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Over the last four decades, WWE’s iconic rivalries have created some of the most significant pieces of memorabilia in sports entertainment history. With the WWE warehouse standing as essentially the lone storage unit for many of these items, a whopping 95 percent of WWE collectibles have gone missing. That is until now, when A&E and WWE partnered to create the “WWE’s Most Wanted Treasures” series, which kicks off Sunday, April 18, at 10 p.m. ET. Throughout the 10-week programming partnership, former NFL player and up-and-coming superstar AJ Francis partners with WWE legends to travel across the country and track down original pieces of history.

“Honestly, there’s a bunch of balls being juggled in the air right now on what the long-term goal is (for tracking down these items),” Francis told Uproxx Sports. “The initial plan was to get all of these items in some form of an exhibit, to be able to bring these to the fans. Now that might be a roving exhibit that travels with Monday Night Raw once the world opens back up, it might be a Hall of Fame, it might be something that they do at the warehouse that hopefully fans can go in and appreciate. To be able to see all of these crazy items (in the warehouse) is sensory overload. If done right, that would be a tourist’s destination for WWE fans.”

On WWE’s mission to “reclaim history one item at a time,” Stephanie McMahon and Triple H offer introductions that highlight the legends featured for each episode. Throughout the series, Francis partners with legends like The Undertaker, Ric Flair, Charlotte Flair, Mick Foley, Kane, Big Show, Booker T and others to track down a variety of items that include Kane’s original mask, Ric Flair’s Butterfly Robe, Andy Kaufman’s neckbrace, Andre The Giant’s passport and more.

After spending countless hours with his childhood heroes, it was difficult for Francis to narrow down just one superstar or item that was memorable to him.

“That’s a trick question,” Francis said. “Ric Flair is the GOAT. There’s never been a better combination of in-ring skill and promo charisma than Ric Flair in the history of the world. The things we look for for him (during the show), trying to track down his robes, those are incredibly detailed pieces of memorabilia. Anyone who happens to come across one of those is the luckiest person on Earth.

“But would I be lying to you if I said the most fun part was kicking it with Kane and Undertaker in the car for three hours, yeah, that was incredible. Spending the afternoon with Jerry Lawler at his house and seeing his memorabilia, that was incredible. To be able to sit down with Booker T and talk about what it takes to be a successful African-American in this business, that was incredible. So there’s not one specific thing, but I am a bit of a Ric Flair mark.”

The first two episodes take Francis and the legends all over the country, traveling anywhere from fans homes to the National Museum of Funeral History and even to the Undertaker’s personal storage unit.

“It was crazy. Every search was different,” Francis said. “Sometimes the legend themselves knew where the item was. Other items, the legend gave the item away 20 years ago and had no idea where it was. Sometimes, it’s common knowledge in the collector community who has the item. Sometimes in the collector community, it’s hush hush and they don’t want to tell anybody who has it. That was what was so interesting to me. This group of collectors, they all talk to each other about who has what and how much are they willing to give something away or trade it for. They all know each other. A lot of (these collectors) are known in the wrestling community or they’re friends with the legends.”

While tracking down each item, the WWE legends occasionally unveil anecdotes that fans may not have known. In the first episode, while Foley explains how he can identify the original Mankind shirt thanks to specific rips and tears sustained during his rivalry with the Undertaker, he reveals that the original Mankind mask was created for the Deadman after he suffered a broken orbital bone. Vince McMahon opted for another mask at the time, but liked the prototype so much he kept it stored away until the right wrestler came along.

It’s that perfect blend of taking traditional wrestling fans on a trip down memory lane, while at the same time offering new fans a history lesson that makes “WWE’s Most Wanted Treasures” such a perfect balance for even the most casual of fans.

Beginning Sunday, April 18, WWE will kick off its programming partnership with A&E with eight original two-hour documentaries under the award-winning “Biography” banner at 8 p.m. ET, followed by the “WWE’s Most Wanted Treasures” series at 10 p.m. ET.

Asking someone to pay over $200 for a bottle of booze — whether it be whisk(e)y, brandy, rum, or even Cognac — is no joke. The liquid in that bottle had better be something truly special. Not quite “once-in-a-lifetime” special but definitely well beyond the “let’s open this bottle just because” range.

Meaning that any Scotch whisky in the $200-$250 price range has to bring something unique to the table. It’s got to make a big promise and deliver.

Here’s the good news: unlike bourbon, where the best bottles are inflated by the aftermarket, the prices of scotch are rarely affected by the hype machine (though they can be affected by tariffs). The price of an expensive scotch is mostly due to its refinement and its scarcity. Even awards don’t typically send prices into the stratosphere. Most of the bottles we’re featuring today are priced this high for one simple reason: they’ve spent two-plus decades resting in a warehouse. That requires a lot of rent, a lot of failed barrels, and a lot of human interaction (read: work) along the way.

Scotch whisky with that sort of age (and price) behind it is an investment in your personal whisk(e)y journey that’ll expand your knowledge and your palate. A worthwhile investment, if you ask us; but obviously not a cheap one. If any of these picks entices you, click on its price to grab a bottle of your own.

Ardbeg Supernova

ABV: 53.8%

Average Price: $200

The Whisky:

This 2019 release was for hardcore fans of Ardbeg. The juice is a heavily peated whisky that’s aged in ex-bourbon barrels for an undisclosed amount of time. The whisky is then bottled to represent the peatiest essence of an Islay whisky.

Tasting Notes:

You get a nose full of dark and wet ash next to fennel and black licorice with a slightly candy-sweet edge. The taste leans into the peat with a dry bark chewiness with hints of peppery spice and dry menthol cigarettes all leading back to a sooty coal smokiness. The end is very long but mellows out massively as the semi-sweet licorice kicks back in, supporting whispers of orange oils, anise, and corn syrup on the very final note.

Bottom Line:

This is exclusively for whisky drinkers who already love peat but want to take it to the next level. And by “next level” we don’t mean going from casually dating to moving in together. It’s more like going from casually dating to eloping in Vegas and having five kids together. This whisky is a commitment to expanding your peaty palate that’ll either leave you more in love with the style or content to return to the less pungent whiskies you’ve tried before.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year Of The Ox

ABV: 46%

Average Price: $209

The Whisky:

This is the mountaintop of Johnnie Walker’s whiskies. The blend is a marriage of ultra-rare stock from extinct Diageo distilleries around Scotland. That’s just … cool. This expression is all about barrel selection and the mastery of a great noser and blender working together to create something special.

Tasting Notes:

Dried fruit with a plummy sweetness mingles with a very soft and almost dry pall of smoke. The palate then veers in a completely different direction — folding in orange oils, marzipan, rose water, honeycombs, and a dusting of bitter cacao once water is added. The end is slow, smoky, and full of dry fruits, nuts, and a malty nature.

Bottom Line:

This is one of the most refined blends in the whisky world. It’s a delight to sip (neat or with a rock). In fact, if this bottle was a bit more affordable, we’d always have one open on the shelf. It’s just that delicious and accessible.

Cragganmore 21

ABV: 56%

Average Price: $210

The Whisky:

This 2010 special release from Diageo highlighted a whisky laid down in the warehouse back in 1989. The whisky is very pale — thanks to aging in second and third-fill ex-bourbon barrels (meaning a lot of the coloring components of the inner-barrel were already sapped). Just over 5,000 bottles were made and, well, it’s been eleven long years since then. So, they’re getting rarer and rarer.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a sense of a cobweb-heavy cellar more than old oak on the nose, with a nice dose of stewed peaches swimming in vanilla pudding. That pudding creaminess leaves the vanilla behind and a lemon cream pie vibe takes over with wisps of savory herbs popping in as a counterpoint. The short end really embraces the stone and orchard fruits with notes of honey and cream smoothing everything out.

Bottom Line:

This is shockingly smooth, fruity, and silky. Cragganmore has a reputation for being one of the easiest and most inviting whiskies in the game, and this bottle only proves that more so. You’ll forget you ever needed ice when drinking whisky thanks to this velvet dram.

Mortlach 20

ABV: 43.4%

Average Price: $225

The Whisky:

Dufftown’s Mortlach is one of those distilleries that may just make you fall in love with scotch. The mash is distilled 2.81 times, according to Mortlach’s unique distilling methods. That juice is then loaded in sherry casks and left to do its thing for 20 long years. The results are vatted, brought down to proof with that soft Speyside water, and bottled.

Tasting Notes:

There’s an apple pie feel that pulls you in with stewed and spicy apples, black raisins, and walnuts next to a hint of caramelized pineapple and a whisper of sea salt. That apple pie filling kicks up a notch as a savory and buttery pie crust comes into play, while hints of mint, figs, vanilla, oak, and dark cacao mingle on the tongue. The end comes along very slowly with more walnuts and raisins leading towards a final savory note that’s almost … extra virgin olive oil?

Bottom Line:

That note of olive oil really threw us. Yet, it makes complete sense when sipping the dram. Brilliance? Luck? All that we know is that it works so well with everything going on in this very rare and exceptional sip of whisky.

Glenmorangie Signet

ABV: 46%

Average Price: $230

The Whisky:

This Glenmorangie expression is a prime example of something truly special. The juice is a mix of single malts with estate-grown malts and “chocolate malts” (meaning they were roasted until dark and chocolate-y). The hot juice then went into new American oak (not ex-bourbon) for varying amounts of time.

While there’s no age statement, there are barrels up to 40 years old in this mix.

Tasting Notes:

You’re greeted with a note of dried apricots with a hint of clove, leading towards a very light dark orange chocolate. The chocolate amps up the bitterness, reaching espresso bean levels as some eggnog spice kicks in with a silky mouthfeel and a touch of wet tobacco. The end brings about a flourish of bright citrus zest that dries everything out, leaving you with a lingering end and a final note of earthy dried mushrooms.

Bottom Line:

This is as interesting as it is engaging. The taste is so subtly built and takes you places you didn’t expect to go. It’s complex, sure. But the dram never overpowers and stays very easy to sip.

The Dalmore 18

ABV: 43%

Average Price: $240

The Whisky:

This is more than just an 18-year-old whisky. The juice in this case spent 14 years maturing in ex-bourbon casks. Then the whisky was filled into Matusalem sherry casks that held sherry for 30 (!) years for four more years of maturation. The casks, from Bodega González-Byass, are exceedingly rare and impart something truly unique into this whisky.

Tasting Notes:

Dried roses meet your nose as orange-zest bespeckled dark chocolate dances with hints of old book leather, vanilla husks, and sultanas. The taste holds onto the orange and chocolate tightly as a nutty, peppery, syrupy vibe takes over with a light touch of oakiness. The chocolate zeroes in its bitter qualities on the end, with a little bit more vanilla sweetness and a savory counterpoint that’s kind of like saline (or wet salt).

Bottom Line:

There’s a lot going on in this sip. For the uninitiated, it can feel like a lot to take in. For those looking to really dial in their palates, it’s a great stepping stone to the higher reaches of whisky tasting.

Talisker 18

ABV: 45.8%

Average Price: $248

The Whisky:

This is a classic single malt that also happens to hold the title of “Best Single Malt Whisky in the World” from the World Whiskies Awards. The iconic juice is rendered in Talisker’s bespoke stills and then spends nearly two decades resting in both ex-bourbon and ex-sherry barrels, like most of the true classic single malts.

Tasting Notes:

This is subtle. The nose has a light yet clear sense of ripe plums, orange oils, buttery toffee, and an almost sour apple next to a distant whiff of briny campfire smoke from one beach over. The orange oils remain on the palate as eggnog spices peek in gently, with hints of that butter toffee driving a rich silkiness. The smoke remains in the distance as the spices warm your senses and the meaty fruit takes the edge off on the slow and satisfying fade.

Bottom Line:

This is a masterpiece. It’s not overly smoky or overly sweet. Instead, you get a perfect balance of everything Scotland has to offer, from both poles of the Scotch whisky experience.

Dewar’s The Signature 25

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $249

The Whisky:

Master Blender Stephanie MacLeod has taken blended scotch to the next level with this expression. Grain and single malt whiskies are aged for 25 very long years before they’re married and placed in oak vats to get to know each other. Then the whisky is filled into single malt whisky casks from Royal Brackla Distillery for a final maturation. Think of it as a special finishing that’s a single malt barrel instead of rum, port, stout, etc.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a note of that iconic Aberfeldy honey at the core of the nose, leading your senses towards dried apple chips, a touch of cedar, and what feels like an English muffin covered in clotted cream and berry jam. The taste really leans into the muffin and berries as light notes of honey syrup, dried florals, and more of those dried apples (with a pinch of salt) mix on your tongue. The end is long and fruity with a nice spice counterpoint and a final note of minty tobacco in a cedar box.

Bottom Line:

We’re big fans of Aberfeldy, Dewar’s, and the work of Stephanie MacLeod, and this bottle is one of the reasons why. Sure, it’s a “blended scotch.” But, who cares? It’s goddamn delicious and complex whisky that’ll shatter any illusions you have about “blended” anything.

The Balvenie 21 Portwood

ABV: 47.6%

Average Price: $249

The Whisky:

This masterfully crafted expression from The Balvenie takes some serious time. The whisky is initially aged for 21 years in ex-bourbon casks. That whisky is then transferred to small port pipes, which held port in Portugal for 30 long years. That’s a long, long time, creating some very rare and well-seasoned oak. The effect is singular and distinct.

Tasting Notes:

You’re pulled in by a gentle sense of ripe yet soft peaches next to wet rose petals and a small billow of cherry tobacco smoke from a pipe. The palate, again, is gentle and carries notes of red, sweet, and tart berries, stewed plums, and tiny moments of velvety and buttery pain au chocolat. The finish holds onto that chocolate as it slowly meanders through your senses, leaving you with dark fruits, a whisper more of that cherry tobacco, and a pure silk mouthfeel.

Bottom Line:

This is one of those sips that you can’t help but say, “Holy shit, that’s good!” about. It’s like a reflex. It’s so gentle and welcoming that you’ll be hard-pressed not to make it your go-to special occasion whisky.

Bruichladdich Octomore 10.4 Virgin Oak

ABV: 63.5%

Average Price: $249

The Whisky:

This heavily peated Islay scotch from Bruichladdich is an experimental whisky. The mash is made from Concerto malts grown on Islay at Ocotomore’s own farm. Distilled in 2016, the juice spent three short years maturing in French Limousin oak before it was bottled as-is at cask strength and released early last year.

Tasting Notes:

The nose hits you with hot campfire smoke laced with dried pears, dried peaches, candied ginger, and a bit of straw — but it’s more like you’re sitting a bale of hay than chewing on the stalk. Eggnog spices arrive on the palate with hints of cedar, dried vanilla tobacco leaves, and tart red berries (think cranberry or red currants) while the smoke takes on an almost charred green chili pepper edge. That spicy smoke carries the sip to a medium-length end with hints of that fruit popping back in.

Bottom Line:

Octomore is pretty much the only “hyped” whisky on this list. People who love it, looooove it and will stand in lines for hours to grab a bottle. For us, it’s always an interesting and enlightening journey that expands knowledge and brings something new to the tasting glass. That’s a winning combo as far as we’re concerned — heavy peat or not.

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The Mavs and Grizzlies met in Memphis on Wednesday night in a terrific game between two of the league’s top young stars, as Ja Morant and Luka Doncic squared off and did not disappoint with their efforts.

It looked for all the world like the Grizzlies would get the win after Luka Doncic somewhat surprisingly drove to the basket down three with under five seconds to play and got fouled, splitting the free throws and sending a 90 percent shooter to the line on the other end in Grayson Allen. However, Allen somehow missed both free throws and Dallas called timeout on the rebound with 1.8 seconds remaining to advance the ball needing a three to win or a two to tie.

Somehow, Memphis let Luka Doncic get free to catch the inbound and the man who’s made a name for himself with clutch stepback threes did something completely different, hitting a three-point floater at the buzzer to give Dallas a 114-113 win.

Review confirmed he got the ball off just in time and had his foot behind the line when he let go the circus shot for the game-winner, as the Grizzlies were handed a gutting loss after playing terrific all night. Doncic finished with 29 points, nine assists, and five rebounds on 10-of-20 shooting and just 3-of-10 from three, but none bigger than that ridiculous winner.

The Grizzlies had a balanced effort, with five players in double figures led by Allen who had 23 on an otherwise terrific shooting night prior to his crucial missed free throws. Morant finished with 17 points, five assists, and four rebounds, while Jonas Valanciunas had 19 points and 15 boards inside. It was a big win for the Mavs who are now 2.5 games clear of Memphis for the 7-seed in the West at 30-24, and just one game back of Portland for the all important 6-seed to avoid the play-in. The Grizzlies slide to 27-26, just a game ahead of Golden State for eighth as the West playoff race cocntinues to heat up.

One of the true joys of going to a baseball game is eating ballpark food. Sure it’s all overpriced, but it’s one of the few places where you are free from judgement for eating a giant hot dog, nachos, ice cream, and some 32 oz beers all in one sitting.

However, with eating at the ballpark comes danger, particularly if you’re in foul ball or home run territory. You never want to be caught, food or beverage in hand, when a ball comes hurtling towards you at 100+ mph, suddenly tasked with making the decision between dropping your very expensive food or drink or taking a baseball to the chest. On Wednesday night, a fan at Dodger Stadium was enjoying some nachos in the front row of the bleachers, where L.A. is kind enough to provide a ledge to use as a table.

As such, when Justin Turner hit a drive deep to left center, he didn’t need to figure out whether to go for the ball or not. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful in catching the ball on the fly as it landed smack dab in the middle of his nachos, covering him in hot cheese.

The best part was they reviewed the home run to look for fan interference, which led to them just replaying this over and over and over — they quickly realized that he had not gone over the wall to grab the ball and instead had it splat into his food on the other side of it.

The good news, at least, was that the nachos stopped the home run ball and allowed him to grab it, rather than the ignominy of having his nachos get exploded all over him and seeing the ball bounce away to another fan. The Dodger broadcast went to check on the man, who happily displayed the ball before his friend sitting with him picked up a chip and dipped it in the cheese on his chest.

I wouldn’t call that sanitary and probably unwise in, uh, a pandemic, but at least all that cheese didn’t go to waste.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to advance a bill that would direct the Justice Department to speed up its review of anti-Asian hate crimes, in the wake of an outbreak of violent attacks on the AAPI community. Well, most of them came together, anyway. A mere six Republicans voted against it. And few are surprised about which ones.

They included Senators who helped spread voter fraud lies that inspired the MAGA insurrection of January 6. Ted Cruz was one of them. Josh Hawley — whose biggest critics seem to be journalists from his home state of Missouri — was another. Ditto Rand Paul, who’s long been against the government doing anything other than granting him employment. So was Tom Cotton, who became famous for saying the National Guard should move into New York to take care of BLM protesters. The others were Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville and Kansas’ Roger Marshall.

The vote comes just shy of a month after a brutal massacre in the Atlanta area that targeted Asian-owned massage parlors, leaving eight dead. Still, the bill — sponsored by Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman voted to the Senate — passed through the Senate, and with flying colors. Six isn’t bad, and besides, these six are the usual suspects. Cotton attempted to defend his nay vote, saying, “The ‘COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act,’ has been moved to the Senate floor with little commentary, factfinding, or Committee consideration.”

Still, people weren’t surprised that it was these six.

That didn’t mean people weren’t angry.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Idris Elba may never get to play James Bond, but he did spend five seasons as the lead on Luther, the BBC’s beloved detective series, which maybe, one of these days, could get a movie. But there’s one critic of the show: BBC diversity chief Miranda Wayland. At the digital MIPTV conference on Monday, she told the crowd about her main issue with the show, which was that it wasn’t authentic enough.

“When [‘Luther’] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, Black character lead,” Wayland said. “We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, ‘OK, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”

She wasn’t done: “It’s great having those big landmark shows with those key characters, but it’s about making sure everything around them, their environment, their culture, the set is absolutely reflective. It will be very much about how can we make sure that this program is authentic in terms of the storytelling.”

But a number of people took issue with Wayland’s characterization. One of them was Calvin Robinson, a political advisor and commentator at the Telegraph and The Daily Mail. Robinson himself had recently been harassed for posting pictures of friends, none of whom were, like him, Black. He pushed back at both those attacking him and those attacking Elba’s Luther.

“These lazy stereotypes are racist!” Robinson wrote on Twitter. “Great thing about Luther is that his skin colour isn’t the core of his identity. He’s fighting many battles. An example that we’re all human, we all struggle, but our ethnicity doesn’t always play a part in that.”

Others pointed out that Luther is very authentic to Black life.

Others were simply confused.

(Via IndieWire)

The Sixers and Nets met on Wednesday night in a game with serious seeding implications in the East, as the winner would take a one game lead for the 1-seed in the East and Philly could earn the tiebreaker with Brooklyn with a win. The Nets, coming off a back-to-back after playing Minnesota on Tuesday afternoon following a postponement, was without most of their stars, as Kevin Durant, James Harden, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Blake Griffin were all out.

For the first three quarters, it looked the part of the expected Philly blowout as Joel Embiid dominated, Ben Simmons did Ben Simmons things, and in general the Sixers offense was humming. However, in the fourth quarter the Nets bench got going and narrowed the Philly advantage to as few as three — without Kyrie Irving who was also terrific — and forced Simmons and Embiid to return to close it out. As Embiid stepped to the free throw line up three, the Philly crowd turned their attention for some reason to Kevin Durant who had not played and was standing on the Nets bench, launching a “KD sucks” (or maybe KD’s soft?) chant at him which earned a pretty funny reaction from KD who just threw his hands out like “what did I do?”

DeAndre Jordan’s confused turn to the crowd was also funny. Durant had, to my knowledge, not said a word about the Sixers recently, as his energy has been focused more on Shannon Sharpe using fake quotes of his to critique him than a Philly team he wasn’t even going to play against. There wasn’t really any reason for this beyond it’s a game in Philly so they’ve got to heckle someone and KD’s more fun to heckle than, like, Bruce Brown. That they were yelling during their own team’s free throws was also odd given that home arenas usually try to stay silent in that situation, but Embiid knocked them down and the Sixers pulled back away for the win.

Moneybagg Yo is someone who always keeps the pedal to the metal with his full-length releases. In 2020, he began the year with his third album, Time Served, and nearly four months later he dropped a deluxe reissue, with seven additional songs. In September of that year, the Memphis rapper also teamed up with Blac Youngsta for their joint album, Code Red. Now Moneybagg has returned with an announcement for his next album, A Gangsta’s Pain, one that arrived with a rowdy new song, “Go!”, featuring Big 30.

The track finds the Memphis native flexing some muscles and throwing plenty of attacks to his opponents, while Big 30 uses his verse to remind his peers of the potential enemies that lay around them. A Gangsta’s Pain is currently led by two singles, “Time Today” and “Hard For The Next,” the latter with Future. The former arrived with a video that saw him take aim at the media while the latter took a moment to praise their romantic partners. As for the album itself, Moneybagg will present 22 songs, though the titles and additional guest features for the album remain to be seen. The rapper confirmed it would arrive next week on April 23.

You can listen to “Go!” in the video above.

A Gangsta’s Pain is out 4/23 via N-Less Entertainment/Interscope Records. Pre-order it here.

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics now just a few months away (and taking place in 2021), the U.S. Olympic Team unveiled their team outfits for the closing ceremonies. The Ralph Lauren collection goes heavy on outerwear with a look that seems more befitting of a Winter Olympics rather than the Summer games, as they’ll be wearing an all-white ensemble.

They are very much in line with recent U.S. outfits from Polo and look a lot like what Ralph Lauren has been doing for a long time — as someone who was a merchandiser for Polo from 2012-14, they look very familiar. That is to say, they’re not exactly inspiring but also are not a disaster that will garner significant ridicule from the internet. That honor is bestowed to Team Canada which will be wearing, and I really wish this was a joke, airbrushed jean jackets to the closing ceremonies from Hudson Bay.

This is not a first, as they’ve had a jean jacket in the collection before but with patches, not airbrushed, and not as the centerpiece of the closing ceremonies. Usually they wear some extremely red blazers or coats with CANADA or a giant maple leaf on them, but this time they swung for the fences and, unsurprisingly, the internet has plenty to say.

The most frequent jokes, though, were about how the entire Canadian team will now look like Robin Sparkles from How I Met Your Mother.

After the closing ceremonies, the team will at the very least be ready to go to the mall.

Lil Nas X has dominated the entertainment world for nearly three consecutive weeks. The streak began with the release of his latest single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” followed by its controversial video, and by the even more controversial “Satan Shoes,” a customized pair of Nike Air Max 97s in collaboration with MSCHF. Through it all Lil Nas stuck to his trolling ways. But as the drama dies down, he joined a recent episode of Arts & Raps to answer some questions from a couple of kids.

One kid asked him, “What does it mean to ‘come out of the closet?” Sticking to his humorous ways, Lil Nas X said that it “means you’re like, ‘Hey everybody, I’m this thing and you guys didn’t even know that but now you know.” Soon after, another child asked, “Why are people in the closet in the first place?” The singer replied, “Back to the thing I said earlier about [how] we think about what other people think about us. Once we tell somebody we’re this thing or that thing, their mind shifts completely. It doesn’t matter how close you are to them or whatever.”

This answer led into a quick “closet story” from one of the show’s young co-hosts, in which they talked about locking his cousin in a walk-in closet and flickering the lights on and off while screaming “666” and “Bloody Mary.” Lil Nas tried his best to hold back from laughing and said, “That’s exactly what happened to me. That’s what I meant when I said I was coming out of the closet.”

You can watch the full episode in the video above.