Everything in the streaming world is really confusing right now. Netflix is supposedly bleeding money, Hulu is merely a blip on the radar, and HBO Max continues to fumble the bag again and again with rebranding, merging, and general confusion surrounding the platform. The plan, now that lawyers are in the process of signing off on the name ‘Max’, which will bring HBO and Discovery content together on the same platform, is that “the app itself will share similarities with Disney+’s platform, with Warner Bros. Discovery’s brands as individual titles.” HBO, Discovery, DC Comics and Warner Bros. will be among the landing hubs on the platform.

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Nothing is sacred anymore, not even man’s most convenient form of transaction. It turns out that self-service checkouts are riddled with poop bacteria. According to the prestigious Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 19 items that people touch every day, such as handrails, door handles and keyboards and self-service checkouts, and analyzed them in a lab. They found many of the items contained “high bacterial loads.”

Experts warn that you should wash your hands as soon as you are done using self-service machines. E. coli and bacteria called Klebsiella were found on a number of items. The severity of the strains varied but they can cause diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever and bloody stools. Although they may not be harmful to most people, those with vulnerable immune systems could be severely impacted.

22 years before Jack White returns for a once-in-a-lifetime, intimate performance during Q101’s Twisted Xmas week, the White Stripes, hot off the heels of 2000’s De Stijl, came to Chicago’s infamous Empty Bottle and blew people’s mind’s with this electric, intense set.

Setlist:

Death Letter (Son House cover)
Little Bird
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
You’re Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)
Hello Operator
Lord, Send Me an Angel (Blind Willie McTell cover)
Broken Bricks
I’m Bored (Iggy Pop cover)
Let’s Shake Hands
Apple Blossom
Sister, Do You Know My Name?
Suzy Lee
Let’s Build a Home
Goin’ Back to Memphis (Soledad Brothers cover)
Jolene (Dolly Parton cover)
Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise
Do
Astro
Jack the Ripper (Screaming Lord Sutch cover)
Red Death at 6:14
Your Southern Can Is Mine (Blind Willie McTell cover)
Look Me Over Closely (Terry Gilkyson cover)
Screwdriver

More information on Jack White’s Empty Bottle show this week can be found here.

Never underestimate Mom Strength. The Q101 Morning Crew cannot get enough of this video of a mom full-on yeeting a raccoon into her yard after saving her daughter from the clutches of the rabid animal.

The family will be receiving their rabies vaccine very soon as experts were alarmed at the raccoon being out in the day and being as aggressive as it was. Nevertheless, everyone in the family seems to be doing okay.

If Justin Fields doesn’t work out, maybe we can try out this mom. She’s got one hell of an arm.

There’s Slash, there’s Stevie Ray Vaughn, there’s Johnny Marr, and now there’s James Michael Grimes. These are the names that should immediately come to mind when you’re asked who the greatest guitarists ever are. For Grimes, however, there is one important distinction that sets him apart from the rest – he’s an air guitar champion. After being crowned champion on a Thanksgiving cruise, Grimes fell into the water and managed to survive by treading water for 20 hours.

Talking to Good Morning America, he noted, “I felt like I was given a chance right then… you’re alive for a reason… that fall could’ve killed me, but I felt like from that moment on, I was trying to stay positive.”

Grimes insists he was not drunk, claiming to have only had a few drinks in celebration after winning the air guitar competition. Who could blame him? That’s what rockstars are supposed to do. And quite frankly, there’s nothing more rock & roll than falling overboard and surviving. We salute you, James Michael Grimes.

Despite a valiant effort from the Chicago Bears, Aaron Rodgers is still our daddy. Rodgers and the Packers picked up their eighth straight victory over the Bears after a second-half comeback that ended in 28-19 victory for Green Bay. Rodgers went 18/31 for 182 yards, while Justin Fields went 20/25 for 254 yards and went for 71 rushing yards.

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Parents and guardians can register their children online for two races at Chicago’s premier event of the holiday season. The Chicago Park District is on the hunt to find the fastest kid in the city…for reasons. The event takes place from 11a-4p on December 17 at Gately Park’s track and field center on 10201 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

If you sign your child up for what may or may not be a government surveillance program, they will get a free t-shirt. That makes it all worth it.

More info can be found here.

200,000 Christmas lights light up a house in Tinley Park that continues to receive media coverage for its bold light display.

This is too much. I’m notoriously very holly and jolly, but I also like getting some shut eye and I can’t fathom doing that when I’m living next to a winter wonderland.