GoneTrending

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – Good show back

This summer is already stuffed like a holiday turkey with fun little shows. It’s Always Sunny is on and still cranking out deranged episodes. What We Do in the Shadows just came back and continued being a perfectly silly television program. I’m going to discuss The Righteous Gemstones — yes, again — in the very next section of this column but the short version there is also “very good and I love it.” It’s an embarrassment of riches, really, if you enjoy high-to-high-ish-concept goof parades where unreasonable people set themselves loose on the world and watch things explode around them, which I do. It’s nice.

But also, please, while you’re watching all of those shows (and you should be, provided you can find the time in your allegedly busy schedule), do not forget about The Afterparty. The Afterparty is also a good show. And it just came back for its second season. This is all terrific news as long as you do not have plans or a social life and can make the time.

The first season of The Afterparty went something like this: All of your favorite people from all of your favorite comedies — Sam Richardson! Ben Schwartz! Tiffany Haddish! Ilana Glazer! And so on! — went to a party after their high school reunion that ended with a dead body. Every episode focused on a different character’s version of the events, told from their perspective using a different genre of film (action movie, rom-com, and more). It was inventive and fun and everything you’d probably expect from that cast and the production team of Lord and Miller.

Aaaaand yes, it’s back.

The new season dropped its first two episodes this week and yup, we have another dead body, and yup, Sam Richardson and Tiffany Haddish are there again to sort through it all, and yup, there are more genres to play around with. This season’s murder victim is Zach Woods, which is pretty great because Zach Woods rarely, if ever, misses at doing exactly the things Zach Woods does. It’s all very nice. I appreciate it.

I know it’s not super fair to throw another show at you. There are already way too many of them to keep up with as it is. It is literally my job to stay on top of them and I still somehow just finished the new season of The Bear. (I’m sorry! I’m doing the best I can! Kind of!) But that’s what’s nice about most of these little comedies. They’re dropping just 30 minutes on you at a time and all the ones I mentioned in the first paragraph roll out weekly instead of all at once. You can get all caught up on a single rainy Saturday if you clear the schedule and tell everyone to shut up for a little. Or, you know, you could take your headphones out and invite them to watch, too. Either way.

Something to consider.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – Hey, speaking of good shows

The Righteous Gemstones did another “Interlude” episode this Sunday, which is great because those episodes have traditionally been awesome. The first one gave us “Misbehavin’” and it has not left my brain since. (Not a complaint.) The second one showed us Christmas in 1993, hideous sweaters and all. And this one zipped us ahead to 2000 and a bunch of Y2K mania that Eli used to get very rich. It was good. Go watch it. Or go watch it again. And when you do, please take note of how good the show did at finding an actor to play teen Jesse.

The actor’s name is J. Gavin Wilde and boy howdy did he ever nail it. The other kid actors were good, too. The girl who played Young Judy was wonderful and brought a crazy-eyed mania to the proceedings. But the stuff Wilde did in channeling Danny McBride’s speech patterns and mannerisms was kind of incredible. Screencaps don’t do it justice but that’s what we have here so they’ll have to make due. Look at this guy.

Look at how good he is at this.

I spent most of the episode so focused on how much he looked and sounded like Danny McBride that I forgot to focus on what was happening in the show sometimes, which was weird when I snapped back into focus as he was, like, mashing stuff with the monster truck the show teased in a previous episode. (CHEKHOV’S MONSTER TRUCK.) It’s not the worst problem to have. Kudos to everyone involved here, from young Mr. Wilde to the casting department to Walton Goggins, who did not have anything to do with the stuff I’m talking about but did post this tweet later in the week…

… and that has to count for something. I really need someone to go ahead and give these two a travel show. Or at least record them both saying “cacio e pepe” out loud back and forth to each other for an hour. I can be flexible here. A little. I can be a little flexible here.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – Just give people gift cards, Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is out doing press for the new Mission: Impossible movie and that means the various outlets of the press are currently flooded with stories about Tom Cruise just being the most extremely Tom Cruise dude who has ever lived. Want to read about Tom Cruise just popping up at screenings of the movie at random in the hopes it will convince even one more person to go see a movie in a movie theater? We have those. Want to read about Tom Cruise’s dream of filming an actual movie in actual outer space? We have you covered there, too. When it comes to being Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise rarely disappoints.

Another example: People has a story this week about the elaborate gifts he gave his castmates. Gifts like, for example, skydiving lessons for Pom Klementieff, which she asked for…

“Another beautiful gift that was so thoughtful is that I wanted to skydive with him and also the stunt team, but they said that I needed to get my license,” recalls the French actress, 37. “So when I wrapped the movie, he gifted me, as my wrap gift, the lessons of learning how to skydive.”

“He found a teacher for me and I learned how to skydive and I got my license and we even did jumps together. And now I’m addicted, so that’s my new thing now!”

…. and shark-diving with Simon Pegg and the rest of the crew, which they maybe did not ask for but sure did get anyway.

“We were filming somewhere near some coastal waters where there were sharks and we had the afternoon off and we all jumped,” says Pegg.

“It’s such a Tom Cruise thing. We’ve been filming in a helicopter and he flew us in the helicopter to this place where you could go into a cage and feed sharks. It was one of those days that we got to the end of the day and we were like, ‘That was a real Tom Cruise kind of day.’ “

There are two things I would like to note here:

• It’s very fun to read stuff like this and then try to stop and picture Tom doing a low-energy activity, like, to choose just one I thought of this week, fishing out by himself on an isolated lake in the woods at like 6:30am
• Tom Cruise, if you are reading this and you want to get me a present some year for my birthday or whatever, I swear it is okay to just grab a $25 gift card to Panera while you’re checking out at the grocery store

This has been your Tom Cruise update.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Wonka things are happening

Welllllllll the trailer for the new Willy Wonka movie is out. It looks pretty good, actually. It’s got a hell of a pedigree, too, between Timothee Chalamet as the mad chocolatier and the man who directed Paddington behind the camera. And that’s great. Probably. I don’t know if it’s great, actually. Maybe it’ll stink. But what I do know — and I’m far from the only person to point this out, but still — is that it’s really, really funny that this version of Willy Wonka…

… dresses exactly like Gonzo dressed when he played Charles Dickens in A Muppet Christmas Carol.

Good luck un-seeing that one, suckers.

The trailer also introduced us to Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa, which is a fun thing I never expected to get to type out in a sentence. He looks horrifying. Look at this little demon.

There is very little I can say about any of this that wasn’t already said in a GQ piece by writer Lucy Ford that came with the headline “I Want To Kill Hugh Grant’s Wonka Oompa-Loompa With A Hammer.” A sampling…

There’s also something pest-like about him, probably reinforced by Wonka trapping him in a glass prison like a bug. Wonka’s reimagination of how the Oompa-Loompas ended up in this deranged serial killer’s servitude is simply just by accident? Wonka didn’t capture them and steal them from their land to toil away in chocolate rivers, no, they followed him into his life by choice, actually. He reminds me of a spider, something I rationally know I shouldn’t kill because of the holistic order of nature but also, deep inside, want to so much because something so horrifying shouldn’t be allowed to enter my house unannounced. I want to suck him up with a hoover or set my cat on him or throw a heavy book and watch him go splat. I’m not proud of it, but this is what this awful little thing does to me.

Is this basically just an article-length version of the “me and my friends would have killed ET with hammers” tweet? Yes. Does that make it any less enjoyable for me? No. Do I feel okay about all of that? I really, really do.

Somehow, after not being excited for this movie at all as recently as like four days ago, this is now the only thing I care about. Send me all your Wonka takes and memes. It turns out I adore them. You learn interesting stuff about yourself from the strangest places sometimes.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Let’s give Rhea Seehorn a trophy

Hey, wanna hear something crazy? Better Call Saul has never won an Emmy. Like, for anything. Acting, writing, directing, nothing. Nada. Goose eggs across the board. That’s crazy to me. The Breaking Bad spinoff has been one of the best shows on television for almost a decade and it somehow lived up to its predecessor and still nothing. I had no idea about any of this until I saw this paragraph over at Gold Derby when the 2023 nominations were announced this week.

To date, AMC’s spin-off of “Breaking Bad” has lost 46 times with the television academy, including six for Best Drama Series. It just nabbed seven additional nominations this year for the second half of its farewell season, so pundits everywhere are wondering: Will “Better Call Saul” finally win an Emmy?

I mean… wow, right?

The field is heavy as hell again this year, too, for the record, so it’s not like it gets any easier in the show’s final run at it. Bob Odenkirk is up against half the cast of Succession in the lead actor category and Outstanding Drama is stacked, too. The smart money is on Succession going on a crazy run at the ceremony — if the sucker even happens, what with the current double strike Hollywood has on its hands — so things could get dicey once again.

Luckily, I have a solution. One that lets everyone throw roses at Succession and The White Lotus and everyone who worked at HBO in the last 12 months but also gets Better Call Saul on the board, finally: We give a trophy to Rhea Seehorn.

We should have done this already, to be honest. She’s been out there killing it as Kim Wexler pretty much since the show started, holding her own against veterans of Breaking Bad and smoking cigarettes and doing finger guns and all of it. But we can do it now. She’s up for Best Supporting Actress in a similarly pretty stacked field…

Best Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus
Sabrina Impacciatore, The White Lotus
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus
Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul
J. Smith-Cameron, Succession
Simona Tabasco, The White Lotus

… but come on. Do it. Give Rhea Seehorn a trophy. She’s earned it. She deserves it. I won’t be, like, angry if it goes to Jennifer Coolidge instead, or even Aubrey Plaza if only to hear her speech, but… yeah. Come on.

Give Rhea Seehorn a trophy.

Please.

It would mean a lot to me.

To her, too, probably.

And Bob Odenkirk would really appreciate it.

Don’t let this be the show’s legacy.

In the Best Drama Series category, “BCS” now holds the record for the most nominations (seven) without a win. While it doesn’t seem to have a great chance of toppling HBO’s trio of front-runners (“Succession,” “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us”) this year in that top race, fans are still hoping it will claim a trophy for one of its other last chance nominations. Time is running out.

Come on.

Do it.

Thank you.

READER MAIL

If you have questions about television, movies, food, local news, weather, or whatever you want, shoot them to me on Twitter or at [email protected] (put “RUNDOWN” in the subject line). I am the first writer to ever answer reader mail in a column. Do not look up this last part.

From Mike:

I had honestly never considered the possibility that Scooby Doo could be a superhero until I heard Nick Castellanos explain it, but now it makes a lot of sense. He’s probably more of a superhero than Batman, if you think about it. Batman is just some rich guy who solves crimes with his expensive gizmos. He doesn’t even have a superpower. Scooby can talk. A dog that can talk has a superpower. There’s really very little separating from the Ninja Turtles in this regard. I will probably be thinking about this forever.

Oh, Mike. I am with you here. But I’ll provide a tiny bit of background for healthy people who don’t spend all the time online and/or watching baseball.

Phillies right fielder Nick Castellanos was recently asked who his favorite superhero is, as part of one of those cutesy little Q&As athletes do sometimes. He said Scooby Doo. This week at the All-Star Game someone asked him to elaborate on it all and he said this…

A couple of things are true here:

• There is no logical error in any of this and it has changed how I view that entire show
• Go Phillies

Thank you, Mike and Nick and Scooby.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To California!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is warning people enjoying the waters along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz about an aggressive sea otter that has been seen going after surfers.

Good.

“Since then, in the past five days now, there’s been three more incidents of it,” Woodward said. “And they’ve all been much more aggressive. I have photographed a lot of otters over the years, I have never seen anything like this.”

There are three things going on here, all of them noteworthy:

• The ocean is the otter’s house
• You would be upset if some bozo ran through your house on a big board, too
• I love this otter very much and I hope it builds a little house out of all the surfboards it steals

Moving on.

“It was a true wrestling match over this surfboard,” Woodward said. “And the person finally got it away and it was damaged. Basically, the board was destroyed. Literally the day before, I filmed the surfer that got so freaked out by it that he left his board and swam back to shore without it.”

What I need here is an R-rated Pixar movie about a furious animated otter going wild on surfers and mangling their boards. I don’t care why. Maybe a surfer killed one of its loved ones. Maybe it just wants to protect its home and way of life. Maybe it just really hates surfers. Again, I do not care. Just give it to me.

CDFW says this five-year-old female southern sea otter also exhibited unusual behavior in the Santa Cruz area back in September 2022, but nothing else until recently.

“They’re actually pretty aggressive animals,” SJSU’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Professor David Ebert said. “They’re not as cute and cuddly as people tend to think.”

THERE’S YOUR TAGLINE

MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THE OTTER

HAVE… LET’S SAY RUSSELL CROWE DO THE VOICE

THINK ABOUT IT

The Portland Trail Blazers got their point guard of the future in the 2023 NBA Draft by selecting Scoot Henderson with the No. 3 overall pick. While there were major questions about whether the team would use that selection or trade it with the hopes of finding a win-now move to placate Damian Lillard, Portland opted to go with the G League Ignite standout.

Basketball fans only got a glimpse of what Henderson could do at Summer League this year due to a shoulder injury he suffered in the Blazers’ opening game against the Houston Rockets, but despite the fact that he’s been shut down by the team, Henderson has stayed in Las Vegas supporting the rest of Portland’s roster. And on Thursday night during the team’s game against the Orlando Magic, ESPN was able to mic Henderson up and get his thoughts on the game while he was on the bench.

There was just one (extremely fun) problem with this: Henderson got way too excited about how his teammates were performing, so he kept interrupting his own interview so he could root his guys on, much to the delight of everyone.

Henderson is a gigantic personality, which frequently came through during this. It’s obviously difficult to have this during regular season and postseason NBA games, but here’s hoping we get more mic’d up athletes who lose their minds on the bench during games going forward, somehow.

Greg Gutfeld couldn’t resist reacting to Geraldo Rivera‘s latest interview with The View where the ousted Fox News anchor revealed that he was fired from The Five due to a “very toxic relationship with another of the cast members.”

While Rivera didn’t name names while talking to The View, he did offer enough hints to narrow the list down to either Gutfeld or Jesse Watters, who was recently tapped to take over Tucker Carlson’s time slot. Here’s what Rivera said after Sarah Haines asked if he felt it was unfair that he was fired instead of his allegedly toxic colleague.

Via Entertainment Weekly:

“Sure. I also thought it was very unfair that I was not judged objectively in our disputes, but rather that he was always favored. I was the one, I was suspended three times, my appearances, I had two three appearances schedule weekly then bi-weekly, then monthly, then they kind of disappeared, they were canceled in the last day right before I was supposed to go on,” he added. “So, I was really ticked off.”

Later that night, Gutfeld reacted to Rivera’s remarks. The “comedian” cracked a joke about the ladies of The View that made Gutfeld the prime suspect as the toxic cast member that Rivera couldn’t stand. Plus, not for nothing, the two frequently butted heads on air.

“Hmmm, no no no no no, poor thing,” Gutfeld said via The Wrap. “In lieu of flowers, we’ve set up a GoFundMe page to get him a barber. … But I credit ‘The View’ for finally finding a guest with a mustache bigger than their panelists. They’re a hairy bunch.”

You can see Gutfeld take a swing at Geraldo and The View in the opening minutes below:

(Via Entertainment Weekly, The Wrap)

On the heels of a historic strike being launched by members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), stars of hugely-popular shows that put streaming platforms like Netflix on the map are speaking out over pay disparities. And guys, it’s worse than we thought.

The cast of Orange is the New Black — the Emmy-winning series Netflix built its reputation on a decade ago — recently revealed that despite the critical and commercial success of their prison drama, many of them are working day jobs and struggling to make rent. The New Yorker talked to nearly a dozen recurring guest stars from the show, names like Matt McGorry, Kimiko Glenn, Lea DeLaria, and Diane Guerrero who played fan-favorite supporting cast members for much of the series’ run. The group claimed that despite being told that the show was as popular as competitors like HBO’s Game of Thrones at the time, many of them were being paid very little and have seen even less in residual checks — how most working actors survive in the industry — since OITNB ended.

Glenn, who played inmate Brook Soso for the show’s entire run, reshared a TikTok she made showing a royalty check from the series that totaled a measly $27.30.

The video prompted other cast members to share their own struggles. Commenting on the clip, McGorry wrote, “Exaccctttlllyyy. I kept my day job the entire time I was on the show because it paid better than the mega-hit TV show we were on.” And in speaking to The New Yorker, even more cast members claim they actually lost money by being on the show. Glenn had to pay for taxis to set. Actress Beth Dover had to fly herself out for multiple seasons of the show. Guerrero worked as a bartender to supplement her income while Lori Tan Chinn survived on food stamps until booking another gig on Comedy Central’s Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens. “They’re telling us, ‘Oh, we can’t pay you this much, because we’re pinching pennies,’” Dover said. “But then Netflix is telling their shareholders that they’re making more than they’ve ever made. We have not been fairly compensated by any stretch of the imagination.”

At one point during the show’s run, Netflix’s chief content officer (now CEO) Ted Sarandos threw a house party where he bragged that more people watched OITNB than Game of Thrones that year. The streaming platform is notorious for keeping its viewing numbers under lock and key. The cast’s reaction to the announcement was one of baffling anger.

“I remember all of us thinking, ‘Give us the money!’ But we were always saying, ‘Give us the money.’ We were keenly aware that we weren’t being paid,” DeLaria told the outlet of her residuals checks. “I get twenty dollars! I would love to know: How much money did Ted make last year?”

According to The New Yorker, Sarandos made $22 million that particular year.

(Via The New Yorker)

Dwyane Wade‘s post-playing career has involved getting into the sports ownership game, as the soon-to-be Hall of Fame inductee purchased minority stakes in the Utah Jazz back in 2021 and Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer in 2022. Now, Wade has decided to expand his portfolio to include a WNBA squad, as the Illinois native is purchasing a stake in the Chicago Sky.

The news was broken by Alexa Philippou of ESPN, who noted that the size of Wade’s stake is unclear and still needs to be approved by the league’s Board of Governors. But despite that, Wade expressed his excitement over the move, saying that he views this as an important way to support the league.

“We all talk about support, and support looks different for everyone,” Wade told Philippou. “And so instead of tweeting out and saying ‘go support the W,’ instead of showing up at the game and supporting, I wanted to take it to that next level, and this was the next level for me.”

Wade went on to confirm the news on his Twitter account.

It’s been a busy couple of months for the Sky’s ownership group, as the team welcomed a new group of investors back in June that purchased a 10 percent stake at an $85 million valuation. Now, the group welcomes in Wade, with Sky co-owner and operating chairman Nadia Rawlinson telling ESPN “This is meaningful for the players, and this is meaningful for the city as a whole. Dwyane Wade is a son of Chicago. And the thing that differentiates us, I think, from other franchises is that we are Chicago. We are the future of Chicago. We are the culture of Chicago. We are in it and of it, and he is very much sort of a main character in that story. And we’re just pleased and thrilled at what the future can bring with both of us working together.”

The 2021 WNBA champions, Chicago is in a state of flux right now, as the team is 8-12 on the year and saw its head coach and general manager, James Wade, leave midseason to accept an assistant coaching job with the Toronto Raptors. The move came on the heels of a tricky offseason for the Sky, which saw five of their six leading scorers from last year’s squad — Candace Parker, Courtney Vandersloot, Allie Quigley, Emma Meesseman, and Rebekah Gardner — not return for the 2023 campaign.

Dolly Parton has made it clear that she’s unstoppable. Her new album Rockstar arrives later this year, and it features Stevie Nicks, Paul McCartney, Sting, Miley Cyrus, Chris Stapleton, and many more. And she has no plans to retire.

On Wednesday (July 12), the singer appeared on Ken Bruce’s Greatest Hits Radio for an interview. She explicitly stated that she has no intention of slowing down. “‘I would never retire!” she exclaimed. “I would hopefully drop dead in the middle of a song on stage someday — and hopefully one I’ve written.”

However, she did say earlier this year that she’s done touring. “I do not think I will ever tour again, but I do know I’ll do special shows here and there, now and then,” she said in an interview. “Maybe do a long weekend of shows, or just a few shows at a festival. But I have no intention of going on a full-blown tour anymore. I’ve done that my whole life, and it takes so much time and energy. I like to stay a little closer to home with my husband. We’re getting older now, and I don’t want to be gone for four or five weeks at a time. Something could happen. I would not feel right about that, if I were gone and somebody needed me. Or I would feel bad if I had to leave a tour if somebody got sick at home and needed me and then I had to walk out on the fans.”

Much has been made (by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg) about the supposed impending “cage fight” between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The latter has been getting ripped while the former has been training with a podcaster, and I think we can all guess how this might end.

However, there might be another fight on the horizon? Nah. Let’s get real, this will never happen because Donald Trump would never allow his ass to be kicked, but Chris Christie is going there, at least, by telling Piers Morgan, “The guy’s 78 years old. I’d kick his ass.”

Granted, this matchup would have little to do with age. Everyone knows how much Trump loves fast food, and he cannot possibly be the most stringent person at, say, getting cardio workouts in. Likewise, Christie has owned up to his own weight struggles, especially after Don Jr. cracked a super mature joke about donuts, and Trump Sr. passed on a dumb buffet meme after Christie announced his 2024 candidacy against his frenemy.

However, the former New Jersey governor can trash talk with the best of them. He called Trump “a spoiled baby,” among other things, and he also dragged Trump for having nothing better in his arsenal other than weight-related jokes. It’s a fair point, and even though I think that Trump would never step into the ring with Christie despite attending UFC events, it sure is fun to contemplate. The hair pulling would be yuge, so Christie would easily score points there.

In the 2013 apocalypse comedy This Is the End, Jay Baruchel’s character, a fictionalized version of himself, doesn’t get along with Jonah Hill (he also plays “himself” in the movie). “Can’t stand him, he can’t stand me,” Jay says about Jonah in one scene. This wasn’t far from the truth in real life, too.

A Larry King interview with Baruchel from 2017 has resurfaced following allegations against Hill, including that he was “emotionally abusive” to his ex-girlfriend and that he “shoved his tongue” down the throat of a teenager without consent. In response to a question about what his relationship with Hill is like, Baruchel answered, “There is one, I guess. I know the man.”

While Baruchel was laughing from discomfort, King questioned, “You don’t like him?” The BlackBerry actor “wouldn’t say that,” but “it was contentious once upon a time, but I think now we’re sort of each the devil the other one knows.”

This wasn’t the only interview where Baruchel was asked about Hill.

In a recent episode of The Last Laugh podcast, however, Baruchel delved deeper into their contentious relationship and stated firmly: “I was… real crabby throughout that whole movie … Jonah and I don’t get along super well, or at least didn’t back then.” When told the dynamic “comes through on screen,” the Canadian actor wasn’t surprised: “Yeah, no f*cking sh*t, it does! And also, it was this weird thing of mining personal sh*t.”

He continued, “In the most commoditized, capitalist way of, like, we’re going to dig up real personal sh*t, but nobody’s going to go home feeling better about it. We’re just going to turn it into a f*cking product.” This Is the End was a trying time for Baruchel, Hill, Emma Watson, and probably everyone who interacted with James Franco — but at least Michael Cera had fun.

You can watch the Larry King interview below.

(Via the Huffington Post)

In the past, Joe Jonas couldn’t help but make splashy headlines due to his star power. Now, he does his best to avoid them, especially if it’s related to a very famous ex-lover. But, during his latest radio interview with KIIS FM’s Will & Woody, things spiraled out of control when he opened up about the most embarrassing and slightly messy moment of his life.

While promoting the Jonas Brothers’ massive load of an arena tour next month, Joe revealed that one time while performing, as he started to get going, so did his bowels, leading him to poop in his pants on stage accidentally. “I was with a few friends yesterday, and we were just talking about (how) there is a point in your life where, as an adult, you can remember the last time you sh*t your pants,” the singer told the hosts.

He later added, “Let’s just say it was a bad day to choose to wear white clothing. You think it might be a little toot; it might’ve been a little something else, a little something extra. So it was like a mid-wardrobe sh*t change during the set.”

Although the incident occurred over four years ago and was followed up with a quick wardrobe change, to the “Who’s In Your Head” singer, “It’s fresh, but I’ve been able to work through it, a lot of therapy,” or so he joked.

The New York Jets are going to be on TV a lot this NFL season, and as it turns out, HBO wants to showcase the team in the lead-up to the season, too. Earlier this week, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that the Jets had been selected to appear on Hard Knocks, HBO’s revered behind-the-scenes series that gives fans a glimpse into life during training camp.

It makes a ton of sense for the Jets to appear on the show considering the team’s busy offseason that has led to them having legitimate aspirations of making a run in the AFC, but there’s one problem: No one seems to be especially excited about it. Back in June, New York coach Robert Saleh told the press that “I know there are several teams that would love for Hard Knocks to be in their building. We’re just not one of them.” And earlier this week, the team’s biggest offseason acquisition claimed that the Jets didn’t have much say in the matter.

“One of the only things I like about Hard Knocks is the voice of God, who narrates it,” Aaron Rodgers said. “Liev [Schreiber], I hope I get to meet him. But look, I understand the appeal with us — obviously, there’s a lot of eyes on me, lot of eyes on our team, lot of expectations for our squad. So, they forced it down our throats and we gotta deal with it.”

The specific criteria for appearing on Hard Knocks — no teams with first-year coaches, no teams that made the playoffs in either of the last two seasons, no teams that have been on the show in the last decade — meant that only four teams were eligible to be on the show this year: the Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints, Washington Commanders, and of course, the Jets. Considering the market they’re in, the quality of their division, and their acquisition of a Hall of Fame quarterback this offseason, it makes a ton of sense that New York was the overwhelming favorite among those teams. We will have to see, however, how the Jets go about handling a spotlight they do not want.