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Rob McElhenney Told Jimmy Kimmel About The Dangers Of Smoking With Snoop Dogg At 7:30 In The Morning

Jimmy Kimmel celebrated Cinco de Mayo in style on Wednesday night: By taking shots of tequila with his sidekick Guillermo and guest Rob McElhenney. Then by getting McElhenney to share a story about the time he got high with Snoop Dogg.

McElhenney is best known as the creator and star of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But he expanded his brand in 2020 with the premiere of Apple TV’s Mythic Quest, a series he co-created with fellow Sunny collaborators Charlie Day and Megan Ganz. When Kimmel asked McElhenney if he’s ever worked “under the influence” of alcohol or any other substance, the actor/writer confirmed that the cast of Sunny has undoubtedly been “known to partake.” But he then shared a story about a guest spot by Snoop Dogg on Mythic Quest’s second season (which premieres on Friday, May 7)… and you can probably imagine where this is going.

McElhenney was admittedly surprised that Snoop agreed to make a guest appearance on Mythic Quest—and even more surprised when he showed up early for a 7:30 a.m. call time. When Snoop requested a meeting with McElhenney shortly after his arrival on set, he assumed it had to do with the ridiculous motion capture suit that the rapper was being asked to wear. But that wasn’t it: Snoop (who was already wearing the costume) simply wanted to say hello, and ask Rob if he wanted to smoke a joint. Though it was a tad on the early side, McElhenney reasoned that “if Snoop comes to your place of business and asks you if you want to smoke a joint, you say ‘yes.’ So I said ‘yes.’” Which, in hindsight, might not have been the best idea.

Being that they were working, McElhenney made sure to be “responsible.” First, by going to Snoop’s bus to smoke, where he already had several perfectly rolled offerings. And secondly by not sharing a joint, as that would be irresponsible during the COVID pandemic. “So I smoked an entire one myself.” One has to imagine that Snoop doesn’t play around when it comes to quality, and the rest of McElhenney’s workday experience would seem to confirm that. The lesson learned here?

“It turns out if Snoop asks you to smoke at 7:30 in the morning on a workday, you say ‘no!’ Because by 7:46 I was hurtling through the atmosphere at 30,000 miles per hour directly towards Mars.”

While he was able to shoot a scene with Snoop with relative ease (it did, after all, only involve walking down a hallway and saying a few words), running the show for the rest of the day was a bit more problematic. When his assistant suggested they postpone a budget meeting that McElhenney had scheduled for lunch, he insisted on keeping it. “And apparently I had a blast, because I was just like: Sure, yeah, spend, whatever, don’t worry about it!”

You can watch the full clip—including Kimmel’s own “smoking with Snoop” story—above.

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An O.G. ‘Dexter’ Cast Member Confirms He Won’t Be Returning And Casts Doubt On Everyone Else (Including Debra?)

Will Jennifer Carpenter’s Debra really return for Showtime’s Dexter revival, as a possible set photo would suggest? An O.G. cast member may have thrown cold water all over that (quite strong) theory. Fans hoped that Debra, who obviously died at the end of the show’s eight-season run, would somehow make it back for the 10-episode limited series revival. Speculation has abounded that she will not be a zombie risen from the ocean-dead or anything but that she would be Dexter’s new Dark Passenger.

Well, the character that many viewers consider to be Dexter’s previous Dark Passenger (who dealt out murder-related advice to the title character), Harry, is definitely not returning (and he would know his status for sure, since filming recently wrapped). That isn’t too surprising, given the possibility that Debra would pinch hit in his place; however, the actor who played Harry, James Remar, is casting doubt on everyone else’s return, too. In a video that Remar apparently sent to a fan (who he mentions by name), Remar declares, “They didn’t ask any of the original cast back.” So… no one? Here’s more:

“I will not be back as Harry Morgan on Dexter Season 9. Thank you for saying that Harry is one of the best characters you’ve seen on a TV show. It’s one of the best characters I’ve ever had the chance to play. Especially season one. They didn’t ask any of the original cast back, so I don’t know what they’re doing… I really have no idea. It’s too bad because all of us wanted to go back. But, you know, it’s their show, so they’re gonna do what they wanna do.”

This seems… like a wet blanket, of course. Let’s think about what we know about the revival, though. We know that Dexter’s going to be an East Coast Guy again after leaving his temporary “lumberjack” occupation in Oregon, although he’s not going to be back in Miami. Instead, he’ll be headed to upstate New York, and that makes it totally possible for Dexter to replace Harry’s rent-free space in his conscience-hole with Debra while the rest of the O.G. cast is either dead or still in Miami. We still don’t know anything about poison-happy Hannah, though, since she ended the show in Argentina while caring for the son, Harrison, who Dexter decided to abandon.

In other words, we still know nothing concrete about Debra, and James Remar may simply be playing it safe because, yeah, the forensic evidence of striped shirts says a lot. Although I’m still holding out for Dexter’s son to return, all grown up, and face off with Dad, who’s back to serial killing and has a new job to help cover his tracks.

The Dexter revival will likely arrive in late 2021.

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The Pacers Will Suspend Assistant Coach Greg Foster And Fine Goga Bitadze For Their Midgame Blow Up

Things are not going particularly well in Nap Town right now, as rumors are swirling about the Indiana Pacers potentially making a coaching change after only one year of Nate Bjorkgren due to internal discontent about his style. Those emotions appeared to boil over on Wednesday night, when one of Bjorkgren’s assistants and a member of the roster had a public spat during a timeout.

During the third quarter of what ended up being an 11-point loss to the Sacramento Kings, Greg Foster and Goga Bitadze began jawing with one another, causing other players and coaches to step in to keep things from really getting out of hand.

It’s unclear exactly what caused the two to get after one another like this, but one day later, the franchise has handed down discipline for the incident. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Foster will receive a one-game suspension, while Bitadze is out an unspecified amount of money. Wojnarowski also noted that the pair have a good relationship despite this exchange.

The Pacers host the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night, so Foster won’t be on the bench for that one. Indiana’s place in the play-in tournament seems secure barring a total meltdown to end the year — they’re 30-35, good for ninth place in the East and 3.5 games up on the 11th-seeded Toronto Raptors — but between this and the reports about a potential coaching change, it’s not a stretch to say that things could be going better for Indiana.

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Michael B. Jordan Reveals How He ‘Bombed’ An Audition For ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

While promoting his latest film, Without Remorse, that’s currently streaming on Amazon, Michael B. Jordan opened up about what he calls his “worst audition to date.” Despite being a known quantity thanks to his work on The Wire and Friday Night Lights, Jordan had a horrible time when he managed to score an audition for an unspecified role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

According to the Creed actor, the script he was given to work with was way too vague, and as explained to Marc Malkin on the Just for Variety podcast, he couldn’t get a good read on what the filmmakers were looking for. Via Variety:

“I think it was I couldn’t wrap my brain around some of the sides because you know when you’re reading for these high-level projects, there’s never really any specificity in the sides. Everything’s like super vague; everything is in secret. Reading through, I just couldn’t connect it. I definitely bombed that one for sure.”

While Jordan missed out on the Star Wars role, he eventually ended up working for Disney and blowing away Marvel audiences with his complex portrayal of the villainous Killmonger in Black Panther. Interestingly, Tom Holland had a similar experience. The Spider-Man actor recently revealed that he also bombed an audition for The Force Awakens only to later strike it big with Marvel. According to Holland, his problem wasn’t so much the script, but that he couldn’t stop laughing at the lady making BB-8 noises.

“I just couldn’t stop laughing,” Holland told Backstage. “I found it so funny. And I felt really bad, because she was trying really hard to be a convincing android or drone or whatever they’re called. Yeah, I obviously didn’t get the part. That wasn’t my best moment.

(Via Variety)

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Beyonce Once Told Victoria Beckham The Spice Girls Inspired Her Career

Throughout the course of her storied career, Beyonce has won countless awards and encouraged generations of women to be proud of who they are. But when Beyonce was first starting out as a singer, she also had a number of powerful women to look up to — namely the Spice Girls. Apparently, Beyonce took inspiration from the UK girls group when she was coming into her own career.

Victoria Beckham, formerly known as Posh Spice, recently recounted the time she met Beyonce a few years ago. During their conversation, Beyonce told Beckham just how much the Spice Girls influenced her.

Speaking on the Dear Media podcast Breaking Beauty, Beckham recalled her interaction with Beyonce:

“I think it’s about accepting who you are, and that’s what the Spice Girls were always about. It’s okay to be different; let’s not try and change who we are, let’s celebrate who we are. Let’s celebrate the fact that we’re all different, which is why inclusivity is so important to us. When talk about Spice Girls, and I don’t talk about it much anymore, but what I remember when you were talking to me about it and how we inspired lots of young women. I met Beyonce a few years ago, and she actually said to me, ‘It was the Spice Girls that inspired me and made me want to do what I do and made me proud to be a girl and proud to be who I am. And when someone like Beyonce, who is so iconic and was such a strong woman, says that she was inspired by the Spice Girls, I think that’s quite something.”

Listen to Beckham talk about Beyonce on the Breaking Beauty podcast above, at around the 16-minute mark.

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Here Are The ‘Best In Class’ Bourbons From The 2021 World Spirits Competition

There are a lot of bourbons out there. It may not always seem like that, since a few big brands tend to take up so much of the bourbon conversation. But trust us, there’s so much goddamn bourbon being shipped right now that it can be dizzying to think about. Certainly to cover.

Case in point, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition just released their 2021 winners and bourbon whiskeys alone received 96 Double Gold medals (across multiple categories). What does that mean exactly? Well, the SFWSC holds three rounds of judging. The first round is a blind tasting of flights with the 1,297 whisk(e)ys that made it to their tasting tables. Next, the best of those drams are judged again to decide where they fall in the medal categories (bronze, silver, gold, double gold, and the ultra-rare platinum). If a dram receives a unanimous “gold” medal from every judge on the panel, it gets the much-sought after “Double Gold Medal.”

Then, there’s one more round of judging to decide which whiskeys are the Best in Class from all the double gold winners. A sort of “best of the best (of the best)” designation. It’s… a lot.

Below, we’re listing the seven Best in Class bourbons and breaking them down with our tasting notes (if we’ve been lucky enough to taste them) or the distillery’s tasting notes (if we haven’t). Click on the prices if you want to give them a try yourself. We’ve also sifted through all the Double Gold medal winners and listed all 96 Double Gold winning bourbons, in case you’re curious what the world of expert-approved bourbon looks like in 2021.

Best Straight Bourbon — 1792 BOTTLED-IN-BOND

Sazerac Company

ABV: 50%

Average Price: $36

The Whiskey:

Hailing from the legendary Barton 1792 Distillery, 1792 Bottled-in-Bond tends to rake in the awards. The whiskey in the bottle is a high-rye bourbon, though Sazerac and Barton don’t publish their mash bills. The yearly release is a blend of bonded bourbons that are meant to be affordable, sippable, and mixable.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a cinnamon and nutmeg forward apple compote on the nose, with a hint of wet oak and maybe a little bit of mint. The spices marry to a rush a vanilla and caramel apple sweetness and smoothness as the feel of the dram remains very mellow. The end is short-ish and full of that spice and caramel apple, leaving you with a touch of vanilla.

Bottom Line:

This is a perfectly good sipper with a few rocks. But we’d argue, that this really shines as a great cocktail base, thanks to that 50 percent ABV. Give it a shot in your next mint julep, Sazerac, or Horse’s Neck.

Best Special Barrel-Finished Bourbon — BARDSTOWN BOURBON COMPANY CHATEAU DE LAUBADE ARMAGNAC FINISH

Bardstown Bourbon Company

ABV: 59.2%

Average Price: $1,199.99 ($130 MSRP)

The Whiskey:

This one-off limited edition release from Bardstown is another shining example of how a great blender can make sourced whiskey shine. 12-year-old Indiana bourbon (MGP) is vatted and filled into Armagnac casks for a final 18-month maturation before getting bottled at cask strength.

Tasting Notes (from the blender):

A rich palate of apricot with honey, espresso, and cinnamon. A sublime, balanced finish quickly becomes the star of this transatlantic partnership.

Bottom Line:

We don’t want to jinx it, but Bardstown can pretty much do no wrong. Their collabs and special finishing are among the best of the best and continually wow our team whenever we get our hands on a bottle.

Best Small Batch Bourbon, Up To 5 Years — BARRELL CRAFT SPIRITS PRIVATE RELEASE BA1C

Barrell Craft Spirits

ABV: 57.33%

Average Price: $100

The Whiskey:

Barrell Craft Spirits is another blender that consistently delivers some of the best finished sourced whiskey in the game. Their Private Release program is all about taking things down to the smallest details while they blend barrels from Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee — it’s like a long journey writ large in multiple bottles of bourbon. This release is comprised of 45 percent five-year, 25 percent ten-year, 25 percent 14-year, and five percent 16-year bourbons.

Tasting Notes (from the blender):

“It shows a fresh corn-forward sweetness.”

Bottom Line:

We know. “It shows a fresh corn-forward sweetness” is not a lot to go on. Still, we’re talking about a bourbon recipe that’s only going to be made and released once and never seen again. That alone is worth giving a shot. Add in that this rose to the top of the top at San Francisco and you have a whiskey worth tracking down.

Best Small Batch Bourbon, 6 To 10 Years — PARKER’S HERITAGE COLLECTION 10 YEAR OLD HEAVY CHAR BARRELS

Heaven Hill

ABV: 60%

Average Price: $150 ($120 MSRP)

The Whiskey:

Heaven Hill’s Parker’s Heritage Collection is pretty tough to track down but is always worth the effort. The key to this expression is that “heavy char,” wherein the barrels are charred with fire for a full 90 seconds, compared to the usual 40 seconds most barrels get. The rye-forward bourbon is then allowed to rest in those barrels for ten long years in a specific location in a specific warehouse. Finally, the best 102 barrels are married and bottled as is.

Tasting Notes (from the distiller):

Nose: Balanced and fruit-forward. Taste: Smooth, rich marmalade. Sweet but not cloying. Finish: Very long and warm. Cloves and cinnamon linger.

Bottom Line:

Heaven Hill releases a totally unique Parker’s Heritage every year. Two years ago, they released a high-rye bourbon finished in orange Curaçao barrels that was one of the best drams of 2018. It’s hard to imagine that this expression doesn’t live up to that.

Best Small Batch Bourbon, 11 Years & Older — BLUE RUN 14 YEAR OLD

Blue Run Spirits

ABV: 56.5%

Average Price: Available June 2021

The Whiskey:

This is going to be one of the most sought-after whiskeys of 2021. Legendary distiller Jim Rutledge (former Master Distiller of Four Roses) is behind the sourcing of these barrels and the current distilling of Blue Run.

Tasting Notes (from the blender):

There are no tasting notes for the 14-year expression yet. But this is what the 13-year tasted like and that will at least give you a clue about where this is going.

Nose: Vanilla on a sultry summer evening with the mildest hint of tarragon. Taste: A velvety romance between brown sugar and brown butter. Finish: Long and smooth, with apricot and golden raisins.

Bottom Line:

The 13-year expression of Blue Run sold out in days when it dropped last year. Now with this high praise on top of that, you might have to stand on line to get a bottle of this when it drops. And even then, you might still go home empty-handed.

Best Single Barrel Bourbon, Up To 10 Years — HENRY MCKENNA SINGLE BARREL BOTTLED-IN-BOND 10 YEAR OLD

Heaven Hill

ABV: 50%

Average Price: $60 ($50 MSRP)

The Whiskey:

Back at Heaven Hill, Henry McKenna Single Barrel Bottled-in-Bond continues its winning streak. The ten-year-old bourbon is a real crowd-pleaser that offers serious depth, which makes it great for both sipping and mixing.

Tasting Notes:

This is classic bourbon from the jump with rich and almost creamy vanilla pudding spiked with eggnog spices next to a salted caramel carnival apple. The palate mellows the sweetness towards cinnamon-spiced honey with hints of soft cedar, apple tobacco, and smooth vanilla. The end is long and really holds onto the honeyed sweetness while touching on the warmth of the eggnog spiciness.

Bottom Line:

You really cannot beat the price of this. It’s a single-barrel bourbon that’s also ten years old and bottled-in-bond. Those are all good things. This really does shine brightest as a cocktail base though. Drop some of this bourbon into your next Manhattan or boulevardier!

Best Single Barrel Bourbon, 11 Years & Older — BLUE RUN 13.5 SINGLE BARREL CASK STRENGTH

Blue Run Spirits

ABV: 65%

Average Price: $170

The Whiskey:

If you didn’t believe us above about what a legend Jim Rutledge is, then his whiskey showing up twice as Best in Class at San Francisco should change that. This 13.5-year-old expression just dropped this month. So, there’s not a whole lot to say right now besides we can’t wait to give it a shot.

Tasting Notes (from the blender):

Again, we’re pulling tasting notes from Blue Run’s 13-year expression to give you a general idea of what to expect from this one.

Nose: Vanilla on a sultry summer evening with the mildest hint of tarragon. Taste: A velvety romance between brown sugar and brown butter. Finish: Long and smooth, with apricot and golden raisins.

Bottom Line:

This is a marrying of barrels pulled together by one of the most lauded and respected whiskey makers, well, ever. Enough said.

All SFWSC Double Gold Bourbon Winners (with ABVs and MSRPs):

Double Gold Straight Bourbons:

  • BARDSTOWN BOURBON COMPANY DISCOVERY SERIES #3, ABV: 55% Price: $125
  • BARDSTOWN BOURBON COMPANY DISCOVERY SERIES #4, ABV: 57.5% Price: $125
  • CLYDE MAY’S SPECIAL RESERVE BOURBON, ABV: 55% Price: $60
  • HEAVEN’S DOOR LTO BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $100
  • NINE BANDED WHISKEY WHEATED BOURBON CASK STRENGTH, ABV: 57.5% Price: $45
  • SONOMA BROTHERS DISTILLING STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 44.2% Price: $65
  • MYTHOLOGY DISTILLERY BEST FRIEND BOURBON, ABV: 44% Price: $52
  • STILL AUSTIN THE MUSICIAN STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 49.2% Price: $45
  • JAMES E. PEPPER 1776 STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 50% Price: $35
  • SMOKE WAGON SMALL BATCH STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $50
  • SMOKE WAGON UNCUT UNFILTERED BATCH #42 BOURBON, ABV: 57.44% Price: $68
  • WOODFORD RESERVE BATCH PROOF STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 64.15% Price: $130
  • THREE CHORD TWELVE BAR RESERVE STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 53.5% Price: $75
  • BOWER HILL BARREL STRENGTH VERY SMALL BATCH BOURBON, ABV: 59.4% Price: $100
  • BLUE NOTE PREMIUM SMALL BATCH, ABV: 46.5% Price: $50
  • BULLEIT 10 YEAR OLD KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 45.6% Price: $40
  • BESPOKEN SPIRITS STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 47% Price: $40
  • EVAN WILLIAMS BOTTLED-IN-BOND BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $18
  • ELIJAH CRAIG SMALL BATCH, ABV: 47% Price: $32
  • REDEMPTION BARREL PROOF HIGH RYE BOURBON, ABV: 57% Price: $100
  • MAKER’S MARK KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY, ABV: 45% Price: $27
  • MILAM & GREENE TRIPLE CASK BOURBON, ABV: 47% Price: $45
  • YAPPY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY, ABV: 40% Price: $40
  • EAGLE RARE 17 YEAR OLD KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50.5% Price: $100
  • COLONEL E.H. TAYLOR, JR. BARREL PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON. ABV: 65.15% Price: $70
  • GEORGE T. STAGG KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 65.2% Price: $100
  • STAGG JR. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 65.5% Price: $50
  • W. L. WELLER FULL PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 57% Price: $50
  • W. L. WELLER KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 67.2% Price: $100
  • MISCELLANEOUS DISTILLERY BRILL’S BATCH STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 44%
  • NINE BANDED WHISKEY WHEATED BOURBON CASK STRENGTH, ABV: 57.5% Price: $45
  • EARLY TIMES BOTTLED-IN-BOND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $25
  • MARKSMAN KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 40% Price: $25
  • DAVID NICHOLSON 1843 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 50% Price: $30

Double Gold Special Barrel-Finished Bourbons:

  • JOS. A. MAGNUS & CO. CIGAR BLEND BOURBON, ABV: 61.2% Price: $179
  • CLEVELAND UNDERGROUND BOURBON WHISKEY FINISHED WITH BLACK CHERRY WOOD, ABV: 47% Price: $40
  • BARDSTOWN BOURBON COMPANY PHIFER-PAVITT RESERVE, ABV: 50% Price: $130
  • TX FINISHED IN PX SHERRY CASKS TEXAS STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50.8% Price: $64
  • TX FINISHED IN TAWNY PORT CASKS TEXAS STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50.8% Price: $64
  • WHISKEY ACRES BOURBON WHISKEY FINISHED IN MAPLE SYRUP CASKS, ABV: 59.7% Price: $90
  • 28 MILE DEBONAIR BOURBON FINISHED IN COGNAC & SHERRY CASKS, ABV: 46% Price: $35
  • HILLROCK ESTATE DISTILLERY SOLERA AGED BOURBON ‘HOMER CASK’, ABV: 55.7% Price: $130
  • JOS. A. MAGNUS & CO. BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $92
  • RESERVOIR HOLLAND’S BLADE RUMMER BOURBON (ARDENT STOUT RUM BARREL), ABV: 53.5% Price: $125
  • GOLD BAR RICKHOUSE CASK STRENGTH STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 51.5% Price: $35
  • GOLD BAR BLACK DOUBLE CASK STRAIGHT BOURBON FINISHED IN WINE CASKS, ABV: 46% Price: $55

Double Gold Small Batch Bourbons, Up to 5 Years:

  • STEINMETZ SIPPING BOURBON, ABV: 60% Price: $70
  • STEINMETZ SIPPING BOURBON, ABV: 60% Price: $70
  • BOLDT STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50.5% Price: $60
  • COAL CREEK DISTILLERY BOURBON, ABV: 40% Price: $35
  • KO DISTILLING DISTILLER’S RESERVE BOTTLED-IN-BOND STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $70
  • BARRELL BATCH 025, ABV: 56.7% Price: $90
  • BARRELL BATCH 027, ABV: 57.85% Price: $90
  • THREE KEYS KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50.5% Price: $49
  • WHISKEY ACRES BOTTLED IN BOND BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $50
  • SMOKE WAGON STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 46.25% Price: $30
  • YELLOW ROSE OUTLAW BOURBON, ABV: 46% Price: $55
  • EASTERN KILLE DISTILLERY BARREL STRENGTH MICHIGAN STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 63.4% Price: $45
  • SWILLED DOG BARREL STRENGTH STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 58.5% Price: $50
  • NEW RIFF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY “WINTER WHISKEY” BOTTLED-IN-BOND, ABV: 50% Price: $50

Double Gold Small Batch Bourbons, 6 to 10 Years:

  • GARRISON BROTHERS LAGUNA MADRE, ABV: 50.5% Price: $300
  • COPPERCRAFT STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 48.5% Price: $50
  • BARRELL BATCH 024, ABV: 56.95% Price: $90
  • BARRELL BATCH 026, ABV: 56.32% Price: $90
  • ALL NATIONS 6 YEAR STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 58% Price: $70
  • HORSE SOLDIER BARREL STRENGTH BOURBON, ABV: 61% Price: $79
  • RUSSELL’S RESERVE 10 YEAR OLD BOURBON, ABV: 45% Price: $40
  • 1792 SMALL BATCH KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 46.8% Price: $30

Double Gold Small Batch Bourbon, 11 Years and Older:

  • WILLIAM HEAVEN HILL 8TH EDITION BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $180

Double Gold Single Barrel Bourbons, Up to 10 Years:

  • 291 COLORADO BOURBON WHISKEY FINISHED WITH ASPEN WOOD STAVES, BARREL PROOF SINGLE BARREL, ABV: 66.5% Price: $100
  • WOODINVILLE WHISKEY COMPANY PRIVATE SELECT SINGLE BARREL BERN’S STEAK HOUSE BARREL #1953, ABV: 61.6% Price: $70
  • DAVIDSON RESERVE TENNESSEE STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY #14-0326, ABV: 58.29% Price: $50
  • DAVIDSON RESERVE TENNESSEE STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY #15-0120, ABV: 57.58% Price: $50
  • DRIFTLESS GLEN DISTILLERY SINGLE BARREL BOURBON WHISKEY, ABV: 48% Price: $65
  • KING’S FAMILY DISTILLERY TENNESSEE BOURBON, ABV: 57.5% Price: $75
  • DOC WHISKEY CASK STRENGTH SINGLE BARREL BOURBON, ABV: 57% Price: $22
  • BLUE NOTE SINGLE BARREL RESERVE BOURBON, ABV: 61% Price: $60
  • EVAN WILLIAMS SINGLE BARREL 2013, ABV: 43.3% Price: $30
  • COLONEL E.H. TAYLOR, JR. SINGLE BARREL KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $60
  • ELMER T. LEE SINGLE BARREL KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 45% Price: $40
  • JOHN J. BOWMAN SINGLE BARREL VIRGINIA STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 50% Price: $50
  • W. L. WELLER SINGLE BARREL KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON, ABV: 48.5% Price: $50
  • FREY RANCH SINGLE BARREL #22 BOURBON, ABV: 63.19% Price: $85
  • FREY RANCH SINGLE BARREL BOURBON #420, ABV: 61.94% Price: $85
  • FILIBUSTER SINGLE ESTATE BOURBON, ABV: 45% Price: $50
  • ROCK TOWN SINGLE BARREL ARKANSAS BOURBON, ABV: 58.01% Price: $65

Double Gold Single Barrel Bourbons, 11 Years and Older:

  • ELIJAH CRAIG SINGLE BARREL 18, ABV: 45% Price: $150
  • LUCKY 7 THE PROPRIETOR BOURBON, ABV: 56.6% Price: $129

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Sharon Van Etten, Perfume Genius, And Moses Sumney All Feature On Jagjaguwar’s New Covers Album

For 25 years now, Jagjaguwar has been a defining force in indie music thanks to the number of beloved artists who have found a label home with them. They’re spending the year celebrating with a number of special releases, and today they’ve announced the latest one: This Is A Mindfulness Drill, a reimagining of the 1998 Richard Youngs album Sapphie. The project (which is set for release on June 25) is led by the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and they’ve also gotten assists from Moses Sumney, Sharon Van Etten, and Perfume Genius.

The project opens with the Sumney-featuring “Soon It Will Be Fire,” which has been shared today. The nine-minute recording is carried by meditative guitar and Sumney’s vocals, all of which are complemented by warm horns.

The label describes the three-song project, “In this new take on a definitive moment of the Jagjaguwar catalog, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble transforms Youngs’ intimate compositions, originally recorded with just classical guitar and voice, expanding the instrumentation to include affecting and intuitive arrangements of horns and more. Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius and Sharon Van Etten pay homage to Youngs’ plaintive vocal performances, delivering remarkable, reinterpreted renditions to each of Sapphie’s three torch songs.”

Listen to “Soon It Will Be Fire” above and check out the This Is A Mindfulness Drill art and tracklist below.

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1. “Soon It Will Be Fire” Feat. Moses Sumney
2. “A Fullness Of Light In Your Soul” Feat. Perfume Genius
3. “The Graze Of Days” Feat. Sharon Van Etten

This Is A Mindfulness Drill is out 6/25 via Jagjaguwar. Pre-order it here.

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Billie Eilish’s Revealing ‘Vogue’ Cover Shoot Broke An Impressive Instagram Record

Last month, Billie Eilish effectively broke the internet when she revealed she had traded in her signature neon-green-and-black hairdo for a platinum blonde look. The change up made headlines, signaled the impending release of new music, and broke the record for the fastest Instagram post to reach one million likes. Now, just a few weeks later, Eilish has once again broken her own record.

Earlier this week, Eilish shared pictures from her Vogue cover shoot. The singer is notorious for wearing baggy and oversized clothing to shield the public from judging her body. But with her new photo shoot, the singer donned revealing pinup-style lingerie. “i love these pictures and i loved doing this shoot,” she wrote alongside a post. “do whatever you want whenever you want. f*ck everything else.”

One picture in particular grabbed the attention of her fans. It depicts her wearing a curve-defining Burberry corset underneath an elegant trench coat. Her tattoo, which she previously said she would keep hidden, can be seen peeking out from under her clothing. According to NME, it was liked one million times in just under six minutes, therefore surpassing the previous record set by her blonde hair reveal.

The trench coat photo currently sits at about 21.3 million likes at the time of writing, which means it’s the fourth most-liked Instagram post of all time. Thanks to her showstopping new photos, the singer now has seven of the 20 most-liked Instagram posts ever, beating out Kylie Jenner, who holds four of the most-liked photos. Those seven Eilish posts comprise the seven most-liked posts of 2021 as well.

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Drake Is Delivering Free Candles To His Fellow Canadians Via Uber Eats And Postmates

It’s been a few months since Drake announced the release of his own line of scented candles for the holidays and with Mother’s Day coming up, it looks like he’s decided to give folks another chance to pick some up. He’s also sweetening the deal, so to speak, by offering his fellow Canadians the chance to get the candles for free when they order from their favo(u)rite restaurants on Uber Eats and Postmates.

The candle brand, Better World Fragrance House, sent a limited number of candles to a curated list of Toronto and Vancouver restaurants, and from May 7 to 9, customers who order $50 or more worth of food can get a free candle as long as supplies last. Drake also shared a teaser of the brand’s “first scent series” which also releases on May 9.

The candles initially launched in five scents: Carby Musk, Good Thoughts, Muskoka, Sweeter Tings, and Williamsburg Sleepover, all inspired by Drake’s day-to-day activities, with Carby Musk allegedly smelling like Drake himself. The candles sold out on Revolve relatively quickly, and the star also sent several to his friends, including members of the Toronto Raptors.

Meanwhile, this offer isn’t the first time delivery services have teamed up with rappers. Uber Eats previously offered Migos-themed meals from Popeyes, while Postmates became the home of Wiz Khalifa’s delivery-only restaurant HotBox By Wiz last year. Even DoorDash got in some hip-hop love, albeit indirectly; Providence, Rhode Island rapper Brendan Rush went viral earlier this week when a driver included his Spotify info with deliveries and a fan tweeted about it.

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No Pressure Or Anything, But You Would Probably Like ‘Mythic Quest’

This is not going to be a hard sell. It’s not going to be one of those all-caps shouty things where someone begs you to watch a show they like. There will be no overt peer pressure involved, no coercion, no screaming into the void. There are too many television shows for that and, frankly, we’ve all been through too much over the past year-and-change for me to sit here and harangue you about what you are or are not watching. All this is, all I’m doing, is making a suggestion. One based on years of reading things all of you have stated about other shows and things you’ve said you like and want. This is a friendly exercise. Here we go: I think you would probably like Mythic Quest.

I’ve written about Mythic Quest before, a few times, actually. The simple reason for that is that I like it very much. And I’m not even a big video game person, which was my original stumbling block with it, because the show is set in a video game studio. But as I started watching it, I noticed familiar beats left and right. Mythic Quest is not so much “a video game show” as it is “a workplace comedy set in a video game studio.” Objecting to it on that basis would be like objecting to The Office because you’re not super into the paper-selling business. Which, conveniently, brings me to my next point.

You liked The Office, right? Well, Mythic Quest has some Office-y elements to it. The studio is led by a self-important bozo played by Rob McElhenney, kind of a cross between Michael Scott and Mac from It’s Always Sunny. There is a will-they, won’t-they romance between two characters that builds over a season. There are emotionally impotent sadsacks and power-crazed sociopaths and lots of versions of other characters you might recognize in their broader outlines. Danny Pudi from Community shows up as the soulless marketing/money man for the studio and he is just delightfully evil. Remember him? Remember Community? You loved that show.

You know what other show you liked? Ted Lasso. Lord in heaven, did you ever like Ted Lasso. With good reason, too. Ted Lasso was a blast, a breath of refreshing calm in a sea of chaos. It was a funny show about a sweet man diving into British anarchy and creating some semblance of order, like if Paddington wore track pants and had a powerful mustache. Mythic Quest is not exactly like that. It is meaner and sharper-edged in spots. But it is, at its heart, a sweet show about people who like each other and want to build something cool together, like Ted Lasso. This was never more true than in the show’s quarantine special. That sucker was as funny and moving and cathartic as any half-hour episode of television you’ll ever see. But we’ve been over that. Let’s keep going.

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Regarding the Rob McElhenney of it all: You like It’s Always Sunny, right? Man, I hope you do. What a terrific show that is and has been for a period of time somehow zeroing in on 20 years now. Well, Mythic Quest is the brainchild of most of that team, with McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz getting the Created By credits. And like Sunny, it too dances across a slew of lines: it’s sweet and foul, funny and mean, heartfelt and heartless. It’s a highwire act that can trip up a lot of lesser shows run by lesser acrobats. But this is some Cirque du Soleil stuff over here. It’s the rare show that can go from “gamer trolls digging swastikas into the battlefield” to “heavy discussions about biological and found families.” That’s not nothing.

It also has secret weapons. One of the secret weapons is BLAMMO SURPRISE JAKE JOHNSON AND CRISTIN MILIOTI. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I know I said no all-caps. But I say a lot of things. And how could I not all-caps that? You love Jake Johnson, he of “Nick Miller, clown prince of New Girl” fame. And you love Cristin Milioti, too, for a lot of reasons but especially for Palm Springs, an extremely good movie. The two of them pop up out of nowhere for a standalone episode in the first season that will knock your socks off. This paragraph kind of ruins that surprise. But I already said I was sorry once a few sentences ago. Let’s just apply that to this, too.

And Mythic Quest has a second secret weapon, too, or at least one that was secret to me before I started watching: Charlotte Nicdao, who plays Poppy, the game’s lead developer and a ball of ambitious anxiety. She is freaking incredible. She hits all these little mannerisms and flourishes that are not in the already-good scripts and carries huge chunks of episodes. You would like her and her character a lot, I think. And I would like it if she gets to be a big star because of it. And then we would both like watching her, say, collect an Emmy or two. She deserves this, but so do we.

I bring all of this up now for two primary reasons: One, because the second season premieres this weekend on Apple TV, a streaming service you probably already have (just go where you went to watch Ted Lasso and click around a bit); two, because the second season is so good. It is really so good. It takes the stuff that was already good in the first season and builds on it. It takes the stuff that had room to grow and lets it branch out. Mythic Quest is legitimately one of my favorite television shows right now and, while I would like you to watch it both to validate my opinion and to ensure that Apple keeps funneling money into it, I would mostly like you to watch it because, again, I really think you will like it.

So watch Mythic Quest for me, if that gets you to watch it, and I do appreciate it if this is your reason for giving the show a shot. But more importantly, if I know you like I think I do, you should watch Mythic Quest for you.

Season two of ‘Mythic Quest’ begins streaming on Friday, May 7th via Apple TV+.