Breakups can be difficult. For celebrities, they can be even more tricky because they happen in public. Over the last week, rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Pardison Fontaine (also known as Pardi) split has been the most discussed romantic fallout in hip-hop.
In her latest single, “Cobra,” Megan alleged that infidelity on Pardi’s end contributed to their downfall. “Pulled up, caught him cheatin’, gettin’ his d*ck sucked in the same spot I’m sleepin’,” she rapped. After being flooded with fan reactions, Pardi issued a response track of his own. So, why did Pardi diss Megan? According to Pardi’s latest song, “Thee Person,” it was to clear his name.
“After watching people drag your name. And talk about you in unfavorable ways. In order to get attention and clicks,” said Pardi in the song’s introduction. “I never thought you would do something like that to me. Oh, I’d like to apologize for no longer keeping up with your lies or supporting your habits to tell half-truths.”
Later in the song, Pardi seemed to confirm that he stepped outside the relationship. But in his words, it didn’t happen in the way Megan recounted. “Hire detectives, girl, you the feds / Not in your house, not in your bed / You lyin’ to people, you sick in the head,” rapped Pardi.
Listen to Pardison Fontaine’s track “Thee Person” above.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Donald Trump is a prolific scandal-maker, but surely in his Top 10 would be the alleged Russian “pee tape”. Shortly before the 2016 election, word spread that Vladimir Putin had some good dirt on the future 45th president in the form of a video, which allegedly showed him, well, receiving a “golden shower” from some sex workers. There’s never been any proof that it was real, but the rumor never went away. In fact, there’s one person who keeps reminding people about it: Donald Trump.
During a rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa Saturday, a rambly Trump segued into a bit about how he explained this particular allegation to his long-suffering wife Melania, who’s already had to deal with allegations that her husband cheated on her with a porn star.
“You think that was good that night to go up and tell my wife? ‘It’s not true darling, I love you very much, it’s not true,’” Mr Trump told the crowd, who could surely relate to his woes. “Actually, that one she didn’t believe because she said he’s a germaphobe, he’s not into that, you know. He’s not into golden showers as they say.”
This particular allegation was the most lurid part of what became known as the “Steele dossier,” the mostly debunked document from British spy Christopher Steele. The “pee tape” became an instant social media blockbuster, though that didn’t stop Trump from being elected shortly thereafter. It mostly faded from memory. Luckily Trump himself has never forgotten about it and is clearly eager to keep its legend alive.
Last week was not a great one for George Santos. The creatively dishonest GOP representative received a damning report from the House Ethics Committee, which revealed that he spent campaign money on important things, such as Botox and OnlyFans subscriptions. After the report went public, he declared that he would not seek re-election. Is this the end of the guy who lied about his mom dying in the September 11 attacks, which she didn’t? Probably not. But on SNL’s Weekend Update, he gave a kind of victory lap.
Bowen Yang, who earlier in the episode played one of the recently departed Chinese pandas, swung by the show to once again play a defiant Santos. He didn’t seem that concerned over his latest scandal, which for anyone else would be a career-ender. That mystified co-host Colin Jost.
“George, this is serious. They’re calling for your expulsion,” Jost told him.
When called out for watching OnlyFans on his donators’ dime, he of course tried to spin it. “Isn’t Congress kind of like OnlyFans anyway? People paying you to do nasty things on a sad, bad livestream?” he said.
Jost also asked him about dumping campaign money at high-end stores like Ferragamo. When asked what he bought there, Santos pointed to the red sweater he had on.
“You went to Ferragamo and that’s what you picked?” Jost snapped back.
“Okay, you’re a b*tch,” Yang’s Santos replied.
“That was pretty catty of me, I’m sorry,” Jost said.
There’s a lot of going on in the world right now, so it can be easy to neglect one of the more important “lesser” stories out there: The U.S. just lost three of its seven pandas after China asked for them back. Who doesn’t love pandas? This may seem like a sign that all is not well between President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jingping, but don’t give up hope: Xi singalled that he’s willing to send more pandas our way, as a gesture of “friendship.” It’s this nice story that kicked off the most recent SNL.
In the latest episode’s Cold Open, Mikey Day’s Biden tried to distract the media from some bad news — and, let’s not forget, lots of good news involving a bustling economy that no one wants to talk about — by bringing out Tian Tian, the 26-year old male panda that recently returned home to China. In the sketch, Day’s Biden talked about his recent sit-down with Xi.
“This meeting was a total win,” he averred. “Sure, we made agreements about communications, fentanyl, climate change. But, most importantly, we got the thing America needs right now: More pandas!”
Eventually Yang’s Tian Tian emerged, wondering why he was hogging the spotlight.
“Am I the only one who is surprised that the presidents of the two biggest economies in the world met and everyone’s just like, ‘What’s up with the pandas?’” he said. “I mean, like, I get it: I’m hot, I’m smart, I’m alluringly asexual,” Tian Tian continued. “But there have to be bigger issues, right?”
Biden replied, “Not tonight.”
At one point Tian Tian weighed in on a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House, which he called a “disaster.”
“ He said he’ll round up immigrants and put them in camps. Democracy might end,” he said. “There might be a civil war!”
When asked if he would then be voting for Biden, Tian Tian demurred.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
TIE: 10. Your Lucky Day (Well GO USA Entertainment movie on VOD & Amazon Prime)
Euphoria star Angus Cloud passed away earlier this year, and he left behind a few films including this thriller that might stress you the heck out. This film conjures up a $156 million lottery ticket, which leads to an attempted robbery, a hostage situation, and other parties somehow finding out what’s up and adding to the chaos. The film’s messaging about how one can get rich in America is not subtle, and Cloud is, as always, magnetic and electric.
This series is based upon Charmaine Wilkerson’s best-selling novel that takes a murder mystery around the globe with a diverse array of characters. Creator Melissa Jo Cerar joined with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo films for this decades-spanning saga that begins in the 1960s when a bride disappears in Jamaica. Or is she, you know, actually involved in her husband’s killing? The story hops forward in time, and a family origin story takes a probably-related turn after the death of a widow, who left past demons on a flash drive. You can guess part of where this is going, but not all of it by far.
9. Dumb Money (Sony Pictures movie streaming on VOD & Amazon Prime)
More financial shenanigans happen here, this time of the online tech bro variety, feature in this film about the GameStop short-squeeze and Robin Hood debacle of 2021. Paul Dano stars as Keith Gill, who sinks all of his money into a particular stock, and social media began to follow suit. Billionaires soon begin to lose their sh*t while realizing that they are not the only ones gaming the system now. A whole lot of lives get upended, and the film co-stars Pete Davidson, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Shailene Woodley.
Steven Yeun’s Mark heads to college, which is no Godolkin University. Debbie doesn’t handle this well, which is understandable considering what she has been through with the Omni-Man bullsh*t. She attempts to pick up the pieces with a support group, but worlds soon collide, and there’s no escaping what Mark’s father has done to her and many others. Speaking of the Devil, Omni-Man is obviously alive and well at the end of this episode. Man, Cecil is not going to be happy with Mark, but we knew that already. This series doesn’t have the sizzle of The Boys shows, yet between both universes, Amazon is doing superheroes better than any other studio at the moment.
This is one of three Godzilla projects arriving onscreen before year’s end, and in this Apple TV+ series, Kurt Russell ends up joining forces with the radiation-awoken prehistoric monster. It happens! Kurt is joined by his son, Wyatt, with both Russells portraying Army officer Lee Shaw at various stages of life. Seeing legendary actors joined by their progeny to grand effect is always a good time, and here, you’ll forget all about the nepo baby thing while witnessing secrets coming to light with devastation.
6. Five Nights At Freddy’s (Blumhouse film streaming on Peacock)
This film simultaneously scared up box-office and streaming success on the same weekend. The timing was perfect, given that this film not only fit the spooky time of year but also blossomed as yet another successful video-game-to-screen adaptation. Josh Hutcherson did not have the quiet little evening at work that his character imagined, since this no ordinary pizzeria. Animatronic horror villains are no less scary than horrific and homicidal dolls like M3GAN and those sporting ski masks and chainsaws, as it turns out. And now, the wait for the green lighting of a sequel shall begin.
Goodness, Taylor Sheridan cannot be stopped. Does the man sleep? No one knows the truth, but he’s in between pushing out Yellowstone shows with another three spinoffs (including 6666) in the works, so why not crank out the first season of the Lawmen series? David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal of the Old West, long before Kevin Costner was leading a cowboy soap opera. Bass Reeves is the real deal, and this show follows his frontier hero who captures thousands of the most frightening criminals around.
4. A Murder at the End of the World (FX series streaming on Hulu)
The set-up will remind you of a Glass Onion-style whodunnit but heads toward an exploration of tech could strike a chord in our current times. Emma Corrin transforms into a Gen Z amateur sleuth as Darby, who’s one of the not-so-lucky participants in a gathering held by a reclusive billionaire portrayed by Clive Owen. The series also stars Harris Dickinson of the upcoming The Iron Claw, so get ready to see a lot more of him soon.
Michael Fassbender loves intense gigs, and here, he’s an assassin whose story is peppered with over a dozen songs from The Smiths. This killer, however, not only does yoga for a David Fincher movie but also ends up getting too self-involved with one of his projects. Could this be a fatal flaw? This lean and mean film did the festival circuit and has now swiftly landed in your living room to watch at home. Also enjoy all of the Fassbender aliases, which include Archibald Bunker. Hmm.
The British critics are, unsurprisingly, not thrilled with the four new episodes that follow Princess Diana’s final months as the prestige series finally confronts the royal elephant in the room. Yes, this is a controversial season, but the show walks a careful balance with impressive grace, even with the Ghost Diana phenomenon. So much could have gone wrong with the recounting and dramatization of tragic events that shook the world, but Diana’s strength prevails even beyond the end of her life.
This animated series will appeal to Quentin Tarantino fans, not only for the revenge story but several other touches, including choreographed violence. The story takes place in 16th century Edo-period Japan, where a young warrior is driven to seek vengeance. Mizo is a mixed-race sword master, and she conceals herself, including those blue eyes — which would make those suspicious of foreigners to take notice of her — and her gender, while undertaking her mission. You’re in good hands with creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green (Blade Runner 2049, Logan), and you might even have a hard time deciding whether you enjoy the sensual aspects or the fight scenes more. It’s a good problem to have while watching TV.
It’s prime turkey season. Next week (and the many days following) will be an abundance of turkey-related meals all stemming from one roasted turkey on Thursday. But as well all likely know, not all parts of that turkey are equal. And just splitting the bird into “dark meat” and “white meat” isn’t nearly accurate enough. A wing flat and the tenderloin are lightyears apart in texture and flavor yet they’re both “white meat” sections. The same goes for the oysters and legs. They both might be dark meat but that oyster is a delectable morsel and the leg is a bone-splint-filled nuisance.
All of that is to say that it’s high time to rank every single part of the turkey. This ranking aims to give you an advantage when you head to the table on Thursday. Hopefully, you’ll be able to find the prime pieces of meat before anyone else and load that plate up just right.
Let’s dive right in and rank every part of the Thanksgiving bird!
Overall, there’s not a lot going on here. There are thin strips of meat, fat, and skin with a lot of marrow-filled spine bones. It’s funky and… trust us, no one is fighting over the spine of the bird at any Thanksgiving feast.
What It’s Good For:
If you’re butterflying (or spatchcocking) the bird, then you’re going to have an extra spine hanging around. The best use is for making stock. All that collagen, fat, bone, marrow, and skin will make for a great base for future gravy or part of a turkey noodle soup.
That makes this “cut” a full skip until the next day when you’re in soup mode.
8. The Wings
The Cut:
The wings are pretty overlooked during the rush to the dinner table. The tips will likely be singed beyond recognition. The flat of the wing will have a bit of stringy white meat with (usually) dried-out skin. The drummette might be pretty good, depending on how well-cooked the turkey is. Still, it’s going to be a little tougher white meat.
What It’s Good For:
This usually either gets thrown into turkey soup over the weekend or the meat is stripped off the bone and gets hacked up into a turkey salad for sandwiches. Overall, if you’re stuck with a wing this Thanksgiving, you have our sympathies.
That being said, if the wings are being smoked or roasted on their own, you might be in business.
7. The Legs
The Cut:
The leg is a very flashy cut from any Thanksgiving bird. But as far as dark meat goes, this is the most annoying cut. One, it can get overcooked due to its position on the outside of the bird. Two, there are about a million bone splints. You can’t bite into a leg and not hit one. That’s a deal-breaker.
What It’s Good For:
We guess you can spend time scrapping meat out from between those bone splints if you want. Otherwise, this is turkey soup and turkey salad territory. Also, if you take the time to scrape all the dark meat out, it works well in a turkey hash or turkey tacos on Friday morning.
6. The Neck
The Cut:
The neck is usually loaded inside the bird’s cavity — so don’t forget to fish it out! The cut is mostly bone, sinew, collagen, and fat with some brown meat. The meat becomes insanely well-seasoned thanks to all that fat and bone around it when cooked right. So while there’s only a small amount of dark meat on the neck, it comes with enough fatty goodness to make it pretty worthwhile.
What It’s Good For:
The easy answer here is stock. All that unctuous stuff in the neck helps your stock — and future gravy — shine. Think of it like oxtails. That being said, you can smoke, stew, and roast necks as a nice turkey delicacy. That small amount of dark meat will have tons of flavors built-in.
5. The Outer Breast Meat
The Cut:
Not all white meat is created equal. There’s a massive difference between the outer layer of breast meat and the tenderloin, nestled closer to the bone. The outer layer is the white meat you’re probably thinking of — slightly dry and a little grainy. It’s the meat you see when someone (erroneously) slices into a turkey breast while it’s still on the bird (always fully remove the breast before you slice it against the grain, folks).
What It’s Good For:
Even though this isn’t the most beloved meat at the dinner table, it has a lot of uses post-Thanksgiving. This turkey meat works on club sandos, in turkey salad, soup, hash, hot turkey sandwiches, and maybe even a leftover turkey casserole.
If you are stuck with it on Thursday, well … that’s what the gravy is there for.
4. The Tenderloin
The Cut:
We all know chicken tenders are better than chicken breasts and the same is true here. This is that aforementioned breast tenderloin that’s nestled right next to the bone. This is often the juiciest white meat and is pretty hard to screw up while cooking.
What It’s Good For:
We’d argue that this is the first cut of meat worth rushing to the table to get. It’s much softer and meatier than the outer breast (and a lot less grainy). This is good for building the perfect bite on your fork with mash and gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce all stacked on one satisfying bite.
3. The Thighs
The Cut:
This is the fatty meat that’s right under the turkey, so all the juices pass through on the way to the pan below. It’s the most flavored and often the juiciest (by far). Usually, the thighs are broken off and the bones removed, leaving big chunks of thigh meat on the platter, which will be gone pretty quickly.
What It’s Good For:
This is classic turkey meat. It works on its own and you won’t need gravy to help this piece of bird shine (unless the turkey is mercilessly overcooked). If there’s any leftover on Friday (there won’t be), you can also use this cut for anything we mentioned above and it’ll help that dish pop.
2. The Oysters
The Cut:
This is prime territory. The oyster, or sot-l’y-laisse (“only a fool leaves this behind” in French), is the most delicate and delicious part of the turkey that’s mostly meat (vs. our #1 entry, which is mostly fat). The morsels are on the spine in little cavities about 2/3 down from the neck. Like the thighs, this area collects all the fat and juices but the meat is about a million times more deeply flavored and fatty.
What It’s Good For:
If you’re carving the bird, these are usually yours. Those in the know will slice these morsels out and eat one and give the other one to the one they love the most.
Note: If you spatchcock or butterfly your bird, you lose these — a massive downside to that technique.
1. The Pope’s Nose
The Cut:
This is that little, well, nose at the end of the bird. It’s called the pygostyle and holds the preen gland. Basically, this is a little pocket of pure fat that’s held in crispy turkey skin. When it’s crispy on the outside and hot on the inside, this is like getting one or two bites of the purest essence of turkey. It’s glorious.
What It’s Good For:
You want to eat this immediately. It’s usually reserved for whoever is cooking as they’ll likely steal it and eat it well before the turkey hits the table. If you do see it there, don’t be afraid to knock down your asshole cousin to get it on your plate first — or maybe sneak into the kitchen, do some prep help, and see if you can score it early.
Saturday night was a tough one for the Golden State Warriors as they lost their sixth straight game as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat them on their home floor for the second time in three days.
This time, they got buried by a career-best night from Chet Holmgren, who had 36 points including a spinning, fading, overtime-forcing three at the buzzer. In overtime, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander got wherever he wanted and led OKC to a 130-123 win. The Warriors have now given up 130 and 128 points in their two games since Draymond Green got suspended for throwing Rudy Gobert in a chokehold on Tuesday night two minutes into their the In-Season Tournament tilt with the Timberwolves, and they’ll need to manage the next three games without him. Green’s suspension came as little surprise to most given he is a habitual line-stepper and the league has steadily increased his punishments for each incident, but since the suspension we have not heard from the real Green.
That said, we did get to hear from the Saturday Night Live version of Draymond Green, as Devon Walker tossed on a graying beard and a Warriors hoodie to join Michael Che at the desk to make fun of Green’s refusal to be remorseful for any of his actions. He explains his longstanding beef with Gobert as having a 7-foot baguette in his face going “HON HON HON.” As Che walks Green through his history of on-court violence, he replies that when he sees his teammates in trouble, “I strangle that trouble” and that all he cares about is the “safety of my teammates.” Che then asks about him punching Jordan Poole when they were teammates, which leads to Che being added to Draymond’s hit list.
We’re certainly glad Canadian pop star Tate McRae made it to her musical guest slot on Saturday Night Live tonight. Otherwise, we would’ve had to sit through the back-up musical guest. In this week’s “Weekend Update” portion of SNL, a duo called Remember Lizards was revealed to be this week’s back up musical guest.
Played by Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson — whose chemistry was so effortless that they likely could moonlight as a musical duo — Remember Lizards sounded a lot like Imagine Dragons.
When “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost asked Remember Lizards about their genre, the duo had an oddly specific response.
“Uplifting kid-friendly hip-hop/arena rock, with a pop-up edge,” the two said in unison.
Remember Lizards then proceeded to sing a song of theirs, which sounded very similar to Dragons’ hit single, “Believer.” Jost called them on their similarities, however, Remember Lizards assured them that their vibe is totally different.
“Their thing is positive arena rock, that is Christian-curious,” said Johnson’s character.
Dismukes character added, “We do uplifting arena rock that is decidedly Christian.”
The two performed another song, shouting “We love Jesus and lava.” Once again, the song sounded almost exactly like Dragons’ “Believer.”
Over the past few months, several women have taken to TikTok, noting that men frequently think about the Roman empire. This has since spawned memes with people describing fixations of their own as their personal “Roman empire.” Tonight (November 18), in a hilarious music video sketch on Saturday Night Live, the men of the cast doubled down on their fascination with this age.
The video opens with the fictional wives of guest host Jason Momoa, Mikey Day, and Kenan Thompson — played respectively by Ego Nwodim, Chloe Troast, and Punkie Johnson — singing of concerns that their husbands are fantasizing about other women. Momoa then delivers a hilarious rap, ensuring that there’s not lust for other women, but rather, a desire to return to the age of the Roman empire.
As the men continue to rap about how simple of a time the age of the Roman empire must’ve been, Nwodim expresses concern that the fascination is passing along to hers and Momoa’s fictional son.
But the son expresses that he is more interested in dinosaurs, which, like the Roman empire, are in the ground.
The ladies then suggest the men take up other interests — like astrology.
Following an incredible performance of her hit single “Greedy” earlier tonight, Tate McRae once again brought it to the Saturday Night Live stage tonight (November 18) — this time, with a performance of a new song, “Grave.” Earlier this week, McRae premiered her new song and video for “Exes,” and at the end of the video, fans caught a snippet of a new song. Luckily, they didn’t have to wait too long to hear the full version.
During her performance of “Grave,” McRae once again took command of the stage — but this time, more with her vocals and lyrics, than with her dancing.
“You dig the grave so deep / You pull and start to take me down with you / with you, with you, with you,” she sings on the song’s chorus.
McRae’s sophomore album Think Later arrives early next month, and our cover star isn’t wasting any time with this era.
As her star continues to rise, McRae is inevitably dealing with comparisons to the stars of yesteryear. But in an interview with Billboard, she said she hopes to follow in the footsteps in the greats.
“When I look at my favorite icons or videos or performances, it’s always the biggest pop stars, so I think that’s always a goal,” she said. “I think what defines a pop star is how iconic [they are]: Madonna, Britney [Spears], Christina [Aguilera]; they would put on these shows and blow everybody away and make timeless art. And that’s what I want to do: make timeless art and timeless performances — and strive to keep on doing that.”
You can see the performance of “Grave” above.
Think Later is out 12/8 via RCA. Find more information here.
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