Two Canadian forces will combine this summer to give us a refreshing treat. Continuing his partnership with Tim Hortons, Justin Bieber is teaming up with the coffee chain to deliver a French vanilla cold brew beverage called Biebs Brew.
Tim Horton’s teased Biebs Brew on Twitter with a picture showing Bieber carrying a cup of cold brew labeled Biebs Brew, captioned “June 6th. It’s worth the wait.”
Biebs Brew follows last November’s Timbiebs, a line of donut holes consisting of flavors like chocolate white fudge, birthday cake waffle, and sour cream chocolate chip.
“We couldn’t stop at Timbiebs,” said the Biebs in a statement. “We needed a Biebs Brew too. And we are bringing both to Tims next month. Doing a Tim Hortons collab had always been a dream of mine. I grew up on Tim Hortons and it’s always been something close to my heart.”
The Timbiebs will also return this summer, and beliebers will be able to order a “Biebs Bundle,” in which they can get a large brew, along with 10 Timbiebs pieces, for $5.
@justinbieber is back with Biebs Brew: a new co-created French Vanilla Cold Brew. Mark your calendar. June 6. Oh and did we mention Timbiebs are back too? pic.twitter.com/5OgYempdef
“Timbiebs was a huge success — truly beyond all of our expectations — and what made it so great was the authenticity of the partnership,” said Hope Bagozzi, Chief Marketing Officer for Tim Hortons, in a statement. “[Bieber’s] commitment to working with us to develop a natural and authentic twist on the Tims experience is what made Timbiebs a hit and we know guests are going to love Biebs Brew and his take on Tims Cold Brew.”
America’s favorite Ryan is looking to be an action star. Ryan Gosling is set to play the lead in the upcoming film adaptation of the classic TV show The Fall Guy.
The Fall Guy (not to be confused with Free Guy, a different Ryan’s movie, or First Man, another Gosling movie) was a TV show that ran from 1981 to 1986 and followed Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stunt man who also worked part-time as a bounty hunter. Hey, those Hollywood salaries are rough! Think a ton of Hollywood action stunts with some murder sprinkled in. Just like Once Upon A Time In Hollywood!
Gosling has been busy as of late, starring as Ken in the highly-anticipated live-action adaptation of Barbie alongside Margot Robbie. He will also star in Netflix’s upcoming thriller The Gray Man alongside Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. The similar titles beg the question: who is naming these movies and why do they all sound the same?
Production is slated to begin this year in Australia. Universal Pictures’ President of Physical Production, Jeff LaPlante, said in a statement: “After a successful partnership on the studio’s production of Ticket to Paradise in Queensland, Universal is thrilled to return to Australia and base in New South Wales for the highly-anticipated film, The Fall Guy.”
There are new bourbons hitting the shelves practically every day now. You may not have to keep up with it all, but I do (it’s a tough job, but someone has to…etc). While reviewing them all would be exhausting and generally probably self-defeating, in the interests of both my time and yours, today I’ll be diving into 20 new bourbons that are both under-the-radar and priced less than $100, but worth seeking out.
Admittedly, “under the radar” is pretty subjective. I don’t know what you know, but I do know that the bourbons below are pretty far from the mainstream. This isn’t a list for new Wild Turkey expressions or Buffalo Trace drops or Heaven Hill one-offs. This is for the smaller brands that don’t get the same level of exposure as these international icons.
The 20 bourbons below are all available now and very new (a few are last year’s expression drops). I’ve added my own tasting notes for each and then ranked them according to which ones I think are most exciting. Let’s dive in!
Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Bourbon Posts Of The Last Six Months
Castle & Key Distillery is the renovated Old Taylor Distillery outside of Frankfort, Kentucky. This distillery has spent years contract distilling for other brands, until this year when they released their first batch of this expression in April. The juice is a mash of 73% white corn, 17% malted barley, and a scant 10% rye. After four years, 80 barrels are chosen for this small-batch expression and proofed down with local water.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a sense of unbaked sourdough cinnamon rolls next to Graham Crackers dipped in vanilla-creamed honey served with a warm can of peach soda. The palate leans into the fruitiness with a pink taffy vibe that’s countered by slight pepperiness, a touch of “woody,” and more of that creamy honey laced with vanilla. The fruity take on a savory essence — think cantaloupe — on the mid-palate before circling back to the pepperiness with a bit of woody spice on the short end.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those bottles that arrived with a lot of hype. And … it’s fine. This feels way more like a cocktail base than a sipping whiskey. I’m looking forward to seeing what Batch #2 brings later this month.
19. Black Button Distilling Four Grain Straight Bourbon
Rochester’s Black Button is putting out one of the more interesting four-grains at the moment. The mash is only 60% corn that’s supported by 20% wheat, 11% barley, and nine percent rye. The bottle doesn’t carry an age statement but it is “small-batch.”
Tasting Notes:
You’re drawn into this one with a rich and buttery toffee next to soft and sweet peach with a light touch of old leather and pine. The palate holds onto the sweetness while adding in a layer of vanilla ice cream cut with salted caramel stripes as a line of walnut oat cookies dries out the otherwise light sip. The fade is longish and brings about a mild rye peppery spice that lingers and overwhelms that sweetness finally.
Bottom Line:
This is another whiskey that leaves you with a “that’s nice” vibe. It’s really well made and hits a nice balance of fruity and classic. Still, there’s a lot on the shelf that’d easily challenge this bottle and win at $50.
18. Manifest Whiskey Project No. 4 Blend of Straight Whiskeys
This Florida distillery/blendery is doing some really interesting, bespoke shit right now. Their latest release is a blend of straight bourbons and straight ryes (making this technically an American blended straight whiskey). The juice is part 75% corn, 21% rye, and four percent malted barley four-year-old sourced bourbon. That’s cut with Manifest’s own organic wheated rye whiskey with 60% rye and 40% wheat, which then rests for two and half years.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a homemade creamy vanilla pudding on the nose that really leans into nostalgia while layering in cherry compote, tobacco leaves dipped in mulled wine, and spicy minced meat pies. The palate builds on that nose with a Black Forest cake full of creamy vanilla, flaked dark chocolate, soft dark chocolate cake, and more of that cherry sauce. That sweet mid-palate circles back around to the tobacco with a slight spice and a hint of old oak on the back end.
Bottom Line:
This is lush and really feels like a great digestif sipper (it’s dessert in a whiskey glass!).
Green River Distillery has been pumping out contract distilled juice for a while. In the spring of 2022, they finally released their much anticipated Green River Bourbon to much hoopla. The bourbon is a blend of five years and older barrels of bourbon made from a mash bill of 70% corn, 21% winter rye, and nine percent malted two-row and six-row barley.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a hint of dry cornmeal on the nose with clear and rich butterscotch (which feels a little young) alongside vanilla pudding cups, wet brown sugar, and a hint of an old leather jacket. The taste holds onto that leather note as a foundation and builds layers of sticky toffee pudding with vanilla buttercream, a handful of roasted almonds, and a thick buttery toffee sauce tying it all together. The finish is green with a big note of fresh mint that leads back to the leather with a whisper of dark fruit leather and Red Hots.
Bottom Line:
This feels a little all over the place but really does come together pretty nicely by the end. This isn’t something I’d race out to try again, but I can see using the rest of my bottle in highballs and cocktails and being pretty happy about it.
16. Clyde May’s Special Reserve Straight Bourbon Six-Year-Old
This Alabama whiskey (distilled in Indiana) is a small-batch product of hand-selected barrels. Those barrels are expertly blended by the Clyde May’s team to highlight classic bourbon notes in this special edition from late last year.
Tasting Notes:
This is all about the spicy apple pie filling on the nose with clear notes of cinnamon and clove next to tart apples, plenty of brown sugar, a pad of butter, and a whiff of raw sourdough yeast rolls. The apple becomes stewed on the palate with an almost apple fritter vibe as the spices really amp up with extra hot Red Hots and a hefty dash of that clove. The end is a mix of packed brown sugars and dark winter spices with a long, warming buzz that nearly washes everything out.
Bottom Line:
This absolutely needs a rock or a few drops of water to calm it down. Once you’ve done that, it is pretty nice for a sort of classic apple pie bourbon. That said, this is still squarely in the cocktail-base section of this list.
This sourced whiskey comes from Kentucky. The juice is a blend of 70% corn, 21% rye, and nine percent malted barley whiskey that’s aged for up to four years before proofing and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
This smells like “bourbon” on the nose with hints of caramel, vanilla, oak, and a dollop of maple syrup. The palate has a thick winter spice vibe with dusty cinnamon and nutmeg-heavy eggnog with a creamy edge next to vanilla tobacco with a whisper of cedar humidor. That spice really amps up toward the finish with a Red Hot tobacco chew and dry wicker finish.
Bottom Line:
“Hey, that’s pretty nice” was my reaction to this. Again, this is not something I’m racing to find more of, but I dig it when it’s put in front of me. If you find yourself with one, it won’t disappoint as a classic bourbon.
14. St. Augustine Distillery Port Finished Bourbon
This Floridian bourbon rests for three years in new American oak, giving it a classic base. Then the booze goes into port casks from San Sebastian Winery next door to the distillery for up to six months (depending on the Florida heat). The end result is a unique bourbon that’s both enticing and refined.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a touch of woodiness but the star of the show is the red berries that are both tart and sweet next to a dusting of winter spices. Vanilla and hints of mint show up on the palate with white pepper, mild florals, and a little bit of ripe cherry. The end leans into oak, dark chocolate bitterness, and a whisper of ripe red berries with a touch of clove.
Bottom Line:
Berries and spice are the dominant factors on this one. It’s a little thin but is unique enough to grab your attention — well, enough for a cocktail base that is.
This whiskey marries Italian-American heritage with bourbon in Kentucky’s horse country. The juice is a contract-distilled high-rye bourbon that spends six years resting in new American oak. That juice is then just barely touched with local water before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
The nose feels like walking through a peach orchard on a sunny day with blossoming honey suckles wrapped around cinnamon sticks in your hand. The taste builds on that spiced honey with a mild root beer vibe next to overripe peach, a touch of vanilla cream, and a whisper of fresh mint. The finish stays fairly mellow with the creamy honey and mild spices blending with a soft touch of vanilla/mint tobacco warmth.
Bottom Line:
This is where we leave the cocktail base bourbons behind and get into the sippers. This is a pretty mild bourbon overall, but it hits nice as an everyday sipper — a table bourbon, if you will.
This contract distilled juice from Pinhook celebrates the young racehorse “Bourbondini.” The whiskey in the bottle is made from a mash of 75% corn, 15% rye, and 10% malted barley. After a long rest, the whiskey is just touched with water and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a big nose full of hot apple cider spiked with clove, raisins, and molasses next to a soft bar of high-quality marzipan all with a whisper of figgy jam in the background. The palate leans toward that savory fruit with a hint of dry tropical fruit before a chili-infused dark espresso takes over with a dash of powdered dark chocolate. The finish sweetens with a rich toffee and brown butter vibe as the charred barrel makes an appearance at the very end.
Bottom Line:
This is a pretty chill sipper. I like to add a rock or two to calm it down and let it bloom a bit in the glass. If that wasn’t necessary, this would’ve ranked a little higher but here we are.
This Lux Row bourbon continues to fly under the radar. The whiskey is a blend of high rye and wheated bourbons from select barrels that Lux Row pulled from local distilleries. Those barrels are then masterfully vatted and proofed down with local water.
Tasting Notes:
Old honey candies mingle with orange oils, vanilla wafers, salted caramel sauce, and a hint of mint on the nose. A mild note of sweet cedar drives the palate as floral honey and spicy vanilla pudding round out the taste toward the mid-palate. The orange comes back in late with a dusting of black pepper next to more of that soft cedar dipped into that floral honey.
Bottom Line:
This has a sweet edge that’s very distinct. If you like honey in your bourbon, this is going to be the bottle for you. Still, there’s more depth than just honey and this bourbon works pretty well as an everyday sipper with a rock or two.
This bourbon is all about precision blending. The MGP barrels create a four-grain whiskey that’s finished in oak staves from Tonnellerie Radoux in France. Those staves are added to the barrels to create a unique finish that’s part Kentucky and part France.
Tasting Notes:
This starts fairly familiar with notes of sugar pie and vanilla cream with orange spice and a hint of dried florals that then veers into dried mushrooms and firewood bark with a bit of black dirt. The palate circles back to the sweetness with a big pile of pecan waffles covered in vanilla/maple syrup before soft orange-infused tobacco leads back to that wet firewood and black dirt on the backend of the sip. The very end has a touch of charred oak that’s more like singed red-wine-soaked-oak staves.
Bottom Line:
This is complex and interesting. There’s nothing quite like it on the list, and that might be off-putting for some palates. Still, all of that makes this a great palate expander.
9. Jeptha Creed Four Grain Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
This four-grain bourbon is all about the farm-to-glass experience. The juice is made from a mash with Bloody Butcher corn — a sweeter red corn used by Indigenous Americans throughout the Midwest and South for millennia — grown right outside the still house on an expansive Kentucky farm. The red corn is mixed with malted rye, wheat, and barley in the mash and aged for an undisclosed amount of time before proofing and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
This is like your grandmother’s garden on berry picking day on the nose with huge notes of rhododendrons and wisteria next to blackberry jam, blueberry pie, and mason jars of apricot jam with plenty of dark spices layered in. The palate holds onto the jammy notes but adds in rich vanilla pudding, candied walnuts, nutmeg dusted eggnog, and a tiny echo of cherry sasparilla. The dry spices circle back around on the finish with a touch more of that vanilla and a whisper of fresh mint from the garden with a little dirt still on it.
Bottom Line:
This is kind of an entry-level bourbon for Jeptha Creed and it rules. This punches above its weight class and could probably cost more without any complaints. It’s deeply hewn, transports you, and tastes unique without sacrificing tasting good. And we’re only halfway through this list…
The latest in the Fusion Series from Bardstown carries on the tradition of blending Bardstown’s own juice with expertly sourced barrels. In this case, 70% of the blend is from three different three-year-old bourbons with varying high-rye mash bills. The remaining 30% is from two 12-year-old barrels with a low-rye bourbon mash. Those barrels are vatted at Bardstown and touched with a little water before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
The wood comes through on the palate as a cedar plank that’s had nectarines crushed on it and then thrown on a grill with supporting notes of crushed almonds, floral honey, and buttery toffee rounding out the nose. The taste leans into the sweet wood and toffee as a touch of old malt cookies with a hint of vanilla leads to a spiced mulled wine with a little more of that honey. The finish is bold and warm with plenty of cedar, dark spice, and mellow toffee.
Bottom Line:
This is a bold yet easy sipper. There’s a lot going on but it all makes sense. You can easily sip this over a rock or in a Glencairn and find something new every time.
This whiskey was founded by cinephiles who also happen to be bourbon lovers — the “Lucky Seven” moniker is a nod to Warner Bros.’s iconic Sound Stage 7. The bourbon in this bottle is a blend of sourced 12-year-old barrels from Kentucky. Those barrels are hand-selected by the Lucky Seven team to create their perfect bourbon.
Tasting Notes:
Dried apricots and prunes lead to a date-rich cake with plenty of cinnamon and nutmeg next to an echo of caramel corn with a flake of salt. The taste starts off sweet with a cotton candy depth that then turns toward old cedar planks, worn leather, and a hint of savory herbs like thyme and sage. The mid-palate pops with Red Hots as the caramel corn makes a comeback before the finish dives into a plummy tobacco chewiness and buzz.
Bottom Line:
That savory note around the mid-palate makes this an interesting pour. The profile around that is very classic but also very dialed in. This is an interesting sipper all around that deserves a little time to really dig into what’s buried in that profile.
Hotaling & Co., started by San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing, is a hell of a blendery. This expression is a mix of two MGP of Indiana whiskeys. The lion’s share (94%) is a five-year-old bourbon with a fairly standard mash bill of 75% corn, 21% rye, and four percent malted barley. That’s married to a six-year-old bourbon with a mash bill of 60% corn, 38% rye, and four percent malted barley. The whiskey is proofed down to 92 proof and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear sense of pipping hot cornbread dripping with whipped butter cut with cinnamon and vanilla on the nose. That spicy vanilla butter really drives the palate’s flavor as the sweetness leans towards pancake syrup on a pecan waffle with a small hint of leather and tobacco lurking in the background. The finish pops with dried cherry tobacco dipped in cinnamon butter with a hint of that cornbread (now a little burnt) leading to a rich end.
Bottom Line:
This is another one that’s just interesting. While I said we are out of the “cocktail” bourbons, I do like this in an old fashioned. That said, this works as an easy on-the-rocks sipper just as well.
5. Lost Lantern 2022 Single Cask #1: Smooth Ambler West Virginia Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Lost Lantern just dropped their spring 2022 collection of single cask selections from some seriously big hitters in the craft whiskey world. For their first edition, the bottler chose a barrel from Smooth Ambler in West Virginia. This bottling is from one 53-gallon barrel of wheated bourbon from West Virginia that’s bottled as-is without filtering or cutting down with water. That means there are only 190-odd bottles of this around.
Tasting Notes:
You’re taken to a confectionary on the nose with dried cranberries and cherries rolling through rich, bitter, yet creamy dark chocolate that’s just been touched with dark and chili spices and bespeckled with crushed almonds. The palate builds on that with a Christmas cake spice mix next to more dried and candied fruits — think brandied cherries and candied orange peels — that leads toward a deep cacao note that’s nearly waxy. The end is all about the black cherry tobacco and old pine boxes that hold that tobacco.
Bottom Line:
This is where things get really interesting on this list. I’d argue all the bottles above are fine if you stumble across them. This is the first bottle you should seek out and buy two of — remember, there are only 190 of these and that’s it, forever.
This whiskey from country music legend Brad Paisley actually crisscrossed the country with the star. The juice in the bottles is largely from Bardstown Bourbon Company, with four whiskeys aged three to 15 years with both low and high rye bourbons in the mix. The team at Bardstown worked closely with Paisley — a whiskey nerd himself — to select, blend, and finish the bourbon according to Paisley’s palate. After a 7,314-mile trip across America, the barrels were vatted, proofed, and bottled as-is.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a lightness at first whiff that gives way to a soft apricot jam on a buttered Southern biscuit next to a hint of cinnamon-spiked caramel and apple cider-soaked oak staves. The palate really does burst forth with firework aerials of old leather, toffee candies, Red Hots, peanut brittle, nougat, milk chocolate, and vanilla pipe tobacco. The mid-palate sweetness fades as the pipe tobacco takes on a little warmth and spice while brioche, black pepper, and braided dry cedar bark round out the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a hell of a whiskey. Yes, it sounds so gimmicky, but never bet against Bardstown Bourbon Company. This is the bottle you drop on the table when someone starts going on and on about how shitty “celebrity” whiskeys are. This expression delivers as a great sipper and a mean base for a Manhattan. And there are still four more bourbons to go. What a time to be alive.
And we’ve officially come full circle. This whiskey was distilled at Castle & Key back in 2018. 200 of those barrels were hand-picked for this release to take a look back at the past two years and “reflect” upon the trials they brought.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a distinct note of tart yet slightly sweet cherry on the nose with a supporting cast of butterscotch candies, mild firewood, and a hint of pancake batter. That batter becomes a stack of pancakes with vanilla-laced butter, maple syrup, and a few nuts thrown in that lead to a herb garden full of rosemary bushes. That savory note mellows out through the mid-palate as a dusting of nutmeg rounds out the finish with hints of woody maple syrup and a final echo of that tart cherry.
Bottom Line:
Always bet on Blue Run to knock it out of the park. Even with these new contract distilled releases (compared to their sourced barrels), you’re getting expertly made bourbon that takes you somewhere. It’s deep, rewarding, and fresh.
2. Starlight Distillery Bourbon Finished in Cognac Barrels
Starlight Distillery, part of Huber Orchard, Winery & Vineyards in southern Indiana, is one of those distilleries where I ask, “where have you been all my life?” This release — from the distillery’s broad selection of uniquely finished whiskeys — is made with Starlight’s own four-year-old bourbon that’s loaded into hand-selected Cognac casks for six months. The whiskey then goes into the bottles with no fussing.
Tasting Notes:
Smoked maple syrup and raw tobacco lead the way on the nose as floral honey, dry cacao powder, and a hint of rum-soaked raisin mingle throughout. The palate turns that cacao into a dark chocolate bar with almonds layered in as a mild, dry chili pepper adds some pep on the mid-palate. There’s a dark and worn leather vibe that kicks in as the finish arrives with hints of apple-raisin-honey cider pipe tobacco vibing with old leather tobacco pouches and dry sweetgrass braids round out the end.
Bottom Line:
This is the tip of the iceberg of all the beautiful whiskey coming out of Starlight and Huber right now. But if you’re going to start somewhere, let it be here. This is great juice made by a family who’ve spent the last nearly two centuries refining their craft.
Okay, bear with me. This is a bourbon blend made with five, six, seven, nine, and 14-year-old bourbons from Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Wyoming, New York, and Texas. All of those bourbons are expertly blended in Barrell’s Louisville facility and then bottled as-is at cask strength.
Tasting Notes:
I swear, this has a nose that’s exactly like a rich, moist, and spicy carrot cake smothered in cream cheese frosting, and it works. The nose is rounded out my Meyer lemons, honeydew melon, grassy sugar cane, and a touch of white peach. The palate is part of apple Jolly Rancher and part raspberries in cream with some brown sugar and cinnamon in the mix. The mid-palate has a banana cream pie vibe that leads to a little bit of waxy cacao bean and a fleeting sense of granite countertop covered in oak staves. The finish has a mix of green tea and mint chocolate chip ice cream with this small whisper of salty pretzel wrapped in banana leaves.
Bottom Line:
This is a wild ride. It’s so out there but I love it. That said, these bourbons are not for the faint of heart, especially not for anyone looking for a “classic” bourbon experience. This feels like the future in a glass and I’m here for it.
While there are countless things Tucker Carlson truly does not understand, NATO likely isn’t one of them. Yet, in his ongoing quest to endear himself to Vladimir Putin and the Russian propagandists who hold him in the highest regard, he’s back to pretending that he’s truly baffled by NATO’s continued existence.
On Monday night, Carlson had some comments on the current proposed expansions to NATO, which would include adding Finland and Sweden. But basically, he seems to not get why NATO is even a thing.
“OK, so NATO is the most successful military alliance in world history. Yes, it kept the Soviet Union from invading Western Europe. What is the point of NATO now? Can anyone explain? No. No one can explain. Instead of explaining, we hear demands that NATO explain as rapidly as possible—damn the consequences. And the benefits to the United States. What are the benefits exactly? Again, silence.”
Tucker: What is the point of NATO now? Can anyone explain? No, no one can explain pic.twitter.com/fOhbbE7Cz5
It didn’t really help that Carlson was asking these questions out loud to no one but himself.
While Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he sees no problem with approving the new members, not everyone is as gung-ho about the plan. Carlson is clearly one of them. Meanwhile, Turkey is threatening to block the expansion. Putin, on the other hand, seems to be flip-flopping. On Monday, Al Jazeera reported that Putin said admitting both countries would pose “no direct threat for [Russia] … but the expansion of military infrastructure to these territories will certainly provoke our response.” Yet Fortune reports he also claimed, again on Monday, that “Russia has no problems with these states.”
On Monday, Finnish president Sauli Niinisto admitted that he called Putin directly to let him know of his country’s intention to join NATO, and was surprised by just how calmly Vlad took the news.
“Altogether the discussion was very good,” Niinisto said on Sunday, according to Fox News (of all places). “I say calm and cool, and he did not repeat those threats he had earlier, and his people had been telling that is that if Finland joins—that means some kind of contra steps, military contra steps, whatever that meant—but he didn’t repeat it now.”
Still, Carlson didn’t seem to want to take any chances in pissing off his Kremlin superfans, so he toed the line perfectly by pretending to really not understand or care about any of it. You can watch part of his commentary above.
Being a pilot is arguably one of the most demanding jobs in the world. People trust you with their lives and there is virtually zero margin for error. Yet professional pilots do it with seeming ease. If you have ever had the privilege of being in a cockpit while someone’s flying, you’ll know they make it appear like it’s a task anyone with any amount of video game knowledge can do. Of course, it’s not that simple. Flying a plane takes up to a year of hands-on training depending on the type of aircraft you’d like to fly and the training program you attend.
Learning to fly a plane is almost always a voluntary decision, except in this one truly noteworthy instance.
A passenger with exactly zero flying experience was aboard a small private jet when the pilot appeared to have a medical emergency. The pilot of the single engine Cessna 208 became incoherent during the flight and the passenger had to take over unexpectedly after entering the cockpit and contacting air traffic control. The exchange was recorded on LiveATC audio.
The unnamed passenger informs Fort Pierce, Florida air traffic control, “I’ve got a serious situation here, my pilot has gone incoherent,” he said on the radio. “I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” After being asked what his position was, the passenger responded, “I have no idea. I see the coast of Florida in front of me and I have no idea.”
Kudos to the passenger of N333LD who safely executed an emergency landing at PBI yesterday – well done! And to the CFI controller who talked him down – wow!
Talk about a scary situation. Not only is the passenger experiencing an emergency with another human being, who he must’ve been concerned about, but now he’s charged with flying and landing a plane. That’s no easy feat, especially when likely your only experience with being a pilot is when you played Top Gun on your Sega Genesis in the ’90s while your brother called you Goose.
It’s a safe bet that the video game wouldn’t have prepared him for his current predicament. Thankfully the concerned passenger had the wherewithal to figure out how to call for help from the people that are known for being cool under pressure.
Once air traffic control was aware of the dire situation, the controller immediately began trying to assist the passenger in keeping the wings level and making a safe descent. The controller continued guiding the passenger, saying “Maintain wings level and just try to follow the coast, either north or southbound. We’re trying to locate you.”
While the passenger was handling the pressure like a champ, there was a brief moment where he was unsure. “Have you guys located me yet?” the passenger asked. “I can’t even get my nav screen to turn on. It has all the information on it. You guys have any ideas on that?”’
Eventually the plane was located about 20 miles away from Boca Raton by air traffic control and it was guided to a safe landing at Palm Beach International Airport.
This will likely be a story this passenger tells well into old age and his grandchildren will scoff at the idea that it could be true. It’s also likely to be something that he hopes will never happen again, if he ever has the nerve to get on an airplane again.
Ahead of the release of Top Gun: Maverick, Deadline spoke to a group of directors who have worked with Cruise over the years, including Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). He lived with Cruise while they were making 2017’s American Made. “After 40 or 50 straight days, we were coming up on July 4 weekend. It happens his birthday is July 3 and I’m thinking that since his birthday happened to fall on a holiday, maybe Tom will want to have a long weekend off to celebrate his birthday somewhere,” he said.
Liman asked Cruise if he was planning to go on vacation for his birthday. The actor replied, “No. I was thinking since we have the day off on July 3, we can use that time to have the eight-hour aviation meeting that we’ve been having trouble scheduling.”
“I am beyond tired and I’m like, ‘You want to have an eight-hour meeting on your birthday?’ He said, ‘Yes, that’s what I want for my birthday. I want to be making a movie. That’s the best birthday present.’ There was no blowing out candles, either. Cake? No, Tom doesn’t eat cake. You don’t get to look the way he looks, by eating birthday cake. You have to make a life choice there.”
Maybe he’ll make an exception for an astronaut ice cream cake while filming in space.
On Friday, YSL rapper Lil Keed died suddenly at the age of just 24 years old. At the time, no cause of death was available but today, TMZ reports that the XXL Freshman‘s death was related to multiple organ failure, including his kidneys and liver. Keed reportedly complained of severe stomach pain before his death, checking into an LA hospital for tests. However, his organs began to fail, leading to his eventual death.
According to TMZ’s sources, Keed had been sober recently after struggling with alcohol and drugs over the years. His death came as an untimely shock in the wake of the arrests of many of his YSL associates, who were wrapped up in a racketeering indictment that called YSL a hybrid street gang. Keed’s brother, fellow Atlanta rapper Lil Gotit, summed up the mourning on social media. “Can’t believe I seened u die today bro,” he wrote. “I did all my cries I know what u want me to do and that’s go hard for Mama Daddy Our Brothers Naychur and Whiteboy.”
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office is expected to do an autopsy later this week.
Lil Keed is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
In what’s becoming a recurring theme for the popular podcast host, Joe Rogan caught himself reading a fake news story about Australia banning people from growing their own foods. However, Rogan didn’t make the catch until after he went on a rant against the Australian government and accusing it of concocting an elaborate plot to “smoke out” anti-vaxxers.
The embarrassing moment went down during the May 12 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with guest Hotep Jesus, and what’s fascinating is that there were immediate red flags right from the jump. Specifically, Rogan admitting that he “read something briefly” before kicking off the segment. Had the podcast host done just a tad more research beforehand, this whole thing could’ve been avoided, but that’s not how Rogan rolls.
In the article that Rogan attempted to cite from memory, Australia was allegedly banning people from growing their own food because of “agricultural contamination” that could cause another pandemic. Rogan ranted against the “real pieces of sh*t” promoting the ban before stumbling into the fact that he’d just been duped after his producer Jamie Vernon researched the legislation while they were recording.
“It’s gotta be a, a real thing,” Rogan exclaimed, pulling out his phone to search for himself. “It seems too good to not be.”
Vernon explained that when he typed in “Outlaw growing food in Australia,” nothing came up.
“Not a single thing comes up, except for that, which is a false thing,” he added, referencing something on the tv screen off-camera.
“They want us completely dependent!” Jesus added.
“Yeah, I can’t find it either,” Rogan admitted. “Dammit. It better not be fake. It might be fake.”
After it became embarrassingly clear that Rogan fell for a fake article, Jesus attempted to salvage the situation. “Even if it’s fake, right? Like the fake is usually the warning,” Jesus said, which is an interesting (and alarming) way to gloss over getting fooled by your own confirmation bias instead of learning a valuable lesson from an obvious mistake.
If you aren’t following former The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson on Twitter, you’re truly missing out on various and random pleasantries. He’s as delightful on social media as one would expect, and although he uses the platform to address professional matters (like how he won’t replace his replacement, James Corden), he also shares some periodic sunshine. That would include photos of his pets, Pippin and Seamus, in between other sharp-witted observations on life.
That’s led to a bittersweet place on Tuesday, May 17, which happens to be Craig Ferguson’s 60th birthday. It’s a day that he shared with Bob Saget (who recently passed away at age 65), but each year, Craig sent his friend a birthday roasting on Twitter.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes a’body. Please remember @bobsaget ‘s too. He’s old so he gets cranky if you forget.
This year, it’s obviously a very different mood. “Bob Saget and I would always text each other on our shared birthday,” Ferguson tweeted. “No text this year. Happy Birthday Bob wherever you are.”
Bob Saget and I would always text each other on our shared birthday. No text this year. Happy Birthday Bob wherever you are.
Saget is missed by his fans and friends following his untimely death as the result of a head injury. Very soon, though, Netflix will stream a tribute special that will include many of Saget’s former co-stars. The premiere date is June 10, when one can watch and witness the impact that Saget had (and will continue to have) as his legacy lives on.
Ahead of his upcoming Vinyl Verse Tour with Wiz Khalifa, Logic will drop his seventh studio album, Vinyl Days next month. The album follows Logic’s January announcement of him coming out of his rap retirement.
Earlier this year, Logic teased the tracks “Breath Control,” along with Vinyl Days‘ title track. This month, he released “Therapy Music,” which features Russ. On “Therapy Music,” Logic raps, “I keep my ego in check, just me and this instrumental pumpin’ through this cassette deck / Money don’t represent my rank / Yeah, Logic rose from jack but even the Titanic sank / I seen cats with egos bigger than cruise ships lose it / Gain power and abuse it.”
Last month, he dropped a double single, comprised of the tracks “Tetris” and “Decades.” This came after a public dispute with Def Jam, who originally planned to release them as two standalone singles. “What the f*ck is going on, man? I told Def Jam that I wanted to release my sh*t as a two-pack,” Logic said in an Instagram video, “and I just found out that they’re releasing it as two singles at the same time. What kind of sh*t is that?… I care about my fans, man. I care about hip-hop. I care about music.”
Fortunately, it seems Logic got his way after all.
Check out the Vinyl Days artwork below.
Courtesy of Def Jam
Vinyl Days is out 6/17 via Def Jam. Pre-save it here.
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