The Week 8 edition of Monday Night Football featured an old-school division rivalry. The Cleveland Browns welcomed the Cincinnati Bengals to town and, in the early going, it was a slugfest to say the least. Neither team scored in the first quarter, with fewer than 150 total yards accumulated and a turnover on both sides. However, not all turnovers are created equal, and Cleveland’s giveaway came in hilarious fashion from the right arm of Amari Cooper.
Cooper, who is famously a wide receiver, took a reverse and lofted a ball into Cincinnati’s secondary late in the opening period while being hit. The result was disastrous for the Browns in that there wasn’t a single Cleveland pass-catcher in view for what became a (very) easy interception for Cincinnati’s Vonn Bell.
Obviously, Cooper should not be held to the same standard as a quarterback, and he was under duress when he threw the ball. Still, there has to be a trigger for Cooper to just eat the ball in that circumstance, and he was off-balance before he even uncorked the throw.
Fortunately for Cleveland, the play did not set Cincinnati up in immediate scoring territory, and the Bengals punted on the ensuing possession. As such, maybe this can become a point of amusement for Browns observers, as it certainly was for everyone else.
Kyle Kuzma has had quite the journey in his six year career that’s seen him be an important cog in the Lakers 2020 championship team, only to get dealt the following summer to Washington in the Russell Westbrook trade.
In Washington, Kuzma has continued to refine his game and become a terrific two-way wing, but hyperathleticism has never been part of his game. That’s not to say Kuzma isn’t a good athlete, he’s just not the guy that jumps out of the gym and makes jaw-dropping plays above the rim.
On Halloween, Kuzma decided he’d try to out being a high-flyer and learned the hard way that’s a hard costume to pull off in a game, as he took a fastbreak outlet and decided to try throwing down a reverse, double-pump jam that rocketed off the back of the rim and became a semi-transition three for the Sixers.
This is a textbook case of putting too much dip on your chip, as Kuzma could’ve done any number of things in this situation to get his team two points but couldn’t resist the chance to flex a bit. The problem is, he’s not usually that guy and all he got was a guaranteed spot on Shaqtin’ A Fool this week.
Last week, after months of pushback and attempts to weasel out of the deal, Elon Musk officially acquired Twitter. Whether or not the Tesla and SpaceX honcho will make dramatic changes has yet to be seen. Prominent figures who’ve been banned — most notably former president Donald Trump — will stay so, at least for the time being. But Musk was quick to make one rash move: He fired three of the social media service’s top execs. But which ones?
As per Insider, Musk terminated the positions of former CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, and former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde. But it was all part of a plan. A source told Insider that Musk fired the three execs “for cause” so that he didn’t have to pay them splashy severance packages as well as unvested stock awards.
The execs are reportedly considering taking further action, but it’s not as though they’re leaving the company with empty pockets. They will reportedly still receive hefty payouts; between the three of them, the cash could go as high as $122 million. Musk could avoid these payments if he’s able to prove that there was just cause for the terminations, namely that they broke the law or violated company policy.
Musk is not done retooling his new company. Insider reported that team leaders and VPs spent part of the weekend drawing up lists over who to keep and who to let go based on performance reviews.
Since Musk took over Twitter, things have not gone swimmingly. There was an instant uptick in racist and anti-Semitic posts, as well as ones featuring misinformation. Some of that misinformation was shared by Musk himself when he chimed in on the attempted murder of Nancy Pelosi’s husband by a MAGA fanatic with a claim that’s already been debunked.
If you think Donald Trump is unhinged with social media, just check out his oldest son. Don Jr. routinely goes to lengths even the exiled former president doesn’t, not afraid to ruffle the feathers of even the least easily offended. (Or he simply records deranged, slurry videos that make his dad’s speeches seem like masterful orations.) But in the last two days, he seems to have gone too far even for him.
As per The Daily Beast, Jr. — like way too many in the Republican party — thought it was pretty funny that an 82-year-old was nearly murdered by an unhinged MAGA zombie. Early Friday morning, Paul Pelosi, husband to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, narrowly avoided being hammered to death by a home intruder, with a long history of posting far right talking points. This didn’t prompt self-reflection among the GOP. Instead it inspired them to make lots of jokes. A number of them came from Jr. himself.
One, posted on his Instagram account, featured a picture of underwear and a hammer, with the caption “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.” The post was a reference to a debunked conspiracy theory positing that the perpetrator was a gay sex worker or Grindr hook-up summoned by Paul Pelosi. If you heard this one, it’s because it was amplified by Elon Musk on the social media service he recently acquired. Musk has since deleted the post.
Jr. also deleted this post, as he did with another, featuring a doctored image from South Park depicting Herbert Garrison, during his trans period in the aughts, having sex with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. “Dear fact-checkers,” he wrote in the caption, “this has nothing at all to do with anything going on in the news and simply posting a cartoon of what appears to be an altered South Park scene.”
But those since-deleted posts now only live on in screengrabs posted by journalists and others on social media. He has yet to delete a joke on Twitter about hammers.
As it happens, his father doesn’t agree with his son, at least not publicly. In an interview with Spanish-language conservative network Americano Media, the ex-president called the attack “terrible,” although he then pivoted, weakly, to blaming it on crime in American cities, which he has claimed, falsely, is at historically high levels. When even Donald Trump takes the high ground, you know the Republican party has somehow found a new low.
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These days, it’s easy to take bourbon barrel-aged stouts for granted. It seems like they’re everywhere and practically every brewery makes one. One of these robust, sweet, oaky, whiskey barrel-aged beers is such a no-brainer on a cold evening that it’s surprising to consider that it wasn’t always like this. Not only weren’t barrel-aged stouts once a lot harder to find, but prior to 1992, the style didn’t even exist.
That was the year when Goose Island’s brewmaster, Greg Hall got an idea to make a special beer to celebrate the Chicago brewery’s 1,000th batch. He met Booker Noe at an event in South Bend, Indiana, and managed to get some bourbon barrels from the famed Jim Beam master distiller. Eventually, that interaction and those barrels would lead to what we know now as Goose Island Bourbon County Stout.
Since this year is 30th anniversary of the iconic, industry-changing, barrel-aged stout, we thought it’d be fitting to pay homage by ranking eight of our favorites. Lots of these beers are pretty easy to find at your local, and you can thank Greg Hall and Booker Noe for that.
When Guinness opened its Stateside brewery in Maryland it was quickly clear the iconic Irish brewery was ready to start experimentings. While it has since made a handful of barrel-aged stouts, its original bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout is loaded with bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, and dried fruit flavors.
Tasting Notes:
The nose starts with a nice mix of sweet bourbon, caramel, and a lot of alcohol smell. Surprisingly, the palate itself is a little more muted than expected for a barrel-aged beer. There are roasty, malty, caramel and, chocolate flavors, sweet bourbon, and raisins. Overall, it’s a little muted and watery than I’m used to.
Bottom Line:
This is a good effort from Guinness. It’s not a bad beer, it’s just that when you compare it to some of the popular versions on the market, it’s not quite at the same level.
One of the more popular barrel-aged beers on the market, New Holland Dragon’s Milk is technically a year-round offering. But this bourbon-barrel aged, sweet, vanilla, oaky, and chocolate-filled imperial stout just tastes better on a cold fall day.
Tasting Notes:
Bold notes of vanilla beans, woody oak, sweet bourbon, and fudge greet your nostrils before your first sip. The palate continues this trend with some coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and dried fruit notes. Its only downfall is that it’s sweeter than it probably needs to be. It makes it seem more like a dessert beer.
Bottom Line:
This sweetness element to this beer makes it more likely to be enjoyed during dessert than as an evening beer. It’s just too sweet otherwise. We suggest pouring it over ice cream.
When it comes to barrel-aged stouts, there are few as confusing as Oskar Blues Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY. The reason is the name refers to the alcohol content of regular Ten FIDY which is (you guessed it) 10.50% ABV. The barrel-aged version is 12.50% ABV. Shouldn’t this limited-release vanilla and oak-filled beer be called Twelve FIDY instead?
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find raisins, vanilla beans, chocolate, oaky wood, and bourbon sweetness. Drinking it reveals roasted malts, freshly brewed coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and more woody oak. The finish is warming and loaded with caramel and rich oak. The only downfall is that it all tastes a little generic.
Bottom Line:
This barrel-aged stout has everything fans of this style look for and it’s not a bad beer by any means. It’s just that all of the flavors taste a little generic and unexciting.
The narwhal is the unicorn of the sea that at some point was thought to be more of a myth than a reality. This legendary sea creature is the perfect embodiment of the barrel-aged stout style. Sierra Nevada harnessed its power. It rested its Narwhal Imperial Stout in bourbon barrels to create this malty, vanilla, bourbon monstrosity.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’ll be met with aromas of charred oak, freshly brewed coffee, sweet bourbon, and toasted vanilla beans. The palate is swirling with flavors like raisins, dried cherries, rich chocolate, toasted vanilla beans, marshmallows, coffee, and warming bourbon at the very finish.
Bottom Line:
Sierra Nevada Narwhal might not have the name recognition of some of the other barrel-aged beers on this list, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying it. It’s up there with the best of them.
Besides the iconic Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (and all of its various annual offshoots) there aren’t any barrel-aged beers as well-known as Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout. This isn’t your usual barrel-aged stout. It’s brewed with coffee and chocolate before resting in ex-bourbon barrels.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is all chocolate fudge, bold espresso beans, vanilla, cinnamon, and rich oak. The inviting nose brings you to an even more indulgent palate of dark chocolate, coffee, toasted vanilla beans, marshmallow, dried fruits, sweet bourbon, and oak. The finish is warming, sweet, and lightly spicy.
Bottom Line:
If you only drink one barrel-aged stout, we won’t be surprised if you pick Founders KBS. It’s a master class in barrel-aging stouts. The only caveat is that if you prefer not to have the addition of coffee and chocolate, you’ll want to try something else.
One of the most sought-after barrel-aged beers on the market, Firestone Walker Parabola spends more than a year aging in premium bourbon barrels. The result is a highly complex, warming, bold imperial stout with notes of chocolate, coffee, charred wood, and vanilla.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of freshly brewed coffee, toasted vanilla beans, dried cherries, and oak are prevalent on the nose. The palate is loaded with notes of raisins, oak, bourbon, pipe tobacco, vanilla beans, toffee, and light cinnamon. It’s bold, warming, bittersweet, and highly memorable.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason Firestone Walker Parabola is such a popular beer. This barrel-aged imperial stout ticks all the bold, warming beer boxes.
This is the OG barrel-aged stout that started it all. It’s easier to find and just as popular today as it was years ago. And for good reason. While every year there are various versions of this beer, the classic Bourbon County Stout is aged and blended from ex-bourbon barrels from the likes of Four Roses, Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey, and Buffalo Trace.
Tasting Notes:
Bourbon, bitter chocolate, dried fruits, roasted coffee, caramel, and oak are big-time aromas in this beer. That bold flavor profile continues to the palate with toffee, rich oak, more bourbon sweetness, vanilla beans, coffee, and fudgy chocolate. It’s indulgently creamy, rich, and warming.
Bottom Line:
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout is the pinnacle of barrel-aged stouts for myriad reasons. It’s always highly complex, balanced, and flavorful. It never has an off year.
While we enjoy Great Divide Barrel Aged Yeti every year, the most recent release was matured for a full 12 months in whiskey barrels from nearby Laws Whiskey House. This results in an oaky, vanilla, and caramel-filed banger of a beer.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of caramel malts, chocolate fudge, sticky toffee, vanilla beans, toasted marshmallows, and rich, bold oak greet you before your first sip. The palate doesn’t disappoint with notes of buttery caramel, pipe tobacco, cocoa powder, sweet bourbon, vanilla beans, maple candy, and more woody oak. It’s warming, rich, and definitely leaves you craving more.
Bottom Line:
When we got down to the bottom of this list, it was a bit of a toss-up. All of these last few beers are almost perfect. The thing that put Great Divide’s version over the top was the massive amount of flavors found throughout.
Time was a movie didn’t hit home video till six months, even a year after the start of its theatrical run. When streaming took over the industry, there was still a sizable buffer after theatrical. Then the pandemic happened and chaos reigned. Now one of the year’s most talked-about and controversial films will be available to subscribers of a popular streamer after a mere month and a half after it hit multiplexes.
That film is Don’t Worry Darling, and if you weren’t one of the many who made it a rare non-IP moneymaker, don’t, uh, worry, because it’s heading to HBO Max very soon. Indeed, it’ll be free to all subscribers on November 7 — a mere week after this writing.
The story of making Don’t Worry Darling is arguably more well-known than the story it tells. Initially one of the most anticipated films of 2022, it evolved, in the month-and-change before release, into a tabloid magnet. Bizarre claims about strange behind-the-scene tomfoolery spread like wildfire. What was supposed to be a triumphant Venice International Film Festival premiere instead became an awkward boondoggle. Then there was all that business about director/supporting player Olivia Wilde’s private life.
Anyway, Don’t Worry Darling will be available to HBO Max subscribers on Nov. 7. Maybe enough time has elapsed that one can watch it free of all the scandals — all the better to enjoy the acclaimed performance from lead actress Florence Pugh.
Drake and 21 Savage recently had to delay the release of their collaborative album Her Loss due to producer Noah “40” Shebib catching COVID. But the extra week seems to have given them time to go all-in for promo — including a fake magazine, photoshopped to build anticipation for their music.
Record label OVO Sound shared a tweet boasting a picture of a bunch of Vogue magazines with none other than Drake and 21 on the cover, sharing that they’d be on the newsstands today, Oct. 31.
On newsstands tomorrow @Drake & @21savage cover VOGUE Magazine
Rolling Stone journalist Simon Vozick-Levinson tweeted photos of the inside of the magazine, writing: “a street teamer just handed me a copy of this. it’s not a real magazine – it’s a photoshopped version of Vogue‘s October issue with a bunch of promo art for 21 and Drake’s new album. pretty funny stunt.”
a street teamer just handed me a copy of this. it’s not a real magazine – it’s a photoshopped version of Vogue’s October issue with a bunch of promo art for 21 and Drake’s new album. pretty funny stunt. https://t.co/RJ8587nD5Hpic.twitter.com/SeTD5Ozsh5
This doesn’t look like it was done without the permission of Vogue or even Anna Wintour herself. On Instagram, Drake wrote, “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!! Thanks @voguemagazine and Anna Wintour for the love and support on this historic moment.”
The copies can be found in select spots in New York only; you can find the full list of locations below thanks to the Drake update account, @drakerelated.
Horror has long been more of a movie than a TV thing. The genre works best — and makes the most money — with a big crowd in a darkened theater. But it’s been making in-roads to the small screen. Mike Flanagan has made a killing with streaming series like The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, while Bryan Fuller was miraculously able to bring Hannibal Lecter to NBC prime time. Speaking of, Fuller has similar-but-different plans for another horror icon.
As per Variety, Fuller got a straight-to-series order from Peacock to make Crystal Lake, an “expanded prequel” series for Friday the 13th, the slasher franchise born out of the success of the original Halloween. Details are currently being kept close to the vest, but the words “expanded prequel” suggest that it won’t be a straight origin story for the series’ resident baddie Jason Voorhees. Indeed, Jason isn’t even the killer in the 1980 original; it’s his mother, Pamela, who starts gruesomely offering randy teens to avenge the negligent death of her son.
This isn’t the first time Friday the 13th has headed for television. Starting in 1987, a show of the same name played syndication for three seasons. Oddly, Jason never made an appearance. Instead, each episode dealt with some fantastical horror story. This one clearly won’t take that route.
The last time Voorhees made a new appearance on any screen was in the 2009 reboot, produced by Michael Bay. The film was a hit but it didn’t spawn a new run of sequels.
Fuller’s other credits are a diverse lot, including Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, American Gods, and Star Trek: Discovery. A fairly eccentric TV man, he’ll likely take a franchise prone to paint-by-numbers repetition in some goofball directions.
Since Briston Maroney was just a kid growing up in Knoxville, he’s always viewed Nashville as a sort of musical mecca, a promised land that separated casual musicians from real working rockstars. “That was the end goal. In my mind growing up, it was like when you go to the city limits, you had to play for your soul,” Maroney tells me over Zoom one autumn morning in Nasvhille, “I literally didn’t fathom that there were other professions other than musicians that kept Nashville running.”
Before Maroney brought his brand of scrappy singer-songwriter music to the world, he bounced between Knoxville, Florida, and California before finally settling in Nashville where he cut his teeth at messy and chaotic house parties, developing a style that reflects the eclectic vibes of the Nashville DIY scene. While the city is known for its influential country and blues culture, Maroney inhabits another more adventurous side of Nashville, and without the influence of the city, he’d be a very different artist.
“It kicked my ass at first and made me feel really small. I had to figure out what my identity was in such a large sea of people who all had pretty loud identities. Every time I realized I wasn’t going to fit in a certain lane in Nashville, I would come a little closer to finding the lane that I knew I could be heard in… what’s unique about Nashville is you see a lot of shows crossing genres. You’ll have a hip-hop act, a punk band, a singer-songwriter, and a jazz band all on the same bill because it’s just all kids who go to college together but end up at the same house party and go crazy together.”
That sort of cross-pollination makes Maroney’s own music hard to pinpoint. There is a level of confessional singer-songwriter earnestness in his work, but there is also a messy punk-indebted side that makes Maroney’s music feel adventurous, poppy, and a whole lot of fun. Think John Prine meets Tame Impala, which is a combination of sounds you wouldn’t know you needed until you actually heard it. This is best exemplified by Maroney’s latest single, “Oregon,” which features a visually stunning video directed by longtime collaborator Joey Brodnax.
We linked up with Maroney ahead of his upcoming Paradise Festival, a two-day festival conceived and curated by Maroney that kicks off on November 3rd. The festival is a celebration of Maroney’s favorite crop of artists, all corraled together to reflect the same sort of intimate vibe found at those early house shows that formed his sound, albeit in a much bigger room, The Brooklyn Bowl Nashville.
“Essentially I wanted to bring in bands that I knew also really valued that homey, small, intimate show feel, but do it on a slightly larger scale. My dream is that I hope it feels like one of those house shows that we all started at. Everyone including the audience is a huge part of that.”
Immediately after Paradise Fest wraps, Maroney will begin work on the follow-up to his full-length debut, Sunflower, which he promises will be his most intimate work to date. Ahead of his Paradise Fest appearance (he’ll be headlining both nights), we chatted with Maroney about everything Nashville has to offer if you should find yourself in the city and are looking for the same sort of crunchy DIY vibe that helped to form him as an artist.
It would be the East Room. I think it’s just because of how many lessons I learned in that place the hard way and how much I just would not be who I am without that place. I learned how to play shows, I learned how to settle shows, I learned how to stand up for myself when the sound guy was a jerk. I learned how to follow bands that were louder than us or follow bands that were quieter than us. I learned how to just really figure out who I was and how I wanted to go about taking this journey. Everything happened in that room and it sounds great.
For a music fan visiting Nashville who maybe isn’t so interested in the country music scene, what’s one thing people visiting absolutely have to experience?
Great question. I mean, there are so many really just insane music stores that are also just full of art and appeal to literally every genre. Of course Grimey’s is a huge one. It’s the pinnacle record store, bookstore, art store that just literally caters to every need. They’re selling Jason Aldean vinyls next to Cat Stevens, next to Lana Del Rey. It’s literally anything you want to listen to or be. If you have any interest in music, you got to go there.
What’s your favorite Nashville breakfast spot, and what’s the go-to order?
There’s some good breakfast there, man. I go to Portland Brew East a lot, but also Portland Brew on 12 South is somewhere I used to go a ton. It’s pretty shitty and I love it. It’s just your standard coffee spot. I’ll go in there, grab a little cold brew, splash of oat milk, little vanilla syrup and then they have a sandwich called the Arago, just plain and simple egg, cheese, avocado on some multigrain. They also have hot sauce that I think it’s just Frank’s hot sauce in their own bottle, but it’s so good.
Ooh, I don’t know if I’m legally allowed to say Cook Out because it’s not Nashville specific, but the number of times I’ve ended up at Cook Out and said it was the last time I was going to do that and then ended up there three days later. It’s pretty hard to beat, but also Beehive in East stays open pretty late. It’s like a vegan junk food place that they do hot chicken and chicken wings and chicken tenders and fries and tater tots and stuff. It’s like, it’s really just horribly, perfectly gross and greasy and really good.
Is there a fancy dinner spot or is it just the grimier or the better?
I typically end up in grimy situations whether or not I’m trying to, but there’s definitely some really nice restaurants as well. There’s a place called Barcelona that I used to work at when I first moved to town that’s like a tapas place. It’s like a wine bar too. Pretty bougie, really yummy. It’s like giant menu, you just order a ton of small plates and it’s super good.
What’s the best time of year to visit Nashville and why?
Fall
Right now truthfully. All of Tennessee is just beautiful right now. This time of year for us feels a little bit more like West coasty. It starts to get pretty chilly and the leaves start changing colors and it’s just like, I’m actually in Knoxville right now and everything is super orange and just looks an autumn calendar, just the air this time of year is enough to come out here and experience. It’s just really beautiful.
Are the summers there pretty brutal? What do you do at that time of year in the city? Just stay in, bunker down?
Oh, they’re horrendous and it’ll be like 102 until 3:00 PM and then it’ll thunderstorm and rains miserable until 6:00 and then your day is just toast. It’s impossible to work around it, so it’s definitely tough.
You’ve really only got two options. You stay in, try to just not go crazy until the evening when it cools off or you just have to do all the Southern shit and go jump in a lake or go find a swimming hole. There’s a bunch of places within an hour of Nashville that you can drive to that are natural swimming holes and stuff where the water’s just cold on its own. We go to the lake all the time and you have to be in the water the entire time or you fry to a crisp.
If you’re a fan of the outdoors, where in Nashville do you need to go? Where’s the best nature spot?
Bell’s Bend
Bells Bend is my favorite spot, probably maybe 20 minutes outside of Nashville towards Ashland City. It’s not paved, but it’s just a trail cut through this giant field essentially. It’s a six or seven mile loop that all the courses intersect each other and it runs along this river that’s really beautiful. I’d take my dog out there all the time and just let her off of her leash and it’s a maze system so she just goes and runs crazy, but can’t ever get out to the road or get out to the river. She has a blast.
Do you have a favorite Nashville bar and what makes it special?
That’s a great question. Everyone in Nashville would tease me for this because it’s just what everybody says, but there’s a place called Dino’s in East that’s really awesome. I don’t drink and I still love going there. The food is great and it’s totally a place for people who don’t drink or people who do drink, there’s just plenty of options. They have a lot of great non-alcoholic drinks too, and they just have a huge patio area outside where you don’t have to go in near the bar if you don’t want to. It’s just super open and I love that.
I definitely rip an insane amount of coffee and then if I’m at a bar I’ll go for if they have a kombucha, I’m not afraid to admit it.
What’s the best way to experience Nashville in a single day?
Morning walk, drink coffee, chill, grab dinner, hit the theater
Yeah, I mean, my dream day there is this time of year wake up, try to wake up relatively early, 8:00 or 9:00, which I say that because I want to sound good in this interview, but that’s probably bullshit. I probably wake up at 11:00. Go grab some coffee somewhere in East. There’s a lot of spots around where we live. Take my dog out, we’ll go to there’s a place called Shelby Park that’s super close to our house and there’s a greenway out there. Take the dog for a walk, hang out, drink some coffee, go grab some Acai back in East and then go over to somebody’s house. There’s just so many friends that live in our little neighborhood and everybody’s got a porch or a fire pit or something and it’s always just you end up at somebody’s house, just like five or six people and then 10 more people show up throughout the night and it’s a lot of hanging out.
Grab some dinner at Beehive. There’s something else I was going to say. Oh, there’s a spot called Fanny’s that’s a guitar shop. That my favorite place to swing through if I’m feeling like real good and I’m not going to feel bad if I accidentally buy a guitar I can’t afford or something. Yeah, swing through there and then just hang with the people. Oh, there’s a place called the Belcourt Theater as well, which is a little independent movie theater that they play. Just crazy stuff. This time of year they always are playing old school horror movies and stuff. That’s a super fun experience. It’s really beautiful and all the people that work there are really funny and really nice and it’s just a very immersive thing. Yeah, maybe go catch a flick and then if you want to go see a sunset, there’s a place called Love Circle that’s quintessential very, very 18-year-old cringey vibes. I love it. Sunset Spot where everybody goes out and hangs out. It’s just this big hill that looks over in Nashville.
Briston Maroney is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
These are weird times, so weird that an ex-footballer prone to surreal gaffes and disturbing allegations may wind up in the Senate. The latest polls have Herschel Walker neck-and-neck with his opponent, incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. Warnock is a pastor; Walker is a former pro football player who has been accused by multiple women of pressuring them to get abortions (in addition to a host of other things). Incredibly, the latter is running on the Republican ticket. But that’s only inspired another pastor to sound the alarm.
Polls are showing in Georgia Herschel Walker has a slight lead over Raphael Warnock. The reaction from some in the Black community in Georgia and across the country is notable. @jamalhbryant is just one of the notable reactions. pic.twitter.com/DoETokbxlH
This past Sunday, Jamal Bryant, pastor at the Atlanta-area Newbirth Missionary Baptist, used part of his sermon to go off on Walker, who he accused of being manipulated by the GOP, effectively accusing him of being used him as a puppet.
“Ladies and gentlemen, when the Republican Party of Georgia moved Herschel Walker from Texas to Georgia so that he could run for Senate, it’s because change was taken too fast in the post-Antebellum South,” Bryant charged. He was just getting started:
“They thought we was so slow, that we was so stupid, that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical, broken Black man…. Since Herschel Walker was 16 years old, white men been telling him what to do, telling him what school to go to, where to live… where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun, and you think they not gon’ tell him how to vote? In 2022, we don’t need a Walker, we need a runner. We need somebody to run and tell the truth about Jan. 6…. Georgia, I need you to know, the slave Negro y’all are used to don’t live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves!”
Video of Bryant’s fiery sermon went viral.
Walker has run one of the most chaotic congressional campaigns of the year, arguably wilder than the ones between Dr. Oz and John Fetterman, J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan, and Kari Lake and her inability to do a Zoom interview that’s not in “Portrait” mode. Walker brandishing a souvenir police badge mid-debate isn’t even in the Top 10 weirdest things during his run. The midterm elections are still a week-and-change away, which means not only more potential bombshells about Walker but also several more avalanches of frantic fundraising emails clogging your inbox.
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