Sunny Hostin stopped by Watch What Happens Live on Thursday night where The View co-host finally revealed who’s behind the mysterious fart sounds that have plagued the daytime talk show over the years. While chatting with Andy Cohen and fielding questions about her co-workers, Hostin was asked who “passes gas the most on set.” Unlike her other answers, Hostin didn’t even hesitate to the throw the main culprit under the bus.
“Whoopi!” Hostin immediately said. Despite outing her as the phantom farter, Hostin had nothing but nice things to say about Goldberg during the interview.
Hostin then revealed that, among the group, she hates mornings the most, and that Oscar-winning moderator Whoopi Goldberg is the most generous gift-giver as well as the one she disagrees with the most — but she is also the likeliest to pick up a check when the women go out to dinner.
Cohen also asked Hostin about former co-host Meghan McCain, who’s gone on to frequently trash her old workplace, which she recently claimed “keeps getting worse.”
“Our show is a wonderful place,” Hostin said via The Daily Beast before admitting she’s surprised by McCain’s attacks because “Meg and I have always been friendly.” Hostin then suggested Cohen should cast McCain on The Real Housewives of the Potomac before putting a curt end to the topic.
The whole thing was pretty surreal, and not long after, Butler got a trade to the Philadelphia 76ers. And somehow, someway, we are still getting stories about what happened that day. During a recent episode of the Club 520 Podcast, one of Butler’s teammates from that Timberwolves squad, Jeff Teague, added a new detail about how far Butler went to get his point across. Head to the 5:39 mark of the below video for the whole thing.
Teague explained what we already knew: Butler didn’t show up to any practices in the offseason, the team was going through training camp, and then, he showed up three days into camp, much to the delight of then-Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau. While the entire team was getting warmed up, Butler was off to the side stretching. And then, Thibodeau called for a scrimmage, which made Butler jump up and scream “I’m playing.”
Thibodeau tried to put Butler with the starters, but he said he wouldn’t play with those guys, instead opting to play with players who weren’t going to make the team so he could guard Karl-Anthony Towns. Butler, of course, dominates the game.
“Time runs out, they win, they beat us, like, 18-6,” Teague said. “And Jimmy’s going crazy — ‘Y’all think that team can win without me? I’m him! Pay me! Pay me!’ Mind you, he ain’t took off his Jordan warm-up yet. He finally takes it off, he’s got the Timberwolves shirt on, but he cut the Minnesota out of it, so it’s just chest. He cut the Minnesota out his shorts, it’s just shorts. He out here with a hole in the middle of his shirt, in the middle of his leg.”
Teague apparently laughed so hard that he cried, right up until he started getting mad that Butler said the starters couldn’t win without him, which was a slight against Teague. Butler’s team then beat the second unit while the starters were on the sideline, and after the game, Butler ran into the locker room. The starters then took it to the second unit in the next game.
“We beat ’em, we all run in the locker room like, ‘Jimmy, bring your ass back out! We wanna play again!’” Teague recalled. “Jimmy gone. Jimmy at home.”
The team went through practice, showered, and saw Butler’s interview with Nichols. And in Teague’s eyes, all of this is “one of the most iconic moments I’ve ever been a part of in basketball.”
Usher took to Instagram and explained why he has a portrait of Belafonte tattooed on his forearm. The three-photo carousel includes one of Belafonte smiling at the ink in presumed approval.
“‘A world-renowned entertainer. A barrier-breaking actor. A tireless activist. A one-of-a-kind friend. Inspired is the word that comes to mind when I think about you Harry,” Usher wrote in his caption. “A man of great strength, courage, and sense of purpose. All things that I view as admirable. When I spent time with you… I was in awe of how your presence was so powerful. You’ve been called home after many, many years of gracing this world with your amazing spirit and incomparable gifts.”
He continued, “However, your impact on the world will be forever present. I’m grateful to have been blessed with the opportunity to have you in my life and I will miss you. May you rest peacefully knowing the legacy you’ve left behind.’ Your passion awakened our souls. The impression you made on my heart is why I wear you on my skin.”
Usher added “Forever Missed,” four dove emojis, and “I love you Harry ‘Mr. B,’” and finished the caption with a Belafonte quote: “Artists are the gatekeepers are truth; We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.”
On the previous Wednesday LP, 2021’s Twin Plagues, singer-songwriter Karly Hartzman wrote evocative story songs set in what I like to call the GummoSouth, a partly real and partly made-up region in which dead dogs and burned-down Dairy Queens dot the landscape like Starbucks crowd street corners in big cities. But on Rat Saw God,her songwriting exhibits a level of detail that is practically physical. The title alone of the opening track, “Hot Rotten Grass Smell,” filled my nostrils with the aroma of a humid late July day. Tapping into that kind of visceral sense memory grants instant authenticity to the world that Hartzman creates on this record. The nail salons with the lights turned off, the sex shops off the highway with biblical names, the rundown houses with cocaine and guns hidden in the walls — you see, smell, feel, hear, and taste them all.
2. Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed
Directed by Sam Jones, who also made I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, this very good documentary debuted earlier this month on HBO and is similarly centered on the making of an album — Isbell’s 2020 effort Reunions — and how it reveals the fractures in a relationship between two creative people. In this case, it’s Isbell and his wife and bandmate Amanda Shires. It’s clear that they are having a rough time in their marriage, and the stresses of the creative process might be partly to blame. This the first music doc I’ve seen in a while where the subject doesn’t always come off in a good light. I think Isbell ultimately does come off well, just because his candor feels courageous, but Running With Our Eyes Closed definitely doesn’t feel like a commercial. There are scenes that made me cringe, usually when Amanda is being very blunt about her husband’s shortcomings. It’s the rare doc that almost seems too honest — I’m not sure that exposing the inner workings of your marriage to this degree is wise — but it is undeniably a riveting watch.
3. Bob Dylan, “Only A River” (Live in Nagoya, Japan on April 20, 2023)
I currently host a podcast about Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, and I used to host a podcast about the Grateful Dead. So Bob Dylan covering a Bob Weir solo cut — from his lovely 2016 LP Blue Mountain — was a big deal in my world. Bob played a lot of Dead during his sojourn in Japan, also covering “Truckin’” and “Brokedown Palace.” But “Only A River” was the best and most surprising bust out. Shoutout to Donnie Herron, whose pedal steel licks here are transporting.
4. Kara Jackson, What Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?
This Chicago-based singer-songwriter has a legitimate literary pedigree — she was the National Youth Poet Laureate back in the late 2010s. That was before the release of her recent full-length debut, What Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?, a beguiling collection that melds Leonard Cohen with Alice Coltrane. A truly one-of-a-kind experience that feels like a world unto itself.
5. Superviolet, Infinite Spring
Following the sad dissolution of the Ohio emo band The Sidekicks, lead singer Steve Ciolek launched a new solo project that leans into his former band’s heartland rock sensibilities. His first album as Superviolet, Infinite Spring, has a canny pop sense that sounds like Bright Eyes crossed with early Shins.
6. The National, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
When I first heard “Tropic Morning News” last summer, it felt like an instant-classic National song. And the album version — culled from a widely bootlegged performance in Hamburg — sticks the landing. The rhythm section glides with subtle virtuosity. The guitars lock in on a hypnotic pulse that slow-burns toward a satisfying peak in the outro. And Berninger delivers his patented blend of funny and distraught non sequiturs with pained panache. (Here’s a question for the band’s subreddit: Is the line about how “you can stop and start an athlete’s heart” an accidental Damar Hamlin reference?) The other highlights on Frankenstein — “Eucalyptus,” “New Order T-Shirt,” “Grease In Your Hair,” “Alien,” “Ice Machines” — don’t deliver the same emotional highs. But they do re-focus The National on their most essential attribute, which is the sound of these lifelong friends and brothers playing together with minimal extra baggage. As is the case with all great rock bands, the simplest approach — plug in, stand in a circle, block out the outside world — typically is the most winning. And on First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, The National have rediscovered this.
7. Country Westerns, Forgive The City
I spent a lot of time this month talking about the onset of backyard barbecue music season. And this album epitomizes the form. No matter their name or place of origin, this Nashville band doesn’t so much twang as sneer with some good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll energy. Their music balances jangle and grit like some of the greatest of great American bands, like R.E.M. and the Replacements.
Sensing that transphobia is in the air following the conservative freakout over Bud Light, which Donald Trump conveniently abstained from participating in because he owns stock in Anheuser-Busch, the former president pulled out his female weightlifter impression during a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire.
During his stump speech, Trump vowed to keep transgender women out of women’s sports, which prompted him to do a recurring bit about watching a female cisgender weightlifter fail to set a world record. However, you’ll be surprised to learn that the former president is not a comedy master when it comes to impressions, so he mostly just stood at the podium grunting and holding his hands up like a weirdo. You can watch below:
“She got over the barbell,” he said. “They put like a little tiny ounce on one side, an ounce on the other. This thing was– if you beat it by an ounce, you have the world record. And she got up there. Should I do it?”
The crowd hooted and hollered.
“I’m gonna do it!” he exclaimed.
Trump lowered his hands and brought them up like a weightlifter.
“Arghhhh!” he grunted. “She couldn’t do it.”
Following the “impression,” Trump returned to throwing red meat to the crowd by reiterating his plan to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports if he’s re-elected in 2024.
In the last few years, Ye, better known as Kanye West, has been called every name in the book. Now, rapper Logic is deciding to chime in. Why now? Apparently, at one point, the rapper decided to sit out from the conversation around Ye’s recent actions supposedly in hopes of working with him one day, but in his eyes, that’s out of the question now.
In a new vlog uploaded to Logic’s YouTube channel, the “Shimmy” rapper goes into a rant about the internet, public perception, and more Ye somehow takes centerstage. Earlier in the video, Logic indirectly referred to the producer to somehow emphasize that he himself has been unfairly treated by users online.
“It’s kinda dope to realize the more people talking about me, positive or negative, makes me more rich,” said Logic adding, “Only I’m not like evil, so I’m not out here spewing bullsh*t out of my mouth or wearing White Lives Matter t-shirts or some dumb sh*t like that. F*cking moron.”
Despite the harsh declaration, Logic wants it to be clear that he doesn’t have any personal issues with the musicians. “Love Kanye by the way, [just a] stupid f*cking idea,” said Logic.
The rapper closed out by saying, “Let me preface that. I love Kanye West. I think he’s a genius. I wouldn’t be here without him. I can have a f*cking opinion, and as long as my opinion is respectful and from the heart, then it is what it is.”
Isn’t it ironic that, at this moment, Logic’s opinions should be honored? However, when Ice Cube fans bashed him over his “Good Day” cover, he proclaimed, “Who gives a f*ck?”
As they are so often quick to remind us, rappers do not want to be role models. However, they so often end up being just that, with listeners adopting behavior, slang, and style choices from their favorite entertainers. One thing that many of them don’t want their fans to imitate, though, is getting the surgical procedures that stars from Cardi B to Doja Cat to Latto have admitted to having.
And now, Latto has added her two cents to the ongoing debate over plastic surgery via her 777 Radio podcast. During a discussion with her younger sister and constant companion Brooklyn, Latto characterized herself as “a girl who have little tweaky tweaks,” but admitted to telling her sister to avoid surgery altogether. “I’m telling you. I’m telling you to all the young girls listening, all the women listening right now,” she said. “I’m telling you from someone who’s been there, done it, find peace within your natural state. Because you’re going to find a flaw and another flaw and another flaw and another flaw. Surgery, any of that stuff is not a permanent fix.”
Well, the right-leaning news network’s social media accounts shared a video of an influencer in an American flag bikini shooting her gun at beer, tampons, and lingerie. So, y’know, business as usual.
Bri Teresi (“Making Golf Sexy Again,” her Instagram bio reads) joined the ridicoulous Bud Light boycott by, uh, buying Bud Lights, then blasting the cans with a rifle. That’ll show ’em (it’s unclear who’s being shown). “Go woke, go broke,” she says in the video before unloading on the beer, as well as Tampax tampons and Honey Birdette lingerie. Pads and bras are also now (deep sigh) “woke.” Whoever taught conservatives that word should be forced to listen to Kid Rock, and only Kid Rock, for the rest of their miserable life.
“I’m shooting at Honey Birdette lingerie, Tampax tampons & Budlight. These companies have all gone woke!” Teresi said in a reply to her original video. “Tampax tampons used a biological male to promote their tampons. Honey Birdette used a biological male to model their lingerie. & y’all know about Bud Light.”
The hypocrisy of buying something to boycott has not been lost. “Buying BudLight to destroy it in order to own the company is peak Trump supporter behavior! BUYING stuff from a company to make said company ‘go broke’.. can’t make this shit up!” one person replied to a Fox News tweet about the video. Another said, “Spent all that money to prove she has a sh*t shot.”
Here’s more:
‘GO WOKE, GO BROKE’: Pro-Trump Instagram influencer takes a rifle to Bud Light, Tampax Tampons, and Honey Birdette lingerie over woke marketing schemes. https://t.co/PpuQpXBnHBpic.twitter.com/6c7W6kYabf
Do these MAGA freaks not realize that getting the “woke” items to make these videos are literally generating more revenue for the “woke” corporations? https://t.co/NnB5pZmKD1
Lemme ask you this, did you ever stop to think about how they are supposed to go broke from being “woke” with you guys spending money on their merchandise to then destroy? https://t.co/AjrviO8pjt
— Levi Amir Salomón Mecklenburg (@Il_Sicilianu) April 27, 2023
I mean you kinda had to buy them to make this video so I’m confused by your tactics…. https://t.co/HAkToptaCO
So…you went out and bought all that crap just to destroy it? Yeah…but you still had to BUY it. Do you see how stupid this is? #BudLighthttps://t.co/8vOA8YGehM
— almost 40 and kind of fat (@justnbaird) April 27, 2023
How will the companies go broke if they’re still buying the products? That’s not how a boycott works. Guess they didn’t think about that, fucking bellends. https://t.co/GVLUtIhfCk
— Schadenfreude & Apathy (@SchadenfreudeA3) April 27, 2023
It’s insane to me how the people who are winning rn and have always been winning are actively madder about how things are than the rest of us. Cause they know their violence won’t have consequences. https://t.co/tV6V7RtbzG
The Boston Celtics were expected to finish off the Atlanta Hawks in Game 5 of their first-round NBA Playoffs series on Tuesday, April 25, but the Hawks won, 119-117, and forced a Game 6 for Thursday, April 27. Free basketball is rarely a bad thing, but in this case, there was a cost.
Jayson Tatum felt bad for inconveniencing her. The Celtics later took care of the Hawks in Thursday night’s Game 6, 128-120. Tatum finished his on-court postgame interview by apologizing.
“I want to send an apology to the legend Janet Jackson,” the four-time All-Star said with a smile. “We were supposed to close it out in Boston. She had to postpone her show. I hope she sees this. I apologize for that, but we got it done today.”
“I wanna send an apology to the legend Janet Jackson… we were supposed to close it out in Boston. She had to postpone her show. I hope she sees this, you know, I apologize for that. But we got it done today.” – Jayson Tatum to Stephanie Ready
Jackson seems totally unbothered by the ordeal. She posted highlights from her April 26 show in Atlanta, the first of two nights, and captioned the Instagram post, “Atlanta, show 1 of 2 tonight! See you again Friday (congrats Hawks!) …swipe to see the band’s fave parts of the show. #TogetherAgainTour [basketball emoji].”
Jackson might run into another scheduling issue with the New York Knicks if a Game 5 is needed against the Miami Heat in their Eastern Conference semifinals series, which will begin this Sunday, April 30. A potential Game 5 would be at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, May 10 — Jackson’s second of two nights scheduled at MSG.
Tucker Carlson may be off the air at Fox News, but he’s still under contract and the conservative news network reportedly plans to keep it that way until after the 2024 elections. According to inside sources, employees at Fox are “rattled” thanks to the decision to fire Carlson causing an immediate drop in viewers for his time slot, but for now, the goal is to keep Carlson off camera at Fox or anywhere.
“As of right now, the plan remains the same: pay out Carlson’s contract and keep him on the sidelines through the 2024 elections,” a Fox News source told Breitbart. “They knew they would take a beating for this, but everyone — and I mean everyone — is pretty rattled. They weren’t expecting the blowback to be this bad. Hate to say it, but it’s clear that Rupert has lost a step or two.”
According to Breitbart, Carlson’s current contract runs through December 2024, and Rupert Murdoch is reportedly trying to hold Carlson to that agreement so he can effectively “silence him” and keep Carlson from becoming “serious competition.”
This strategy mirrors Joe Rogan‘s recent thoughts on Carlson’s firing. The controversial podcaster opined that the “smart” and “not stupid” Fox News would pay out Tucker’s contract to keep him from becoming a threat.
“You’d be better off just giving him the same amount of money he made when he was on the air, than you would have with him opposing you,” Rogan said.
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(@Il_Sicilianu) 
the beer or buy the products! Sheesh 
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