Conan O’Brien had some pretty epically hilarious “Late Night” guests over the years. But much like gently kneaded dough half an hour into forming, one guest has risen above all others.
That guest is Steven Kaplan, the history professor, author and bread expert, who will tell you exactly how baking and consuming bread is akin to … ahem … a sensual experience.
Kaplan originally appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” to promote his book “Good Bread Is Back” back in February 2007, but the video still goes viral to this very day.
Just what makes Kaplan’s interview so legendary? For one thing, he’s a master with zingers, dishing out amazing off-the-cuff one liners like “it’s got no theology, so a Catholic shouldn’t be worried about it,” that even caught O’Brien off guard. “This guy is casually funnier than most comedians,” one person remarked in the comments.
Another noted, “If this isn’t one of the most impressive segments I’ve ever seen. The natural comedic talent of the bread guy, Conan’s ability to feed off of the bread guys jokes and energy, the way they compliment each other, and the fact this comes off as unscripted and completely genuine comedy. I wasn’t expecting this.”
But really, it’s Kaplan’s carb-induced passion (in the most literal sense of the word) that makes it all completely next level. “It’s pretty much like a sexual act,” he tells a bug-eyed O’Brien, before—I kid you not—stroking, fondling AND caressing various loaves. The words “inseminate,” “swells” and “mount” may or may not have been used.
Check it out below. Warning: you’ll laugh, sure. But you’ll also never look at a loaf the same way again…
Things really kick off when Kaplan splits the bread open and thrusts his face in to get a “surging of a geyser of aromas.” No words can really do it justice, but suffice it to say … it certainly brings up an evocative image.
O’Brien, who can barely contain himself, quips at the end that “if this segment airs tonight, I’ll be very, very surprised.”
But air it did, and now Kaplan sharing his unbridled love of bread is widely regarded by O’Brien fans as his single greatest interview.
With the holidays right around the corner, people are starting to make their plans. One farm in California is offering a new way to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday and some people may just take them up on it. The Gentle Barn in Santa Clarita, California, is a nonprofit hosting a turkey cuddling event on Thanksgiving Day.
Sure, most people are probably thinking that you planned to eat turkey for Thanksgiving and then complain about how tight your pants have suddenly gotten. But the people that run The Gentle Barn are saying turkey cuddling should be on list.
Turkey cuddling is exactly what it sounds like, which isn’t what most people think about when the image of a turkey comes to mind. The Gentle Barn rescues a turkey each year that would otherwise be slaughtered and brings it to the farm for some wholesome family-friendly cuddles. The farm describes turkeys as intelligent and compassionate sentient beings. Thanksgiving on the farm is nothing new. Previously they used to have dinner after the event but this year it’s strictly turkey cuddles and a slice of vegan pie.
The Gentle Barn has two other locations, one in Nashville, Tennessee, and another in St. Louis, Missouri. All three of the locations offer Thanksgiving turkey cuddles, though prices vary by location. Once you pay the minimum donation price, you get 90 minutes to hug, chat with and feed the turkey. It’s kind of like how every year the president pardons a turkey and we never hear about it again. Think of this event as a chance to cuddle the pardoned turkey.
If you’re curious what happens to the turkeys after they’ve had their fill of human affection, the answer is nothing. The turkeys don’t get eaten later or anything, they get to just gobble gobble until their little hearts are content. Big birds aren’t the only animals on the farm. It has more than 200 other animals including cows that are used to provide cow hug therapy. I’m noticing a theme here and something tells me that the animals at The Gentle Barn are not lacking cuddles.
In a video posted to the farm’s Facebook page, they explain that they hope the event will change people’s minds, saying “Just because we’ve always done something a certain way, doesn’t mean that we always need to in the future.”
The woman in the video concluded by saying, “We can change our traditions and we can make them kinder and more gentle. So this year we are inviting you to come to a Gentle Barn location near you and celebrate turkeys.”
If going to hang out with an affectionate turkey sounds like a good time to you, then check out one of the three locations on the big day. Bring the kids and go give the bird some well-deserved cuddles before heading back home to eat all of the other fixings, minus the turkey.
Beyoncé is stirring the hive. Renaissance, her hotly anticipated seventh solo studio album, arrived in late July. Since then, speculation has been rampant over a subsequent tour. The Beyhive still doesn’t have any Renaissance videos, outside of a new Tiffany & Co. campaign, but it seems answers are surfacing around a reported 2023 tour.
Beyoncé graced the WACO Theater’s Wearable Art Gala 2022 on Saturday (October 22) and, of course, provided an eye-popping auction item.
“Valued at a total of $20,000, United x WACO offers you a chance to see Beyoncé on her Renaissance tour starting in the summer of 2023 at any of United’s national and international destinations around the world,” the auction description read in a fan-captured photo. “This prize is complete with 2 first-class international United Airlines Polaris tickets to select cities with 3-night hotel accommodations at a Marriott property. And, to one of the most sought-after musical performances of all time, 2 concert tickets to Beyoncé’s Renaissance 2023 tour with a guided backstage tour with Miss Tina!”
“I was there when this auction happened and at the end, Miss Tina [Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s mother] clarified that the date isn’t confirmed just yet but the tickets will be good whenever Bey goes on tour,” tweeted on-air host and journalist Gia Peppers. “Save, yes. We gotta wait til Beyoncé herself confirms from HER accounts! Hoping summer still. We’ll see!”
I was there when this auction happened and at the end, Miss Tina clarified that the date isn’t confirmed just yet but the tickets will be good whenever Bey goes on tour.
Save, yes. We gotta wait til Beyoncé herself confirms from HER accounts! 😭 Hoping summer still. We’ll see! https://t.co/Bu6e2gOq4v
So, the Beyhive is on high alert for an official announcement from Beyoncé of dates and preparing themselves — and their bank accounts — to snatch up tickets. After all, there is unconfirmed word online that the ticket package went for anywhere between $50,000 to $150,000 at the auction.
“When Beyoncé go on tour, I’m getting them front row tickets even if I have to sell a kidney idgaf,” one Twitter user wrote.
See more reaction below.
The first two tickets for Beyoncé’s upcoming RENAISSANCE tour were sold for $150k. This is about to be a blood bath. This game has been moved to a new level pic.twitter.com/SRJ9Qu4bwe
(House of the Dragon spoilers will be found below.)
A bit of murder is par for the course when it comes to George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world, but House of the Dragon’s season finale managed to shock both book and show fans alike with how a certain character met their demise … and why.
In episode 10’s “The Black Queen,” a newly-crowned Rhaenyra Targaryen sends her two eldest sons to shore up support for her claim to the Iron Throne after her half-brother usurps her title and the Hightowers take control of Kings Landing. While Jacaerys Velaryon rides north to Winterfell seeking aid from the Starks, Lucerys flies to Storm’s End to treat with the Baratheons. Unfortunately, Aemond Targaryen beats him to the punch, betrothing himself to one of Lord Borros Baratheon’s daughters in exchange for the man’s allegiance to Team Green.
But before Lucerys can return home, his uncle issues a challenge, demanding Lucerys carve out an eye in payment for the loss of his own a decade earlier. Borros Baratheon stops Aemond from following through on his threat, letting Luke leave before blood can be shed, but ever the obsessive psychopath, Aemond follows the boy on dragon’s back. The two chase each other through a gnarly storm before Lucerys’ young dragon, Arrax, disobeys his rider’s commands and hits Aemond’s mount, Vhagar, with a quick blast of fire. But before they can safely escape, Vhagar rears up through the clouds, taking a chunk out of the smaller dragon and his rider while Aemond looks on, horrified.
The answer: it’s complicated. In Martin’s book — which itself is unreliable since it has many different narrators, all with their own personal biases — Aemond is still seething from the loss of his eye and is more intentional in his efforts to kill Luke. The two still fight on the dragon’s back but Aemond deliberately kills his nephew, ordering Vhagar to tear Arrax in half before locating the boy’s corpse and cutting out his eyes. In the show, things are a bit more nuanced. The writers’ callback to an earlier episode in season one when King Viserys explains that dragons, unlike pets, are not governable. Targaryens can ride them and bond with them, but they can’t fully control them. We see that warning come to life when Arrax disobeys Lucerys by spewing flames at Vhagar. He’s a young dragon being chased by an older and bigger animal of his kind and he reacts instinctively, despite his rider’s pleas.
Of course, by directly challenging Vhagar, Arrax incites the elder dragon’s own bloodlust, which becomes apparent when she goes against Aemond’s pleas to stop by tearing the young dragon in two. Both beasts behaved exactly as one would expect them to in that situation so, while Aemond didn’t necessarily mean to kill Lucerys in that fashion, he is responsible for putting both dragon riders and their dragons in that position, to begin with.
And all because he still hadn’t figured out how to successfully rock an eyepatch. Yeesh.
Halloween is just a week away and Houston’s favorite hottie is all-in on the spooky season. Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Netflix to promote the streamer’s “Horrorscope” readings, giving a few to some characters from Netflix’s most popular shows including Big Mouth, Love Is Blind, Sex Education, and of course, Stranger Things. She cheats a little on one, assigning them “Megan Thee Stallion” as a sign — which, according to a disclaimer, is unfortunately not one of the available assignments when you actually take the quiz, which you can do here.
Following the white-hot success of the HBO Watchmen series, Damon Lindelof hinted that he’d love to take a crack at a Star Wars movie, but maybe a decade down the road after everyone stopped being mad at The Rise of Skywalker. It looks like he got a little excited. According to Variety, Lindelof is reportedly in talks to write a new Star Wars movie with Oscar-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. She recently helmed two episodes of the critically-acclaimed series Ms. Marvel, and presumably, Disney and Lucasfilm liked what they saw.
Of course, it should be noted that Lucasfilm has been struggling in the Star Wars movie department despite hitting it big with streaming series like The Mandalorian and Andor. Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron has already been pulled from Lucasfilm’s schedule, and that’s just the start of the previously reported films that have yet to materialize.
As it stands, an unnamed “Star Wars” movie is slated to open in Dec. 2025, but none of the other “Star Wars” film projects in various stages of development — including from Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson and Kevin Feige — have been officially announced, let alone given a release date. Johnson recently told Variety that his prospective “Star Wars” trilogy is still alive, but he needs to complete his work on his “Knives Out” movies first. In May, screenwriter Michael Waldron (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) told Variety that he’d started writing a “Star Wars” script that Feige would produce, but Waldron also recently landed the gig of writing “Avengers: Secret Wars,” so his dance card’s about to get very full.
However, working in Lindelof and Obaid-Chinoy’s favor is the fact that they’re not filmmakers with multiple projects known to be in the works. Taika Waititi seems to be signing on to a new project every five seconds, Rian Johnson still has one more Knives Out movie to make for Netflix, and Kevin Feige has ramped up Marvel’s output from three movies a year to three movies and three Disney+ series a year. That guy’s not taking a breather anytime soon.
There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and Don’t Worry Darling drama. The latest bit of gossip comes from — you guessed it — Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’ former nanny, who is now claiming that Florence Pugh and Harry Styles were “f*cking” before Wilde started dating the pop star (and made him her “special” salad dressing).
“Olivia told Jason a couple of weeks after Harry started that Flo was f*cking Harry and she had a boyfriend but was f*cking Harry,” the nanny told the Daily Mail. “Then Olivia started seeing Harry herself. It was all very quick. A lot of people don’t know that.”
The exchange set off the bitter falling out between the two women and finally explains the notoriously frosty premiere of Don’t Worry Darling in Venice. Pugh, 26, did appear on the red carpet on September 5 but refused to take part in a panel ahead of the event and declined to give any interviews about the film.
The nanny described Wilde as being “giddy” around Styles on the Don’t Worry Darling set. “She was putting her face in her hands and saying she couldn’t believe he was so young,” she said. “I didn’t know who Harry Styles was at the time, and I thought, wow, I’ve never seen her like that.” The nanny “didn’t know who Harry Styles was”? I don’t know who to believe anymore (Wilde and Sudeikis have denied her “false” claims).
Don’t Worry Darling is expected to hit streaming in early November or after 45 more updates about who was supposedly having sex with who. Whichever comes first.
Latto has recently used Twitter to exchange barbs with Nicki Minaj, but on Sunday night (October 23), the platinum-certified rapper playfully debunked an online rumor that Lil Wayne denied her request to sample “Lollipop.”
The faux rumor was started by a parody Twitter account posing as Pop Base, a popular account with over 370,000 followers. Latto quoted their tweet, “POV: u don’t even have a song sampling lollipop” with plenty of laugh-crying emojis.
Lil Wayne has denied Latto’s requests to sample his 2008 hit ‘Lollipop’ in upcoming single, HITSDD reports. pic.twitter.com/h22m6atIJL
Away from the internet, Latto is living her best life. Uproxx’s December 2021 cover star has been opening on Lizzo’s The Special Tour since late September. The Special Tour hit Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Saturday (October 22), and Latto turned all the way up at 21 Savage’s Freaknik-themed birthday party while in town.
At the State Farm Arena show, Latto welcomed Stacy Abrams to the stage during her “P*ssy” performance. Abrams, currently running for Governor of Georgia, held up a sign aptly reading, “MY BODY MY CHOICE.” Abrams posted the powerful moment to Instagram with the caption, “Thank you for sharing your stage with me, @latto777. Time too voice and protect a woman’s right to choose.”
Latto actually did sample Betty Wright’s 1968 single “Girls Can’t Do What They Guys Do” for “P*ssy.” She shared in a September interview with Flaunt that she’d heard the sample before Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“It was just in talks of being overturned,” she said. “So I touched on a little bit of that, just the ways of society right now in general. Then it ended up being overturned a month after I recorded that song. I’m like, ‘Oh, this gotta come out now.’ It literally fell in my lap.”
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw the clock strike Midnights and Carly Rae Jepsen also come through with a strong pop LP. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Despite a solid lineup of new releases last week, this past Friday’s slate of fresh music was very much all about Taylor Swift and her new Midnights album. “Anti-Hero” is the lead single and it sees Swift returning to a more pop-oriented sound in one of her most vulnerable tracks to date.
Carly Rae Jepsen — “Bends”
Swift of course highlighted the week in terms of new albums, but don’t sleep on CRJ’s latest that came out on the same day, The Loneliest Time. In her review of the album, Uproxx’s Courtney E. Smith notes, “Jepsen comes as close as she’ll get to a sense of mourning with ‘Joshua Tree,’ ‘Far Away,’ and ‘Bends,’ which sound like remembrances of people and places that are rendered not unpleasant and a little nostalgic thanks to the ’80s-inspired soundscapes she incorporates into most of the album. The latter song, in particular, uses minor chords and the minor third (aka the saddest musical interval) to evoke a heavy feeling”
Arctic Monkeys — “The Car”
In his review of The Car, Uproxx’s Steven Hyden says of the title track, “There is no sense of uplift on the title track, the album’s best song, in which cloudy orchestral folk flourishes give way to a tortured guitar solo. But it does function as The Car‘s emotional center.”
Silk Sonic had a massive 2021, but here in 2022, Anderson .Paak is focusing on his other two-man group: NxWorries. He and Knxwledge have officially returned with their first new music in years, a smooth new song called “Where I Go” that gets a boost from a HER feature.
Fred Again.. — “Delilah (Pull Me Out Of This)”
Fred is prepping to drop Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022), his third project in the past 18 months, at the end of the week. He’s been gradually rolling it out with new songs and last week brought “Delilah (Pull Me Out Of This),” an upbeat club thumper featuring vocals from Delilah Montagu.
Dry Cleaning — “Hot Penny Day”
In a recent interview with Uproxx, Dry Cleaning guitarist Tom Dowse said of “Hot Penny Day,” “For a long time, that song was literally just the middle section. We were trying to play it really slow and groovy at first. And then Lewis [Maynard, bassist] just started doing this wild bass part, and we wrote it from that. That was two weeks before we went to the studio. We played a bit of it to John [Parish] when we did a process of two rehearsals in Bristol, and John came and the engineer came. They listened to everything, and he’d say, ‘I like it, but you need to make it into something else.’ Some of the songs we adjusted a bit more in the studio, so that was definitely one.”
Caroline Polachek — “Sunset”
Polachek says of her latest solo tune, “Resolution is so rare in life, but music is unnaturally full of it. A sunset is the biggest pop cliche ever, because it’s a perfect resolution. Ennio Morricone passed away a few months before Salvador (Sega Bodega) and I started ‘Sunset’, and the folkloric, epic tone of the spaghetti western sunset played on my mind.”
Smino — “Matinee”
Luv 4 Rent is now just a few days away and Smino previewed his upcoming album last week with “Matinee.” It’s a smooth tune on which Smino is clear about what he wants: “I wanna take you to the crib, I wanna own it / I wanna hone it, I wanna bone, damn.”
Lil Uzi Vert — “Just Wanna Rock”
At this point, it’s hard to say when the much-anticipated The Pink Tape is dropping. Uzi’s still delivering new music, though, like last week’s “Just Wanna Rock,” of which Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes, “Employing a Jersey club beat with a stinging synth, the song has already become a TikTok favorite due to a snippet that has soundtracked hundreds of videos since mid-September.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
For the past several weeks, Kanye West has been a lightning rod for controversy. Beginning with his Paris Fashion Week YZY Supply show and its featured “White Lives Matter” t-shirts, each time West has made a public statement, he’s expressed some reprehinsible views. While it seems as though he started off trolling for attention, it appears that some of these views are ones he actually earnestly holds, and some entertainment industry leaders are now calling on their peers to boycott Kanye West.
According to Billboard, United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer released a company-wide memo to UTA’s staff encouraging them to support the boycott and providing some compelling reasons for his sense of urgency. He wrote, “I’m saddened to write that once again we’re seeing a surge in anti-Semitism in our communities, fueled by Kanye’s comments and a resulting in an incident in Los Angeles yesterday where hateful banners were placed over the 405 freeway.”
Later in the memo, he highlighted how West’s celebrity helps to supercharge the hateful rhetoric he’s been sharing, and how it impacts the younger members of the rapper’s fanbase. “But throughout history some have used their public platform to spew the plague out loud and spread the contagion to dangerous effect. Kanye is the latest to do so, and we’re seeing how his words embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs…. Powerful voices spewing hatred have frequently driven people to do hateful things. Let’s not be lulled into thinking this time it’s different.”
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