keef.

Eli Gemstone

Complicated times for Eli Gemstone. He’s trying to build out his brand with a huge new on-demand network, he’s trying to be a good father to his idiot children, and he’s trying to toe the line between remaining relevant and establishing a legacy. It’s a tricky little dance, one made more difficult by people openly discussing his death at church lunch and slick characters from his past showing up and fueling his uncertainty with high-octane bad ideas.

Could go a lot of ways here. Especially considering the second episode ended with him covered in blood after we saw a dead journalist who, moments earlier, was threatening to trash the legacy of his beloved Aimee-Leigh.

The Maniac Kid lives.

THREE HALOS

Joe Jonas

Three notes on this one, too:

• Legitimately laughed out loud when he showed up singing for the Lissons
• Laughed out loud a second time when Jesse said he was married to “Game of Thrones” instead of saying Sophie Turner’s name
• If we’re just doing real celebrity cameos now, then I’m gonna need Baby Billy to show up on a flotilla performing “Misbehavin’” with… let’s say Carly Rae Jepsen

Thank you.

Judy Gemstone

Two things are true here. The first is that things are not going great for Judy, generally, as illustrated by the slew of problems she finds herself in (including but not limited to her driving a Tesla she has no clue how to operate) and her own father sighing and lamenting how she just keeps getting worse. I repeat: Not great.

The second true thing, though, is that Edi Patterson is a damn genius. Every line she delivers cracks me up. Her rant about not being Felicia, her crack about Amber’s “played out pastrami,” all of it. The other names on the show are bigger, for now, between your McBrides and Goodmans and former Workaholics creators, but Edi Patterson is a freaking star.

Jesse and Amber Gemstone

No amount of butt-kissing or push-up bras was ever going to get them the go-ahead for this new waterfront Christian resort or the $10 million to invest in it, but I do credit them for trying. I also credit Jesse for the outfit he wore to the beach for the first full-family meeting with the Lissons. That was just an incredible look. Let’s all dress like that this summer. There’s nothing stopping us.

Things are about to get much dicier and darker for everyone here, for reasons we’ll get to shortly. We went from bad to worse, real quick. It’s gonna be a whole thing.

FOUR HALOS

Motorcycle intros

Eli was introduced in the flashback screaming around Memphis on a motorcycle. Gideon was introduced this season ripping around the Gemstone estate on a dirtbike, doing tricks and jumps for what appeared to be no apparent reason. I point this out here not so much because I think it’s important to the ongoing action or anything that will happen going forward as much as because I just really liked it.

More characters should make their entrance via dirtbike trucks. Let’s start with Larry David in the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Abraham Gemstone

Kid just wants to kick holes in walls, play video games, and hide his jizz-stained underpants all over the house. Leave him alone.

That said, worth noting: Danny McBride’s line teasing of “talkin’ bout cum” was incredible. Go back and listen to it again when he’s talking to Gideon. He puts like three shakes of hot sauce on it. What a wonderful show.

The Lissons

They seem like the absolute worst kind of money-hoovering flim-flam artists in the world, the kind that give religion a bad name as they line their pockets with gold, and yet…

I don’t know. I just really love that this show, already one of the strangest and most chaotic endeavors on television, sat down and looked itself in the mirror and said, “Yeah, screw it, let’s add Eric Andre, too.” Inspired work. Sometimes you can have it all.

Thaniel Block, Journalist

PRO

– Name is Thaniel
– Cussed on live television
– Did cocaine off the arm of a wooden chair
– Stinky little weasel
– Hell-bent on taking down wealthy televangelists
– Perfectly cast with Jason Schwartzman

CON

– Appears to be dead already

Real whirlwind of an opening night for Thaniel. Rest in peace, you little demon.

FIVE HALOS

Eric Roberts

Does anyone play a sleazebag better than Eric Roberts? That’s not a rhetorical question. I’m honestly asking. He’s just so good at it, with his face and voice and mannerisms. He’s a perfect slimy villain. One time I watched a straight-to-VOD movie about rascal parkour teens (I don’t have to explain myself to any of you) and he popped up as the villain. Just hellbent on ruining parkour teens, drinking wine, the whole bit. It was breathtaking.

I can’t even begin to describe how excited I was when I saw his name in the cast for this season. I knew he’d be playing some awful dirtbag. I didn’t necessarily predict “former professional wrestling kingpin from Memphis who shows up and eggs on a world-famous televangelist to snap a biker’s thumbs halfway off his hands,” but I wouldn’t have blinked even once if you had told me that before the episode aired.

Martin

Love this guy. Need to know either everything about him or nothing else at all ever. Still on the fence.

BJ

I do not know if anything that happened in either of the first two episodes — a full 90 minutes of comedy, basically an entire movie — made me laugh as hard as BJ swirling and sniffing his glass of milk like it was an expensive merlot. He fascinates me. Do yourself a favor and watch his face whenever Judy is talking. Focus on Judy first (see above, re: star), but then rewind and watch him.

I’m convinced there’s a darkness inside BJ. I want him and Keef to get stranded together in Las Vegas for a weekend and see what happens.

The whole thing up and becoming a murder mystery out of nowhere

Three notes, one last time

• We have now established that Eli Gemstone is capable of violence when he feels threatened on wronged
• When Thaniel handed Eli and Martin the card with his address, the camera kind of lingered on it for a second, almost like the show was telling us something
• Eric Roberts sure appears to be pretty dead at the crime scene

This is all very interesting now. What a beautiful television program.

One of the best features of the older NCAA Football video games was the College Classics mode. This allowed players to replay certain games and moments from college football history such as “The Play” in Stanford – Cal 1982 or Doug Flutie’s famous Hail Mary. What made these modes particularly fun though is that sometimes it allowed the player to change history. Remember Ohio State’s thrilling victory over Miami in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl? In College Classics, players were able to change that game to end in Miami’s favor.

Unfortunately, we haven’t had a college football game for quite some time, and while a new one is on the way the only way to even kind of get that experience has been Madden 22. Their Campus Legends mode has given players the opportunity to play college football in a video game albeit a very watered-down version of the sport. Still, it’s been fun getting to see those old helmets going head to head against one another.

That fun has the opportunity to continue with the recent teaser that Alabama and Ohio State are being added to Madden’s Campus Legends mode through Superstar KO later this week. This means that fans will now be able to take some of the greatest players to ever play for both programs and put them against each other on the virtual gridiron. This is going to create some fun what-if scenarios for fans, but it’s also an opportunity to replay the most recent time these two faced off against each other: the 2021 National Championship game.

Most people remember that game as when one of the best collection of talents in Alabama history came together to dominate its way to a championship over a strong Justin Fields led Ohio State team The matchup was full of future pros such as Jaylen Waddle, DeVonta Smith, Najee Harris, Mac Jones, Pete Werner, Josh Myers, and soon to be drafted studs like Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson. It was the exact kind of game we’d love the chance to replay in a virtual setting, but now Ohio State has a chance to even the playing field with Chase Young on defense and Ezekiel Elliot in the backfield. Of course, this also means Alabama is getting to add Derrick Henry and an entire starting 11 of first-round picks on defense.

Thanks to Campus Legends we can finally do something that has been missing from sports games for far too long: take the best programs in college football history, throw them on a roster together, and put them against one another in the title match to end all title matches.

When Spiritualized, the long-time project of British psychedelic space rock songwriter J. Spaceman (née Jason Pierce), announced the band’s new album last November, they also release the lead single, “Always Together With You.” The epic, sprawling track, buzzed with the nostalgia of Spirtualized’s seminal 1997 album, “Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space.” And now today, Spaceman and Spiritualized have released the second offering from Everything Was Beautiful in the gorgeous folk of “Crazy.”

Highlighted by country strings and the vocal harmony of Spaceman and Americana staple Nikki Lane, it definitely continues to build the anticipation for the album due out next month. The video was directed by Spaceman and was partly inspired by Andy Warhol’s 1963 film, Kiss. On the album, Spaceman played 16 different instruments and laid down tracks at 11 different studios, including his London home.

Made in the thick of the pandemic, Spaceman embraced the isolation and said that “I felt like I’d been in training for this my whole life.” He also noted of recording with a variety of collaborators in a variety of locations, “There was so much information on it that the slightest move would unbalance it, but going around in circles is important to me. Not like you’re spiraling out of control but you’re going around and around and on each revolution you hold onto the good each time. Sure, you get mistakes as well, but you hold on to some of those too and that’s how you kind of… achieve. Well, you get there.”

Watch the video for “Crazy” above.

Everything Was Beautiful is out 2/25 via Fat Possum. Pre-order it here.

It was been well over 30 years since Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest said, “Rap is not pop if you call it that then stop” on the pioneering quartet’s seminal 1991 single “Check The Rhime.” In the years since hip-hop has grown far beyond its underground block party roots to become one of the most popular genres worldwide. Thanks to the efforts of groups like A Tribe Called Quest and their successors, rap music more or less defines modern-day pop music which borrows beats, slang, vocal deliveries, and more from the musical form that was once considered sacred by insiders and a fad by outsiders.

Those binary distinctions no longer apply as much as they used to. Rap is topping the Hot 100 chart, changing the face of contemporary pop culture, and moving the world with its biggest hits. Apart from ruling the airwaves and dance floors of not just the US but every corner of the globe, hip-hop has upended the music hierarchy that once held rock’n’roll as the most influential American genre. Hip-hop hits don’t just make us dance or soundtrack the most memorable moments of our lives, they change the world in ways both big and small. I don’t know if Phife Dawg would be disappointed by the relatively short shelf life of his “Check The Rhime” closer, but I do think he’d be proud of how far it’s come (the ha, the ha).

Migos — “Bad N Boujee” feat. Lil Uzi Vert (2017)

Not only did the Atlanta trio’s 2017 breakthrough hit take them and feature artist, Lil Uzi Vert, from being burgeoning underground talents to bona fide superstars but it also introduced the world to a whole new way to spell “bourgeoise.” Migos have had hits since but none as ubiquitous or as catchy. As an added bonus, the video also introduced a future XXL Freshman in Rubi Rose, who modeled in the video before launching her own rap career a couple of years later.

Wiz Khalifa — “Black And Yellow” (2010)

It’s ironic that Wiz Khalifa’s hometown anthem became such a monster hit that other artists began doing their own takes on the color-combining chorus to shout out their own home teams. If you want proof that “Black And Yellow” was a pop smash, look no further than the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers actually adopted the track as their unofficial theme song and during the 2011 Super Bowl, their opponent, the Green Bay Packers, used one of the many knockoffs (Lil Wayne’s “Green And Yellow”) as their own fight song.

Cardi B — “Bodak Yellow” (2018)

In 2022, Cardi B is a brand unto herself, a one-woman buzzword that sends visions of Monopoly money bags flying through marketing execs’ imaginations. But before she was tearing up the streets with the Fast & Furious crew or officiating weddings as part of her own television show, “Bodak Yellow” launched her from relative obscurity on the New York mixtape circuit to daily name-checks on Ellen in front of an audience of millions of soccer moms.

Soulja Boy — “Crank That” (2007)

It’s hard to believe now, but at one point, the gatekeepers of the hip-hop establishment (such as it was) were tearing their hair out over Soulja Boy’s insanely viral, self-produced single. Seemingly every kid in America was hitting the Superman dance from his video and the very fabric of the genre seemed to be coming apart at the seams. In hindsight, well… they were right. “Crank That” broke every expectation of what hip-hop was supposed to be (nearly singlehandedly creating “ringtone rap” as a genre), how it could be promoted (the video — shot by Soulja himself and uploaded to YouTube — was among the first viral videos ever), and what it would look and sound like for the next generation.

Jay-Z — “Empire State Of Mind” feat. Alicia Keys (2009)

I must admit, as a native of the West Coast of the United States, this song got on my nerves. It wasn’t just that BET, MTV, and VH1 ran the video into the ground (back when they all still ran videos at all). It was on every radio station, it was played in every public video, and it became the hip-hop equivalent of elevator music — and all this was in LA! The song is about New York! It just felt wrong on every level. But Jay-Z might never have had a No. 1 record without it, falling off like so many of his contemporaries. Also — and I can’t stress this enough — Black Twitter as we know it would likely not exist were it not for that platform’s early adopters coming together to roast Lil Mama for crashing Jay and Alicia’s performance at the 2009 VMAs.

Drake — “Hotline Bling” (2016)

I know, I know. Technically, nobody is rapping on this track… but this was the moment it felt like Drake figured it out. He had risen to prominence behind his rapping (or rather, his talent for switching between rap and catchy singsong melodies) but he had never come so close to the top of the chart. Suddenly, a No.1 wasn’t just attainable — it was inevitable. “Hotline Bling” was everywhere: In phone commercials, on SNL, and all over our respective social media feeds. It blurred the line between parody and sincerity because even the satires acknowledged that it was just too big to fail.

50 Cent — “In Da Club” (2003)

One of the biggest rap songs ever introduced the world to one of the biggest brands in rap. “In Da Club” arrived like a hurricane or an earthquake, rearranging the landscape seemingly overnight. One minute, there was the world before 50 Cent and the next, a rap album selling 11x platinum didn’t seem all that unreasonable. Vitamin Water was something people cared about in a very real sense. Guys wore, as Joe Budden once so colorfully put it, “wife beaters with bra straps.” 50 went from a guy who Jay-Z once casually dismissed on a throwaway Timbaland beat to a guy you would gladly throw a couple of million dollars to produce a TV universe. Why not? You could find him in the club, but this song saturated the very atmosphere.

The Notorious B.I.G. — “Juicy” (1994)

“It was all a dream.” That really was all it took to take The Notorious B.I.G. from obscurity to become an icon. Sure, he has a lot of contemporaries from the mid-90s who have as much or more rap clout. But there’s just something different about “Juicy.” It transcends regions, chart performance, generations, and genre allegiances. Everybody knows “Juicy.” It was the song that kick-started the jiggy era, that signaled rap’s arrival on the grand stage when it became undeniable. It was the first time someone in the genre could look back at all that had been accomplished before and confidently note that it had reached a whole new level.

Nicki Minaj — “Super Bass” (2011)

“Anaconda” might technically be a bigger hit than “Super Bass,” but Nicki hates it and it’s a clear goof. The people who helped make it the Queens rapper’s highest-charting song for half a decade should be ashamed of themselves. “Super Bass” defined Nicki’s run as the first female rap star to actively court pop fame. From its cotton candy colorful music video to its infectious hook, “Super Bass,” more than any other song in Nicki’s repertoire, became the blueprint (alright, fine — pinkprint) for how nearly every other female rapper since would chart a course to the top of the charts.

Roddy Ricch — “The Box” (2019)

The catchiest song of the last two years and the last real pre-pandemic smash, “The Box” was able to block pop radio mainstays like Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and yes, even Drake (with Future via “Life Is Good”) from taking a spot that was previously considered reserved for them. There’s really nothing else left to say there. It was another case of a relatively unknown rapper becoming one of the most famous and accomplished human beings for the next year, and it was all due to this song.

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In Gunna’s new video for “Livin Wild,” the rapper ends up with the ICU, from which his friends abruptly remove him against the advice of the attending physician. The video declares that it’s “based on a true story” — which is eerily close to that of Gunna’s rap game mentor Young Thug, who was hospitalized for liver and kidney failure and recounted the harrowing experience in April of 2020.

“Livin Wild” is the second video from Gunna’s new album, DS4EVER, after the “Too Easy” remix featuring Future and Roddy Ricch. Gunna released the album this past Friday after announcing its arrival on New Year’s Day. The project was the buzz of social media after two of its standout songs drew attention for different reasons. While “Pushin P” intrigued fans with its newfangled slang, “Thought I Was Playing” sparked a mini-debate about the trigger for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent divorce thanks to 21 Savage’s insistence that he dumped her.

Speaking of romantic entanglements, Gunna himself is at the center of speculation after he was seen holding hands with Beyonce protege Chloe — just after denying that the two were ever dating in the first place.

Watch Gunna’s “Livin Wild” video above.

DS4EVER is out now on 300 and Atlantic. Stream it here.

Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade can’t seem to stop sparring, even if one such instance was a truly unfortunate one. Kilmeade came for Steve Doocy on the subject of his family’s Omicron outbreak and boosters, but Kilmeade’s also being a bit of an equal-opportunity sparrer lately. To that end, he actually took aim at former President Trump for his continued insistence that the Big Lie isn’t a lie; and Trump still insists that he won the 2020 election.

This resurrected Big Lie (which never died, by the way) got a re-up from Trump because he’s been so very angry about Biden’s fiery January 6 anniversary address. Well, Kilmeade is no longer here for the big lie. On Sunday, he visited with Howard Kurtz on MediaBuzz and effectively told Trump to shush on the subject, for good. In other words, at least some Fox News hosts are growing weary of Trump’s continued insistence that he’s not a loser. Here’s what Kilmeade said:

“In life, you have to learn to lose. Hillary Clinton has to learn that, Al Gore pretty much did learn that, Stacey Abrams didn’t learn that… If you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an A-team list of lawyers, not the ones we witnessed, show us the districts and show us how.”

It’ll be interesting to see whether the MAGA leader will push back at Kilmeade, who used to be a massive Trump cheerleader. Kilmeade even looked aghast (a few years ago) when Steve Doocy declared that Trump was not automatically welcome to call into Fox and Friends whenever he liked. Imagine that! Well, maybe (just maybe) the magic has worn off for Kilmeade, too.