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Jameson Irish Whiskey is one of the most popular whiskeys on the planet, not to mention a “gateway whiskey” for many whiskey lovers. It’s also one of the world’s fastest-growing whiskey brands — in that it produces multiple expressions under the Jameson banner. That’s simply to say, if you even dabble in drinking whiskey, you’ve likely come across Jameson at some point or another.

Today, I’m ranking all the current core expressions from Jameson. As with any whiskey brand, the core line is almost constantly in flux, with new expressions dropping throughout the year(s) to bolster the perennials. Jameson is always trying new things with its line and right now is a great time to dive in. Especially for fans of unique barreling programs.

For this ranking, I’m looking at the classics side-by-side with the newbies that have popped up this year and last to replace a few expressions that have been retired. It should be noted that I’m leaving off distillery-only releases and one-offs that aren’t in the core lineup. Overall, the actual ranking is simple. I’m going on taste alone to give you the best chance to find and drink the best whiskey from the beloved Irish shingle.

Let’s dive right in!

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10. Jameson Orange

ABV: 30%

Average Price: $31

The Whiskey:

This 2022 release from Jameson is built for old fashioned cocktail lovers. The Irish tipple in the bottle is cut down with natural orange flavors to mimic the orange in that cocktail. The juice is also cut down with plenty of water to bring it to a low proof of only 60.

Tasting Notes:

Big shocker here, orange comes through on the nose and on the palate. On the nose, the orange is more like a powdered orange drink with a hint of cinnamon candy thrown in. The palate is largely the same with that fake orange drink vibe carrying on with a touch of minerality that’s more vodka than whiskey. The finish is sweet and full of “orange” and “cinnamon” with a slight graininess and a touch of vanilla.

Bottom Line:

This is a hard pass from me neat. I tried it on the rocks and it was still a hard pass. I tried it in a highball with a lot of fizzy water and it was fine on a hot summer day. But I’m never reaching for this again.

9. Jameson Cold Brew

ABV: 30%

Average Price: $41

The Whiskey:

Here, Jameson has combined their classic triple-distilled Irish whiskey with cold brew coffee. The idea behind the expression is to help enhance the Irish Coffee experience. In this case, it’s a bit reversed. Instead of getting a small dose of Irish whiskey in a creamy coffee, you get a small dose of bitter cold brew in your whiskey.

Tasting Notes:

You’re hit with that cold brew up top with a pleasant bitterness, creamy vanilla, and mild nuttiness. The coffee really dominates the palate as hints of malt, nuts, vanilla, and slight oak peek through. The end is short, sweet, bitter, and warming.

Bottom Line:

Okay, this is actually … good. I don’t even drink coffee and I liked this. It was very clearly a coffee-infused whiskey (not orange drank and vodka as the above expression). I poured this over a few rocks and it was a great and refreshing drink. That said, this felt like a novelty to me more than anything I’d sip on a regular basis.

8. Jameson Caskmates IPA Edition

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $39

The Whiskey:

The process behind the expression is well-used. Jameson sends out barrels to local craft brewers in the Cork area (around the Midleton Distillery, where Jameson is primarily made) for those brewers to age their IPAs. Once those beers are bottled, the barrels are sent back to Midleton and filled with Jameson Irish Whiskey. After a spell finishing in those beer-infused barrels, the whiskey is batched, proofed, and bottled.

Tasting Notes:

That signature Jameson nuttiness is accentuated by floral and citrus notes that do remind you of hops on the nose. The citrus leans towards grapefruit with a rush of wildflowers next to light woodiness as the grain lingers in the background of the palate. Light fruit picks up at the end with a nice dose of spice and maltiness as it quickly fades out towards a watery finish.

Bottom Line:

This is probably the Jameson I reach for the least. It’s not that it’s bad or anything like, I just don’t dig the “IPA” floral/citrus hop vibe enough to really get into it. If that’s your jam, then go for it!

7. Jameson Triple Triple

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $69

The Whiskey:

This whiskey takes the classic triple distilled Irish whiskey and triple casks it before bottling. In this case, the usual ex-sherry and ex-bourbon casks are supported by Malaga casks (a Spanish fortified wine). Those barrels are vatted and proofed all the down to 80 before bottling.

Tasting Notes:

Lemon trees and cinnamon sticks pull you in on the nose with a hint of grain and stewed plum. A note of clove opens the palate toward tart berries and dried dark stone fruits next to a hint of black pepper, black licorice, and black (charred) oak. The end amps up those woody tannins to a bitter note before the water washes out the end toward a plum and cinnamon finish.

Bottom Line:

This has a nice overall flavor profile that’s distinct. It’s a little washed out for my palate but has a deep enough profile to stand out in a cocktail.

6. Jameson Irish Whiskey

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $35

The Whiskey:

The juice is a blend of single pot still (made from malted and unmalted barley) and grain whiskeys. Those whiskeys age in ex-bourbon barrels and ex-sherry casks until they hit that classic sweet spot that makes Jameson Jameson. Those barrels are then blended, proofed, and bottled.

Tasting Notes:

This does feel classic with notes of lemon citrus, soft malts, and mild spice on the nose with a faint touch of honey and almond. The sip leans into that spice with a soft powderiness while layers of lush vanilla, dry nuts, and a hint of woodiness drive the palate. The end is short and sweet with a minerality to it that’s more river rock than tap water.

Bottom Line:

This is one of the best “on the rocks” pours at any dive bar. You know what you’re getting. It’s easy-going. And it tastes pretty damn good for entry-point whiskey. The only reason it’s this low on this list is that it’s also very basic. There’s a lot of room to grow from this foundational whiskey.

5. Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $39

The Whiskey:

Aging stout in whiskey barrels has a long tradition in brewing. Plus, a pint of stout goes hand-in-hand with drams of Irish whiskey. So aging Jameson in whiskey barrels that held stout beer makes a lot of sense. In this case, the aged juice spends an extra six months in the stout barrels, giving the whiskey that little somethin’, before proofing and bottling.

Tasting Notes:

Apple orchards and bails of hay mingle with almonds, spice, chocolate, and a hint of lemon oil on the nose. Dark chocolate and a note of woody spices mingle on the palate with creamed honey and a whisper of espresso cream. The end brings about a note of butterscotch next to a milkier chocolate smoothness that leads to a finish that’s part of spiced wood and part bitter espresso bean, creating a spiced-mocha-latte-spiked-with-whiskey vibe.

Bottom Line:

There’s just something about Jameson and coffee bitterness that works. While I’d order a classic Jameson at a dive bar, I’d actually buy this at the liquor store to have around the house. It’s easy drinking while also offering a little something more. It’s also nice on the rocks or in a highball.

4. Jameson Black Barrel

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $47

The Whiskey:

This masterfully crafted whiskey leans more towards the single pot still whiskeys than grain whiskey. Those whiskeys are aged in a combination of ex-sherry and ex-bourbon for anywhere from eight to 16 years. Then, the juice is finished in an extra-charred ex-bourbon barrel, bringing about the “Black Barrel” moniker, before blending and proofing.

Tasting Notes:

Dark chocolate cut with creamy vanilla sits next to a rich and buttery toffee with a note of orange on the nose. The palate amps up that vanilla with a dusting of Christmas spices and fatty nuts that lead to a minced meat pie feel with a dark orange/chocolate underbelly. The end has a hint of tannic oak with a creamy vanilla lushness that’s spiked with dark wintry woody spices.

Bottom Line:

This is the ultimate cocktail whiskey from Jameson. The proof isn’t that high, but the flavor profile is distinct without getting washed out by the proofing water. This also works a nice on the rocks whiskey if you’re looking for a light summer sipper with some real depth.

3. Jameson Crested

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $36

The Whiskey:

This whiskey is a bit of a rebrand from Jameson 10, which became Crested 10, and is now just Jameson Crested. The juice in the bottle is a blend of triple-distilled, pot still whiskey (again, made from a blend of malted and unmalted barley). The blend leans into ex-sherry casks with ex-bourbon casks acting as a supporting act. Once blended, the whiskey is proofed all the way down to 80 proof for bottling.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a sense of dry straw and warm spices on the nose with a hint of buttery toffee and a thin line of dark plums. The palate leans into the hot spice with a clear pepperiness and woody cinnamon vibe next to ginger snaps dipped in dark chocolate. The end is a bit like a spicy stewed plum pie with a hint of nutmeg and clove next to a sweet honeyed finish.

Bottom Line:

This is just nice. It’s very similar to the Black Barrel above but doesn’t quite hit the same “woodiness” level, which might be a plus or a minus for some. I like the softness of this one thanks to that soft honey finish. This also gets super creamy with a little water or ice, which is a nice touch.

2. Jameson 18

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $169

The Whiskey:

This is more than just 18-year-old Jameson. It’s a masterful blend of hand-selected 18-year-old whiskeys aged in ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks initially. That juice is then married and finished in first-fill bourbon casks until it’s just right. Once those barrels hit the right notes, they’re vatted, proofed, and bottled.

Tasting Notes:

This opens with soft bourbon vanilla, dry cedar bark, orange oils, rich toffee, and subtle winter spices on the nose. The taste delivers on those promises and adds in worn boot leather, hazelnuts, and a dusting of dark chocolate that melds into the hazelnut to create a creamy Nutella when you add a drop of water. The end arrives with a rush of spiced plum jam with cloves, allspice, and a hint of licorice next to more of that dry cedar next to a nutty/chocolate-infused tobacco leaf with a slight chew to it.

Bottom Line:

This is probably the most complex and easiest drinking whiskey on the list. It’s damn good, even for the high price tag. The reason it’s not first is that it’s not quite as satisfying as the next entry.

1. Jameson Black Barrel Proof

ABV: 50%

Average Price: $63

The Whiskey:

This new take on the double-charred, barrel-aged whiskey above (Black Barrel) amps up the ABVs, allowing a lot more character to shine through in the actual bottle. The difference is that the barrels chosen for this expression were perfect at 100 proof instead of 80.

Tasting Notes:

That bitter char comes through on the nose with a subtle espresso bean oiliness next to almost burnt buttery toffee and a touch of walnut. The palate builds on that nuttiness to the point of a walnut cake full of Karo syrup, plenty of dark holiday spices, and a touch of vanilla pudding. The end really amps that vanilla up to the point that you’re almost chewing on vanilla tobacco while the wood comes in with a dry cigar box vibe next to ground winter spices, more nuttiness, and a hint of dry straw in an old fruit orchard.

Bottom Line:

This is the Jameson with the most character that also shines the brightest on its own, on the rocks, or in a cocktail. That flavor profile is distinct and accessible while also having real depth. The higher ABVs work wonders, with an extra kick that just works. Overall, this is a whiskey I actually keep in stock.

Josh Elkin loves eggs. It’s not his only passion — the self-taught chef and host of the Cooking Channel’s Sugar Showdown is no stranger to making all sorts of monstrous mouthwatering dishes (many of which don’t even include eggs) which he shares via Instagram and TikTok. But no single food seems to capture his imagination and inspire him quite like the humble egg. Across his social media channels and on his YouTube series, TheJoshElkin, the chef tackles various egg-based dishes with such passion that you can practically taste his creations through your phone.

This egg obsession (eggsession?) extends to Elkin’s Instagram avatar (a photo of his face covered in perfectly fried sunny-side-up eggs), his #neverskipeggday catchphrase, and being named the CCO of Incredible Egg (that’s Chief Cracking Officer). But beyond the hype, Elkin also knows eggs — probably better than any other self-made chef in the game — so who better to get our egg-cooking tips from than the Undisputed Breakfast Champ?

Whether you’re looking to build that epic egg sandwich, need a quick and easy egg snack recipe, or simply want to know how to perfectly fry your egg every single time, we asked Elkin to reveal all his secrets and give us a few recipes off the top of his head in the process. Check out the interview below and be sure to follow Josh Elkin for more cooking tips.

Walk us through how to make the perfect fried egg from technique to seasoning?

For me, a perfect fried egg is low temperature. You don’t want it to be too high because you don’t want to burn the egg, obviously. I like using salted butter as a lubricant on the frying pan. I also like using non-stick pans, although that is controversial with more traditional professional chefs.

I like using salted butter for two reasons. One, butter is always delicious, it adds another dynamic to a fried egg plus it helps fry it well. Furthermore, a lot of the time people have reservations about whether or not it’s too liquidy or whether or not it’s not liquidy enough. That’s a personal preference at that point. I like a little bit of egg yolk in my fried egg, so I go on the medium-hard side. And if you really want to cook the entire thing properly, add a little bit of water, cover it and the steam will help cook it all the way through.

I wanted to ask you about pan preference actually, because I noticed the nonstick pan in all of your videos. Why is that your preferred pan? Is it just the ease of use?

I do that because I cook so much and to fry an egg on, let’s say a cast iron pan… to make one fried egg? It’s just a lot of work for that. There’s an interesting contrast between who you ask and what kind of chef you’re asking when it comes to equipment. I don’t care. Honestly give me an aluminum sheet pan and an open flame and I’ll make whatever I need to make. I’m not specific about whether or not this is better than that.

I’m trying to move away from ‘better’ and ‘best’ and just go with personal preferences. Non-stick is just super easy. You can flip the egg. No problem. You don’t have to worry about breaking it. It’s not going to stick to the pan regardless of what you use in terms of lubricant.

What’s the secret to not overcooking your egg?

I think eggs or really anything you’re using like on the pan, I think, the biggest misconception is the heat levels. In my experience, lower heat, although it takes maybe a little bit longer, is a lot easier to control.

Off the top of your head, can you give us a great egg breakfast recipe, something that’s really going to blow our minds?

This is an easy one. The five-minute egg, which is a soft-boiled egg over toast. Straight up just regular toast is such an easy and satisfying breakfast idea. I don’t like singling eggs out just for breakfast. It’s such an important item in all food.

But the five-minute egg: you boil water, you drop an egg in for five minutes, exactly, maybe six minutes if you want the inside cooked a little bit longer. And what this does, it creates a soft-boiled egg. The difference between a soft-boiled egg and a poached egg is, that a poached egg you crack into hot water and it cooks like that. Whereas a soft-boiled egg, you’re cooking it inside the shell and it looks like a hard-boiled egg, although, the inside is not chalky, it’s very gooey.

Do that, crack it open, cut it in half, and put it over buttered toast. It’s so satisfying.

Can you run us through an omelet that’s going to rival our local greasy spoon?

Eggs are just one of those things that are revered amongst chefs everywhere. You cook an egg and you’re going to be judged on how you cook the egg, the consistency of the egg, what eggs you choose, the cooking apparatus, and the style of what it is. A diner, for example, doesn’t really care how they’re going to cook your egg. Like a lot of the time, the diner’s just making a mishmash and calling it an omelet, which I’m not mad at. I love that. But in terms of the revered french omelet style, where it’s like super, super delicate, almost creamy on the inside and slightly cooked on the outside, there’s room for both of those, you know what I mean?

I love myself a good, super soft, and yokey french omelet, but I also love myself a diner-style mishmash. And it depends, no joke, a lot of the time I split the difference between both of those, add a piece of Velveeta cheese on the inside, just to bring it down a little bit, dumb it up and add some finishing salt on top. It becomes this fancy-not fancy egg situation if that makes any sense.

I’m sorry. I don’t know if I went too off the handle there.

One part of what you do is this mouthwatering visual aspect to all the food. I think that’s really cool. I wanted to ask if you can build for us a sandwich that will blow people’s minds but still be easy to make using simple ingredients?

Yeah, totally. There are a couple that stand out right off the bat. There’s one that I call “The BEAT,” which is bacon, eggs, avocado, and tomato. Typically, I don’t like hot tomatoes, so if it’s a hot sandwich, like an egg sandwich, I don’t typically like a tomato on there, but for some reason, this BEAT sandwich works. Bacon in the oven, cheesy scrambled eggs on the inside, seasoned tomato, seasoned avocado. But what brings it all together is garlic mayonnaise. This is such a ridiculously delicious sandwich and so easy to do. There’s nothing more to it than just taking a clove of garlic and microplaning it into some mayonnaise. I know it sounds stupid, a lot of people have their things about mayonnaise, but this is amazing.

What quick and easy egg-based snack can you give us?

So there’s this Japanese frying pan that makes rolled omelets. A Makiyakinabe omelet pan. It’s a square pan. You make a specific style of egg dish in there where you lay a beaten egg and then you cook it, and then you roll it up, and then you add more egg and roll it up. And it ends up becoming this like multiply rolled egg omelet using this pan.

I saw that and I was like, “Okay, this is cool, a rolled omelet, what else can I turn into this?’ And I ended up sort of adding ingredients to the inside of this. So imagine an omelet, an egg, and then you roll it up and then another layer, and you add a layer of cheese, and then you roll it up and you add a layer of pepperoni, then you roll it up and you add a layer of sauce. And all of a sudden it becomes this Japanese pepperoni pizza omelet thing.

The other day someone captioned their Instagram post. He was making chicken and rice and his caption to the Instagram post was, “Not everything is pizza and donuts.” And my comment to that was, “Not everything is pizza and donuts, but it definitely can be pizza and donuts.”

Earlier we were talking about that kind of messy omelet style, but I wanted to ask for some simple techniques and tips to do that perfect french omelet fold.

The number one piece of advice is low heat. Like you think it’s low, go lower because the egg will kind of become this really silky consistency and hold itself together. The truth is it’s all about gravity. You might look at the Omu rice videos with that egg-shaped egg over the rice that gets cracked in half and then spills over the sides. Like it’s all about low heat, butter, or some sort of other lubricant. Really it’s all about that gravity flip, using the pan and kind of flinging it up in the air with a little bit of wrist action.

I’ve never been to culinary school. That’s part of my gimmick, but I know that in culinary school if you can’t do this, you’re not passing.

It’s a flick of the wrist, lubricant, and practice.

What’s your favorite egg cooking hack?

The spoon trick. You crack a hard-boiled or soft boiled egg, crack one end of the eggshell, fit a spoon between the shell and the egg, and just twist the shell and it pops the egg right up.

Do you have a perfect egg cracking technique?

The flat surface is always a good idea because, for some reason, I don’t know what it is, maybe the shape of the egg or whatever, but when you crack the egg on the flat surface, nine times out of ten, it’ll not only make it easier to get the egg out, but it won’t break the yolk, which is always the idea.

The number one reason why you would crack it outside the bowl is so that there are no shells that get on the inside. Have you ever had a hard time getting the shell out of a bowl of scrambled eggs? The displacement of the yolk or the egg white in your fingers, just like pushing it away every time you try and touch it.

If you use the shell, for some reason, it cuts right through the egg and it’ll pick up the shard with lots of ease.

To close out, let’s turn to fast food for a second. Who in the space is killing it right now? What do you keep returning to? I saw you recreate that Taco Bell Cheezit Tostada — amazing. What do you see out there that excites you?

I love fast food. It’s my favorite food. I don’t care what anyone says. It’s delicious every single time — consistency, can’t match it. But yeah, one of my new series is R & Delicious where basically I find obscure fast food items in a specific geographical location and then I try and recreate it here, because I don’t know if you know this, but American fast food is really, really done well, not in America.

Totally. You see McDonald’s menus from Japan and it’s like, “I want that.”

I always thought it was McDonald’s also. McDonald’s in Japan has a crazy thing or McDonald’s in Greece has a crazy thing. But after researching it and doing like a few dozen of these videos, every single country has every single style of fast food that’s different. Today I’m making Fizzy Pop Popeye’s chicken, which is basically exactly what you think it is, pop rocks on fried chicken. That’s available in Singapore, Popeye’s Singapore, not available here. In terms of who’s killing the fast food game on the state side, Taco Bell is the best at fast food innovation, it’s without a doubt. The naked chicken chalupa taco shell that they made a couple of years ago… the french fries that they have that are sometimes available are amazing.

They keep taking them off the menu! They are amazing though.

They are very good and… spoilers, Taco Bell french fries are KFC french fries with Taco Bell seasoning on it.

Is that true?

It’s a real thing. Well, it’s the same company, right? But I didn’t realize that until I went to KFC, I got the french fries. I was like, “These are strangely similar to Taco Bell.”

I think both are doing french fries great.

I agree. I mean, in terms of innovation, I think Taco Bell is the best, and is really good at that in terms of coming up with new products. But it really depends on what you consider fast food versus like fast-casual. The Five Guys and the Shake Shacks of the world versus like McDonald’s and Burger King.

But I think Taco Bell takes the cake.

Since 2015, Lil Wayne has been curating a homecoming festival of sorts with Lil WeezyAna in his homwetown of New Orleans. The last edition took place in 2019 and saw some of the 15,000 attendees getting a little too turnt up during Meek Mill’s performance at UNO Lakefront Arena. But now, Lil WeezyAna returns to the Champion’s Square venue with a stacked lineup for the one-day function on Saturday, August 27th.

Along with Lil Wayne, Lil WeezyAna will have performances from Moneybagg Yo, Coi Leray, Babyface Ray, and Rob 49. There have also been a set of “surprise guests” promised. A partnership with LiveNation Urban, the music festival also offers an opportunity for Weezy and attendees to give back to the community, with $0.50 of every ticket sold from the event being donated to support educational initiatives for young people in New Orleans.

“We’re glad to be back home! New Orleans birthed us and we can travel and hit the stage anywhere in the world, but there’s no place like home,” Young Money Records President Mack Maine said in a statement. “As always, we will be honoring the many lives lost in Hurricane Katrina as this year marks the 17-year anniversary. Wayne is excited to get back home as this one will be one you won’t want to miss!”

Tickets will be available everywhere beginning Friday, July 15th at 10 a.m. local time here. A slew of pre-sales are happening now and more details can be found at the same link.

Rudy Giuliani has once again found himself at the center of a televised January 6 hearing. This time around, the committee’s findings were focused on Donald Trump’s “elite strike force” of a legal team, which proved itself to be anything but. According to deposition testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson and others, in the lead up to the Janury 6 attack, Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Mike Flynn, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne were engaged in a heated confrontation with Trump’s White House advisors who were strongly pushing back on the “stolen election” strategy that was growing “unhinged.”

As others testified, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was “not happy” that Trump was being surrounded by conspiracy theorists that were not providing the former president with “good advice.” The situation reportedly reached a head when Cipollone asked Giuliani and the legal team to produce any sort of evidence. Via Mediaite:

“A general disregard for the importance of actually backing up what they are saying with facts,” as Cipollone described it. Herschmann added that the meeting devolved into “screaming” as he also challenged Powell.

Giuliani was also part of the Dec. 18 meeting, and in his deposition, he shared how he insulted Cipollone and Herschmann.

“I’m going to categorically describe it as ‘You guys are not tough enough.’ Or maybe I put it another way. ‘You are a bunch of pussies.’ Excuse the expression. I’m almost certain the word was used.”

The unhinged meeting wasn’t the first time that Giuliani has been accused of not having any evidence to back up his election fraud claims. During a previous January 6 committee hearing, Arizona election official Rusty Bowers testified that he met with Giuliani shortly after the 2020 presidential election. According to Bowers, he was open to letting Giuliani plead his case if he had evidence, which he claimed to have. However, when the two finally got in a room together, Giuliani and Jenna Ellis admitted that they didn’t have any proof.

“We’ve got lots of theories,” Giuliani said, which brought the meeting to an end. Bowers recalled that he and his group laughed about the whole thing because it was just that ridiculous.

(Via Mediaite)

Sometimes an actor seems so wholesome and perfect in a movie that it can be hard to imagine them being actual people with emotions who sometimes make stupid decisions. That is not the case for Chris Hemsworth, who is apparently a great person both onscreen and off. Not like his fans were surprised or anything, but Hemsworth seems to be a real gem, according to his co-stars Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson.

While discussing Thor: Love And Thunder with UK’s Capital FM, Portman and Thompson began gushing about Hemsworth, and Thompson admitted he’s still “pretty cute” even when he’s grumpy. “He does get grumpy and he does get hangry, but he’s still sweet,” she explained.

Despite being angry when he’s hungry, Hemsworth actually made a really thoughtful move when it came to one of his kissing scenes with Portman. “He’s really nice,” Portman said. “The day we had a kiss scene he didn’t eat meat that morning because I’m vegan. And he eats meat like every half hour. Like, that was so thoughtful.”

Portman went on to explain that she didn’t even ask him to limit his (very large) meat intake, he just did it. “That’s not something I’m angry about or care about, but he was just being thoughtful. He’s just a very nice person.”

Thompson added, “I didn’t even know he could go without eating meat. He’s just like eating bison in the morning. That’s so sweet.”

Sweetness aside, who eats bison in the morning?? Perhaps this man is too strong.

(Via Capital FM)

Truth be told, no one really knows what Eric Trump’s role within the Trump family dynamic is. Ivanka is clearly the favorite, while Don Jr. is the bombastic one who always seems to be trying just a little bit too hard to win his dad’s love. Both Ivanka and Don Jr. have allegedly been directly involved in many of their dear old dad’s schemes, and will even be forced to testify under oath—right alongside the former president—later this week to clear up questions surrounding “significant” fraud in The Trump Organization.

Then there’s Eric. Though he’s officially the Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, he hasn’t been called to testify alongside his senior family members. Instead, he seems to have been put on PR duty as the new public face of the family and has been showing up to interviews with anyone who wants to talk to him, where he’s dead set on explaining just how much the world loves his dad and the entire Trump family.

Of course, it’s mainly stooges like Newsmax’s Greg Kelly who are willing to book Eric as a guest at all. And Kelly got an earful of Trump propaganda on Monday night when he chatted with Eric—but not before he made an ass of himself on Twitter:

Kelly and Trump got right down to business, which meant discussing how terrible everything is under Joe Biden versus the paradisiacal world of life under Trump, who told us to drink bleach and pushed us to the brink of nuclear war. But Eric doesn’t care about any of that; he’s more concerned with how Biden “can’t ride a bike correctly” and that “he’s always doing something that makes the United States of America look crazy and not represent this country well.”

[insert record scratch]

Some of the most memorable moments from the interview came when Eric declared his father “the best president in U.S. history”—though he did allow that “maybe I’m biased in saying that.” MAYBE.

He also talked about how he gets parodied on Saturday Night Live “every single day.”

But the pièce de résistance was Eric’s retelling of a recent trip he took to Sin City:

I was on a plane last week… and I walked on and the plane literally started chanting ‘USA! USA! USA!’ Greg, the American people get it. I think there’s more love out there than ever right now. I’m hugged by people every single day saying, you know, ‘Thank God we had your father in the White House.’

USA! USA! USA!

(Via Aaron Rupar)

It took awhile, but the Star Wars prequels are now considered cool. Will Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull get the same critical re-evaluation? It hasn’t happened yet, and maybe it shouldn’t considering the film features a scene where Shia LaBeouf swings through the jungle with a bunch of CGI monkeys, but… what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, the Indiana Jones movie with the aliens.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull writer David Koepp recently appeared on the Script Apart podcast, where he discussed the decision to add extra-terrestrials to the Indy canon. “I was never happy with the idea [of the aliens]. When I came on, I tried to convince [Spielberg and co-writer George Lucas] to change it. I had this other idea. They didn’t want to change it,” he said.

Koepp, who also wrote Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man, admits that his script might not have been better. But “I think that a lot of the pushback that movie got, in a larger sense aside from little things people might not have liked, that were too silly or whatever, the larger one was that, ‘We don’t feel like aliens should’ve been in an Indiana Jones movie.’ Fair enough, in retrospect, you’re probably right,” he said.

At least the Crystal Skull aliens didn’t travel to a planet that’s 71 percent water, even though they’re vulnerable to getting wet. That would be a real boneheaded move.

Indiana Jones 5 comes out on June 30, 2023.

(Via CBR)

The Emmy nominations churned out a few pleasant surprises, including Rhea Seehorn and the Pam & Tommy gang not being snubbed, but inevitably, snubbing was bound to happen. Those omissions include The Righteous Gemstones cast and some key Stranger Things players, but arguably, there’s an even more egregious sin at work here: Midnight Mass got the shaft.

The Netflix limited series stands at the apex of Mike Flanagan’s work in the horror genre. It’s an entertaining and visually lush show, and it’s also a scathing critique of how faith can corrupt, and how a willfully blind adherence to religion can drive people toward embracing acts of cruelty. The show’s also a meditation on addiction (partially represented as vampirism), and it’s filled with powerhouse performances including Hamish Linklater as the show’s incoming priest who’s got a lot going on within those robes. Following Flanagan’s work on The Haunting Of Hill House franchise, Midnight Mass rocketed so fast up the streaming charts that Netflix greenlit a followup, but somehow, the Emmys simply does not dig atmospheric horror this year (even if What We Do In The Shadows did represent in the horror-comedy arena).

Ultimately, Flanagan still wins because his next project, The Fall of the House of Usher, will dive into Edgar Allan Poe and be based upon multiple Poe works, but people are still bummed out. If there can be a zillion (deserved) The White Lotus nominations in the Limited Series categories, why not a little Midnight Mass love? Fans are going ahead and declaring the show a winner no matter what:

You can stream Midnight Mass on Netflix, and the Emmys will air on September 4.

Nobody really knows why Alex Jones does the things he does. And the more bizarre his behavior, the more “because he’s Alex Jones” seems to be a satisfactory explanation to whatever shouty shenanigans he’s getting up to. But even the most dedicated Infowars viewers — we’re talking the kind of people who believed that JFK Jr. was going to reemerge and make Donald Trump president again — seemed confused by Jones’s recent brush with on-air self-injury.

As Mediaite reports, Jones was feeling a lot of love for his viewers and listeners on Sunday night, and somehow decided that cutting his finger off on live television would be the best way to share the fondness he was feeling…

The congratulatory diatribe took a bit of a U-turn when Jones pulled a large knife out and explained how he wanted to cut his finger off to prove his love to his viewers:

We have been given nothing but success, nothing but victory. It has been spectacular. And you, the viewers and listeners, you did this! And that’s why when I salute you — I’m not into self-harming — but I just actually want to take this dagger and just cut a finger off right on air to show you how much I appreciate you and what you’ve done. ‘Cause giving up a finger to beat these people is nothing!

You have changed the world! You have stood up against evil. You have turned the tide and I salute you. And I thank you You’ve got that from the very bottom of my heart. You’ve got my full commitment, ’cause you need to know in the universe, they’re real people. You need to know in the universe there’s people like you, who are not evil, who don’t serve Satan.

That’s why they all day say I’m an actor. All day say I’m a fake. All day say I’m a fraud with no evidence. Because they know I didn’t sell out to them.

Nor did he cut his finger off, so… you be the judge of whether he’s an actor, fake, and/or a fraud.

(Via Mediaite)

As reactions to this year’s slew of Emmy nominations come trickling in (or bombarding your Twitter timeline, depending on which internet neighborhood you are residing in), many are noticing some themes among said nominations. One is that streaming sites are dominating the award shows (for better or worse) and the other is…..that Succession got some really good guest stars for their most recent season. And most of them were nominated!

For the Oustanding Guest Actor/Actress In A Drama Series categories, the hit family drama snagged a whopping seven out of 12 nominations for its various season three guest stars. Sanaa Lathan, Hope Davis, and Harriet Walter all made the cut for Guest Actress.

Lathan starred as the high-powered lawyer Lisa Arthur in season three, a role she initially turned down due to pandemic fears. Davis played Sandy Furness’ daughter, Sandi (yup–her dad’s name with an “I”), while Dame Harriet Walter portrayed the wealthy mother to Kendall, Roman and Shiv, Lady Caroline Collingwood. All in all, a very powerful group of guest stars, who now have to compete with Marcia Gay Harden from The Morning Show, Martha Kelly from Euphoria and Lee You-mi of Squid Game.

Just in case none of those talented actresses win for their roles, the male guest stars of Succession are also putting up quite a fight: former Peaky Blinder Adrien Brody, Famous Starbucks Hater James Cromwell, Inventing Anna lawyer Arian Moayed, and The Northman himself Alexander Skarsgard are all nominated in the Guest Actor In A Drama Series category. Just imagine all of that male energy playing out at the Emmys when they air in September. If none of them win…well, Brian Cox will probably have something to say.

It’s not too late to just rename the whole thing Succession Emmys! Your move, ABC!