The Phillies and Padres met in Game 2 of the NLCS on Wednesday afternoon in San Diego on a gorgeous day that was a bit too perfect for those in the field.
The cloudless sky provided no help against the sun and every fly ball turned into an adventure, with the Phillies becoming the beneficiaries in the second inning as they piled up three runs on nothing but singles, continuing their run of incredible luck this postseason (or, for the other team, infuriating luck). After getting runners on second and third thanks to a throwing error on the first RBI single of the inning, Matt Vierling hit a fly ball to right field that Juan Soto tracked to the warning track until, suddenly, he lost it in the sun and could only duck and turn away as it almost hit him.
Oh man… Juan Soto loses it in the sun and the Phillies score another run
Somewhat luckily for the Padres this was only a one-run error in the immediate because it was a tagging situation, so the runner on second didn’t also score, but both he and Vierling would eventually score on a bloop single and an error by the first baseman, making it a 4-0 ball game.
As John Smoltz explained on the broadcast, there was nothing for Soto really to do because the angle on the ball was impossible to get around and avoid the sun, but it is just horrific luck for the Padres who could’ve been one out away from getting out of the inning and, at the very least, should’ve escaped at a 3-0 deficit.
There’s something to be said about music that’s often described as “autumnal.” It’s peaceful, nostalgia-inducing, and evokes the coziness of a chilly day. That’s exactly the kind of sound you can expect to hear on The Backseat Lovers’ upcoming sophomore album Willing To Spill.
The Utah-based band’s new album was born out of emotional turmoil. After a lyric appeared in his head that set the scene for a new track, vocalist/guitarist Joshua Harmon knew he had a goal in mind for the band’s sophomore effort: to be as honest as possible. And that’s exactly what they managed to do on Willing To Spill by crafting 10 contemplative numbers that are both confessional and bold. “I think we definitely pushed the boundaries and tested our limits with this album,” says bassist KJ Ward. “We grew a lot, as band members and as individuals. It’s a very personal album, and in the studio, there was a lot of open dialogue and deep conversation.”
Ahead of the release of their upcoming album Waiting To Spill, Uproxx sat down with The Backseat Lovers to talk Andy Shauf, Tom Selleck, and not growing out your mustache until you actually can in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Vulnerable, intentional, introspective, swag.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
A band that did what they could to make things better through music.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
We love to play anywhere people will listen, but New York is one place we’ve always had special shows.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
There are many to note, but I think within the last 4 years Andy Shauf has been a very inspiring artist to us.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Juice’s mom’s house.
What album do you know every word to?
The Party by Andy Shauf.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Jonas Brothers’ world tour in 2008.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
Flow is key. Don’t wear your tightest pants! I tend to never trust shorts for some reason. Whatever makes you feel the most comfortable and like yourself.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
Elon Musk may or may not be buying Twitter, but if his version of the social media service is anything like his cars, we may be in trouble. Case in point: Glenn Howerton, of A.P. Bio and long one of the stars of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia recently revealed that he had a doozy of a time with his Tesla. What was the problem? He couldn’t get in.
As caught by Insider, Howerton recently told his horrifying Tesla story on The Always Sunny Podcast. Last weekend, he found himself locked out of his car because the key fob broke. But his Plan B didn’t work either. In case of issues with the key fob, owners can always turn to the app. But Howerton was in the bottom floor of a parking garage, where he was unable to connect to WiFi. (Tesla introduced its keyless entry system in 2017.)
His Plan C — replace the key fob battery — didn’t work either.
Howerton was forced to leave the car in the garage overnight. It took him till the next day to discover he could simply place the fob on a designated area of the car. He was able to get in, but he still wasn’t able to start the car, as his fob was mysteriously not “talking” with his vehicle.
Customer service didn’t help either. “I had a very difficult time getting through to any of these people,” he said. He eventually decided to call Tesla’s sales department, and was soon being tossed between two different departments. But that wasn’t easy either. “We’d get to the end of the call and they’d go: ‘I guess there’s nothing we can do,’” Howerton said. “And I was like: ‘What do you mean there’s nothing you can do?’”
Eventually, he was able to get the car towed. Since then he’s been able to drive it using the app, though that means avoiding areas without WiFi, on the off-chance that his Tesla won’t work.
“I was like, ‘You guys lost a customer today. I’ve been a Tesla customer for 10 years,’” Howerton recalls telling one of the Tesla staffers.
Tesla headaches are so prevalent they’ve become their own genre of news coverage. Who can forget the Finnish gentleman from last year who, faced with an astronomical repair fee, simply blew his car up? Meanwhile, the company’s owner is busy deleting Kanye tweets and threatening the world with a ‘friendly’ robot.
You can watch Howerton’s podcast appearance in the video below.
One of the better songs on JID’s third studio album, The Forever Story, gets a suitably twitchy music video. In “Bruddanem/Crack Sandwich,” JID reminisces about his wild days growing up with a family that did everything together — including getting in wild brawls in the street. The video contrasts the narrative JID relays in the song with another, anxious vignette in which a group of friends find their trap house raided by a SWAT team as they reflect on better, more optimistic alternatives.
JID, who is gearing up to go on tour with Smino in 2023, has put the spotlight squarely on his family and the social pressures that shaped them during the rollout for The Forever Story. While it’s the most obvious in the video for “Kody Blu 31,” which was partly inspired by his grandmother’s funeral, the social commentary threaded through the clips for “Dance Now” and “Money” tangientally touch on the survival situations he and his rambunctious siblings faced growing up in Atlanta.
His life now is a far cry from those rough-and-tumble days. Now he’s collaborating with Little Dragon and playing NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, living up to his star potential and making his family proud.
Watch JID’s “Bruddanem/Crack Sandwich” video above.
In a, uh, touching moment for the “Party of Family Values,” a Republican candidate in Arizona was reportedly arrested for masturbating outside of a preschool. Randy Gene Kaufman, who’s running for a seat on the Maricopa County Community College District Governing Board, was allegedly caught in the act by a police officer.
According to the officer’s report, Kaufman was parked across the street from a child care center. Kaufman had reportedly covered the windshield with a shade screen, which the officer found suspicious and went over to investigate. To his surprise, he caught Kaufman in the act, and the GOP candidate confirmed that, yes, he was masturbating inside of his vehicle because “I’m really stressed.”
Kaufman claimed he didn’t realize his proximity to the the preschool, but he did realize the severity of his situation when the officer pointed it out to him. Via Law & Crime:
Officer: “What kind of porn were you watching?”
[Kaufman]: “Interracial porn.”
Officer: “When you look around here what do you see?”
[Kaufman]: “The child center but I didn’t notice it until you came up and I got out of my truck. Are you going to put that in a report?”
Officer: “Don’t you see how alarming that is? That there are children nearby, people passing on bikes and In cars where they can look and see what you are doing?”
[Kaufman]: “I f*cked up.”
According to Law & Crime, the Trump-supporting Kaufman became active in politics because of COVID, and his Facebook page is filled with attacks on “baby killing leftists” that seem particularly contradictory in light of his alleged crime.
“Nothing is more important than standing against the Godless/ progressive/ left-wing/ socialist/ marxist/ communist/ Democrat Party Movement to destroy America,” Kaufman posted in July of this year along with subsequent anti-abortion and pro-gun rants.
The future of The Daily Show might be in flux but its original host, Jon Stewart, is still out here delivering hot takes when we need them most. His latest targets? Former president Donald Trump and prolific rapper who just can’t keep his mouth shut, Kanye West.
Stewart used the opening minutes of his podcast — which serves as a companion piece to his talk show, Apple TV+’s The Problem with Jon Stewart — to tackle some of the vile antisemitism on display by both men recently. Trump obviously has a long history of attacking Jewish people, but his most recent comments warning U.S. Jews that they should “get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late!” really riled Stewart this week.
“[It’s] one of the most explicit expressions of just pure ‘Jews have only loyalty to Israel,’” Stewart said on his show. “I don’t know that it even made the top 10 antisemitic bullsh*t of the week! In fact, the word antisemitic doesn’t even carry it anymore. It’s just weird Jew paranoia bullsh*t. It’s mind-blowing to me how easily it flows from people’s mouths and everybody’s just like, ‘Wow, that was weird.’”
Stewart then went on to address Kanye West’s latest media meltdown. The rapper ranted on social media about Jews controlling Diddy’s career before threatening to go “death con 3” on Jewish people. (We assume he meant DEFCON.) Twitter suspended West and removed the Tweet in which West wrote, “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew. Also You guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
West also claimed that Disney was a “Jewish platform.”
“Boy, he really doesn’t know the history of Disney, does he?” Stewart joked on the podcast. “If you are Jewish, then you’re part of the Jewish mafia. But if you’re not, then you’re just a guy who’s a dick to him in business. But if you’re a Jewish guy who’s a dick to him in business, then it’s part of the cabal.”
Stewart also laid into West for blaming Jewish people for his current string of professional and personal problems saying, “You’re a billionaire who was married to the Kardashians. How bad have we been f*cking you?”
He then addressed an issue some critics have brought up when discussing West’s bigoted outbursts. It’s well-known that the rapper suffers from mental health issues, but Stewart made the case that no drug can cure a person of antisemitism.
“I don’t know what drug you could get that could make you not believe there’s a cabal of Jews controlling the flow of information from your mouth to the public,” he said before joking, “Jew-alax?”
Despite being a well-known rapper for the past 20 years, Jim Jones has self-admittedly been equally (or even more) well-known for his antics outside of music. From feuding with his fellow Diplomats (and French Montana) to appearing on gossip-baiting reality television, Jones musical ambitions seemed to take a backseat to his hitmaking potential, despite having an absolute banger like “We Fly High” on his books. However, in recent years, he’s refocused his efforts on hip-hop, making a marked jump both in output and the quality thereof.
In this week’s episode of Fresh Pair, Just Blaze asks him about his commitment to making music over headlines, receiving an earnest, self-effacing answer that really illustrates Jones’ personal growth. “It’s something personal I’ve got to prove to myself,” he says. “I’ve been in this sh*t for a long time and for the most part, my actions were louder than my music. Now it feels like my music is just as loud as my actions.”
He explains why he used to shy away from music as his primary focus, saying, “Before, I used to consider music like homework and now, I’m more eager to do it than I used to do it before.” It really shows, as the four projects he’s released since 2019 have all been aimed more at proving his rap skills and generating attention for those rather than his extracurricular activities.
Watch this week’s full episode of Fresh Pair featuring Jim Jones above.
Lupita Nyong’o is part of two famous social media moments in Oscars history: the “best photo ever” selfie (which has, let’s say, not aged well) and The Slap. The 12 Years a Slave and Black Panther actress was caught on camera reacting to Will Smith yelling at and slapping Chris Rock for not keeping his wife’s name out of his f*cking mouth.
“Once the moment was over,” Nyong’o told the Hollywood Reporter about seating behind Smith, “I realized, ‘Oh my God, there’s no way all this transpired and I’m not in the shot.’ I knew as soon as it was over that I was going to be a meme.” As for her feelings on the slap, she said, “I don’t want to add any more fuel to that thing, quite frankly.” Good call.
But Nyong’o did discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, where she reprises her role as Nakia. “He affected how I move in the world,” she said about Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020. “But that’s the thing about Chadwick. Chadwick wasn’t trying to have everyone be like him. What he inspired was you to be your best self. So how I’m going to lead a set is nowhere near — I’m not that person. I’m not Chadwick at all. I’ll never be.”
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens on November 11.
After the Lakers got smoked by the Warriors on opening night, LeBron James was not shy about speaking on the shortcomings of the Lakers roster, particularly their three-point shooting.
It wasn’t exactly groundbreaking stuff to note that they don’t have a lot of great shooters — or “lasers” in his words — but given the formula for great LeBron teams since forever has been “surround him with shooters” it does not bode well for the Lakers this season. To the untrained eye, it was a standard critique from a star who has never been afraid to call out his team’s weak points, but one longtime observer of LeBron noticed something in the way James said it that piqued his interest.
ESPN’s Brian Windhorst has been covering James since high school and followed him around the league for his entire 20-year career, seeing him in just about every postgame presser for more than two decades. As such, he knows LeBron’s tells, and one of them is what he calls the “Truth Shake,” in which LeBron does a little head and shoulder shake when he’s saying something he really means. Windy broke it down on NBA Today on Wednesday and explained why it’s notable LeBron is talking like this one day into the season.
This is honestly incredible insight from Windy, who I like to believe has been fleecing LeBron in poker games for years off this tell, as it’s not something most anyone else would pick up on. As he notes, this is usually LeBron’s move when talking about where the team needs to improve before the trade deadline, and that he’s doing it this early when talking about the team’s deficiencies, it’s not hard to extrapolate that James will be not so subtly pushing the Lakers to fix this area on the roster sooner than later.
Puerto Rican singer iLe released the music video for her new single “(Escapándome) De Mí” on Tuesday (October 18). She also unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming album Nacarile that will feature Ivy Queen and Trueno.
iLe is known for her work in the Puerto Rican group Calle 13 alongside her brothers, Residente and Visitante. She has also released albums of her own like 2019’s Almadura. Later that year, iLe and Residente worked with Bad Bunny on the song “Afilando Los Cuchillos.” Their collaboration was made in protest against Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rosselló, who resigned shortly after following a leak of controversial Telegram messages.
This past year, iLe has teased her new album Nacarile. In the dreamy video for her latest single “(Escapándome) De Mí,” she sings about her fears of getting wrapped up in the entanglement of relationships. In the psychedelic track, iLe also noticeably alters her vocals with Auto-Tune.
“I didn’t want the song to stay in the monotony of my voice,” she said in a statement.
iLe also revealed the tracklist for Nacarile that will be released on October 21. In “Algo Bonito,” she collaborates with Puerto Rican reggaeton pioneer Ivy Queen. iLe teams up with Argentine rapper Trueno for “Ningún Lugar.” Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade joins her on “En Cantos.” She also links-up with Chilean rocker Mon Laferte for “Traguito.”
Find the Nacarile tracklist below.
1. “A La Deriva” Feat. Flor de Toloache
2. “Ningún Lugar” Feat. Trueno
3. “(Escapándome) De Mi”
4. “En Cantos” Feat. Natalia Lafourcade
5. “Lo Que Yo Quería”
6. “Algo Bonito” Feat. Ivy Queen
7. “Cuando Te Miro” Feat. Rodrigo Cuevas
8. “Donde Nadie Más Respira”
9. “Traguito” Feat. Mon Laferte
10. “Paisaje”
11. “No Es Importante”
Nacarile is out 10/21 via Sony Music Latin. Pre-order it here.
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