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Tory Lanez And Megan Thee Stallion Broke Social Distancing Guidelines And Fans Are Not Happy

Tory Lanez’s Quarantine Radio Instagram Live stream is one of the delights of the current lockdown era, as fans tune in to see which of Tory’s famous friends will call in for a chat and how closely the Torontonian can toe the line of Instagram’s decency guidelines without getting suspended… again. However, during the last episode of the show, fans were upset to see that he and his latest guest had violated social distancing rules, when Tory broadcasted live from Megan Thee Stallion’s account — and from her house.

Megan herself seemed a bit annoyed by her co-star as well, but for different reasons. As she tried to teach him the dance from the TikTok Out West Challenge based on the Jackboys song of the same name featuring Young Thug and Travis Scott, Tory seemed unable to commit to one of the moves, prompting her to wonder, “Tory, what you doing!?”

Fans on Twitter, though, were quick to chime in, wondering what both artists were doing breaking quarantine for their impromptu hangout. With coronavirus’ spread curbing, it seemed to viewers that the pair were taking an unnecessary risk by sharing space. It’s a sentiment that’s popped up in other Live streams as well, including several editions of the Verzuz battle series where participants brought in engineers, musicians, and hype men to fluff up their elaborate indoor performances when only a decent speaker was needed.

The comments in the Shade Room post of their stream are also littered with fans upset that the two beloved artists would risk spreading the virus. The moral of the story is, as always, stay indoors and six feet away, because you’d hate it if you were responsible for someone being bedridden or worse.

Check out the responses and a snippet of the live stream above.

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The ‘I May Destroy You’ Trailer Promises An Intense And Suspenseful Upcoming HBO Series

HBO has just released an official teaser for its upcoming series, I May Destroy You. Created by, written, and starring BAFTA Award Winner Michaela Cole, the British-based series is described as a “fearless, frank and provocative” exploration of “sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in our modern landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.”

Judging by the suspenseful trailer, viewers will follow Cole’s character as she tries to piece together the events of a night out that goes horribly wrong, and a frank depiction of the aftermath it afflicts on her life as she navigates a gauntlet of police, medical examinations, and friends and family who are trying to make sense of it all.

Here’s the official synopsis from the HBO and BBC co-production:

Following triumph from a piece of writing that garnered internet acclaim, Arabella Essiuedu (Coel) – easily distracted, non-committal and carefree – finds herself feted as the ‘voice of her generation,’ with an agent, a book commission and a helluva lot of pressure. After being sexually assaulted in a nightclub, her life changes irreversibly and Arabella is forced to reassess everything: her career, her friends, even her family. As Arabella struggles to come to terms with what has happened, she begins a journey of self-discovery.

The series also stars Weruche Opia (Inside No9), Paapa Essiedu (Kiri), Aml Ameen (Yardie), Adam James (Belgravia), Sarah Niles (Catastrophe), Ann Akin (Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams), Harriet Webb (Plebs), Ellie James (Giri/Haji), Franc Ashman (Peep Show), Karan Gill (Flesh & Blood), Natalie Walter (Horrible Histories), and Samson Ajewole.

I Will Destroy You will debut on HBO NOW, HBO GO, and HBO on Demand in June.

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NFL Draft Ratings Predictably Went Up With The Sports World On Pause

With a dearth of sports content to consume right now, anticipation for the NFL Draft was high and the ratings did not disappoint, with more than 15 million people tuning in across ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network for the first round. Officially, the viewership came in at 15.6 million fans who got to see Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa and the rest of the 32 picks stream in their reactions from home.

That marks a 37 percent increase over last year, when the NFL got to pull out all the usual stops in Nashville and there was more of a debate about who might go first overall.

Not surprisingly, Columbus, Ohio, the hometown of No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow, had the highest ratings, followed by Cleveland, then Cincinnati, where Burrow will now play.

This comes after the debut of “The Last Dance” grabbed 6.1 million viewers for ESPN and the WNBA Draft the Friday prior was up 123 percent over 2019, with 387,000 viewers. The simulated NASCAR iRaces also drew over a million viewers during opening weekend.

Anyone hypothesizing that leagues that can pull off live sports content right now will bring in a heap of viewers seem to be right. With America desperate to be entertained and distracted, the few sports events that have been televised over the past month have been great for TV and likely signal more to come.

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A “Last Dance”-Style Kobe Bryant Documentary Could Be On The Way

Kobe Bryant hired a personal film crew to capture behind-the-scenes action during the Lakers star’s last season in the NBA, ESPN reported on Friday. Bryant’s 20th and final season with the Lakers was in 2015-16 and it culminated with his 60-point performance in a 101-96 victory over the Utah Jazz. The Lakers’ all-time scoring leader pushed through injury and pain that season, was voted to his 18th All-Star Game and was greeted with standing ovations and immense love from basketball fans at every stadium he visited.

The crew was granted unprecedented access to Bryant and the Lakers that season, similar to how Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” documentary footage was filmed. “The Last Dance,” a 10-part ESPN documentary on Jordan’s last season with the Chicago Bulls, was highly anticipated by fans and the broadcast of the first two episodes averaged a record 6.1 million viewers. The next two episodes will air on Sunday night. Of course, the 1997-98 Bulls had a very different experience than the 2015-16 Lakers, namely in that the Bulls won their sixth NBA Championship while the Lakers endured their worst-ever season, finishing with a 17-65 overall record and missing out on the playoffs for the third consecutive season.

“Just watching them and being able to view what the cameras were doing to [capture] Jordan’s pregame routine, I mean, it’s the same thing,” said Marco Nunez, a former Lakers’ assistant athletic trainer during Bryant’s final season told ESPN. “Just flash forward … take out No. 23 with the Bulls and insert No. 24 with the Lakers. Yeah, I mean, it’s pretty much identical.”

According to ESPN, the footage gathered by Bryant’s film crew had been in the editing stages for a future documentary, although there was no timetable specified for its release. Following Bryant’s tragic death along with eight others in a helicopter crash in January, it is “unlikely” that the plans for the documentary have changed, per an ESPN source.

An earlier documentary about Bryant’s 18-year career, “Muse,” was released in February 2015. While Bryant produced that film, however, he was reportedly much more involved in the process of gathering and editing footage for the unfinished documentary which focuses on his last season. The soon-to-be Hall of Famer’s camera crew was everywhere during that final season, present in locker rooms, at both home and away games, on the team charter plane and even in the athletic training room. One anonymous former staffer even told ESPN that they weren’t able to tell Bryant’s camera crew to stop filming if the footage was deemed inappropriate like they could with Spectrum SportsNet’s crew, which also had an all-access TV deal with the Lakers.

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A Deep Dive Into Noted Cavs Fan Joe Burrow’s Love Of Matthew Dellavedova

Joe Burrow became the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft on Thursday night. It’s a move that everyone saw coming, as the now-former LSU quarterback put forth an historic 2019 campaign en route to the Heisman Trophy and a national championship. Now, Burrow is headed home, as the Ohio native was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals.

But while Burrow’s NFL team is tucked away in the southeast corner of Ohio, his NBA team plays in the northeast portion of the state. Burrow is a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, as evidenced by this tweet, which served as a victory lap after he called how the 2016 NBA Finals would play out.

This isn’t a particularly huge surprise. Burrow was a kid when the Cavaliers first drafted LeBron James and he got the chance to watch the best player in franchise history lead the club to unparalleled heights. As a 19-year-old at Ohio State, Burrow watched as the Cavs won their first championship in franchise history.

Of course, a quick skim of Burrow’s Twitter account indicates that he loves the Cleveland players who you would imagine — he loves James and was hurt when Kyrie Irving requested a trade, which led to him getting flipped to the Boston Celtics for Isaiah Thomas, which made Burrow tear up (he swore it was allergies). But those do not seem to be the Cavaliers players who have captured Burrow’s heart the strongest. Instead, that goes to reserve guard Matthew Dellavedova.

Burrow, in an interview with Taylor Rooks of Bleacher Report, spoke a bit about his game on the basketball court. At one point, he was asked who his NBA comp is, and without hesitation, he picked Dellavedova.

Now, it is possible that this was a joke — Burrow said he’d stand in the corner and shoot threes en route to 12-15 points a game, while a teammate like LeBron or Chris Paul goes to work, which is a bit more productive than Dellavedova has been during his NBA career — but a dive into his Twitter account indicates that Burrow really, really loves the journeyman guard. An example:

In fact, after James joined the Los Angeles Lakers, Burrow believed the solution was to bring Dellavedova — a member of the Milwaukee Bucks at the time — home. This, of course, came to fruition that December.

Advocating for Dellavedova, who left the team following their title in 2016, to return to Cleveland was nothing new for Burrow.

Burrow’s first apparent sign of love for Dellavedova came during Game 1 of the 2015 NBA Finals. While it is unclear exactly when in the game he tweeted this — my assumptions is it came right after Iman Shumpert missed a wild shot that would have won the game for Cleveland (they lost to the Warriors in overtime) — Burrow wanted Delly to have the ball in his hands with the game on the line.

His next tweets came after Game 2 of those Finals. Dellavedova was inserted into the starting lineup after Kyrie Irving suffered a series-ending knee injury, and he responded by scoring nine points, pulling in five rebounds, forcing three steals, and being a general pest en route to a Cavaliers win. He also put Cleveland ahead at the end of the game by hitting a pair of free throws, something that led to Burrow dreaming about the guard that evening.

Game 3 ended up being the best postseason performance of Dellavedova’s tenure with the Cavs. He went for 20 points, five rebounds, four assists, and got the hometown fans chanting his name as Cleveland went up in the series, 2-1.

In fact, Burrow saw some apparent similarities between himself and his favorite player after the game.

For Game 4, which Cleveland would go on to lose, Burrow was upset with how ABC’s Mark Jackson referred to Dellavedova at some point in the first quarter.

In the name of journalism, I went back and tried to find this quote. The game’s listed start time was 9 p.m. EST and Burrow tweeted that 20 minutes later. While I could not identify exactly what he meant, at the 3:01 mark of the first quarter, Dellavedova tries to back down Steph Curry, fails, tries to do the Dirk Nowitzki elbow fadeaway (2015 was wild, man), and fires up an airball. J.R. Smith gets the rebound and lays it in to beat the shot clock, but Jackson was unhappy.

“Mike, I understand trying to get a second foul on Steph Curry,” Jackson says to Mike Breen. “But that’s not gonna win you jewelry, that’s not gonna get you a championship.”

However, further research indicates that the Cavaliers’ starting lineup was announced around 9:11 p.m., leading me to believe that this came earlier in the game. The team’s official Twitter account praised a scoop shot that Dellavedova hit at the 8:42 mark of the first quarter around 9:18 p.m., so we can reasonably assume the perceived disrespectful moment was related to this. After it went in, Jeff Van Gundy said that Delly “looked like Mark Jackson,” to which Jackson replied by saying “don’t do that” twice.

Anyway, back to this. The Cavaliers lost this game, and would go on to lose the Finals, so Burrow laid low for a bit. He spent a few months without posts about the former guard, right up until he expressed some sadness over his Delly shirt being dirty.

Thanks to Kyle Irving of Sporting News, we learned that this is the Delly shirt. It’s a good shirt!

The shirt popped back up on the day Irving requested a trade.

Fans always love stars, but sometimes, the strongest love they feel is directed towards the scrappy role players who fill in gaps and make life easier for the best players on a team. That even applies to the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft. The two follow one another on Twitter, and it is my sincere hope that they become best friends as soon as possible.

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Lysol And Others React To Trump’s Suggestion That Injecting Disinfectant Might Cure Coronavirus

During yesterday’s White House COVID-19 press conference, President Donald Trump seemed to suggest that sunlight or disinfectant might help unlock potential cures for the coronavirus. In the 24 or so house since, the internet has been talking about Lysol and other cleaning products across social media nonstop and roasting the President. To be completely fair to Trump, he never said that injecting Lysol or bleach could possibly act as a means to fight the virus. But… he implied it pretty hard.

Responding to recent experiments shared by the acting undersecretary of science and technology for the Department of Homeland Security, Bill Bryan, that suggested that the coronavirus faired worse in high temperatures and direct sunlight, and exhibited a strong weakness to bleach and isopropyl alcohol, Trump wondered aloud:

So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or very powerful light… supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way… and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.

For the record, UV light therapy is a thing — whereas saying “we can do something like that” in regard to injecting disinfectant directly into your body sounds like a pretty wild suggestion from a US President. Check out how people on Twitter (and the brand Lysol) are reacting to the news below.

According to NBC News, during a bill signing on Friday morning, the President characterized his comments as sarcasm, saying, “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen… I was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands, and it would make things much better.”

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Weekend Preview: The ‘Beastie Boys Story,’ ‘Bad Education,’ And Two Marvel Chrises Going Toe-To-Toe

Social distancing continues this weekend amid the global pandemic, and several new TV seasons are here for the binging. If nothing here suits your sensibilities, check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now.

Beastie Boys Story (Apple TV+ film) — Both diehard and casual fans can dig director Spike Jonze’s intimate and personal story of the collaborative adventures of Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, and Adam Yauch. The pioneering trio’s hybrid documentary-live stage performance film is hilarious, sad, and something you won’t want to miss.

Defending Jacob (Apple TV+ series) — Chris Evans leads a stellar cast in this familiar story with a few gripping twists. Think We Need To Talk About Kevin crossed with Primal Fear, with Evans supported by the likes of J.K. Simmons, Jaeden Martell, Betty Gabriel, Cherry Jones, and Michelle Dockery.

Bad Education (Saturday, HBO 8:00 p.m.) — True events inspired this exploration of the underbelly of elite public school malfeasance starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. Embezzlement and corruption abounds through two solid leading performances.

Extraction (Netflix film) — The Russo Brothers teamed up again with Chris Hemsworth for this crime flick about a black-market mercenary on a deadly ride through the weapons-and-drug-trafficking underworld. Guns will be out, in more ways than one.

After Life: Season 2 (Netflix series) — The Ricky Gervais comedy-drama series returns for six new episodes with Tony still struggling over the loss of his wife. In the process, he attempts to become a better person, but shall he succeed? And will the local Am-Dram show work any mood-lifting magic?

Middleditch & Schwartz (Netflix series) — Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz’s two-man comedy show features in three new completely improvised Netflix comedy specials, including Dream Job, Law School Magic, and Parking Lot Wedding. Get ready for tales of an existential crisis, a robbery-gone-wrong, and a bit of magic.

Cooked with Cannabis (Netflix series) — Technically, this show dropped on 4/20, but considering how this year is going, it’s gotta still be 4/20 somewhere, right? Move your cannabis game past pot brownies and marijuana cookies while watching top chefs compete to get “baked” in more elaborate ways.

The Willoughbys (Netflix film) — This highly stylized animated film hails follows a group of four siblings who must adapt their old-fashioned ways to the modern world after being abandoned by their parents. The voice cast includes Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, Martin Short, and Jane Krakowski.

Here’s the rest of this weekend’s notable programming:

Friday Night In with The Morgans (Friday, AMC 10:00 p.m.) — Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton are back (from home), hopefully with more motorcycle stories, while hosting Sarah Wayne Callies and Sophia Bush.

Real Time With Bill Maher (Friday, HBO 10:00 p.m.) — Virtual interview guests include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Dr. David Katz.

SNL (Saturday, NBC 11:30 p.m.) — The long-running sketch comedy series refuses to go dormant for long, and they’ll be back with a second round of quarantine content.

Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (Sunday, HBO 8:00 p.m.) — Part IV of HBO’s unraveling of a shameful legacy airs. Read our interview with two of the filmmakers, and then tune in to watch Wayne Williams’ odd behavior make no sense.

Batwoman (Sunday, CW 8:00 p.m.) — An old villain resurfaces to challenge Batwoman, while Gotham’s most stand-up citizens find themselves tested as well.

Westworld (Sunday, HBO 9:00 p.m.) — This show’s not even halfway over yet, but what is Dolores’ endgame, really? Your guess is as good as ours, but watch out for whatever Maeve is doing.

Killing Eve (Sunday, AMC 9:00 p.m.) — Villanelle heads back to London (where there are biscuits!), and Konstantin’s feeling the pressure from all ends. Meanwhile, Eve’s finally all in to help track down Kenny’s killer.

Homeland (Sunday, Showtime 9:00 p.m.) — The series finale has finally arrived with one final freak-out for Carrie after an eight-season run.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Sunday, NBC 9:00 p.m.) — Zoey’s dealing with mom, who’s dealing with an impossible decision, while Mo and Eddie hit a rough patch.

Insecure (Sunday, HBO 10:00 p.m.) — Molly’s headed to Thanksgiving (timely?) while Lawrence is down for Friendsgiving at Condola’s house.

Run (Sunday, HBO 10:30 p.m.) — The new show from Fleabag and Killing Eve dynamic duo Vicky Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge barrels further down the train track as Ruby and Billy try to figure out whether this is all a huge mistake.

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‘Ultimate Professional’ Troy Daniels Believes The Best Is Still Yet To Come

Scroll through Troy Daniels’ Instagram page and you’ll find the familiar beats expressed by anyone in quarantine right now: honesty, courage, confusion, moments of positivity and doubt, and a sense of humor that says, “yeah I’m coping, but who isn’t right now?” The only difference between Daniels’ feed and any other typical basketball fan’s is in his sense of style, which hasn’t fallen off even in the slightest the past six weeks. Sure, there are still sweatpants or shorts days, but Daniels is trying to build himself up from the outside in, and that starts and ends with dressing.

“It gives me something to do,” Daniels says on the phone from his apartment in Los Angeles. “There’s really nothing to do during the day other than read, meditate or go for a run. It gives me something else to do during the day and helps me build my self esteem and confidence back up. Just to know I can put clothes on, look nice, and take pictures. That’s a fun aspect of my day.”

Daniels is living proof that athletes take the phrase “control what you can control” seriously. At All-Star Weekend in Chicago, he enjoys some quiet at a small reception inside the Neiman Marcus on Michigan Ave. Designers and reps mingle with Daniels, Bulls wing Max Strus, and influencers as they browse everything from custom Dolce and Gabbana shoes to limited Off-White collections. With a glass of wine in hand, Daniels seems adept at riding the wave, a skill that isn’t exactly quantifiable but has served him well since leaving VCU in 2013. Embracing his role at every stage, from the Rio Grande Vipers (the Rockets G League affiliate) and Charlotte (where he owns a home) to two years in Phoenix after being traded from Memphis and then joining the Lakers last summer during the run of signings that followed the Anthony Davis trade.

“Over the course of my whole career I never try to get too high and never try to get too low,” Daniels says. “I understand the business of the game. Once you understand how things work and continue to keep working, the best is yet to come for you. It sounds so cliché, but at the end of the day, that’s all you really have you to do. Some things you really can’t control. Some things you can. So, I try to focus on the things I can control and continue to focus my mindset on something totally different than whether I’m going to get traded or cut or move to another team. I never focus my energy on that. I’m really just happy at the moment because I understand there’s 450 jobs in the NBA out of how many people who want to play in the NBA, and I’m lucky to have one of those jobs.”

Sprawled out on a couch in Chicago, Daniels allows himself a relieved sigh. Even when everything is uprooted around him, he embraces the challenge and stays in the moment. If that means coming off the bench after a string of DNPs to provide a spark, he’s ready. If that includes keeping his spirits high following a release, searching for a new team, onboarding with a playoff contender in Denver, and then seeing it all shelved in the midst of a global pandemic that has him stuck thousands of miles from his North Carolina house at an apartment with his wardrobe and his game consoles, so be it.

Looking to the past won’t get him anywhere, and it isn’t the mark of an experienced player who, as Davis (and many other stars he’s played with agree) puts it, is “my guy.” Being a beloved teammate, even if he’s not in a place for particularly long, is something Daniels cherishes, and he’s willing to put in the work away from the court to make sure those bonds are formed.

“I look at it a little differently than other players,” Daniels says. “I think it’s very important to take advantage of this platform because it doesn’t last forever. We’re not going to be NBA players forever, and nobody knows how long your career’s going to be.

“I’ve always been that guy looking at other guys saying, ‘Wow, they got this, they got that. How did they get that?’ And I was always grinding, and so I feel like if I grind in the league and also I grind off the court, something good’s going to happen either way, you know what I mean?” Daniels continues. “And you also meet good people that way. My mindset totally has been focused, on obviously I have my own experience in being a journeyman, being the ultimate professional, but off the court stuff, my focus is more on social media. Just simple as when you’re out of practice sitting on the couch, having content to post, or engaging with your fans, stuff like that. If your teammate invites you to a popup or a movie premiere, just go. I’ve learned over the course of my years to take advantage of that. But you also have to make sure to get your work in and don’t get lost in the sauce. That’s part of being a professional.”

Daniels, by his very nature, isn’t someone who takes anything for granted. There’s a certain DNA strain that exists in players who often earn the backhanded compliment of “journeymen.” More recently, the phrase has evolved into “team vet,” an honorary title that goes to guys who ideally are “set it and forget it” when they’re in the game — they aren’t earning rotational minutes on a regular basis unless injuries pop up but help keep the peace, stay level, and enhance that all-important chemistry formula that every contending team looks to replicate.

The Lakers built the end of their bench with those guys in the offseason, from Daniels to Quinn Cook to Jared Dudley, and the opportunity to learn from business moguls like Davis and LeBron and get in meetings in the entertainment capital of the world – even in just a few months – is something Daniels treasured.

“I think what’s meant to be will be,” Daniels says, “but I also think you putting in the effort towards being better, or you put in the effort towards expanding your brand, it can help a lot. You know what I mean? So I think I was destined for this type of lifestyle. I never take it for granted, I know where I came from, but I also live my life with a certain type of confidence too because I know who I am and I know who I want to be. And me personally, I don’t want to be looked at as just a basketball player. And I think LeBron embodies what I want to be, is like everybody knows he’s a basketball player, but I can also do off-the-court things too. I can also sit at a table with billionaires and have a billion-dollar idea. I can also make a movie. I can also be in a movie. I can also be an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur.”

For now, it’s important for Daniels to hold onto that confidence and to treat this stretch during quarantine like a run of DNPs. Eventually, there will be some normalcy, even if it’s not exactly the same as what we took for granted in the past. If staying ready is an attribute, it’s one Daniels can continue to practice as he meditates with his electronics off and he allows himself to sit, to really sit and take in the energy around him.

That allows him to let others in a bit more, whether it’s through his new Twitch streams, his dressed up pics, going live on IG, or otherwise. The ultimate vet stays grounded, even in times of crisis, and there’s a calming quality to the posts Daniels puts out into the world, lacking the sheer boredom or thinly-veiled panicked energy that other players exude from their social media presence.

“The ultimate professional is always ready,” Daniels says. “And the way you can stay ready is in the things that you can control. That’s your mind, and that’s what I control. I try to control my mind and go in and do whatever I can to help the team win. And then whatever the case might be, that’s my job, to stay ready at all times. It’s hard to do, man, but I try to find a way.”

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Your Name Of The Year Fantasy Draft 2020


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Every year, the fine folks over at Name Of The Year Draft release their March Madness bracket of the funniest real humans’ names that they’ve discovered over the course of the past year. Here at the Frotcast, we’ve been doing an annual name of the year draft based on those names for… God, at least eight or nine years now. Maybe a decade. Anyway, Name of the Year released their 2020 bracket this past week. It’s our favorite time of the year by far, and this year we brought back one of our Founding Frotters, Brendan, who gets more joy out of silly names than probably any human alive. Also joining for the draft is Laremy Legel, who has been guesting since Whoop Dreams.

Other topics include: Laremy’s vast tracts of lands, getting quarantine haircuts from your significant other, and your voicemails. But let’s be honest, you’re here for the name draft. Here are the squads:

Team Brendan
Rembertus Beerepoot
Mathdaniel Squirrel
Nazareth Pantaloni III
Carmelo Mustaccio
Gimadiah Scrogum
(from Vince) Dr. Floun’say Caver

Team Vince
Katie Smrcka-Duffy Fudd
Learjet De La Cruz
Hannah Moody-Goo
Gravity Goldberg
Dudley Onderdonk
(from Laremy) Robespierre Bolivar

Team Laremy
Kokaine Mothershed
Dhanmite Slappey
Lowell Snorff III
Courvoisier Dingle
Green Wix Unthank
(From Matt) Rod Ghods

Team Matt
Smoki Bacon
Zebulon Vermillion
Gennaro Bizzaro
Adolphus Hailstork
Stetson President
(from Brendan) Fatjon Cake

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