It happened in Utah over the weekend. A crew was enjoying their time in the beautiful, fresh powder when disaster struck. As you can see in the video below, all hell broke loose as a massive avalanche came crashing down on top of them.
After the snow took control, the snowmobiler was able to dig himself out. His little brother, who you can see in the video, was able to dig himself out as well. This is wild and we’re stoked they lived to tell their story. What’s your near death experience? Sound off on Facebook and let us know.
Look, us Midwesterners are built different. We like our hot dogs loaded, ours “opes”, and we tolerate the cold weather. Tolerating is not taking a dip in the frozen Lake Michigan water, like this woman did, however.
Who does this? Why would someone do something like this? What is wrong with her that compelled her to make this “Ice Lily Pad” video. This is the definition of “oh hell no!” or “Imma head out”. It’s insanity.
With regular temperatures flirting with zero and windchills falling to dangerously cold temperatures, it is important that we, as a community, look after our most vulnerable. That is what Jermaine Jordan, a local Chicago resident, is doing. Houseless Shelters are at a reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic so Jordan and his team are making sure that guests all around the city are given hot meals and warmth during this incredibly difficult time.
You can donate to Jordan’s cause here and you can read more information about how to aid in Chicago’s houseless epidemic here.
There’s a genius living in West Ridge. Adam Selzer is the man behind it. During the Polar Vortex two years ago, he began experimenting with ways to call “dibs” on parking spots and eventually landed on soaking a pair of jeans and then bringing them outside to freeze, as jeans can stand up when frozen. This is incredible.
The best part is that this is so Chicago. Have you seen anyone call dibs like this before? What’s the wildest thing that goes on in your neighborhood to secure a parking spot. Let us know on Facebook.
A 30-second ad during last night’s Super Bowl cost $5.5 MILLION . . . or about $183,000 per second. So were any of them worth all that coin?
Many of them were released early this year to milk as much exposure as possible, which seems like the norm now. Here’s a quick rundown of the highlights . . .
1. Timothée Chalamet was great as Edward Scissorhands’ son . . . Edgar Scissorhands . . . in a clever ad for Cadillac. Winona Ryder returned as her character from the movie, who’s now Edgar’s mom.
2. Matthew McConaughey delivered a very FLAT performance for Doritos 3D chips. The ad had a weird-looking, 2-D version of Matthew hanging out with Mindy Kaling and Jimmy Kimmel while “I Want to Break Free” by Queen played.
3. Dolly Parton reimagined her classic “9 to 5” song as “5 to 9” for Squarespace, encouraging everyone to keep hustling. So . . . 16-hour workdays, huh? Thanks, Squarespace. (Oscar winner Damien Chazelle directed both this one AND the McConaughey ad.)
4. The task marketplace Fiverr poked fun at the “Four Seasons Total Landscaping” debacle. (You know, Rudy Giuliani . . .) Their ad talked about how you can find all sorts of freelancers on there . . . even a PR expert if you need help booking a last-minute press conference.
5. John Cena’s ad for Mountain Dew’s new Major Melon flavor promised $1 million to the first person who could Tweet out the exact number of Mountain Dew bottles in the ad. (Last we checked, they hadn’t announced a winner yet.)
6. Drake played an insurance agent in an ad for State Farm. Or technically, the STAND-IN for an insurance agent. Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, and Paul Rudd were in it too.
7. If you blinked, you might have missed Reddit’s five-second ad that touched on the whole GameStop fiasco. You couldn’t read it all unless you hit pause. It ended with the line, “Powerful things happen when people rally around something they really care about. And there’s a place for that. It’s called Reddit.”
(Robinhood also ran an ad that said, “We are all investors.” Which the “gamestonk” crowd took issue with.)
8. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey brought back their “Wayne’s World” characters for Uber Eats, and tried to convince us to eat local with cute lookalike babies, a shot of “sexy Garth,” and a cameo by Cardi B.
9. Paramount had a lot of air time during the game, and plenty of star power. The game aired on CBS, and their “CBS All Access” app is becoming “Paramount-Plus” next month. So that’s why.
(Paramount’s parent company Viacom merged with CBS last year.)
It featured a bunch of celebrities climbing the Paramount mountain. Patrick Stewart, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Tom Selleck, Christine Baranski, and Jeff Probst all made appearances. And Beavis and Butt-Head’s “giant crack” joke was fun too.
Unfortunately, CBS All Access CRASHED for people who were trying to stream the game. Apparently, there were technical issues and outages at the very start, but they tapered off after 10 minutes. So that didn’t help their promo blitz.
10. In Amazon’s “Sexy Alexa” ad, a woman couldn’t fathom the new Amazon Echo looking any better . . . until she imagined Alexa in the body of Michael B. Jordan.
11. In a spot for GM, Will Ferrell found out Norway puts out more electric cars per capita than the U.S. and vowed to “crush those lugers.” Then he traveled to Sweden by mistake. Awkwafina and Kenan Thompson were also in it.
12. Cheetos had a silly “Cheetos fingers” spot with Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and Shaggy that featured his song, “It Wasn’t Me”.
13. An ad for Tide Pods had a kid in his favorite “Jason Alexander Hoodie.” “Seinfeld” fans liked that it referenced George’s outgoing answering machine message that used the “Greatest American Hero” theme song.
14. Dan Levy popped in at the end of a fun M&Ms ad that had one of the best exchanges of the night: “Sorry I called you Karen” . . . “My name IS Karen” . . . “Sorry your name is Karen.”
15. Samuel Adams hijacked the Budweiser Clydesdales and tossed around some wicked Boston accents for their Wicked Hazy IPA ad. Like a handful of the ads we all saw, this one was a local ad, so not EVERYONE got to see it.
16. Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer had a funny spot with celebrity lookalikes. The REAL Don Cheadle was in it, but the FAKE Sly Stallone and FAKE Megan Fox were also kind of mesmerizing.
17. We found out about this before the game, but two companies accidentally used the same stock footage in their Super Bowl commercials. Ads for Indeed and the mortgage company Guaranteed Rate both had the same shot of a kid riding on her dad’s shoulders. They blamed it on COVID making it harder to shoot footage this year.
18. Bud Light had a nostalgic spot where they brought back all of the Bud Light Legends of years past. The beer bottle football players from the ’90s and the “Real Men of Genius” singer had cameos.
19. T-Mobile released a commercial on social media with Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski that they claim was “banned,” because it ruffled the feathers of Verizon, which is a bigtime sponsor of the NFL. They did have other ads that were approved.
20. According to Google Trends, the Jeep commercial that was narrated by Bruce Springsteen was one of the most-searched ads.=
What 3 albums should you use to teach your kids about (good) music? Dave Grohl gave his ideas on it today, and while 2 you can probably guess, the 3rd is a bit of a curve ball, although still pretty epic in its own right. Check out his answers below, and then give us yours!
Foo Fighters founder, Dave Grohl told #BBCBreakfast which three albums he would recommend children listen to as a music home schooling lesson 🎸👇
Dashboard Confessional just announced its first live performance in nearly a year.
It will be the band’s first performance since Chris Carrabba was involved in a motorcycle crash last June that resulted in injuries including two broken shoulders.
Streaming on Valentine's Day, February 14th, at 7PM Eastern, the 'Lonely Hearts and Lovers’ stream is our first performance since Chris’s tragic accident in June of 2020. Tickets & exclusive merch bundles are available now at https://t.co/QTMd0Qndn6pic.twitter.com/jxsAH4bTGk
The “Snyder cut” of “Justice League” debuts on HBO Max next month, and we just caught this hi-res tease of Superman in his “Reign of the Supermen” black costume:
A 20-year-old Tennessee man was fatally shot while filming a ‘prank robbery’ for YouTube that went horribly wrong. Police say Timothy Wilks and a friend wielded butcher knives as they approached people at the Urban Air Trampoline Park in Nashville. Believing they were in danger, one of the people in the group pulled out a handgun and shot Wilks. The stunt was being filmed for a YouTube video. The shooter says he was acting in self-defense. Prank videos – including robbery pranks – are very popular on YouTube, but the platform cracked down on dangerous pranks in 2019.
One traveler had big plans ahead of him. Alas, pesky customs agents prematurely ended his plans. When the man, who was traveling from India, was asked why he had $100,000 of pills with him, he said they were “for friends”. Hopefully his friends weren’t scheduling a date night around that delivery.
The pills were taken were generic forms of Viagra and seeing as how it is prescription medication from another country, it was banned from entering the US. He’s just lucky he didn’t have to do any hard time.
A man in Massachusetts fell asleep with his AirPods in and when he woke up, he noticed that one of them was missing. That missing Airpod turned out to be in his throat.
The man is embarrassed by the situation, but who hasn’t eaten something weird? We literally all have. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve eaten? Sound off on Facebook and let us know what crazy stuff you’ve consumed.
This TikTok begins with a man saying “well, obviously, this is a 24 foot Transformer” as if we are just supposed to accept that reality. As if that is something that we all own. Luckily, he is back to reality as he describes just what it took to build such an incredible piece of machinery.
A Louisiana woman went viral last week after showing how stiff her hair was after using Gorilla Glue on it. She claimed she had tried to wash the glue 15 times, even using coconut oil at one point, but the glue was still holding her hair together.
For a large portion of the country, this Super Bowl was disappointing. Brady won, it wasn’t close, and it was just kind of a deflating feeling. Luckily, one brave hero saved us from having an all-around terrible experience.
Perhaps the Chiefs should’ve looked at employing him for this game. He was able to shake the people chasing him and get some room to roam in the middle of the field. The Chiefs receivers couldn’t do that all night!
Confession: I’ve been guilty of daydreaming about Michael Jordan’s Highland Park compound more times that I feel comfortable admitting. (It’s still for sale, by the way).
Saturday Night Live combined the world’s obsession with real estate porn — well, with the real stuff. And if you’ve ever watched TV commercials in the wee hours of the morning, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. I just wish they would have put in an 800-number. For old times sake. — [eric]
It’s her second solo record following last year’s “Petals for Armor”. All 14 songs were written, performed and recorded at her home studio.
“This isn’t really a follow-up to Petals for Armor. If anything, it’s a prequel, or some sort of detour between parts 1 and 2 of Petals. The meaning of the album as a whole is maybe entirely different from diving into each song in particular.”
Another reason to subscribe to Apple TV+, ( in addition to the Beastie Boys documentary) they are releasing a Billie Eilish piece, watch the two trailers below for ‘The World’s A Little Blurry’ <3 Lauren
“Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry” tells the true coming-of-age story of the singer-songwriter and her rise to global superstardom. From award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, the documentary offers a deeply intimate look at this extraordinary teenager’s journey, at just seventeen years old, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home with her family, while writing, recording and releasing her debut album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”
Yes, you read that right. The Texas Police Department issued an alert for the infamous evil doll this week. According to the police, this message was sent out by accident as they were testing the server…which sounds like what Chucky would want you to think.
Texas Alerts system accidentally sent out an Amber Alert for Chucky and his child on Friday morning 🤦🏽♂️😩 pic.twitter.com/sSq0DbIZmw
