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The U.S. Soccer women’s team is one of the most successful sports organizations in the world. They’ve won the Women’s World Cup four times — most recently in France in 2019 — and have claimed five Olympic gold medals.

The U.S. men’s team has had much less success but they still get paid more. The men’s team is compensated primarily in bonuses and its players receive $17,625 per friendly. Players on the women’s team have a $100,000 salary but receive $3,500 per game.

The men’s team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Earlier this month, USSF president Cindy Parlow Cone said that the discrepancy between how the World Cup prize money is allocated is “by far the most challenging issue” when it comes to paying both teams equally.

“Until Fifa equalises the prize money that it awards to the men’s and women’s World Cup participants, it is incumbent upon us to collectively find a solution,” she said.

Here’s the banner @ussoccer doesn’t want you to see, even though it had been approved at two previous games in East… https://t.co/nxzkbprT6c

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Prize money for the 2018 men’s World Cup totaled $400 million with winners France taking home $38 million. The prize money for the 2019 women’s World Cup was just $30m with the U.S. women’s team bringing home $4 million.

The reason for the huge gap is that the women’s World Cup only generates around 2% of the revenue that the men’s does. The 2018 men’s cup generated $6.1 billion whereas the women’s brought in $131 million.

In May, the women’s team filed a lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) claiming it was owed equal pay. The lawsuit was dismissed, pending appeal.

But it appears as though the USSF got the message anyway because it just offered equal contracts to both the men’s and women’s soccer teams.

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“U.S. Soccer firmly believes that the best path forward for all involved, and for the future of the sport in the United States, is a single pay structure for both senior national teams,” the USSF said in a statement. “This proposal will ensure that USWNT and USMNT players remain among the highest paid senior national team players in the world …”

If either team doesn’t agree to the contracts, the USSF will invite both player unions to negotiations to show full transparency.

Even though the USSF has offered equal contracts, the women’s team is still pressing on with the lawsuit and is asking for $66 million in back pay.

Julie Foudy, captain of the 1999 World Cup-winning team says that the improvement in the way the women’s team is being treated stems from the team’s rise in popularity and social media. “The women’s game now is so big in comparison to when the 99ers played,” Foundry said. “The support that we have globally has absolutely risen. It’s not just a few people in the United States – the world has our back.”

Ted Cruz got smoked last week while attempting to feud with Patton Oswalt, so we might as well keep the party going by highlighting how Ellen Barkin’s coming for him. On Wednesday, Cruz (for whatever reason) gave remarks following Senate testimony from Olympic gymnasts (including McKayla Maroney and Simone Biles) about how FBI agents not only dropped the ball on Larry Nassar but completely mishandled abuse accusations brought against the now-imprisoned-for-life coach.

The botched investigation is now the subject of massive fallout with Maroney declaring that the FBI made “entirely false claims” about her statements while burying her allegations, and Biles delivered emotional remarks about how Congressionally-created organizations failed to protect herself and her fellow gymnasts. FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that he was “heartsick and furious” over the “individuals” who mishandled the investigation, and those remarks won’t clear up the situation at all. However, Ted Cruz’s remarks are going over even worse, mostly because it’s unclear why he’s inserting himself in the situation, thereby promoting the illusion that he’s in favor of protecting women while also not doing anything to prevent the insane Texas abortion law that doesn’t allow an exemption for rape pregnancies.

“I want to thank each of you for being here. Being here this morning was not easy. Each of you inspire millions across the globe. Millions look to your athletic achievements, you have all stood on the biggest stages of the world and done extraordinary things,” Cruz proclaimed. “And you were able to do that through tens of thousands of hours of incredible hard work. And yet that work pales compared to the courage it took to come here today and to tell your story publicly.”

Well, Helen Mirren isn’t buying it. “Hey Ted Cruz, what if Larry Nassar had gotten one of these courageous women pregnant?” she tweeted. “Drop dead Ted.”

Given that Texas’ governor, Greg Abbott, doubled down on Texas’ law not needing an out for rape pregnancies (and Ted’s not speaking out against that insanity while giving a speech to Team USA gymnasts about how much he cares, as a father of two young athletes), let’s just say that Helen Mirren was not alone in her sentiments.

Not only did Ted grandstand, but he also pointedly called attention to how Simone Biles hails from Texas, and he spoke on behalf of the whole state while declaring pride for her courage. That didn’t go over well either!

(Via Fox News, CBS News & Politicus USA)

While Foo Fighters were, like the rest of the music industry, sidelined during the pandemic, it gave Dave Grohl time to write a book. That book, The Storyteller: Tales Of Life And Music, is set for release on October 5. Ahead of then, though, Grohl has shared a new 90-second trailer for the book.

The video features some clips and images from throughout Grohl’s life and career, and all the while, he explains how restlessness during the pandemic led to him doing more writing, and how he came to enjoy that process enough where he was motivated to write a book.

Grohl’s author’s statement previously touched on similar points: “So, I’ve written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’) I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. […] I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.”

Check out the trailer for The Storyteller above.

In a new interview to promote the “gonzo post-apocalyptic Samurai-Western,” Prisoners of the Ghostland, Nicolas Cage opened up about his upcoming extremely meta project that will involve the actor playing a bizarre, fictionalized version of himself. Announced over two years ago, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent will see Cage play a down-and-out version of himself who agrees to appear at Mexican billionaire’s birthday party for a cool million bucks. There’s just one problem: the billionaire played by Pedro Pascal is also the head of the drug cartel, and he has no plans on letting Cage show up for a simple meet-and-greet.

Instead of mingling with guests, Cage is forced to recreate scenes from his vast catalog of films and with the same level of manic energy. While the actor relished the opportunity for “taking the piss” out of himself, he has absolutely no intentions of ever watching the final product. Here’s what he told Collider after being asked what it was like for Nicolas Cage to tackle the role of “Nicolas Cage”:

That is a really great question and I’m still trying to answer it. One of my answers is that I’m never going to see that movie. I’m told it’s a good movie. My manager, Mike Nilon, who is also a producer on it, looked at it. He was very happy. I’m told the audience loved the movie. But it’s just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theater and watch me play Tom Gormican’s highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me.

According to Cage, he doesn’t see himself as the “neurotic, high-strung” type, but after Gormican told him that’s the “best Cage,” the actor couldn’t really argue with that and dialed up his performance. “I won’t see it,” Cage told Collider. “But I do hope you enjoy it.”

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent premieres April 22, 2022.

(Via Collider)

It’s been nearly three years since Meek Mill released his last album, Championships. But that’s all about to change as the rapper has officially unveiled details about his upcoming LP, Expensive Pain.

Mill returned Wednesday to announce Expensive Pain is slated for an October 1 release. It’s set to feature the rapper’s recent singles “Sharing Locations” with Lil Baby and Lil Durk and his track “Blue Notes 2,” a collaboration with Lil Uzi Vert.

Mill’s Expensive Pain artwork is a commissioned collage piece by New York-based artist Nina Chanel Abney, an abstract artist known for exploring the intersection of race, gender, pop culture, homophobia, and politics in her work. The cover art is a collage of the finer things in life, including yachts, money, nice cars, and several women, all centered around a representation of Mill shedding a tear.

The announcement of Expensive Pain arrives shortly after Mill was given the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award for his social justice work with his REFORM alliance. It marked the first time a rapper has received the award, and Mill celebrated the achievement with a freestyle.

See a behind-the-scenes video of the making of Mill’s Expensive Pain album artwork above.

Expensive Pain is out 10/1 via Maybach Music/Atlantic. Pre-order it here.

Meek Mill is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Even in the gatekeeper-filled world of drinks, wine has always felt extra gatekeep-y. “These reds go with that. Those reds go with this. Don’t ever pair white wines with this or that!” You wouldn’t be the first person to roll their eyes and want to shout “shut up already and let me drink!” at a wine snob.

While knowing the basics does provide a foundation to work from (which is true of any craft — food, drink, or otherwise), wine is so drastically varied that it feels virtually impossible to know or follow all the “rules.” And starting from scratch can be incredibly daunting. You need trusted, accessible voices to show you the ropes. Voices like winemaker and budding TikTok wine star David Choi — who offers a whole lot of guiding and no gatekeeping.

Choi wants you to love wine like he does. But more importantly, he wants you to love wine the way you want to. He’s not interested in what’s “right” nearly so much as he’s interested in “what works for you.” To say that the wine world needs energy like that is an understatement.

Choi makes wine for a living in Napa Valley in California (Magna Carta) and the Loire Valley in France (Angel Falls). His credentials are exemplary. It would have been very easy for him to fall into that same gatekeeping aspect of wine snobbery that’s pervasive in wine media and reviewing. But that’s just not his jam. Instead, Choi offers insights into inexpensive wine choices that manage to hold their own with much more expensive bottles, along with practical pairing ideas. It’s a devilishly simple strategy but it’s also a much needed one.

We got a chance to jump on a call with Choi recently and talk about his love of wine, what wines he thinks you should try, and why the juice is so beloved by so many. It was an enlightening conversation that got a little philosophical at the end, much like any conversation once you reach the last few sips from a fine bottle of wine.

Tell us how your first fell in love with wine.

I first got into wine back, basically, at our family table and that’s sort of how it started. We didn’t grow up generally drinking a lot of wine, but we would always have it for special occasions. So I grew up probably more smelling the wine than drinking it. I was still under 21 at the time, but my parents and family brought me up in that culture of learning a little bit about wine and what makes it a little different, the nuances of it, the aromas, things like that.

So for me, wine is always about the experience. It’s not just enjoying a glass of wine, it’s about who you’re with … the foods it’s paired with. Even today, every time we go out or do dinner or we’re around friends and family and we’re enjoying some wine with our dinner, it always brings me back to that feeling when I was younger of having all my uncles and aunts and relatives all around and we’re enjoying food and wine. It brings me back to that time.

That’s wonderful. What was the “ah-ha!” bottle of wine for you where you knew that it was more than just something to enjoy around the family table?

It was a Bordeaux that we had. I think it was for my father’s birthday and it was at a steakhouse. It was generally where everyone enjoys wine, gets a steak with a Bordeaux or a big red. Obviously, before I’ve had a lot of steaks but this moment was … it just worked so seamlessly and sort of melted. It had that combination where I was like, “Oh! Now I really know what people are saying.”

It hit with the fats of the meat and it was just the perfect moment for me.

Nice! That leads towards my next question. In food and drink, wine especially, you have these entrenched notions of the protocol. Big red wines with red meat. White with white fish, et cetera, et cetera. How important do you think those old school rules are in 2021 or do you feel they’ve always been malleable?

I think it sets a foundation, right? So it’s a go-to that you know is always going to work. For someone like myself, I like trying new experiences. I like to try things that may not work or that may not be by the book. Not all pieces of meat are the same, so one can go with something lighter, like a Burgundy or something else entirely. I like a lighter style red with a fish and that’s perfectly fine as well. It’s really exposing yourself and experimenting and experiencing these different pairings and seeing what you really like. Plus, as your palate evolves, you want new experiences. I think it’s fun. To be honest, though, not every pairing works. So should I just drink this glass of wine by itself or should I just have this meal by itself?

But it’s fun when you do get to pair different things. We shot content with Hot Cheetos and a Riesling recently. Going into it, I was like, “We’re just having fun.” It was just something that we wanted to try, but that paired really, really well for me and I was like, “Wow. This is something I would go back to. This is something I would recommend!”

That’s what I dig about your TikTok and your whole vibe: It’s about experimentation, sure, but also going with the flow and finding something good and admitting when it’s not. One of my favorite examples is with seafood where you’re so drilled with the dogma of crisp white wines with fish or seafood. Then when I was in Sicily a couple of years ago and, man, you get these beautiful volcanic grown reds that are a little hefty and you’re eating it with squid ink pasta and it’s just the most perfect pairing you could ever imagine.

It’s absolutely beautiful. When it goes well, you just know it. Your mouth tells you. Your senses tell you that it’s perfect and it has to do with where you’re at as well.

Absolutely.

If you’re here, it may not have that. You may not get that same sense of that same feeling that you would when you were in Sicily.

So let’s talk a little bit about your TikTok. Let’s face it, the world of wine is very gatekeep-y. You’re the antithesis of that. What do you feel you’ve learned about wine through reviewing wines on TikTok? How has it expanded your knowledge?

It’s been great. Being in Napa and producing my own wines here and out in the Loire Valley in France, I don’t get to taste huge amounts of varying wines otherwise. It’s been many, many years since I was at the retail store where I was tasting hundreds of wines every week. And now it brought me back to that time where I get to taste and go back and see what’s going on and what people are producing. It’s been fun because most of it is value-driven. We do some of the higher-end stuff, but mostly it’s below $20, and mostly it’s below $15.

We want you to enjoy wine without having someone like myself come in and say, “You should only be drinking Burgundies of Bordeaux or Napa reds.” I wanted to come in with my knowledge and my experience and say, “Yeah, this is what you can find every day but these wines are at a much lower price and I enjoy them just as much and I think these pair really great with foods and whatnot.” And that has brought me back into the world of tasting wines again and I’m very grateful for everyone that’s enjoyed the content.

Why are Napa and Bordeaux so compatible when it comes to wine?

I would say comparatively they both have the best grapes in the world. Just seeing the quality and the care that everybody has for these grapes — because you can’t make a great bottle of wine without the grapes — that’s just number one. Those grapes are attended to seamlessly and perfectly in both places.

They are still different in a sense because the soils are different. The weather is different. We’re very fortunate in Napa to have very consistent weather during the day with the marine cooling. So it’ll be really cool in the mornings. But then during the afternoons and early evenings, it’ll get to be 95 or 100 degrees, and then it’ll drop back down to 60. So that combination for me in Napa is just perfect for growing the grapes that I need for a Magna Carta.

Let’s sort of step away from California and France for a minute, because there’s a whole world of wine out there. What would be somewhere completely unique that you would recommend to a new wine drinker as a region and then also as a varietal?

There’s a ton of great wine out there. I was very fortunate to have learned my chops in wine at a retail store that really developed my paleate. I would always recommend something from Italy. I think that there is a lot of great reds from Tuscany — especially Chianti — that are really underpriced right now. I think that you are seeing more come on the market.

I always go to, and I know we weren’t speaking about France but I love Beaujolais. It’s an all-year-round wine for me. I love a little bit of a chilled Beaujolais wine during the summer and, for me, Beaujolais also is a great food wine. It’s a little more elegant in style but it’s still a red that has the full expression of those grapes that you’re getting with the Gamay [grape]. That really makes it a great food wine. So that’s a wine that I enjoy all year long. But Italian wines are the best food wines. So anytime that you’re at a restaurant, I would always recommend them because I always know that it’ll be a great pairing for your dish.

What are some hidden gems that really take you to the next level when you’re talking wine?

So if you started at Beaujolais, the next step that you would take up would be Burgundy, right? But actually, the other ones that I really love, would be to start in the Rhone Valley, with a Cotes du Rhone. And then you would evolve to a Chateau Dupa. From there you would go to the Northern Rhone, like some Syrah. I think that’s an evolution and I think those wines are really well underpriced and undervalued. There’s a ton of great stuff out there from the Rhone Valley.

What makes wine such a special part of our lives?

It’s the beauty of it. Wine for me is my heart. I wasn’t gifted with painting or being a lyricist or a poet. My art is through being able to create a great wine and that’s my passion. I love that. Every year is a little bit different. Our blends are slightly different every year.

And being able to bring that to everybody and have them enjoy that while seeing the faces and the enjoyment that they have and the experiences that they have is … everything. Especially in this day and age of where there are so many things are going on in the world that’s really tough, where you turn on the news and everything is bad. I just want to bring a little bit of enjoyment into your life for a few hours with your friends and family that you can enjoy before everybody has to go back into this really tough world that we live in now.

As MAGA followers prepare to descend on Washington D.C. this weekend for a rally they’ve dubbed “Justice for J6,” one key figure who absolutely won’t be in attendance is Trump hypeman Roger Stone.

The political lobbyist and convicted felon gave an interview to Russia Today (via Mediaite) from his home in Florida on Wednesday where he made it clear he won’t be marching in D.C. with the rest of Trump’s cult members. In fact, when asked about the rally — which has been organized by a nonprofit led by former Trump campaign staffer Matt Braynard — Stone warned his fellow “patriots” that the event might not be above board.

“I don’t know a single person in the MAGA movement who’s going,” he said. “It’s a setup.”

Though Stone didn’t offer any proof of his theories, he doubled down on them, calling the rally “agitprop” and accusing the government of trying to lure MAGA supporters into the city.

“Here’s my suggestion,” he continued. “The people who will be there will all be working for the government. If there’s a single armed protester there, they’ll be working for the federal government. This is so obvious. Who would go there armed? Nice try.”

Now, this whole thing just reeks of the kind of paranoia we’ve come to expect from Trump and his cronies, but it’s worth noting Stone is actually cautioning people against attending the rally, which is billing itself as a march to remember the protestors who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6th. (Some have even called the event a “Justice For Babbitt” march, referencing the rioter Ashli Babbitt who was fatally shot while trying to breach the Senate Chambers.) Now sure, there’s no way for him to profit off the ignorance of Trump’s groupies this time but still, encouraging vengeful conspiracy theorists to stay home instead of bringing their guns to a city filled with millions of people during a pandemic is actually one of the better things Stone’s probably ever done.

He ended his talk about the march with this plea:

“Folks, I’m appealing to you,” Stone said. “Stay away. Stay safe. Stay in your homes and, by all means, never bring a firearm to the District of Columbia.”

So MAGAers, just this one time, maybe listen to Roger Stone? (Ugh.)

(Via Mediaite)

It may seem like everybody loves Barack Obama, but the former president certainly has his share of detractors; When he left the White House in 2017, his approval rating was 57 percent. So, a bit over half the country gave Obama a thumbs-up, while the rest of the nation didn’t share that enthusiasm. Obama’s detractors often try to blame shortcomings of American and global life on things he did before, during, and even after his presidency, and there’s at least one political commentator who thinks the former POTUS is responsible for the decline of rock music.

During the September 14 episode of Daily Wire Backstage, a roundtable discussion program from conservative news outlet The Daily Wire, Jeremy Boreing declared, “Rock ‘n roll’s over. You’re still talking about rock ‘n roll as if Barack Obama didn’t happen. Honestly – it’s for another day – Barack Obama destroyed rock ‘n roll.”

Michael Knowles chimed in in agreement before Boreing continued, “There was rock ‘n roll, then there was Barack Obama, now there’s no rock ‘n roll. Because rock ‘n roll was about white male angst, white male teenage angst.”

Ben Shapiro then interjected to acknowledge rock’s history of appropriation, saying, “And stealing a lot of its tropes from better Black music.” Boreing continued, “Barack Obama came along and said young white men aren’t allowed to have angst. They’re not allowed to, basically, express their dissatisfaction because they’re so toxic. And so, truly, rock ‘n roll just stopped.”

It may be worth noting that Obama has long given props to rock music and shown himself to be a fan. In just the summer playlist he shared in July, for example, he included songs by George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Chicago, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Wye Oak, and Brandi Carlile. Obama also co-hosts a podcast with Bruce Springsteen, and the pair is even publishing a book together.

Unfortunately like many celebrities these days, Ariana Grande has to deal with a number of stalkers. That was the case this week when a frightening situation took place outside the Positions singer’s home that ended with an arrest.

According to a report from TMZ, 23-year-old Aharon Brown was taken into custody after showing up outside Grande’s Hollywood Hills home at 2 a.m. on Friday morning. Brown reportedly faced Grande’s security and demanded to be let in to see the singer. When Grande’s security refused Brown’s repeated requests and told him to leave, he reportedly threatened them by brandishing a knife. Security promptly called LAPD, who showed up on the scene and arrested Brown on felony charges.

TMZ’s report states it’s unclear whether or not the singer was actually at home when the incident went down, but her team did note they have filed a restraining order against Brown on Grande’s behalf. A judge allegedly granted Grande a temporary restraining order, which will be in effect until Brown’s trial.

This isn’t the first time Grande has had to file a restraining order against someone. Back in May 2020, the singer and her mother were both granted a five-year restraining order against a 20-year-old man who trespassed on her LA property. The man was reportedly able to get past security and was carrying a love letter addressed to Grande before being arrested on site.

Scottish indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks have been steadily releasing music since their 2009 debut, but the band’s latest effort, Enjoy The View, marks their first time recording as a trio after founding guitarist Michael Palmer left the band in 2019. Despite the lineup change, Enjoy The View is demonstrative of the band’s staying power, another strong entry to their storied catalogue.

To celebrate the new album, vocalist Adam Thompson sat down to talk Old School, The Weeknd, and loving New York City in the latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

They were great live! You shoulda seen ‘em go! I think we might be doing a reunion show by that point actually!

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?

New York. Never had a bad gig here, it just doesn’t seem possible for us. Not sure why as we’ve had bad gigs most places!

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Scott Hutchison! He was great at being a frontman, his tunes were class and his band, Frightened Rabbit, came along just at the right time to inspire us to do what we are still doing now.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life?

I don’t know about best but not too long ago I went to a place in the East Village in NYC called Sakagura to celebrate a happy occasion and loved it. Ate so much good food and drank so much good sake. I think we were there for about 7 hours. Was going to go again recently but saw it had closed down! Bummer!

What album do you know every word to?

These Four Walls.

What is the best outfit for performing and why?

Black T-shirt and dark jeans and comfortable trainers. Classic. Takes decision-making out of the equation if I just wear the same thing every show. And when looking back you can’t ever look too silly in black

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?

Bandmemes666

What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?

“Mull Of Kintyre.” That gets blasted as we enter a new country or return home to Scotland. We also like to have a song that gets played when you all get in the van at the end of the night on tour. The last song was “Return to Innocence” by Enigma. If you play the same song at the same time each night you grow to love it and appreciate the routine! Anything by Mrs Miller as well. Check her out, especially the covers of “Monday, Monday,” “Moon River,” and “Downtown.”

What’s the last thing you Googled?

What is required of me to fly back home to visit Scotland. What test and when do I need to take it?

What album makes for the perfect gift?

Any album! As long as the person giving it loves it and is just trying to share the joy.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

We stayed at a hotel somewhere in the middle of the USA that had been designed to look like a medieval courtyard with a swimming pool in the middle. Medieval swimming pool right outside your door.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

None of us have a single tattoo!

What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?

The Weeknd.

What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

My parents being super nice to me and taking care of me until I could take care of myself! What a thankless task!

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Enjoy playing all these shows and all the fun stuff that happens to you and appreciate it you piece of shit. At least try and be happy!

What’s the last show you went to?

I went to see Catholic Action play in New York just before SXSW was meant to happen in 2020. Everyone was starting to freak out about Covid by that point. Everyone knew it was getting serious by that point.

What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?

Old School. I ended up watching the last hour a few nights ago actually and it always seems to be on!

What would you cook if Obama were coming to your house for dinner?

Something really simple. I try to be a good cook but I just don’t get it. Salt, fat, acid, heat. I get too stressed cooking for people I don’t know. I make a decent pesto with basil from my garden. I think he’d appreciate that I grew that basil. Pesto pasta. And he better say he enjoyed it or I won’t be able to sleep for days.

Enjoy The View is out now via Big Scary Monsters. Listen here.