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In a, uh, touching moment for the “Party of Family Values,” a Republican candidate in Arizona was reportedly arrested for masturbating outside of a preschool. Randy Gene Kaufman, who’s running for a seat on the Maricopa County Community College District Governing Board, was allegedly caught in the act by a police officer.

According to the officer’s report, Kaufman was parked across the street from a child care center. Kaufman had reportedly covered the windshield with a shade screen, which the officer found suspicious and went over to investigate. To his surprise, he caught Kaufman in the act, and the GOP candidate confirmed that, yes, he was masturbating inside of his vehicle because “I’m really stressed.”

Kaufman claimed he didn’t realize his proximity to the the preschool, but he did realize the severity of his situation when the officer pointed it out to him. Via Law & Crime:

Officer: “What kind of porn were you watching?”

[Kaufman]: “Interracial porn.”

Officer: “When you look around here what do you see?”

[Kaufman]: “The child center but I didn’t notice it until you came up and I got out of my truck. Are you going to put that in a report?”

Officer: “Don’t you see how alarming that is? That there are children nearby, people passing on bikes and In cars where they can look and see what you are doing?”

[Kaufman]: “I f*cked up.”

According to Law & Crime, the Trump-supporting Kaufman became active in politics because of COVID, and his Facebook page is filled with attacks on “baby killing leftists” that seem particularly contradictory in light of his alleged crime.

“Nothing is more important than standing against the Godless/ progressive/ left-wing/ socialist/ marxist/ communist/ Democrat Party Movement to destroy America,” Kaufman posted in July of this year along with subsequent anti-abortion and pro-gun rants.

(Via Law & Crime)

The future of The Daily Show might be in flux but its original host, Jon Stewart, is still out here delivering hot takes when we need them most. His latest targets? Former president Donald Trump and prolific rapper who just can’t keep his mouth shut, Kanye West.

Stewart used the opening minutes of his podcast — which serves as a companion piece to his talk show, Apple TV+’s The Problem with Jon Stewart — to tackle some of the vile antisemitism on display by both men recently. Trump obviously has a long history of attacking Jewish people, but his most recent comments warning U.S. Jews that they should “get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late!” really riled Stewart this week.

“[It’s] one of the most explicit expressions of just pure ‘Jews have only loyalty to Israel,’” Stewart said on his show. “I don’t know that it even made the top 10 antisemitic bullsh*t of the week! In fact, the word antisemitic doesn’t even carry it anymore. It’s just weird Jew paranoia bullsh*t. It’s mind-blowing to me how easily it flows from people’s mouths and everybody’s just like, ‘Wow, that was weird.’”

Stewart then went on to address Kanye West’s latest media meltdown. The rapper ranted on social media about Jews controlling Diddy’s career before threatening to go “death con 3” on Jewish people. (We assume he meant DEFCON.) Twitter suspended West and removed the Tweet in which West wrote, “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew. Also You guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

West also claimed that Disney was a “Jewish platform.”

“Boy, he really doesn’t know the history of Disney, does he?” Stewart joked on the podcast. “If you are Jewish, then you’re part of the Jewish mafia. But if you’re not, then you’re just a guy who’s a dick to him in business. But if you’re a Jewish guy who’s a dick to him in business, then it’s part of the cabal.”

Stewart also laid into West for blaming Jewish people for his current string of professional and personal problems saying, “You’re a billionaire who was married to the Kardashians. How bad have we been f*cking you?”

He then addressed an issue some critics have brought up when discussing West’s bigoted outbursts. It’s well-known that the rapper suffers from mental health issues, but Stewart made the case that no drug can cure a person of antisemitism.

“I don’t know what drug you could get that could make you not believe there’s a cabal of Jews controlling the flow of information from your mouth to the public,” he said before joking, “Jew-alax?”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Despite being a well-known rapper for the past 20 years, Jim Jones has self-admittedly been equally (or even more) well-known for his antics outside of music. From feuding with his fellow Diplomats (and French Montana) to appearing on gossip-baiting reality television, Jones musical ambitions seemed to take a backseat to his hitmaking potential, despite having an absolute banger like “We Fly High” on his books. However, in recent years, he’s refocused his efforts on hip-hop, making a marked jump both in output and the quality thereof.

In this week’s episode of Fresh Pair, Just Blaze asks him about his commitment to making music over headlines, receiving an earnest, self-effacing answer that really illustrates Jones’ personal growth. “It’s something personal I’ve got to prove to myself,” he says. “I’ve been in this sh*t for a long time and for the most part, my actions were louder than my music. Now it feels like my music is just as loud as my actions.”

He explains why he used to shy away from music as his primary focus, saying, “Before, I used to consider music like homework and now, I’m more eager to do it than I used to do it before.” It really shows, as the four projects he’s released since 2019 have all been aimed more at proving his rap skills and generating attention for those rather than his extracurricular activities.

Watch this week’s full episode of Fresh Pair featuring Jim Jones above.

Lupita Nyong’o is part of two famous social media moments in Oscars history: the “best photo ever” selfie (which has, let’s say, not aged well) and The Slap. The 12 Years a Slave and Black Panther actress was caught on camera reacting to Will Smith yelling at and slapping Chris Rock for not keeping his wife’s name out of his f*cking mouth.

“Once the moment was over,” Nyong’o told the Hollywood Reporter about seating behind Smith, “I realized, ‘Oh my God, there’s no way all this transpired and I’m not in the shot.’ I knew as soon as it was over that I was going to be a meme.” As for her feelings on the slap, she said, “I don’t want to add any more fuel to that thing, quite frankly.” Good call.

But Nyong’o did discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, where she reprises her role as Nakia. “He affected how I move in the world,” she said about Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020. “But that’s the thing about Chadwick. Chadwick wasn’t trying to have everyone be like him. What he inspired was you to be your best self. So how I’m going to lead a set is nowhere near — I’m not that person. I’m not Chadwick at all. I’ll never be.”

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens on November 11.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

After the Lakers got smoked by the Warriors on opening night, LeBron James was not shy about speaking on the shortcomings of the Lakers roster, particularly their three-point shooting.

It wasn’t exactly groundbreaking stuff to note that they don’t have a lot of great shooters — or “lasers” in his words — but given the formula for great LeBron teams since forever has been “surround him with shooters” it does not bode well for the Lakers this season. To the untrained eye, it was a standard critique from a star who has never been afraid to call out his team’s weak points, but one longtime observer of LeBron noticed something in the way James said it that piqued his interest.

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst has been covering James since high school and followed him around the league for his entire 20-year career, seeing him in just about every postgame presser for more than two decades. As such, he knows LeBron’s tells, and one of them is what he calls the “Truth Shake,” in which LeBron does a little head and shoulder shake when he’s saying something he really means. Windy broke it down on NBA Today on Wednesday and explained why it’s notable LeBron is talking like this one day into the season.

This is honestly incredible insight from Windy, who I like to believe has been fleecing LeBron in poker games for years off this tell, as it’s not something most anyone else would pick up on. As he notes, this is usually LeBron’s move when talking about where the team needs to improve before the trade deadline, and that he’s doing it this early when talking about the team’s deficiencies, it’s not hard to extrapolate that James will be not so subtly pushing the Lakers to fix this area on the roster sooner than later.

That shouldn’t come as a surprise given the reporting after he signed his extension that he was doing so with the expectation the Lakers would make moves to become a contender — which they have yet to really do. I would all but bank on the Russell Westbrook for Myles Turner and Buddy Hield rumors to resurface for the fifth separate time this year in the coming days.

Puerto Rican singer iLe released the music video for her new single “(Escapándome) De Mí” on Tuesday (October 18). She also unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming album Nacarile that will feature Ivy Queen and Trueno.

iLe is known for her work in the Puerto Rican group Calle 13 alongside her brothers, Residente and Visitante. She has also released albums of her own like 2019’s Almadura. Later that year, iLe and Residente worked with Bad Bunny on the song “Afilando Los Cuchillos.” Their collaboration was made in protest against Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rosselló, who resigned shortly after following a leak of controversial Telegram messages.

This past year, iLe has teased her new album Nacarile. In the dreamy video for her latest single “(Escapándome) De Mí,” she sings about her fears of getting wrapped up in the entanglement of relationships. In the psychedelic track, iLe also noticeably alters her vocals with Auto-Tune.

“I didn’t want the song to stay in the monotony of my voice,” she said in a statement.

iLe also revealed the tracklist for Nacarile that will be released on October 21. In “Algo Bonito,” she collaborates with Puerto Rican reggaeton pioneer Ivy Queen. iLe teams up with Argentine rapper Trueno for “Ningún Lugar.” Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade joins her on “En Cantos.” She also links-up with Chilean rocker Mon Laferte for “Traguito.”

Find the Nacarile tracklist below.

1. “A La Deriva” Feat. Flor de Toloache
2. “Ningún Lugar” Feat. Trueno
3. “(Escapándome) De Mi”
4. “En Cantos” Feat. Natalia Lafourcade
5. “Lo Que Yo Quería”
6. “Algo Bonito” Feat. Ivy Queen
7. “Cuando Te Miro” Feat. Rodrigo Cuevas
8. “Donde Nadie Más Respira”
9. “Traguito” Feat. Mon Laferte
10. “Paisaje”
11. “No Es Importante”

Nacarile is out 10/21 via Sony Music Latin. Pre-order it here.

You can always count on a few things on the opening night of the NBA regular season: four (well, or three and the Lakers) of the league’s top teams will be in action, last year’s champions will get their rings and raise a banner at home, and Charles Barkley will fail spectacularly at another edition of “Who He Play For?”

TNT’s coverage of opening night, which now sends the Inside the NBA crew on the road, always includes one of the desk’s favorite games, in which they pick five role players who have changed teams this offseason and task the Chuckster with naming their new team, knowing fully well that he has not watched any preseason basketball.

This year, Chuck faced a new quintet to figure out and while he GUARANTEED he’d get one, he once again went 0-for-5 faced with figuring out where Aaron Holiday, Justin Holiday, James Johnson, Delon Wright, and Garrett Temple are currently employed.

Ernie calling Garrett Temple a “Who He Play For?” Hall of Famer is spectacular — Temple has changed teams an incredible 14 times via trades and free agency in his career — and Shaq and Kenny even try and help Barkley out to no avail with the cruel trick of asking about Aaron and Justin Holiday, as both brothers play for the Hawks now. Chuck gets hung up on guessing the Sacramento Kings a bunch, which backfires, and Kenny laughs realizing he was trying to use the jersey from the headshot as a clue.

Grupo Firme will be returning to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium for another concert. On Tuesday (October 18), the Mexican band announced that fans can catch them at a third show that will be taking place next year.

Grupo Firme have become rock stars in the regional Mexican music scene. In April, the group brought Mexican banda music to the mainstage of Coachella. The following month, Grupo Firme sold-out two concerts at the SoFi Stadium where Super Bowl was held earlier this year. Those two concerts were a part of the band’s Enfiestados y Amanecidos Tour that is selling-out in stadiums across the US.

Now Grupo Firme will be returning to SoFi Stadium for a third time on May 23, 2023. For this next time, the band will be putting on a 360-degree concert so that fans all around the venue can enjoy a great view. Tickets for concert will be available starting Friday, October 21 on Ticketmaster.com.

At the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards, Grupo Firme is nominated for Best Regional Mexican Song for “Cada Quien” featuring Maluma. At last year’s awards ceremony, the group won for Best Banda Album for the LP Nos Divertimos Logrando Lo Imposible. Earlier this month, Grupo Firme joined Karol G as surprise guests on her Strip Love Tour.

Last season, the Minnesota Timberwolves recovered from a 16-20 start to end the year 46-36, going 30-16 over their final 46 outings, which featured victories against a slew of playoff opponents. Eventually, they made their way into a first-round matchup with the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies, who dispatched them in a competitive six-game series. Memphis undoubtedly earned those victories, but various second-half, self-inflicted blunders throughout a few different games helped prevent Minnesota from making its first second-round appearance since 2003-04.

To build upon that momentum of last season, Minnesota acquired All-NBA center Rudy Gobert this summer, pairing him with fellow All-NBA big man Karl-Anthony Towns. The Timberwolves sent out an array of future picks, as well as some key contributors from the 2021-22 squad, such as Jarred Vanderbilt and Patrick Beverley.

Both Gobert and Towns, who signed a four-year, $224 million supermax extension this summer, are in their primes, as is point guard D’Angelo Russell. With Minnesota short on future assets to alter or improve this roster following the blockbuster trade, the time to win is now, and Towns is embracing the high expectations.

“Just wanna be great. It’s always talk about us being good and are we good enough?,” Towns said. “It’s not time to be good anymore. It’s time to be great. We made these moves. We made these trades, so we gotta be great. Good is not good enough anymore.”

Tall-ball is not an unknown concept, but two All-NBA centers joining forces to promote that tall-ball approach is novel, at least over the past half-decade. Minnesota is an incredibly interesting and talented team, one that should contend for a top-four seed out West this season. We’ll get the initial returns on this experiment when the Timberwolves and Oklahoma City Thunder kick off at 8 p.m. EST inside Minneapolis’ Target Center.

Jessica Chastain apparently has expert timing when it comes to pranks. During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she revealed how she pulled off a stunt on a helplessly strung-up James McAvoy while filming 2019’s Dark Phoenix. While the film may not have been great, the prank sounds highly entertaining.

According to Chastain, the moment happened when McAvoy’s Professor X is lifted out of his wheelchair by Sophie Turner’s out-of-control Jean Grey, who uses her Phoenix powers to make him walk up a flight of stairs. The stunt required McAvoy to wear a wired harness, and that’s when Chastain saw her opening. Via Entertainment Weekly:

“He does the scene and it’s good,” Chastain recounted to host Kelly Clarkson. “The director said, ‘Okay, fine. Roll take, let’s do it again.’ So they lift him up and he’s acting, you know, like he’s being lifted by this magic… and, all of a sudden, the ‘Macarena’ starts playing. And the guys who were holding the wires were having him dance the Macarena.”

She added, “There’s no topping it. It was the best.”

However, like all pranks, they turn quickly. Not only did McAvoy start busting out dance moves while suspended in the air, but he ensnared Chastain in her trap.

“He leaned in,” Chastain told Clarkson. “In fact, at one point, because he was at the top of the stairs, he kinda, like, grabbed me and lifted me off the ground, and that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, no, no. We gotta stop because I could now get hurt.’ He was good fun.”

(Via Entertainment Weekly)