Recent polls suggest that Republicans and Democrats have slightly different tastes that have nothing to do with politics.
If you like cats, The Beatles, and Starbucks, you tend to vote Democrat. If you’re into Toby Keith, Budweiser, and Dunkin’ Donuts, you tend to vote Republican.
So how does it work? (Don’t read the answer if you haven’t taken the quiz yet.)
According to ChartsMe, recent studies have found that people who were more prone to disgust are more conservative. This leads them to more closely align with the Republican Party.
Some scientists believe it’s ancestral and that the adverse reactions to conditions we’d label “disgusting” were used to protect primitive ancestors from contamination and disease. This way a person wouldn’t confuse drinking water with dirty pond scum. But if the test told you that you’re a Republican, you probably won’t accept that explanation because studies show you probably don’t believe in evolution.
Camp Flog Gnaw returned yesterday (November 11) for the kickoff of the annual Los Angeles festival’s 2023 edition. As for the headliners, Kendrick Lamar and his cousin, Baby Keem, made their live debut as a duo now known as The Hillbillies. Throughout the set, both rappers played songs from their catalogs, including Lamar treating the Dodger Stadium crowd to hits like “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “Humble.”
As they neared the end of the 23-song setlist, Lamar and Keem had one final surprise in store. The two brought out the event’s founder, none other than Tyler, The Creator, to groove along with them as they performed “The Hillbillies” song for the first time live also. Originally, the track dropped as a single online release in May. Tyler also appeared in the music video, making his appearance a fun surprise for fans.
The second day of 2023’s Camp Flog Gnaw is taking place today, as SZA is closing the night out as the other headliner, so there will (hopefully) be more surprises in store with her set. For those who are attending the sold-out event, more information can be found here.
Check out the video of Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem dancing with Tyler, The Creator below.
Kendrick Lamar & Baby Keem brought out Tyler, The Creator on stage during their 2023 Camp Flog Gnaw set pic.twitter.com/aF4LNUiAmk
A week after getting the Chiefs and Dolphins in a matchup of the AFC’s best, the good people of Frankfurt, Germany were reminded what the bottom half of the NFL looks like when the Colts and Patriots showed up to play the latest NFL overseas game.
It was a quarterback showdown of Gardner Minshew and Mac Jones, and as expected, it was rather hideous. The Colts led 10-6 late in the fourth quarter, as they had the lone touchdown of the game, when the Pats offense finally came to life a bit as the running game got going and Jones hit a couple of pass plays to move the Patriots into the red zone. After a run play got stuffed on first down, the Pats faced a 2nd and 12 from the 15 and Mike Gesicki got a great release off the line and was behind the defense going into the end zone.
All Mac Jones need to do was put some air under it and throw it over the top. Unfortunately for New England, Mac Jones is not good at playing quarterback and instead underthrew it horrifically, right into the arms of Julian Blackmon who was almost shocked to see the ball coming towards him.
Julian Blackmon intercepts Mac Jones at the goal line!
It’s legitimately one of the worst interceptions of the season given time, situation, and the fact that Jones wasn’t hit and the ball wasn’t tipped and still came up this short. The throw was bad enough that Jones was benched for the final drive of the game, as Bailey Zappe was sent out on the field to try and lead a game-winning drive in the two-minute drill.
That worked for a bit, but then Zappe went with a fake spike at midfield and threw his own dreadful interception to end the game.
Donald Trump made an appearance last night at UFC 295 — accompanied by super cool bros Don Jr., Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock, and UFC honcho Dana White — hours after giving a speech in New Hampshire in which he once again seemed to think that Barack Obama is still the president of the United States of America. Unlike his recent appearance at a college football game in Iowa, Trump received a mostly warm welcome from the UFC fans in attendance as his entrance was broadcast on the arena’s big screens. Also, Trump entered the arena to Kid Rock’s “American Badass,” because of course.
He was given a huge ovation and the crowd followed up with chants of ‘USA’ before the promo for the UFC’s 30th anniversary event was played. The crowd went wild again a few minutes later when the 45th president appeared on the big screen inside the arena…Trump has been in the crowd at UFC events in previous years and there had been speculation all week that he would be at the Garden on Saturday night. The crowd got their wish shortly before the start of the main card as Trump made a grand entrance.
One fan in attendance, however, did not appear to be thrilled to see the disgraced ex-president with 91 felony charges hanging over his head. And that person just happened to be Bill Burr’s wife, actress/writer/producerNia Renee Hill.
Bill Burr’s wife Nia giving Trump the double bird is the content I’m here for pic.twitter.com/x7A2GKK9f5
Yep, those are indeed the vaunted double birds, a move one only uses when in the presence of people who are truly loathed. Burr’s weekly “Monday Morning Podcast” should be fun this week!
Doja Cat‘s fans are currently spiraling after the singer posted a cryptic video to her Instagram, with nothing but the caption “Out Monday.” The clip finds Doja (as her red-painted Scarlet altar-ego) interviewing the seemingly regular Doja, mirroring the style of a late-night television show.
“This might be a silly question,” Doja asks herself from the hosting desk in the skit. “Do you appreciate the people and the fans who support your music?”
The video then cuts to Doja dressed up, as she sits on the stage. A thought bubble version of herself appears right above. “I hate my fans,” she says, speaking from her inner thoughts. “My fans are dumb.” Instead of saying that out loud, she just answers, “Yeah,” as the audience cheers.
While it’s still unclear exactly what this teaser is for, Doja’s fans seem to believe that it’s likely for a new music video. Some have speculated possibly for “F*ck The Girls (FTG),” “Shutcho,” or something else entirely.
After a disappointing 5-4 start to the season that included losses to pretty much every top program they faced, Texas A&M took out some frustration this weekend with a 51-10 win over Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon.
That performance will apparently be the last under head coach Jimbo Fisher, as his tenure with the school is set to end after almost six seasons in College Station, according to Billy Liucci of TexAgs and confirmed by Pete Thamel of ESPN.
BREAKING: Per multiple sources, Texas A&M set to part ways with Jimbo Fisher as early as today.
Decision was reached at the recommendation of the Athletic Dept/University president during last Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting.
Sources: Fisher’s dismissal is expected this morning. The school plans to honor his contract in full. @TexAgs first reported the firing. https://t.co/EGA8QeqQwc
Fisher finishes with a 45-25 record at A&M, but more important to his firing is a middling 27-21 record in SEC play. Aside from the weird 10-game 2020 season (9-1), the Aggies were never particularly competitive in the SEC West in terms of being a threat to make it to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game. The good news for Fisher is he has one of the most hilariously large buyouts in college football history, as he’ll get paid $76 million to not coach Texas A&M going forward, with no offsets if he gets another job in the future — and a lot of that money coming his way soon.
Buying out Jimbo, buying out the staff and paying for the next person means this entire transaction is going to cost around $100 million.
Jimbo’s deal requires 25 percent (about $19.5 million) due within 60 days and the rest paid in regular installments over the term.
As for Texas A&M, they figure to be one of the most coveted jobs in college football despite having not been a national title contender in decades, as they have incredible resources, money, and recruiting area. Thamel’s initial coaching search frontrunners include the likes of Oregon’s Dan Lanning, Duke’s Mike Elko, and, hysterically, Kliff Kingsbury who has never been particularly successful as a head coach at any level but happened to be at A&M when Johnny Manziel was there.
Early list of potential names for Texas A&M, knowing money is no object: Lane Kiffin, Mike Elko, Mike Norvell, Dan Lanning, Jeff Traylor, Chris Klieman, Kliff Kingsbury and Kalen DeBoer.
If nothing else, Texas A&M becoming an open job means coaches everywhere are about to get big time extensions, as Jimmy Sexton is set to go to work with the leverage of the Aggies throwing their money around trying to land a splashy hire.
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.
Corsets are somehow all the rage again. That’s to be expected in the era of Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age, Bridgerton, and Queen Charlotte supremacy. Christina Hendricks stars in this series with similar opulent surroundings and wiggery, but that’s not all. The story revolves around the new rich in America and their daughters, known as The Buccaneers, who make a spectacle of themselves in London while attempting to find some aristocratic dudes who are both handsome and classy. Gotta dig that hot corset action.
TIE: 10. Dumb Money (Sony Pictures movie streaming on VOD & Amazon Prime)
The GameStop short-squeeze of 2021 saw a fairly fast turnaround into a movie starring Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen, and Shailene Woodley. Dano stars as a dude (Keith Gill) who puts his life savings into the stock starting in 2020, soon enough, much of Internet joined him. This doesn’t last too long, however, when billionaires grow incensed that someone is gaming their system that they, too, are gaming. This led to mass chaos for the Robinhood platform, and before long, those involved saw their lives upended.
This animated series starring Maya Erskine, Brenda Song, Kenneth Branagh, and Masi Oka 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 into vengeance by sword. Mizo is a mixed-race sword master, in fact, 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, the latter of whom penned Blade Runner 2049 and Logan.
Never doubt horror maestro Mike Flanagan, especially because his latest spooky series is going strong well into November. Here, he casts Carla Gugino again, practically in several roles as the shapeshifting Verna. This show is so brazenly up in the Edgar Allan Poe references with so many macabre happenings that we put together a death ranking. Also, this isn’t a literal telling of the Poe story but one that successfully incorporates modern ills while skewering the concepts of wealth, privilege, and power.
7. No Hard Feelings (Sony Pictures movie streaming on Netflix)
Sometimes, you simply wanna tuck in with a simple, non-stressful movie that isn’t four hours long and features Jennifer Lawrence is raunchy mode. As it turns out, a lot of people have had the same wish for months, since this movie did respectably at the box office and has been going strong on streaming for weeks. In this R-rated sex comedy, Lawrence portrays Maddie, a fail-hard young woman who needs to make some money, fast, so she answers a Craigslist ad from parents who would really like a nice woman to “date” their awkward 19-year-old son. Despite the bawdy premise, this movie also has heart, and Lawrence dove right in on both fronts.
Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666, 2024, and 1944 in the works on the Yellowstone side, so he’s got the modern cowboys covered. For the moment, however, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal in a series that harkens back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals around. Co-stars include Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland.
The season finale (to quote Bill Murray in Ghostbusters) came, saw, and kicked ass with a short but highly impactful cameo from the original series to top things off. Speaking of which, Antony Starr only gets worse/better as Homelander, and his appearance, along with that of Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher, lets us know where the cards will be stacked for Season 4 of The Boys. Oi.
Michael Fassbender does yoga in this David Fincher film. Oh, do you want more? Well, Fassbender also portrays an assassin who is usually incredibly good at never failing at his job. At one point, however, he gets emotional, and that might be his fatal flaw. Uh oh. He also uses several aliases, including Felix Unger, Archibald Bunker, and Oscar Madison, so there’s that to look forward to as well. It’s a lean and mean film that did the festival circuit and has now swiftly landed in your living room to enjoy at home.
So, is Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) a villain now? That’s a major question explored during the first episodes of Season 2 from Robert Kirkland, and the voices of Walton Goggins and Sandra Oh are here to help guide you toward an answer. This season goes deeper into emotions and motivations for most characters, and it’s still the same smart and visually lush production as last time. No one is better at crowd-pleasing comic-book adaptations right now than Amazon, and that probably wasn’t on anyone’s nerd-bingo card five years ago, yet we will take it.
The second season finale left the door open for more of Tom Hiddleston’s trickster god. He’s still burdened with glorious purpose, and this season even took on shades of a romantic comedy when Miss Minutes wasn’t scaring the pants off everyone. Of course, there was plenty more about the temporal time loop with more questions about fate and whether or not Jonathan Majors will remain in the MCU. No word yet on that last awkward note.
1. 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.
Somehow, James Austin Johnson‘s freakishly accurate Trump impression seems to get better with each ‘SNL’ performance. This week saw Johnson’s Trump walking on stage at this past week’s latest sh**show of a GOP debate — the one in which Nikki Haley called swarmy pharma bro Vivek Ramaswamy “scum” live to his face (the shoe definitely seems to fit) — and mocking his remaining opponents mercilessly while they stood frozen behind him.
Some of the notable cracks include:
“Can you believe it, folks? Ninety-one indictments, four trials and I am still the best choice.”
“I’m very, very busy. I’m going from trial to trial. I’m basically doing House Hunters but with courtrooms.”
“How adorable. They actually think they’ve got a chance. Sad in some ways, but in other ways, funny.”
“They are all stuck behind me and there is nothing they can do about it, just like in real life.”
“I call (Nikki Haley) ‘bird brain,’ but only in public. She made some terrible points in that debate — I think. I don’t know, I have trouble hearing women over 25.”
And perhaps the best crack was about Ron DeSantis, who was played by John Higgins.
“Poor Ron DeSantis. Even SNL doesn’t think he has a chance. If they did it’d be like Paul Rudd or something in there.”
In their second performance of the night on the Saturday Night Live stage, Boygenius delivered an intimate performance of “Satanist” from their debut album, The Record.
While on stage, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus wore their signature suits, once again, with Baker front and center. She kicked off the song, taking command vocally, with the other ladies joining in, adding their special touches. About halfway through the song, a devilishly red light shone upon the group. At the conclusion of the song, Baker tossed her guitar off stage in a rockstar rite of passage.
It feels like Boygenius is on top of the world, following a year of critically-acclaimed music, incredible performances, and pure camaraderie. In an interview with British GQ, the ladies shared that they do fear an inevitable hiatus of the group, as they each return to making their respective solo music. But note that nothing compares to the feeling of magic when they create together.
“When I’m working by myself, it feels a lot like this weird, individualist quest to create something grand,” said Baker. “And when I’m working with y’all, by necessity, because y’all are contributing to it, it feels unpredictable, unknown.”
In his second time hosting Saturday Night Live, Timothée Chalamet brought back an old favorite. Reprising his Soundcloud rapper role, SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta, Chalamet spoke on a special panel honoring the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
During the sketch, a moderator named Nunya Business, played by Ego Nwodim, hosts a group of hip-hop experts at the Museum Of Hip-Hop. On the panel are Mary J. Blige (Punkie Johnson), Dr. Cornel West (Kenan Thompason), Rick Rubin (James Austin Johnson), and SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta.
Evidently, SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta has broken the streaming record, which, according to Nunya, makes him “the most successful hip-hop artist of all time.”
While on the panel, Johnson’s Blige posits that hip-hop has thrived for more than 50 years, given the pure emotion in the music. Meanwhile, SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta is confused, as he initially thought hip-hop was discovered in 2014. However, he simply sums up his reasoning for Hip-Hop’s longevity, saying, “the opps gonna slide, but DMs be popping regardless.”
Elsewhere in the panel, SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta opens up about his struggles, hilariously noting “My dad made me get braces when I wanted Invisalign.” He also mentioned his sidekick in the rap game, Guaplord, who, in SmokeChedda’s first sketch, was played by Pete Davidson.
“He gotta lay low in Turkey for a minute,” SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta said.
You can see the sketch above.
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