We’ve informally reached out to a few people who work in TV news who confirm there isn’t a specific hard break until the end of the hour. This break occurred during the show’s first half.

Also Santa Claus is white and black people deserve to be brutally killed by police and women who are sexually harassed and assaulted are probably asking for it. Gotta leave it at that. We’ll be right back and our next segment will include a prolonged discussion of high waisted jeans.

Favorite Petty tracks? I think mine has to be “Breakdown:”

So this came up. This was from earlier this summer and his very last performance with friend Stevie Nicks.

I’m sad I’ll never hear Tom Petty sing live again. But I am really sorry that Tom Petty the grandfather didn’t get to hang out with his granddaughter like he wanted to once off the road. That sucks.

Truly, we just lost a great American songwriter, as well as another great King of the Hill character:

“Wildflowers” was the soundtrack of my early 20s. I listened to it today in full and I don’t think I realized then how much of his own shit he was laying bare. Now, as a grown up with a complicated marriage, I get so much more from his later music. God I’m going to miss him.

Bowie was shocking, Prince was devastating, and Petty is abandonment.

I’ve always admired Tom Petty* but hadn’t thought I was overly acquainted with his opus. Boy, have these threads proven me wrong: you are absolutely right — so much of his music has formed a tapestry for having been raised in the seventies and eighties.

a true fact is that American Girl is one of the best songs ever written, I’m going to listen to it and cry now

That will be nice for him. He can sit back and relax and not have to deal with the stress of chasing a ball around a mostly empty park.

In other news Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley is going to chase his dream of owning a Dodge dealership.

Good for Jaso. Though were I him, I’d try to stick around one more year to hit that 10-year service time marker... annual pension payouts go up to $100,000 at 10 yrs.

If he wants to be anonymous, move to Austin circa 1996, there were lots of white rastas living here at that time.

I’m with Paul. Totally makes a mockery of the game. What’s next, guys playing the whole game WITHOUT playing a position?

It’s just as annoying as the ice bucket challenge. And thus, I assume it will be just as effective in raising shit loads of money. If the non-celebs get into it with $10 challenges and nominations, it will become even more annoying and simultaneously even more effective.

These are humblebrags. What about us, the folks who STAYED ugly?

Has anyone done extensive academic research comparing people who become better looking as adults vs good looking kids who became unattractive as adults. I’m just wondering who fares better psychologically. The late bloomers are often plagued with imposter syndrome bc of the bad childhood experiences but it’s just as…

I mean John really didn’t change much....

I need more information on that Chelsea Handler pic.