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Yahoo
42 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jimmy Kimmel Takes Off For The Summer, Jokes About Rudy Giuliani, Prince Harry & Mel Gibson Guest Hosting
Jimmy Kimmel has taken off for his summer holiday, paving the way for a swathe of celebrity guest hosts. Deadline revealed yesterday that the likes of Anthony Anderson, Kumail Nanjiani, Nicole Byer, Chris Distefano, Fortune Feimster, Alan Cumming and Jelly Roll would be guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!. More from Deadline 'Jimmy Kimmel Live! Reveals Summer Guest Hosts Including Diego Luna & Jelly Roll 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming '9-1-1: Nashville': ABC Spinoff Unveils Explosive New Teaser The comedian joked that there were some other, more controversial guests, lined up as well including Rudy Giuliani, Prince Harry, Mel Gibson, the 1000lb sisters and the comedy team of Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson. 'Tonight, is my last show until labor day, I'm going to be off for the summer. I don't want to go either, they put it in my contract, I have to go to fat camp every summer. The truth is I'm going to spend the bulk of my summer at the Newark airport this year. I want to leave on a high note, that's why Seth Rogen is here. I'm going to gone for the next couple of months but rest assured if Donald Trump does anything monumentally crazy or anything that requires an emergency response, I will be in a canoe, ignoring it,' he joked. He then swore in Diego Luna, asking him to swear on a book of meat that he would uphold Kimmel's standards including making jokes about 'your President'. It marks the fifth year that Kimmel, who baked his summer break into his ABC contract, has taken off the summer, starting in 2020 with no shows during the summer of 2023 as a result of the dual labor strikes in Hollywood. Luna will kick off proceedings on Monday June 23 with guests including Patton Oswalt, David Corenswet, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Stone, Adria Arjona, Alan Tudyk, Ariela Barer, Heidi Klum and Dolores Huerta as well as musical performances by NEZZA, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and Good Charlotte. The show, which films at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard, is produced by 12:05 AM Productions, in association with Kimmelot and 20th Television. Kimmel, Erin Irwin, Molly McNearney, Jennifer Sharron and David Craig serve as executive producers with Douglas DeLuca and Danny Ricker as co-executive producers. [youtube Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
CBS News
16 hours ago
- Climate
- CBS News
Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood, New Jersey, paused because of lightning
The Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood, New Jersey, was paused Thursday evening because of lightning nearby, the festival said on social media. "Lightning has been detected within 8 miles of the festival. Exit the festival grounds immediately and seek shelter. Stay tuned to the app/social for updates," the festival's Facebook page says. It's not clear what time the concert will resume. The four-day music festival on the beach in Wildwood features Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Rascal Flatts, Jordan Davis and dozens of other artists. Staff at businesses in the area said they hope the festival brings a boost after a slow and rainy start to summer at the Jersey Shore. Severe storms swept through the Philadelphia area Thursday, causing extensive damage and power outages.
Fox News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jelly Roll's wild moment inspired Christian singer to set boundaries
Brandon Lake's collaboration with Jelly Roll on his new album, "King of Hearts," inspired him to set more boundaries in his own life. "He had told me how he threw his phone in the river after his Bridgestone show in Nashville. I was like, 'Tell me more about that,'" Lake told Fox News Digital. "He's like, 'I'm calling you from a flip phone right now.' And literally, because of that, I got a new phone. It's not a flip phone, but I needed to get a new number. I needed it to kind of focus in on my circle of people." Jelly Roll went viral last December when he threw his phone into a river, admitting that he felt overwhelmed at the time about all the calls and texts he was getting. Lake told Fox News Digital that too many people had access to his old number as he got more successful. "And while I would love to be friends with everyone… the bigger things have gotten, the smaller I've had to go," he explained. "And really make sure I have the right people around," adding that he's started setting boundaries. He released his new album "King of Hearts" this month. "I've been looking forward to this day for a long time," he said of the album release. "Funny enough, I got this tattoo a while back on my finger, King of Hearts, and just as like a reminder. More than focusing on the products and the things that I'm making, that I exist to minister to people, to minister God, but also like, ministry's about people, I'm here to reach people, love on people, serve people, and I wanna be a king of hearts, and shepherd people well, no matter what I'm doing." While Lake loves singing about his faith, there's one thing he says he wouldn't sing about when asked. WATCH: Brandon Lake was inspired by Jelly Roll throwing his phone in a river to set his own boundaries "I wouldn't sing about drugs or, you know… I'm sure there's plenty of things. I just can't really think. I do know what I want to sing about and that's my faith, that's what my family does. I wanna sing about things that have changed my life and I know that can change other people's lives." Lake said Jelly Roll first heard his new song "Hard Fought Hallelujah" on TikTok before he decided to collaborate with him on it. He said when he first wrote the song he wasn't sure if "the world would hear it." "But when you live with it for a while, and you show a few friends, the way they respond to it kinda usually tells you a lot, and we knew it was special," he continued. "And putting it out, I'll tell you, I would never would have imagined that Jelly Roll would have said yes. And the coolest part of the story is that he heard that song on TikTok. Before I even asked him to jump on it and fell in love with the song, was waiting for it to come out." By the time he reached out to ask Jelly Roll if he'd want to record it with him "because I just felt like the lyrics would really resonate with his story, he was like, 'Oh, I know what song this is. I'm definitely, I would love to be a part of it.' And then it's just produced an amazing friendship, and he's like a brother to me now." He and Jelly Roll have bonded over being husbands and fathers, and he said the country star has given him lots of encouragement in his career. Lake said he began to have his first mental health struggles a few years ago after he finished his first tour. He said his family thought they were doing the right thing, heading straight for a family vacation to Disney World, but he hadn't had time to decompress after the tour, and he suffered his first panic attack. "Well, a lot of people, Disney World's like heaven. To me, it was hell on earth at that moment in my life," he said. "I didn't have enough time to just like process, right? Everything, all my dreams were coming true. I just wrote with all my heroes. Just came home from my first tour and I just crashed. And one thing I had to learn was just very physically, I had adrenaline fatigue. And when you are in adrenaline fatigue, your emotional management system is under attack. Even your immune system is under attack. You can get sick, all of that." WATCH: Brandon Lake explains inspiration behind his new 'King of Hearts' album He said he began to have scary thoughts and every insecurity was amplified. "I isolated myself instead of running to community and running to my wife and saying, 'Hey, I'm having some wild thoughts,'" he explained. "And I went into a full-blown panic attack, and it was just like the voice of the enemy was so overwhelming. Every lie and insecurity was so overwhelming." He added, "I had a friend send me a voice memo of him praying over me because I was too prideful to pick up the phone. I thought, I'm gonna fix this myself. And when he prayed over me and I listened to it, I broke. I broke. In a great way." Lake finally told his wife about what he'd been struggling with, "and then I kind of began my journey, met with, started going to counseling and just realizing the toll, that the pace of life I was in, like what it was having on me, negatively. And that, I needed to find tools to stay in a healthy place." Since then, Lake said he's hired a health and performance coach who helps him "spiritually, emotionally, physically." He's changed his diet, and he wears an aura ring to monitor his sleep and HRV. "Spiritually speaking, though, I was trying to fill this void and chase another excitement," he explained. "And when I came home and I didn't have another thing to be excited about, I would try to fill it with even good things, like time with my wife and other things." He said it got to the point where he was so "needy" that his wife told him "'Babe, I cannot fill. I can't be for you what you need.' And so my counselor said one of the most elementary but helpful things. And he said, 'Brandon, you need to relearn how to go to God first and most.' First and most, and I wasn't taking these things to God, and my identity was wrapped up in the things I was doing over who he's called me to be." He said living on a farm has also been therapeutic. "Even moving out to the country has been very healing, and I needed to do something opposite of tour and the big platform," the Christian worship singer explained. "I need to get my hands dirty. I bought a tractor. I cut the grass. I moved some dirt, and it's been very healing." He added, "We've got cows. We have many donkeys. Tomorrow — we had a storm come through — so tomorrow, I will go from New York City to back home in the sticks outside of Charleston, South Carolina, and we had a storm come through, and a bunch of trees fell. So, I will be chainsawing some trees and making firewood and doing just very normal, yeah, just some dirty work." Lake said that will "do more for my heart and my head than a lot of things out there. And it's just crazy how simple. I mean, there's doctors prescribing people with depression time in the woods instead of pills, like time in nature. And I think God made it that way for a reason, made us that way, for reasons where it's, man, just being by the creek will revive you." "No one has just encouraged me more than him and just being like, 'Dude, you've got what it's, what it takes.' And I've stepped on some really scary stages in the past few months, and he's just believed in me every step of the way. And it's just been, it's been incredible." "King of Hearts" is out now.
Axios
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Axios
Juneteenth, Buckeye Country Superfest and other Columbus weekend events
🎲 Roll into the weekend at the Origins Game Fair, a tabletop gaming convention celebrating its 50th anniversary. Event schedule. Wednesday-Sunday. $15-50 daily. Kids under 13 free! ⚾ Buy some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and watch the Clippers take on the Indianapolis Bats. 7:05pm Wednesday, 12:05pm Thursday, 7:05pm Friday-Saturday and 1:05pm Sunday. $10-32. Promotions schedule, including zoo day on Sunday. 🤖 Watch "The Wild Robot" during Bexley's first Main Event of the year, featuring food trucks, live music and kids activities. 6pm Friday, East Main Street and College Avenue. Movie starts at 9pm. Free! ✊ Celebrate Juneteenth during the annual Juneteenth Ohio Festival on the downtown riverfront. Noon-11pm Saturday-Sunday. Free noon-3pm, then $20. 🤠 Giddy-up to Buckeye Country Superfest at Ohio Stadium starring Jelly Roll and Kane Brown. 🎵 Yes Indeed — see Lil Baby's WHAM World Tour stop at Nationwide Arena. 7pm Saturday. $65-221.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ZVIA Q1 Earnings Call: Productivity Initiatives and Distribution Expansion Take Center Stage
Beverage company Zevia (NYSE:ZVIA) reported Q1 CY2025 results topping the market's revenue expectations , but sales fell by 2% year on year to $38.02 million. The company expects the full year's revenue to be around $160.5 million, close to analysts' estimates. Its non-GAAP loss of $0.04 per share was 59.8% above analysts' consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy ZVIA? Find out in our full research report (it's free). Revenue: $38.02 million vs analyst estimates of $37.38 million (2% year-on-year decline, 1.7% beat) Adjusted EBITDA: -$3.27 million vs analyst estimates of -$5.9 million (-8.6% margin, 44.6% beat) The company reconfirmed its revenue guidance for the full year of $160.5 million at the midpoint EBITDA guidance for the full year is -$9.5 million at the midpoint, above analyst estimates of -$10.11 million Operating Margin: -16.8%, up from -18.8% in the same quarter last year Market Capitalization: $168.5 million Zevia's first quarter results were shaped by ongoing efforts to streamline operations and expand brand reach in a highly competitive beverage landscape. CEO Amy Taylor pointed to cost savings from the company's productivity initiative as a key enabler, allowing increased marketing and innovation investment despite a year-over-year sales decline. Taylor explained, 'Our productivity initiative continues to deliver cost savings that fuel investment into building our brand while moving us closer to profitability.' The quarter also featured a sharpened marketing approach—highlighted by a high-profile campaign with artist Jelly Roll—and distribution gains across major retailers like Walmart and Walgreens. While sales dipped, management emphasized improved gross margin and operational efficiencies as foundational to future growth. Looking ahead, Zevia's guidance for the remainder of the year is underpinned by expectations of continued progress along its strategic growth pillars—marketing, product innovation, and distribution. Taylor noted that increased brand awareness and new product launches are expected to drive performance in the second half of the year, with expanded visibility at major retailers and convenience channels. Management acknowledged that tariffs and an uncertain consumer environment present headwinds, but CFO Girish Satya stated, 'We continue to find opportunities to streamline our operations and drive efficiencies in order to offset impending tariff costs.' The company expects stronger seasonal sales in upcoming quarters as new flavors and variety packs roll out, supported by ongoing cost control and targeted pricing strategies. Management attributed the quarter's results to operational cost savings, increased marketing investment, and new retail partnerships. They highlighted progress in brand awareness and product development as drivers of performance. Marketing campaign reach: Zevia's new advertising campaign featuring artist Jelly Roll generated a record 2.4 billion earned impressions, aiming to broaden appeal and raise brand awareness with both paid and organic media across multiple channels. Product innovation pipeline: The company introduced new flavors—such as Strawberry Lemon Burst and Orange Creamsicle—along with reformulations for a more sugar-like taste, targeting consumer demand for better-for-you sodas. Early sales of new flavors, particularly Strawberry Lemon Burst, were described as encouraging. Retail distribution expansion: Zevia expanded its presence in Walmart to national coverage, launched additional placements in Albertsons, and secured new listings in nearly 8,000 Walgreens stores. The company also advanced its direct store delivery (DSD) strategy in regional convenience stores, with a focus on single-serve cans. Cost efficiencies drive investment: Productivity initiatives—including supply chain improvements and reduced selling expenses—enabled higher marketing spend and supported record gross margin of over 50%, despite increased promotional activity. Tariff and cost headwinds: Management noted that aluminum tariffs and related supply chain pressures represent a roughly 200 basis point headwind to gross margin but expressed confidence in offsetting these impacts through ongoing cost savings and price pack adjustments. Zevia's outlook centers on leveraging distribution gains, product innovation, and marketing to offset cost headwinds and expand its consumer base. Seasonal sales momentum: Management expects higher sales volume in Q2 and Q3, aligning with historical seasonality and the impact of new product launches and expanded distribution in major retailers and convenience channels. Mitigating tariff impact: The company anticipates continued cost pressures from aluminum tariffs and transportation, but plans to counteract these with further productivity efforts, selective price pack architecture changes, and sourcing adjustments to sustain gross margins in the upper 40% range. Focus on brand building: Zevia plans to maintain elevated marketing investments to drive household penetration and trial, with ongoing measurement through brand health tracking and retailer-level attribution models. Management believes these efforts will gradually translate into broader consumer adoption and sales growth despite the challenging macro environment. In the coming quarters, the StockStory team will monitor (1) the effectiveness of new product launches and marketing campaigns in translating to sales growth; (2) Zevia's execution on expanding distribution—especially in Walgreens, convenience, and DSD channels; and (3) the company's ability to sustain gross margin improvements while navigating tariff and promotional pressures. Continued progress on household penetration and retailer sell-through rates will also be critical signposts for long-term growth. Zevia currently trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 1.2×. Should you double down or take your chips? 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