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July 4 weekend is almost here, and a record-setting number of people are expected to travel over the next few days.

According to AAA, more than 72 million people will travel over the week of the Fourth of July, with top flying destinations including Seattle, Orlando, Anchorage, New York City and Miami.

If you’re flying out of the last city on that list, you might be in for some issues. A new study from Air Advisor, the air travel compensation firm, indicates Miami International Airport experienced “the highest rate of delayed flight departures” between July 1-7, 2025, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

The 10 airports with the most delayed departures between July 1-7, 2025

1. Miami International – 40.4%
2. Dallas-Fort Worth International – 36.6%
3. Orlando International – 35%
4. Denver International – 34.4%
5. La Guardia – 32.9%
6. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International – 32.3%
7. Harry Reid International – 32.2%
8. Chicago O’Hare International – 31.1%
9. Charlotte Douglas International – 30.4%
10. Newark Liberty International/Houston Bush Intercontinental – 30.1%

It should be noted that BTS considers a flight delayed when it takes off more than 15 minutes later than its scheduled departure time. 

Not just July 4 travelers have to worry about

Auto Advisor CEO Anton Radchenko warns that air travel issues won’t just end after July 4; Americans should be prepared for problems to linger into early next week.

“While the run up to Independence Day is often associated with frantic travel plans, last year, it was actually the days that followed the holiday where delays peaked,” Radchenko said in a press release provided to Men’s Journal. “On July 6, 2025 as an example, an eye-watering 61 percent of flights from Miami International were delayed in a single day. At Dallas Fort-Worth, this figure stood at 58 percent, while on the 7th, 58.6 percent of services experienced delays at the Texas hub.

“If you are traveling for the Fourth of July and want to avoid delays, consider returning four or five days after July 4th, when disruption is less likely to occur than on the immediate days that follow the holiday.”

To kick off July, Pluto is adding more than 100 movies from every mainstream genre. Not all of those films were masterpieces; some, in fact, flopped at the box office and with critics.

American Outlaws is one of those movies. A 2001 Western starring Colin Farrell (as Jesse James), Scott Caan, Gabriel Macht and Ali Larter, the movie was a disaster by every conventional metric.

Audiences didn’t like it

Equipped with a reported budget of $35 million, American Outlaws grossed just over $13.6 million worldwide, an epic failure for Warner Bros. Discovery.

Currently on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 13% overall approval rating, and audience reviews are, for the most part, unkind.

Critics were even more harsh

American Outlaws has a score of 25 on Metacritic for “generally unfavorable” reviews from pundits. The Los Angeles Times gave the movie an 80 grade, but other critics were far less generous.

“For years there have been reports of the death of the Western. Now comes “American Outlaws,” proof that even the B Western is dead,” wrote Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star. “It only wants to be a bad movie, and fails. Imagine the cast of “American Pie” given a camera, lots of money, costumes and horses, and told to act serious and pretend to be cowboys, and this is what you might get.”

Robert Koehler of Varietyalso panned the movie, saying it “sadly symbolizes the decline of the Western.”

What other Westerns are coming to Pluto this month?

In an email provided to Men’s Journal, Pluto listed all Westerns under the Classics/Westerns combined category.

The following list is every movie the service is adding for those two genres:

• Blue Hawaii
• The Disorderly Orderly
• The Family Jewels
• Hatari!
• The Gambler (1974)
• Real Life (1979)
• Cinderfella
• Daisy Miller
• Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
• Lifeguard
• Murder On The Orient Express
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style
• Plaza Suite
• The Great Escape
• The Ballad Of Lefty Brown
• Ulysses
• The Producers
• Park Row
• Visit To A Small Planet
• First Cow
• Woman Walks Ahead
• Tom Sawyer (1973)
• Apache
• The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968)
• The Jackie Robinson Story

You can access the official Pluto TV website here.

Kevin Costner was Yellowstone‘s biggest star until his character was killed off midway through the show’s fifth and final season. Costner, 71, who played John Dutton, the family patriarch, had confirmed in 2024 he would not be returning to the show for its final episodes.

On the Sunday, June 28 episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan offered some rare comments on Costner’s decision to leave, saying that initially, the Dances with Wolves star was “only supposed to be in the first three seasons” of the hit neo-Western series.

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“That was in his contract. In my mind, that’s when his youngest son takes over [on the show]… But the network was so scared of not having Kevin be a part of it, even though Kevin was ready. He was ready to go,” Sheridan said, via PEOPLE. “He had other things he wanted to do but he stayed on for another two seasons.”

“And that was just because the show was such a behemoth. It was such a huge hit,” Sheridan added. “The notion of giving up a hit before it had run out of juice to squeeze is very foreign to a network. There was even pressure from some of the cable companies wanting to put it in their deals, that they were going to get an X number of seasons of Yellowstone to re-up what this cable company is. That’s the power of a really big hit show.”

An exit clouded in finger-pointing

Two years ago, when Costner officially exited the series, his departure came with a back-and-forth over whether the actor or Sheridan and his production team were to blame.

“My last conversation with Kevin was that he had this passion project [Horizon] he wanted to direct,” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter at the time. “He and the network were arguing about when he could be done with Yellowstone. I said, ‘We can certainly work a schedule toward [his preferred exit date],’ which we did.”

Costner, meanwhile, refuted reports that scheduling conflicts had anything to do with it.

“That’s not true,” he said. “That’s bulls–t. That’s a lie…They made the contract and they picked the days…They weren’t able to make those. Horizon was set in the middle, but Yellowstone was first position. I fit [Horizon] into the gaps. [Yellowstone] just kept moving their gaps…I left my movie to be on time for them for [season] 5B.”

Stefan Joubert of London Drum Institute named In the Air Tonight one of the most iconic drum solos of all time.

“You know the moment: the song builds up, the tension rises, and then – bam! – that iconic drum fill hits, and you can’t help but air-drum along. Phil Collins’ solo in In the Air Tonight is short but legendary,” he said.

“It’s the kind of drum break that’s so simple yet so powerful that it’s become a cultural moment all on its own.”

But there’s a slight problem with Joubert’s ranking. Collins’ iconic playing on the song isn’t the problem, but there’s more of a technicality at play as the “solo” on In the Air Tonight isn’t really a solo at all.

It’s a drum fill.

Phil Collins Settles Debate

While many view Collins’ work as one of the best drum solos in history, he previously admitted it’s just a fill.

“Although that fill has apparently become a trade mark of mine – it could have been anything. I didn’t sit down and think, ‘What would be the best drum fill to do?’ I just decided where I wanted the drums to come in, and sat down and just did that. There’s probably another take somewhere with me doing something totally different,” he said in a 1985 interview.

During the interview he also revealed how they got the sound for the recording, when he was playing on Peter Gabriel’s self-titled third album.

“I was playing around in the live room while Hugh the engineer was mucking around with some noise gates and compressors, and this drum sound started developing and I was hearing it through the headphones,” he said.

“I started playing with the sound and playing [the In the Air Tonight pattern]because that was the tempo being set by the gate’s cutting off. Pete [Gabriel] was in the control room and said that was great, ‘just do that for 10 minutes’. So I started playing the pattern. I knew it was good and I said to Pete afterwards, ‘If you don’t want it, I do’.”

Collins went on to create his biggest hit reaching No. 2 in the United Kingdom and No. 19 in the United States.

Related: 1953 Western Classic Among John Wayne’s Best – But He Was The Second Choice

John Wayne has one of the most expansive filmographies in Hollywood history, especially in the western universe, but one of The Duke’s personal favorites wasn’t at the top of his list because of awards, critical acclaim, or even the story itself.

Instead, Wayne loved Hatari! for a much more personal — and surprisingly funny — reason.

During a 1976 interview while promoting what would become his final film, The Shootist, Wayne was asked which of his own movies he considered his favorites. According to ScreenRant, he named three: Stagecoach, The Quiet Man and 1962’s Hatari!.

John Wayne’s Unexpected Reason

While the Hollywood legend cited success as one of the main reasons for choosing the other two, he really pulled back the curtain on his rationale regarding Hatari!.

“I like Hatari! because I had a three-month safari free,” Wayne joked.

Directed by Howard Hawks, Hatari! follows a group of professional wildlife catchers in Tanzania who capture wild animals for zoos around the world. Wayne stars as Sean Mercer, the experienced leader of the team, alongside an ensemble cast that includes Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain, Hardy Krüger and Red Buttons.

Unlike many of Wayne’s best-known films, Hatari! isn’t a traditional Western. Instead, it blends adventure, comedy and romance against the backdrop of the African wilderness.

More Than Just a Free Safari

Of course, Wayne’s affection for the film wasn’t only about getting an unforgettable trip.

The production became known for its ambitious wildlife sequences, many of which were filmed with real animals rather than relying on special effects. Audiences watched Wayne and his co-stars pursue rhinoceroses, giraffes, elephants and other wildlife across the African landscape, helping make Hatari! unlike anything else in the actor’s filmography.

The film also introduced one of cinema’s most recognizable instrumental themes, Henry Mancini’s “Baby Elephant Walk,” which remains popular more than 60 years after the movie’s release.

While Hatari! may not receive the same attention as True Grit, The Searchers or Rio Bravo, Wayne’s own comments reveal just how much the production meant to him.

Time to bust out your mouse ears—Disneyland trips are back on the menu, folks. The mega-popular amusement park is hosting a special summer sale, and tickets are cheaper than ever.

Starting on Sunday, July 12, you can purchase tickets for $59. That’s right; you can spend time in the Happiest Place on Earth for less than $100 (if you’re age 3 and up, of course). However, there are a handful of stipulations. For starters, the limited-time offer is only available Sunday through Wednesday.

It also only applies to certain hours of the day. Called an “Evening Ticket,” you can pay $59 to get into the park from 7 p.m. to close, which is at midnight during the summer. For Disneyland California Adventure, the Evening Ticket would get you in from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. You must have a reservation, and said ticket only applies to one park (sorry, no park hopping with this deal).

Normally, Disneyland tickets range from $104 to $224, and that’s without the additional fees for park hopping. It’s hard to deny that this is quite the money-saver.

Right now, Disneyland is celebrating its 70th anniversary with “Celebrate Happy,” which includes a cinematic presentation titled “Walt Disney – A Magical Life,” a new Tangled-themed miniature scene in the Storybook Land Canal Boats, a new exhibit at the Disney Gallery, the dazzling “World of Color – Happiness!” nighttime show, new additions to the It’s a Small World ride, and more.

You can now book your Evening Ticket reservations, starting on July 12 and through Wednesday, August 5, 2026, when the special summer sale ends.

Few things in life are better than watching something for free. (Well, doing anything for free, really.)

Thankfully, Tubi has loads of free content to help you endure the sweltering summer heat. It stands out from its streaming competitors because you’re not paying an arm and a leg to watch something that’ll inevitably get canceled after one season. The platform has officially released its lineup for July 2026, and folks, you’ll find that there’s something for everyone to watch in the coming month.

If you love comic book movies, Guillermo del Toro‘s Hellboy arrives on the streamer on July 1, just in time for the holiday. You can also treat yourself to an action-packed double-feature with 2007’s Transformers and its sequel, 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And if you’re a Pokémon fan, strap in on July 5 to binge-watch a whopping eight entries in the franchise as they join Tubi.

Here’s everything coming to Tubi in July 2026, from comedies to dramas to everything in between.

July 1:

“Chappelle’s Show” 

“Married With Children” (S8-9)

“Sliders”

“The Girlfriend Experience” (S1-3) 

“What I Like About You”

“Clear and Present Danger”

“Daylight”

“Free Fire”

“Furious 7”

“The Great Wall”

“Hellboy (2004)”

“Lucky Number Slevin”

“The Marine”

“Run All Night”

“Torque”

“Transformers”

“Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen”

“Transporter 3”

“Triple 9”

“Unstoppable”

“20th Century Women”

“American Honey”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Eternal Daughter”

“First Cow”

“Moonlight”

“Only Lovers Left Alive”

“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”

“The Souvenir”

“Zola”

“ATL”

“Barbershop (2002)”

“Barbershop 2: Back In Business”

“Barbershop: The Next Cut”

“Beauty Shop”

“How High”

“How High 2”

“I Got The Hook-Up”

“A Low Down Dirty Shame”

“Madea Goes to Jail”

“Norbit”

“The Nutty Professor”

“Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”

“Paper Soldiers”

“Roll Bounce”

“The Wash”

“30 Minutes or Less”

“Bad Teacher”

“Central Intelligence”

“Easy A”

“Guess Who”

“Idiocracy”

“The Machine (2023)”

“Miss Congeniality”

“Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous”

“Mississippi Grind”

“Never Goin’ Back”

“Shotgun Wedding”

“Stripes”

“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”

“What Men Want”

“The Wood”

“The Bling Ring”

“The Boys In The Boat”

“Burlesque”

“Civil War”

“Deepwater Horizon”

“The Doors”

“Easy Rider”

“The End of the Tour”

“A Ghost Story”

“The Imitation Game”

“The Iron Lady”

“Lean On Me”

“Lords Of Dogtown”

“The Sea of Trees”

“Soul Surfer”

“American Psycho”

“The Blackcoat’s Daughter”

“Deep Blue Sea”

“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”

“Exorcist II: The Heretic”

“Hostel: Part III”

“Insidious”

“Insidious: Chapter 2”

“Insidious: Chapter 3”

“Lamb”

“The Shallows”

“Vacancy (2007)”

“The Witch”

“The Addams Family (2019)”

“The Addams Family 2”

“Are We Done Yet?” 

“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”

“The Lego Batman Movie”

“Krypto: The Superdog”

“Radio”

“Shark Tale”

“Valiant”

“Meet Cute”

“Hot Summer Nights”

“Titanic”

“Demolition Man”

“Elysium”

“Ex Machina”

“The Fifth Element”

“The Green Knight”

“Hercules”

“High Life”

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”

“The Mortal Instruments”

“No One Will Save You”

“Paprika”

“Star Trek: The Motion Picture”

“Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan”

“Star Trek III: The Search For Spock”

“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”

“The Time Machine”

“Timeline”

“Under the Skin”

“Cut Bank”

“Dark Places”

“Enemy”

“Fresh”

“The Ghost And The Darkness”

“I Am Legend”

“The Impossible”

“Love Lies Bleeding”

“Mojave”

“Remember”

“Silver Star”

“Street Kings”

“Thelma & Louise”

“A Time To Kill”

“Woodshock”

“Ballad of Lefty Brown”

“Gunfight At The O.K. Corral”

“Last Train From Gun Hill”

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”

“McCabe & Mrs. Miller”

“Seraphim Falls”

“Wild Wild West”

“Woman Walks Ahead”

July 2:

“Babish Beats”

“Basics With Babish”

“Best With Babish”

“Binging With Babish”

“Cookin’ Somethin’”

“Life After Labor” (S2)

“With Babish”

“The Carpenter’s Son”

“Man Finds Tape”

July 3:

“Summer’s Last Resort” (Tubi Original)

July 5:

“Pokémon: Indigo League”

“Pokémon the Movie 2000”

“Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!”

“Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us”

“Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution”

“Pokémon: The First Movie”

“Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon S20–22”

“Pokémon the Series: The Beginning S1-2”

July 7:

“Paris and Pups”

July 10:

“The One Next Door” (Tubi Original)

July 15:

“Scott Kress Needs A Man” 

“Black Monday”

“Rules of Engagement”

“Startup” 

“Who’s The Boss”

“Snowden”

“The Real Ghostbusters” (Seasons 1-5)

July 16:

“House Rules”

“Fist Fight”

July 22:

“Dollhouse University” (S2 Reunion Special)

“Snowpiercer” (S4)

July 23:

“Date or Dip”

July 24:

“Drinking Buddies”

“The Double”

“Breaking Bear” Premiere (Tubi Original)

“I Know Where You Live” (Tubi Original)

July 26:

“Knox Goes Away”

July 30:

“Getting On”

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary this week, the Boston Tea Party might come to mind, as it was one of the events that jumpstarted the American Revolution.

Most Americans probably know the story of the angry American colonists who boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of British tea into the water in protest of taxation without representation.

However, there’s one aspect of the event that a lot of Americans probably get wrong: the type of tea.

Not Just Black Tea

When you’re imagining the iconic protest, you’re probably envisioning the colonists throwing black tea into Boston Harbor. However, according to Bruce Richardson, the Kentucky-based founder of Elmwood Inn Fine Teas, it was just as likely to be green tea.

Richardson told Fox News Digital that British subjects were “as likely to be drinking green tea as black tea, whether you were in Jane Austen [era] England … or you were in colonial Boston.”

Richardson, who is a tea historian who works as the tea master at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, said that there were actually five different types of tea thrown into the Boston Harbor – three of them were black, two were green.

“There were five teas, all from China, because that was the only country that was exporting tea,” Richardson said. “And of those five different teas, two of them were green and three of them were black.”

Why Black Tea Became More Popular

Obviously, black tea eventually won out in terms of popularity, as it is now viewed as the stereotypical English tea. However, the reason for this was not because of flavor, but storage.

All tea originally came from China, where it was grown. However, merchants eventually learned that black tea held up better and stayed fresher on the long voyage overseas, Richardson said.

“The green tea was what China had always drunk,” he said. “And so they were exporting that as well, but they found that the black tea actually made the voyage better than the green teas.”

But at the time of the Boston Tea Party, it would have been both black tea and green tea thrown into the harbor.

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms produced by the aircraft. However, it sounds like that could soon be changing.

On Tuesday, the Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced that regulators are moving toward allowing supersonic civilian flight over the country once again after advancements in technology have made it possible to limit the impacts of those sonic booms.

Supersonic Flights Banned Over Land

While commercial airliners typically fly between 550 and 600 miles per hour, supersonic flights travel at speeds at or above Mach 1, which is about 770 miles per hour or more. Obviously, flying at these speeds can drastically reduce travel times, but there has long been one major issue: sonic booms.

A sonic boom happens when an object moves through air faster than the speed of sound. As the object flies, it compresses air molecules into pressure waves. However, since the object is traveling faster than those waves can travel, the waves pile up into a single shockwave cone trailing behind it. When that shockwave passes over you, you hear it as one loud and sharp crack rather than a buildup like normal sound.

Obviously, these sonic booms would be quite disruptive to those on the ground, so the United States banned overland supersonic flight for civil aircraft back in 1973.

New Technology Makes it Possible

After more than 50 years, new technology has made it possible to mitigate the concerns with sonic booms.

A new flight technique called Mach cutoff uses the aircraft design, atmospheric conditions, speed, and altitude all in conjunction to make the sonic boom bend and refract up into the atmosphere, the FAA explained. Given that these techniques significantly reduce the ground-level impact, the FAA has determined that the restrictions are “an unnecessary restraint on the growth of the U.S. aviation sector.”

“Advances in aerospace engineering, materials science, noise reduction, and new operational concepts will eliminate the old sonic boom,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said in a statement on Tuesday. “This means we can ultimately repeal the ban from the 1970s on supersonic flight over U.S. territory while minimizing noise impacts to residents in communities along the route and near airports.”

As a result of this new technology, the FAA has proposed a rule that would open up continental supersonic flight for civilians once again, using a noise-based certification standard for supersonic aircraft rather than a blanket ban for any civilian aircraft traveling at Mach 1 or above. The agency also plans to propose another rule later this year covering landing and takeoff noise standards for supersonic aircraft.

These rules, which are expected to be finalized by 2027, would give aircraft manufacturers the guidance they need to finalize designs for aircraft that could be used commercially in the future.

While these rules would only cover domestic flights, the FAA is also working in conjunction with regulatory counterparts from around the world to develop rules that would allow supersonic aircraft to serve international flights over land, as well.

Over Two Decades Since The Concorde

While continental supersonic flight has been banned for over 50 years, it has been permitted over the sea, where the sonic booms would not be disruptive to people below. Still, commercial supersonic flight has been rare. In fact, it’s been over two decades since the most recent one.

The Concorde, flown by British Airways and Air France, was the first and only supersonic aircraft to enter regular commercial service. It began flying passengers in 1976, cruising at roughly Mach 2 — more than twice the speed of sound. The aircraft could cross the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, cutting a typical seven-hour flight nearly in half.

Despite the incredible speed, the Concorde never became a mainstream option due to notoriously expensive tickets, a small fleet, and high operating costs. Its decline was accelerated by a fatal crash in 2000 and a general lull in air travel after 9/11. British Airways and Air France retired their Concorde fleets in 2003, and there has not been a supersonic commercial flight since.

However, with these new FAA rules opening things up a bit, perhaps we will see some innovation in the commercial aviation industry that will bring the return of commercial supersonic flight.

In one of the more confusing booking decisions in recent memory, WWE decided to hold off on Oba Femi’s world championship match for SummerSlam 2026.

Femi won the King of the Ring tournament after defeating Jey Uso in the finals. The winner was supposed to receive a championship match at SummerSlam, but Femi instead accepted a Hell in a Cell match challenge from Brock Lesnar on Raw.

Before Femi vs. Lesnar was made official, many fans had hoped that Femi would face World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns at SummerSlam. This year’s pay-per-view will take place on the Aug. 1-2 weekend at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio (h/t Ringside News), Dave Meltzer explained that WWE wants to take its time in building up Femi as the next big thing. Meltzer indicated that WWE is saving Femi vs. Reigns for WrestleMania 43 next year.

“They could put Oba over Roman. They could’ve sat here and gone, ‘We’ve got to make a new star. Let’s put Oba over Roman Reigns at SummerSlam.’ They could’ve done it,” Meltzer said. “But their mentality is just that if he’s the guy, we want to make the guy…This is a weird thing. Before, if you wanted to make the guy, you figured out the right time to make the guy and did it.

“Now, you have to do it at WrestleMania because if it’s SummerSlam, it’s not strong enough. If it’s on a B pay-per-view…That is the mentality. You get him over. The idea is he’s an unbeatable monster, and we take our time to get to WrestleMania.”

Femi soundly defeated Lesnar at WrestleMania, but the latter evened their head-to-head series with a victory at Clash in Italy.

Roman Reigns Will Face Seth Rollins at SummerSlam

During this week’s episode of Raw, it was announced that Seth Rollins would challenge Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam 2026.

It remains to be seen what the WWE Championship match will be. Fans assumed a title showdown between Cody Rhodes and CM Punk, but Sami Zayn won the title in a triple threat match vs. Gunther and the American Nightmare at Night of Champions.