Nobody wants a dirty toupee!
It could give away the secret that your hair isn’t your hair!
There’s no shame in having one, they look great! But you have to make sure you maintain it!
@themalcolmflexFixing the man weave!! ##mentalhealth ##menshair ##menhealth ##men ##hair ##weave ##manweave ##dallas ##dfw ##mavs
Make sure you keep those toupees looking fresh!
It seemed like a fantasy when Jake Paul suggested that he was going to take on Conor McGregor in the ring after taking down Nate Rabinson, but now it seems like this fight might actually happen!
Conor McGregor says he is down to fight as long as his price is met by Paul’s camp.
@boxing.centr4lConnor responds##SportsDirectRepRace ##jakepaul ##ksi ##loganpaul ##boxing🥊 ##fighter ##fyp ##tiktokboxing ##boxer ##knockout ##gym ##fitness ##champion ##fyp
I hope for this fight to go down more than anything. See a real fighter take on the Paul brothers for once!
If you were on Twitter this weekend then you definitely heard about “Bean Dad”.
Bean Dad, who is actually named John Roderick, went on Twitter this past weekend to boast about how he bullied his 9-year-old daughter because she didn’t know how to use a can opener.
If you haven’t read this Twitter thread yet, you have to. It will kind of infuriate you at the cockiness of this guy.
So, yesterday my daughter (9) was hungry and I was doing a jigsaw puzzle so I said over my shoulder “make some baked beans.” She said, “How?” like all kids do when they want YOU to do it, so I said, “Open a can and put it in pot.” She brought me the can and said “Open it how?”
— john roderick (@johnroderick) January 2, 2021
Of course everyone took their shots at them, including actual teachers who had some good teaching strategies for the seemingly happy bean dad.
Teacher here.
1. Kids learn best when they aren’t hungry.
2. Everyone learns differently and different approaches (eg. A guiding hand) are helpful, especially if/when someone’s struggling.
3. When a child is frustrated to the point of tears, you’ve lost your teachable moment.
— Apoxon (@apoxon) January 3, 2021
And of course everyone with a wifi connection went back and checked all of his tweets to find his controversial tweets. People called him out for racism, homophobia, and anti-semitism.
Roderick quickly deleted his Twitter account after this.
Funny enough, Jeopardy star Ken Jennings has a podcast with Bean Dad! Jennings came to Roderick’s aide.
If this reassures anyone, I personally know John to be (a) a loving and attentive dad who (b) tells heightened-for-effect stories about his own irascibility on like ten podcasts a week. This site is so dumb.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 3, 2021
What a weird world we live in.
So if you didn’t know about Bean Dad…
Now you do! Congrats!!
The restaurant and bar industry has been hit hard. Most places in Chicago have been forced to close due to covid restrictions and unfortunately, may not reopen. If you are a current or former Cook County bar, restaurant or coffee shop employee there is an emergency relief fund you may be eligible for (and it you are outside of Cook County or work in other food and beverage roles, including farmers, distillery workers, wine makers, beverage delivery drivers, etc. there is another national relief fund for you; more info from Southern Smoke below or jump to the application page HERE;
All restaurant, bar and coffee shop workers who are or were employed in Chicago (specifically, Cook County, Illinois) are encouraged to apply for need-based aid.
To qualify for this fund, you must have worked in the food and beverage industry for a minimum of 6 months and an average of 30 hours per week minimum. Every applicant must show proof of such employment, so please have paycheck stubs and/or W2s available. We are unable to make any exceptions.
For tips on how to apply and best advance your case, please click here.
This fund is specifically for restaurant, bar and coffee shop workers who are or were employed in Cook County, Illinois. If you work in other food and beverage roles, including farmers, distillery workers, wine makers, beverage delivery drivers, etc., or work outside of Cook County, you can apply to Southern Smoke’s national Emergency Relief Fund here.
More information and application instructions HERE. <3 Lauren
Photo by Sarah Pflug from Burst
No one likes working, especially on New Year’s Eve.
So can you blame Andy Cohen for throwing back a few before the ball dropped?
@nickelodeonruggie##fyp ##foryoupage ##Bye2020
He was just having some fun! The perfect way to get out of that terrible excuse of a year.
Give the guy a break!
MMA, boxing, football, hockey… What’s the toughest sport out there?
The answer is none of them.
Because apparently a sport out there called ear pulling and it might be the gnarliest sport known to man.
@weirdsports##earpulling
The pain that these athletes have to ignore is unknown! How can they do that!
Also this should be included in the Olympics right?
Eating icicles seems like a yearly winter tradition right?
Well you should cut that tradition out of your life today!
Take this meteorologist’s word for it…
So there you have it. Icicles are full of bird poop from your roof.
So stop munching on them!
There are stories that seem so impossible that they can’t be true right?
Wrong! There are some crazy stories that seem to destroy any idea of odds.
From long lost twins who seemingly lived the exact same life, to a guy who won the lottery twice.
Never tell these people the odds!
Check out all of the stories here.
You know how when you ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up they sometimes say something like a superhero, or their favorite cartoon character…
Well, this lady actually did that!
She has based her entire life around the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and honestly that rocks.
@rdr2.boahPart 4 out now ##fyp ##fy ##fypシ ##foryou ##foryoupage ##funny ##cringe ##xyzbca
Crime fighting and pizza every day doesn’t sound like that bad of a life.
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Bishop Briggs got on Twitter yesterday to ask for help in her sister Kate’s battle with cancer:
Here’s a link to the GoFund Me….if you could help out with any information as well, share with her on Twitter.
Post Malone brought out the big guns for his “Bud Light Seltzer Sessions” on New Year’s Eve. The encore was AMAZING! He brought out Chad Smith and Chris Chaney joined for a rousing cover of Alice in Chains’ “Rooster”. Posty showed off some impressive rock pipes as he channeled a bit of Layne Staley while delivering an emotionally charged rendition of a classic. It was AWESOME!
Make no mistake about, the new Foo Fighters track is all about the RAWK.
Crank up “No Son Of Mine” below. You’ll find it on Medicine at Midnight, coming February 5th. It’s an album Dave Grohl says the world needs to “lift their spirits.” We now know all the track listening for that new album, too:
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Making a Fire” | 4:15 |
| 2. | “Shame Shame“ | 4:17 |
| 3. | “Cloudspotter” | 3:53 |
| 4. | “Waiting on a War” | 4:13 |
| 5. | “Medicine at Midnight” | 3:30 |
| 6. | “No Son of Mine” | 3:28 |
| 7. | “Holding Poison” | 4:24 |
| 8. | “Chasing Birds” | 4:12 |
| 9. | “Love Dies Young” | 4:20 |
| Total length: | 36:32 | |
For as long as I’ve been on this radio station, I’ve been warning people that robots — are not our friends. (For proof, please watch the 1991 documentary film Terminator 2: Judgement Day and prepare to have your mind blown)
Now look. The latest development in the Boston Dynamics project is having robots casually dance and sway to a song called “The Humans Are Dead.” And while yes, Flight Of The Concords are amazing, this development is terrifying. I already can’t dance, and now I have to live up to the expectations set by a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, that resembles a human?
For more on Boston Dynamics amazing project, click here.
As we’re about to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a very different way this year, our fun hinges on what’s available to watch on the TV/computer. Why not make it a horror-themed New Year’s Eve? Here are a handful of horror flicks with new year’s themes or elements:
Rosemary’s Baby – One of the best horror movies ever made, and it still holds up decades later. The New Year’s Eve party shown here is a bad time that precedes many worse things to come.
The Shining – A picture labeled “4th of July 1921,” but appears to actually be a New Year’s Eve party pic, is important to the ending of “The Shining.” For what it’s worth, it is a NYE pic in Stephen King’s book.
New Year’s Evil – The most obvious choice, thanks to its (choose one: awesome, ridiculous, dumb) name. Fun slasher trash from 1980.
Terror Train – More 80s trash, released the same year as “New Year’s Evil.” This one’s a lot of fun. The premise: Fraternity and sorority students attend a New Year’s Eve costume party on a train. Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, and she’s awesome.
Angel Heart – New Year’s Eve is an important date in this classic psychological horror flick. Pro tip: Never make a deal with a guy named “Louis Cyphre.”
Would you like to get paid or compensated to do nothing? If you answered ‘yes’ then you should definitely look up Shoji Morimoto of Japan in this Oddity Central feature where he details giving up his publishing job for this odd service he offers. He shows up and telling people he will do nothing, all they have to do is cover his transportation and food or drinks but most people tend to give him more for his time. It must have caught on because he has over 270,000 followers on Twitter and inspired a TV show based on him called “People Who Do Not Rent“, which premiered in April 2020.
These companion oriented services have gained popularity to some degree in Japan where you can now have short-term rentals with dogs.
The Scottish alternative darling CHVRCHES has been inspired by youthful breakout Billie Eilish for the new music they currently working on for their follow-up to 2018’s ‘Love is Dead’.
Lauren Mayberry speaking with the Guardian, heaved praise on Eilish and the production of her album ‘Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep?’.
“The vocal production on the Billie Eilish album is absolutely phenomenal – that is an advancement in pop music,” she said. “Iain [Cook] and Martin [Doherty] like to be across what is happening for production stuff. We want to be aware of it because there’s just awesome pop music and you can learn something from it. Learn the production tricks but don’t learn the other parts: I think that was the challenge of this [new] album.”
Now just imagine, Billie collaborating with CHVRCHES?! That would really blow our minds.
New music from CHVRCHES is due out in spring 2021.
Stream our intimated LOUNGE session with Mayberry, Cook, and Doherty from a while back here.
Stream the masterpiece of heart-break and emotional recovery that CHVRHCES created with ‘Love is Dead’.
The Killers shared an “A List” of speculated song titles on their socials leading some to think another new record could be on its way.
— The Killers (@thekillers) December 22, 2020
Brandon Flowers recently said in an interview the lack of touring in 2020 allowed more time for the band to work on new music after releasing “Imploding The Mirage” this year.
Wash your hands, Mr. Brightside.
But this is. pic.twitter.com/PlyHdzo2pM
— The Killers (@thekillers) March 16, 2020
This will be the 5,871st post you will find this week celebrating the end of the year 2020. But have you had a moment to ponder this?
Even worse….say 2022 out loud and tell me that doesn’t sound like a sequel. pic.twitter.com/Z9f06DXpUW
— Eric Kristensen (@erickristensen) December 29, 2020
I’m hoping we’re going to put this year in the rearview and move on to bigger and better things. Here are some artists you hear on 101WKQX will be rocking the celebration with appearances on network countdown shows. The list includes:
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2021: Machine Gun Kelly
NBC’s New Year’s Eve 2021: Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), AJR
FOX’s New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2021: Green Day
Of course, that list that isn’t inclusive of ALL your musical opportunities. Check out artists that are either streaming this week or playing New Year’s bashes, regardless of genre. — [eric]
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