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Back in December, Donald Trump embarrassed himself — neither for the first nor last time — when he made a major announcement that he was going to be making a major announcement. When the news finally dropped, it was about as anticlimactic as most people imagined: Trump announced a series of $99 NFTs that featured the former president Photoshopped into an array of ridiculous images he seemed to have stumble upon online. Now he’s back to fleece his followers once again with a whole new series of equally bad digital art:

While most sequels don’t quite live up to the original, the recently arrested president seems to have gone all out in order to imagine himself in a whole new set of poses that have absolutely nothing to do with who Trump is or what he has done. Unless we somehow missed the time he rocked out on stage with an electric guitar wearing all leather. Or when he threw on a pair of American flag chaps and loaded that same guitar onto his motorcycle, Easy Rider-style. Though Trump standing at a grill with a plate full of freshly cooked burgers and a trusty dog by his side might be the most absurd version of the 45th president.

But given that Trump made a reported $1 million from his first batch of NFTs, which sold out in one day — not to mention the fact that he could use a little cash influx right now, given his recent arrest and other looming indictments — maybe these cards aren’t so foolish after all.

The same, however, cannot be said for the individual who purchases 47 of them in order to have dinner with the disgraced former POTUS:

Despite having success with the live-stream of Chris Rock‘s new comedy special, Netflix second foray into live entertainment turned into disaster when it was forced to delay the Love Is Blind Season 4 reunion. The special was supposed to stream on Sunday night, but instead, it wasn’t made available until later — for some viewers, up to a day later — prompting the streaming giant to profusely apologize to fans who were ripping them up and down on social media.

“To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… we are incredibly sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not turn out as we had planned. We’re filming it now and we’ll have it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible. Again, thank you and sorry.”

However, when the reunion special finally hit the platform, fans were underwhelmed by the experience, particularly after the 24 hour delay. Judging by the reactions, the live special was a big yawn. So with that in mind, Love Is Blind fans were understandably perturbed when Netflix attempted to joke about the fiasco the next day.

“We told you the Love Is Blind reunion would be memorable,” Netflix wrote on a billboard image that it tweeted along with the caption, “Well, we said anything could happen…”

“Memorable for all the wrong reasons,” one user wrote. “We’re still mad at you and that won’t change until you get new hosts and have enough sense to never try to experiment with livestreams again.”

“We should have known that anything can happen means that nothing is going to happen,” another disgruntled viewer tweeted.

You can see more of the Love Is Blind reunion reactions below:

(Via Netflix on Twitter)

Sheryl Lee Ralph‘s career is currently surging as a result of her role on Abbott Elementary, but she’s also an industry vet with decades of experience under her belt. That experience has served her well as a mentor for the show’s creator Quinta Brunson, but that doesn’t mean her advice is always 100 percent correct.

Appearing on Good Morning America, Ralph revealed one time her advice missed the mark as she mentored another rare talent in the entertainment field, Lauryn Hill. The two were cast together in Sister Act 2 when Ralph advised Hill against naming her then-new hip-hop trio “Fugees.” Recollecting the conversation, Ralph gave effusive praise to her then-teenaged co-star while jokingly self-deprecating her rare show business miss.

“That was one of the best times because I got to work with this enthusiastic, bright, talented young woman,” she said. “When I tell you, I look at Lauryn Hill, I remember Lauryn Hill telling me, ‘Ms. Ralph, I’m going to have a band, and the name is going to be the Fugees,’ and I was like, ‘Baby you will definitely have a band, but you may need to rethink that name.’ And she said, ‘Ms. Ralph, you oughta get it, Fugees. Re-fugees,’ and I was like, ‘Okay, I get it, but, rethink it.’ But she was absolutely right.”

This makes me wonder… Do you think Quinta can rap like some of her comedian friends? Just a thought.

Last week, it was a gun. This week, it’s a pillow. What is happening with sex scenes on Netflix shows?

In Obsession, a series that the streaming service described as “hot and heavy” (even if reviewers think “the actors in this erotic thriller all seem to need the toilet”), Richard Armitage plays William, a renowned surgeon who begins having an affair with his son’s fiancée, Anna (Charlie Murphy). So far, so… well, maybe not “good,” but it’s nothing too weird. Until the pillow stuff.

William is so obsessed with Anna that he follows her and his son as they go on vacation. As the Daily Beast describes the scene, “While the couple venture off to dinner, William sneaks into his son’s hotel room and tears the bed apart. He smells everywhere for the mere scent of Anna, until he finds it on a pillow.” There’s moaning, groaning, and stripping. You get the idea.

“It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene,” Armitage told Metro about the scene. “There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked. I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it quite open and it was a bit of an improvisation actually.” His co-star Murphy had “sprayed her scent that she’d been wearing throughout the shoot into different parts of the bed and I just got the sense of it, and that’s where the scene just opened.”

Obsession viewers wish it had remained closed, however.

Congrats to the pillow fetishists out there. Your time has arrived!

(Via the Daily Beast)

Coachella just kicked off over the weekend, and festival season is in full force for 2023. It’s only getting bigger and better. All Things Go Festival announced their stacked roster just this morning. But Outside Lands’ previously announced lineup remains one of the most impressive so far, with headliners Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, and Odesza.

Celebrating its 15 years, Outside Lands takes place from August 11 to August 13 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. Today, Outside Lands released its daily lineup for the 2023 festival and it features other exciting performers that include Lana Del Rey, Zedd, Janelle Monae, Maggie Rogers, JID, The 1975, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Yachty, Beabadoobee, Willow, Soccer Mommy, Holly Humberstone, Grace Ives Father John Misty, Orville Peck, Alvvays, Daniel Avery, TOPS, Wednesday, Sour Widows, Interpol, Alex G, Claptone, Crumb, Samia, Yaya Bey, Nation Of Language, and more.

Lamar is a frequent festival headliner this year. The “Humble” performer is also hitting the big stage at Life Is Beautiful alongside The Killers and Odesza, Lollapalooza with Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Rolling Loud Germany next to WizKid and Travis Scott.

Single day tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 19 at 10 a.m. PT. Find more information here.

You can view the daily lineup for Outside Lands 2023 above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

North West has more going for her than most 9-year-olds do. Parents Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are both driven high-achievers in their respective fields, and North clearly inherited her dad’s artistic skills, as she showed with an Ice Spice drawing she shared earlier this year. She seems to have also inherited his confidence, as evidenced by a recent interaction she and Katy Perry shared.

Perry recently invited North on stage during a show at her ongoing PLAY residency in Las Vegas. Perry told North she’s a fan of her TikTok account and invited her to dance for the audience. North wanted to get her pals involved, asking Perry, “Can my friends come out with me?” North’s friends joined her on stage and Perry continued, “You’re 9 years old, that’s so cool. You know, at 9 years old, I started singing. That’s when I found my little spark. What do you want to be when you grow up?” After a brief pause, North responded simply and self-assuredly, “Everything,” which got some cheers from the crowd.

Somebody who’s not a fan of North’s TikTok is Kanye. In a video that resurfaced recently, Kanye vented about how he doesn’t want North to get “used” by the platform.

Los Angeles underground rapper Maxo makes his UPROXX Sessions debut with a performance of his song “Face Of Stone,” which appears on his February album Even God Has A Sense of Humor.

The song, produced by Detroit beatmaker Karreim Riggins, finds Maxo reflecting on the emotional damage that often lies behind the stoic “faces of stone” of his peers and the dissolution of a friendship he can see through the change in demeanor from warm to cold. “I see the stone in your stare, you often escaping your feelings,” he rhymes. “Lost, claiming you healing / Often you bitin’ your fingers, tossin’ at night when you sleepin’ / Why ain’t you speaking what your heart think?”

Maxo — who is not to be confused with the similarly-named Maxo Kream — has released two albums through Def Jam. The first, Lil Big Man, dropped in 2019. While the low-key rapper hasn’t yet risen to the heights of collaborators like Earl Sweatshirt and Navy Blue, he’s begun to distinguish himself as a distinctive voice in the rap world that fans should definitely pay attention to.

Watch Maxo’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “Face Of Stone” above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

As a parent, there are many things you fear when it comes to your children. Typically, one of those fears is being helpless when your child is in a life-threatening situation. In Miami, a father found himself in this very situation. The man was driving when he was involved in a car crash that landed him and his 3-year-old son in a canal.

The driver of the car and several good samaritans repeatedly attempted to get the child out of the car, which was mostly underwater, but they were unsuccessful. By the time the police arrived on the scene, the car was nearly fully submerged with the child still strapped in his carseat inside. The officers on the scene knew they had to act fast since the child at this point had been underwater for quite some time.

Several of the officers were fathers and felt immense pressure to get the child out while also trying to reign in their emotions. “Somebody had to make the choice to get in, and I just acted,” Officer Emmanuel Walton III explained in the video.

The car was located under a bridge in murky water so it was difficult for rescuers to see the little boy. Officer Walton explained that he had to search by feel until he could find the boy’s car seat. Once the seat was located, Walton yanked on it in an effort to free the child.

“I pulled it as hard as I could, because I couldn’t figure out where the seatbelt was … luckily it broke off,” Walton said in a press conference.

After Watson broke the car seat free, the child floated to the surface, which gave the officer the opportunity to grab him and pass him to officers waiting on the embankment. But the embankment was so steep that they had to get the unconscious boy to a flat area to perform CPR. The sweet sound everyone was waiting for happened after the boy received chest compressions.

“When the baby started crying, I started crying too, because it was the best cry I’ve ever heard in my life,” Officer Junior Clervil said.

The entire rescue was caught on body cam footage. Watch the heart-stopping video below:

A woman named Jackie pulled a move straight out of a romantic comedy recently, and it has the internet rallying around her potential love interest. Jackie met a guy at a bar and liked him so much that she gave him her phone number. Well, 80% of her number, that is.

The world heard about it on January 17 when Twitter user Henpecked Hal shared a picture of the napkin with her partial phone number written on it. “My 22-year-old cousin met his dream girl at a bar and it’s going pretty well,” Hal wrote in the tweet.

“Call me! 512-3*1-2*04,” the message read, along with “I’m worth it.” The 512 is an area code in Austin, Texas.

After congratulating his cousin on meeting his “dream girl,” he asked: “Did you get her number.” The cousin replied, “most of it.” The Tweet also attached a photo of a list of phone numbers the cousin called to try and get in touch with the elusive Jackie.

u201cMy 22 year old cousin met his dream girl at a bar and it’s going pretty wellu201d

— Henpecked Hal (@Henpecked Hal)
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The tweet has gone insanely viral, racking up nearly 60,000 retweets, 85.6 million views and 776,000 likes.

The next day, Hal revealed that the woman reached out to him. In the screenshot of her message, she wrote: “Heeeyyy, so you likely won’t see this but I’m Jackie from the tweet!”

“Tell your cousin that next time I see him I’m going to…” she continued, but Hal blurred out the rest of the message to conceal her identity.

“I just talked to him! WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER????” Hal replied. “He said he’s halfway through the list, which means he’s actually like 10 per cent of the way through it.”

Update 1/3: WE FUCKING DID IT! pic.twitter.com/ccQ1puS8OJ

— Henpecked Hal (@HenpeckedHal) January 18, 2023

“He may not be as clever as he thinks,” Jackie responded, “give me HIS number, I’m taking over this operation.”

A lot of people in the comments said they thought Jackie was cold or arrogant for playing hard to get and making poor Hal’s cousin try 100 different numbers to find out which one was her. But Hal says that it’s all an extension of the conversation the two had at the bar.

“For the people saying she’s arrogant, high maintenance or whatever: these kids talked for an hour about a shared interest in true crime, mysteries, etc,” Hal tweeted. “My cousin bragged that he always solves the case before the show ends (editor’s note: not this time). I think she’s awesome.”

So, all Jackie did was give him another mystery to solve. If he’s such a great amateur detective then he should be able to reach her, right?

Some people in the comments have suggested that the story is fake. One person noted that the notebook page with the phone numbers on it had an indentation at the top which could be the “5” in Jackie’s phone number from the napkin. The implication is that Hal wrote on the napkin while it was on top of the notebook, leaving an indentation. But other people pointed out that the writing didn’t match.

Yikes! Forgot to take your napkin off your notepad first… pic.twitter.com/0gCKeSxz12

— Tommy Balloons (@franchise193747) January 18, 2023

Through everything, Hal has received a ton of support from people on Twitter trying to help his cousin’s love life.

The cousin could use ChatGPT to create a Python script that could automate much of this 😂

There are only 100 permutations here (10^2), so it’s not that bad. pic.twitter.com/Wl2drylf1F

— Amir Salihefendić (@amix3k) January 18, 2023

“The programmers who sent scripts and code, the excel junkies who sent me docs to share with my cousin, y’all are wild,” Hal tweeted. “I couldn’t come close to getting back to everyone, but I appreciate it.”

Nearly 90 million people have followed the story of Hal’s cousin and Jackie. Let’s hope there’s a happy ending or at least they get to meet up and see each other again to talk about the mystery that brought them both together.

This article originally appeared on 1.21.23

It’s a well-known fact that Nic Cage is a bit of a weird man who has a very positive relationship with animals and wildlife. Some examples: he has done shrooms with his cat, briefly owned a two-headed snake (which did not go well), and frequently gets into fights with his pet crow. But while he loves furry friends, he does not have any reservations about chowing down on some tiny critters, which he actively encourages and thinks could be the key to ending world hunger.

Cage and Reinfield co-star Nicholas Hoult recently discussed the tough part about being an actor: eating bugs. Of course, the bugs are all flavored and all that, so they actually taste pretty good. Allegedly. “The best thing we ate were the crickets,” said Hoult told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview.

Eating bugs sounds gross. And it is! But the bugs were flavored, which made it less gross, in theory. “The crickets were like smoky bacon flavor and salt and vinegar. I love salt and vinegar, so I was happy about eating the crickets,” Hoult explained, adding the gross details, “You would occasionally get little bits stuck in your teeth…Also, the worms were just gummy worms in crushed-up Oreos to make it look like dirt.” It seems that Hollywood has finally discovered the incomparable allure of the childhood staple Dirt Pudding.

Even though the prospect of eating bugs is a little gross to many, if not all of us, on Earth, Cage thinks that it can actually solve world hunger. “If we could get over our phobia of eating insects you could solve world starvation,” the actor explained. “It’s high protein, no fat, extreme nutrients, and they’re just abundant, they’re everywhere. But, no, we’re not going to do that!” Are any of us ready to listen to the man who only recently learned how to cook a potato?

Still, Cage says that the world isn’t ready for insect buffets quite yet. And even though he supports it, Cage is done eating insects, no matter how nutritionally valuable they are. “I’ve learned to move on from that,” he explained later on. In fact, Cage insists that he would never eat bugs again after the infamous Vampire’s Kiss scene. I’ll never do that again,” told Yahoo! Entertainment. “I’m sorry I did it at all.”

So he’s both a hypocrite and an innovative thinker when it comes to eating bugs. Maybe he should put his money (bugs) where his mouth is (and eat them). Then we can all follow suit.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)