“I am writing to you, Corey, here, directly, because this is how I… we… keep you with us. I have known and loved you for the past 45 years, since our E.S.T days in NY as hungry wild artists. You were a massive part of my creative work, my creative family, for decades. It meant everything full circle when you joined our BGB community as a teacher, and we navigated the work together, all of us, always coming back to the truth and the potential of storytelling, of the actor’s endless power. You kept us all honest and brave and about art.”
For many horror fans, Shudder and Joe Bob Briggs have almost become synonymous over the past several years. Since “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” launched in 2018 as a one-night marathon event, it quickly grew into the platform’s flagship program, hosting hundreds of cult and horror films and building a fiercely loyal fanbase along the way.
That’s why the recent announcement that the show’s regular run has come to an end caught many viewers completely off guard. While Shudder has confirmed that Joe Bob will return for several special events throughout the year, the traditional season format that fans have grown used to is apparently finished.
The surprise nature of the announcement has led to some frustration among fans online. Many subscribers have openly admitted that Joe Bob’s show was the primary reason they signed up for Shudder in the first place, and for them the end of the regular series feels like losing the platform’s main attraction. As a result, social media and horror forums have filled with people claiming they plan to cancel their subscriptions, believing that Shudder made the decision to cancel the program rather than simply restructure it.
At the moment, there’s no official confirmation of any behind-the-scenes conflict or controversy. The most likely explanation appears to be that the show is transitioning into a special-event format, something that would allow Shudder to continue featuring Joe Bob while reducing the cost and complexity of producing full seasons built around licensing dozens of films.
Still, the lack of a clear explanation has left plenty of room for speculation, and horror fans tend to be very protective of the things they love. Joe Bob is one of the most quintessential characters in modern horror and he’s been around for a long time.
Clearly fans took to him years ago and continue to do so, and if the ship goes down they’ll go with it.
The UK Daily Mail splashing a headline that the Trump Administration is blocking and bulletin to local law enforcement about terrorism resulting from the war in Iran.
The reports indicate that the bulletin reason part, “Radicalized individuals with a variety of ideological backgrounds also may see this conflict or other geopolitical events as a justification for violence,’ the report continues.
The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country. One section explains how local law enforcement can respond to this type of violence.
The official title is ‘A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated threat in the United States during US-Iran conflict’.
Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be
Everyone makes jokes about things that are not in their bingo cards for the year, and for all of us, the bingo card did not have fast-food CEOs going on TikTok to take videos of themselves eating their “products.” Not their food, but their products.
It’s been a week of people mocking and generating memes about the McDonald’s CEO for deciding to make a promotional video for the new Golden Arch sandwich. He awkwardly was on social media taking what was considered by most as a pitifully small bite and being overwhelmed by what he thought was the size of the burger that had sesame seeds—something he was shocked at the inventiveness of.
The CEO in question is Chris Kempczinski, who has run McDonald’s since 2019. The promotional clip that circulated online quickly drew ridicule across TikTok and other platforms, with viewers pointing out how awkward the moment felt.
The bite itself became the focus of thousands of reactions, memes, and stitched videos, with people questioning whether the CEO actually eats the company’s food regularly. Instead of creating excitement around the sandwich, the clip seemed to spark a wave of parody content that spread across social media for days. But he loved those crispy onions..
A separate video of him eating a chicken sandwich has people joking that he was actually putting the napkin up to his mouth in order to spit it out.
After the video was widely mocked, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Taco Bell—and everyone else in between—went online to do similar videos but, because of the other response, took larger bites of the product. And that was the week. That was a week of social media, at least. People making mixes of the video, songs about the video, re-videoing the video, commenting on the video, all at the expense of the McDonald’s CEO.
Listen, anyone who follows conspiracy theories will know one of the most common conspiracy theories that has been active online recently is this thought—albeit gross—that fast-food joints don’t have enough cows to use in their products and are getting medical waste and other forms of ingredients that are less than edible.
It all seems silly and far-fetched until, of course, you see the CEO slam his teeth into a very small portion of a product that he won’t call food and promote that on social media.
The news keeps getting better about this film we already know it’s a complete reimagining and now we’re hearing about more stars some of the names you’ll know. ..
Per Deadline, joining The Exorcist are 11 members of the so-called Flanafamily, including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino, most of whom have appeared across myriad Flanagan projects from Midnight Mass to The Life of Chuck.
Flanagan’s Exorcist is confirmed to be an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to David Gordon Green’s ill-fated The Exorcist:Believer from 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while plot details for The Exorcist are being kept under the sheets, it is known that Scarlett Johansson plays a mother and Jupe her son. Leguizamo may be playing an antagonist. No word yet on who anyone else will be playing
Let’s talk a bit about Mandela Effects, and specifically one strange Mandela Effect that I didn’t even know existed until tonight. I watched a video about how people say it existed, and once it became an issue in my mind, it started to bother me like it really did exist.
Let me explain.
You know those things above baby cribs? You know the word—a mobile. We’ve always called it a mobile. It’s always been known as a mobile. People for generations have said it’s a mobile. As a society we can agree on that, right?
Until you don’t.
Here’s the catch: tons of Reddit forums and different threads across the internet talk about how people remember there being a different word than mobile. They remember it to the point where it’s on the tip of their tongue, and they believe the word was something else entirely. For me.. and believe me, there are some Mandela Effects I really can’t explain.. this one immediately felt fanciful and a bit silly. The word was always mobile. I don’t remember anything different.
Until I started thinking about how other people remember the word being different. Then I started to wonder if the word potentially was different, and maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. I nearly second-guessed my sanity. I started second-guessing the idea that the word was always mobile to the point where I was calling family members and asking friends what they thought the word was.
They all convincingly responded: mobile. But when you sit with this idea long enough—when you let it dwell and fester—your brain starts to play tricks on you. You begin to wonder if it really was mobile, or if the people remembering a different word they can’t quite recall are actually right.
I’m a big fan of the movie Pontypool. It’s one of my favorite zombie horror films, about a mild-mannered, somewhat egotistical radio host broadcasting in the middle of the night from a snowy town. I love that theme. But in the film, people in the town begin to get infected by a strange virus that spreads through language. Words stop meaning what they should, and people begin to lose their understanding of them. It’s kind of like that old Twilight Zone episode from the 1980s called “Wordplay.” The one where a man slowly goes nuts while the entire world starts using words in ways that make no sense to him.
There’s something about forgetting words that’s genuinely frightening.
Maybe it’s because if you’ve seen Alzheimer’s or dementia in your family, there’s a real horror in forgetting words and forgetting things. Forgetting so much that you eventually become a vessel that feels empty.. without the material that used to fill your mind.
But Pontypool is all about language breaking down. In that movie it’s a zombie virus, of course, you have to make it scary somehow.
But the idea of words changing their meaning, people losing vocabulary, or even losing language entirely… that really gets under my skin. And it probably does for you too.
It’s strange how something so benign and mundane can somehow still be so terrifying. And that’s what makes this Mandela Effect a little eerie.
It’s not the usual example like the Berenstain Bears, or the story about Sinbad supposedly making a genie movie that he now says never existed. Instead, this one is about the most basic words we’ve known since babyhood.
On Friday, August 21, 2026, I’ll be screening “H4” right next to the former Vincent Drug building featured in the film – at The Bambino restaurant on their outdoor patio, located directly beside Vincent Drug. The restaurant will be serving pizza and desserts all evening and as the sun goes down over Midvale, Halloween music will echo through the night… and The Shape returns!
This is the hottest nostalgic Halloween ticket of thr summer!
For years people who have taken the powerful psychedelic compound DMT have reported something that sounds more like science fiction than neuroscience: encounters with strange beings. Some describe mechanical elves, others report godlike entities or shadowy figures that seem aware of their presence.
A growing body of researchers is now taking these reports seriously—not necessarily because they believe the entities are real, but because the experiences are so consistent across thousands of users that scientists want to understand what’s happening inside the human mind.
One of the more ambitious ideas comes from neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore, who is exploring something called “extended DMT” (DMTx). Instead of the usual short but intense trip that lasts around 10 to 15 minutes, this method keeps people in the altered state longer through controlled infusion, giving researchers more time to study what participants see and experience. Gallimore has even proposed something he calls “SETI for the mind,” a concept where scientists might try to communicate with these perceived entities during the experience to see whether the encounters show signs of intelligence or are simply elaborate hallucinations created by the brain.
Not everyone in the scientific world is convinced, of course. Many researchers believe the human brain is wired to recognize faces and personalities, meaning psychedelics may simply scramble our perception enough that the mind invents characters to make sense of the chaos. Still, the phenomenon remains one of the strangest recurring elements in psychedelic research. Whether the entities are nothing more than neurological fireworks or something deeper tied to consciousness itself, the question remains fascinating—and just mysterious enough to keep people asking what exactly the mind is capable of seeing when the doors of perception are pushed wide open.
Hundreds of U.S. troops across dozens of units and installations have submitted complaints to the non-profit watchdog, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), since the attack about combat unit commanders providing Christian reasoning for the war, during which at least four U.S. troops have already been killed, independent journalist Jonathan Larsen reports on Substack.
Non-commissioned officers (NCO) who attended a briefing Monday told the MRFF that a combat-unit commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
The commander also argued that Trump “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth” and that the Iran war is part of God’s plan, the NCO claimed.
Tonight is one of those rare astronomical events. The blood moon.
The moon will be eclipsed at the 33rd minute of the hour 6:33 a.m. eastern daylight time and 3:33 a.m. Western daylight time.. It will take place of course on March 3rd, 3 3 at the 33. It begins at 3:44 a.m. eastern Daylight Time..
There is no path of totality it could be seen widespread across the planet. At least when darkness prevails during the eclipse time.
This world war rages in the Middle East and expands, the president has a strange rash on his neck, and everyone just feels more and more like the off-kilter world is going upside down. Life during wartime. Life during the blood moon..
