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We’ve all been there at some point or another, nervously waiting for a big job interview hoping you don’t sweat through your good shirt. Interviews are stressful but there’s likely no job interview more stressful than the one Guy Goma went on in 2006 for the BBC, when he was mistaken for an expert for a news segment. The person they were supposed to interview for the news segment was Guy Kewney, an actual music industry expert. But with cameras rolling and questions being asked, Goma took a deep breath and answered the newscaster.

In the clip you can see Goma likely thinking through how he could gracefully exit the situation after the realization that he had been placed on live television with no idea what he was about to be asked. It didn’t stop him though, once he committed to going along with the expert interview he did pretty well. While he tried desperately to control his breathing, he was able to inform the interviewer that he was predicting more people would begin downloading music online and it would become a faster process. I mean, he was right, even if he had no idea at the time.

Surprisingly, after the on-air snafu and subsequent save by Goma, he didn’t get the job he applied for, which is weird because he was clearly perfect for whatever position he wanted. I’m pretty sure they dropped the ball there, but it sure would be nice to know what happened to the quick-thinking faux expert.

Unfortunately there are no recent updates about the whereabouts of Guy Goma after his brief and random moment in the spotlight, but he’ll always hold a place in television history. Watch Goma’s WTF reaction when he realizes what’s going on below.

This article originally appeared on 10.20.22

It seems everyone needs subtitles nowadays in order to “hear” the television. This is something that has become more common over the past decade and it’s caused people to question if their hearing is going bad or if perhaps actors have gotten lazy with enunciation.

So if you’ve been wondering if it’s just you who needs subtitles in order to watch the latest marathon-worthy show, worry no more. Vox video producer Edward Vega interviewed dialogue editor Austin Olivia Kendrick to get to the bottom of why we can’t seem to make out what the actors are saying anymore. It turns out it’s technology’s fault, and to get to how we got here, Vega and Kendrick took us back in time.

They first explained that way back when movies were first moving from silent film to spoken dialogue, actors had to enunciate and project loudly while speaking directly into a large microphone. If they spoke and moved like actors do today, it would sound almost as if someone were giving a drive-by soliloquy while circling the block. You’d only hear every other sentence or two.

But with today’s technology, microphones are so small they can be strapped just about anywhere on an actor. This allows the actor to move about the set freely and speak at a normal volume without worrying that their words won’t be picked up. So then why can’t we hear them? Turns out it’s super complicated…and also not.

“A lot of people will ask, ‘Why don’t you just turn the dialogue up?’ Like, ‘Just turn it up.’ And…if only it were that simple,” Kendrick said before explaining, “If you have your dialogue that’s going to be at the same volume as an explosion that immediately follows it, the explosion is not going to feel as big. You need that contrast in volume in order to give your ear a sense of scale.”

Sure, you may be thinking, well that kinda explains it, but why do the music and other cinematic noises sound like they’re beating on your eardrum while the dialogue sounds like the actors are whispering every line? That doesn’t seem very balanced. There’s more to it, and again, it falls back onto technology.

In the video, they explain how our televisions are too thin to hold large speakers facing in the correct direction, and until this video, it didn’t dawn on me that the speakers to my television are indeed in the back. No wonder we can’t hear. The actors are quite literally talking to our walls.

And there’s more. Check out the full explanation in the video:

This article originally appeared on 2.1.23

(WARNING: Spoilers for the most recent Love Is Blind episodes will be found below.)

Every season of Love Is Blind produces a cast member who’s the villain in the viewers’ eyes. (Remember Batrise from season three?) After eleven episodes of Netflix’s Love Is Blind season six, we have our villain! Jeramey took that crown after a messy string of episodes that watched him betray the trust of his fiancée Laura who discovered that Jeramey was out until 5:30 am speaking to Sarah Ann, a Love Is Blind cast member whom Jeramey previously had a connection with.

That late-night-into-early-morning interaction was the breaking point for Laura and Jeramey and she was not too receptive towards Jeramey’s attempts to right his wrongs. Rather than giving a proper apology to Laura, Jeramey opted to criticize Laura’s reaction to his late-night escapade. In the end, it proved to be all too much for Laura who decided to walk away from their engagement. As for Jeramey, he reconnected with Sarah Ann and rode off into the cloudy skies on jetskis with her. Where does it leave him?

Does Jeramey Have A New Fiancée In Love Is Blind Season 6?

It’s unknown if Jeramey and Susan Ann are officially together. The last we see of them in the new episodes is the aforementioned jetski scene. Jeramy and Sarah Ann are nowhere to be found as the men and women from the cast try on suits and dresses, respectively for the upcoming wedding. With that, it’s safe to assume that if Jeramy and Sarah Ann are still together, they won’t be participating in a possible wedding from Love Is Blind season 6. So no, Jeramey does not have a new fiancée for Love Is Blind season six.

‘Love Is Blind’ season 6, episodes 10 and 11 are now available to stream on Netflix.

Richard Lewis, the self-deprecating comedian who made many memorable appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died at 76 years old. The news was confirmed by Deadline.

A cause of death has not been revealed yet, but in 2023, Lewis revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

“Three and half years ago I was in the middle of a tour and I finally ended it with a show. I said, ‘You know I’m at the top of my game, after 15 years almost I’m going to call it quits,’ and I felt great about that and then out of the blue the shit hit the fan. I had four surgeries back to back to back to back, it was incredible, I couldn’t believe it, it was bad luck, but that’s life,” he said in a video posted to X. “I’m finished with stand-up. I’m just focusing on writing and acting. I have Parkinson’s disease but I’m under a doctor’s care and everything is cool. I love my wife, I love my little puppy dog and I love all my friends and my fans. And now you know where it’s been at the last three and a half years. God bless you.”

Outside of his stand-up work and Curb cameos, Lewis was fantastically funny in the Mel Brooks movie, Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

(Via Deadline)

After facing a wave of backlash on social media, Wendy’s would like to clarify that it wasn’t trying to gouge people for cheeseburgers by introducing surge pricing. It was actually going to make items cheaper, you see, which was the tone of a statement from the fast food restaurant after sparking a wave of bad headlines. According to a Wendy’s spokesperson, their plan to implement digital menu boards was “misconstrued.”

“We said these menu boards would give us more flexibility to change the display of featured items. This was misconstrued in some media reports as an intent to raise prices when demand is highest at our restaurants,” Wendy’s said via Quartz. “We have no plans to do that and would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most.”

In fairness, Wendy’s did not specifically say anything about raising (or lowering) prices, but it did tout its ability to change prices in real-time to increase profitability. Here’s exactly what CEO Kirk Tanner said during the earnings call:

“Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said. “As we continue to show the benefit of this technology in our company-operated restaurants, franchisee interest in digital menu boards should increase, further supporting sales and profit growth across the system.”

To be clear, Wendy’s is still moving forward with the digital menu boards, but it has no plans to raise menu prices during busy hours even though this technology would give them the ability to do that. Read into that what you will.

In the meantime, the home of the Baconator is still getting roasted on social media, so it’s probably going to take more than just a statement from Wendy’s to earn back customer’s trust.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Quartz)

Cigarettes After Sex have new music on the way. Today (February 28), the El Paso-bred band announced their new album X’s and shared their new single, “Blue Tejano.” Fans can look forward to seeing Cigarettes After Sex over a slew of tour dates taking place this year and next.

The band is set to tour various venues across the world, giving fans several opportunities to catch them live. Tickets for Cigarettes After Sex’s upcoming tour will go on sale soon.

When Do Cigarettes After Sex’s 2024 And 2025 Tour Tickets Go On Sale?

Tickets will go on sale beginning March 5 at 10 a.m. ET for North American dates. Additional presales, including international promoter presales, will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets will be available for purchase via the band’s official website.

You can see a full list of tour dates below.

Cigarettes After Sex 2024 And 2025 Tour Dates

06/15/2024 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
08/31/2024 — Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
09/01/2024 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
09/03/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
09/04/2024 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
09/06/2024 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
09/10/2024 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
09/11/2024 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
09/13/2024 — Orlando, FL @ Kia Center
09/14/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
09/17/2024 — San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
09/18/2024 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
09/20/2024 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
09/21/2024 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
09/23/2024 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
09/24/2024 — Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
09/27/2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
09/28/2024 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
09/30/2024 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
10/02/2024 — Greenwood Village, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
10/03/2024 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center
10/05/2024 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
10/07/2024 — San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
10/08/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Desert Diamond Arena
10/11/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum
10/15/2024 — Mexico City, MX @ Palacio de los Deportes
10/25/2024 — Athens, GR @ OAKA Indoor Arena
10/28/2024 — Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome
10/29/2024 — Brussels, BE @ Forest National
11/01/2024 — Milan, IT @ Forum
11/03/2024 — Vienna, AT @ Wiener Stadthalle
11/05/2024 — Warsaw, PL @ COS Torwar
11/07/2024 — Berlin, DE @ Uber Arena
11/09/2024 — Basel, CH @ St Jakobshalle
11/10/2024 — Cologne, DE @ Lanxess Arena
11/12/2024 — London, UK @ The O2
11/16/2024 — Paris, FR @ Accor Arena
11/17/2024 — Lyon, FR @ Halle Tony Garnier
11/20/2024 — Madrid, ES @ WiZink Center
11/21/2024 — Lisbon, PT @ Altice Arena
01/09/2025 — Hong Kong, HK @ Asia World-Expo, Hall 5
01/11/2025 — Kuala Lumpur, MY @ Sunway Lagoon
01/14/2025 — Manila, PH @ MOA Arena
01/17/2025 — Jakarta, ID @ Beach City International
01/21/2025 — Bangkok, TH @ Impact Exhibition Hall 5
03/05/2025 — Cape Town, ZA @ Grand Arena at GrandWest
03/07/2025 — Pretoria, ZA @ SunBet Arena
03/12/2025 — Melbourne, AU @ Rod Laver Arena
03/14/2025 — Sydney, AU @ ICC Theatre
03/17/2025 — Brisbane, AU @ Brisbane Entertainment Center
03/19/2025 — Auckland, NZ @ Spark Arena

Here’s my guess: in a few years the performance Adam Sandler (Bulletproof) gives in Spaceman (on Netflix this weekend) will be mentioned when a person starts rattling off the best Sandler performances, as people like myself are wont to do. The problem with Johan Renck’s Spaceman today is it’s just a little too bizarre, to the point it’s going to take awhile for people to figure out what to make of it. And not in some deep, philosophical way – the movie is pretty upfront about what it is and what it’s trying to do; almost to a fault – but at its core this is just a bizarre movie disguised as poignant and mysterious. This is a movie that features a giant, but kind of cute talking spider-looking alien, voiced by Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens), who constantly refers to Sandler’s Jakub Procházka as “skinny human.”

Based on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia, Sandler plays Czech Republic cosmonaut Jakub Procházka (yes, Sandler is doing an accent, but it seems purposefully light and fleeting) who is on a solo mission to an area of space near Jupiter to examine a strange cloud of light that can be seen from Earth. Jakub is a broken man who, possibly, accepted this mission as a way to further punish himself for the crimes of his father, who was an enforcer in the Communist party. He talks to his wife, Lenka, played by Carey Mulligan (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), on video chat – but she is pregnant, lonely, and disillusioned with Jakub and his mission.

When we first see the alien, we are not sure if this is a figment of Jakub’s imagination, a straight-up hallucination, or real. Jakub isn’t quite sure either, but decides to kill it anyway even though it speaks English and seems friendly enough. When Jakub fails to kill the alien, they start a communication that starts out pleasant enough – the alien says his kind do not have names, so Jakub names him Hanuš after the inventor of the Prague astronomical clock (as noted in the film, historians now think this is false) – but even the alien gets pretty tired of Jakub’s selfishness and winds up berating him for being a bad person. Hearing some hard truths, Jakub decides to make some changes in his lie, but considering his current situation out in space, headed toward a mysterious energy cloud that Hanuš explains to us the beginning and end of the universe, Jakub’s new life lessons might be moot.

There were a couple of times that I, as a viewer, as the story goes on, questioned if Hanuš was real. But then I finally made a mental decision that he was real. The movie certainly presents him as real. And I don’t think a movie that wears its heart on its sleeve so transparently like Spaceman really gets to pull the whole, “this fantastical alien that shouldn’t be real wasn’t real,” trick.

When Spaceman was originally announced I assumed, at first, it was a comedy. The title is kind of funny. And the descriptions, along the lines of, “Adam Sandler plays an astronaut who meets an alien names Hanus,” … I’m sorry, that sounds like a comedy. With all due respect to the historical figure Hanuš and the clock he apparently did not make, I was not entirely familiar with his work. By the time I saw the film I had a fairly good sense this was not a Sandler comedy, but it’s striking how there’s absolutely no humor whatsoever in Spaceman. I found the whole movie incredibly sad. And I do appreciate Sandler when he takes on grief. There seems to have been a re-evaluation of his 2007 role in Reign Over Me, playing a broken man who lost his family during the events of 9/11. I was on board with Sandler in Reign Over Me from the start, but I get why it’s tough. Sandler is so distant in Reign Over Me, we don’t really know him at all outside of what Don Cheadle’s character tells us. But in Spaceman, we work through his pain together. We feel a part of it. We feel this character letting us in and we get to know him and Sandler is really good at this.

But, again, this is a very weird movie for also being so emotionally forlorn. And I’m truly not sure what its place is in the current movie landscape of 2024. It will be on Netflix this weekend, but I do wonder what people settling in to watch Adam Sandler and a not-at-all-wacky alien converse about the meaning of life will think about all this. It’s strange this movie exists at all outside of, possibly, an awards vehicle for Sandler that, considering when it’s being released – which would be now – most definitely isn’t happening. (Spaceman did premiere at the Berlin Film Festival recently. A prestigious festival, but not really one where Oscar campaigns are often launched.) But I kind of wish that were happening. And I think Spaceman itself is maybe just a couple tweaks away from being something truly special. But, as is, it’s kind of this oddball movie that I’m glad exists and I truly think Sandler is really terrific.

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Rihanna is turning up the glitz and glamour for a luxurious new ad for her Fenty Beauty brand.

In the creative video, she appears alongside ASAP Rocky in an old Hollywood-inspired film noir, with the two really committing to the era. It first opens on RiRi, with the title card “Born To Steal” written in a movie-style font.

“She was a classy dame, but she had odd ways of showing her affection, from leaving me out cold in the dark to stealing my heart… and my stuff,” the voiceover says. “I’d let her get away with murder. The male chooses his attire carefully. Although the female’s choices are endless, she borrows from the male for her camouflage.”

Viewers see Rihanna dolled up in early-1900s-inspired makeup and a diamond necklace, as she dances around. She then changes into a suit. While getting dressed and trying it on, ASAP Rocky appears, nearly catching her in the process. He walks into the room, but much like the mystery movies, she is creatively hiding out of view.

Later on in the video, the two get together, eating breakfast as he reads the newspaper — including an issue where Rihanna is hilariously dubbed the “blazer bandit.” Basically, we need Rihanna to bring back these types of movies now.

Until that happens, if at all, check out Rihanna and ASAP Rocky starring in the “Born To Steal: Yours, Mine, Ours” Fenty Beauty ad above.

We’re living in an odd era for movies. Gone are the days when a simple trailer was all we needed to get us to shell out the cash for a ticket. Now weird memes power the box office. We saw it last summer with Barbenheimer, people couldn’t help but be obsessed with the juxtaposition between Barbie and Oppenheimer. It was harmless fun and it made going to see these movies more of a cultural event (it also helped that both movies are great) with many people seeing both films as an unofficial double feature.

Now we’re seeing the memification of the theater experience again with Dune: Part Two. Considering that the movie is getting stellar reviews, it’s sorta wild that the thing that has everyone talking about the upcoming movie isn’t Director Denis Villeneuve’s striking visuals or the performance of Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides. Instead, it’s AMC Theater’s weird sandworm-inspired promotional popcorn bucket.

A promotional popcorn bucket is nothing new, we’ve seen it with Star Wars, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and Marvel. But none of those popcorn buckets have looked like some sort of weird sex toy that Elon Musk would own.

If you’ve looked at the sandworm popcorn bucket with some side-eye, you’re not alone. People are well aware that this thing looks weird. Saturday Night Live poked fun at the bucket’s resemblance to a sex toy, building an entire musical sketch around teens losing their virginity to it.

And the film’s director Denis Villeneuve is aware of the design too, telling the New York Times “When I saw it, I went, ‘Hooooooly smokes.’ What the ****!? … It’s some kind of… impressive design.”

Impressive isn’t the word we would’ve used, but hey, I guess this means we can count Villeneuve as a fan of the snack delivery system that might end up teaching kids about Indigenous mythology. Some people have also questioned the functionality of the design. Thanks to its teeth… or tendrils, or whatever the hell those things are, it doesn’t look like the easiest way to eat popcorn.

Also, we shudder at the sound this thing is going to make as dozens upon dozens of people ram their fists into these buckets while sitting through the film’s nearly three-hour runtime. Yeesh.

Anyway, if you’re looking to pick up the Dune 2 sandworm popcorn bucket (no judgment), you’ll be able to find it at participating AMC theaters as early as tomorrow, February 29th, one day before Dune: Part Two hits screens. And then what you do with your popcorn bucket in the privacy of your own home is your business, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Just make sure to wash it first. And after.

In a piece we published last week titled “One Change Each Fast Food Restaurant Should Make Today,” I wrote this about KFC:

What I want is a spicy version of its Original Recipe Chicken… All it would take is adding some cayenne pepper to the 11 herbs and spices. Heat is the one thing missing from KFC’s menu.

Now, I don’t expect any fast food chain to take my advice, I’m but a lowly customer, not someone who is paid a six-figure salary to come up with stupid ideas like The Chizza. But still… my pitch was better than whatever this is. (Sidenote, my thoughts on In-N-Out adding bacon caused absolute chaos in the In-N-Out Enthusiasts Facebook group and was eventually taken down.)

Anywayyyyyyy, what is the Chizza?

It’s two Extra Crispy breast filets topped with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. It’s essentially KFC’s version of chicken parm, you know, the thing we’ve all been asking for, right?

Wrong. Please, KFC, we beg you — just give us spicy chicken.

The Chizza first debuted in the Philippines in 2015 and has since hit menus in Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. Now it’s coming stateside for a limited time. Let me just say outright — I went into this tasting pretty pessimistic. I mean… look at it!

Still, this Frankenfood nightmare is sort of my beat, so I did the thing. I ate it, and now I present you with two reasons why you need to eat the Chizza (and also five reasons why you definitely shouldn’t). In the end, the choice is yours.

Two Reasons Why You Need To Order The Chizza ASAP

1. You’re stoned. The Chizza is the sort of dish only Jack in the Box would be able to pull off right. “What if we had pizza but it was fried chicken?” Once you bite into this thing and all the flavors start to clash in weird ways, it’ll be a reminder that it’s best not to formulate ideas about what to eat once you’re already high. And for that lesson, it’s worth it… I guess.
2. So you can tell your friends on TikTok not to order the Chizza. Look, I get it, this dish is tempting and I’m sure a lot of people are going to want to eat it for the novelty. I’m one of them. But this dish has no redeeming qualities. The tomato sauce is very sweet and has a flavor way too similar to ketchup, the cheese is low quality, and the weird stiff almost jerky-like pepperoni is some of the worst pepperoni I’ve ever tasted. I did a whole ranking on frozen pepperoni pizzas, so trust me, I know bad pepperoni.

Five Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Order The Chizza

1. Because it doesn’t taste good. As I said above, there are no redeeming qualities here. The sauce is way too bright and way too sweet. Imagine the worst spaghetti sauce you’ve ever had, now imagine that sauce wasn’t enough for whatever you wanted to use it for so you cut it with ketchup to spread it out a bit. Now put that on an underseasoned fried chicken breast filet. Tasty right? But it doesn’t stop at bad sauce, the cheese is oddly flavorless, serving as little more than a slimy texture. The pepperoni is chewy and barely registers on the tastebuds as pepperoni at all. I had to eat a pepperoni solo just to get an idea of what this stuff tasted like. If you fed it to me blindfolded, I would legit guess cardboard before meat.
2. Because you need to eat it with a fork and knife. Looking at this dish you’d think it’s easy to hold and crunch into. It’s not. When the Chizza is hot, it’s too hot to hold comfortably and you have to sort of balance it on the tips of your fingers. When it cools down a bit, the bottom sogs up and feels slimy.
3. Because the money isn’t worth what you get. The pricing for this dish is as follows: $12.99 for the Chizza combo, $9.99 for a two-filet Chizza, $5.99 for a one-filet Chizza. $12.99 doesn’t sound that steep for a combo and it’s in line with the price of KFC’s other combos, but let’s be real here — this dish should’ve been a chicken sandwich. KFC has all the ingredients on hand, all they had to do was ditch the pepperoni, slip this between two buns, and bam, KFC has a Chicken Parm Sandwich. Would that have been a harder sell for the marketing department than the Chizza?
4. Because it encourages KFC to make stupid dishes like this more often instead of SPICY CHICKEN. Enough said.
5. Because the chicken is the best part. Why order the Chizza and subject yourself to everything bad about this dish, when you could just order anything else on KFC’s menu? This dish is lazy and that’s the worst part about it. I don’t think it’s impossible to make this dish work, as stupid as it is, but the fact that KFC didn’t even try to give us quality marinara, mozzarella, or pepperoni adds insult to injury.

The Bottom Line:

The Chizza will probably go down as the biggest fast food misstep of 2024. If KFC is hoping to compete with the likes of Popeyes, Chick-fil-A, or Raising Canes, they need better ideas and better execution.