On Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new docuseries, Gutsy, the mother-daughter duo sits down with women artists, activists, and leaders inspiring change. In the series’ second episode, the two sit down with Megan Thee Stallion, as they each paint a portrait while discussing the criticism and misogyny they’ve faced in their careers.
“I kind of came to awareness of you with Cardi B, ‘WAP,‘” said Hillary, referring to the collaboration the pair dropped two years ago.
“I’ve always wanted to do a song with Cardi,” Megan said. “As soon as she sent it to me, I think I sent [my verses] back to her the next day.”
“It’s great to see women be so fierce,” said Chelsea.
Elsewhere in the interview, Chelsea asked Megan, “Were you surprised by the conservative backlash to you?”
Megan responded, “I was surprised that in this day in time, when you have so many options of so many things to look at and listen to, that the first thing you want to critique and talk about is something that you don’t like.”
Hillary then refers to Megan’s video for “Thot Sh*t,” in which an elected official is seen watching one of Megan’s music videos, and commenting on the video calling Megan and her dancers, “stupid regressive whores.” This portion of the video is likely in response to commentary from political commentators like Ben Shapiro, who called the song “really really really vulgar.”
“They dissect my lyrics, they dissect my life,” Megan said. “Well, let me give y’all something y’all might actually want to see. So I’m like, ‘Boom, here you go.’ I think they secretly like it.”
“I do too,” Chelsea said.
“I feel like they’re the majority of the views,” Megan said.
All episodes of Gutsy are now available for streaming on Apple TV+
Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
There was a ton of news out of this weekend’s D23 expo. So much news. Sequels, trailers. At one point Harrison Ford got atypically misty about retiring Indiana Jones. Speaking of which, also in attendance that weekend was Ke Huy Quan, best known for playing Short Round, Indy’s child associate in Temple of Doom. And wouldn’t you know the two shared a little reunion that all but broke the Information Superhighway.
this is the first time harrison ford has looked visibly happy in like 25 years https://t.co/ob2Ds9faFw
Quan has been back in the news, as they say, for his endearing turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once, where he played the earnest, easily agitated, slightly sadsack husband of Michelle Yeoh’s multiverse-hopping everywoman. It was his first plum role in ages, having mostly abandoned acting in the ‘90s to become a stunt choreographer. Before then, he was in two big ‘80s classics: The Goonies and Temple of Doom, where he and Ford’s Indy escaped mobsters in China, survived an out-of-control plane over the Himalayas, and battled a religious cult in northern India.
Now, Quan has landed a role in the second season of Loki, which brought him to D23. Ford, meanwhile, was presenting Indiana Jones 5, where he movingly reminded the crowd that he was hanging up his whip and retiring from whatever university Indy employs him as a dreamy professor. “This is it,” Ford told the crowd. “I will not fall down for you again.”
“King of the Narrow Sea” ramps up the drama in King’s Landing, beginning with the return of the prodigal son (Daemon Targaryen, naturally) and ending with disinheritance, a bromance breakup, a secret tryst, and an arranged marriage. In other words, this episode of HoTD is cosplaying as a later-season installment of Gossip Girl and we are loving it!
Strap in, the tea is piping hot – unless you’re a Targaryen. Then, we guess, the temperature really doesn’t matter to you.
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Pretenders
Otto Hightower
Well, well, well. How the turn tables … turn. Otto Hightower’s fall from the king’s grace comes swiftly this week, propelled by his glaringly obvious ambition to put his grandson on the Iron Throne. Technically, Otto did the job he was hired for. His spies in King’s Landing reported Rhaenyra’s discretion and he warned the king before the rest of the small council – and all of King’s Landing – could pass their own judgment. But Otto failed to remember one vital piece of information – the messenger is always killed, especially when he’s trying to gossip about a girl’s sex life with her own father. Not cool, my dude.
Alicent Hightower
Speaking of weird father-daughter relationships, Alicent really went through it this episode. It turns out, wearing a golden crown doesn’t really make the role of “royal brood mare” any more bearable, and, despite patching things up with her bestie, Alicent seems really unhappy in her current situation. She’s surrounded by crying babies and decaying husbands and fathers who overlook her worth in favor of her son’s. She’s been reduced to a royal bather and sex doll and honestly, it’s just gross. If she wasn’t such a try-hard, we’d feel sorry for her. As it is, her father’s recent ousting can’t mean anything good for her own relationship with the king.
Rhaenyra Targaryen
Like a typical teenager, Rhaenyra spent this week’s episode dating around, drinking underage, and partying a bit too hard. After being disappointed with the medieval speed dating event her father arranged for her, Rhaenyra sulked her way through Daemon’s welcome home party before confiding in Alicent about her worry over getting married. Instead of talking to her therapist about this deep-seated trauma response, she sneaks out of the castle and goes galavanting around King’s Landing with her mischievous uncle. Their whole escape after dark outing was giving major “a whole new world” vibes until Daemon decided to take his intoxicated niece to a damn pleasure house, reveal her identity to all the miscreants there, then try to bang her in a crowded room filled with naked strangers. An Aladdin remake this most certainly was not. Daemon abandoned her before things could go too far but Rhaenyra decided to do her own bit of seducing when she got home on poor Sir Cristin Cole. On the one hand … go girl? On the other, Rhaenyra is clearly in a position of power and Sir Cole obviously struggled with how to say no. What seems like a harmless fling for her could mean his death, or, at the least, the end of his knightly career. She ends the episode betrothed (against her will, of course) but relatively unscathed thanks to the plot armor of white privilege.
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Contenders
Daemon Targaryen
Listen up ones, a ten is speaking. Daemon Targaryen is firmly in his Hot Girl Summer era. He’s got a new haircut, a new crown, and a devious new plan. First, he returns to King’s Landing and ingratiates himself to his estranged brother by revealing he’s won control of the Step Stones and, despite the people there wanting to name him king, Westeros’ true ruler is already seated on the Iron Throne. Of course, any goodwill Daemon earns is quickly squandered when he f*cks with the reputation of his niece, but even that felt like a calculated move. Daemon’s intentions towards Rhaenyra are purely selfish. He sees her as a way to more power and uses her insecurities – her loneliness, her worries about childbirth and marriage – against her, grooming her, abandoning her, and then falsely claiming he took her virtue. Daemon hopes his confession will lead to his brother giving him Rhaenyra’s hand in marriage but Viserys surprises him (and all of us) by instead disinheriting Daemon and trying (in his own way) to protect his daughter by marrying her off quickly to the realm’s most powerful House. Still, Daemon is clearly more cunning than we first thought so best keep an eye on this drama queen.
Viserys Targaryen
Poor Viserys. He begins this episode by reuniting with his beloved brother, bro-ing out in front of his wife and daughter, enjoying a hot bath, and getting laid. He ends it by banishing his sibling, breaking up with his Hand, suspecting his wife of deceiving him in his time of grief, and having to discipline his wayward daughter by marrying her off to a rival House that’s been causing him all kinds of headaches. The crown is heavy and Viserys is buckling under its weight. But he does manage to make some surprisingly calculated choices this episode that should ensure the safety of his bloodline for a little bit longer. That’s more than we expected from this wet blanket tbh.
Corlys Velaryon
The Sea Snake is proving to be just as wily and ambitious as his partner-in-crime, Daemon Targaryen. This week, his negotiations with the Free Cities, and his threat to marry his daughter off to a House of Bravos, had the small council shaking in its gold-threaded little house slippers. Now normally, such aggressive chess moves would end with the King declaring war, or at least, cutting Corlys off from the rest of the Realm’s resources but Corlys lucked out this episode when Rhaenyra decided to Thot her way through the underbelly of King’s Landing. And really, isn’t that all one needs to become king? A bit of planning and a lot of luck?
Aegon Targaryen
Aegon is still in diapers so he doesn’t do any of his own scheming this episode but, when you’ve got Otto Hightower on your team, you really don’t need to. In fact, Aegon could very likely sit back for the next decade and let his older sister and trouble-making uncle ruin their own inheritance plans – they’re doing a bang-up job so far – and just ascend the throne once he survives puberty. It’d be a lot less embarrassing for the poor kid.
Wound Watch
*Alexa, play Sheryl Crow’s “The First Cut Is The Deepest”
Once again, Viserys avoided injury by simply avoiding sitting on his pointy-ended throne but his missing fingers and discolored forearm were on full display. And, was it just us, or did the camera really focus on his infected back wound during that torturously-long sex scene?
Steven Spielberg has always worn his heart on his sleeve, but he’s never made a movie about himself. With The Fabelmans, he still hasn’t. But it’s as close as he’s going to get. His latest is the story of a young boy growing up in post-WWII Arizona, falling in love with movies, and dealing with family drama, as the real Spielberg did at that age. And the first trailer promises to rip your heart out,
The Fabelmans, which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells of Sammy Fabelman, played first by Mateo Zoryna as a kid, then by Gabriel LaBelle as a teenager. Michelle Williams plays his pianist mother; Paul Dano his computer engineer dad. If you know about Spielberg’s life — or have seen the errant fathers in so many of his movies — you know the story won’t be only heartwarming.
You can also see plenty of footage of a doe-eyed, enraptured young Spielberg stand-in gawking slackjawed at a big movie theater screen, even if one of the films is the much-hated Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth. There’s images of Sammy making his first amateur movies, and though there’s no David Lynch (playing legendary filmmaker John Ford), you get glimpses of Seth Rogen, playing his beloved surrogate uncle, and the mighty Judd Hirsch, as an actual uncle.
The Fabelmans hits theaters on November 11. You can watch the trailer above.
Britney Spears continues to open up about her the estrangement between herself and her children. Last night, she took to Instagram, posting a series of five audio recordings. In the recordings, she revealed how she’s felt not having seen her kids in six months.
Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline and their children, Jayden and Preston, have openly expressed concern for Spears, and have decided to distance themselves from her for the foreseeable future.
“I used to have my kids at one point, way more than Kevin,” she said in the recordings. “People don’t remember that part because they always focus on the negative. But from when they were six to nine years old, I had them 70% of the time. Since they’ve been gone, I’ve honestly felt like a huge part of me has died. Like literally, I have no purpose anymore. They were my joy. They were my everything. I looked forward to seeing them. That was what I lived for. And then all of a sudden, they were gone. And I was like, ‘Did my heart just stop beating?’”
“Jayden,” she said the in the recording, “as you undermine my behavior just like my whole family always has with, ‘Hope she gets better, I will pray for her.’ […] Pray for what? I keep working so I can pay off [my mother Lynne Spears’] legal fees and her house. Do you guys want me to get better so I can continue to give your dad $40,000 a month? Or is the reasoning behind you guys deciding to be hateful is because it’s actually over in two years and you don’t get anything?”
(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan will be found below.)
In episode five of Power Book III: Raising Kanan, titled What Happens In The Catskills, Raq and Kanan set out to the woods for a one-day camping trip. It’s one that Raq initiates due to her desire to have a day to herself with Kanan. Raq believes that her son will enjoy the day out as he used to be fond of camping as a kid, but with their relationship strained, Kanan is all but excited to be alone with his mother. This strain is a result of Kanan being unsure of who his real father is as well as his doubts that Raq is being truthful if and when he inquires about it.
Elsewhere in What Happens In The Catskills, Lou-Lou and Crown’s relationship as partners at Bulletproof Records is anything but civil as they continue to get on each other’s nerves. Lou-Lou also gives Famous another chance at rapping in the studio while making Jukebox never want to come back again. Marvin somewhat opens up to his anger management counselor Renée and Jukebox’s new relationship with her mother Kenya only improves by the second.
Here are some of the biggest questions we had after the third episode of season two:
To Be Or Not To Be Together?
This question goes to Lou-Lou and Crown. The two launched Bulletproof Records to combine Lou-Lou’s passion and cash supply with Crown’s experience in the music game. While this seems like a perfect combination on paper, it’s anything but that on-screen. It’s beyond clear that Lou-Lou and Crown hate each other. The scene of Crown pulling a gun on Lou-Lou after getting punched by him pretty much describes their relationship. Lou-Lou has no respect for Crown, and while Crown fights to earn it, Lou-Lou brushes his attempts off as nothing but a nuisance. If they could figure things out, Lou-Lou and Crown could do great things at Bulletproof, but they seem very far from an amicable relationship. They may have to coast alone rather than fighting over where and how to steer their ship.
Will Lou-Lou Ever Get It Right?
Lou-Lou recognizes Jukebox’s singing talents, there’s no doubt about that. However, their few interactions in the studio have resulted in her growing more and more frustrated with him. First, he suggested (in not the best way) that changing and improving her style would make her music career more successful. Then he gave another artist on the label a song that Jukebox wrote without her permission, all to tell her that publishing money is something to be happy about. Lou-Lou isn’t the best people person, but man, pissing everyone off while trying to build up his label is going to do a lot more harm than he’s probably aware of.
Is The Cabin Just The Beginning Of Things Catching Up To Raq?
For just one day, Raq wanted to escape the world. The drugs, the Italians, frustrations with the family, and more are some of the things she clearly wanted a break from. The trip to the woods is also one she used to bury a body that dates back to season one, but aside from that, it appeared that Raq seemingly wanted peace for a day. Unfortunately, the Italians followed her to the cabin and unsuccessfully tried to kill both her and Kanan. Altogether, this trip is a perfect example of Raq being unable to take a break from the world she created and hopes to one day run. All of this is coupled with her having a son who is moments away from confronting her about the truth in their lives. In the Raising Kanan world, there’s no hiding even for one day, but is this the beginning of a big swarm heading for Raq?
Did Jukebox Just Find Marvin’s Replacement?
Marvin’s errors with Jukebox couldn’t have come at a worse time for him at least. Her reconnection with her mother Kenya and their improving relationship will only make her more resistant to reconciling with him. Jukebox stares at Marvin with disgust at one moment, and in another, she sings gleefully in church with her mother. Marvin will always be her father and Kenya her mother, but in terms of the parental figure she depends on the most, it appears that Kenya is slowly taking that spot from Marvin. While he acknowledges his wrongs in his strained relationship with Jukebox, as we see him do during a meeting with Renée, Marvin fails to do the same with Jukebox herself. Time is ticking for Marvin. He needs to right his wrongs and do so quickly in order to salvage and maybe improve what’s left of his relationship with Jukebox before she moves on to what she deems as better.
Where Does Kanan Go From Here?
Contrary to his mother’s hopes, Kanan’s time during the camping trip did nothing to improve his relationship with Raq. In fact, it may have worsened as Kanan possibly suspects that they only took the trip to get rid of a dead body. Kanan had no desire to spend a day alone with his mother due to their strained relationship and his body language during their time together makes that more obvious. Deep down, Kanan wants answers from Raq about who is truly his father, but he also knows that confronting her and getting that truth won’t be an easy thing. Additionally, investigating on his own has only made him question things more. Jukebox told him to just open up to Raq and be honest, but Kanan has no desire to do that. However, if he really wants his answers, he’ll have to just suck it up and get it done. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen in future episodes.
New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ are available to watch on Sundays at 12:00am EST.
Fight week for UFC 279 has not gone according to plan, but after a wild 24 hours that saw a backstage brawl cancel Thursday’s presser and Khamzat Chimaev miss weight by 7.5 pounds on Friday for the main event, Tony Ferguson (26-8) and Diaz (22-13) took center stage in the main event from Las Vegas. After a back-and-forth affair, it was Diaz who ended his UFC tenure with a submission victory in true Diaz fashion, celebrating on his back while earning the tap.
Nate Diaz says he wants to get out of the UFC “for a minute” and show other fighters how it’s done. Says Conor McGregor couldn’t do it. Then says he wants to return to the UFC to win a belt.
Diaz came firing right out of the gate with a slew of shots and Ferguson responded with a big spinning elbow that slowed his opponent. From there, the pace normalized as the two fighters worked their way into the bout. With about a minute remaining in the round, Diaz let his hands fly, getting the crowd on their feet with a nice combination as he pushed Ferguson against the cage. The end of the round saw Ferguson’s corner ignore his shin, after a it was gushing blood following a checked kick from Diaz.
In the second, Ferguson stung Diaz with a nice one-two combination that sent Diaz retreating briefly. Ferguson was the aggressor for the first half of the second, but it was Diaz who began to find his range later in the round, opening a cut on Ferguson’s right eye. Ferguson chipped away at Diaz’s inside leg over and again, causing him to protect himself from the slicing kicks late in the round.
The third saw Diaz take a stroll around the Octagon mid-fight before coming back to attack Ferguson. Ferguson went back to Diaz’s legs with stinging kicks, while Diaz continued to pick apart Ferguson’s face. In between standing and posing for the crowd, Diaz continued to do damage, landing jabs and overhands with ease.
After another dominant round for Diaz, Ferguson tried to get back into the fight with more precise leg kicks, bruising Diaz’s inner leg. Diaz went to work with big shots again in the third before Ferguson went for a takedown. On the ground, Diaz locked in a guillotine and celebrated from his back while earning the submission.
The fight marks the end of Diaz’s current contract with the UFC, and likely the end of his tenure in the promotion.
For Ferguson, his main event appearance comes despite four consecutive losses dating back to 2020, including knockouts at the hands of Michael Chandler and Justin Gaethje.
Chimaev opened the fight with a quick shoot takedown right out of the gate and refused to allow Holland any movement around the Octagon. As Holland tried to slip out of Chimaev’s grasps on the ground, he was simply overwhelmed with Chimaev locking in a d’arce chokehold for the tap out.
Chimaev was supposed to face the legendary Nate Diaz in the main event of UFC 279, but was moved to fight Holland after he came nowhere close to making weight on Friday.
There were reports on Friday morning that Chimaev was well off weight ahead of the weigh-in, and sure enough when he strode onto the stage and stepped on the scale, he came in a full 7.5 pounds over the 171 pound limit for the welterweight division. This came after UFC president Dana White cancelled the UFC 279 press conference following a brawl backstage that reportedly involved Chimaev, Diaz, Holland, and their respective camps.
What the future holds for Chimaev is unknown after missing weight by such a wide mark. But he’s certainly knocking at the door for title contention with yet another dominant outing.
Chris Barnett had the time of his life on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
The heavyweight improved his record to 23-8 with a stunning knockout win over Jake Collier in the second round, when he came back from some brutal damage in the first round to reverse the script and pummel Collier for about a minute straight before the ref finally had to step in for the TKO stoppage as Barnett unleashed dozens of punches and hammer fists to Collier’s head while in a commanding top position.
After the stoppage, Barnett proceeded to put on a celebration for the ages in and out of the Octagon, starting with a sensational front flip to a seat.
Barnett wasn’t done though, as the celebration was just starting. As he strode back to the locker room from the Octagon, he snagged not one but two beers from fans in the crowd and proceeded to double fist them while taking pics with fans and having an absolute blast.
This is exactly how I want to see athletes celebrate, and given the beating he took early in the fight it shows he’s a different breed to take that, keep it moving to earn the TKO win himself, and then want to just drink and dance after. I’m not sure where, but Barnett is gonna cut a rug somewhere in Vegas tonight and run up a nice tab.
Week 2 of the college football season didn’t feature a lot of marquee matchups that were expected to be highly competitive. However, all day there were some insane games with wild endings, and more than a few stunning upsets. Alabama and Texas went down to the final seconds with the top-ranked Tide escaping with a one-point win. Notre Dame and Texas A&M were not so lucky, as both top 10 squads got straight up outplayed and outclassed on their home fields by Marshall and Appalachian State respectively and lost. Wisconsin, likewise a healthy favorite at home, got beaten by Washington State.
The ranked teams weren’t the only ones that got stunned, as multiple FCS programs took down FBS squads. Incarnate Word rolled up 55 points on Nevada in a win, while Eastern Kentucky beat Bowling Green in
Buffalo got beaten by Holy Cross on the final play of the game. After Buffalo hit a 52-yard field goal to tie things up at 31-31 with under a minute to play, it seemed like overtime was on its way until Matthew Sluka threw up a prayer and, because he plays at Holy Cross, that was answered.
Somehow, despite a sea of blue Buffalo jerseys going up for the ball and blocking out the Holy Cross receivers from view, Jalen Coker came down with the ball and fell into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown to leave Buffalo absolutely stunned. It’s a great ball from Sluka to get it there across the field, but just a horrific job from the Buffalo defenders, who clearly are too young to have watched NFL Primetime and heard Tom Jackson teach all of us to KNOCK IT DOWN! in that situation.
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