Morning Between Bells with Manitoba baker Machado,
Let's get you caught up on some of the other stories we're following for you,
the entertainment world,
chris Rock finally addressing the slap heard around the world this time.
It's about new information added to the situation.
If you somehow forgot the comedian infamously was slapped in front
of the entire world by Will smith during the 2022 Oscars.
And now Chris Rock says he had an offer to return the Oscars next year to host
comedian revealing the news during a stand up show in phoenix.
Unsurprisingly it was an all offer he's
refused according to the local Arizona Republic
Rock reportedly compared returning to the Oscars
like returning to the scene of a crime
specifically referencing the murders of Nicole Brown,
Simpson and Ron Goldman saying it'd be like
Nicole Brown going back to the restaurant,
the comic previously hosted in 2015 and 2016
but 2013 not going to be added to his resume that we should know.
I mean we don't know how early the Oscars typically reach out to particular people,
but they usually don't even announce who's hosting until maybe january
usually like a month or two before the Oscars even happened.
So you have to give credit maybe to the Oscars at least trying to stay within the
cultural zeitgeist of keeping that situation going by
having us have chris Rock host next year,
which is something the Oscars normally would never want to do.
The Oscars always likes to sort of be the highbrow sort of awards show.
They're not the M. T. V. V. M. A. S.
Who wants us talking about all the weird
things that happened and less about the awards.
But I mean it's funny that he won't go there whatsoever.
He's obviously still traumatized if I don't blame him. He's referencing the O. J.
Simpson Nicole Simpson case and you like you mentioned he's done it twice before.
He also mentioned during that same show that he was
also offered a Super Bowl commercial about the slap.
And he also turned that down saying he was throwing a lot of
money so he obviously really wants to distance himself at least for now.
He said this he said the slap hurt.
Also he basically compared will smith Muhammad ali
who he of course played in that movie.
Ali um because it hurt and I guess it makes sense because we all heard it.
I mean it was clearly not sort of like this like little light ding here
but this but this gets into an issue that the Oscars always sort
of has because it's like they never capitalized on sort of pr and attention
that comes from it because they sort of want to move away and
have it be about the film and cinema which I totally get it.
I understand but there's a reason why the V. M. A. S.
Are way more relevant in terms of the water
cooler conversation than something like the the Oscars because
they sort of capitalize on us talking about sort
of the weird stuff that happens all day.
And of course, I mean we don't condone that, but this was one of the highest ratings,
the Oscars.
So of course, that makes total sense.
By the way, the Oscars has not confirmed this, by the way,
they didn't respond to a request for comment from every media agency out there.
So who knows if at the end of the day if that was true?
Because the Oscars hasn't commented and as we always say, it's harry's house,
we're just living in it.
Harry styles as it was back on top of the
billboard Hot 100 chart and making history in the process.
It is the first song ever
ever to claim five distinct stays at number one, The Beatles, Michael Jackson,
Beyonce.
No one no one has ever pulled us off.
This also marks the songs 11th, total week at number one.
The longest run since Roddy Rich's at the box also
hit 11 weeks at number one back in 2020.
If you're wondering how much longer as it was,
needs to stay on top to claim the all time record.
Well,
it's a while. No song has done better than Little Nas X is Old town road.
Remember that? Which ruled for a record 19 weeks.
That was in 2019 on this week's chart as it was is followed by Liz owes about damn time.
Steve Lacy's bad habit to round out the top three.
Nicki Minaj's super freaky girl falling to number seven
just a week after debuting at number one.
Look as it was has been out so long.
I'm still obsessed with that song every time it comes on. You just saw him live. Yeah,
he was amazing. So, so, so good.
I mean look, he's gonna he's gonna get maybe close to that record.
He might potentially break that record from little not sex, but don't forget,
there's gonna be a a new entrant into the list this next week,
which is gonna be the Brittany Elton john's
song which we already announced on friday number one
in 40 different countries.
So you'd have to think it's at least going to crack the top five here on billboard.
So who knows how much longer Harry Styles has before Brittany
and Elton john either to thrown him or you know,
add some more chaos to the list here.
All right. Meanwhile, new queen is joining the marvel cinematic universe.
We're talking about Megan the stallion.
She's going to appear in a few episodes of the Disney plus original series,
she hook attorney at Law.
So for all we know right now,
is that the rapper gonna be playing a character from another
world who is a fictionalized version of herself and while M.
C. U. Fans definitely excited.
Megan's fans even more excited,
some tweeting that it's not Megan that's joining the marvel universe.
It's the M. C. U. That's joining the Megan the stallion Multiverse
and this isn't the only project the star will soon be seen in.
She's also joined the cast of the musical comedy, effing identical twins.
She's done interviews where she said she actually wanted to
be an actress before she wanted to be a row.
So this was always something that was something that she wanted
to do um and she doesn't want to stop there.
She has even said she wants to get into
directing to producing to all this kind of stuff.
So she's bringing the hobbies. We are coming. I love me some Megan, the stallion.
I would love this would maybe get me to watch a marvel show.
Well, can I say that you know how excited I was about?
She hulk, I've talked about it on this show for months leading up to it.
It's terrible. It's terrible
reviews so I'm still gonna watch it because I'm just going to watch it.
But we can use the Megan thee stallion,
whatever it can take to give it some attention.
We'll do another show that I can't stop watching
House of the Dragon continues to bring the heat,
episode two of the Game of Thrones prequel drew in 10.2 million viewers across HBO
and HBO max a larger audience and its record setting premiere just a sunday before
HBO says the House of the dragon premiere audience
has grown to almost 25 million viewers across platforms
in the weeks since it debuted.
Now,
it's pretty obvious why the network gave the show an early renewal for season two.
House of the Dragon has some big shoes to fill.
Following his predecessor,
Game of Thrones became HBO's most viewed series
of all time throughout its eight year run.
But the prequel could give it a run for its money.
I think people just want to find that unified
experience where everyone is watching a show together.
I don't even correct me if I'm wrong.
After Game of Thrones, I can't remember a show that so many people across the board.
I mean the only one that could come to mind is succession, but it doesn't have sort of,
but it's a different,
I think it's a different show and I think succession has a sort of
binge able audience that's watching it in a different way than Game of Thrones.
I feel like Game of Thrones was sort of the last and now we have House of Dragons,
the last sort of sunday show that everybody
the next day sort of talked about afterwards.
You have to be so happy if you're
if you're Warner Brothers Discovery because there there's so much pressure
on them to get this show off the ground running again,
given how bad the show ended with Game of Thrones.
So the fact that everybody's loving it and
the ratings didn't dip after the first episode,
that the fact that that's good.
That's showing that's good that you're
having a sustainable audience and that gives
you a reason to believe that this A has legs and B.
Which is most important.
You can do spinoffs for HBO max because if this really stumbled out of the gate,
the entire Game of throne franchise would be basically
in disarray because you would have no idea what you
could do after that because you had a terrible finale
for Game of Thrones and nobody be watching this.
Clearly, that's not the case here and that's really, really good news.
It could look like a marvel franchise in the future
and that's what they want. That's absolutely what they want.
They want a million different spin offs from this franchise.