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Choosing a college can be stressful. But picking a school when you’re one of the top football prospects in the nation can be downright frightening — especially when you have to reveal your choice on national TV. Jacob Copeland, one of the best high school wide receivers in the country, agonized about his decision. Ahead of signing day, the Pensacola, Florida native said he was overcome with stress while trying to figure out which institution would be the best fit for him. [brightcove id=4840974989001] “Throughout this entire recruiting process I never been as stressed as I am now,” he wrote on Twitter. “I cried and cried all last night about God leading me in the right directions. Now I don’t have over much as a day to decide on a school that’ll change my future after football.” Though Copeland had been heavily recruited by several schools, when it came to signing day he narrowed it down to just three: the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Florida. Flanked by his family, including his mom, who rocked an Alabama sweatshirt and a Tennessee beanie, Copeland picked the home team, Florida. Members of the Florida Gators’ football program cheered his decision. Copeland’s mother, on the other hand, wasn’t happy with his decision and walked off in a huff. The scene got even more awkward when a reporter from ESPN asked who the woman was who walked away, and why she chose to leave. Copeland didn’t have any answers for the reporter, but he handled the questions — and the weird moment — with class. And while many came down on his mother for having a brief tantrum, Copeland wasn’t bothered by it. She returned to the event a few minutes later, gave her son a hug, and signed the papers for him to commit to the University of Florida. Good luck, young man!

When you read a truly perfect description, you just know you’ll never be able to unsee it.

Thanks to the brilliant minds over at BoingBoing, who titled an article about the wind running through the improbable object that is Donald Trump’s hair, “Morgellons Tesseract atop Trump’s head peels off in high winds,” my day was made early in the morning. Hats off to this.

If you’re curious as to the sight that BoingBoing was so aptly sketching, here it is.

Even better with dramatic music pic.twitter.com/ULKnbCvP5c

— mf soon (@_iPed) February 7, 2018

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• As Congress nears a budget deal, Paul Ryan is still refusing to agree to hold a vote on a solution for the DREAMers, even though Mitch McConnell agreed to hold one in the Senate. And so Nancy Pelosi is holding the House floor.
  

  Pelosi has now been talking about Dreamers for 7+ hours. In 4-inch heels. https://t.co/rWArktEeSg

  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) February 7, 2018

• One of the magical sisters in the Charmed reboot will be a feminist lesbian, and her girlfriend’s name is Detective Soo Jin. OK, now I’m listening about the Charmed reboot. (via TV Line)
• According to DNA analysis of the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man,” early modern Britons had dark skin and blue eyes. (via The Guardian)
• Where is the lie?
  

  This looks like the Han Solo from a porn version of “Stars Wars,” and, like, not a high-quality erotic production either pic.twitter.com/HcW43lDocp

  — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) February 7, 2018

• We got our first poster for the upcoming Venom movie starring Tom Hardy, and reports say we’ll see the first trailer tomorrow. (via Comicbook.com)

So what’ve you got for me today?

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With Ash vs Evil Dead coming back to Starz for its third season later this month, we wanted to do something special to get ready. But instead we did something amazing! We had Bruce Freaking Campbell himself and the rest of the cast join us in studio for today’s incredible episode of Nerdist News Talks Back.

Host Jessica Chobot and Andrew Bowser welcomed the legendary Bruce Campbell along with his co-stars Lindsay Farris, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Arielle Carver-O’Neill on today’s show to talk about what we can expect from season three. How would they describe this year in one word (or two when you’re the show’s star)? What did Bruce mean when he told us “nothing will ever be the same” after this year? And who is this year’s standout demon or deadite? Will it literally be “the mother of all demons?” That’s an interesting phrase for a season where Ash finds out he’s a dad…

We also wanted to know why they think people relate to an unusual hero like Ash, who Bruce definitely undersold when he described himself as “the average man who has to be tested by evil every so often?” But we also had plenty of less important, yet very important questions, like how often do they get covered in blood on set? “I got a blood cannon eight time in ten episodes,” said poor Arielle Carver-O’Neill, before Bruce explained to us the finer points of blood cannon nozzle settings. (Who knew?)

We also wanted to know about the Knights of Sumeria and what they want. And how will Ash respond to finding out he’s a father? How will all of that connect to what Dana Delorenzo said are the two main things the season is about: “destiny” and “family bound by blood.” (No wonder they need the cannons.)

They also told us how the show will continues to build off of the movies and what kind of Easter eggs we can expect (get ready for Ash’s dad to return!), and Ray Santiago hinted at some smooching Pablo will be doing this year, though we’re more excited by Dana’s announcement that “body parts definitely touch this season.”

But if all of that has you hyped, wait until you hear Bruce throw some serious horror television show shade at The Walking Dead before telling us that this year Ash will meet the one enemy he can’t defeat. Who could she be and what makes her so dangerous to him? Why does that make Bruce angry about the Millennium Falcon?



When Andrew wasn’t busy asking Bruce about meth (in fairness, it made total sense in context), we had plenty more questions about the upcoming season though, which Dana and Ray said somehow manages to outdo last season’s head-up-the-ass/hanging-dong zombie scene. How will it be possible to top that?

And of course we asked the most important question of them all: what power tool would you want as a hand? (We’re still debating if Bruce’s “a fist on a very tightly wound spring” counts as a power tool though.)



Today was the perfect reminder why you should always tune into Nerdist News Talks Back every weekday when the show airs live at 1:00 p.m. PT on our YouTube and Alpha channels. Because where else can you join in on our conversation with Bruce Freaking Campbell without having to worry about getting drenched with fake blood?

But we still want to hear your thoughts on today’s show, so talk back to us about it in the comments below.

MarvelTV Podcast Episode 2: Runaways And Upcoming Movies

Hi Everyone,

Kimberly, Chris, and Matt are back to discuss Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu and the upcoming movie slate for Marvel including Black Panther, Infinity War, and Ant-Man and The Wasp. Are you excited for these upcoming Marvel movies? Let us know in the comments!

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