Month: October 2022

This article originally appeared on 02.20.20

“OK Boomer” is a catchphrase that has come to perfectly encapsulate the generational divide in modern American politics. It has also led to some moments of pure comedy gold.

But it turns out that one of the great all-time standup comedic minds was literally decades ahead of the game when it came to dragging Boomers for selfish, hypocritical, and entitled behavior. In his 1996 stand up special “Back in Town” George Carlin devoted a glorious two minutes and twenty-seven seconds to putting Boomers in their place.

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“A lot of these cultural crimes I’m complaining about can be blamed on the Baby Boomers,” Carlin says, beginning what would become a now legendary rant.

“I’m getting tired of hearing about Boomers,” Carlin continues. “Whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: ‘GIMME IT, IT’S MINE!’ ‘GIMME THAT, IT’S MINE!’ These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them. And they took it all: sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride.”

“But now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age burnout, and they don’t like it. So they’ve turned self-righteous. They want to make things harder on younger people. They tell ’em, abstain from sex, say no to drugs; as for the rock and roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago…so they could buy pasta machines and Stairmasters and soybean futures.”

Or, as one person on Reddit commented on Carlin’s video: “My feeling about baby-boomers is that they were one of the first generations to really adulate and idolize the idea of youth, and youth empowerment but when they themselves reach senior ages their own ideas were working against them so they changed to demonizing youth.”

But Carlin wasn’t done there. He says the Boomers have not only become hypocrites, they turned their own generational shift into cutthroat, corporate catchphrases that guilt and shame others who don’t comport to their world view.

“You know something? They are cold, bloodless people,” Carlin says.

“These people went from ‘Do Your Own Thing’ to ‘Just Say No.’ They went from ‘Love is All You Need’ to ‘Whoever Winds Up With the Most Toys, Wins.’ And they went from cocaine to Rogaine.”

Carlin’s bit concludes in epic fashion with an all-encompassing take down that applies to, well, literally everyone. But the next time you hear a Boomer ridiculing young people or defending their own legacy, just show them this clip and remind them that Boomer criticism is something that transcends age, gender or race. Heck, even if you’re from the Boomer generation, this clip is just too good to not enjoy and share.

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This article originally appeared on 04.16.19

This is Briana “Bree” Wiseman, a pastry chef and restaurant manager from Tennessee.

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The 22-year-old shared a photo of her dog on Facebook next to a plate of food and it went viral — but not just because her dog is really, really cute. In the caption, Wiseman made a powerful statement about sexual assault, using her dog, and the plate of food, as a metaphor.

To the people that say women get raped due to the way they are dressed. This is my dog. His favorite food is steak. He…
Posted by Bree Wiseman on Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Wiseman wrote:

To the people that say women get raped due to the way they are dressed. This is my dog. His favorite food is steak. He is eye level with my plate. He won’t get any closer because I told him no. If a dog is better behaved than you are, you need to reevaluate your life. Feel free to share, my dog is adorable.

So far, over 325,000 people have shared the post. And thousands have left comments, most of them in full support of both the message, and the dog.

Wiseman told the Huffington Post she decided to share the post to take a stand against victim-blaming, in part because of her own experiences with sexual assault. She said:

The only person to blame in a rape offense is the rapist. It was their decision to rape. People shouldn’t have to worry about what they chose to wear for fear of rape. I want people to see that this is a problem, and to stand together against victim-shaming.

She continued:

If a 4-year-old pit bull understands the word no,’ even though he is looking at something he wants so bad he is literally drooling, then adults should understand ‘no,’ no matter how the other adult is dressed… How is it that a simple-minded animal has the ability to understand better than a large part of the adult population?

Good question. Although we already knew dogs are better than people. That being said, kudos to Wiseman for speaking up, and to her dog, for being such a good boy.

This article was originally published by our partners at someecards.

It’s hard to believe, but Trevor Noah has hosted The Daily Show for seven years. His predecessor, Jon Stewart, had to cover 9/11 and eight years of George W. Bush. Noah had to cover all 100 years of the Donald Trump presidency. Late last month, the comic up and announced that he was leaving the show over which he’s lorded since 2015. At the time, it wasn’t sure how long he’d lost. Would he stay till year’s end? Longer than that? Maybe just a couple months? Now we have an answer, and it’s closer to the latter.

As per Deadline, Noah isn’t high-tailing it out of there until after his last day, on December 8. That’s less than two months, or about eight weeks. His final show will be a special one, offering a “celebratory look back at his greatest moments.”

As for the future of The Daily Show, that’s still up in the air. Following Noah’s climactic episode, the program will go hiatus, not returning until January 17. It’s unclear if the Noah-era roster of correspondents — including Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan, and Roy Wood Jr. — will return as well.

News of Noah’s departure was a surprise, not only to regular Daily Show viewers but even to his boss Chris McCarthy, head of Paramount Global, as well as to his colleagues. Since then, there’s been wild speculation about who the show’s fourth host could be. There have even been calls for certain alumni to come back. But maybe they should give it to the guy who both roasted Noah on air for leaving and did some very fine straight man work in the very fine Confess, Fletch.

(Via Deadline)

Lately, Charlie Puth has been appearing online wearing nothing at all. So it seemed like a tongue-in-cheek reference to his recent naked-ness when Puth appeared as the musical guest on the Sesame Street “Howl-o-ween” YouTube special trying on a variety of different costumes.

Puth, whose new album Charlie features BTS and was just released last week, popped onto Sesame Street to help Tango the dog look for a costume. Puth and Elmo lead Tango in a series of Halloween costume ideas on their song “Howl-o-ween.” First, Puth and Tango are witches to Elmo’s black cat, before Cookie Monster suggests that they all dress up as snacks. Elmo is an M&Ms cookie, Tango is a wafer sandwich, and Puth is an Oreo cookie (granted he missed an opportunity to be way more extra with the classic cookie fit.) Puth also dresses up as a pirate and — to the delight of his furry fans — a dog.

In another recent TV performance, Puth appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to make an entire song from scratch using a coffee mug and a spoon. It was actually pretty impressive.

Watch Charlie Puth sing “Howl-O-Ween” on Sesame Street above.

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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet and where to find them. We’re just about midway through October, which means there are only a couple of more weeks until we’re hit with spooky seasonal kicks. Halloween is the last holiday of the year to get a lot of love from sneaker brands as Nike and Adidas roll out their themed sneakers before we reach that dreaded end of the year slump. After a frustratingly slow start, 2022 has been a pretty strong year for sneakers overall, and while we’re sure there are a few more surprises in the cards, we’ve likely already seen the best the year has to offer.

This week we have a shorter list than usual, topping off at seven notable sneaker releases including the latest from Nike, Adidas, and New Balance, as well as a big collaboration out of Social Status and a new boot from Vans. Let’s dive into this week’s seven best sneakers.

Air Force 1 Low x UNDERCOVER Black/White/Grey Fog

We love when sneaker designers approach silhouettes that are essentially untouchable and try to do something new. This week Jun Takahashi did just that via his UNDERCOVER label with this wild reimagining of the Air Force 1.

Featuring a waterproof GORE_TEX sleeve, full-ankle lacing system, and a speckled midsole, this iteration sports a branded heel wrap, plastic tongue logo, and metal dubraes, giving the sneaker a futuristic and utilitarian vibe that transforms the look of the AF-1 and morphs it into something brand new.

The Air Force 1 Low x UNDERCOVER Black/White/Grey Fog is set to drop on October 12th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $165. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Vans Coastal Colfax Boot MTE-1

Vans is known primarily for its low-profile skate sneakers, but the brand also makes a pretty solid boot in the new Coastal Colfax MTE-1. Featuring a strong utilitarian design, the Colfax sports rubber overlays, a lugged outsole with multi-directional treads, and PrimaLoft insulation to keep your feet warm and supported.

The upper is composed of mixed leather and textile and sits atop a molded EVA footbed for extra comfort. The sneaker drops in five dope earthy colorways.

The Vans Coastal Colfax Boot MTE-1 is out now for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Vans webstore.

New Balance x Auralee XC-72

For their latest notable collaboration, New Balance has teamed up with Tokyo-based brand Auralee for a new take on the XC-72. Made from premium materials, the XC-72 features mixed nubuck, smooth leather, and hairy suede upper in a monochromatic blue colorway offering something that is both elegant and minimalistic.

The outsole features asymmetric traction borrowed from the XC-15 and 375 sneaker with a 620 herringbone style outsole pattern.

The New Balance x Auralee CX-72 is set to drop on October 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $149.99. Pick up a pair via the New Balance webstore.

Adidas Roverend Adventure

Halloween is fast approaching which means it’s the perfect time of year to go on a haunted hike! If you’re going to be hitting the trails, you want to be geared up with some comfortable thick traction footwear and Adidas has just what you’re looking for with the Roverend Adventure. I mean, it’s got ‘adventure’ right in the name, how could you go wrong?

The Roverend, which spell check makes almost impossible to spell without autocorrecting to ‘reverend,’ features a textile upper with a TPU cage serving as a sort of exoskeleton. The inner lining is also textile and the sneaker features a thick rubber outsole with enhanced traction allowing you full comfort over many different terrains.

The Adidas Roverend Adventure is set to drop on October 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.

Social Status x Nike Air Penny 2 Playground

This year, Social Status helped to repopularize the forgotten Nike Air Penny 2 and now the collaboration is coming to an end with the final colorway of the set. Featuring a mix of smooth black leather and a wild swirling midsole, the Air Max Penny 2 Playground features dual branding, and embroidered swoosh and bright blue accents.

The Social Status x Nike Air Penny 2 Playground is set to drop on October 13th for a retail price of $200. Hit up Social Status or your favorite aftermarket site.

Nike Air Force 1 Billie Sequoia

Billie Eilish’s Nike collaborations may not inspire the sort of hype that someone like Travis Scott gets, but Billie has been quietly building up a strong roster of sneakers with Nike that seems to get better with every subsequent release. This week’s Sequoia AF-1 features a high-top cut with a synthetic unbuckle leather upper made from recycled content.

Steeped in a utilitarian aesthetic, the Sequoia features four straps and a bulky design that makes it look ready for battle. It’s a dope design and if Kanye made it, people would be going nuts for it.

The Nike Air Force 1 Billie Sequoia is set to drop on October 14th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Women’s Air Jordan 4 Canyon Purple

The combination of dark purple, orange, and green give this sneaker a sort of Frankenstein’s monster vibe. Maybe it’s just because we’re midway through October and fast approaching Halloween, but I can’t look at this Jordan 4 and not think it would make the perfect final detail of a modern Frankenstein costume.

This women’s size Air Jordan 4 features a speckled midsole and a rich suede upper. It’s a Jordan 4 so it could essentially be any color and worth copping, but luckily this color combination is fresh as hell, whether you rock it on Halloween or not.

The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 4 Canyon Purple is set to drop on October 15th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Back when The Simpsons was at its peak, every joke it made felt like a winner. This is probably why even the most obscure ones are now referred to all across the internet on a pretty consistent basis. This is also how something that was on screen for almost no time at all is now a playable video game.

Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, which came out back in 1995, was known at the time as a massive flop after bombing at the box office despite a massive production budget. All of this led to a very easy joke for The Simpsons at the time about a video game spinoff for the Waterworld franchise, featuring Millhouse pumping in 40 quarters only to be told to put 40 more in the game after taking two steps. The joke is still funny even today!

This 20-second YouTube video is now a playable video game. Someone out there decided to not only remake this joke as a full fledged video game but to go far deeper than surely anyone in the writers room thought would happen at the time. The best part? It’s completely free! So if you’re a fan of The Simpsons, Waterworld, or video games then here’s a fun free game for you to play in your free time.

Trump scandals: Collect them all! The former president has been busy spinning plates, trying to weasel his way out of one legal/financial headache after another. There are so many it can be easy to forget about each one. Recently, the lawsuit filed against him, his company, and some of his children by the New York State Attorney General’s office has taken up some news space. Plus, the Jan. 6 hearings are about to start again. But don’t forget about the FBI investigating his absconding with government documents, because that one has some new dirt that’s gone public.

As per The Washington Post, a Trump employee cooperating with the feds told them that Trump himself ordered staff at Mar-a-Lago to move boxes containing said highly classified documents, after the FBI issued a subpoena in May for their return.

The claim was backed up by security footage, which showed employees moving boxes around the resort where Trump now lives. The combination of the security footage and the testimony from the staffer prompted the feds’ search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, which turned up 103 documents marked classified and another 11,000 that weren’t.

Since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump has offered numerous, often surreal explanations for his actions, all while lashing out and even fundraising off of it. Perhaps he hasn’t had time to notice that his legal team ain’t doing so hot.

(Via The Washington Post)

Kanye West’s current crusade to try and talk his way through wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt isn’t getting any better. The hole the rapper has dug for himself — in light of a half-baked promise that he “absolutely” plans to run for president again a few weeks ago — is getting bigger, and he doesn’t seem to care who he leaves behind in his path. Now Van Lathan, ex-TMZ staffer and now host of the The Ringer’s Higher Learning podcast, has accused West of saying far more hurtful and outlandish things in his infamous 2018 TMZ office rant — yes, worse than saying 400 years of slavery “sounds like a choice,” if that’s even possible.

In the episode, Lathan accuses Kanye of saying anti-Semitic things that go far beyond his latest Twitter rant about “Going to death con 3 on Jewish people.” Lathan said that he’s already “heard him say stuff like that before…I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ, he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview.” The 2018 video of Kanye West on TMZ shows Lathan calling out West for his views on slavery being “a choice.” Lathan can be seen standing up and scolding Kanye, saying, “I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought…I’m unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something that’s not real. You gotta be responsible.”

Lathan now says in the podcast episode that there was more to Kanye’s rant than just what was captured on the tape in 2018. “What I say after that — if I can remember, it’s been a long time — was, ’12 million people actually died because of Nazism and Hitler and all of that stuff,’ and then I move on to talk about what he said about slavery,” Lathan said. “The reason they took it out is because it wouldn’t have made sense unless they kept in Kanye saying he loved Hitler and the Nazis, which he said when he was at TMZ He said something like, ‘I love Hitler, I love Nazis.’ Something to that effect.”

It’s getting tiresome saying that things “keep getting worse,” for Kanye. But somehow here we are again.

In August, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45 million to families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School gun massacre, after years of him spreading bizarre lies about it, including that it was a “false flag.” If that didn’t seem like it was enough, then you could take comfort that it wasn’t the only lawsuit Jones facing about the same matter. Indeed, on Wednesday, some two months later, Jones has been forced to pay quite considerably more than that. But instead of devastated, he was…elated?

As caught by Raw Story, Jones aired the reading of the verdict from a Connecticut jury on his show Infowars. There were many charges, and each one came with a hefty price tag. The total was $965 million — nearly a billion dollars, all for spreading misinformation that damaged the lives of grieving parents and family members, all while making him all the wealthier.

Jones let viewers see his live reaction to each penalty, but instead of burying his face in his palms, or maybe even coming to grips with the consequences of his actions, he did the opposite. After each penalty, he let out a mock-cheer. He pumped his fists. He screamed “YEAH!”

This led to some surreal incongruities. For instance, it’s a bit troubling that after the words “emotional distress damages, past and future: $30 million,” he let rip one of his “YEAAHHHH”s.

Jones has called the Sandy Hook-related trials against him a “kangaroo court,” even mocking the judge at the trial in Texas over the summer. For this latest, much more severe verdict, he bemoaned, “This must be what Hell’s like, they just read out the damages. Even though you don’t got the money.”

He plans to appeal the verdict, but he also suggested on his show that he’s not paying anyway. “‘Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?’” He also warned that being sued into kingdom come won’t stop him from spreading conspiracy theories. “They want to scare us away from questioning Uvalde or Parkland,” he said, adding, “We’re not going away. We’re not going to stop.”

Meanwhile, there’s a third trial en route later this year, also to be held in Texas, which may end with him owing even more than over a billion dollars. Perhaps he’ll be a bit less faux-jubilant then.

(Via Raw Story)

Florence And The Machine are on the tail end of their tour in support of the band’s latest album, Dance Fever. Meanwhile, actor Nick Kroll has been promoting the new season of his animated series Big Mouth, not to mention his role alongside Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde’s much-hyped movie, Don’t Worry Darling. So waddaya know? Both Kroll and Florence and the Machine singer Florence Welch found themselves chatting it up with James Corden on last night’s episode of The Late Late Show.

At one point, Corden turns to Kroll, who admits he’s a “a big fan” of Florence And The Machine, before embarking on a “weird story” about his err….fandom. Kroll explained that during lockdown, he was about to start shooting scenes for Mel Brooks’ new History Of The World, Part 2, TV series and Kroll’s wife suggested he take a dance class with her in order to get pumped up for the shoot. Turns out this was no ordinary dance class, and was in fact taught by Florence And The Machine’s music video choreographer, Ryan Heffington.

“It was me, two other guys and 45 women,” Kroll said about the class. Heffington taught them the dance that Welch and company do on Florence And The Machine’s video for “King” (which Welch performed later on Corden,) and upon hearing this, Corden suggestively asked Kroll, “Do you remember any of these moves?” Right on queue, Kroll got up from the couch and as “King” began to play overhead, he demonstrated the dance for Welch, who was visibly impressed at Kroll’s smooth — and quite frankly, hilarious — moves. “That was it! That was amazing!” the singer said.

Watch Nick Kroll perform the “King” dance for Florence Welch above. And watch Florence And The Machine play the song later on on Corden below.