Given the social distancing measures that were in place for the majority of 2020, last year wasn’t a great one for parades. There’s a big one in a couple days, though, and so far, it looks like it’s going to be fantastic. It was just revealed that the New Radicals are getting back together for the first time since the ’90s to perform “You Get What You Give” at Joe Biden’s Virtual Parade Across America, which will follow his inauguration on January 20. Now, TMZ reports that Nathan Apodaca — aka the guy who went viral for listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” while drinking cranberry juice on a skateboard — will also be joining the proceedings.
TMZ notes that Biden’s team reached out to Apodaca “because they saw how his feel-good video uplifted the world this past fall during social unrest and pandemic anxiety.” Apodaca has apparently already filmed something for the parade from his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Fleetwood Mac is grateful for the renewed success Apodaca has helped bring the band, as Mick Fleetwood told Apodaca on BBC last year, “We owe you and it’s such a celebration of everything. It’s so joyous and fun and I was just lead right into it. […] I just want to say, outside of Fleetwood Mac, we owe you. It’s such a great story and so needed in days that are challenging I’ve heard you speaking and I’m so happy to be a part of it. Congratulations on a wild, wild skateboard journey that has led us to talking today. I hope Stevie [Nicks]’s watching. She’s going to be overjoyed.”
After Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, the Presidential Inaugural Committee will be hosting the Virtual Parade Across America, which will be televised and is set to “feature diverse, dynamic performances in communities across the country.” Now some of that lineup as been revealed, and it’s huge for bucket hat fans: the New Radicals are reuniting to perform for the first time since 1999. Naturally, they’ll be playing their iconic ’90s hit “You Get What You Give.”
The song has a personal significance to the Biden family, as the president-elect wrote in his 2017 autobiography Promise Me, Dad, “During breakfast, Beau would often make me listen to what I thought was his theme song, ‘You Get What You Give’ by the New Radicals. Even though Beau never stopped fighting and his will to live was stronger than most — I think he knew that this day might come. The words to the song are: ‘This whole damn world can fall apart. You’ll be OK, follow your heart.’”
The band’s Gregg Alexander said in a statement:
“If there’s one thing on Earth that would possibly make us get the band together, if only for a day, it is the hope that our song could be even the tiniest beacon of light in such a dark time. America knows in its heart that things will get bright again with a new administration and a real plan for vaccines on the way. That’s the message of the song… this world is gonna pull through. […] Performing the song again after such a long time is a huge honor because we all have deep respect for Beau’s military service and such high hopes for the unity and normalcy Joe and Kamala will bring our country again in this time of crisis.”
“How corn heavy is the mash bill?” asks Dan Marlowe, mixologist at Modena in Washington, DC. “What is the intended use — sipping or cocktails? What’s the proof? There’s a lot to consider.”
The gather opinions on the best value bourbons, we went to the folks who spend their days mixing up drinks behind the bar. We asked some well-known bartenders to tell us the favorite bottles, dollar for dollar. Check their picks below.
Maker’s Mark
Felipe Muñoz head bartender at Sweetleaf Cocktails in Long Island City, New York
I still think that Maker’s Mark Bourbon is the best value for your money. It has become underrated and underappreciated. Since it has wheat in it, it offers a creamy sweet instead of a bolder sweet that most bourbons show.
Wild Turkey is making some of the best value bourbon on the shelves today. Maybe it’s in their process or maybe it’s in their yeast strain they kept alive in two separate refrigerators in two different counties in case of a power outage. There are lots of great bourbons out there at great prices. Old Forester’s caramelized banana profile is delicious. Beam’s peanut butter bombs are great. But Turkey’s bourbons are like cinnamon candied walnuts.
These are my absolute favorite bourbons outside of our own.
The best value bourbon in my opinion is Colonel E.H. Taylor by Buffalo Trace. Coming in at under $40 price point, it is considered a world-class bourbon with flavors of plum and dry raisins and notes of vanilla and a smooth toffee finish.
I enjoy the Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon for a value bourbon. It’s a higher proof than some others, which makes it stand up great in cocktails, but it’s smooth enough to work as a sipper if you’re so inclined. It’s got a nice winter spice quality of nutmeg, vanilla, star anise, etc. But with a well-balanced toasty, caramel quality that balances out the harshness of the overproof quality and makes it very enjoyable.
Dan Marlowe, mixologist at Modena in Washington, DC
If you can find it, Eagle Rare 10 year is one of the best priced 10-year whiskeys in the market, often as low as $35. It has a high corn content with no more than 15% rye, but the masterful aging and blending process makes it sip warm and mellow instead of hot and crisp like some rail bourbons tend to do.
Old Grand-Dad Bonded offers an amazing value with a long history. It’s a bourbon that has been in continuous production since the mid-19th century and is currently made by Jim Beam in Clermont, Kentucky. I love its high rye spicy nature, and that combined with the barrel notes offer up cinnamon, black pepper, vanilla, and other baking spices on top of caramel, citrus, and dried fruit flavors.
Eric Vincent, bartender at Sparrow in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof.
I will always sip this in any fashion, as well as make cocktails with it. It’s a jack-of-all-trades kind of whiskey that has great flavor at an affordable price range. Fantastic balance of char (after all, it was invented by Elijah Craig himself), leather, caramel, and a decent amount of sweetness from having a high corn content. Gives the impression of a creamy mouthfeel.
Maker’s Mark. We like getting Maker’s 46 or the Cask Strength because they deliver high-quality bourbon, they truly care about their people and their prices are great for the market. Those are both fuller-bodied and higher proof, which I thoroughly enjoy. They also just released a special bottle for the LEE Initiative, which provides relief for service industry workers and families that are out of work during COVID.
You can’t go wrong with Four Roses Single Barrel. It’s complex, warming, and filled with hints of dried cherries, charred oak, sweet vanilla, and creamy caramel. It’s perfectly suited for an old fashioned or on the rocks.
There must be something in the air tonight, because both Smino and Brooklyn rapper Kota The Friend (born Avery Michael Johnson Jones) decided to drop new music on a Sunday night instead of the standard late Thursday release. It’s always good to keep fans on their toes, and after a few empty weeks early in the year, it seems like once the projects start dropping, they start coming fast and furious.
Even though he dropped a full-length album, Everything last spring, along with the Vol. 1 counterpart to what he’s dropping tonight, Kota is back with plenty more to say just a few short months later. Yes, the mixtape may only be 15 minutes long with tracks that range between one and two minutes — similar to the format of Vol. 1 — but even within these micro tracks, he manages to pack a punch.
Kota began to tease the new release earlier today, while also commenting on his plans of “coming for everything” in 2021.
At 12AM Eastern time. ‘Lyrics to GO Vol. 2’ will be available EVERYWHEREhttps://t.co/lSLWJj5hmx
He also has plans for vinyl pressings this year, and celebrated an early win for the new tape — it’s reportedly about to hit the number one spot in the iTunes store already!
And just so Yall know… i’m gonna press all my projects on vinyl this year including Paloma Beach and Palm Tree Liquor. pic.twitter.com/pZU6k2vK7E
Standard release these days might call for new music to drop on Thursday night/Friday morning, but Smino has never been one to play by the rules. Besides, with a psychedelic song about martians and wordplay around MLK Drive, how could he sit on this one? Announcing a new song earlier today on social media just a few hours before it dropped, the St. Louis rapper included plenty of alien imagery in his preview posts. “MLK Dr.” @ MIDNITE, tell a fren” he wrote on Twitter, complete with alien and comet emojis:
His Instagram post basically shared the same info, with the caption: “MIDNIGHT. Drop if you ready drop if you want it . ” and the single’s cover artwork, along with a picture of someone, who we can only assume is Smino, in an alien mask.
Keeping in line with the funky and futuristic sound Smino has stuck with over the course of his first few projects, the lyrics get deep into double entendre like a line that references the title “I just seen a martian right off Martin Luther King.” Since the song is only a brief minute and thirty seconds, it is likely just a teaser for a longer project, so keep an eye out for more from Smino and listen to his latest above.
Thus far this offseason the Jaguars (Urban Meyer), Jets (Robert Saleh), Falcons (Arthur Smith), and Chargers (Brandon Staley) worked out deals with new head coaches, leaving the Texans, Lions, and Eagles as the teams still seeking a new head man. On Sunday night, right as the Chargers deal with Staley was announced, word emerged that the Lions too had settled on a hire, as they will reportedly hire Saints assistant Dan Campbell to take over in Detroit, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Now that New Orleans has been eliminated, the Lions are expected to hire Saints’ Asst HC/TEs Dan Campbell as their next HC, per sources. The two sides still need to work out a deal, but it is not considered an obstacle, and Campbell will be the Lions next head coach.
Campbell was previously the interim head coach in Miami in 2015 before joining the Saints as their assistant head coach and tight ends coach in 2016. He’ll now take over a Lions team that, while talented, underachieved under the guidance of Matt Patricia who was let go after another dismal season.
With the Saints’ loss to the Bucs on Sunday night in what was very possibly Drew Brees’ final game, the Lions could move forward with their planned hire and that leaves the Texans and Eagles to find a new head coach. Surprisingly, Chiefs OC Eric Bienemy remains untethered to a head coaching vacancy, although it’s possible Houston makes a push for him in an effort to mend fences with Deshaun Watson, who most now believe will be out of a job. Bienemy was the most prominent Black coach on the market and that he continues to be passed over while less tenured white candidates get jobs is only furthering to illustrate the NFL’s issues with diversity in hiring practices.
The Los Angeles Chargers didn’t have to look too far to find their next head coach after firing Anthony Lynn following a disappointing 7-9 season. According to Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the Chargers will be hiring Rams defensive coordinator Brandon Staley to their head coaching position, swiping him away from their fellow SoFi Stadium tenants.
The #Chargers are hiring #Rams DC Brandon Staley as their new head coach, sources tell me and @TomPelissero. An impressive young candidate, he gets a prime job in LA.
Staley was at the helm of what was one of the league’s best defenses with the Rams and will now be handed the keys to a Chargers team with some immense young talents on both sides of the ball. Justin Herbert emerged as a star in his rookie season and made the L.A. job among the most coveted in the NFL, and with Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram, and Derwin James on defense, while he will no longer have Aaron Donald, Staley will have plenty of talent to build his defense around.
Despite the presence of what appears to be a preternatural quarterbacking talent in Herbert, it’s not surprising to see the Chargers turn to a defensive coach, as Lynn was an offensive coach and, typically, teams tend to seek out the opposite of what they previously had. Of all the job openings this offseason, the Chargers gig was, to many, the best one but it’s also the one with expectations to win immediately, which means ample pressure for Staley to deal with in Year 1.
Minutes prior to Sunday night’s Bucs-Saints game in New Orleans, Fox Sports’ Jay Glazerreported on the pregame show that Drew Brees would be retiring at the end of this season. The future first-ballot Hall of Famer has the most passing yards in NFL history with over 80,000 and is second in touchdowns and career completion percentage.
He will stroll into Canton in a few years, but the way the final game of his career — at least if Glazer is correct — went down will likely sting the legend for some time. Brees faced off with Tom Brady in a battle of aging quarterbacks, and despite Brady being the older gunslinger, it was his Bucs team that got the job done in a 30-20 victory aided by three rather brutal Brees interceptions.
The first one came on a shorted touch pass that fell into the waiting arms of Sean Murphy-Bunting, setting up a Bucs touchdown to take the lead.
His final two came in the fourth quarter of a tight ball game. The first was an apparent miscommunication with Alvin Kamara and also a ball forced into tight coverage that saw Devin White jump in front of the pass and pick it off to set up the game-sealing touchdown from Brady.
The final throw of Brees’ career, should he indeed hang them up, will be this tipped ball interception by Mike Edwards that officially ended any chance of a Saints comeback.
It’s certainly not a storybook finish for Brees, who looked to be emotional on the sidelines as the game came to an end and waved to the crowd that was in the Superdome on his way off of that field for one last time. He’ll forever be a Saints legend, certainly the best QB in franchise history and the leader of their lone championship run. This season saw the decline that so many older quarterbacks see, with diminished arm strength limiting what he could do to run a dynamic offense and, against the Bucs, the demands of having to sustain so many long drives to create scores tipped the wrong way.
We’ll have to wait for an official confirmation of Brees’ retirement from the man himself, but while the last game wasn’t how he would’ve wanted it, there are plenty of happier memories from an incredible career to look back on.
For the last two decades, Fox News has dominated the 24 hour news industry, and for a good reason: They know their audience — Republicans — and they know how to keep them angry. But it looks like they may lose their place atop the food chain: According to Forbes, the news network has lost 20 percent of their audience, a plummet so steep that they rank third, behind CNN and MSNBC, for the first time in 20 years.
As per Forbes:
Over the first full week of 2021 (Jan. 4 through Jan. 10), CNN ranked firstamong cable networks (roughly 2.8 million viewers per day; 4.2 million in primetime) followed by MSNBC (2.3 million per day ;3.8 million in primetime) and Fox News in third (1.7 million per day; 3.2 million in primetime).
Over the first two weeks of 2021, Fox averaged nearly 800,000 fewer total day viewers than MSNBC, and around 1 million fewer than CNN, according toMediate, and every day since Jan. 4, Fox has trailed both MSNBC and CNN in the crucial age 25-54 demographic.
There’s a good reason for their fall: They’ve enraged Donald Trump by not being sufficiently loyal, and so his die hard base has turned on them as well. Before he was permanently banned on Twitter and other social media sites, the outgoing Republican president had tweeted at them with increasing hostility, especially once they formally acknowledged that his rival, Joe Biden, had thwarted his hopes for re-election. Some of their regular viewers instead found solace in two even more pro-Trump networks: Newsmax and OAN, though both gotten into legal trouble after frequently airing baseless accusations about Dominion voting machines.
Mind you, Fox News’ relatively low turnout in the ratings isn’t only due to angry Trump supporters. CNN had its most-watched day on January 6, when a mob of the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol, leading to five deaths. Meanwhile, there’s still a chance Fox News may face even stiffer competition, should Trump ever get that threatened rival news station going — provided he has any money left after his many lenders finally come to collect.
It’s been over a week since outgoing president Donald Trump was either permanently banned or had his access limited by the majority of social media services, and it really has made a difference. There’s less furious and scary tweets from the person who has the nuclear codes, while election misinformation has dropped a whopping 73 percent — thanks not only to his removal but the removal of tons of QAnon and other conspiracy theorists as well. But there’s one person who’s not happy: Donald Trump. And according to one of his spokespersons, he believes he now has no way of communicating with the general public.
I can’t believe I’m writing this. Campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley claims on Fox News President Trump can’t denounce Capitol attack more because he doesn’t have a platform.
“(He) can’t say anything because the platforms have removed him,” Gidley says.
“I can’t believe I’m writing this,” tweeted CNN’s Ana Cabrera. “Campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley claims on Fox News President Trump can’t denounce Capitol attack more because he doesn’t have a platform. ‘(He) can’t say anything because the platforms have removed him,’ Gidley says.”
A couple things: First, he did denounce them, in a video released by the White House YouTube account during the week, and he even managed to do it while not also repeating baseless voter fraud allegations. Second, there are other ways the President on the United States can address the nation that don’t involve tweets. In fact, many people had some sound suggestions:
Ummm the briefing room – where the pool of world media waits 24 -7 ? https://t.co/VJ0MFiKJBm
More Lies. The Brady briefing room is here. We are here. Mr. Trump where are you? Like the cowardly lion you need some courage. You have the largest platform in the world. Stop the b.s. https://t.co/CXMANmYHVs
This is the most childish answer in the HISTORY of childish answers.
POTUS (who has an entire studio set up in the West Wing, as well as staff to craft messaging, with representatives of every news network standing by to repeat his every word) moans “he doesn’t have a platform.” https://t.co/J3l4FA5MTi
he’s one of the only people on the planet who can command the national airwaves on a moment’s notice but taking away his tweeter box muted him ok got it https://t.co/H7VdXpXHDc
A history update for @JHoganGidley: We have had presidents continuously since 1789. Facebook was founded in 2004. Twitter in 2006. Somehow every President from George Washington to George W. Bush found a way to communicate to the American people. https://t.co/4tNmJtas3w
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