Lindsay Brewer Hits Monaco, News Anchor Swallows A Fly, And Corey Feldman Does The Beatles
Hey, I hope you've had a hell of a week. I know I have. You don't forget the first time you get called off the bench to handle one of OutKick's biggest franchises, Nightcaps.
A couple of weeks ago I got a text from our own Zach Dean who, along with Amber Harding, has kept the Nightcaps wheels running for quite some time. He asked if I could take the reins on the Thursday after Memorial Day.
Now, I'm normally starting to get The Gripe Report together that day, but I immediately said I could do it. (Shameless plug; send your gripes about anything and everything to mattreigleoutkick@gmail.com.)
I felt like a Triple-A player getting called up to the Big Leagues, so I ran to tell my girlfriend the big news.
"Hey, you're not going to believe this," I said, my excitement palpable.
"What's that?" she said, her gaze not shifting from a 2009 episode of Monday Night Raw (Seriously; that part isn't a joke).
"Guess what I'll be doing the Thursday after Memorial Day."
"Finally caulking the bathtub?"
"No… I mean, maybe? Eh, I'll be honest with you; probably not," I said. "It's something I'm going to be writing."
A sudden realization took her attention away from the 15-year-old Randy Orton and Triple H match she was watching.
"Wait; Oh my god… oh my god…" Her face lit up. "You're going to be doing Screencaps?!"
"Not quite," I said. "Nightcaps. Somewhat similar conceptually, but later in the day."
"Oh… so, they're not having you do Screencaps?"
"No, they are not. Not Screencaps; Nightcaps."
"Hmm. Cool… I guess," then it was back to watching Orton perform an RKO on Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
She was right: It is cool. It's very cool
So — without further ado — let's get into this Thursday edition of Nightcaps.
Corey Feldman Does The Beatles
I don't know if I believe in karma, but maybe there's something to it because as soon as I started trying to gather some stuff for my Nightcaps debut, I stumbled across a Corey Feldman clip I had never seen.
What luck.
You may know Corey Feldman as a child star who appeared in The Goonies and Stand By Me. I know him as the weird guy in his early 50s who is trying to make a go of it in the music biz despite what certainly appears to be a complete lack of musical ability.
Who could forget his ̶h̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶n̶g̶ song "Ascension Millennium," his unending attempts to channel early '90s Michael Jackson in the 2020s, or, my favorite, his performance at a Single-A State College Spikes game?
Wow. Just wow.
You've got to hand it to him, he and Corey's Angels gave the fine minor league baseball fans of State College, Pennsylvania a show.
I don't know if he's delusional or Andy Kaufman-ing the bejeezus out of all of us, but the new clip I saw featured Corey stripping things down and doing a cover of the Beatles classic, "Blackbird."
Yes, he really said, "You know what? I think I have the chops to handle a Beatles tune."
Oof… I mean, at least to his credit, he's still more musically inclined than Yoko.
OutKick Favorite Lindsay Brewer Hit Monaco
Racecar driver Lindsay Brewer is a real crowd-pleaser 'round these parts, and she had the weekend off from her day job as a driver for Juncos Hollinger Racing in the Indy NXT series thanks to the Indianapolis 500.
However, instead of sticking around Indy, she hopped across the Atlantic for the Monaco Grand Prix — and swung by Cannes — which means we all win.
Lindsay will be back in the cockpit this weekend for Indy NXT's race in Detroit.
It's Been A Good Week For Videos Of People Getting Hit By Cars
I hate how much people are filming anything and everything. It's obnoxious, and frankly a nuisance, but if there's a silver lining it's that we catch things on video that we may never have before the advent of the smartphone.
Case in point: these two videos of people getting hit by cars.
First, we've got one involving some guys doing reverse donuts in a Tesla Cybertruck in the middle of a crowd.
Although, I'm not sure this outcome is all that surprising.
Is there any other way that could've gone?
The other day my girl and I were out driving and we saw a Cybertruck which led her to ask what the purpose of them even was.
I said I wasn't sure, but I can tell you now that whatever was happening in that video is not what Musk had in mind.
While you could see that one coming from several zip codes over, this next one is a bit more surprising.
Here we've got influencer @claireliz_ doing her thing on a city street corner (which looks like it involves checking her pits for deodorant) when she captured an unexpected moment on camera.
Ouch.
I'm not one to victim blame, but that one is on the pedestrian.
Vans like that can be tough to drive in cities. I used to do it for a radio station, and I'm proud to report that I hit a grand total of zero pedestrians… although I did clobber air conditioning ductwork while pulling out of the garage once.
Hopefully, that young woman who couldn't be bothered to watch where she was walking is alright, but perhaps this will serve as a lesson about the perils of texting and walking across traffic.
The Internet Can't Get Enough Of The Guy Who Zoomed Into Court Appearance From His Car Despite Having A Suspended License
Corey Harris pulled one of the all-time bonehead moves by taking a Zoom call for a court appearance from his car while driving… with a suspended license.
OutKick's own Mike "Gunz" Gunzleman wrote about it yesterday, and since then the internet has been having a field day with one of recent history's greatest lapses in judgment.
In Corey's defense, he did manage to unite social media, which is damn near impossible these days, so at least he has that…
…unlike a driver's license.
The Norm Macdonald Joke Of The Day X Account Will Improve Your Quality Of Life
We all know that social media can sometimes be a real bummer, and that's why I've got certain accounts on X that I follow that serve as a way for me to get a good laugh amid the other more serious, newsy stuff you find.
For instance, @Super70sSports is great for this, and more recently I came across @TheSimpsonsNFL which uses quotes from The Simpsons to goof on NFL news and happenings, and it's hilarious.
But just last week, I stumbled across an account that was one of those things that was such a good idea, that it kind of pissed me off that I wasn't the one who thought of it: @NormSNLJokes; an account that simply tweets out old Norm Macdonald Weekend Update jokes.
It's been around for a little bit, but it's my favorite thing on X right now.
My apologies to Yoko Ono, who is really catching some heat in today's edition of Nightcaps, but you get the picture.
It's a hell of a day brightener, but, man, I miss Norm…
Boston News Anchor Is A Consummate Pro After Swallowing Fly And Continuing On
What do ya say, I go ahead and land this plane? I've had fun deputizing for our buddy Zach and I hope you've had a good time too.
Let's wrap things up with a news anchor so locked in that nothing was going to keep her from reading the teleprompter, not even a fly crawling down into her mouth and down her throat.
It happened on Boston 25, and looking through the station's roster, it appears it was Vanessa Welch — a veteran newscaster who has been in Beantown for nearly a decade after spending some time in the City Beautiful; Orlando, Florida — and her experience showed when she just rolled with the punches.
And by "punches" I mean the insect in her mouth.
If you give that video the Zapruder film treatment like I did, you'll see that the bug was sitting below her right eye and a subtle movement of her head back and to the left appeared to make the bug tumble off her cheek, at which point she accidentally Hoover-ed it into her own mouth.
Some say there were two flies but I know what I saw…
Hats off to Vanessa. She's making the University of Georiga — her alma mater; she has a very extensive bio on the station's website — proud.
I will say it sucked for her that it sounded like she was doing a serious story. If it was some fluffy human interest story, you could comment on and kind of goof on the fact that you had just inhaled a fly, but that won't fly (pun intended) during a domestic violence story.
Welch knows that she honed her chops on the mean streets of Raleigh and West Texas (again, very extensive bio).
She fared a lot better than this dude famously did.
(Heads up, hilarious NSFW language incoming)
That video never gets old. I love when he sneaks in a shot at "pollen."
My guy was going through some serious hay fever and the last thing he needed was a bug to the yapper.
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That's it for this edition of Nightcaps! That was a good time, and maybe next time Amber or Zach need a much-deserved day off from writing kickass editions of Nightcaps, they'll give me a shout.
That, or maybe I just tanked my only shot at standing in for them. If that's the case, at least we went out in a blaze of glory.
Have a good rest of the week!