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Happy Summer Solstice, sun seekers, and welcome back to the only way to set your seasonal clocks, a way that the ancient druids would surely prefer if they were here to see it: NBA Summer Vacation Watch!

If you are new here, welcome! This hallowed observance of the summer vacations and offseason activities of your favorite NBA athletes has been taking place, at some outlet or another, since 2017 (to catch up, you can browse the sunscreen slicked halls of antiquity here at Dime via the only good hashtag, NBA Summer Vacation Watch), because the people demand and deserve it, and because it’s the only reason we sit through the regular NBA season.

If you’re a returning holiday head, it’s so nice to have you back. I trust you’ve got your sunglasses on and the preferred refreshing bev of your choice in hand, because you know this first dispatch is a scorcher.

Serge Ibaka

The Ma Fuzzy Man is the consummate summer pro because he understands and values the sacred balance between time on and time, the hell, off. It’s to the point where dressing, embracing, and sometimes physically preparing for summer vacation is a given, and we’re all luckier for it.

First, he hit up Mexico for some R&R under a palapa with a green smoothie, because you gotta fuel up properly for this kind of dedicated decompression.

https://www.instagram.com/sergeibaka/?hl=en

Then, he was off to Italy to walk the red carpet of Florence fashion, but not before he enjoyed a topless espresso. I’ve heard you get a richer crema that way.

Rating: This man is just warming up, but he’s put the amateur beachgoers on blast.

Jimmy Butler

Much like Ibaka, Butler knows a thing or two about how to take a good vacation — namely, fitting in a little bit of everything. Some culture, some fits, some searching looks toward the ocean, and some footy. There’s this thing where when pro athletes try another sport in their downtime, with their other pro athlete friends, no matter how good they may be at it, it counts as leisure. I don’t make the rules (I do).

Rating: FKW (Full King Winter-denier)

Klay Thompson

Look, we have to start with the heavy summer hitters! And Klay Thompson’s been one, long before he got a boat. That boat has certainly upped the ante, though, and Thompson piloted it down to Mexico with some friends, stopping to fish and chill with humpback whales along the way.

Rating: Bonus for Thompson’s humpback impression, cetologists get at me but I think it was spot on.

Jayson Tatum

Tatum took a very cute vacation loaded with Daddy-Duece time, including Daddy-Duece jet ski, Daddy-Duece poolside, Daddy-Duece ocean inflatable ride, and Daddy-Duece matching swim trunks on the sandy boardwalk.

Rating: I know reading Daddy-Duece one more time is going to make you uncomfortable.

Rudy Gobert

Rudy Gobert is many things, to many people, but he’s now also a man who takes his cat on vacation. Gobert took a trip to Marie-Galante, in Guadeloupe, a location I can confidently say we’ve never seen featured in NBA SVW before. He did some of his fav things, which include wearing and/or holding big gemstones and working out on vacation.

Rating: The only person who can work out on vacation and not have it cancel out their vacation is Buddy Hield.

Devin Booker

A little behind the scenes for first timers, Devin Booker loves rustic ass vacation. Such trips have included stand-up paddle boarding in Colorado, horseback riding in Montana, and swimming in wild and remote lakes deep in the woods. Here he is trekking around the Grand Canyon to celebrate his dog’s birthday, which looks, from afar, like a bear.

Rating: Happy birthday, Haven, long may you reign over the wonders of this world.

JaVale McGee

The only thing better than seeing JaVale McGee clad in fluorescent swim trunks on the bow of an Italian leisure craft, is seeing JaVale McGee snuggled up to some stellar gowns on display in Venice and having a chuckle as if the mannequin was caressing his head.

Rating: Here at SVW, you really can have it all.

Myles Turner

Another guy who is having a ball in the Bel Paese is Myles Turner. Turner went to Milan for his first fashion week dressed like the most tender seafoam cowboy you’ve ever seen, got into Vogue, and I’m pretty sure is still over there, catching trains and living la dolce vita.

Rating: Would love to see some gelato but understand there are some things better left to the imagination.

Kyle Kuzma

Kuz is in ole Pari, declining his player option and solemnly leaning on the historic walls in one arrondissement after another about it, perfecting his Parisian pout.

Rating: Should Albert Camus have hooped?

Scottie Barnes

Barnes took a nice little rip down to the Dominican with his boys to recline on a catamaran and spelunk into some cenotes. A few of them seem to have gotten matching shell necklaces and if the league determines these unfit for the in-game dress code, so help me.

Rating: Overlooking that one friend’s Bitcoin shirt because vacation clothes, to the newly inducted, can be a mess.

Jusuf Nurkic

Move over, NBA champion Nikola Jokic, because there’s a new horse guy in town! The Bosnian Beast was tamed in the woods by another gentle giant, this one standing, on average, about 19 hands high, but this is not a horse combine.

Rating: This horse is 16.5’ at its shoulders and looks miniature under the caress of Nurk, why can’t Meta put its millions toward recreating this experience as therapeutic ASMR instead of making your aunt a floating cartoon avatar in negative space?

Bogdan Bogdanovic

Do the Euro dudes of the league know how to take a nonplussed boat ride or what?

Rating: So cold, it’s hot.

Josh Richardson

Our bloke Josh Richardson went on not one, but two soccer (“footy”) vacations. The first to London, to mix it up with other “proper gooners” (Arsenal fans), and the second to Madrid to take in a Real Madrid match.

Rating: It’s okay if you love so much, but can’t communicate why, Josh Richardson bopping along to a singer, a guy on a tiny keyboard, and a goateed DJ in an Aperol Spritz lounge. Me too.

Josh Okogie

Guess who else was in Milan for fashion week, carrying around a perfect green apple as a snack and photo prop, chowing down on pasta, wearing I want to say an angora vest and beautiful tan brocade suit? That’s right, Josh Okogie.

Rating: Anchor of new Suns superteam, Josh Okogie, hits different in Italy.

Anthony Tolliver

This is a still from a story but without even knowing that you have a feeling that NBA legend, Anthony Tolliver, selfie video’d his phone all over Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, taking in the historic arboretum, the placid ducks, the well-tended grounds, looking first very straight faced and then gradually getting into it, smiling like a real dad on vacation, before panning the camera to his eye-rolling child. Which he did.

Rating: If not relatable to all of us, then certainly some of us. I almost wrote “summer of us” — which it is!

Kevin Knox

Speaking of relatable, there is something so understandable about half of the pictures in Kevin Knox’s dump of his family’s Jamaican vacation being blurry because the lens is smudged with sweat, sunscreen, food, or just the ubiquitous haze of summer.

Rating: You know what else fits into the ubiquitous haze of summer? Safety. Wear your helmets and life vests.

Terrence Ross

T-Ross has chronicled the wild flora and fauna he sees on vacation a couple of times before under the banner, “Nature w TRoss,” and I don’t want to say watch your ass Sir David Attenborough, but…

Rating: Watch your ass, Sir David Attenborough.

Ish Wainright

Dude, this is all there is. There is nothing better. You know deep in your heart, or your gut, or the most selfish and primal part of you that if you were in that raft, in a pool, and someone offered you a million bucks if you just got out for a sec, you wouldn’t do it.

Rating: We’re only human, after all.

Dennis Rodman

We always love to check in and see what the retirees and old timers are doing when we can, so a hearty thank you to five-time NBA champ Dennis Rodman for saving us the sleuthing and showing up at Home Depot in a customized apron (only in a customized apron) to help out in small appliances.

Rating: No one has ever been happier to be in a Home Depot, not even your dad.

Where in the world is Boris Diaw?

Welcome back to the very special section of NBA SVW dedicated to world traveler, explorer, and international man of mystery Boris Diaw. Diaw tends to get up to whatever he wants, wherever he wants, and some past activities have included snorkeling with whales off the coast of Tonga, showing up under a rocket set to launch at Cape Canaveral, and piloting his own sailboat around the world.

Lately, Diaw has climbed a mountain with some people he may or may not know in French Polynesia (he could’ve just been up there already, tbh), and underwent basic firefighter training for his captain license renewal (of course!) in Florida. Thank you Boris, and I’m sure we’ll see you soon.

Well, it’s the end of June, which means we’re fully halfway through another year. This feels like a good time to stop and look at how things are shaking out. That’s what we’re doing here, taking a moment to run through the best things we’ve seen on television so far in 2023. The Uproxx staff submitted lists of their Top 10s and used math — 10 points for each top pick, 9 for each number two, and so on — to compile a collective list. You might disagree. That’s fine. Variety makes things fun. Just do not shout at us. That’s really all we ask.

10. (tie) The Other Two

Television’s sharpest and funniest Hollywood satire somehow found another gear to shift into in its third season. Creators — and former SNL head writers — Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider continue to find ways to skewer the silliest and dumbest things in the entertainment industry without crossing the line from comedy into bleak cynicism. That’s no easy task. It helps to have a murderer’s row of talent on hand, from stars like Drew Tarver and Helene Yorke to a stable of other assassins like Molly Shannon and Ken Marino and Wanda Sykes. This one is a gem and a great summer binge if you’re not all caught up.

10. (tie) Queen Charlotte

There was a high degree of difficulty here, to be sure. A spinoff of a massively popular show that tracks through two separate timelines and delves into everything from monarchy rule to mental illness has a lot of trap doors built into it, and a lot of places where a rabid fanbase can poke holes. It’s a testament to the creative team — led by super producer Shonda Rhimes — and the cast that this all worked at all, let alone as well as it did. And it featured Julie Andrews as the voice of a 19th-century gossip columnist named Lady Whistledown, which is one of those things every show could use, really. Yes, even a network procedural like NCIS. Especially a network procedural like NCIS, now that we think about it. Something to consider.

10. (tie) Jury Duty

Well, we did not see this one coming. Not many people did, really. Not even Amazon, probably, which spent many millions of dollars on many big-name projects starring many big-name stars, only to have a little fake documentary starring an unsuspecting juror and an unhinged James Marsden lap all of the other projects in cultural relevance on the streamer’s free, ad-supported service. It was a weird situation. But good. And, Lord Almighty, was it ever fun and funny, especially once things got rolling and the action on-screen built upon its own insanity. Marsden as an amplified version of himself is on the shortlist of best performances of the year. There’s probably a lesson here about the economics of streaming, but let’s not focus on that right now. We’re having too good a time to bring any more numbers into this.

9. Beef

Hey, here’s a good idea for a television show…

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun have a minor traffic-related incident and then proceed to spend the entire season attempting to ruin each other’s lives through a series of escalating attempts at destruction and subterfuge, some of which involve the desert and the musical stylings of bands like Incubus and Hoobastank.

Could work.

(It did.)

8. Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets returned for a second season in the early part of this year and, while it didn’t quite capture the cultural imagination like the first go-round (going up against the final season of Succession on Sunday nights probably didn’t help), it still mostly delivered on what fans of the show have come to expect and enjoy. If nothing else, it almost definitely remains television’s best show about a soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness and dealing with the aftermath of tragedy and mild cannibalism. That had to count for something.

7. Shrinking

The first season of Shrinking had:

• Jason Segel as a therapist going through a load of his own stuff
• Freaking Harrison Ford doing goofball comedy as his mentor
• Jessica Williams stealing every scene she was in
• A creative team led by Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, who also found time to star as Roy Kent on Ted Lasso
• A lot of heart and profanity

It was a good time. We’re looking forward to season two.

6. I Think You Should Leave

It is kind of crazy that this show is still as good and inventive as it is a full three seasons into its run. You would not be outlandish to assume that something like this — a sketch series featuring characters who take things way too far in otherwise normal situations — would suffer from diminishing returns. And yet, nope, still just a hoot and a blast. Also, one of our most screencappable shows, which is maybe not a definitive statement on its quality but is still useful here in 2023. Tim Robinson and his collection of weirdos continue to deliver for us, the people. We should all write him nice thank you notes.

5. Poker Face

This is one of those shows that looked good on paper and then went right ahead and delivered on both its premise and its expectations. Which is not nothing, especially when the expectations were this high. That will happen when you start throwing around sentences like “Natasha Lyonne stars as a woman who can tell when people are lying and ends up solving crimes across the country while on the run from a murderous casino boss played by Adrien Brody and a fixer played by Benjamin Bratt in a series from the guy who makes Knives Out.” There’s a lot going on there, all of it good, and all of it dealt with in a refreshing little crime-of-the-week style. It’s as close as we’ll ever get to Natasha Lyonne as Columbo, one assumes, which is the kind of thing one should not take for granted.

4. Barry

Barry wrapped up its four-season run with a collection of bleak episodes that featured murder and assumed names and Stephen Root emerging from proton covered in tattoos. It was maybe not as goofy as some of its earlier seasons, and some characters we grew to love faced some bummer consequences for the things they all did, but three things are important to remember in all of this:

• None of the characters were particularly great people from the start
• Bill Hader, who directed every episode of the final season, is an absurdly talented man
• The finale might have been divisive among the diehards, but the ride there was kind of incredible, regardless of how you felt about the last few minutes

It’s already time to start getting excited about whatever Bill Hader has up his sleeve next.

3. The Last Of Us

Taking a massively popular video game and adapting it into a live-action television series that airs in the prestigious Sunday night slot on HBO is no easy task. It’s one of those situations that can result in people yelling. A lot. But The Last of Us somehow pulled it off. Although, in hindsight, it did kind of tilt the scales in its own favor from the jump. Almost any series where Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay battle a collection of hellbeasts has a pretty good chance of working out, as we saw when they did a similar thing years ago on Game of Thrones. But still. Good show. Let’s not overlook that just because they stacked the deck a little.

2. Mrs. Davis

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before…

Betty Gilpin plays a nun who goes to war with an all-knowing artificial intelligence algorithm named Mrs. Davis in a season of television that touches on everything from religion to the potential pitfalls and unexpected outcomes of technology to cowboys to chicken wings to sneakers. It was a lot, a mix of heavy and light with a series of bonkers twists throughout. Which makes sense, considering the show was created by Damon Lindelof, the mad scientist between The Leftovers and Watchmen. We have no clue where any of this goes from here, or if it even can go anywhere from here, but we do know we’ll be along for the assuredly weird and entertaining ride.

1. Succession

Succession gave us so much over its run. Drama and comedy and memes and moments we’re still talking about today, weeks after it dropped its series finale and showed us the fates of its collection of tormented billionaire children and hangers-on. And it delivered, too, which is not always easy for a show that captures the culture’s fractured attention span. We are certainly going to miss seeing these little monsters on our screens every Sunday night, but it sure was a blast while we had them around. That’s really all we can ask for. That and Cousin Greg flailing around a little bit. Those two things. Succession was a good show. Maybe one of our best. Definitely our number one of 2023 so far. It’s going to be tough to top it by the end of December, but it’s going to be thrilling to see a bunch of challengers try.

After getting hit with a damning federal indictment for mishandling classified documents, and then going on Fox News to basically confess that, yes, he totally did mishandle said documents, Donald Trump has even more trouble coming his way. And for once, we’re not talking about the looming charges for mishandling more documents in New Jersey, election meddling in Georgia, and the January 6 attack. Nope, this is a brand new problem.

According to a new poll, Trump gets easily defeated by Joe Biden in three battleground states, which is bad enough as it is. However, the poll also shows that Trump’s primary challenger Ron DeSantis fares much better, and actually beats Biden in the key states. That’s not something you want to see when your presidential run is already being threatened by federal espionage charges.

Via Mediaite:

The surveys, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies show DeSantis prevailing by 2 points in Pennsylvania, 6 points in Arizona, and 3 points in Georgia, and Trump losing by 4 in Pennsylvania and 3 in the latter two states.

Trump lost all three states in the 2020 presidential election, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to fall short in Arizona since Bob Dole in 1996 and the first to lose Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992. He alleges that those losses can be attributed to mass, unproven voter fraud.

However, despite the polling showing DeSantis faring much better against Biden, Trump still remains the Republican frontrunner for the time being. As Mediaite reports, the former president is still the heavy favorite with 51% of GOP voters backing him for president as opposed to only 21% for DeSantis. Could that change as Trump’s legal problems increase? Who the heck knows?

The guy somehow became president once just by promising to build a giant wall that he never even built. America is a wondrous place.

(Via Mediaite)

Movie fans have been clamoring for a stunt Oscar for more than a decade, and the conversation usually goes something like this:

Movie Fan 1: We should have a stunt Oscar!
Movie Fan 2: I agree!

Now, Chad Stahelski has insinuated that it might be on the way. Speaking with ComicBookMovie about John Wick 4, the stuntman/action director noted that a stunt Oscar hasn’t happened yet primarily because there haven’t been any real conversations with the Academy about it.

“In the last couple of months, we’ve been meeting with members of the Academy and actually having these conversations, and, to be honest, it’s been nothing but incredibly positive, incredibly instructional,” said Stahelski. “I think, for the first time, we’ve made real movement forward to making this happen. I think it’s something that can happen as soon as, you know, the next Oscars, or at least the one after that, at the latest, the next three or four years.”

That may feel like it’s moving in bullet time for fans, but it’s relatively quick in terms of red tape. And if his comments are too wishy-washy for you, he also said, “They want stunts at the Oscars. It’s going to happen.”

And, really, it feels like the Oscars need stunts just as much as the stunt community might need them. It’s one way to inject some energy into a broadcast that’s otherwise an endless stream of people talking intercut by stripped-down musical performances. Bring on the wire work and kick-punches.

(via ComicBookMovie)

If you’re brave enough to drink a (surprisingly delicious) milkshake named after a enormous purple taste bud, you should also try the pie endorsed by the actor who found out first hand what third base feels like.

In the weirdest (and possibly most brilliant) marketing tie-in of the year, American Pie star Jason Biggs has teamed up with EDWARDS Desserts for a limited-edition dessert. Pie Lovers Passion Fruit consists of coconut passion fruit mousse, mango crème, pineapple lemongrass cream, garnished with tropical jellies, pineapple compote, and gold leaf, all contained in a fresh-baked vanilla cookie crumb crust.

“Hi, I’m Jason Biggs, and I’m America’s biggest pie lover. Not in a weird way…” Biggs said in a promotional video for the dessert as an off-screen director yells cut (you can watch it here). Let’s try that again. “There’s nothing more American than pie, so I’ve teamed up with Edwards to start your Fourth of July off with a bang.” Nope. One more time. “I can say cream, right?” Good enough. All that’s missing is a confusing cameo from Blink-182 and their pet monkey.

You can order the Pie Lovers Passion Fruit, which comes with an autograph from Biggs, between Friday, June 30 and Monday, July 3, here.

You know things are bad when a guy nicknamed “The Mooch” thinks your public image has gone down the toilet.

Trump’s former White House Director of Communications, joined a CNN panel Tuesday night where he predicted his old boss’ imminent demise. Scaramucci, who spent a grand total of 11 days in Trump’s administration, touted his insider access to back up his claims that the former president is “unraveling” before our very eyes. First, he speculated that Trump may drop out of the 2024 presidential race if his numbers slip too low amongst Republican voters.

“I don’t think it’s a big enough dent, yet, but if those numbers really start to move, he’ll drop out of the race,” Scaramucci said. “He will not be able to handle an eviscerating defeat in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina.”

Scaramucci guessed that if rivals like Governor Ron DeSantis or Chris Christie start gaining popularity with his MAGA base, he’ll conjure up an excuse to exit his campaign early to avoid embarrassment. That summation tracks with what we know of Trump’s fragile ego and isn’t all too surprising, but the more embarrassing bit of insight came when Scaramucci zeroed in on his former employer’s, how do we say this … schlubby appearance in TV interviews lately.

According to Scaramucci, the writing has been aerosolized on the wall.

“He’s physically unraveling. Just look at him,” Scaramucci continued. “Go back to the Brett Baier tape. He was probably using six cans of hairspray during the campaign, he’s probably using one now and he’s got to straighten this out. He’s a very image-conscious guy. You can tell that he’s unraveling. People who really know him can tell that this thing is starting to come undone on him.”

You can get The Mooch’s full two cents below:

(Via RawStory)

If Olivia Rodrigo fans are one thing, it’s dedicated. As Rodrigo is gearing up to drop her new single “Vampire” to kickstart her sophomore era, many have suspected that she has some Easter eggs in store.

Two years ago, Rodrigo had a hotline for her first album, Sour, that fans could call into to hear parts of the record. Given the same hotline is now playing a new piano instrumental, there’s a high possibility that it’s the first glimpse of “Vampire.” That’s the prevailing theory at the moment, anyway.

Even yesterday, the pop star might have revealed some lyrics in a cryptic Instagram post that had the phrase “How do you lie?” written three times. Fans have also reportedly been receiving packages from Rodrigo’s team in the mail with merch and a rare letter card — which might spell out something, but nobody has solved it yet. One person did get a “U” though with an order from her store.

There is also a running thread with people getting letters, including G, I, L, P, and S… So far. Here’s hoping fans find out what it means, whether an album title or a lyric, before Rodrigo drops “Vampire” soon on June 30.

Until then, check out Rodrigo’s possible “Vampire” snippet above.

It’s been said countless times, but teachers really are the best and bravest of us all. Anyone who has spent time surrounded by kids, trying to help them learn while managing the countless crises that can occur when hundreds of immature humans are put together in one place, knows that teaching encompasses so much more than just academic instruction. Teachers serve as mentors, counselors, nurses, mediators and sometimes even security guards.

That’s why a middle school teacher who thought there was a fight happening in her classroom ran full speed toward it—in a dress and heels, no less.

A TikTok video shared by @lilythern shows a teacher sprinting down a school hallway with an overlay of text that reads, “This middle school teacher thought she was running to break up a fight.” As she runs into the classroom, she sees a couple of dozen students gathered in a tight circle and shouting. The teacher immediately starts pushing her way through the outside of the circle, yelling, “Hey! Break it up! Break it up!”

But there is no breaking up to be had. In fact, what she finds is the exact opposite.

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As the students part to let her through, we see some of them holding up signs and smiling. Then we see a man down on one knee.

Watch:

@lilythern

#fyp #touchingmoment #middleschoolersbelike #loveit

How fast was that adrenaline switch from fight-or-flight to genuine joy? Seriously, the fearlessness with which she ran into that room is as heartening as the proposal itself.

People in the comments loved it:

“She is so strong. She was running towards the chaos to stop it with her bare hands. What a fighter. This is the best proposal ever.”

“That was the ‘Not in my school!’ run! 😂😂😂😂”

“Fearless teachers are the ones that deserve the most respect.”

“Don’t marry her, she has to join the Avengers.”

The students were clearly thrilled to be a part of the sweet proposal, and the teacher’s immediate and enthusiastic “yes” made it all that much sweeter.

Definitely a moment none of these students—or their teacher—will ever forget.

This article originally appeared on 4.12.23

We are just days away from Kim Petras’ upcoming debut album, Feed The Beast. Ahead of the project, the “Unholy” hitmaker has announced the Feed The Beast World Tour, an international tour set to kick off this fall.

Petras broke the news with a trailer, in which she walks through New York City dressed as a knight, buys snacks in a bodega, and attempts to take the subway — despite getting caught in a turnstile.

Tickets are available for purchase here.

You can check out the trailer above and the tour dates below.

09/27/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
09/30/2023 — Miami, FL @ FPL Solar Amphiteater
10/01/2023 — Orlando, FL @ Addition Financial Arena
10/04/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
10/07/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
10/09/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Mirage
10/12/2023 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
10/13/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center
10/16/2023 — Toronto, ON @ Coca-Cola Coliseum
10/18/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
10/19/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
10/23/2023 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater
10/26/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum
10/27/2023 — Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum
10/29/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/01/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater
11/08/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
11/11/2023 — Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium
11/13/2023 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
11/14/2023 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
11/21/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
11/22/2023 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
02/13/2024 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham
02/15/2024 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
02/16/2024 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
02/19/2024 — London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
02/24/2024 — Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
02/25/2024 — Paris, France @ L’Olympia
02/27/2024 — Cologne, Germany @ Palladium
02/28/2024 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ AFAS Live
03/01/2024 — Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle
03/02/2024 — Warsaw, Poland @ EXPO XXI
03/04/2024 — Munich, Germany @ Zenith
03/05/2024 — Milan, Italy @ Fabrique

Feed The Beast is out 6/23 via Republic. Find more information here.

Father, football team owner, and freakish superhero portrayer Ryan Reynolds has reached the ultimate goal of every performer: putting us to sleep. He’s also launched a new channel in partnership with Fubo (the way people without cable watch sports). The Maximum Effort Channel is available on Fubo as of June 20th, with Bedtime Stories with Ryan as its flagship program and more shows on the way. Maximum Effort will also be on other streaming platforms in the near future.

Like the title promises, the show features bedtime stories with Ryan, who uses his sonorous voice to tell “new and classic bedtime stories in an attempt to soothe your mind and soul (and also his own).” Fortunately, all the advertisements will be whispered.

“We’re so happy to create a program with the express goal of putting people to sleep. This show has actually been a dream of mine for a while,” Reynolds said. “Story time is a nighttime staple in our home and is a daily reminder of the power of storytelling.”

This won’t be the first storytelling series to try to get listeners to nod off. It’s basically its own podcasting subgenre at this point. Yet Reynolds’ voice is clearly up to the velvety task. Good luck making it to the end of an episode.