If you find yourself owning more than one toothbrush, you’ve done something wrong. There’s no need to double up. It should be a one in, one out policy. One man in Florida, however, was arrested for stealing over $1000 worth of toothbrushes. What he was going to do with these toothbrushes, we don’t want to know.
Does this look like a man that would be fiending for toothbrushes?
Yes, yes he does.
Dreams do come true. The investigative minds at Q101 have found a house that seems too good to be true, but we have photographic evidence that we can now scramble eggs while going to the bathroom.
The full house can be seen here but we are fixated on Heaven On Earth.
Willy Contreras, one of the last pieces of the Cubs 2016 World Series team, has turned his back on the city of Chicago by not only leaving the Northsiders, but by siding with the dreaded St. Louis Cardinals. Contreras, a lifetime .256 hitter, is a three-time all-star who has been a Cardinals killer in the past. Now he’ll take his talents across state lines, and to the Cubs greatest rival.
Contreras will return to the friendly confines on May 8, 9, and 10 this upcoming season.
The American Heart Association has released new data that should scare you if you get stressed out around the holiday season. According to the AHA and the powers that be, the days you’re most likely to suffer a heart attack on are December 25, December 26, and January 1. Because of the increase in stress during the holiday season, our bodies often quit on us and quite literally attack us.
Be wary of any pain or discomfort in the chest, jaw, neck, back, arms and shoulders. Discomfort may be pressure, squeezing and fullness. The discomfort could last for a few moments, go away then comeback.
As more and more gets squeezed out of the working class, one Olive Garden manager is taking it a step further by demanding that anyone calling out of work, show up to work and prove why they need to be out. Whether they’re sick or they’re dog died, employees have been asked to show up to work to prove to their manager that they need the day off. In an email, the manager said,
“Attention ALL Team Members:
Our call offs are occurring at a staggering rate. From now on, if you call off, you might as well go out and look for another job. We are no longer tolerating ANY excuse for calling off. If you’re sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. If its a “family emergency” and you can’t say, too bad. Go work somewhere else. If you only want morning shifts, too bad go work at a bank. If anyone from here on out calls out more than ONCE in the next 30 days you will not have a job. Do you know in my 11.5 years at Darden how many days I called off? Zero. I came in sick. I got in a wreck literally on my to work one time, airbags went off and my car was totaled, but you know what, I made it to work, ON TIME! There are no more excuses. Us, collectively as a management team have had enough. If you don’t want to work here, don’t. It’s as simple as that. If you’re here and want to work, then work. No more complainging about not being cut or not being able to leave early. You’re in the restaurant business. Do you think I want to be here until midnight on Friday and Saturday? No. I’d much rather be at home with my husband and dog, going to the movies or seeing family. But I don’t, I’m dedicated to being here. As should you. No more excuses or complaints.
I hope you choose to continue to work here and I think we (management) make it as easy as we can on ya’ll. Thank you for your time and thank you to those who come in every day on time and work hard. I wish there were more like you.”
What’s the most unreasonable request your boss has ever made? The conversation lives on Facebook!
The video featuring Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante, both in real life and as digital Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater-style avatars, has hit the one Billion views milestone.
Take a trip and revisit the video here. It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication.
Starting on the first of the year, the statewide Illinois minimum wage will rise to $13 per hour for non-tipped employees ages 18 and over. The $1 increase will apply to every hour worked in the new year, and is part of legislation signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in 2019 to establish a statewide $15 minimum wage by 2025. For tipped employees, they may be paid 60% of the hourly minimum wage, or $7.80, as long as they receive the difference in tips. Skeptics are worried that this minimal increase in pay might lead to working class people being able to live a more comfortable lifestyle, and God forbid we have that.
Going forward, the city’s minimum wage will increase every July 1 to match the rise in cost of living.
I’m no doctor, but sticking a needle into your eye seems like a bad move in both the short term and the long term. A mom of five is staring down the barrel of permanent blindness after she dyed her eyeballs blue and purple in an effort to copy influencer Amber Luke, who temporarily went blind.
“I don’t have 20/20 vision anymore. From a distance, I can’t see features on faces,” she said. “If I didn’t have my eyeballs tattooed, I wouldn’t be having this problem. Even today I woke up with more floaters in my eyes. And that is dangerous.”
What have you done because of a celebrity or an influencer? The conversation lives on Facebook!
I thought I knew this city. I thought I loved this city. I thought this city was unbeatable. Then I found out that your neighbors are a bunch of bath-loving freaks who would rather sit in their own filth than actually get clean. To say I’m devastated would be an understatement.
If your thoughts align with the 81 cities on this chart who hate getting clean, please let us know on Facebook.
Attractions of America have named Chicago as the second best downtown in the country, trailing only New York City and coming out just ahead of the powerhouse that is Alexander, Virginia. It is nice to see, during a time in Chicago has been used as a punching bag by people who don’t live here, the greatest city in the world get some actual love. The site says Chicago is “often listed as the best downtown in the US for its historical sites, great food, and rich cultural experiences.”
Where does Chicago rank on your list? The conversation lives on Facebook!
The full list can be see here.
If your commute is feeling like hell, as in 2019-levels of hell, it’s because traffic is arguably worse than ever before. Due to construction, volume, and the fact that public transportation participation is down, the roads on Chicago are becoming more and more clogged.
How long is your commute now? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is back in the news and people can’t stop talking about his junk – or lack thereof. During the trial, prosecutors revealed to the jury that Weinstein underwent surgery in 1999 for Fournier’s Gangrene, which required doctors to remove some of his scrotum. “That surgery caused pretty noticeable scarring…Because of an infection, his testicles were actually taken from his scrotum and put into his inner thighs,” the lead prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson, told the jury at the beginning of the trial.
Jane Doe 1, who bravely came forward to talk about the harassment that she suffered at the hands of Weinstein, noted that his testicles were “like empty skin”.
Jane Doe #2, who testified that Weinstein groped her in 2013 said, “His penis was disgusting. It looked like it had been chopped off and sewn back on, like something wasn’t right about it.”
We wish Weinstein nothing but the worst.
A woman named Amy Joseph took TGI Friday’s to court over their lack of mozzarella in their mozzarella sticks. Joseph, an Illinois resident, said she purchased a six pack of the product on Amazon last year and mistakenly believed the sticks would contain mozzarella because the listing didn’t provide an description of the ingredients.
“We are pleased with the judge’s ruling. The judge agreed with us that the claims in the lawsuit have merit, the case should not be dismissed,” said her lawyer, Thomas Zimmerman Jr, to USA TODAY in a statement.
We hope that people are brought justice in this awful, stomach-churning matter.
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.
What streaming platforms are you currently subscribed to? The conversation lives on Facebook!
The first Oxford word of the year voted on by the people is ‘goblin mode’, which means to be “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy”. Of the nearly 400,000 votes, 93% of the votes came in for ‘goblin mode’, which is exactly how we’re going to be in the new year.
Metaverse and #IStandWith followed suit in second and third place.
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.
Kirstie Alley, who was best known as Rebecca Howe on ‘Cheers’, has passed away at the age of 71. Her children True and Lillie Parker announced on social media that their mother had lost a brief battle with cancer.
John Travolta, who costarred with Alley in 1989’s “Look Who’s Talking” as well as the sequel in 1992, wrote on Instagram, “Kirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had. I love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other again.”
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.
As if Twisted Xmas Week wasn’t already crazy enough with the likes of Portugal. The Man, Jack White, and The 1975 playing the Aragon Ballroom thanks to Q101, Jack White has decided to reside in Chicago for an extra night as this Wednesday, December 7, a night before he takes the stage at the Aragon, Jack White will be playing an intimate set inside Chicago’s legendary Empty Bottle.
Listen to Q101 all day, Wednesday, December 7th from 9:00am-5:00pm for your last chance to get in to this unforgettable experience.
This will be White’s first time playing the venue since The White Stripes played there in the summer of 2001. Footage of a gig from the White Stripes at this venue 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.
