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Drinking a good cocktail is easy. We’d argue that making a good cocktail should be easy too. And yet… have you ever stared at a cocktail menu and thought, “what the hell is all this?” Yeah, us too.

It’s okay if you don’t know the difference between Martini and a martini (one’s a vermouth brand while the other is a cocktail made from gin or vodka). It’s also okay if you don’t know that you need to muddle the cherry and orange peel in an old fashioned no. 2 and not an in an old fashioned no. 1. And no one needs to memorize a ten-ingredient tiki drink unless, maybe, you work at a rum bar. (Insider secret: even the best bartenders use recipe books for the rare and harder cocktails while mixing.)

There’s a lot to know, is what we’re saying. And no one can know it all.

To help you on your cocktail journey, we’ve compiled a list of six easy cocktails to try at home. You don’t need any Hamilton Beach countertop mixers. You don’t even need much specialty equipment, besides a cocktail shaker. Even then, you can use an old Bell Jar with a lid in a pinch. You can spend a little cash on a crystal mixing jug, or you can just use an old pint glass.

Ease is the key today. Drinking (and mixing as a hobby) should be fun.

Two quick things before we dive in:

1. Pre-chill your glasses. If you can, keep some in your freezer (at least) overnight. This gives your cocktail a longer shelf life once it’s poured and adds that little something extra.
2. Use deeply frozen ice. Set your freezer as low as it can go. Pop ice cubes out of the trays, bag them up, and store the bag close to the back. If you have one, store your bagged ice in a chest freezer. The colder your ice, the better your cocktail is going to be.

Dry Gin Martini

The Drink:

This is the one cocktail everyone should be able to make. A dry gin martini is simple yet overflowing with subtle nuance. This is the sort of drink that you need to stir up a couple of times to get exactly right.

Once you hit a stride, you’ll be whipping these drinks up non-stop.

Supplies:

• Cocktail glass or Nick And Nora glass
• Fruit peeler or cocktail stick
• Barspoon
• Jigger
• Mixing jug
• Strainer

Ingredients:

• 2.5-oz. dry gin
• 0.5-oz. dry vermouth
• Ice
• Lemon peel or green olives

Method:

• Add gin and vermouth to a mixing jug.
• Top with ice.
• Stir until the outside of the mixing jug is ice-cold to touch.
• Strain the drink into a pre-chilled glass.
• Garnish: Either spritz lemon oils over the drink and drop in the peel or spear a couple of olives and drop them in the glass.
• Serve.

Variations:

There are almost endless variations on this drink. You can shift the amount of vermouth to the point of 1:1 gin:vermouth or to 10:1 gin:vermouth — at that point you’re basically just washing the cocktail glass out with the splash of vermouth and then dumping it out.

You can also use vodka instead of gin. Or add cocktail onions as a garnish to make a Gibson. And if you insist, you can shake it instead of stir it, but only if you’re dealing with a vodka base.

Play around and find the martini that speaks to you.

Manhattan

The Drink:

If you can make a dry martini, you can make this classic. It’s the exact same concept only with whiskey in place of gin, sweet vermouth in place of dry vermouth, and a dash of bitters to give it a little more color.

Supplies:

• Cocktail glass or Nick and Nora glass
• Fruit peeler
• Cocktail stick
• Barspoon
• Jigger
• Mixing jug
• Strainer

Ingredients:

• 2-oz. rye whiskey
• 1-oz. sweet vermouth
• 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Ice
• Orange peel
• Luxardo cherry

Method:

• Add the bitters, whiskey, and vermouth to a mixing jug.
• Top with ice.
• Stir until the outside of the mixing jug is ice-cold to touch.
• Strain the drink into a pre-chilled glass.
• Spritz the drink with the orange oils from the orange peel and discard.
• Spear one cherry (two if you must but not more than that) and drop it into the glass.
• Serve.

Variations:

The easiest change up with a Manhattan is to switch out the bourbon or rye for a smoky single malt from Scotland, creating a Rob Roy. You can also change this up by making it a black Manhattan (with Amaro Averna), dry Manhattan (with dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth), or perfect Manhattan (with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth).

Moreover, brandy and dark rum make for excellent bases that marry well to sweet vermouth and bitters. If you’re using a dark rum, add in a measure of Curaçao to make an El Presidente.

Daiquiri

The Drink:

This Cuban masterpiece is one of the most satisfying and thirst-quenching cocktails on the list. The seemingly simple emulsification of light rum, fresh lime, and sugar exemplify Cubano cocktail culture. And while this feels like a very “summery” drink, don’t sleep on shaking one up in the dead of winter to remind you of summer (and get some vitamin C into your system).

Supplies:

• Cocktail glass or Nick and Nora glass
• Knife
• Barspoon
• Jigger
• Cocktail shaker
• Handheld citrus press
• Strainer

Ingredients:

• 1.5-oz. white rum
• 0.75-oz. fresh lime juice (usually one lime depending on size)
• 0.75-oz. simple syrup
• Ice
• Lime Peel

Method:

• Add the rum and fresh lime juice to a cocktail shaker.
• Top up with ice.
• Affix the lid to the shaker very tightly and shake until the outside of the shaker is ice-cold to touch.
• Strain the drink into a pre-chilled glass.
• Spritz lime oils onto the top of the drink and drop in the peel.
• Serve.

Variations:

The Papa Doble — or Hemingway Daiquiri — is probably the most iconic variable. But we all know the “frozen” version of the daiquiri is the most popular. Still, you’ll need that Hamilton Beach mixer if you want to tackle those.

Whiskey Sour

The Drink:

This is a classic drink that takes things up a notch. You do need a little more shaking skill, since you’re dealing with raw egg white. But in the end, this is only one more step than the daiquiri. And when you nail this frothy textural treat of a cocktail, you’ll really have taken a step up the mixing ladder.

Supplies:

• Rocks glass
• Knife
• Barspoon
• Jigger
• Cocktail shaker
• Handheld citrus press
• Strainer

Ingredients:

• 1.5-oz. bourbon or Irish whiskey
• 0.75-oz. fresh lemon juice (around a half of a lemon depending on size)
• 0.75-oz. simple syrup
• 1 egg white
• Ice
• Luxardo cherry

Method:

• Add the whiskey, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white to a cocktail shaker.
• Affix the lid tightly (without ice) and shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds to emulsify.
• Open the shaker and top up with ice.
• Re-affix the lid tightly and shake until the shaker is ice-cold to touch.
• Strain the drink into a pre-chilled glass.
• Spear a cherry and balance on the lip of the glass.
• Serve.

Variations:

This is another cocktail that has plug-and-play adaptability. I really dig making Islay sours with lime instead of lemon and a nice dose of smoky whisky. Switch up the citrus for orange juice and the base spirit for a dark rum or even Amaretto. It’s sometimes nice with a viscous port wine float on top.

And yes, you can drop out the egg white. But, that’ll completely change the texture of this drink. Once you master the egg white version, you’ll never go back to the non-egg white variation.

Champagne Cocktail

The Drink:

Okay, this is technically the easiest cocktail on this list. You really aren’t “mixing” anything with this one. There’s no stirring, no shaking, no measuring. Yet, if you have a nice and dry Champagne (think Bollinger or Roederer), this cocktail can really take it to the next level by basically amping it up with a touch of bitters and sugar.

Supplies:

• Champagne flute
• Barspoon
• Fruit Peeler

Ingredients:

• Champagne
• 1 white sugar cube
• 4 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Lemon peel

Method:

• Balance the sugar cube in the bowl of a barspoon and hit it with four dashes of bitters.
• Let the cube soak in the bitters for about 20 to 30 seconds.
• Drop the sugar cube into the bottom of a pre-chilled Champagne flute.
• Top with ice-cold Champagne.
• Spritz the oils from the lemon peel over the drink and drop in the peel.
• Serve.

Variations:

There’s some debate about whether adding an ounce of brandy or Cognac to this is the real “classic” version. Whatever the history of the drink might be, you can definitely add an ounce of good brandy to the flute before you pour in the Champagne. You can also switch up the sugar cube to a bar spoon of, say, grenadine, which — when paired with a nice brandy — really amps this drink up.

That all leads to the delightful Prince of Wales. This variation has the brandy or whiskey addition to the sugar and bitters with an additional pour of Bénédictine liqueur and pineapple, orange, and/or lemon garnishes.

Negroni

The Drink:

Anyone can make a Negroni. If you can pour booze into a glass, you can make one (just like the cocktail above). The brilliance of this drink is that, yes, you can spiff it up by stirring it in a mixing jug and spritzing orange and lemon oils everywhere. But … you don’t have to.

You’ll find that at nearly every cafe and bar across Italy this drink will be built in the glass with no fanfare whatsoever. And that’s just fine.

Supplies:

• Rocks glass
• Knife
• Barspoon
• Jigger

Ingredients:

• 1-oz. Campari
• 1-oz. sweet vermouth
• 1-oz. dry gin
• Ice
• Orange wedge

Method:

• Fill a rocks glass with ice.
• Add gin, vermouth, and Campari.
• Stir a few times.
• Add orange wedge.
• Serve.

Variations:

The easiest variations to play with are the boulevardier (bourbon instead of gin), sbagliato (prosecco instead of gin), Americano (fizzy water instead of gin), and negroski (vodka instead of gin). Then, of course, there’s the Campari spritz which marries Campari to equal parts fizzy water and prosecco.

Finally, there are variations in what you can do with the Campari. I’ve seen Campari bottles with big rosemary sprigs in the bottle to add a savory, almost earthy, body to the base of the drink. A friend of mine has been infusing her Campari with fresh habanero chilis to make spicy mezcal negronis and they rule.

The point is with this cocktail — and all of the cocktails above — is to practice them, master them, and then make them your own. Experiment, play, and, most importantly, have fun.

Early last month, The Walking Dead aired what was originally meant to be the final episode of its tenth season, which culminated in the death of Beta and the end of The Whisperer war. In the six months between the penultimate episode and the finale, however, AMC announced an end date for the long-running series: There will be six bonus episodes in the 10th season, and a 24-episode final season that will take the series to the end of 2022, when AMC will launch a Carol and Daryl spin-off.

A release date for the six bonus season 10 episodes has now been announced. The series will complete the 10th season beginning on Sunday, February 28th, although the six episodes will be available on AMC+ several days early on Thursdays. AMC has also released episode titles and descriptions for each episode, which are unusually insightful. The first episode will explore Maggie’s whereabouts since leaving Alexandria; the second will fill in blanks in Daryl’s life in between the time that Rick disappeared and Daryl rejoined the group with Dog; the third is an adventure specific to Aaron and Gabriel; the fourth follows Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess, although they are separated in the episode. The fifth episode sees Carol and Daryl separate, and the season finale is “Here’s Negan,” which explores the origins of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character.

The names of the episodes in order are “Home Sweet Home,” “Find Me,” “One More,” “Splinter,” “Diverged,” and the aforementioned “Here’s Negan.”

We already knew that Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s wife, Hilarie Burton, would have a guest role in “Here’s Negan,” as Negan’s wife, Lucille. AMC is also announcing that Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) will play a character named Mays, while Okea Eme-Akwari is joining the series as Maggie’s friend, Elijah (he may be the masked ninja).

AMC has also released another clip from a table read, this one from “One More,” the episode involving Aaron and Gabriel and guest actor Robert Patrick.

The Walking Dead returns on February 28th. Fear the Walking Dead, meanwhile, will air its midseason finale this Sunday. No announcement has yet been made about when it will return.

Meltdown King Rudy Giuliani — whose recent hits include shouting on Fox Business over his Borat 2 scene and the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle, where he addressed the press while sandwiched in between a sex shop and a crematorium — is getting “it” done again. This time, he not only doled out the type of bonkers press conference that people expect, but Rudy added a few extra touches. While he reiterated the voter-fraud conspiracy theories that Donald Trump has fashioned into his daily Twitter bread-and-butter, the audience also received a My Cousin Vinny reference and something else that feels unintentional, but you never really know with this crowd?

Rudy (who can often be seen dabbing at himself with a handkerchief) started losing his hair dye in the middle of the press conference. It began to run down his face in a comical fashion. It was surreal.

It was also horrific and comical and, well, everything that one would expect from the general counsel of a president who keeps falsely insisting that he won the election.

This led to plenty of jokes, including some obligatory Wizard Of Oz mentions and others that feel on-point for whatever Rudy was attempting to accomplish.

What a mess. Well, at least this tweet’s prediction didn’t happen?

Eddie Vedder has maintained a solo presence outside of Pearl Jam over the years, like his 2011 album Ukulele Songs and a smattering of singles, collaborations, and performances here and there. Last night, for instance, he performed solo for “Ventures Into Cures,” a virtual charity event that benefited EB Research Partnership, the nonprofit Vedder co-founded with his wife Jill to help find a cure for epidermolysis bullosa, a genetic skin disorder. He played two songs, “Matter Of Time” and “Say Hi,” and now he has released them both.

He shared a studio version of “Matter Of Time,” but a live performance version of “Say Hi.” Vedder says the former song was “written for everyone worldwide afflicted with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB),” while the latter was “written for Eli Meyer, a brave 6-year-old afflicted with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa. The song is inspired by the #ComeSayHi movement, an initiative started by Eli’s siblings to ‘Come Say Hi’ to Eli to learn about EB.” Vedder fans may recognize “Say Hi,” as it’s a song has has performed some over the years.

These songs aren’t Vedder’s only releases of recent months. In September, he shared “Cartography,” which was part of Vedder’s soundtrack for Return To Mount Kennedy.

Watch the “Matter Of Time” and “Say Hi” videos above.

Wale is back with another confessional, emotive anthem to play when you’re alone in your room at 3 AM after a few too many drinks. In “Flawed,” he admits that “everybody flawed, I could never need you,” but that he wishes the object of his affection well despite breaking things off. “I could never hate you,” he sighs, “You cool with everybody, guess I’m everybody too.” Meanwhile, guest rapper Gunna praises the loyalty of a potential paramour but says “I couldn’t see me house wifin’ you.” “Flawed” also marks the two dreadlocked rappers’ first collaboration, arriving with a stylish, black and white video that shows off their shared gift for dressing up.

While Wale is a year removed from his last album, 2019’s mature Wow… That’s Crazy, he’s kept himself visible throughout the year, mainly through a string of collabs with longtime friends like Big Sean and IDK. He also released an EP, The Imperfect Storm, and continued to support Wow… with the statement video for “Sue Me” after cutting his tour for the album short.

On the other hand, Gunna has been dropping video after video for his own album, Wunna, highlighted by “Blindfold” with Lil Baby and “Dollaz On My Head” with Young Thug. Meanwhile, his list of feature verses includes the intensely viral “Lemonade” by Internet Money, “Fox 5” with fellow YSL rapper Lil Keed, and “Blind” from DaBaby’s deluxe version of Blame It On Baby

Watch the “Flawed” video above.

Wale and Gunna are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Reports began to circulate on Wednesday afternoon that Klay Thompson suffered a lower leg injury of some seriousness. It was soon reported that the Golden State Warriors’ fear was that Thompson had suffered a torn achilles tendon in his right leg, and on Thursday afternoon, that ended up getting confirmed.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Thompson did indeed tear his achilles, which means that NBA fans will go without watching him play for the second year in a row — Thompson missed all of the 2019-20 campaign with a torn ACL in his left knee that he suffered during Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals, while the achilles tear is in his right leg.

In a bit of relatively good news, Wojnarowski reports that Thompson is expected to make a full recovery.

Still, this is obviously terrible news, both for the Warriors and for basketball fans, as Thompson is a joy to watch. The soon-to-be 31-year-old wing suffering two catastrophic injuries in a row obviously bodes poorly for his ability to look like himself going forward, but even beyond that big-picture look at how those impact him, it’s just brutal that a player of his caliber has to go through this sort of thing again.

Golden State held the No. 2 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft on Wednesday night, opting to take a center in Memphis big man James Wiseman.

Action Bronson’s released his anticipated Only For Dolphins album back in October to expand on his multifaceted career. Now following up the record, Bronson tapped Hologram and Meyhem Lauren to join him in a cinematic video to their collaborative track “Mongolia.”

Directed by Zev Deans, the “Mongolia” video opens with the rapper on the run from two gunmen. Bronson is holding onto a silver briefcase, which is handcuffed to a gnarly severed hand. After he successfully gets away, Bronson hands off the package to Hologram, who then delivers his verses. Hologram successfully passes the coveted briefcase to a disguised Meyhem Lauren who is able to ward off the attackers once and for all.

In other Bronson news, the rapper recently revealed that he auditioned for a role in the upcoming Matrix reboot, but didn’t end up getting the part: “I definitely didn’t get the role. I would have known, I would’ve acted in it. I would have been in a f*cking harness hanging off a wire from a bridge or something. I definitely read for it, though, but it was bizarre. It was during COVID and the reading was over the phone. It was just a weird situation. I’m better in person, I have to charm you. You’ve actually got to see the whole me. It’s not good to just get a snippet of me over the phone, you know? You have to really take in the Baklava experience.”

Watch the “Mongolia” video above.

Only For Dolphins is out now via Loma Vista. Get it here.

Conor McGregor will officially return to the Octagon at UFC 257 on January 23, where he’ll fight Dustin Poirier in a rematch seven years in the making. According to ESPN, McGregor inked his deal to fight Poirier in the 155-pound bout that is currently without a location but expected to be contested at Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.

While the bout between two contenders could make sense for the vacant lightweight title considering Khabib Nurmagomedov’s recent retirement, UFC president Dana White recently ruled that possibility out. After Nurmagomdeov revealed on Instagram that he was recently tested by USADA, White speculated that because Nurmagomedov (28-0) is still in testing, he would eventually return to the cage with an aim of hitting the 30-0 benchmark.

“No, (McGregor-Poirier won’t be for the title),” White explained on The Mac Life (H/T MMA Fighting). “Khabib’s gonna fight (again). I believe he’s gonna fight. It’s not for the title.”

McGregor hasn’t fought since he TKO’d Donald Cerrone in 40 seconds in January. With no opportunity to make good on his promise to fight three times in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he’s settling with an opportunity to climb right back into title contention with his fight against Poirier.

Poirier is also looking for an opening to get back to fighting for UFC gold, holding his lone victory — a decision over Dan Hooker — since he was submitted by Nurmagomedov in their title unification bout in 2019. Poirier’s original fight against McGregor came in 2014, where he suffered a first-round knockout at the hands of the former two-division champion.

The first time I encountered a ghost was at a house on Tanglewood Street. She was in the kitchen, by a sink full of dirty water. Three of my friends who came hunting with me were snickering in the background. One thought it’d be funny to ask the ghost if she died before she got a chance to call the manager. (Her name was Karen; it was a very uninspired conversation starter.)

Turns out Karen was a demon. She had a mangled face, wore tattered clothing, and snapped my friend’s neck before he could make it to the dining room. We heard him scream, watched his body fall lifelessly to the ground, and decided to book it back to the van parked outside before Karen could claim another victim.

This is what it is to play Phasmophobia, an early-access, indie co-op psychological horror game that dropped on Steam earlier this Fall. Its premise trades on the same guilty-pleasure, adrenaline-infusing vibes as those obscure paranormal reality TV shows. You know, the ones where a medium and an NYPD homicide detective pair up to raid haunted houses, or where Rob Lowe ropes his kids into investigating urban legends? Ghost-hunting scratches a particular itch, combining chills and thrills with true-crime elements that tease us with the promise that we might be able to solve the unsolvable, explain the supernatural, uncover what lies beyond.

The endgame of Phasmophobia though is a little more straightforward: get evidence and get the hell out of there.

You do not vacuum up a Wraith Bill Murray style or help a Spirit cross over like Jennifer-Love Hewitt. No, you’re there to piss these ghosts off enough so they’ll show their corporeal forms for the camera, or leave a handprint on a door, or have a bit of fun with an Ouija board that you’ve left behind. And that objective may sound simple enough; it may lure you into thinking Phasmophobia is just another horror-tinged video game to play with your friends when the days grow shorter and the global lockdown returns, but you’d be wrong.

And you’ll also probably be the group member who hides in the Ghostmobile “looking for orbs” as your teammates risk their virtual lives inside.

The basic gameplay of Phasmophobia is easy enough to pick up. A group of up to four players enters a haunted building – a house on a quiet street, an asylum with a horrifying history, a farmhouse, a run-down school, a prison – with the objective of finding and identifying a ghost, before collecting evidence of a haunting. Your headquarters is a fully-equipped van parked outside, a place you can go for supplies, for directives on your mission, and to monitor night-vision cameras you’ve set up once you’ve summoned the courage to cross the threshold (or figured out how to open the front door).

You’ll have ghost-hunting essentials on your journey – journals, smudge sticks, cameras, flashlights, and more – and specialized equipment, like EMF Readers to detect the presence of a paranormal entity and Spirit Boxes to communicate with the particularly chatty specters.

You’ll need to locate the Ghost Room, the favorite haunt (see what we did there?) of the pesky phantom before setting up equipment to figure out just what type of undead squatter you’re dealing with. Is it a wraith, a particularly nasty baddie who can move through walls? Or a Jinn, a territorial being who doesn’t appreciate mouth breathers invading their space? Is it a male or a female-identifying creature? A child? A man?

You can also uncover more about the spirit’s backstory, if your nosy nature gets the better of you, to figure out how old the ghost was when it died, how many years it’s been dead, and if it murdered someone in a past life.

And you can do all of this through the game’s fairly remarkable voice-recognition software which is what really elevates Phasmophobia into something more than just a two-dimensional horror adventure. Not only are you chatting with your fellow paranormal investigators – friends or strangers, they both offer up unique gaming experiences in this world – you’re also interacting with the nightmarish creatures intent on scaring you to death (literally). Even when your push-to-talk capabilities aren’t engaged, these ethereal tormentors can still hear you, and they’ll react if you utter certain phrases or accidentally call them by name.

Phasmophobia mines the most out of its co-op experience in that way, instilling terror in players who might not even be in immediate danger themselves.

You’re standing in a bedroom of a two-story farmhouse, taking pictures of a voodoo doll when you hear your friend scream from the living room. She’s frantic, being chased by a Mare or a Yurei — you haven’t quite figured the nature of this ghost out yet. She begs for your help, throws some colorful curse words out there, and then … ? Silence. She’s dead. You’re down by one, and your sanity level – a unique marker that dips the longer you spend searching and engaging with these paranormals – reaches a new low. If it drops any further, you’ll be hunted by that same ghost, the one who just snapped your friend’s neck like a twig.

You’ll have to find a closet or a utility room to hide in and hope that your teammates do the same. The doors will lock, the lights will flicker. You’ll hear a heartbeat pounding through your headphones, a chilling sigh sweep by, and, if you’re really unlucky, you’ll see two rotted hands closing around you. You’ll be dead too, left to wander through the game as a poltergeist yourself, unable to talk to your group or help them avoid the same fate. (Of course, you can also have some fun scaring the sh*t out of them by hurling beer cans and slamming doors, but, to stress, that should not be your main goal.)

It’s the waiting, the unknowing, the uncertainty of Phasmophobia that feels even more disturbing than the ghosts themselves. It’s not being able to see past the scope of your flashlight while hunting a shy spirit or witnessing a darkened form move towards you when you light a candle or hearing a bone-chilling voice scratch its way out of a spirit box when a room looks to be clear.

Phasmophobia doesn’t just want to scare you, it wants to immerse you in an experience you thought you were tough enough to take on and then magnify your embarrassing weaknesses for everyone else to see. It wants to give you a wake-up call, to teach you a lesson, and to make a masochist out of you so that you keep returning to its world, keep trying to confront its Revenants and Banshees and Onis while you squirm in your seat and listen to the shrill terror of your friends.

It’s a game that will long outlive its predicted expiration date – most people assumed we’d be tired of it post Halloween – because it offers the kind of horror co-op experience that gaming just hasn’t been able to deliver. Until now. And it’s also serving as a model for other games of its ilk, ones hoping to create shared adventures that enthrall so thoroughly, they stick with you long past your log out.

The ongoing attempts by the Trump administration to try and overturn an election he lost has led to former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani — who serves as the president’s personal lawyer — taking on the campaign’s legal operation, and has reportedly requested $20,000 a day for his services. It hasn’t gone particularly well for Giuliani, who has been panned for the things he’s alleged and his demeanor during his first appearance in a federal courtroom in nearly three decades.

In an apparent attempt to get some sort of control over the narrative on Thursday, Giuliani and the rest of his legal team held a press conference in Washington, D.C. That press conference was, predictably, a mess. But you’re reading this post on a sports site because, at one point, Giuliani made a very clunky comparison in which he said that the Philadelphia Eagles play basketball before immediately correcting himself.

Giuliani is correct that “stunad” is a word used by Italian-Americans to call someone stupid and that the Philadelphia Eagles play football. To use the former in a sentence, “you have to be a pretty big stunad to say that the Philadelphia Eagles play basketball.” As for all the stuff about fraud in the 2020 election, if those claims go the way that most of the others the Trump campaign has made in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, they are wrong.