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Minecraft Movie Block Party Showings: You Can Sing, but Don’t Throw Popcorn
Jack Black himself implores audiences of the movie juggernaut to avoid throwing popcorn as special new screenings are announced.
‘False narrative’: Bill Belichick breaks silence, torches CBS for deceptively editing interview with 24-year-old girlfriend
PALM BEACH, Florida – Bill Belichick, the legendary NFL football coach who now at age 73 leads the North Carolina Tar Heels, is breaking his silence about a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview in which his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson shut down a question about how the two met.
“We’re not talking about that,” Hudson could be heard telling Belichick during the segment which has since gone viral to fascinate America.
NEW: Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson interjects & shuts down a question during the middle of an interview on CBS.
This is wild.
Hudson reportedly interrupted multiple times.
Interviewer to Belichick: “How did you guys meet?”
Hudson from across the room:… pic.twitter.com/qsVNRBLPGE
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 27, 2025
On Wednesday, Belichick accused CBS of selective editing “to suggest a false narrative – that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation – which is simply not true.”
The coach has now issued a statement indicating: “I agreed to speak with ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ to promote my new book, ‘The Art of Winning – Lessons from My Life in Football.’
“Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book.
“Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview. I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation centered on the book.
REPORT: Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson stormed out of his CBS interview at one point and expected him to follow, according to TMZ Sports.
The couple went viral over the weekend when Hudson interrupted Belichick’s interview.
The outlet says Hudson even… pic.twitter.com/csphAAX3WR
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 29, 2025
Belichick continued: “After this occurred several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point to help focus the discussion. She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track. Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met, but we have been open about the fact that Jordon and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021.
“The final eight-minute segment does not reflect the productive 35-minute conversation we had, which covered a wide range of topics related to my career. Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from just a few minutes of the interview to suggest a false narrative – that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation – which is simply not true.”
Discussion about the interview has sparked a frenzy of comedic reaction.
The Babylon Bee on Wednesday posted a satire article with the headline: “Bill Belichick puts girlfriend in pack ‘n play until practice is over.”
“That’s it, sweetie, you just stay here and play while I go coach the football men, ok?” Belichick was heard telling his girlfriend, according to the spoof. “You’ve got your sippy cup and your Veggie Straws here, and I brought some of your favorite toys. Just play nice while your Billy-Bill goes to practice, alright?”
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld clowned that he understood why the pair does not want to give details about their initial meeting.
“I get it,” Gutfeld said. “It’s not sexy admitting that they met when she was at his front door selling boxes of Thin Mints.”
Here are @EmilyCompagno @PlanetTyrus @KevinOLearyTV @TheLoftusParty and @GregGutfeld talking about former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s interview with CBS News. pic.twitter.com/cg3OzWT5Dw
— Andrew Wimsatt (@ajwimsatt) April 29, 2025
During the same broadcast, former wrestling star and now Fox News contributor Tyrus said of Belichick: “He will no longer be remembered as a great football coach. He will go down as one of the dumbest people ever to put on a pair of shoes.
“It was a cry for help. He looked like he was about to cry during the entire interview, with Satan off to the right … like he is being blackmailed.”
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‘PUBLIC’ TV Watch: PBS News Hour Reserves ‘Controversial’ Label for Trump and His Team
The word “controversial” is often a word used to signal to viewers that someone is politically radioactive. So naturally, the liberal minds in “public” broadcasting must use it in a tilted way.
To see if there was a biased trend, a Nexis search of PBS News Hour transcripts from November 1, 2024 through April 20, 2025 showed the adjective “controversial” was almost completely reserved for Donald Trump and his cabinet appointees in statements by PBS journalists. (We did not include a few uses of the word by guests.)
In 54 uses of the C-word on PBS in this study period, 45 of them (83 percent) were applied to Team Trump or the Republicans. For Democrats, President Biden drew one “controversial” on January 3 for his decision to block Nippon Steel’s attempt to buy US Steel – a position he shared with Trump! That’s 45 to 1. Put an asterisk on the 1.
Two other uses were about conservatism: New Zealand’s “most conservative” government was allegedly “rolling back” policies to aid the Maori minority, and Colorado banned “conversion therapy” to curb homosexual identity.
On the January 30 edition of News Hour on January 30 of this year used the C-word four times. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz opened the show: “President Trump’s controversial picks to head national intelligence, the FBI, and Health Department all face tough questions in their confirmation hearings.”
A few minutes later, reporter Laura Barron-Lopez hit the mark again: “In another hearing room this morning, the fate of another controversial pick, Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to head the FBI.”
Co-anchor Geoff Bennett then talked to congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins about a RFK Jr. hearing: “And there was another controversial moment today that centered on 9/11 and conspiracy theories? Tell us about that.” He then summarized with her: “So these three nominees today, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, controversial by any normal standard, but we’re not living in normal political times. I mean, will they have the votes?” They did.
So we decided to match that with PBS coverage of the incoming Biden administration four years ago, from November 2020 to April 20, 2021. Maybe the trend went in the opposite direction? No. There were only 17 uses of “controversial” in those transcripts. But even then, 10 of the 17 (59 percent) were applied to Trump or his team.
By contrast, Democrats had two. It was 10 to 2. There was one “controversial” for Neera Tanden on February 22, 2021 as her nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget began to crumble. Then on April 16, 2021, Jonathan Capehart said President Biden set a deadline for withdrawing for Afghanistan, which is “very controversial,” but Capehart added, “I give him credit for making a very tough decision.”
Back then, Trump drew two “controversials” on PBS for his pardons. In 2025, Biden’s pardons were not “controversial.”
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Meta Soars After Blowing Away Estimates, Hikes Capex Forecast
Meta Soars After Blowing Away Estimates, Hikes Capex Forecast
In our preview of META’s Q1 results this afternoon (ahead of which Goldman’s desk had positioning as a 7 out of 10), we said that it feels like centuries ago that META had that 20-day winning streak in Jan/Feb with the name now nearly 30% below YTD highs, which put tactical positioning in cleaner spot into today’s print relative to recent META prints (bear case focused on macro/tariff-related risks to Revenues vs elevated capex/expense burdens). Well, the bulls can exhale because the results which META just reported will give them another taste of what that meltup felt lik, because the stock is surging 5% on a big top and bottom line beat, coupled with an increase to the capex guidance.
Here is are the blowout results which META reported for Q1:
- EPS $6.43 vs. $4.71 y/y, beating estimate $5.25
- Revenue $42.31 billion, +16% y/y, beating estimate $41.38 billion
- Advertising rev. $41.39 billion, +16% y/y, beating estimate $40.55 billion
- Family of Apps revenue $41.90 billion, +16% y/y, beating estimate $40.89 billion
- Reality Labs revenue $412 million, -6.4% y/y, missing estimate $496 million
- Other revenue $510 million, +34% y/y, beating estimate $498.6 million
- Operating income $17.56 billion, +27% y/y, beating estimates of $15.52 billion
- Family of Apps operating income $21.77 billion, +23% y/y, beating estimates of $20.04 billion
- Reality Labs operating loss $4.21 billion, +9.5% y/y, above the estimated loss $4.54 billion
- Operating margin 41% vs. 38% y/y, beating estimate 37.5%
- Ad impressions +5% vs. +20% y/y, missing estimates of +6.87%
- Average price per ad +10% vs. +6% y/y, beating estimates of +6.75%
- Average Family service users per day 3.43 billion, +5.9% y/y, beating estimates of 3.33 billion
Here are some of the key charts from the quarter, starting with Revenue by geography:
EPS:
Segment results:
Expenses continued to shrink:
Users are growing…
… as is revenue per user
Meta needs its advertising business to continue growing in order to fund an expensive expansion in artificial intelligence, which is driving the future of the business through improvements to ads, algorithms and personalization. Sure enough, the guidance was solid, if harldy stellar:
- For Q2, META expects revenue to be in the range of $42.5-45.5 billion, in line with the estimate of $44.1 billion.
- For the full year, META expects total expenses to be in the range of $113-118 billion, down from the prior outlook of $114-119 billion.
But perhaps most important, at a time when everyone was freaking out about sliding capex, Meta boosted its capex forecast, and now sees it be in the range of $64-72 billion, increased from our prior outlook of $60-65 billion.
This updated outlook “reflects additional data center investments to support our artificial intelligence efforts as well as an increase in the expected cost of infrastructure hardware. The majority of our capital expenditures in 2025 will continue to be directed to our core business.“
This is important because while META once again missed on its actual capex, spending $12.94BN on property and equipment in Q1, well below the $14.239BN expected…
… the company is once again hockeysitcking its capex forecast, and is clearly backloading spending in the second half of the year, when at least according to most nevertrumper eceonomists, the US will be in a deep recession.
In response to the blowout earnings, shares rose as much as 5.6% in after-hours trading, after closing at $549. Meta stock was down more than 6% year-to-date before the company reported earnings, still performing better than most of America’s biggest technology companies amid the recent market selloff.
The full META presentation is below (pdf link).
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Meta Platforms’ shares rise as revenue beats forecasts on boost from AI tools
The results come as Meta faces a high-stakes trial in Washington, in which the Federal Trade Commission is seeking to unwind the company’s acquisitions of prized assets Instagram and WhatsApp.
Crypto Rebounds From Early Declines Alongside Reversal in U.S. Stocks
There was a bit of volatility in crypto on Wednesday, but most of the market continued the weeks’ trend of trading in a very tight range.
Shortly after the close of the U.S. stock market, bitcoin (BTC) was changing hands at $94,700, down just 0.4% over the past 24 hours. BTC was lower by nearly 2% at one point alongside a sizable early decline in stocks.
Hit harder during the early decline, altcoins also rebounded, but underperformed bitcoin The CoinDesk 20 slumped 2% in the last 24 hours, with litecoin (LTC), ripple (XRP), avalanche (AVAX) and chainlink (LINK) all dropping roughly 4%.
Crypto equities were modestly lower, but bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT) was a notable underperformer, falling 5.7%.
The major U.S. stock averages tumbled 2% or more early in the session following less than stellar economic news. They retook ground throughout the day though, with the S&P 500 closing slightly in the green and the Nasdaq dipping just 0.1%.
The continuing string of lame economic data, however, has not seemed to deter U.S. President Trump from his tariff policies.
“Somebody said all the shelves are going to be open,” Trump said early Wednesday. “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. … They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which we don’t need.”
Robinhood Tops Q1 Earnings Estimates, Boosts Buyback Authorization by $500M
Robinhood (HOOD) topped tempered analyst estimates in the first quarter of 2025, reporting adjusted earnings per share of $0.37 against forecasts for $0.33.
The popular trading platform reported $927 million in total revenue, down from $1 billion in the fourth-quarter, but beating Street expectations of $920.1 million. Crypto-related revenue was $252 million, up 100% from year-ago levels.
Transaction-based revenue of $583 million slipped 13% from $672 million in the fourth quarter.
Robinhood had seen explosive numbers in the fourth quarter, in part thanks to a surge in crypto trading amid euphoria stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump’s presidential win. But the froth in crypto and traditional markets quickly reversed following Trump’s inauguration.
The company added $500 million to its existing $1 billion share repurchase program. To date, HOOD has bought back $667 million, leaving another$833 million under the authorization.
Robinhood’s monthly crypto volumes have historically shown high correlation with Coinbase’s (COIN) retail volumes, but Barclays analyst Benjamin Buddish believes the COIN will have seen a less meaningful decline in trading volumes in the first quarter.
Coinbase is reporting earnings on May 8 and is expected to post a slight decline in revenue to $2.1 billion from $2.27 billion in the previous quarter, while exchange volume is expected to have dropped to $403.8 from $439 billion, according to analysts at FactSet.
HOOD shares are down 2.2% in after hours action.