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Did you know yesterday was National Hot Dog Day? Mitt Romney did, and he celebrated by holding a hot dog like an absolute weirdo.

“Well, as you all know, today is National Hot Dog Day and perhaps you also know that hot dog is my favorite meat,” the Ted Lasso-loving senator said in a bizarre video where he’s walking down the halls of Congress while clutching a hot dog and wearing a weiner hat. “I love hot dogs. I love ’em in buns, I love ’em outside of buns, I love ’em with baked beans, I just like hot dogs. It’s the best, you know, best meat there is, without question.”

We get it. Mitt is like a wife guy, but for hot dogs. A hot dog guy.

He continued, “So to all of you who like me are celebrating National Hot Dog Day, congratulations to you and may there be many, many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land.”

Romney’s walk-and-talk video (Sorkin could never) wasn’t the weirdest thing to happen in Washington D.C. on Wednesday — Marjorie Taylor Greene showing images of Hunter Biden having sex with a prostitute during an oversight committee hearing takes the cake — but it’s still plenty odd. “I’ve never seen someone look so out of place holding a hot dog and wearing a baseball cap,” Twitter user @Joe_Roberts01 wrote, while @mynameisntdave tweeted, “He didn’t even take a bite of the hot dog. He’s just… holding it.”

Jamie Loftus, who literally wrote the book on hot dogs, added:

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(Via Mediaite)

A few weeks ago, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker teased that he and Kourtney Kardashian have chosen a name for their forthcoming baby. Whether or not the couple has actually settled on a final name, a new video shows off Barker’s thought process, and it’s definitely interesting.

In a new episode of Complex’s video series GOAT Talk with Barker and his daughter Alabama Barker, the final question is, “GOAT baby name?” Alabama had a few answers ready off the top of her head: “Audemars, Milan, f*ckin’ Patek.” Travis chimed in, “I like Rocky 13.”

With a laugh, Alabama replied, “That’s so bad!” Travis continued, “That’s this name that’s just been going in my head lately. It is, it is bad. Rocky George played guitar for Suicidal Tendencies, and 13 is just the greatest number of all time.”

A stunned Alabama said, “So you’re going to name your kid ‘Rocky 13?’” Travis replied, “Possibly.” Alabama ribbed, “Let’s see how this goes when he’s at school: ‘Rocky… 13.’” Travis added, “And Rocky, the greatest boxing movie of all time.”

Meanwhile, Travis and Kourtney recently had a baby sex reveal and it was pretty on-brand.

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Jason Aldean has been one of country music’s biggest stars for the past couple decades, but now the spotlight is on him for a not-so-great reason. His recent single “Try That In A Small Town” and the song’s newly released video have come under fire for being allegedly racist and pro-violence. Regardless, a concert performance of the song was just included in last night’s (July 19) CMA Fest concert special on ABC.

The performance was recorded at CMA Fest, which was held at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium from June 8 to 11, so well before the song’s controversial video was released. In light of everything, though, reactions have been mixed.

One Twitter user wrote, “Shame on @ABCNetwork, @CountryMusic, @cmafoundation & @BBRMusicGroup for continuing to promote a Jason Aldean song that clearly glorifies & encourages vigilante justice against outsiders in small towns.” Another said, “Booo @ABCNetwork @Disney for not cutting Jason Aldean’s performance at CMA Fest… get this racist piece of sh*t off my tv.” Somebody else wrote, “Honestly CMA fest allowing disgusting @Jason_Aldean to still perform is g r o s s.”

Then, there were those standing up for Aldean and ABC, like one user who tweeted, “Cancel culture club scrambling about right now. Tryna cancel ABC and CMA for allowing Jason Aldean to play “Try That In A Small Town”. Wway to go @Jason_Aldean !!#cmafest.” Another wrote, “Ha ha. Jason Aldean just played Try that in a small town on the CMA fest on woke Disney owned abc!!!”

It seems like everybody is being roped into the Barbie promotional cycle, so why not Megan Thee Stallion? Issa Rae and her Barbie co-stars sat down for a chat with Vanity Fair. They easily guessed Margot Robbie’s favorite reality television show, but there were some hiccups before correctly guessing who Rae would choose to have rap or sing a theme song about her life.

Barbie director Greta Gerwig and America Ferrera immediately called out that Rae should do it herself. (Robbie agreed.)

“I feel like you guys are convincing me of that fact, but I’m not a good rapper,” Rae said.

Robbie asked Rae to specify whether the artist was alive, and Rae confirmed, “They’re alive. They’re popping.” When Ferrera proposed Ice Spice, Rae looked utterly perplexed. “America, no,” she said. Nicki Minaj was suggested by Robbie after a fit of collective laughter, and Rae was more receptive to that — “That’s a good choice; I wouldn’t be mad” — but she and Cardi B both earned a no.

Finally, Gerwig landed on Megan Thee Stallion. Leave it to the director.

The Barbie soundtrack boasts the likes of Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj, as their “Barbie World” single with Aqua debuted within the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month. Maybe there’s a world where a deluxe version of Barbie: The Album arrives in the future with Megan Thee Stallion added to the tracklist.

Watch the Barbie cast’s video with Vanity Fair above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

It’s been 10 years since Futurama went off the air a second time. The third iteration of Matt Groening’s beloved sci-fi cartoon — fourth if you count those movie specials released before the Comedy Central revival — kicks off on July 24, with new episodes hitting Hulu every week. But how long will this run go for? It’s semi-complicated.

What’s either the eighth or the eleventh season of the show, depending on how you count them, will make like the final seasons of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad: They’ll be divided into two. The first batch runs 10 episodes, all the way into September 25. Don’t worry, there’s 10 more en route, though it’s not yet known when they’ll begin dropping.

This latest resurrection didn’t happen too easily. Disney was able to get almost the original cast to return, save one major exception (though they’re all major, to be honest). John DiMaggio, who voices alcoholic robot Bender — as well as sadistic Robot Santa and other characters — held out because the super-corporation didn’t want to pay him what he wanted. DiMaggio didn’t get that pay raise, but he did get something else: “respect,” he boasted last year shortly after he signed on again.

Futurama was famously axed on Fox, its original network, back in 2003. After fans turned it into a bona fide cult item, a quartet of movies, alter divided into episodes, followed in 2008. In 2010, Comedy Central brought it back again, in a run that lasted till 2013. And now look at them.

Nobody is doing pink like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, but Ryan Gosling has unfortunately been exposed as an outfit repeater and offered his sincerest apologies to BTS’ Jimin. At one point in Barbie, Gosling’s Ken is seen wearing a black jacket accentuated by white flowery stitching and tassels. ARMY will immediately recognize it as Jimin’s chosen look for BTS’ July 2021 “Permission To Dance” video, and Gosling recognized Ken’s fashion faux pas.

“Hi, Jimin. It’s Ryan Gosling here. I noticed that your ‘Permission To Dance’ outfit was the same as my Ken outfit in the upcoming movie Barbie. I have to give it to you: You wore it first. You definitely wore it best,” Gosling says in a video posted by the official Barbie movie Instagram and Twitter accounts.

He continues, “And there’s an unspoken Ken code that if you bite another Ken’s style, you have to give them your most prized possession. I hope you’ll accept Ken’s guitar as my humble offering. And besides, Ken doesn’t really play anyway, so, it’ll be much better in your hands.”

To Gosling’s point, he didn’t need a guitar to deliver his “I’m Just Ken” power ballad for the star-studded, Mark Ronson-produced Barbie soundtrack.

Barbie will finally enjoy its long-awaited theatrical release on Friday, July 21, coinciding with the arrival of Barbie: The Album.

Uproxx’s Mike Ryan reviewed the film-turned-phenomena.

“I saw this movie somewhat early in the morning after a night of little sleep and I legitimately laughed out loud at least ten times,” Gosling said. “I truly don’t know what audiences expecting a straightforward Barbie movie will make of all this. But I, for one, hope Warner Bros. and Mattel let Gerwig and Baumbach make five more of these.”

The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page, and Kota Ibushi) defeated the Blackpool Combat Club (Wheeler Yuta, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli), Takeshita, and Pac to win the 2023 Blood and Guts match from Boston.

Castagnoli kicked things off with Omega before Pac made his way to the AEW ring for the first time in seven months. Page evened things up before Moxley brought chaos to the cage with a fork, broken glass, and eventually a bed of nails.

Nick Jackson hit the ring, followed by Yuta, and eventually Matt Jackson. Moxley slammed Omega into the bed of nails before Ibushi made his way to the ring.

While Mox pressed Omega’s hand into the nails, Ibushi gave the former heavyweight champion a taste of his own medicine.

Yuta escaped to the top of the cage, but Matt Jackson joined him and hit a series of Northern Lights Suplexes across the top of the cage.

From the top of the cage, Matt Jackson rained tacks down into the cage in perfect timing for a reversal onto the tacks for Castagnoli and Pac. Eventually, all 10 competitors lined up across the rings together and went to battle.

Every member of the Golden Elite got locked into submission attempts as Castagnoli locked in the big swing on Matt Jackson and a sharpshooter. With Omega facing a 5-on-1 attack, Castagnoli accidentally hit Pac with an upper cut, leading to Pac giving the finger to his team and leaving the cage.

Page and Omega hit a stereo Buckshot Lariat and V-Trigger before handcuffing Moxley to the middle rope. Don Callis called Takeshita out the ring before the Golden Elite wrapped a chain around Yuta’s neck and pulled until Moxley surrendered for the ref to call for the bell.

Ice Spice’s 2023 year has been a big one for her. She’s worked with big names like Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift for remixes of “Princess Diana” and “Karma,” respectively. She’s also managed to have multiple records in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 while also signing on for performances at the BET Awards, Rolling Loud, Hot 97’s Summer Jam, Wireless Festival, and more. With all that she’s accomplished, Ice Spice is taking a moment to give back to her fans with new music.

The Bronx rapper announced her Like..? (Deluxe) project on July 19, and hours later, she unveiled its tracklist. In total, the project will hold 11 songs including favorites like the “Princess Diana” remix with Nicki Minaj, “In Ha Mood,” and “Bikini Bottom.” The deluxe reissue also features four new songs: “Butterfly Ku,” “Deli,” “On The Radar (Bonus),” and “How High?”

The Like..? (Deluxe) will also arrive together with Barbie The Album, the soundtrack for the upcoming Barbie movie. It’s there that Ice Spice connected with Nicki Minaj for their “Barbie World” record Aqua.

You can view the tracklist for Like..? (Deluxe) below.

1. “How High?”
2. “Butterfly Ku”
3. “Deli”
4. “In Ha Mood”
5. “Princess Diana” Feat. Nicki Minaj
6. “Princess Diana”
7. “Gangsta Boo” Feat. Lil Tjay
8. “Actin A Smoochie”
9. “Bikini Bottom”
10. “Munch”
11. “On The Radar (Bonus)”

Like..? (Deluxe) is out 7/21 via 10K Projects & Capitol Records. Find out more information here.

Before its official release on Wednesday, July 19, Michaël Brun’s single “Jessica” amassed 30 million collective previews across all platforms. The pre-release hype was underscored by the Haiti-born artist recruiting Saint Jhn, Charly Black, and J Perry for the song. Then it was multiplied by the J Balvin bump.

Hours before dropping “Jessica,” Brun revealed on Instagram that Balvin contributed “a surprise verse.” He also called it “the biggest song of my career.” On July 11, Brun laid an Easter egg by posting a screenshot of his text exchange with Balvin during which Balvin wrote, “Send Jessica the song.”

Meanwhile, Balvin promoted the infectious single in his Instagram Stories, writing, “Wowwwwwwwwwwww” and re-sharing Brun’s post with 10 flame emojis.

Brun will carry this momentum into the release of his three-track FAMI Summer EP on Friday, July 21.

“FAMI Summer is my love letter to my upbringing in the Caribbean,” Brun said in a statement. “I wanted the listener to travel across languages, genres and countries to discover the sounds that made me who I am today.”

Listen to “Jessica” above, and check out Brun’s upcoming tour dates below.

07/22 – New York, NY @ SUMMERSTAGE
10/19 — Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
10/20 — Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre
10/21 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live
10/28 — Miami, FL @ Little Haiti Cultural Center
11/04 — Paris, FRA @ La Boule Noire
11/07 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
11/09 — London, UK @ Corsica Studios

FAMI Summer is out 7/21 via Astralwerks. Find more information here.

Hollywood doesn’t really do sex anymore and they haven’t for ages, at least not on a regular basis. Every time some big movie has nooky, people freak the hell out. So when it turned out Christopher Nolan — a decidedly un-saucy filmmaker who’s barely shown bare flesh let alone characters enjoying the pleasures of the flesh — had slipped some hard-R sauciness into Oppenheimer, his movie about the inventor of the atom bomb, alarm bells went off. But Nolan says they’re necessary.

In a new interview with Insider, Nolan talks about another side of J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy. “When you look at Oppenheimer’s life and you look at his story, that aspect of his life, the aspect of his sexuality, his way with women, the charm that he exuded, it’s an essential part of his story,” Nolan said.

Oppenheimer had a long, rocky marriage to his scientist wife Kitty, played in the film by Emily Blunt. While they were married, he also hooked back up with his old fiancée, Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh. The film apparently features some naughty business with both, as well as what’s been described as “prolonged full nudity.”

Tatlock was a card-carrying communist, which later got Oppenheimer in trouble with some petty Republicans led by the hissable Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.). Nolan wanted to make sure his semi-hero’s bedside manner received attention.

“It felt very important to understand their relationship and to really see inside it and understand what made it tick without being coy or allusive about it, but to try to be intimate, to try and be in there with him and fully understand the relationship that was so important to him,” Nolan explained.

Nolan also vaguely discussed doing something he’d never shown onscreen before: graphic nudity and sex. Yes, he was anxious.

“Any time you’re challenging yourself to work in areas you haven’t worked in before, you should be appropriately nervous and appropriately careful and planned and prepared,” he confessed.

Now a ton of people are going to see the fruits of Nolan’s labor, many on the same day they see a movie about a sentient doll who suffers an existential crisis that keeps enraging conservatives. And they say bland franchises have taken over the multiplex.

(Via Insider)