Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been an adventurous eater. Now, he’s taking his taste buds on tour.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services has launched The Real Food Show in an effort to show Americans “how you can eat the highest-quality food in this country at a very, very affordable price.” In it, Kennedy travels across America, “connecting with renowned chefs” and cooking.

The YouTube show is part of RFK Jr.‘s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign, which in January saw HHS invert its long-touted Food Pyramid. The new paradigm promotes whole & unprocessed foods, proteins and healthy fats. The initiative puts red meat, chicken, cheese, vegetables and fruits at the top and grains like bread, cereal, rice and pasta at the bottom.

Lately, it sounds like the secretary is sticking close to the top of the new pyramid and eschewing selections from the bottom.

“I am on a carnivore diet. I only eat meat or fermented foods,” Kennedy told USA Today in January. Ferments include yogurt, kimchi sauerkraut and beer.

Kennedy has long espoused alternative eating styles. His presidential campaign in 2024 brought the revelation that he once had a brain-eating worm that may have come from consuming undercooked meat on an overseas trip. He also admitted that in 2014 he placed a roadkill bear cub in his car, intending to eat it. He later placed the carcass in Central Park, a stunt he thought would be “amusing” but instead prompted days of headlines and widespread concern over the mysterious origins and grisly demise of the animal. That same year, Kennedy revealed that eating such meats was a common practice for him. “I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life,” he said, before adding that he owns a “freezer full of it.”

In his recent speech at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, President Trump had some fun with Kennedy’s roadkill history.

“I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloin,” said Trump. “Very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow in his car.”

On the premiere episode of The Real Food Show, the secretary is joined by chef Andrew Gruel “to demonstrate that cooking with real, whole-food ingredients can be healthy, delicious, and affordable.” Gruel and Kennedy prepare crispy salmon cakes with apple, white bean & greens salad using “everyday ingredients that fit almost any budget.”

You can watch below.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central, long one of stand-up’s most important institutional launchpads, is returning to talent incubation with the launch of Comedy Central Stand-Up Selects, a new series of short sets from 14 comics that will tape in August and launch exclusively on the Comedy Central Stand-Up YouTube channel this fall.

Following up Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring, the digital short-form series that kicked off in the 2010s, Comedy Central Stand-Up Selects‘ inaugural edition will feature stand-up from both newer and more established talent: Adam Ray, Daniela Inés Calvo, Fumi Abe, Ian Edwards, Jay Jurden, Jeremiah Watkins, Jessie “Jetski” Johnson, Joey Cerone, Katherine Blanford, Leslie Liao, Mandal, Ryan Goodcase, Sammy Mowrey, and Skyler Higley.

The series is being produced in partnership with Hoff Studios. Tickets to tapings can be secured here.

Building on Comedy Central’s legacy of championing emerging comedians, while reestablishing the brand as a producer in the digital space, Stand-Up Selects is the latest in a long line of stand-up showcase formats from Comedy Central, which has been more or less dormant as a champion of new stand-up for some time, as live stand-up comedy company Don’t Tell Comedy has taken over the emerging stand-up scene.

Comedy Central became one of TV’s most reliable stand-up farm systems beginning in the 1990s, implementing a mix of showcases, half-hours, roasts, late-night blocks and festival tie-ins to elevate the medium. In the process, they helped launch or accelerate the careers of everyone from Dave Chappelle and Amy Schumer to Kevin Hart, Ali Wong, Hannibal Buress and many others.

Comedy Central gave a vast generation of rising headliners their first half-hour televised solo special with formats like Comedy Central Presents before transitioning to the likes of Stand-Up Featuring, which featured tighter sets from emerging and mid-career comics, built for the internet age. Generating over 143M views to date across social platforms, Stand-Up Selects‘ predecessor, Stand-Up Featuring, showcased more than 200 comics, providing them with a nice calling card and career stepping stone that is more difficult to come by these days.

While Comedy Central has been missed in the last decade so as a go-to destination for new stand-up — with the rise of Netflix and YouTube specials and the proliferation of unrelated comedic social media content — what the Stand-Up Selects launch represents for Comedy Central as a whole, post-Paramount/Skydance merger, is not yet clear.

Allison Berg’s queer-tastic new documentary, “Time Warp,” boasts an impressive pedigree of executive producers: Josh Gad, Billy Porter, and John Cameron Mitchell among them. They’ve likely all at one point touched the cultural third rail that is “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the exuberantly, unapologetically queer even before we had the words to say it rock-opera musical in which so many film fans and LGBTQ audiences have seen their authentic selves. Or at least the versions they can’t put to words when they’re living in, say, Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Enter the Starling Company, led by charismatic nonbinary drag performer Kenny Starling, to bring Jim Sharman’s film and Richard O’Brien’s source-material musical flagrantly, brazenly back into the local consciousness. In Berg’s earnestly told, sprawlingly ensembled documentary, Starling’s troupe of queer and straight folks of all ages mount an inaugural local production in 2022, with a diverse cast of characters worthy of the humor and heart of a Christopher Guest mockumentary. While this Tribeca Festival premiere — which has gone on to play numerous queer film festivals from Frameline to Outfest — runs a bit long and feels narratively rangy, it’s worth celebrating for how joyfully those involved express themselves. Especially the youngsters.

“Queer joy,” as Starling points out, isn’t all rainbows: It comes from an often terrorized, even animal state when sexuality is stifled by policy. Wyoming, as “Time Warp” underlines, unfortunately hosts an alarming suicide rate, especially among young people. And it isn’t hard to guess why. Rock Springs, meanwhile, isn’t far from Laramie, where Matthew Shepard became the casualty of a hate crime in 1998, and the poster boy for a movement that, in the grand scheme, is still only finding its footing.

The South Carolina-born Starling is mounting a local-theater production of “Rocky Horror” with a troupe of thespians — several of the youngest whose parents don’t know their involvement — at the 350-seat Broadway Theater. Starling details their own struggles with identity, pitching them more broadly to an alternately curious and wary city council that is attempting censorship on the project, which will put the drag-forward aesthetic of “Rocky Horror” front and center for a community not exactly accustomed to such gender-bending forms of political expression. They’re up against the likes of a Trump-supporting veteran staging a “First Amendment” protest outside the theater, who is nonplussed as to what to say about the suicide rates in Wyoming.

Some are more comfortable than others with staging the show, like high schoolers Bones and Megan, best friends who have grounded heads on their shoulders about how they’ve been ostracized by their broader communities. Other members of the cast are older, and have a more generational tie to what “Rocky Horror” means in queer culture — and why it’s still on drag stages and in repertory theaters to this day. But what’s most heartening is how “Time Warp” shows the locals rallying around the production, including at a drag-centric promotional performance near a casino in which Starling takes the stage in all their powdered- and glammed-up glory.

Berg previously shined a light on a queer emblem in her documentary “The Dog” about John Wojtowicz, the man who inspired “Dog Day Afternoon” (and most recently a Broadway show), and who robbed a Brooklyn bank to try and pay for his partner’s gender confirmation surgery. “Time Warp” carries an even more timely political message about discrimination, especially in light of right-wing movements that oppose the freedom of existence of queer people like the ones in this film.

At nearly 100 minutes, “Time Warp” could’ve used more editorial discipline, as the actors and their plights get lost in a shuffle of an ensemble. I suspect that running time had to do with not wanting to part ways with meaningful footage of the subjects, who all deserve a piece of the story. The footage of the actual inaugural “Rocky Horror” performance buckles a bit under draggy asides. But for those keen on hope in times like these, “Time Warp” is a vital story told with warmth and wit, with subjects who likely didn’t need a camera to turn on their charisma.

Grade: B

“Time Warp” premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Festival before playing Frameline and Outfest. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution.