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Pokémon Day 2026 is upon us, and it’s a special one.

This year’s celebration marks the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and plenty of Pokémon fans have been gearing up by watching out for the latest news on their favorite pocket monsters, along with stalking websites for deals on Pokémon product, of which there are many. One such deal that has gone viral is on a Pokémon Trading Card Game available at Walmart. The Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box is 11% off, just $133.95 now, and comes with everything aspiring trainers need to grow their card collection and battle against other trainers.

The box comes with nine Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes booster packs — that’s randomized card packs — along with one full-art foil promo card featuring N’s Zekrom
65 card sleeves, 40 Pokémon TCG Energy cards, a player’s guide to the Mega Evolution-Ascended Heroes expansion for new and returning players, six damage-counter dice and one competition-legal coin-flip die. With your purchase, you’ll also get a collector’s box to hold everything with six dividers to keep your box organized and a code card for Pokémon Trading Card Game Live which is  a free-to-play, digital, turn-based card game available on PC, Mac and mobile.

Pokémon’s battling system is pretty in-depth. The basics for new players are quite simple: Two players use a 60-card deck to knock out six of your opponent’s Pokémon to win, collecting a Prize card each time you defeat one. Players will take turns attaching Energy to Pokémon, evolving them to stronger forms and using Trainer cards to attack with the goal of taking all six Prize cards first. To set up a game, each player starts with seven cards and places six cards face-down as Prize cards. You place one Basic Pokémon in the “Active” spot and up to five on your “Bench” to call in later. Pokémon’s official website has an in-depth guide on how to play.

While a lot of people collect to play against others, many also collect to trade or sell cards at shows and conventions. In the sleeves or booster packs seen in this trading card game, you’ll get random cards that may include rare cards identified by specific symbols such as stars, gold stars or numbering higher than the set total. They might also have unique features such as holographic foils or special artwork.

Recently, Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary with the help of musicians such as Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK’s JISOO in a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. In the commercial, Gaga and JISOO shared their favorite Pokémon — Jigglypuff and Eevee, respectively.

Teyana Taylor knows from hot food. But the Oscar-nominated One Battle After Another star and admitted foodie wasn’t foolish enough to save the hard questions for the end, so she asked Hot Ones host Sean Evans to front-load the “deep” questions before things fall apart. “I’m a spicy food girl. I love spicy,” the Golden Globe-winning singer/actress/dancer said confidently on the latest episode of the chat-and-sweat web series. “I just don’t know what you planted in these wings. So I’m, like, cautious, you know, alert.”

Evans, who notoriously does his homework, hit Taylor with a question off the top about her decision to enroll in the prestigious Escoffier School of Culinary Arts last year, where she’s pursuing a degree in pastry and culinary, wondering what her dream restaurant would look like. Taylor pictured a retro servers-on-skate diner vibe with banquettes shaped like 1950s cars, with leather chef’s jackets. “It’s gonna be something cute,” she said, already picturing the merch.

Four wings in, Taylor bit into the first truly hot wing, a Smokin’ Dragon sauce that led to a question about her most heated dance battle. “I think my most intense battle was in, like, third grade,” she said of the showdown that took place at recess with no music. “And I just, I remember we just got it, we got it popping. We had to like, I don’t even know what was playing,” she recalled.

Taylor also weighed in on keeping her cool on stage when things go wrong, such as embracing her wig flying off and whipping it around her head, the proper form for double-dutching and having patience in Hollywood. “I just learned that there’s always something bigger in store for you,” she said. “So even when you get that no, understanding that that no is also a win. And I think that patience is a part of knowing what’s for you and what’s not.”

The “Maybe” singer was starting to feel it by the time she bit into a wing covered in “Da Bomb” (135,600 Scoville level). “Baby, I need you to stop asking me questions right now, let’s take a beat,” she said as she got close to the finish line and tried to answer a question for a 2020 Billboard interview in which she said R&B music is the “realest b–ch” in the world.

Taking a sip of milk and then cranberry juice, she explained, “no stone is left unturned in R&B. You get to be your most vulnerable,” as she joined Evans in chewing ice to alleviate the pain. “You shoulda asked me all the cute questions up top,” she said. “I had all the answers in the world earlier. I was spitting bars. Now it’s just getting a little… crazy.”

The chat ended with Taylor trying to keep her cool while rhapsodizing about her love for the classic 1990 Julia Roberts/Richard Gere romcom Pretty Woman. “I love the idea of fairytales as well. And I just love love,” she said. “Julia Roberts is like my favorite person in the whole wide world. And it was just my favorite. I had the biggest crush on Richard Gere … it’s one of my favorite films.”

Watch Teyana Taylor on Hot Ones below.

Dave Grohl is a proud dad. In a new interview, the Foo Fighters rocker raved all about his daughter Violet Grohl’s debut album, which he says she made entirely on her own without any help from him.

In a conversation with his bandmates on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X posted Wednesday (Feb. 25), Dave recalled learning that his child had created an LP and signed a record deal all by herself. “So Violet, my daughter — she’s 19, about to turn 20 — she made this album with a producer named Justin Raisen, and she did it on her own,” he gushed.

“She met the producer, and they would go to the studio every day and make songs, and she would send me songs when she was finished,” he continued. “But I had absolutely nothing to do with this record at all. I had no idea.”

Noting that he “knew that she was looking to sign a record deal,” Dave added that he was still in disbelief when Violet informed him that she had, in fact, done just that. “She was like, ‘Hey, Dad, can I come over for dinner tonight?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, sure. What do you want me to make?'” he shared. “And she came over and told me, ‘I signed my record deal today.’ Like, oh my God. I’m totally uninvolved, and I’m like the dad that wants to be there and know everything, and she’s just totally doing her own thing.”

The Nirvana alum shares Violet — who inked a deal with Republic Records in January — with his wife, director Jordyn Blum, with whom he also has two younger daughters. Grohl is the father of a fourth child as well, admitting in September 2024 that he’d welcomed a baby “outside of my marriage.” (He added at the time that he planned on being a “loving and supportive parent” to the child while working to regain his family’s trust and “earn their forgiveness.”)

The interview comes as the Foo Fighters are gearing up to release new album Your Favorite Toy in April, marking the band’s first LP since 2023’s But Here We Are, which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. But according to Dave, one of the reasons why he felt motivated to get back in the studio with his own band was Violet, who released debut single “Nausea” in 2021 followed by tracks “THUM” and “Applefish” this past January.

“[Her] record is amazing — she is so incredibly talented,” he said. “It really inspired me to make this one. It really did.”

Watch the band’s full interview below.