Kaash Paige recently spoke with Uproxx about reconnecting with her hometown Dallas and realizing, “Whatever is meant for you is always gonna happen.” In her “All Girls Cry” video, Kaash bears out that sentiment. The moody visual perfectly mirrors the message within her Soundtrack 2 My Lifesingle.
“You just know what to do with it / I just know and I pursue it / All girls cry, all girls cry,” Kaash coos. Her eyes are hidden by sunglasses but her heart is fully exposed. Sitting alone inside of an all-red room, she’s willing to sit in her uncomfortable emotions and observations. “You just play with my mind like no other, baby, why would you do that?” she poses in the introspective first verse.
The second verse zooms out the lens — “so many girls cry every night” — but still hinges on a relationship that’s painfully unresolved. Despite her tears and unanswered questions, Kaash would do it all again. “Come and hold me tonight, I know you miss this,” she sings.
“I’m not trying to be toxic,” Kaash additionally told Uproxx last month. “I might just have a little bit too much honesty in me, and it comes off [toxic] to certain people. But I feel like when people call me ‘toxic R&B princess’ or whatever – that was a cool era, but right now I’m in my rockstar era. I’m in my alternative R&B era where it’s like, if you still think it’s toxic, that’s how you perceive it. But I’m not going for that.”
Kaash’s S2ML era has included the release of singles “Doubted Me,” “Miss My Dawgs” featuring 6lack, and “24 Hrs” featuring Lil Tjay. Around the album’s November release, Kaash announced the Me Vs Myself Tour, her first headlining tour. The nine-date trek begins on January 27 in Oakland, California. Tickets are available here.
Today, January 11, the Billboard Charts Twitter account shared the most-streamed songs across all platforms. Coming in at No. 1 is “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X featuring Jack Harlow with 877.2 million streams. Following is Styles’ “As It Was” with 763.4 million. Then, there’s the Glass Animals hit “Heat Waves,” which was revived after being released in 2020, followed by “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from the film Encanto.
At No. 5 is “Enemy” by Imagine Dragons and JID, followed by Justin Bieber and The Kid Laroi’s “Stay.” Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” is at No. 7. Future, Drake, and Tems take No. 8 with “Wait For U.” “Me Porto Bonito” by Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone follow, and finally Bad Bunny takes the next spot as well with “Titi Me Pregunto.”
In late 2021, The New Yorker published a head-turning profile of Jeremy Strong, the very serious actor who gained fame as Kendall, the very serious son on the very funny HBO drama Succession. The piece painted Strong as more than just committed; it showed that he had a habit of staying in character, which perplexed and even slightly annoyed some of his castmates. The profile earned a fair amount of pushback for making him seem like a bit of a weirdo when he simply takes his job seriously. Now it turns out he’s a bit more committed to the role than previously reported.
In a new interview with W Magazine (in a bit teased out by The AV Club), Strong talks about his last year’s very good film Armageddon Time, in which he plays a sometimes explosive father to a kid growing up in early ‘80s Queens. His starmaking show, set to return in sometime in the spring, inevitably came up, which is when he supplied a piece of his methodology not known before.
“I don’t know if it’s a skill or secret, but fashion is a passion,” Strong revealed. “I pick out all the wardrobe for Kendall Roy, my character in Succession, and I live in those clothes when we’re shooting the show. The clothes maketh the man, and aesthetics are so personal.”
That green turtleneck with the trying-too-hard-to-be-hip chain he wears in the hilarious Season 3 episode “Too Much Birthday”? Presumably his idea.
Strong also reveals going to unusual lengths for his Armageddon Time role. (Note: We already knew he learned how to fix a refrigerator for it.) The film is inspired by an incident in director James Gray’s childhood, which meant Strong was effectively playing his dad. He had trouble getting a lock on the character, but one way in was finding the voice. Gray, he said, was “hesitant to reveal too much, so Strong came up with a creative solution: He gave Gray’s wife and daughter a tape recorder and “deputized them as researchers.”
“I was able to get a few hours of his father speaking and answering the Proust questionnaire,” Strong revealed, referring to a parlor game popularized by legendary French essayist and novelist Marcel Proust involving a list of 35 probing questions, like “What is your greatest fear?” “Actually, the first night I met James, we went to Shun Lee, and I asked him to answer the Proust questionnaire as Irving, his father. His answers were uncannily exact to when his father then answered it himself. So I got a composite picture and a visceral sense of who he was.”
In other words, Strong will go even more above and beyond than you thought.
After scoring three Golden Globes Tuesday night, earning the devotion of millions of fans, and delighting the entire world, Abbott Elementaryhas capped off Awards Season with an official renewal for season three. This may be the least surprising news of the day, but it’s also the best. Creator/star Quinta Brunson‘s antidote to 2022 deserves at least six seasons and a movie.
For the unenrolled, Abbott Elementary is an Office-esque “documentary” comedy set in a Philadelphia school where a group of teachers struggle through red tape and a lack of funds while trying to do right by their students. It’s been hailed as eerily accurate as a depiction of teaching life, and Brunson has mined comedy gold from everyday problems inside the classroom. The show took home the award for Best TV Comedy, Brunson won for Best TV Comedy Actress, and her co-star Tyler James Williams won for Best TV Supporting Actor. Now they have a renewal to celebrate.
“This renewal is a richly deserved feather in the cap of Quinta Brunson, Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Randall Einhorn, as well as the rest of the cast and crew of ‘Abbott Elementary,’” Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group, told Variety. “Each week, this talented group of artists celebrates true unsung heroes — public school teachers. And for some extra icing on the renewal cake, our favorite group of teachers was honored this morning with two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and last night with three Golden Globe Awards. ‘Abbott Elementary’ is the gift that keeps on giving, and I look forward to many more magnificent episodes of this brilliant, authentic and just plain funny series.”
They say there are no second acts in America. But just look at Frankie Muniz. As a kid, he was the star of one of the early aughts’ most popular and groundbreaking sitcoms: Malcolm in the Middle, which revamped the family comedy as a single-camera yukfest. Nowadays Muniz is in his late 30s, which means it’s time to try something else. Surely, though, few were expecting him to rebrand as a racecar driver.
Finally making my dream a reality, this one is for my son and showing him that you can always chase your dreams.
Excited for this opportunity with Rette Jones Racing, Ford, and our partners to go full time racing for an ARCA National Series Championship in 2023. pic.twitter.com/OhbFnlMNKW
On Wednesday, as per People, the erstwhile Cody Banks out of nowhere revealed he’ll be behind the wheel of the No. 30 Ford Mustang for Rette Jones Racing, competing in mid-February for ARCA Menards Series championship, which begins at Daytona International Speedway.
It doesn’t appear to be a lifetime dream. Muniz said he “caught the bug of wanting to be a driver” back in 2004, when he was still a teenager and still a couple years from leaving Malcolm in the Middle. The idea of actually doing something about it “hit me when I had my son,” who was born in March of 2021.
“I want him to grow up seeing me reach for my dreams and work hard for something that I’m passionate about, and the one world where I feel like I still have unfinished business was the racing world,” Muniz told People. “So I’m going to go racing.”
It’s a new world for Muniz, but he’s cautiously optimistic. “I have a lot to learn and I know that,” Muniz said. “But I’m going in, I’m putting in a hundred percent because I don’t wanna look back at this opportunity and go, man, I wish I tried harder.”
Muniz admits that, at 37, he has “a steep learning curve” to face. But you know? Good for him. Hopefully it won’t eat into the threatened Malcolm reunion being scripted by his former TV dad, Bryan Cranston. But maybe it’ll catch Lizzo’s attention.
It’s possible that Austin Butler has permanently altered his speaking voice. Almost two years after wrapping Elvis, the star still sounded like The King while offering his acceptance speech at Tuesday night’s Golden Globes Awards. Butler won for Best Actor in a Drama and proceeded to thank director Baz Luhrmann, the Presleys, his family, and Elvis himself all with a noticeable curled-lip Southern drawl. For what it’s worth, he didn’t sound like this before.
“I don’t even think about it. I don’t think I sound like him still, but I guess I must because I hear it a lot,” he said after being asked about it backstage at the Globes. “I often liken it to when somebody lives in another country for a long time and I had three years where that was my only focus in life. So I’m sure that there’s just pieces of my DNA that will always be linked in that way.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Butler has previously explained his vocal change as part of the persona he takes on to perform as a naturally shy person. Now that he’s embodied Elvis, his extroverted charm takes on that specific flavor. Butler appears next in Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Sting’s character) in Dune: Part Two, giving him a couple of chances to take on different accents that might wash away his blue suede croons.
January is the start of the new year. While some might be taking the month off and opting for a “dry January,” this isn’t the case at Uproxx. We’re excited to sip the new beers and seasonal releases that January has to offer. It’s a great month to be a beer fan too, as it’s a month with a nice mix of darker beers to warm your bones as well as hoppy, lighter beers to make you forget about the frigid temperatures outside.
In that vein, we want to help you start your beer game on the right foot in 2023. That’s why we’ve decided to make a list of our ten favorite beers to track down this month. Some are bigger name bangers, others are lesser-known brands doing big things. All are delicious and well-suited for January drinking.
Keep reading to see all of our New Year / New You picks.
Ecliptic Parsec
Ecliptic
ABV: 6.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
For those unaware, a parsec is a unit of measurement for galaxies by astronomers. You might remember it from when Han Solo claimed the Millennium Falcon “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.” Ecliptic Parsec is a hazy grapefruit IPA brewed with Cashmere and Citra hops as well as real grapefruit.
Tasting Notes:
Bold aromas of stone fruits, grapefruit, and other citrus fruits greet you before your first sip. This is carried on in the hazy, juicy palate with tart grapefruit paired with other citrus fruits and lightly bitter, herbal hops.
Bottom Line:
This bright juicy, citrus-filled IPA is a great respite from the bold, dark, malty beers of the winter months.
It’s that time of year again. Tröegs is once again releasing its wildly popular imperial amber ale called Nugget Nectar. Brewed with ale yeast as well as Munich, Pilsner, and Vienna malts, it gets its hoppy, dank, fruity flavor from the addition of Nugget, Warrior, Tomahawk, Simcoe, and Palisade hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is all caramel malts, candied orange peels, and dank, resinous pine. It’s a very inviting beer. The palate continues this trend with caramelized pineapple, sweet malts, citrus peels, and more dank, herbal, earthy pine at the finish. A slight kick of hop bitterness greets you at the end.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason people eagerly await this beer each winter. It’s a sweet, malty beer with a wintry explosion of hops.
Do you enjoy dipping your favorite cookies into a big glass of milk? Well, the folks at Flying Dog do as well. That’s why they created this cookies and cream milk stout to taste exactly that way. They did this by brewing it with oats, chocolate malts, and roasted barley as well as lactose and chocolate.
Tasting Notes:
This beer is chocolate through and through. The nose begins with sweet milk chocolate but moves into some roasted malt and dried fruit aromas well. The palate adds to this with lactose sweetness, chocolate fudge, raisins, and lightly roasted malts. It’s creamy, sweet, and very indulgent.
Bottom Line:
The brewers at Flying Dog attempted to make a beer that tasted like milk and cookies in beer form and that’s precisely what they did.
This popular black rye IPA is brewed with Pale malt, malted rye, Cara-rye, Midnight wheat, and de-bittered black malt. It gets its hop aroma and flavor from the addition of Amarillo and Citra hops. It’s known for its mix of rye, roasted malts, and hops.
Tasting Notes:
This doesn’t smell at all like an IPA and that’s to be expected. There are a ton of roasted malts up front along with some dried fruits and coffee. The palate begins with more roasted malts, caramel, fresh, resinous pine, and just a hint of rye spice at the very end.
Bottom Line:
If you’re an IPA fan looking for something dark and a little spicier for the winter months, you have to try Firestone Walker Wookey Jack. You’ll be glad you did.
When we go hiking or camping, we like to bring trail mix. You know, that nut, dried fruit, and candy-filled treat. The brewers at Shiner decided to take this iconic hiking snack and turn it into a beer. Originally only available in its Bonfire Brewski variety pack, this beer brewed with nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate is available on its own.
Tasting Notes:
Caramel malts, dark chocolate, dried fruit, and slightly nutty aromas abound on this beer’s nose. Drinking it only adds to this with more sweet malts, bitter chocolate, candied nuts, and dried fruit. The finish is dry and slightly salty in the best way possible.
Bottom Line:
A lot of brewers try to make a beer taste like a certain dessert or snack and don’t really do it justice. This beer literally tastes like a trail mix magically turned into a beer.
Montauk Palm Tree Winter
Montauk
ABV: 6.9%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Montauk doesn’t care that it’s winter. This is why the popular brewery is launching a beer called Montauk Palm Tree Winter this month. This 6.9% ABV tropical IPA is brewed with 2-row malts and oats as well as Strata and Mosaic hops.
Tasting Notes:
A mix of tropical fruits, citrus, and herbal, earthy pine greet you before your first sip. Drinking it takes you far away from the winter wind to a tropical paradise filled with pineapple, grapefruit, tangerines, and slightly bitter, herbal, floral pine.
Bottom Line:
This tropical IPA is like taking a winter vacation to an island paradise with every sip. Seek it out if you can find it.
Lord Hobo Atomic Insomniac
Lord Hobo
ABV: 7.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
This 7.5% ABV coffee milk stout is perfectly suited for these cold winter days January has to offer. This coffee and chocolate-filled stout gets much of its flavor from the addition of locally sourced real cold brew coffee from Atomic Coffee Roasters. Lactose gives it a creamy, memorable mouthfeel.
Tasting Notes:
Roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and freshly brewed coffee are big aromas on the nose. Sipping it only adds to this. It’s sublimely warming and loaded with sweet malts, roasted grains, caramel, dark chocolate, and bold, more potent coffee.
Bottom Line:
Chocolate, coffee, and roasted malts all together in one delicious beer. What’s not to love?
This popular Irish ale drops to eager beer fans every January. Named for one of Great Lake’s founders’ grandfathers, this award-winning Irish ale is brewed with 2-row and Crystal 77 malts as well as Mt. Hood, Northern Brewer, and Willamette hops.
Tasting Notes:
Caramel, toasted malts, and yeast are prevalent on the nose. They’re simple but very inviting. The palate is filled with more toffee, toasted malts, cereal grains, and floral, earthy, herbal hops. It’s well-balanced between malts and hops.
Bottom Line:
This sweet, lightly hoppy beer is smooth, easy to drink, and great for a relaxing winter evening.
Switchback Dooley’s Belated Porter
Switchback
ABV: 5.7%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
This popular porter from the brewers at Vermont’s Switchback is known for being unfiltered and for its natural carbonation. Named for the first employee ever hired at Switchback, Dooley’s Belated Porter is brewed with roasted and caramelized malts as well as flaked barley and Simcoe hops. It’s being released in 16-ounce cans for the first time this month.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’re treated to aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, and dried fruits. Drinking it reveals vanilla beans, candied nuts, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, and more dried fruits. It’s a nice mix of bitter chocolate and candied sweetness.
Bottom Line:
January is a great month to enjoy a sweet, robust porter. We suggest continuing this trend by grabbing a four-pack of these 16-ounce cans.
Wild Leap SouthDown
Wild Leap
ABV: 9%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Carrying on the tradition that brewers either drop a very dark, malty beer or a fruity, piney IPA during the dark winter months, Wild Leap Southdown Double IPA is a Pina Colada-inspired beer. It’s brewed with “coconut and citrus-forward” hops as well as toasted coconut in the mash and finished with lime and pineapple puree.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of toasted coconut, grapefruit, orange, pineapple, and gentle, earthy pine. The flavor is highlighted by tangerine, grapefruit, freshly baked bread, toasted coconut, pineapple, and a slightly bitter, floral, piney finish.
Bottom Line:
Beers that taste like other things seem to be hot in January. This Pina Colada-inspired IPA tastes exactly as it intends, and you don’t even need a blender to make it.
So, no one was really interested in hearing about the sex lives of members Alex Pall or Drew Taggart. But we’ve learned information against our will due to their appearance on the latest episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.
When asked how often people propose threesomes with the two of them, they immediately got flustered, giving away that they’d not only been proposed the idea but they’d accepted it more than once. “I think we were just like, ‘What the f*ck just happened?’ They were never planned,” Pall explained. Taggart added, “I feel like that’s how threesomes happen, though.” It was never ‘die-hard fans’: “No one wearing merch or anything,” they said.
“It’s been a long time,” Pall continued. “But in the early days — it was also the days when we used to have to share the hotel rooms. We’d be in Europe, they have the two beds, they don’t even split them apart. They literally have two singles. So it’s almost like we were forced by the European government because they don’t separate their beds.”
The internet’s reaction to this situation is simple — no one wanted this information. “We’ve had enough celebrities revealing things we didn’t ask for,” one user wrote.
we’ve had enough celebrities revealing things we didn’t ask for
We drank a lot of beer in 2022. Partly because it’s our job and mostly because we wanted to. Stouts, IPAs, porters, pale ales, lagers, sour beers, and everything in between. Obviously, there were beers we only drank once or twice and those we went back to again and again. The same goes for most beer drinkers.
In that vein, we were stoked to see that Drizly recently released its list of the top-selling beer brands of 2022. We’re always interested to see what beers other people drank last year. And while this list is filled with popular brands from throughout the globe, there are a few intriguing surprises as well. Keep scrolling to see Drizly’s top ten top-selling beer brands (with their most popular beer listed) of 2022.
Which ones did you drink last year? Do you agree with our tasting notes?
New Belgium’s line of Voodoo Ranger beers has become incredibly popular in the last few years. This is obvious by its spot in Drizly’s top ten. The line’s flagship beer is its Voodoo Ranger IPA is brewed with an explosion of Amarillo, Cascade, Mosaic, Chinook, HBC 522, Mosaic, Strata, and Citra hops.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple and fresh pine needles greet you before your first sip. The palate is more grapefruit, citrus peels, caramelized pineapple, mango, sweet malts, and bright, floral, earthy, dank pine. The finish is pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This isn’t the best IPA on the market, but there are reasons it’s one of the most popular. It’s a decent IPA and has eye-catching images on the bottles and cans.
Belgium is well-known for its brewing prowess and while there are myriad historical brands, there is none more well-known globally than Stella Artois. First brewed in 1926, this 5.2% pilsner is classic, crisp, and always there.
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is fairly bland with some cereal grains, cracker-like malts, and lightly floral hops. The palate has some sweet corn, cereal grains, light fruity flavors, and more floral, earthy, bitter hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
It’s not the most exciting beer in the world (not even remotely one of the best beers from Belgium), but it’s easy to drink and clearly, people enjoy it.
Budweiser is called the “king of beers” and based on this list, it’s probably no longer completely true. Still wildly popular, this 5% ABV American-style pale lager is known for its crisp, crushable, easy-to-drink flavor that’s been the same since its inception in 1876.
Tasting Notes:
It smells like adjuncts. Corn, yeast, and other sweet not discernable aromas. It’s bland, but not terrible. The flavor continues this trend with more corn syrup, cereal grains, and minerality, all with a crisp, slightly bitter finish. It’s sweet, easy to drink, and just as boring as always.
Bottom Line:
For such a popular beer, Budweiser is one of the most boring, bland, generic beers on the market. It tastes exactly like you imagine it does. Like a beer with few discernable flavors.
Dutch beer Heineken is the kind of beer that you literally see everywhere. It feels like this lager is available on every plane ever, at every sporting event, and at every bar you’ve ever set foot in. This is because it probably is.
Tasting Notes:
The classic slightly skunky aroma is the first thing you smell when you crack open a bottle or can of Heineken. This is followed by cereal grains, corny sweetness, and floral hops. The palate is exactly the same with a bit of funky skunk on the front, followed by generic sweetness and some slightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This beer always smells and tastes a little skunky. But, weirdly, that’s part of its appeal. It’s sweet, skunky, and unique. If that’s what you’re into.
While Corona seems to get most of the press when it comes to Mexican beers, Modelo Especial just might be a more well-balanced beer. Brewed simply with water, malted barley, unmalted cereal grains, and hops, it’s known for its sweet, crisp, earthy flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is corn sweetness, bready malts, caramel, and earthy, herbal hops. Drinking it reveals notes of caramel malts, sweet corn, cereal grains, and more floral hops. It’s crisp, easy-drinking, and reasonably well-balanced.
Bottom Line:
As cheap lagers go, this is a pretty good, crisp, easy-to-drink lager that tastes really great on a hot day. That’s about it.
Michelob Ultra appears to be a beer created for athletes and health-conscious beer drinkers. Our thoughts are that if they were so health conscious, they wouldn’t drink beer at all. But that’s neither here nor there. It’s definitely not known for its great taste.
Tasting Notes:
There is very little to find on this beer’s nose. Some generic sweet aromas and bready malts and maybe some muted floral hops. The palate is thin and watery and tastes more like hop-flavored sparkling water than beer. It’s really awful.
Bottom Line:
Why anyone would buy this beer (let alone enough to make the best-sellers list) we have no idea. There are other beers almost as “healthy” that don’t taste like fizzy, yellow water.
Often referred to as the “original lite beer”, Miller Lite was first released in 1975. This 4.2% ABV light lager is known as one of the healthiest beers on the market with only 96 calories per bottle or can. It’s light, watery, fizzy, and borderline flavorless.
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is light with some sweet generic corn and light floral hops. You really have to try hard to find either of these aromas though. The palate has some malt sweetness, corn syrup-like sweetness, and some floral hops. It’s thin, fizzy, watery, and undeniably boring.
Bottom Line:
Another beer that more resembles hop-flavored seltzer water (not even hard seltzer) than beer, Miller Lite is a light beer that tastes like a light beer.
This 4.2% light beer was first introduced back in 1978 and has remained a popular beer for the “healthy beer crowd” ever since. It’s brewed with 2-row malt, corn syrup (Dextrose), yeast, and hop extract.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find light lemon, corn syrup, bready malts, and floral hops. Everything is fairly muted though. The palate continues this trend with some cereal grains, corn syrup sweetness, and generic hop flavor. It’s light, fizzy, and doesn’t have much depth.
Bottom Line:
In a sea of terrible light beers, Coors Light is just a little better than most of the others. Not much, but enough.
Corona Extra is a wildly popular Mexican lager. It’s crisp, sweet, and easy to drink, but there’s a good chance that you usually drink it with a slice of lime added to the neck of the bottle. It makes it tastes like a delicious, lime-flavored beer. But it’s also a necessity because Corona extra without a lime tastes like yellow, fizzy water.
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is all sweet corn, caramel malts, and lightly floral hops. It’s over-the-top sweet to a cloying degree. The palate continues this with sweet corn syrup, bready malts, and floral hops being the only discernable flavors. It’s too sweet and requires the addition of a lime.
Bottom Line:
Corona Extra is watery and overly sweet. If a beer requires the addition of another flavor to make it drinkable, it’s not a good beer.
Similar to Heineken, Bud Light is the type of beer that you find pretty much everywhere that sells beer. It tops Drizly’s 2022 list of highest-selling beers and this is clearly mostly due to advertising. There’s not much to say about this beer.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of skunk and corn syrup. It’s not a very inviting aroma. Drinking it reveals lightly sweet malts, generic corn syrup sweetness, and a little more skunky, floral hop flavor. Everything is so watery and thin that it’s barely a beer at all.
Bottom Line:
Not a lot can be said about Bud Light and that’s not because it’s bad. It’s because it really doesn’t have much flavor at all. It’s hard to believe it actually has any alcohol in it at all.
Bears are cute, even the giant grizzly bears that would probably eat you if given the chance. There’s something about them being chubby and fluffy that makes you want to snuggle them. But most people, wisely, wouldn’t dare to get close to one because humans have pretty keen survival skills that override the cuteness factor.
But as humans continue to encroach on natural animal habitats, there are more and more reports of interactions with bears. Mostly bears getting into trash cans or opening car doors while everyone is tucked in their beds, sound asleep. Recently, a Connecticut family found themselves unexpectedly face to face with a hibernating bear.
When Vincent Dashukewich took his dog out, she started acting strangely and growling at something under the pool deck. Surprisingly, when Dashukewich took a peek under the deck, a sleepy black bear was staring back at him. That’s certainly a sight that will get your heart pumping.
Dashukewich told ABC News, “He’s been super chill. I’ve gone out to check on his a few times and he hasn’t really moved. He’s looked at me a few times, but you know, he’s pretty calm right now.” If you’re wondering why he’s still got a bear hanging out under his pool deck, it’s because the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said to leave the bear to do bear things as long as it’s not bothering anyone. The agency surmises that Marty the Bear will leave by the end of the month.
But if the Dashukewich’s new guard bear doesn’t want to play nice anymore, they can call wildlife officials to remove Marty. While I personally wouldn’t want a Marty under my deck, he sure is cute all snuggled up under someone else’s.
If you want to get a look at this real life furry intruder, check out the video below.
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