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When the calendar turns from summer to fall, we don’t totally put away our crisp pilsners, bitter IPAs, and refreshing lagers, but we definitely start to learn toward darker, maltier brews. One of my favorite beers to ring in the season of crisp leaves and chilly nights is the brown ale. s. Luckily, all are well-suited for fall sipping.

In its simplest terms, a brown ale is usually a dark brown-hued beer with a lopsided malts-to-hops ratio. While the flavors can vary depending on the type of brown ale, they’re generally known to feature toasted malts, caramel, chocolate, and toffee, and have little to no bitterness at the finish. The style includes English-style brown ale, brown porters, Flanders ales, American brown ales, and others.

Now that we have all the necessary facts out of the way, it’s time to actually try some. To help get you started, I’m tasting and ranking some of the brown ales I was able to get my hands on this week.

8) Jackalope Bearwalker

ABV: 5.1%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Technically this 5.1% ABV beer is labeled as a “maple brown ale.” That’s because it isn’t simply a brown ale. It’s made with chocolate malts but gets its bold, sweet, rich flavor from being infused during the conditioning process with pure maple syrup.

Tasting Notes:

This beer’s nose is dominated by molasses, vanilla, and very light maple. The palate is more of the same with some caramel, toasted malts, and some light pine, but not as much maple as we’d hope. In fact, we really had to try hard to find any maple flavor. Overall, it’s pretty watery and unexciting.

Bottom Line:

For a beer labeled as an “ale brewed with maple syrup”, it’s not as sweet as it should be. Overall, it’s fairly bland, watery, and unexciting.

7) Avery Brewing Ellie’s Brown

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $11.75 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This 5.5% American-style brown ale is brewed with six different malts as well as Sterling, Bullion, and Cascade hops. It’s known for its sweet, nutty, malty flavor profile that’s well suited for fall sipping.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is surprisingly light for such a dark beer. There are notes of caramel malts and a nutty aroma, but not much else. The palate is a mix of toffee, fruit esters, and slight, roasty malts, with just a hint of bitter hops at the finish. While it seems like there were a lot of flavors, they didn’t seem to mesh well. The flavors just didn’t work for me.

Bottom Line:

This beer doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Is it a sweet, malty brown ale or is it a slightly tart, bitter dark lager? It’s just not for me.

6) Abita Turbodog

ABV: 5.6%

Average Price: $9.50 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This popular brown ale from Louisiana’s Abita is brewed with a combination of caramel, pale, and chocolate malts, and gets its floral, piney kick from the addition of Willamette hops. One of the brewery’s flagship beers, it’s known for its combination of sweet, rich flavors and light hops.

Tasting Notes:

Notes of caramel, toasted malts, and sweet grains meet the nose. Nothing else noticeable in the aroma department. The palate has more toasted malts, light vanilla, chocolate, and light, hoppy bitterness. It had everything brown ale drinkers enjoy, it’s just a little flat and light on flavor.

Bottom Line:

If you’re looking for a no-frills, malty brown ale for fall, look for Abita Turbodog. If you’re looking for a little more depth, look elsewhere.

5) Calicraft Oaktown Brown

ABV: 7%

Average Price: $15 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

This is a different type of brown ale. Instead of simply being a sweet, malty, warming beer, it also gets a fruity, wine-like flavor from a blend of three different oaks during fermentation. It’s also hopped with Cascade hops to give it a slightly bitter finish.

Tasting Notes:

Right away, this beer has the aromas we know from a classic American brown ale. There are notes of chocolate, toasted malts, caramel, and candied nuts. The flavor follows suit with more vanilla, toasted malts, caramel, and fruit ester. It’s surprisingly sweet with some bitterness at the finish.

Bottom Line:

This is definitely a unique beer, and we implore you to give it a try because it has to be tasted to be believed. That being said, it’s simply too sweet for my palate.

4) Liftbridge Fireside Flannel

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This brown ale is adorned with a flannel background with a roaring fire. Brewed with roasted malts and Yakima hops, it’s exactly the kind of beer you’d drink to warm yourself on a chilly fall day.

Tasting Notes:

Classic aromas of butterscotch, toasted malts, vanilla, chocolate, and light, floral hops are all prevalent on the nose. The palate is equally complex with notes of oaky wood, more toasted malts, toffee, bready-malts, and lightly bitter hops that seem to tie everything together nicely. All in all, it’s a very well-balanced, warming fall sipper.

Bottom Line:

Fireside Flannel is an aptly named beer. It’s balanced, complex, and has a nice mix of sweetness and bitterness, the kind of beer that will make you want to throw on a flannel shirt and greet the cool fall weather.

3) Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $10.99 for a four-pack

The Beer:

One of Samuel Smith’s most popular beers, Nut Brown is brewed with simple ingredients like well water, barley malt, yeast, and aromatic hops. The nutty, sweet, rich flavor is anything but simple.

Tasting Notes:

Complex aromas of bready malts, caramel, vanilla, and roasted malts greet your nose before your first sip. The palate continues this trend with raisins, fruit esters, brown sugar, sticky toffee pudding, and a gentle, sweet candied almond finish.

Bottom Line:

There’s a reason Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown is one of the most beloved brown ales of all time. It’s sweet, rich, nutty, and extremely memorable.

2) Cigar City Maduro

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $10.50 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Named for the robust, well-known cigar from Tampa’s Ybor City, Cigar City Maduro is a Northern English brown ale brewed with flaked oats. Even if you aren’t a cigar smoker, you can still appreciate the toasted malts, coffee, and chocolate flavors of this beer.

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, you’ll find aromas of caramel, toasted malts, bitter chocolate, and roasted coffee beans. Sipping it reveals flavors like almond cookies, butterscotch, chocolate, freshly brewed coffee, and a gentle, dry, slightly bitter finish. Bold, flavorful, and balanced.

Bottom Line:

This is an all-around great example of a brown ale done right. It’s filled with flavors like chocolate, caramel, and coffee, and has just the right amount of bitterness and a dry, memorable finish.

1) Port Brewing Board Meeting

ABV: 8%

Average Price: $12 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

If you’re looking for a warming fall beer, this is the brown ale for you. It’s a bold 8% ABV and has been a year-round beer from the San Diego-based brewery since 2013. It gets its intense flavor from the addition of cacao nibs sourced from San Francisco and locally sourced coffee.

Tasting Notes:

Bold aromas of espresso beans, semi-sweet chocolate, toffee, and vanilla are highlight the nose. The palate is filled with more cocoa, freshly brewed coffee, butterscotch, vanilla, and slightly nutty flavors. It’s so complex that you don’t even realize how high the alcohol content is.

Bottom Line:

While not touted as a breakfast beer, I can’t think of many better brown ales that I’d want to enjoy at a tailgate or instead of a brunch mimosa. It’s rich, complex, and extremely flavorful. Just don’t let the high alcohol content sneak up on you.

Ariana Grande captioned her latest Instagram post “New earrings,” knowing very well that nobody is looking at those pearls. Grande recently debuted blonde hair. She’s previously gone bleached-blonde for her Sweetener album cover and her “No Tears Left To Cry” video. But this time, the hair heightens the hype for her turn as Glinda in Jon M. Chu’s film version of Wicked.

“Earrings look great!” Chu commented on the photo. Joan Grande, her mother, added, “The most beautiful.” And Cynthia Erivo coyly wrote alongside green heart and smirking emojis, “Earrings are AMAZING!!”

The multi-platinum global pop star told Allure in September 2021 that she was temporarily stepping away from recording music to try out “new versions of storytelling.” At the time, it was assumed she meant her role in Adam McKay’s Netflix sci-fi satire Don’t Look Up or becoming a coach for season 21 of The Voice. But last November, Grande and Erivo were announced as Glinda and Elphaba, respectively, in Wicked. The two-film adaptation of the famed musical, which Grande grew up idolizing, is expected in December 2024 and December 2025.

Earlier this month, Grande shared behind-the-scenes photos with Erivo (while notably still a brunette). She had been spotted in September on the film’s set in London with her husband, Dalton Gomez, after rumors flew that she’d moved across the pond for the film. Actress Ari is thriving, and don’t make the same mistake as the fan who told her to “remember you’re a singer.”

It’s been a few days since the release of Taylor Swift‘s new album Midnights. Fans have been picking it apart quickly, as they often do, whether that’s by identifying Easter eggs or dissecting lyrics. A new layer of the song “Bigger Than The Whole Sky” — which comes on the deluxe version — is being speculated on by Swifties, with some theorizing that it has to do with miscarriage.

The lyrics go: “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye / You were bigger than the whole sky / You were more than just a short time / And I’ve got a lot to pine about, I’ve got a lot to live without.” She continues: “I’m never gonna meet / What could’ve been, would’ve been / What should’ve been you / What could’ve been, would’ve been you.”

Regardless of whether the song is actually about a miscarriage, fans who’ve suffered them have come forward saying that the track deeply comforted them in their time of need. This is taking place on all different sorts of social media, but especially TikTok.

Swift also went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and discussed her productivity. “I love writing songs, poems, stories, scripts,” she said. “I love writing those things because there’s a part of it I don’t quite understand how it comes to fruition.”

At this point, what show or movie hasn’t been revived? One answer is Back to the Future, although that won’t be happening any time soon. Another is Malcolm in the Middle, the late aughts-era Fox show that all but reinvented the family comedy (and helped pave the way for the decline of the traditional three-camera sitcom). But now it appears that, too, is in the offing, with a major assist from the alum with the most successful career.

Frankie Muniz, the show’s star, spoke with Fox News, talking, among other things, about why he ditched Hollywood for a spell. Malcolm in the Middle reunion talk came up, and though Muniz says nothing is official, there is some serious talk.

“I know Bryan Cranston is really into the idea and he’s kind of heading writing the script and getting everything rolling,” Muniz said. “So, there might be something. I would be down 100 percent.”

Muniz also discussed his relationship with the show that made his name, especially now that he has a son of his own.

“When I was filming the show, I obviously was a kid,” Muniz said. “We did seven seasons, 151 episodes. I didn’t really watch the show when it was on, but I’ve now since watched the show with my wife. We [watched] all 151 episodes… I realized, ‘Wow, that’s what we were making.’… I can separate myself from being on it and watching it as a fan. I would love to know what the family’s up to.”

Muniz has famously said that he doesn’t remember shooting Malcolm in the Middle. He has, however, floated a jokey idea for another reboot: one for Agent Cody Banks, where the onetime youthful spy is older and has a “dad bod.”

(Via Fox News)

There was a bit of a mass exodus at the end of SNL’s 46th season. Longtime honcho Lorne Michaels effectively blamed on the pandemic, arguing that the once-in-a-century public health crisis kept people who would have otherwise left from doing so, for stability reasons. One of the departing cast members was Melissa Villaseñor, she of, among other things, excellent impersonations of singers. Now she’s opened up about why she decided to skedaddle.

“It was my decision,” Villaseñor said during an appearance on The Daily Beast podcast The Last Laugh. The short version: It was for mental health reasons:

“I gave myself a lot of time in the summer to think on it and kind of play out in my head if I go back. At the end of the day it was about my mental health. Last season, I had a couple of panic attacks. I think it was just…I was struggling. I always felt like I was on the edge of a cliff every week. And I was like, I don’t want to be doing that to myself anymore. And it’s not like the show was mean toward me or anyone. It was just how I handle things.”

Still, the decision, Villaseñor said, was super hard,” in part “because I love Lorne and I am so grateful for all of them for having me.”

Now, Villaseñor, who joined the cast in 2016, has dyed her hair pink and vamoosed to Los Angeles, where she says she’s living her best life. “I almost feel reborn or something, because I have all this free time,” she said. She added that she always tried to do other things and expand her mind between SNL seasons, but it never worked out. Not anymore. “So I’m enrolling in classes, almost like a little kid. I’m taking guitar lessons and Spanish lessons. I signed up for a pottery class!”

So congrats to Melissa Villaseñor and may she enjoy her newfound freedom.

(Via The Daily Beast)

In this, the season of surprising resurrections that might try to eat your brains, Seth Rogen has confirmed that an 8-episode series spin-off of Sausage Party is coming to Prime Video via Annapurna Pictures.

“Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, Sausage Party,” Rogen and producing partner Evan Goldberg said in a statement. “But now that film is completely dead and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we’ve decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece Sausage Party: Foodtopia. It’s got all the heart, double the puns, and triple the food-on-food sex. In other words, it’s exactly what the world needs right now.”

That Foodtopia tag sounds like a riff on Zootopia, which opens the door to far too many soul-shakingingly vulgar possibilities that the mind reels.

Beyond Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, and Edward Norton are coming back for the series along with newcomers-to-this-sexy-comic-food-world Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell, and Yassir Lester.

The 2016 film featured anthropomorphic food learning that their idyllic post-grocery life is actually a horrorscape of human appetites. It is perhaps the strangest film to ever make over $100 million at the box office, so a new series will have to get even stranger if it wants to impress.

(via Variety)

Sprung from the minds of SNL alums Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Rhys Thomas, and Alex Buono, Documentary Now! continues to add to its legacy as an impossibly layered love note to documentary storytelling and varied examples of human weirdness in this, its 4th season (which premiered last week on IFC).

If you’re up on the latest episodes, you’ve already seen a two-parter with Alexander Skarsgård in Werner Herzog mode, trying to hold together dueling projects in a remote Russian village (written by John Mulaney) and Cate Blanchett and company operating a salon. The last one, as with the next two (an exploration of Welsh rock throwing and a look at a filmmaker who gets uncomfortably intertwined with the life of his primate subject) are written by series co-creator Seth Meyers, who somehow found the time whilst also delivering nightly episodes of Late Night. But finding that time is, according to Meyers, part of the secret to what allows him to function at such a high level on Late Night, scratching an itch to be just impossibly British and specific in his comedy about documentary source material that may or may not be on the radars of the audience.

Uproxx spoke with Meyers last week about those episodes, that seemingly challenging balancing act between late-night host and the pursuit of outside projects, the show’s attention to detail, finding the right inspiration, and making something with permanence. But first, we had to briefly compare shelves, a lingering new tradition of our current reality.

I like how you have books for your backdrop. I had had only toys for the longest time on my bookshelf and then I started feeling like people were like, “What’s your story?” So I had to add some books just to make it a little more grown-up.

Unfortunately, the books are directly behind your head. [Laughs]

Oh, of course.

Mine is only because it’s a hiatus week and I’ve decided to take advantage of my wife’s design touch.

I’ve taken over my wife’s side of the office with Batmans, so she gets a lot of comments from people at work, “Oh, you like Batman?” “No, I married a large adult child.”

Yeah. Well, my kids would be far more excited to see your backdrop than mine.

You wrote three episodes this season. Do you all establish, “Okay, here are the ones we want to write this season,” and then you divvy them up, or do you come to the table with these and they’re ones you’re passionate about doing?

This year was a bit of a smash-and-grab situation, where everybody was so busy with other things, and with the times we were living through. So as far as the three I had, one was a situation where Cate Blanchett brought an idea to us, and I had written her season 3 episode and loved the idea of trying to do it again. I’m very rarely asked to write for Oscar winners, so when the opportunity arises, I try to jump at it.

[Laughs] Yeah.

Monkey Grifter came out of how we’re always looking to put our finger on the documentary that maybe more people have seen. Not a high bar, because a lot of people haven’t seen any of these. [Laughs] But it did seem like Octopus Teacher was the documentary that most people had seen last year. And then I had a take on that, so I just sort of grabbed that. And then the final one was my tribute to Rhys Thomas, our Welsh director. Once I realized we were shooting in the UK, I challenged myself to write an episode that would be shot in Wales with an entirely Welsh cast as well as our Welsh director. So I think I’m the only non-Welsh person involved in the production.

Yeah, yours are very UK-centric this season.

It’s usually a lot less that we sat around and came up with some grand plan, and a lot more that one event was the first domino to how things broke. But once we knew we were going to do our Three Salons By The Seaside episode, it was impossible to imagine shooting it anywhere but Blackpool or somewhere nearby. And once we were there, and due to the economics of the show, we saw it as an opportunity to lean into the European/UK season. Also, it’s the most British American TV show that exists. I bet the English were just pulling their hair out that they didn’t think of something this niche years ago.

[Laughs] The detail work specifically that Rhys and fellow director/showrunner Alex Buono put in here…

It’s incredible.

It’s the supercharged engine of the show.

In my life, there’s never been a thing where you’ve written it with the expectation that you were very much putting on the first coat of paint, and they do so much, there’s so much writing detail in the direction. Because you could never predict what you need. There is a Wide World Of Sports-esque opening to the rock throwing competition, which again, that’s just in post. This might be my favorite 30 seconds of the season, and it’s in an episode I wrote, but it’s fully the people behind the scenes who made it sing.

I fell in love with the show with the one that was the (James) Carville War Room documentary. The hood decoration on the Camaro or whatever it was, and I had just seen the original documentary for the first time a couple of weeks before, and that was like, “Wow, okay. ” So yeah, the detail work is amazing there.

The most jarring thing about watching that is I watched the original War Room documentary as well right before we did that. And the first scene takes place in my hometown of Manchester, New Hampshire. And, you know, obviously that’s a very political place, especially in 1992. And it was during my senior year of high school, and you couldn’t believe how old the cars look. Because in my head cars look the same way. But it was like watching Hoffa. That’s how old the cars look to me.

[Laughs] Obviously the last few years have been such a golden age, really, of popular documentaries from the true crime stuff, to stuff like Last Dance and the Beatles doc. I’m curious if you ever watch a documentary blow up like that and it’s like, “This is not something we can really handle. We can’t hit this.”

For sure. I think with Last Dance it was just a reminder that sports documentaries are a really important part of that genre right now. But also realizing that we’re never going to be able to recreate the scale of a documentary about an American professional sport. So I guess How They Threw Rocks would be our second sports documentary. Any Given Saturday, which was the Tim Robinson bowling one, was the first. So it’s really about finding what you love about sports documentaries and then scaling it down to something that works. We try so hard never to get caught looking fake. By the way, even major Hollywood films with big budgets, when there’s a scene at a basketball game, you can tell when it’s only shot from one side of the stands. Like, “Okay.”

Obviously, everybody’s doing so much on the team with their other jobs. As you look forward, is there the impulse to continue bringing new voices in for the benefit of their perspective and also the benefit of easing some of the burden of getting this out? Also, we’re seeing with Trevor Noah, we saw with Conan, there’s a lot of, I don’t want to say angst or ache to do other things. But do you ever feel like when you go through the process with Documentary Now!, “Man, I wish I had more time to be able to do some other stuff too?”

I mean, no. I like that I find the time to do something like Documentary Now!. It’s really important for me to also find time to go out and do standup. I don’t want to let those skills atrophy due to just doing Late Night. But I feel like I try to spread it out. Weirdly taking these side projects, I think, keeps me more in love with Late Night than the other way around. I think if it was the only thing I did that would be where maybe boredom would sink in. So I almost think it’s my responsibility to do other things outside of it, to make sure that that feels fresh to me too.

And then the craziest thing that happened this year, is it was such a scramble and we had, Tamsin (Rawaday) and Matt (Pacult) came in and wrote the final episode, which I think is maybe the most Documentary Now! episode that Documentary Now! has ever documented. It’s really special and it was really exciting, knowing that the solution was coming from inside the house, for lack of a better term. And that’s always the risk, especially in this era where there is a lot of comedy that I think is born out of the idea of what is a documentary. Not just Spinal Tap, but just The Office. And so it’s so mainstream, and we fight really hard, not that we don’t love all those styles, but we fight really hard not to fall into a trap where we look like one of those. And so we can be a little precious about what we want from an episode of Documentary Now!. And so when Tamsin and Matt came in, it was really great, because they knew exactly what the show was. And so having those guys come in and write an episode was great. And I think that in the future would be the kind of thing we’d want to do more of.

There is a desire to keep going?

I mean, yeah. It’s so exciting when they’re out. It’s also, I’ve said this before, but it’s really exciting to work on something that started out of date, because then you don’t worry that it will go out of date. [Laughs] It’s when you’re writing a parody of Grey Gardens in 2015, you’re not worried how it’s going to look in 2025. Like, it started 50 years too late.

I love going back and watching them. I love watching the ones I had nothing to do with. They all are these really beautiful ships in a bottle because so much care and attention went into them. While I take Late Night very seriously, and no part of it more than the writing of it, we’re also aware as we write A Closer Look, they’re far more disposable art. By tomorrow, they already feel a million years old. So it’s nice to also work on something that has a little bit of permanence to it.

Yeah, I mean these are going to stand the test of time, whereas hopefully one-day people will forget about everything ever said about Donald Trump, ever.

Yeah, and then I will slowly fade like Marty McFly.

New episodes of ‘Documentary Now!’ come out Wednesdays on IFC.

The GOP has a lot of chaotic candidates out in the field this election season, but one stands above them all: Herschel Walker, the footballer-turned-MAGA senator-wannabe. First, there were his surreal gaffes. Then reporters kept finding secret children he’d kept hidden from the public. Now reporters keep finding women claiming he pressured them into getting an abortion. But even his attempt to joke his way out of another allegation was predictably weird.

On Wednesday, a second woman came forward, claiming that in the ‘90s, Walker had gone so far as to drive her to a clinic after her first attempt to get an abortion ended with her leaving in a panic. Faced with yet another abortion allegation — while running on a fervently anti-abortion platform — Walker called the latest allegation “foolishness” and accused Democrats of “doing and saying anything they can” to win the Georgia Senate seat for incumbent Raphael Warnock.

He also quipped, “I didn’t kill JFK either.” Why JFK? Perhaps it was a reference to the former president who endorsed him accusing Ted Cruz’s dad of doing just that.

Well, at least Lindsey Graham laughed. Joining Walker at the outdoor presser, the longtime South Carolina senator also charged the lectern, lashing out at what he saw was a conspiracy theory perpetrated by Democrats.

“I’ve seen this movie before, folks,” Graham railed, then compared it to now-Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh being credibly accused of sexual misconduct, which the GOP did their best to sweep under the rug. He then advised Walker to get a “celebrity lawyer,” not to defend himself against “salacious” allegations, but to…knowingly lodge false allegations against Democrats the next time they try to fill a vacating Supreme Court seat.

Earlier this month, a former girlfriend of Walker’s accused him of paying for an abortion he insisted she get. She even produced literal receipts, as well as a “Get Well” card. Walker denied the allegations, only for one of his sons to turn on him, all but confirming the story to be true. (The same woman also claimed she had a child with him.)

Walker’s latest accuser, pointedly identifying herself as “Jane Doe,” claims Walker told her to get an abortion, but when she went to a clinic, she lost her nerve and went home. Walker, she says, was unmoved, and drove her back to the clinic, and waited for her in the parking lot until the procedure was finished. He then allegedly drove her to a pharmacy to get medication.

(Via The Daily Beast)

The Champions League is an extremely not nice tournament, one where a single wrong decision can shape the course of the entire thing. That looked like it was going to be the case thanks to a terrible handball decision in the waning moments of Wednesday’s game between Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen. Atleti, a side that is very good at mucking up games in knockout tournaments, needed a win to keep their hopes of moving on to the knockout stage alive, but found itself tied 2-2 in the final moments of injury time.

A corner kick played into the box looked like the end of the game, as the referee blew his whistle and Leverkusen players started celebrating. And then, VAR intervened, giving a handball and a penalty to the Spanish side.

Yannick Carrasco stepped up to the spot to try and take it, with the entire Estadio Metropolitano placing their hopes on the right foot of the Belgian midfielder. You can scroll ahead to the 3:25 mark of the below video if you want to see what happened next.

So, basically, Carrasco’s effort was stopped by Lukas Hradecky, Saúl Ñíguez sprinted into the box and got a free header that bounced off the crossbar, and with the final kick of the game, Reinildo’s seemingly unimpeded path to goal somehow, someway hit the heel of Carrasco and went out of play to mark the end of the match and, eventually, Atleti’s hopes to move on in the Champions League.

Earlier this year, Kanye West went looking for a new footwear partner after becoming disatisfied with Adidas over what he called “copying his designs.” He began making overtures to such companies as San Antonio Shoemakers, which responded neutrally but didn’t outright accept or reject him.

That was last month. In the time since, Kanye finally got out of his Adidas deal, but only after going on an extensive media tour that saw him burning bridges and setting himself on fire in the process as he refused to shut up making antisemitic comments. Now, in addition to Adidas, he’s lost his talent representation, two of his sports agency’s biggest clients, and important fashion connections in Balenciaga and Vogue.

Now, he’s allegedly so desperate that TMZ reports his quest for a new footwear manufacturer has brought him to the HQ of the widely mocked (yet very successful) Skechers, where he was promptly shown the door after showing up uninvited. According to Skechers, Kanye “arrived unannounced and without invitation at one of Skechers’ corporate offices in Los Angeles. Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson said, “Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. Again, West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.” The rejection shouldn’t have come as a surprise; Skechers is owed and operated by Robert Greenberg, who founded the company, and his son Michael, the company’s president. Yes, they’re Jewish.

Kanye has been making quite the schmuck of himself over the past few weeks as he continues to associate with far-right reactionaries like Candace Owens and her husband, whose divisive and controversial Parler app West is said to be interested in buying, and make comments that have neo-Nazi groups praising him. Now that even Skechers is refusing to work with him, his dreams of running his Yeezy brand himself appear to be going up in the smoke from all those bridges he’s burnt.