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It’s Super Bowl Sunday, which means folks across the world are going to forget about their diets for one evening and consume food that is fried or covered in sauce or, if they are eating chicken wings, both. One such person appears to be Mike Greenberg, ESPN‘s longtime Swiss Army knife of a personality who has seemingly hosted everything during his tenure with the Worldwide Leader.

Greeny posted a picture to his Twitter account of himself having a pregame meal and wait a second is that a goddamn knife and fork.

This is not the first time that Greenberg’s eating habits — i.e. using a knife and fork — have been in the spotlight, but with today being Super Bowl Sunday, he decided to get a post off and remind everyone that this is his go-to method for eating stuff. Seriously, he went into this in 2020 and it’s a lot.

“I eat everything with a knife and fork,” Greenberg said. “Literally everything. You name it, I eat it with a knife and fork. The answer is yes — right now, wherever you are, if you’re scraming out options at me, the answer is yes. I eat pizza with a knife and fork, I eat wings with a knife and fork, I eat sandwiches with a knife and fork, I eat everything — hamburgers, with a knife and fork — for exactly that reason. I don’t like to get things on the fingers. I’m not as worried about it getting in my eyes, I don’t like when your fingers smell after you eat something, you get mustard on them, or ketchup, or whatever it might be. Literally anything. I don’t like the feeling of it, I also don’t like my disgusticting (?) hands touching the food that I’m then eating at any time — I was germaphobic, I didn’t need a pandemic to be a germaphobe.”

He goes on to say he eats cookies with a knife and fork. Mike, my man, I say this to you as someone who ran into you at the old NBA Store in New York City on multiple occasions in the mid-00s: It is fine if you get food on your fingers.

You don’t hear a lot from Chevy Chase these days. He never had a major turning point in his career like fellow ‘70s SNL alum Bill Murray, and though he hasn’t a regular high profile gig since he ditched Community after the fourth season. There were reports that he was difficult to work with on the set of the collegiate comedy, where he played devil-may-care rich guy and bigot Pierce Hawthorne. And, like his character, he really couldn’t “give a crap” if he pissed anyone off.

Chase was profiled for CBS Sunday Morning with a look at his storied career, including conquering both SNL and then movies, including the Vacation franchise. He also did a rare sit-down, in which he was asked about his former cast members complaining about his behavior on set.

“I guess you’d have to ask them. I don’t give a crap,” Chase responded. “I am who I am. And I like where— who I am. I don’t care. And it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a lot. And I don’t know what to tell you, man. I just don’t care.”

Among the stories that emerged from the show’s set was that Chase got into a heated argument in 2012 with creator Dan Harmon, with whom he repeatedly clashed, over Pierce saying bigoted things. Chase reportedly snapped, saying that next he’ll be told to call one of the Black cast members the N-word. It wasn’t revealed whether he was referring to Donald Glover or Yvette Nicole Brown specifically. Chase left the show not long after, though he made a guest appearance on the following season.

You can watch the full CBS Sunday Morning segment above.

(Via Deadline)

The Los Angeles Rams are making their second Super Bowl appearance in the last five years, having lost in Super Bowl LIII to the Patriots in 2018. For superstar defensive tackle, a Super Bowl ring is the last thing missing from his Hall of Fame resume, as the three-time Defensive Player of the Year has been the most dominant player on that side of the ball for over a half decade.

The 30-year-old is still playing at an elite level, and while he didn’t take home DPOY honors this year, he was among the top contenders once again as he is annually. For most, they’d expect Donald to play for many more years, but on the NBC pregame show, Rodney Harrison dropped a bombshell less than an hour before kickoff.

Harrison says Donald told him this week that he will seriously consider retiring if he finally checks that Super Bowl title off his NFL to-do list on Sunday night in L.A.

“He also told me this, if he wins a Super Bowl, there’s a strong possibility that he could walk away from the game and retire,” Harrison said. “…He just talked about wanting to spend more time with his family, and he talked about his body. Said he works really hard on his body year round and he’s achy.”

It would be a shocker but not unprecedented, as we’ve seen some all-time greats retire in their primes rather than continue until they hit the decline or have to deal with serious injuries. The two best examples are Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, who walked away from the NFL at 31 and 30 years old respectively.

Donald Trump has never seemed to have much of a grasp on reality. At times he genuinely seems to believe his own bull. Perhaps he really does seem to think the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite a complete dearth of evidence to prove it. Still, calling his chaotic one-term presidency a “romantic period” seemed to be going too far, particularly knowing what we now know about him clogging White House toilets with illegally torn-up documents.

The former president, who now lives in resorts where he babbles to strangers, called into Fox News as he so often does these days. And he ranted about his successor, as he also so often does these days. He was waxing poetic on the glories of a term during which his approval rating never hit acceptable marks and during which hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

“Our country was thriving. We were just beating everybody,” Trump told his hosts, though it wasn’t clear who he meant by “everybody.” He then imagined what his base thought of a term that ended in disgrace. “And they view it as a romantic period I think, and I think that’s really why it’s doing so well, because there is a lot of romance to the book.” (This was a reference to his pricey coffee table book, which The Washington Post described as the product of a “wandering mind.”)

He went on to talk about how “we were respected,” though the only people he could cite as respecting the country under his watch were Vladimir Putin, who may be about to start a war, President Xi of China, who has been accused of human rights violations, and Kim Jong-un, who is a straight-up dictator.

He went on, saying, “And people viewed it as a very beautiful and maybe romantic time in a sense, despite all of the nonsense by the other side, the radical left I call it, because that’s what it is, they’re sick. So it was a beautiful time and people loved it.”

It’s a grossly distorted view of a time of high anxiety and government incompetence. And people online couldn’t help but beg to differ with his rosy summation.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, one of his closest cronies, is reportedly in talks to sing to the House Select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, which closed out his term in appropriately disgraceful fashion.

(Via Raw Story)

It’s said that superhero movies have kept adults in a state of arrested development, but some take it further than most. Case in point: In a recent post on Reddit (as caught by IndieWire), one woman claims that her husband is willing to miss the birth of their child so he can see The Batman on opening day.

In one of those “AITA” (“Am I the Asshole?”) posts that often go viral, a mid-twenties woman says that her 28-year-old husband is prioritizing Robert Pattinson’s maiden voyage as the Caped Crusader over being there when a person he helped create enters the world. The issue is that the film’s release date coincides with one of their estimated due date. While only a fraction of babies arrive on due dates, there’s still a chance.

“He says it is important to see the movie the first day because of spoilers and that, even I end up having the baby that day while he is watching the movie, at worst he would arrived [sic] a few hours late and is not such a big deal,” the woman writes. “He says I am being irrational and emotional because of being pregnant. I am upset because I feel deprioritize by him.”

Commenters have by and large been supportive, some wondering whether the “irrational and emotional” might be the person who would rather see a comic book movie (even one with nods to Kurt Cobain) instead of being there to support his wife through one of the most difficult days of her life. It’s also worth noting that The Batman is incredibly long, about a half hour longer than Goodfellas. That’s a lot of time away from your spouse’s side as she’s going through pain you will never have to experience.

(Via IndieWire)

Not only are we a few hours away from a Super Bowl matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams, but we’re also almost moments away from what’s lining up to be an awesome halftime show. Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Mary J. Blige are all going to take the stage later tonight. Dre has promised some surprises for the halftime show, but whatever’s about to happen won’t occur without approval from the NFL.

One thing they shot down was this: Eminem reportedly wanted to take a knee in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. According to Consequence and Puck, the NFL denied Eminem’s request. The league has also allegedly denied one of Snoop Dogg’s outfits due to possible gang ties and it flagged Dr. Dre’s lyric from “Still D.R.E.” as it includes lyrics like “still not loving police.” It’s reported that the league doesn’t want the Super Bowl to be perceived as a “divisive culture war moment.”

Nonetheless, Dre is very excited about the halftime show, which he spent upwards of $7 million worth to put together. “Hip-hop is the biggest genre of music on the planet right now, so it’s crazy that it took all of this time for us to be recognized,” he said. “I think we’re going to go on and do a fantastic show and we’re going to do it so big that they can’t deny us any more in the future.”

Marvel movies and shows tend to be strictly PG-13. You might get a decapitation here, mass genocide there, but such instances are quick and bloodless, nothing that can’t stream on the family friendly-ish Disney+, where even a brief butt shot from a nearly 40-year-old movie has to be awkwardly censored. But while Moon Knight, the forthcoming Marvel show with Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, and the recently late Gaspard Ulliel is unlikely to go the Deadpool/Zack Snyder route, it’s definitely going to be heavier than the usual fare.

In a new interview with Empire, Marvel Studios honcho Kevin Feige talked up the show, which stars Isaac as a former marine who adopts the powers of an Egyptian god. And he promised the protagonist, who becomes a vigilante, was both superhero and antihero.

“He’s brutal,” Feige claimed “It’s been fun to work with Disney+ and see the boundaries shifting on what we’re able to do. There are moments [in the series] when Moon Knight is wailing on another character, and it is loud and brutal, and the knee-jerk reaction is, ‘We’re gonna pull back on this, right?’ No. We’re not pulling back. There’s a tonal shift. This is a different thing. This is Moon Knight.”

Again, it’s highly unlikely that things will go full gorehound. This is Disney+, not Shudder. But the MCU could stand some morally gray superheroics, and it might get some.

Moon Knight debuts on Disney+ on March 30.

(Via Empire)

It’s pretty clear that Kanye West isn’t too fond of Pete Davidson at the moment. The SNL star is currently dating the rapper’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, which is one reason Kanye’s been continuously attacking Pete, whether it be through his music (see: “Eazy” and “City Of Gods“) or through Instagram posts. Kanye shared another example of the latter while making a firm declaration against Pete.

On Instagram, Kanye shared a screenshot of a text message he received from Pete. “… As a man, I’d never get [in the] way of your children,” Pete says in the slightly-cropped screenshot. “[That’s] a promise. How you guys [go about] raising your kids is [your business] and not mine.” He adds, “I do hope [one] day I can meet them and [we can] all be friends.” Despite the genuine move from Pete, Kanye shut it down through his caption of the Instagram post. “NO YOU WILL NEVER MEET MY CHILDREN,” he wrote.

Kanye also shared the post with a screenshot from Pete and Machine Gun Kelly’s infamous Instagram Live session that took place on Calvin Klein’s main account. In it, the two stripped down to their underwear for a truly wacky livestream. Kanye’s post comes after he announced an event for Donda 2 in Miami. It’s set to occur on February 22, the same day that the album is set to be released.

Today is Super Bowl LVI, when the Cincinnati Bengals will take on the Los Angeles Rams for this year’s NFL championship. There are plenty of exciting factors with this year’s game, which takes place in Los Angeles. The Bengals could win their first-ever championship; for the Rams, it could wind up being their first since 2000. Them there’s the halftime show, which is set to be epic, with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg. Despite all of this, Cardi B has noted a downside with the big game taking place in LA.

During an Instagram livestream, Cardi expressed her frustration with not being able to spend a full night out because of city regulations. “My question is who thought it would be a good idea to do the Super Bowl in LA when everything closes at 2 AM?” she said during the livestream while riding around in her car. “Who thought that was a motherf*cking good idea? That’s not a good idea, it’s 2 AM there’s no afties.” She then asks if there’s a strip club open which there was not.

She went on: “Everything closes at 2 AM, oh my god, all the baddies are texting me right now. Oh my god, Normani’s texting me right now y’all, all the baddies are texting me right now. We were supposed to be going out somewhere else, but there’s no place else my n****. We’re homeless, we’re party homeless. Everything closed at 2 AM b*tch, this don’t make no f*cking sense. I don’t understand.” She then asked someone in her car — presumably her driver — who was responsible for creating such a law before comparing her nightlife experiences to that of Atlanta and New York.

Cardi concludes her light-hearted rant by once again saying it doesn’t make sense that everything closes at 2 AM in LA. She also noted that Teyana Taylor, Normani, Megan Thee Stallion, Karrechue, Chloe Bailey, and “every f*cking body is outside.” Finally, she and Offset, who was also in the car with her, settle on inviting everywhere to their house to continue their fun for the night.

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The new Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy chronicles one of the most shocking stories about one of the ‘90s most high-profile couples: when model/actress Pamela Anderson (played by Lily James) and heavy metal god Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) had a tape featuring them having sex was stolen from their home and sold on the market. It was not, as Anderson has pointed out, technically a “sex tape”; she described it as “a compilation of vacations that we were naked on.”

But how did the pair first discover the tape had been stolen and disseminated.

The answer is: along with everyone else. In a new piece by Esquire recounting the history of the infamous tape, Lee describes how he and Anderson learned about the fate of the intimate footage. First of all, the two had brought a camcorder with them on their honeymoon, having married about a month-and-a-half after meeting.

Some time later, a disgruntled builder (played on the show by Seth Rogen), miffed at being fired for a job deemed by Anderson and Lee as not very good, broke into their home and stole a safe that he didn’t know contained said tape. He sold it to a retired porn star (played on Pam & Tommy by Nick Offerman), who quickly got it on the market.

Cut to early 1996. Anderson had given birth to their first child. “One night, Pamela and I were chowing down on some dinner and flipping through television stations when we heard our names being mentioned on some news show,” Lee told Esquire. “On the screen, there was a dude at Tower Video stocking the shelves with videotapes. And we knew just what they were.”

The two then began a very long legal fight to stop the sale of the tape, and broke up after two years, though not necessarily because of the pilfered tape. You can see how that went by watching Pam & Tommy, with new episodes bowing every Wednesday through Feb. 23.