Bree, a 25-year-old woman in Canada, has gone viral on TikTok for a video explaining the unique reason why she will never have children. She doesn’t want to be a mother and would only have children if she could be the father because they get to be the “cool parent.”
Her ideas about family resonated with many women who believe there are a lot of fathers who don’t carry their own weight. Even though families are becoming more egalitarian, women are still regarded as the default parent in most relationships.
“I would love to be a parent. I would love to be a dad. I don’t get that choice—I would have to be a mother—and there is no way in hell I would ever wanna be a mother,” Bree said in a TikTok video.
Cool aunt and stepmom vibes only #motherhood #feminism #barbiegirl
“I don’t want the responsibility of being a mother. I want to be the cool parent, I want to have as little responsibility as possible, and mothers don’t get that,” she continued. Bree’s ideas about family stem from her upbringing. “After seeing all the unappreciated invisible effort my mother puts in for us, I could not imagine that being my life!” she wrote in the comments.
“Saving this answer for the next time I am asked that. Thanks,” Bianca P wrote in the comments.
A recent Pew Research study found that in 2022, 29% of marriages were “egalitarian,” with husbands and wives each contributing roughly half of the couple’s combined earnings. However, women still bore the brunt of the domestic workload, spending more than double the amount of time on housework than their husbands and two hours more per week on caregiving.
These bourbons are so massive that they cause seismic activity in the bourbon-drinking world. So much so that to avoid rampages by bourbon fans, each of these bottles is only available via a lottery system. Now to be clear, that’s not a lottery wherein you “win” a bottle for free. These are lotteries wherein you “win” the privilege to buy a bottle. One bottle. In Kentucky. And yes, people make special trips from all over the world to pick these bottles up — they’re that coveted. These are the big leagues and just releasing these bottles in liquor stores or bottle shops at distilleries would be too much chaos, so here we are.
Below, I’m going to review each bottle and lay out how to actually throw your hat in the ring to win the honor of being able to buy one of these masterpiece whiskeys at MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) this fall. If you don’t win a chance to get one now, well, there’s always the secondary market and massively inflated prices. Plus, it’s free to enter. So you have nothing to lose in playing the game. Let’s dive in!
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This year’s Birthday Bourbon is a subtle masterpiece expression from Lousiville’s oldest distillery. The whiskey in the bottle is hewn from 103 barrels that were filled on May 5th, 2011. Those barrels were housed on the 5th floor of Warehouse I in Louisville for 12 years for batching, proofing, and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Candied orange peels draw you in on the nose as molasses and rum raisin lead to salted dark chocolate-covered coffee beans, old cedar bark, and dry orchard barks layered with soft winter spice barks and dark cherry.
Palate: That candied orange drives the palate with a sense of Luxardo cherries, old rickhouse dirt floors, and oak staves before rummy molasses and dark fruits — think dates, figs, and prunes — lead to a cedar tobacco vibe.
Finish: The end sweetens at first with a honeyed orange caramel before swinging back toward the coffee beans and cedar tobacco with a soft sense of old orchards in late fall.
Bottom Line:
This is an excellent sipper. It doesn’t even need a rock. You’re good to straight from the bottle.
Ranking:
91/100 — This is excellent Kentucky bourbon but not life-changing.
How To Get A Bottle:
The national sweepstakes for this year’s Birthday Bourbon runs from August 24th to August 31st this year. Winners will be notified on September 2nd, 2023. Bottles will be available for pick up until December 23rd, 2023 at the Old Forester Distillery.
This year’s Four Roses LE Small Batch is only 15,060 bottles. In those bottles, you’ll find a blend of 12, 14, 16, and 25-year-old barrels of whiskey. Those barrels are perfectly balanced to bring deep flavors to the batch before proofing and bottling as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Rich winter spice cakes with roasted nuts, rum raisin, and soft vanilla oils vibe with old cedar kindling, hints of dill, and a faint touch of marshmallow that’s spent too much time in the fire.
Palate: The palate is all sticky toffee pudding and honey cake with a rush of red huckleberry and tart raspberry next to pear cider cut with clove, cinnamon, and allspice and a faint touch of brandied marzipan.
Finish: The finish turns into a luscious masterpiece of soft pear brandy-soaked marzipan with creamy dark chocolate and spiced Christmas nut cakes next to a soft chili tobacco dipped in molasses.
Bottom Line:
This is a delicious whiskey. It’s pretty much perfect right from the bottle or over a single rock.
Ranking:
91/100 — This is a great and quintessential sipper.
How To Get A Bottle:
You’ll have until August 28th, 2023 to enter the lottery to win the chance to buy a bottle. Winners will be announced on September 7th, 2023. Bottles will be available for pick up at Four Roses Distillery from September 15th to October 15th, 2023.
“I stand with President Trump against the commie DA Fani Willis who is nothing more than a political hitman tasked with taking out Biden’s top political opponent,” Greene wrote in the caption. “‘Persecution, not prosecution.’ #MAGAMugshot”
I stand with President Trump against the commie DA Fani Willis who is nothing more than a political hitman tasked with taking out Biden’s top political opponent. “Persecution, not prosecution.” #MAGAMugshotpic.twitter.com/BLAJ16g6Je
Former Republican National Convention chair Michael Steele wasn’t having it. While appearing on Friday’s episode of Morning Joe, Steele roasted Greene for the attention-grabbing stunt and assured that the Georgia congresswoman that her wish might come true some day.
“We knew Donald Trump was going to put [out] a T-shirt. We knew what it is going to say,” Steele told the MSNBC panel. “He’s going to make his bling off of it. He’s going to get his cash because that’s what it’s always been about.”
He added, “Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to take a mug shot of her. So don’t worry, baby. Your turn may come sooner than you think.”
Steele’s comments arrived after the Morning Joe crew couldn’t contain their laughter over Trump’s arrest, particularly his reported measurements and hair color. The former president’s staff reportedly the Fulton County Jail that Trump is 6’3″ and only 215 pounds. They also listed his hair as “strawberry blonde,” which prompted Joe Scarborough to lose it on camera.
“He really went for it,” a laughing Scarborough remarked. “He really went for it.”
Health is wealth, and former One Direction singer Liam Payne wants to build up his physical piggy bank. After overcoming depression as well as substance abuse following the group’s split, Payne is focused on strengthening his body from the inside out. Now, the recording artist has taken to social media to share the alarming news that he had recently been hospitalized.
In a video uploaded to his official Instagram page mere hours ago, Payne explained the cause of his hospitalization. Although in the recording, Payne appears to be getting all the support and recovery to help with his recovery, he was sure to share that his plans to tour in the coming months were put on hold.
He wrote:
“It’s with a heavy heart I have to tell you that we have no other choice but to postpone my upcoming tour of South America. Over the past week I’ve been in hospital with a serious kidney infection, it’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and doctors orders are that I now need to rest and recover.
I was beyond excited to come play for you guys. To all of you who have bought tickets: I’m so sorry. We’re working to re-schedule the tour as soon as we possibly can, but for now we will be refunding the tickets – so please look out for updates from your point of purchase.
Thanks as always for the love and support, and look forward to seeing you soon.”
One of the biggest fans of Donald Trump’s Vigo the Carpathian-looking mugshot is Lauren Boebert. This makes sense: the rootin’ tootin’ Republican Colorado congresswoman has been arrested multiple times, including once for failing to appear in court after she was charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after rolling her truck into a ditch. “I didn’t pay the ticket,” she later boasted during a campaign stop. “But I got it paid. One hundred dollars. And I even got a pretty mugshot out of it.”
Boebert thinks Trimp’s mugshot is pretty, too. In response to conspiracy theory-promoting comedian Roseanne Barr tweeting, “Trump’s mugshot is so hot,” she wrote, “You’re my favorite!!” along with the cry-laughing emoji.
Boebart also liked a tweet from far-right favorite Dinesh D’Souza comparing the former president — who was once sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for racial discrimination — to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, as well as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.
Somehow, Boebert wasn’t done.
Lauren Boebert, who barely won her re-election campaign by a little over 500 votes, celebrated Trump’s mugshot taken at his arrest during processing at the Fulton Country Jail. Boebert pledged to “stand with President Trump… always.”
Ashnikko‘s album Weedkiller was set to come out in June, until it was delayed “due to reasons beyond my control,” she explained in a statement.
It’s finally out today (August 25), and a standout track is her collaboration with the rising pop star Ethel Cain, whose debut full-length Preacher’s Daughter was a major 2022 release. The two teamed up for the cinematic “Dying Star”: “I died and I land with both of my hands / In the mud, the mud / It felt like a God, how she held me,” they sing in harmony.
“The world I’ve been crafting for the past two and a half years is finally hatching,” Ashnikko said about Weedkiller in a statement. “I felt immense release writing this record. It deepened my sense of selfhood. It sent roots out of my feet and into the earth. I reclaimed my body from the weedkillers who latched onto my skin like ticks. I hope you are able to writhe around and scream in the forest and howl at the moon and scurry around like a rat to this album.”
Listen to “Dying Star” above.
Weedkiller is out now via Parlophone Records. Find more information here.
Ashnikko is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. Last week I bemoaned the fact that Nike made its weakest offering of the year when it came to new noteworthy designs. It wasn’t that big of an issue however, because the rest of the brands stepped up, but it was notable considering the brand tends to dominate our roundups. This week Nike is back, with a strong showing that almost snagged all ten spots in our roundup.
I actually ended up cutting a few noteworthy Nike releases that I would’ve liked to talk about in an effort to streamline the list and make room for other brands. So if you’re a fan of Dunks and or the Air Max silhouette, be sure to look into the Air Max 1 Bronze or the Midnight Navy and White low-top Dunk, both are great designs but a bit throwaway in comparison with everything else dropping this week.
There are a lot of great shoes dropping and only so much closet space in the world. Let’s dive in.
Released to coincide with what would’ve been Kobe Bryant’s 44th birthday, the Kobe 8 Protro Halo sports a super clean triple-white colorway embroidered details over a low-cut design riding on a Nike React Foam insert. It’s been a minute since Nike has dropped any new Protro color ways so this is notable not just because it’s a dope design, but because it signals that Nike is gearing up to launch more Kobes.
The Nike Kobe 8 Protro Halo is out now for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or your favorite aftermarket site.
A Jordan designed for skating, the AJKO 1 Bred borrows a legendary colorway and dresses up an altered Jordan 1 silhouette in it. The upper is a mix of canvas and synthetic leather with crimson red branding and a white midsole. With its tough outer shell, this sneaker is designed to take a beating, allowing you to rock that classic Jordan style without fear that you’re messing up a coveted piece of footwear.
The Nike AJKO 1 Low Bred is out now for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
I love that Nike has brought back this mid-80s silhouette this year and this Dark Obsidian and Granite colorway is one of the best to drop so far. Inspired by one of the original colorways from the sneaker’s Be True To Your School ad campaign, this low top Terminator sports a crisp leather upper with large Nike branding at the heel.
The Nike Terminator Low Dark Obsidian and Granite is set to drop on August 24th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Cutting two Dunks from this list was just something we could not abide by, especially when you have a pair as dope as the Orange and Emerald Rise. Featuring a full fuzzy suede upper swapped in for the usual leather, this SB Dunk low refuses to let the summer season die with this vibrant and bright colorway that draws eyes and demands attention.
Featuring a mix of orange and emerald colors, the design is rounded out by a Lemon Chiffon outsole that looks a bit retro and aged.
The Nike SB Dunk Low Orange and Emerald Rise is set to drop on August 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Moody and ultra clean, this Air Jordan 1 in Atmosphere Grey is a near-perfect design. The sneaker features a slightly aged aesthetic (check out that yellowed midsole) for vintage appeal and sports a premium leather build with luxurious suede accents. It feels like a minor release considering how many great shoes are dropping this week but we think this one will join the ranks as one of the best Jordan 1 colorways of all time.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 Atmosphere Grey is set to drop on August 25th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
How do you elevate one of the greatest sneaker designs of all time? It’s simple, outfit it with some metallic detailing and call it a day. The Jordan 4 Frozen Moments features a premium semi-gloss leather and suede build with metallic silver elements on the wings, eyelets, and Jumpman logo.
The sneaker’s lining is a plus Snow White, which elements compliment the nearly monochromatic colorway.
The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 4 Frozen Moments is set to drop on August 26th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $210. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Nike Women’s Air Jordan 1 Elevate High x Bephies Beauty Supply x UNION Summer ‘96
A cross collaboration between Nike, UNION, and Bephies Beauty Supply, this Jordan 1 features a highly detailed woven design with aged accents, and colored stitching overall a beige and off-white colorway with orange accents, UNION tag branding, and Bephies branding at the heel with a dusty green wrap around swoosh.
The design rides on an elevated midsole for a bit more height and a chunky sole aesthetic.
The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 1 Elevate High x Bephies Beauty Supply x UNION Summer ’96 is set to drop on August 26th at 7:00 Am PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Nike Air Jordan 1 x Bephie’s Beauty Supply x UNION Summer ‘96
I have to say I’m pretty impressed that UNION produced two different designs for men and women’s sizes, rather than take the easy route and drop this sneaker in a full size run. This sneaker has the same design ethos as the women’s exclusive pair with aged accents, colored stitched, and a woven together design. I like it but I have to hand it to the women’s exclusive design, that would has a better colorway.
This is still without a doubt a very dope shoe though, but that’s what is expected out of UNION.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 x UNION x Bephie’s Beauty Supply is set to drop on August 26th at 7:00 Am PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
In his debut New Balance collaboration, Portland rapper Aminé looks to the 610 silhouette for a sneaker that captures some of that chill outdoorsy PNW vibe. Featuring mesh underlays with patent leather overlays and a mesh collar, this trail-ready sneaker sports rope lacing, ripstop accents, and banana graphics at the tongue with a banana-inspired colorway.
The shoe sports iridescent details for enhanced visibility, a co-branded tongue label, and a speckle midsole. Not a bad first sneaker from Aminé and further proof that New Balance is making a serious play for rappers with a distinct sense of style (see Action Bronson’s NBs).
The Aminé x New Balance 610 T is set to drop on August 25th at 7:00 a.m. PST for a retail price of $159.99. Pick up a pair via the New Balance webstore.
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Adidas Blonde Pro Model ADV Cloud White/Core Black/ Off White
Without a doubt Adidas owns the signature skatewear market and the brand’s greatest collaborator is Blondey McCoy who has his very own sneaker model with the three-stripes brand dubbed the ‘Blondey Pro.’
Featuring a translucent TPU upper with synthetic three-stripes, textile lining, and a rubber outsole and toe box, the latest Blondey Pro rocks a Cloud White, Core Black and Off White colorway with a custom Blondey sock liner and enhanced durability designed to hold up no matter how rough your street skate game is.
The Adidas Blondey Pro Model ADV Cloud White/Core Black/Off White are set to drop on Friday August 25th at 7:00 AM PDT for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair at the Adidas website.
Greene, who’s been practically begging to be Trump’s VP pick should he avoid jail time and make another run in 2024, took to Twitter yesterday to share a #MAGAMugshot of her own. The pic uses the same background as Trump’s own booking photo, complete with a Fulton County Sheriff’s label though, it must be said, MTG’s headshot sports better lighting. The Georgia Republican capped off her cringe attempt at comedy by licking the boots of her *checks notes “six-foot-three, 215 lb strawberry-blonde” overlord by claiming a government conspiracy is to blame for the latest round of felony charges.
I stand with President Trump against the commie DA Fani Willis who is nothing more than a political hitman tasked with taking out Biden’s top political opponent. “Persecution, not prosecution.” #MAGAMugshotpic.twitter.com/BLAJ16g6Je
Sycophantic grandstanding aside, what makes MTG’s post even more embarrassing is that she didn’t even start this weird fake mugshot trend — she just jumped on the bandwagon in the hopes that the bucket of spoiled lard she worships as her political diety might see it and look upon her fondly come next year’s election. The real credit for this absurd, desperate grab at relevancy goes to another unhinged white woman, Amy Kremer, the Women For America First Chair who plugged herself into the mugshot lineup alongside Trump cronies like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis despite never working for or (likely) meeting the man.
I stand with my colleagues fighting for election integrity.
Zach Bryan’s self-titled album is here. On the 16-track project, the country star invited a host of special guests to contribute to one of his most personal works to date, including War And Treaty, Sierra Ferrell, The Lumineers, and Kacey Musgraves. Of the offerings, Bryan and Musgraves’s song “I Remember Everything” is a painstaking tale of two lovers at the end of their romantic road.
From Bryan’s narration, the fictional love between him and Musgraves is perfectly flawed. “Rotgut whiskey’s gonna ease my mind / Beach towel rests on the dryin’ line / Do I remind you of your daddy in his ’88 Ford? / Labrador hangin’ out the passenger door / The sand from your hair is blowin’ in my eyes / Blame it on the beach, grown men don’t cry / Do you remember that beat down basement couch? / I’d sing you my love songs, and you’d tell me about / How your mama ran off and pawned her ring / I remember, I remember everything.”
However, Musgraves begs to differ, singing, “You’re drinkin’ everything to ease your mind / But when the hell are you gonna ease mine? / You’re like concrete feet in the summer heat / It burns like hell when two souls meet / No, you’ll never be the man that you always swore / But I’ll remember you singin’ in that ’88 Ford.”
The record, solely produced by Bryan, shows why country music has stood the test of time. Listen to the track above.
Zach Bryan is out now via Warner Records. Find more information here.
Zach Bryan is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Two weeks after the release of his new album, Porches, Reason appeared on The Breakfast Club to clarify one of the high-profile snafus that happened during the album’s rollout. A few days before the album’s release, Reason appeared on a livestream of the BACKONFIGG podcast, where he seemingly vented his frustrations about his label, TDE, prompting the label’s president, Moosa Tiffith, to call on and get into a heated back-and-forth with his artist.
In the course of the discussion, Moosa revealed that Reason was initially not a priority for his predecessor Dave Free, and joked that even the hosts on the podcast didn’t know any Reason songs. And while fans took the discourse as evidence of a rift between the artist and business partner, during his Breakfast Club interview, Reason asserted that while “it definitely shouldn’t” have happened in public, the discussion was just one of many and there’s no bad blood between them.
Asked if there was a problem between him and TDE, Reason said, “That entire situation, that was a conversation that me and Moo have had behind closed doors a lot…. it definitely shouldn’t have been out in the public. It’s a lot of misconceptions about that… Moosa loves this album. He helped me pick some of the records… It was just one of those things that got so nasty and ugly publicly that now, everything is ‘A Thing.’”
He elaborated that other comments he’d made accidentally fed into the narrative. For example, he’d said no one from the label came to his release party, but explained that the statement was taken out of context; he had previously had a label-led listening, but the release party was more private for family and friends. He also stood behind his statement about J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, clarifying that he didn’t think J. Cole would be bigger than his former labelmate, just bigger in general.
He also said he had more than 1,300 songs recorded… and reiterated that he wanted to put more out. You can see the full interview above.
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