Competitive eaters Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi went head-to-head yesterday, for the first time since 2009 . . . in the live Netflix special “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef”. There was very little question who was gonna win. Joey has progressed way beyond Kobayashi over the years when it comes to sucking down wieners. And he did indeed crush it, scarfing down 83 to Kobayashi’s 66 within 10 minutes. Joey beat his own personal record of 76, and took home the $100,000 prize. Kobayashi had announced his retirement earlier this year, so this was his last hurrah. Supposedly.
Jennifer Lopez posted a summer photo dump, but one person was conspicuously absent from the pics: Ben Affleck. She captioned her post, “Oh, it was a summer.” And she dropped a few inspirational quotes in with the photos, including: “Everything is unfolding in divine order” . . . And, “She’s in bloom and unbothered, out of reach and at peace.”
Adele announced that once her Las Vegas residency is over, she will take a break for an “incredibly long time.” She told the crowd at her final night at her Munich residency on Saturday, quote, “I have really enjoyed performing for three years, which is the longest I’ve ever done and probably the longest I will ever do . . .”I will hold you dear in my heart for that whole length of my break . . . I just need a rest. I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it now.” Adele will be in Las Vegas from October 25th to November 23rd. This news isn’t a total surprise. Back in July she said she doesn’t have plans for new music and wants to take a big break to do other creative things.
Here is the best new music
3. “Sober” by Jamey Johnson
5. “Miss You So (Letters to You)” by Russell Dickerson
7. “You’d Think I Was a Cowboy” by Dylan Scott
8. “God Can Use a Broken Man” by Jason Crabb featuring Trace
12. “Country Round Here Tonight” by Randy Houser featuring Justin Moore
It’s not too often someone can say they rode a horse down Sunset Boulevard. But when you are Post Malone, nothing is out of the ordinary. Posty was riding horseback alongside Dwight Yoakam during the filming of a music video in Hollywood, and it seems like another Country collaboration is in the works. In the video, both Post and Dwight are decked out on their horses singing along, and cruising past The Roxy on the Sunset Strip. Who will he collaborate with next?
Keith Urban was recently interviewed and it’s obvious that Australian news shows have a lot more fun than American ones. Keith was on the show promoting his new album, “High”, which drops September 20th . . . and he had some thoughts on why Country music is so successful and mainstream these days. Keith said, “It’s a very story-oriented, relatable genre, and it always has been.” Then he was asked, “So did something change?” So Keith said, “It’s the confluence of everything . . . You’ve got artists that have grown up with so many different kinds of things, all these influences are coming into the genre . . . Country’s had this ability to embrace pop elements and then when it kinda starts to lose its way, it contracts back to more pure country.” It’s a really interesting thought. Country takes in as much Pop as it can, until it becomes unbearable, and then there’s a rebellion and we go back to our roots.
80,000 Oklahoma Sooner fans paid tribute to the late, great Toby Keith with a big sing-a-long at their season opener on Friday. He was born and raised in Oklahoma. They blasted “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” over the loud speakers. And not just a clip, the whole song. Now people are calling on them to do it again, and make it a tradition.
A couple weeks ago, the video came out for Jelly Roll and Eminem’s collaboration, “Somebody Save Me”. Eminem’s lyrics feature him apologizing to his daughter Hailie for often choosing DRUGS over her. And the video includes a lot of actual footage of her. And she LOST IT when she saw the video for the first time. On a podcast, she says seeing the video . . . and hearing Eminem’s other new song “Temporary” . . . make her cry, because she never realized just how bad it was, and that scares her. She says she can’t watch the video again.
Four deaths to report this morning: Actor James Darren from “T.J. Hooker”. . . actor Obi Ndefo from “Dawson’s Creek”. . . rapper Fatman Scoop . . . and NHL star Johnny Gaudreau, who was killed by a drunk driver, along with his brother.
Jeff Bezos has a new, $80 million private jet.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is still the #1 movie at the box office, and it just crossed the $600 million mark domestically.
David Hyde Pierce says he’d be up for a guest appearance on the new “Frasier”.
Stevie Wonder dropped a new song, appropriately titled “Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart”.
49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot in the arm during an attempted robbery.
Shaun White is 38. Olympic snowboarder known as “The Flying Tomato”.
Garrett Hedlund is 40. Tim McGraw’s son in “Friday Night Lights”,
Jennie Finch is 44. Former Olympic softball pitcher who took home the gold in Athens and the silver in Beijing.
Charlie Sheen is 59.
Al Jardine is 82. The Beach Boys.
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