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Whitney Goodman, a licensed marriage and family therapist, shared a video about kids who grew up in homes where their parents were always fighting, which made many people feel seen. It also started a conversation about who deserves more empathy in the parent-child relationship: the parents or the children.

Goodman is known as the “radically honest” psychotherapist and the author of “Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy.”

“If you grew up in this kind of house, you may have noticed that your family would split off into different alliances or teams to try to manage the material discord. Because the marriage wasn’t a good or safe foundation for the family, everybody else had to kind of go and form these new teams,” Goodman explained in an Instagram post.

“Maybe you and your dad would team up and talk bad about your mom—and mom was crazy, and we need to fight against her. And maybe your other sibling was teamed up with your mom and would start acting like her and started to behave in similar ways, and everybody was, like, trying to find stability but also out to get one another at the same time,” she continued.

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Goodman believes that no matter how well a child deals with parents who are constantly in conflict, the outcome will never be optimal.

“You’re all looking for safety and trying to find it in different ways, but you’ll never be able to achieve the same type of stability you would have felt if your parents had that concrete stable relationship,” she added.

Many commenters could relate to the unstable feeling that Goodman described in her post and the stress of living in a divided family and playing on different teams.

“All of this, and it’s so confusing when you’re an only child and you end up ‘bouncing’ between teams,” Amwahl added.

“100%. Teamed up with my dad only to realize as an adult that he’s the problem,” lovisoctavia wrote.

“This happened to me growing up. Even to this day I have to remind my mom that I’m not interested in talking badly about dad,” hawkmoonrising said in the comments.

The post also made some parents who may have gone through challenging times raising their kids ask for some sympathy as well. This begs the question, in these domestic situations, who deserves more compassion, the parent or the child?

Goodwin posted a follow-up video with her answer.

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Goodman believes that when children grow up, their parents tend to view their past as if they went through the situation as the people they are now, not the helpless kid. This skews the power dynamic in the parents’ eyes and puts them on equal footing.

But in the end, the children had no choice in the situation.

“When we’re having these conversations, this will always be true: The child was a child who was helpless, defenseless, and unable to care for themselves physically and emotionally,” Goodman said. “The adult had power and options. And when we keep that in mind, it makes the conversation a little bit more fair.”

When Roddy Ricch dropped “The Box” at the end of 2019, he couldn’t have had a clue how the next year would play out. The single, which was dropped after the album’s release, upended the social order of the Billboard charts and held onto the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for 11 weeks in 2020. It’s already diamond-certified and its success seemingly signaled the birth of a new superstar who would reign over hip-hop for the foreseeable future.

By the same time the next year, those same fans are social media had declared his new album, Live Life Fast, DOA, and Roddy himself washed up. (Even worse, he’s currently facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song that supercharged his ascent, filed at the end of 2022.) Roddy suddenly saw himself dealing with both the gift and the curse of social media.

Incidentally, that’s the title of the Roddy-focused episode of RapCaviar Presents, which started streaming on Hulu today. The episode (which features yours truly as a talking head) addresses Roddy’s love-hate relationship with social media — something we touched on in Uproxx’s cover story about him — with Roddy commenting on how unnatural it all seems to him.

At the 21-minute mark of the episode, Roddy says, “A lot of people don’t have to deal with more than 10 people. So just imagine seven million that see your posts every day… Jesus only had 12 disciples, and I ain’t nowhere near Jesus… Let me be great, man.”

Check out the full Roddy Ricch episode and the rest of the RapCaviar Presents series on Hulu.

Roddy Ricch is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Menu hacks keep fast food exciting. There will always be people out there who believe they can actively improve a meal with a few smart tweaks, hell, you may be one of them. And it’s true — if you know what you’re doing, you can absolutely take a good piece of food and turn it into something great. That’s why In-N-Out has a secret menu, why the Taco Bell Reddit is full of menu hack posts, and why remixed items and smart ways to order go viral on TikTok, sometimes even going on to become menu staples themselves (see: Chipotle’s fajita quesadilla).

I’ve only seen a menu hack go horribly wrong on a few occasions, like when McDonald’s decided to make a few hacks official and then totally botched the rollout by making you assemble them yourself. Or when someone comes up with an idea that seems smart but becomes an absolute hassle for the employees to assemble, like Chipotle’s banned $3 Burrito hack. But for every McDonald’s Land Sea and Air sandwich, there is something truly next level like Five Guys’ Patty Melt. And now I think I’ve discovered something that is equal to, if not better than that mighty hacked dish.

This might quite possibly be the greatest fast food chicken sandwich in the entire fast food universe. Yes, even better than Popeyes. I’m talking about the Raising Cane’s Chicken Sandwich On Toast.

What is the Raising Cane’s Chicken Sandwich On Toast?

Raising Cane’s has arguably the best fried chicken in all of fast food — it’s why the drive-thru lines are epically long and why celebrities can’t stop teaming up with the brand. So presumably, since Raising Cane’s has the best fried chicken, they should have the best fried chicken sandwich, right? Wrong! Trust me I know — I’m constantly hunting down new chicken sandwiches whenever I can. For the most part, nothing really beats Popeyes. Raising Cane’s sorry excuse for a sandwich doesn’t even crack the top five.

The big issue with Cane’s sandwich is the bread. And the fact that the sandwich is constructed from three chicken tenders, rather than a single chicken breast filet. Not only does this sandwich fall apart as you eat it but the bread is also so bland it’s not worthy of the chicken that sits on it — which is especially frustrating when one of Raising Cane’s best menu staples is its garlic-buttered grilled Texas toast. Why isn’t the sandwich constructed on Texas toast instead?

Because fast food chains can be pretty dumb and sometimes miss very obvious wins (add nachos to the menu, Chipotle! What are you waiting for?!)

Anyway, to have bread and chicken this good and not put them together is criminal! This hack remedies that by combining two of Cane’s best foods into one delicious dish.

How To Order A Chicken Sandwich On Toast At Raising Cane’s

There is nothing worse than a menu hack that’s a gamble. Asking for an alteration and getting a blank stare from the employee is a truly cringe-inducing experience, luckily, this isn’t a problem at Raising Cane’s.

If you simply ask for a “chicken sandwich on toast” you might get a follow-up question, but for the most part, they’ll know what you’re asking for. Take it a step further and ask for the toast to be ‘buttered on both sides’ or to use Cane’s actual lingo say “can I get a sandwich on toast, bob?” [as in, Buttered On Both] And they’ll ensure that your Texas toast is grilled and buttered on both sides of the bread. This will enhance the flavor and offers a crunchier mouthfeel.

Technically, this is a combination of two hacks — the sandwich on toast and the “bob.” You can attempt to take it a step forward and ask for the lettuce to be replaced by slaw but I’ve been rejected for this request before, so order at your own risk. At worst, you can simply open the sandwich and add the slaw yourself.

Is The Raising Cane’s Sandwich On Toast Hack Any Good?

I’m not being hyperbolic when I say this is the best chicken sandwich in all of fast food and trust me — I’m pretty sure I’m the global expert on the matter. While it’s a simple sandwich build, every element is an improvement over Popeyes. The chicken is hand-breaded, never-frozen, and super tender. The Cane’s sauce is savory, complex, and downright addicting, and the butter and garlic combination adds a rich, sweet, and fragrant sensation to the sandwich. It truly has no fast food equivalent. The satisfying crunch you get from the doubled grilled bread is audible ecstasy!

It also fixes the build flaw of Cane’s sandwich, because the Texas Toast is smaller than the bun commonly used for the sandwich, it’s easier to hold it all together with two hands, ensuring that the tenders don’t slip and slide out with each bite.

There are other ways to improve this sandwich, too. If you like your chicken a bit crunchier, you can ask for the tenders to be cooked “extra crispy” or if you’re trying to stay away from OD’ing on flour, ask for the tenders “naked.” The sauce on this sandwich is slathered on both the top and bottom piece of toast, but if that’s not enough sauce for you, you can order a whole cup of sauce and dip with each bite.

Raising Cane’s menu is incredibly limited but there are all sorts of inventive ways you can expand it. In this case, you’ll be getting one of the best dishes in all of fast food in the process.

Find your nearest Raising Cane’s here.

It’s become a bit of a tradition for Josh and Benny Safdie to cast singers and rappers in their movies. In 2017’s Good Time, it was Necro. For 2019’s Uncut Gems, the Weeknd did cocaine in a bathroom with Julia Fox.

The brothers haven’t announced a title for their next film, but we do know it will star Adam Sandler (casual reminder that he deserved an Oscar for Uncut Gems) and, in the rapper-turned-actor role, Megan Thee Stallion.

Deadline reports:

Megan Thee Stallion now in talks to star alongside their Uncut Gems collaborator Adam Sandler, according to multiple sources… Specifics as to the plot, and even the title of the new film remain tightly under wraps, though Sandler recently confirmed its setting in the world of sports memorabilia. The Safdies will direct from their own script and also serve as producers on the pic, which is gearing up for production this summer.

Sandler recently revealed that the movie should begin shooting in the summer. “I love those guys,” he said about working with the Safdies. “I know we’re going to dedicate ourselves into working our asses off and making sure it’s as good as it can be, and I know that takes a lot of time.” As for Megan Thee Stallion, she will make her big-screen debut in A24’s R-rated musical F*cking Identical Twins from Borat director Larry Charles. She will, presumably, not twerk with She-Hulk again.

(Via Deadline)

Losing out on one of the biggest awards in your field can be a disappointing, humbling experience. But for the right person, it can be the motivation that inspires them to perfect their craft, becoming even more proficient and overcoming the faults that held them back in the first place.

According to Pharrell Williams, that’s what happened to Tyler The Creator when he came up short of the Best Rap Album award at the 2018 Grammy Awards. His 2017 album Flower Boy was lightyears away from his prior work and took inspiration from the work of Pharrell, Justin Timberlake, and Max Martin, maturing Tyler’s sound and expanding listeners’ understanding of the rap rebel’s musicianship and worldview.

But that wasn’t enough to impress Grammy voters… not yet. The first episode of Hulu’s newly released docuseries RapCaviar Presents, based on Spotify’s RapCaviar playlists, focuses on Tyler The Creator and finds Pharrell (one of Tyler’s greatest mentors) sharing his thoughts on Tyler’s growth — which he says was prompted in part by that 2018 Grammys loss.

In fact, he says at the 29-minute mark of the episode, the loss was “one of the greatest things that ever happened to [Tyler], ’cause it motivated him in a different kind of way. Doing that to him just expedited his growth. He realized he needed to go harder — and he did.” The result was, of course, the 2019 album Igor, which totally revamped Tyler’s approach.

That album won the Best Rap Album Grammy in 2020… but it also prompted Tyler to directly confront how an album of mostly singing still got classified as a rap album, calling the win a “backhanded compliment.” That didn’t stop Pharrell from sharing his heartfelt congrats at the time

RapCaviar Presents is now streaming on Hulu.

Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, known collectively as Boygenius, are making their highly-anticipated return with the release of their major label debut. The group shook up the indie scene with the release of their self-titled EP back in 2018. Now, the three musicians are gearing up for their sophomore release, The Record, this time on a major label. A few weeks ago, the trio surprised fans with three singles from the project — “$20,” “True Blue,” and “Emily I’m Sorry,” all led by a different member of the group.

But as their March 31 release date quickly approaches, fans want to know more about what they can expect when the full album is made available across streaming platforms. To learn more about the album, including the tracklist, potential guest features, and more, continue below.

Release Date

The Record is out 3/31 via Interscope Records. To pre-save or pre-order, click here.

Tracklist

1. “Without You Without Them”
2. “$20”
3. “Emily I’m Sorry”
4. “True Blue”
5. “Cool About It”
6. “Not Strong Enough”
7. “Revolution O”
8. “Leonard Cohen”
9. “Satanist”
10. “We’re In Love”
11. “Anti-Curse”
12. “Letter To An Old Poet”

Features

Based on the tracklist uploaded to both Apple Music and Bandcamp, the album will not feature any additional recording artists. However, when the credits for the album are released, we can certainly bet that the trio will enlist a few of their fellow musicians to play supporting instrumentation. In contrast, The Record will feature a slew of guest production and engineering.

Catherine Marks is the official co-producer for The Record. Ethan Gruska, Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som), Sarah Tudzin (of Illuminate Hotties), and Tony Berg will provide additional production. The Record is beginning engineered by Bobby Mota, Kaushles “Garry” Purohit, Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, and again by Sarah Tudzin and Catherine Marks. The Record will be mixed by Mike Mogis and master engineered by Pat Sullivan. All written contributions for the album will come directly from the trio.

Artwork

The album’s artwork, photographed by Matt Grubb, is simple yet mysterious. All three members of the band record for the clear blue sky, as their matching wisdom tooth tattoos face the camera as the sun’s glare stamps the bottom right corner of the image. The pose is a nod to Pearl Jam’s 1991 Ten album cover.

Singles

So far, Boygenius has released three singles from their forthcoming album: “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry,” and “True Blue.”

Tour

The summer Boygenius will embark on Boygenius: The Tour. The string of shows begins with a quick stop in Ponoma, CA next month before resuming on June 6 in Phoenix. From then on, Boygenius will perform consistently for just under two months before bringing the tour to an end in Denver. Carly Rae Jepsen, Broken Social Scene, Bartees Strange, Claud, and Illuminati Hotties will join Boygenius on the tour. You can check out the full dates below.

Power Trip Festival put a call out to all hard rock fans yesterday, March 29, with a teaser video asking, “Are you ready for a Power Trip?” The concert poster crafted in the video was really cool but vague, and today, March 30, Power Trip painted a clearer picture by confirming its headliners (first reported by Variety): Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and Tool.

The inaugural Power Trip Festival is scheduled for October 6 to 8, 2023.

According to the original Variety report, Power Trip comes from Goldenvoice, founders of Coachella, which explains the location: Empire Polo Field in Indio, California.

“Despite the Coachella connection, the festival is more like a hard rock version of Goldenvoice’s 2016 Desert Trip festival, which featured a classic-rock dream team of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Who and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters,” Variety relayed.

Osbourne’s involvement is particularly notable because he announced his retirement from touring in February due to ongoing physical ailments.

The official Power Trip website provides instructions to register now for ticket access. “Sale only available to those who register,” it reads. Tickets will become available beginning on Thursday, April 6, at 10 a.m. PST. The starting price for general admission tickets is $599, per the website.

Hotel packages and VIP packages ($1,749) are also available for purchase beginning next Tuesday, April 4, at 10 a.m. PST.

Tons of people found themselves clicking on the trending hashtag #RIPMarty, expecting to hear tragic news about a celebrity of some sort.

Instead, they learned about Marty the cat, whose owner shared the most heartbreakingly beautiful goodbye letter following his passing. That letter quickly went viral online, leaving folks completely invested Marty’s story, not to mention utterly devastated.

Will Menaker, who shared the letter on Twitter, began by sharing how he and Marty first met. Or more accurately, how Marty introduced himself by emerging from under a car and unapologetically following Menaker up to the steps of his apartment seeking pets. Eventually, as the weather began to get colder, Menaker experimented with bringing Marty inside.

“From that moment on I was in love. I wouldn’t say I ‘had’ a cat, but from then on I shared a house with a tuxedo cat I would name Marty,” Menaker wrote.

Other than being TNR’d (trapped, neutered, released), Marty’s past was a mystery. What Menaker did know of his feline companion was that he had “striking green eyes,” was “always friendly but aloof” and was “outgoing but possessed a Sphinx-like dignity that nothing could assail.”

Those are already lovely words, but you might want to grab tissues for this next part.

Yesterday, I had to say goodbye to a friend. pic.twitter.com/E3sbk5LTKb

— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) March 29, 2023

“Yesterday, we had to say goodbye. After months of trying to treat a cancer that he had been suffering from, enough was enough. He stopped eating and drinking entirely and by then had wasted away to weighing almost nothing…I decided to make the only decision we could on his behalf. He went to sleep in our house and in my arms.”

Tapping into every pet parent’s grief, Menaker wrote, “I know this is a small tragedy in the grand scheme of the world, but one that I feel acutely knowing that I expected many more years with my friend. We are heartbroken but grateful for the years that we did have him in our lives.”

Despite the obvious anguish, Menaker’s letter ends on a hopeful note.

“I firmly believe cats are connected in some way to the other side. They have been around human civilization for roughly 9,000 years and are the only animal species that has domesticated human beings and not vice versa…Whatever happens after our deaths, I think cats are somehow involved, and I hope that when it comes time, Marty will guide me on my own journey to the Western Lands.

“Goodbye Marty, I’ll miss you terribly.”

Menaker’s moving words had people in tears over a cat they didn’t even know.

Sees “RIP Marty” trending.

Clicks to see which Marty.

Reads about Marty the kitty.

Sobs

Marty was a good kitty. https://t.co/J5KCiAhvDI

— TheAlabastard🏒🏋🏼‍♀️🐈🤟🏻 (@ThatAlabastard) March 29, 2023

Many commiserated with pictures of their own belated fur babies.

I’m so sorry for your loss. RIP, Marty. When you see Jewel, tell her I love her and I still miss her every day pic.twitter.com/fB1qsNEg8d

— Zoe 💖💜💙✡️ black lives matter (@zmcadler) March 29, 2023

Others still applauded Menaker for showing Marty such compassion and love.

Taking in an animal and loving them, caring for them, is one of the greatest acts of compassion in this world.

RIP Marty, you lived a good life, and you were very clearly loved. https://t.co/AjNYMiS4rl

— Evangelicals Are Fascists 🏳️‍🌈 (@JasonIsCreating) March 29, 2023

Goodbye, Marty. We might not know you, but we are touched by your story. Enjoy that great scratching post in the sky.

Dogs can sometimes act like doofuses, whether it’s eating a sock and doing the poop of shame later or trying to pretend they didn’t rifle through the trash while sitting in front of the evidence. Dogs are also pretty smart and hilariously entertaining, especially when you teach them a fun trick, which makes up for their brief lapses in judgment.

A Golden Retriever named Ellie has learned one of the cutest tricks yet: hide-and-seek. In a video posted by The Dodo on Facebook Watch, you see Ellie’s parents finding difficult places to hide. And by difficult, I mean opening up the couch storage area and climbing inside to see if the dog’s nose can sniff them out.

Ellie’s way too smart for their shenanigans and continuously finds each hiding place within seconds. But it’s unclear if she’s finding her parents or if she’s just searching for her favorite toy.

Every time one of her parents hid, they were holding a little pink stuffed dog toy. So maybe she was just on the hunt for her toy and couldn’t care less about finding the human hiding behind clothes in the closet for some unknown-to-Ellie reason. Either way, it seems her adorable game of hide-and-seek got a lot of people in the feels reminiscing about their own dogs.

“I had a border collie that loved to play hide and seek with the neighbor children! It was SO adorable!!!” one commenter wrote.

“Our golden used to be the best!! He could find anything/anyone fast!! He loved it!” another person wrote.

“Best video I’ve seen in ages! The love between you shows. I love it!” a different commenter said.

Ellie’s game of hide and seek is capturing hearts across the internet. The cute Golden Retriever even has her own TikTok page where you can see even more of her antics. But before you jaunt off to TikTok, watch Ellie outsmart her humans below.

As the old saying goes, “the map is not the territory,” and sometimes maps can be misleading. David Blattman, head of production at Barstool Sports, shared four unbelievable facts about U.S. geography on Twitter, all of which appear to be wildly incorrect, but aren’t.

“These geography facts have left me speechless,” Blattman wrote on Twitter.

• Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.
• You can travel north, south, east, or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.
• Reno is further west than LA.

• Detroit is further east than Atlanta.

Each one of these bullet points deserves a fact check, but Snopes stepped in to make sense of the last one, which feels false. Is Detroit, a midwestern city, really east of Atlanta, a city that’s a 4-hour drive from the east coast?

Yes, Detroit is east of Atlanta.

u201cThese geography facts have left me speechless:nnu2022Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.nnu2022You can travel north, south, east or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.nnu2022Reno is further west than LA.nnu2022Detroit is further east than Atlanta.u201d

— David Blattman (@David Blattman)
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“Atlanta is actually west of Detroit. Its coordinates are (emphasis added): 33.7488° N, 84.3877° W while Detroit’s are 42.3314° N, 83.0458° W,” Bethania Palma at Snopes confirmed. The fact-checking site reached out to geographer Maria Lane for further comment.

She explained that our eyes are fooled by their locations because the east coast extends further east as it moves north. Conversely, in the south, the coast moves towards the west. This makes Atlanta appear to be much further east.

We are also fooled by how we’ve determined what’s “east coast” and what’s “midwest.”

“So it shouldn’t be any surprise that places on the southern ‘east coast’ are further west than places on the northern ‘east coast,'” Lane wrote. “And northern places that we consider ‘inland’ or ‘midwest’ when compared to those far-north areas of the east coast, can still be relatively farther east than coast-adjacent places in the South.”

This Tumblr post from @realtivegeography explains it perfectly.

So what about the other three hard-to-believe geographical facts?

Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state.

It makes sense that Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state. It also has the title of easternmost because the Aleutian Islands arc right up to the edge of the Western Hemisphere and cross over into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Semisopochnoi Island (179° East) is so far west it actually lies in the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Little Diomede island lies only 4 km from Big Diomede, a Russian territory. In the dead of winter, when the water around the island freezes, one can walk from the U.S. to Russia in under an hour.

You can travel north, south, east or west in Stamford, Connecticut, and the next state you hit is NY.

Blattman explained this perfectly in a tweet with a map showing how it works.

I think the Stamford one is my favorite. pic.twitter.com/pLLzjtxkpd

— David Blattman (@davidblattman) April 30, 2020

Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

How can Reno, Nevada, be west of Los Angeles, California? Los Angeles has beaches, and Reno is 128 miles from the coastline. Much like how the east coast recedes west as it heads south, the west coast does the same, pushing Los Angeles to the east of Reno.