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One Of Young Dolph’s Murder Suspects Is Missing After He Was Released From Prison

Law enforcement officials in Young Dolph’s murder case have a new problem on their hands. CBS affiliate WREG reports that an arrest warrant for 28-year-old Shundale Barnett has been issued after officials failed to confirm his whereabouts more than a month after he was arrested for Dolph’s murder in Indiana. Barnett was initially detained with Justin Johnson during a traffic stop, and while they were both extradited back to Memphis to face murder charges, Barnett was released shortly after. Despite his release, Barnett was charged with being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder, criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder, and theft of property.

Barnett is now wanted by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office who claim they have no idea where he is. Clay County Sheriff Paul Harden spoke about the matter during a press conference on Thursday. “On January 11, Mr. Shundale Barnett was brought to the Clay County Jail by the Indiana State Police from an arrest on I-70,” Harden said. “He was booked in the Clay County Jail on an outstanding warrant from Shelby County, Tennessee.” He added, “We contacted Shelby County and held him on their warrant and we were contacted on January 21 and they told us that they were no longer wanting to come and pick up Mr. Barnett and that we were to release him at that time.”

At that same press conference, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich was asked to clarify why Barnett was released in the first place. “I can’t, because it’s a pending case,” she said. “It is a pending investigation, it is a pending prosecution, and we can’t get into that at this time. When we can, we will answer all those questions that I know the public has.”

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Kanye West May Face Charges For Punching A Man As Investigators Reportedly Have Enough Evidence Against Him

Kanye West is just a few days away from the release of his eleventh album Donda 2, but he may soon have some legal troubles to deal with. Last month, it was reported that the rapper was being investigated for punching a man outside a nightclub in Los Angeles. The incident occurred after a fan approached Kanye while he sat in his SUV around 3 am one morning. One thing led to another and the two began arguing which led to Kanye punching the man in the face and causing him to fall to the ground. TMZ now reports that Kanye could soon face charges as the investigation around the incident is almost complete.

The publication reports that law enforcement sources have told them that officials will soon ship off their findings to the L.A. City Attorney’s Office, who will then decide whether or not to charge Kanye. TMZ says investigators believe there’s enough to charge Kanye with battery thanks to paparazzi video evidence and witness statements. It was also reported that police officers wanted to interview Kanye, but it did not happen due to the rapper’s busy schedule.

Last month, Kanye spoke about the incident shortly after it occurred during an interview with Jason Lee on Hollywood Unlocked. “It’s 3 am in front of the warehouse,” he said. “I’m saying, ‘You don’t know what I’m dealing with right now.’ This dude, he just had this attitude like, ‘What you gon’ do?’” He added, “Imma just tell you, that blue COVID mask ain’t stop that knockout.”

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The New Rising Stars Format Turned The Worst Event At All-Star Into A Delight

CLEVELAND — Let’s face it: The Rising Stars game usually sucks. Like every event at the NBA All-Star Weekend, the No. 1 priority for everyone — players, coaches, teams, etc. — is that no one suffers the kind of serious injury that puts a damper on the entire event and makes us question whether or not these sorts of midseason exhibitions are a good idea.

That does not mean these events can’t be fun. Sometimes, it’s as easy as a simple rule change — back in 2020, the NBA adopted the Elam Ending for the All-Star Game and gave us one of the best games that All-Star has ever seen. The institution of a target score made the fourth quarter of the game legitimately competitive, and apparently, someone in the league office decided it’d be a good idea to take that general idea and apply it to Rising Stars. Perhaps it’ll go back to being a bore in the coming years, but in 2022, the event set a high bar for everything else at All-Star.

The gist: Four teams of first and second-year players, with each team getting one G League Ignite youngster. The first two games were to 50. The third game, featuring both winners, was to 25. It ruled. Game one, a matchup of teams with honorary coaches Isiah Thomas and James Worthy, became a next basket wins scenario. There was, for long stretches, the sorts of lax play that we see during the event in the past — guys weren’t exactly sprinting back on defense, dunks had a higher degree of difficulty than usual, etc.

And then, something funny happened: The game was really, really close as it approached 50. Dudes began running. Big plays were celebrated because they got their squad closer to winning. There were people playing defense in the Rising Stars Game. The Rising Stars Game! This isn’t supposed to happen!

Ultimately, Desmond Bane was fouled and stepped up to the free throw line with his team trailing, 49-48. After making the first, both Tyrese Maxey and Cole Anthony got in his face, trying to shake him just a little bit. It didn’t work, nor did Anthony pulling his pants down, and as a result, Team Isiah moved on to the final.

The second game was much of the same. A matchup between teams led by Rick Barry and Gary Payton was close from start to finish, with both sides legitimately buying into the competitive aspect of the whole thing.

Following the final media timeout of the game — there were built-in breaks after one team hit 20 and 40 points — the game got really gross because both squads were trying to defend like it was a playoff game. There was a “DE-FENSE!” chant when Barry’s team, featuring Evan Mobley and Isaac Okoro of the local Cleveland Cavaliers, was trying to get a stop with their team ahead, 48-47.

LaMelo Ball of Team Payton split a pair of free throws a few possessions after those chants starts up, tying things up at 48 and putting us in yet another next basket wins scenario. It didn’t take long to decide a winner: Jae’Sean Tate reeled in a pass from Cade Cunningham after Ball got a hand on it, then drove into the lane and finished in traffic to hit 50.

The final was much of the same. Guys dogged one another on both ends of the floor. Fast hands on defense led to deflections, incisive passing and moving led to good looks on offense. The big fellas were throwing their weight around, trying to corral a rebound that led to a legitimate fast break, not the usual cherry picking we’re used to in these sorts of exhibitions. Refs were getting worked, all with the hopes of a potential game-changing call going in the way of their team.

This time around, the game wasn’t decided by the next basket wins like its predecessors — Franz Wagner iced things with a free throw to give Team Barry a 25-20 win. It didn’t matter, the game could have been a 25-0 drubbing and this still would have been the best Rising Stars Game in the history of the event 100,000 times over. This game is supposed to have a few wow plays, two teams getting close to 200 points, and no one really caring about anything other than getting a few fun highlights.

Instead, everyone who watched got to see the sort of thing you want in the best version of an All-Star event: the best players at a specific thing (although I suppose this specific thing is “being young”) going head-to-head and caring about the outcome. If everything else is like this at All-Star Weekend in 2022, we’re in for the best mid-winter stretch in league history. And if not, at least Friday night was fun.

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Cole Anthony Pulled His Shorts Down Trying To Distract Desmond Bane On A Game-Winning Free Throw In The Rising Stars Game

The 2022 Rising Stars Game tested out a new, Elam Ending-inspired format with three games decided by target scores. The first game was a joy, as Team Isiah beat Team Worthy, 50-49, thanks to a pair of free throws by Memphis Grizzlies standout Desmond Bane. The second-year star got fouled with his team down by two, then stepped to the line and hit both of his attempts to earn a spot in the final game a little later in the evening.

Neither free throw was particularly easy for Bane. It looked like the pressure might get to him on the first shot, as the ball rattled around before eventually falling through the hoop. In between shots, he faced some trash talk from Tyrese Maxey of the Philadelphia 76ers and Cole Anthony of the Orlando Magic, both of whom wanted to get into his head and knock him out of his rhythm with an eye on one final shot at winning the game.

It didn’t work — Bane drilled his shot from the charity stripe — but Anthony wanted to make sure he struggled with it as much as possible. There is only so much you can do on a free throw, though, but dammit, Cole Anthony was gonna find a way to get in Bane’s head. How? Well, by pulling his dang pants down, that’s how.

This will, one day, work in the playoffs, and I will laugh very hard.

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Myles Garrett Tried To Turn The Celebrity Game Into A Personal Dunk Contest

The 2022 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game was headlined by Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett, who has a legendary pickup run mixtape and is the rare athlete in their prime that participates in the game.

Garrett told us before the game that he would be going at about a “6 or 7” on an intensity scale out of 10, but promised to put on a show for the people of Cleveland. He certainly did that, setting the tone early with an outrageous block on Quavo.

When we asked before the game if he’d put Cleveland’s own Machine Gun Kelly on a poster, he said matter of factly, “if he jumps” and that almost came to fruition in the second quarter when Garrett caught the ball on the move and nearly caught MGK slipping near the rim, launching a dunk attempt off the back of the rim.

Garrett would get his redemption not long after on a fastbreak, throwing down what very well be the most impressive dunk in Celebrity Game history, cocking one back and throwing it down with authority.

It wasn’t a great effort from the rest of Team Nique around Garrett, and as the game became a blowout everyone was simply hoping to see the big man throw down and he gave the fans what they wanted, treating the Celeb Game like his own personal dunk contest when presented with the opportunity. He had another dunk on the break on a slick behind the back pass, this time splitting a couple of defenders as he put it down.

He also ended the game by saving the best for last, throwing down a windmill right after the buzzer.

Garrett wasn’t the only high-flyer, as gold medal high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi got in on the act with the first dunk of the game on a tip dunk.

Team Walton got the win though, with Peloton instructor Alex Toussaint taking home MVP honors, but it was undoubtedly Garrett who stole the show.

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HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ tells the untold—but very real—history of the Black elite

“Downton Abbey” fans have been rejoicing over Julian Fellowes’ newest historical drama “The Gilded Age.” Instead of London at the beginning of the 20th century, audiences are transported to (the truly new) New York of 1882, where aristocrats Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook reside.

Despite the different backdrops, “The Gilded Age” has much of the same aspects as its predecessor: conflict between the ways of old and new, weighty scrambles up the social ladder and, of course, the rich emotional narratives of the privileged class.

But “The Gilded Age” does offer something that “Downton Abbey” does not, and it’s a piece of history rarely portrayed or taught, yet real and important all the same: the story of the Black elite.


Young white woman Marian Brook (played by Louisa Jacobson) is surprised when she shows up to the home of her new friend Peggy Scott (played by Denée Brown), hoping to offer her a “gift” of old used shoes. Marian quickly realizes the error of her bias. Her Black friend, daughter to wealthy and educated parents, living in an opulent home with her own staff, had want for nothing. Certainly not worn out shoes.

This picture of Black excellence–where Black men and women enjoy money and influence—rarely makes an appearance in film and television, and in general is an overlooked aspect of history. In an interview with The New York Times, “The Gilded Age”’s historical consultant Erica Armstrong Dunbar pointed out, “What does the average person know about the Black elite in New York in the 1880s? The answer is very little if anything.”

As someone who grew up not even knowing about Tulsa and Black Wall Street until well into my twenties, and still knowing very little beyond that, I’d have to agree.

Julian Fellowes aims to remedy that in his depiction of the Scott family, and considers it a duty of artistic integrity. In an interview with The Columbian, he shared “I wanted very much to make ‘The Gilded Age’ distinctively American. And I didn’t believe I could do that without having a Black narrative and a Black family alongside the others. It just didn’t feel right to, actually.”

And it seems that Fellowes has done his due diligence, not only consulting with with Dunbar, but in co-creating the show with Black writer Sonja Warfield, as well as reading books like “Black Gotham,” which traces author Carla Peterson’s family history in the prosperous, upper-class Black communities of New York. According to The Columbian, the character of Peggy is even inspired by multiple real life trailblazers of the time, including Ida B. Wells (NAACP founder), Julia C. Collins (America’s first cited published Black female author) and Susan McKinney Steward (New York’s first Black female doctor).

Historical dramas featuring affluent, high-class Black characters are so rare, even Broadway legend Audra McDonald, who plays Peggy’s mother Donna Scott, was shocked to discover her role didn’t “perpetuate the tired old stereotype.”

On The Grio’s podcast “Acting Up,” McDonald shared how “people forget that during Reconstruction, with the constitutional amendments and emancipation and the end of slavery and giving Black men the right to vote and hold office, a lot of formerly enslaved people made big strides very quickly. Blacks had their own communities in Brooklyn and what was called ‘the Tenderloin’ at the time. They needed to have businesses to serve their own communities, and so that’s how you ended up with Black pharmacists and dentists and doctors and undertakers and lawyers and all of that. We needed all these things to serve our own communities — our own thriving communities, and there was a social structure that existed within that.”

Once she read the script, McDonald was thrilled to illuminate this often hidden world, “with all of its intricacies and all of its mess.”

Intricate, indeed. And interesting, to boot. As well as a really amazing example of what can happen when empowering conversations of representation are had. I can only imagine how much more nuanced our understanding of history (Black history, in particular) would be, had families like the Scotts been a regular part of the curriculum. But thankfully, we have creators like Fellowes, who understand that historical fiction, when told authentically, can embody the spirit of those untold stories, shaping our minds and hearts here in the present.

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Whiskey Review: This Single Cask American Single Malt Is A Sleeper Hit

Every year, thousands of new bottles of whiskey hit the shelves. While we try our mightiest to keep up with it all all but… that’s sorta insane. No one really can. Plenty of great whiskeys sometimes slip through the cracks and we end up reviewing them a few months after they drop. That’s the case for last year’s release from Virginia Distillery Co., Courage & Conviction Cuvee Single Cask Amerian Single Malt Whisky.

Since last summer, Virginia Distillery Co. has been releasing special single cask releases of their much-lauded Cuvee cask finished American single malt. These single barrel offerings are chosen to highlight the master whisky making going on in Virginia at the distillery. Overall, this is a very unique whisky that slipped under our radar last year while we were focusing on bourbon, scotch, and rye.

Now’s the time to give this whisky a look and see what’s actually in the bottle. Let’s dive in!

Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Scotch Whisky Posts of The Last Six Months

Virginia Distillery Co. Courage & Conviction Cuvee Single Cask — Cask No. 1266

Courage & Conviction Cuvee Single Cask
Virginia Distillery Co.

ABV: 59.2%

Average Price: $150

The Whisky:

This whisky is made with 100 percent malted barley. That juice is then loaded into French red wine or Cuvee casks for a minimum of three years (each cask is hand-selected for its distinct flavor profile). These single casks were chosen for their beauty as a stand-alone whisky that doesn’t need any adulteration or cutting with water. The honey barrel is then bottled as-is at cask strength.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is seriously buttery with a touch of brandy butter next to lightly salted caramel with a vanilla whipped cream that merges into a fruity backbone with hints of raisins, new leather, and maybe a whisper of damp straw. Malts shine through first on the palate as hefty brown spices create a serious heat (from those ABVs) before a cherry tobacco chewiness kicks in with a hint of pear candy under all that malty spice and warmth. The mid-palate really leans into the dark and stewed cherry tobacco vibe as a hint of dry hay, reeds, and umami (sweetish tomato paste maybe?) poke in very late on the finish.

The Bottle:

The bottle is a solid and tall whiskey bottle with a hefty base. There’s a bronze magnet that signifies the cask number above an understated purple label. Overall, this is a tall and elegant bottle that’ll stick out on any bar cart. The bottle also comes in a conical box, where it fits snuggly (and safely).

Bottom Line:

This blasts your senses with warmth but draws it back with a truly subtle flavor profile. I definitely need a rock or two to calm that heat down, but it’s very worth it once you get past those big ABVs. It’s complex while still being pretty damn enjoyable, especially with a splash of water or rock.

Ranking:

90/100 — This is delightful but you have to get past that rush of heat on the palate to get there (and I can see that turning a lot of people off). All of that aside, there’s something about this that keeps me going back to it. I think it’s that umami tail on the finish.

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Craft Beer Experts Reveal The ‘Low Bitterness’ IPAs They Like Best

Years ago, there was a commercial where people were shown grimacing with a “bitter beer face” after taking a sip of “bitter” beer. This was a reference to the rise of dank, piney, and very bitter IPAs in the late 1990s. While the ad was simply bigger brands pushing back against craft beer movement of the time, it’s still true that not everyone enjoys mouth-puckering, over-the-top bitterness in their beer. (Although, statistically speaking, a lot of people clearly do.)

As the craft brewing movement progressed, brewers started toying with the IPA as a style to lower that bitterness and attract more beer drinkers. Today, the standard IPA has branched off into sweeter juicier versions like the New England IPA and milkshake IPA, which do indeed attract beer drinkers looking for fruitier and softer versions of the dank and bitter style.

To that end, we asked a few well-known craft beer experts, brewers, and beer professionals to tell us their picks for the best IPAs with the lower levels of bitterness. Keep reading to see all of their sweeter, softer, picks that won’t leave your face looking any more uncomfortable than drinking a glass of orange juice.

Founders All Day IPA

Founders All Day IPA
Founders

Luis G. Brignoni, founder of Wynwood Brewing Co. in Miami

ABV: 4.7%

Average Price: $8.50 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

Founders All Day IPA is a fantastic option for drinkers who specifically avoid bitter beers. It’s a session IPA packed with hop flavor and aroma with low to mild bitterness. It’s very refreshing any time of year.

Firestone Walker Mind Haze

Firestone Walker Mind Haze
Firestone Walker

Jeremy Marshall, brewmaster at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California

ABV: 8.3%

Average Price: $12.50 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

This is hard because I would generally route this type of person into the hazy IPA sub-category, which, in general, features much less traditional bitterness and more fruity tropical hop aromas that burst out of the beer. The hazy subcategory is crowded and features many beers that generally all taste the same. One that stands out to me is Mind Haze by Firestone Walker. It is just delicate and balanced, but not over-done.

It’s light enough to bring you in, not bitter at all, and bursts with a very alluring and complex hop aroma that just keeps me coming back again and again.

Lawson’s Finest Sip Of Sunshine

Lawson’s Finest Sip Of Sunshine
Lawson

Michael Palmer, lead innovation pilot brewer at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico, California

ABV: 8%

Average Price: $15.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

Lawson’s Finest Liquids Sip of Sunshine has layer upon layer of hop complexity. There are tropical, floral, citrus, and just a touch of bitterness to bring the beer together. Overall, it’s a fantastic IPA for drinkers weary of hop bitters.

Metazoa Wicked Pawesome

Metazoa Wicked Pawesome
Metazoa

Broc Eichhorst, brewer at Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis

ABV: 6.3%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

New England IPAs are tailor-made for folks who want lots of hop aroma without much bitterness, and they are everywhere. Metazoa Wicked Pawesome is an excellent local example here in Indiana. The beer hits in all the right places with low bitterness, soft mouthfeel, heavy tropical and citrus aromas, and a dry enough finish to keep you coming back.

Zero Gravity Bike Beer

Zero Gravity Bike Beer
Zero Gravity

Dan Lipke, head brewer at Clown Shoes Beer in Boston

ABV: 4.8%

Average Price: Limited availability

Why This Beer?

Zero Gravity Bike Beer was a great summer IPA from the Burlington, Vermont-based brewery. It’s easy-drinking at 4.8 percent ABV. There are plenty of tropical hop flavors and a bit more malt sweetness to counter the barely-there hop bitterness. I think it’s a perfect easy-drinking IPA.

Lone Pine Oh-J

Lone Pine Oh-J
Lone Pine

Rob Day, senior director of marketing at Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts

ABV: 8.1%

Average Price: $16 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

The field is open on this one, but I’ll nod to Lone Pine Oh-J. As the name implies, there are big citrus flavors that appeal to a wide range of fans who don’t want it to be bitter. It’s juicy, sweet, and very memorable.

Transient The Juice is Loose

Transient The Juice is Loose
Transient

Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin

ABV: 8.1%

Average Price: $19 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

The Juice Is Loose by Transient Artisan Ales is one of those juice bombs absent of any hop bitterness. It’s a smoothly satisfying beer with bursts of citrus (mainly from the Citra hop) and passion fruit (mainly from the Simcoe hop). The name of this beer really says it all.

Weldwerks Juicy Bits DDH

Weldwerks Juicy Bits DDH
Weldwerks

Ryan Pachmayer, head brewer at Yak & Yeti Brewpub and Restaurant in Arvada, Colorado

ABV: 6.7%

Average Price: $9 for a 16-ounce can

Why This Beer?

The double dry-hopped versions of Weldwerk’s Juicy Bits really hit the spot for me when I don’t want anything super dry and bitter or big and roasty. It has a really pillowy mouthfeel, with a pretty well-balanced base for a NEIPA. But with the double dry hopped variants, they really showcase strong hop flavors on top of that base.

Boulevard The Calling

Boulevard The Calling
Boulevard

Jesse Sommers, vice president at Berthoud Brewing Company in Loveland, Colorado

ABV: 8.5%

Average Price: $12 for a four-pack

Why This Beer?

I might have to go to The Calling from Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing for this one. It goes back to the tropical fruit flavors. It’s also malty and filled with hop flavor with little bitterness.

Eagle Park Goon Juice

Eagle Park Goon Juice
Eagle Park

Brian Jaszewski, director of product management at Sprecher Brewing Co. in Glendale, Wisconsin

ABV: 8%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

My pick is Goon Juice by Eagle Park Brewing, Milwaukee. The number of tropical fruit aromas is huge, which is backed up by a little bit of pine. The bitterness is subtle with almost a slightly sweet ending.

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale
Bell

John Swanson, brewing supervisor at New Belgium Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina

ABV: 7.1%

Average Price: $8 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale is by far the most drinkable IPA readily available on the market. Although I grew up in the pinky of Michigan, I cut my teeth brewing and drinking beer in the mountains of Colorado where Two Hearted was unavailable. Anytime a friend from the Midwest was coming out to visit, I always made sure to ask them to bring some.

It is the epitome of balance between tawny grains and crisp hop flavor. It’s not too sweet, not too bitter.

Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing

Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing
Sierra Nevada

Brian Bergman, brewing director at Sycamore Brewing in Charlotte, North Carolina

ABV: 6.7%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

A very easily accessible and pretty solid option for a low bitterness IPA is Hazy Little Thing by Sierra Nevada. It’s not going to blow you away with hop flavor, but there’s enough there to keep things interesting. It’s super consistent every time, and it also contains very little hop bitterness. It’s just easy, approachable, and can be found practically anywhere.

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We Tried System Of A Down Bassist Shavo Odadjian’s Weed And It Definitely Surprised Us

System of a Down isn’t the first band that comes to mind when you think “weed.” “Aerials,” doesn’t make you want to light up the same way… just about any Snoop track does, B.Y.O.B. (that’s bombs, not beers) can’t exactly be described as chill, and “Chop Suey,” beautiful and transcendent as that breakdown sounds when you’re stoned out of your mind, doesn’t have any explicit lines about weed. It’s certainly not overt, in the way Bieber’s “Peaches” is. So we don’t blame you if you weren’t on pins and needles just waiting to find out more about System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian’s weed brand.

That said… maybe you should have been. Because Odadjian’s cannabis brand, 22Red, is more than a cheesy vanity project or a celebrity gash grab — something the weed space is flush with. There’s actual passion behind this company and the quality of bud proves that.

22Red (which is available at select dispensaries in CA, OR, and WA) takes Odadjian out of the picture. He’s not on the packaging, he didn’t personally design the jar a la Seth Rogen, his name isn’t anywhere in sight. There is no mention of System of a Down or a strain called “Chop Suey.” Everything is focused on just the important stuff, the bud.

According to the website, the brand sees itself as a “boutique quality cannabis brand” and the frosty nugs from the brand’s stock — which are sourced from a variety of master growers in California and hand-selected by Shavo — illustrate that. The brand’s seemingly obscure name was inspired by Shavo’s love of numerology and synesthesia, according to the brand’s website the number 22 “possesses the energies of your biggest dreams,” so if there was ever a doubt in your mind whether Shavo actually smoked weed… we can confidently say he does.

But how does his weed smoke? We found out by sampling three of the brand’s strains. Here are our stoned thoughts.

22Red — Strangelove

Val Day
Dane Rivera

Price: $50

The Strain: Hybrid

Tasting Notes & Experience

First up is Strangelove, a hybrid strain with Gelato 33 and Kush Mints genetics and a high 30% THC potency. The buds feature a deep green color with a powerful pine smell. Burned in a bong, it produces a thick milky smoke with sweetened citrus flavors with a floral mint finish.

The high comes on quickly and hit me with a soothing buzzing feeling at my brow that gently settled across my body, inducing a bit of euphoria and a sense of well-being. This is definitely something you want to smoke when you’re setting out to relax and take in your surroundings.

The Bottom Line:

Smoke this before chilling at the beach and taking in the waves, or when you’ve reached your hiking destination. It produces a euphoric high that heightens your visual senses.

22Red — Butter Crunch

22 Red Review
Dane Rivera

Price: $50

The Strain: Hybrid

Tasting Notes & Experience

Another hybrid strain, Butter Crunch is much more Indica leaning than Strangelove, with a slightly more manageable THC content of 25%. This results in a much less blissed-out high, but is equally relaxing. So far it seems like 22Red’s vibe is geared toward relaxing and checking out mentally, so if you’re about those mind trip highs, this is definitely your brand.

The Butter Crunch has a sweet earthy and buttery flavor, worthy of its name, and produces a gooey full-body high that will want to make you lay down, listen to your favorite music, and do little else.

The Bottom Line:

If you’re looking for a cheap, relaxing, body buzzing vacation, smoke some Buttercrunch and it’ll get you there.

22Red — Angry Apple

22 Red Review
Dane Rivera

Price: $50

The Strain: Hybrid

Tasting Notes & Experience

Yet another hybrid strain from 22Red and you know what? I don’t hate it. Bring on the hybrid — strains have always been more complicated than ‘indica’ and ‘sativa’ so we’re happy to take on attributes from both strains. It’s all about the terpenes anyway.

Judging by Angry Apple’s sweet tropical punch flavor, we’re going to guess the dominant ones involved here are myrcene, known for its relaxing sedative qualities, and limonene, known for its mood-boosting, anxiety-melting benefits.

We don’t know that for sure, 22Red sadly doesn’t list terpene information on their packaging or website, but the flavors here and the feelings of well-being brought on by the strain strongly suggest it. With a high 27% THC content, Angry Apple is going to blow your mind, with a high that isn’t quite as heavy as the Butter Crunch or intense as the Strangelove, and instead expresses itself cerebrally.

It’s the only one out of the three strains that I can imagine smoking outdoors or while hanging out with friends.

The Bottom Line:

This strain is slightly geared more towards those who like to be active while stoned, with a sweet and fruity flavor that tastes best in a bong or vape.

Final Thoughts On The Brand:

We’re digging on 22Red. The quality of the bud is top-notch, and the experience given by the curated cannabis matches the best of celebrity brands, like Houseplant, at a more affordable price.

Find a dispensary holding 22Red near you here.

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Dad convinced his 3-year-old that Disney characters called her and her reaction is priceless

Few things in this life are more universally delightful than having a conversation with a 3-year-old. You never know what they’re going to say, what they say is usually hilarious and even if what they say is nothing special, the way they say it is too-freaking-cute. I can’t count the number of times I wished I’d had a camera on my kids at all times when they were tiny so I could capture the near-constant daily adorableness.

Speaking of adorableness, meet 3-year-old Saylor and her dad Zeth, who are entertaining millions with their conversations on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. It’s really just a dad and his daughter chillin’ together with a couple of microphones, shooting the breeze and doing little activities together. It doesn’t sound like much, but their sweet, wholesome interactions have garnered them 10 million followers on TikTok alone.

When you see their videos, you’ll see why.


Like many kids her age, Saylor loves Disney characters. Here’s a brief clip showing how she likes to pretend to have them on the phone:

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Got the whole Mickey Mouse clubhouse coming over

But little Saylor had her mind completely blown when Zeth left her with a walkie-talkie and then called her from outside the room to talk to Goofy. I dare you not to smile watching this. (Hold onto your ovaries if you have them, folks. I’m serious.)

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I don’t know if we can top this reaction 😂

Her hyperventilating excitement, though. Too cute, right? And the “And he answered!” at the end. I love how kids this age mix things that really happened with things that they think happened, as well as things they totally imagined happening. The lines between reality and fantasy are so blurry at age 3, and having dad play along with that sense of wonderment is just awesome.

According to NBC 7 San Diego, Zeth has been a content creator for about 10 years, but most of it revolved around his love of extreme sports. When he bought some podcasting equipment, Saylor helped him break it in, and when he looked at the footage later, Zeth realized they were onto something. Now he gets to live the dream of sharing his preschooler’s cuteness with the world.

Zeth said that they’ll continue making videos together until it’s not fun for Saylor any longer, but for now they’re both clearly having a blast. And millions of us are having a blast watching right along with them.

OK, one more for good measure. Guaranteed, you don’t see the last line coming.

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