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Loyalty is Dead: 40 is Pusha T’s Deepthroat

ComplexPusha-T claims he actually first learned of Drake‘s son, which he then mentioned in his “Story of Adidon” diss track, thanks to Noah “40” Shebib.

First a quick history lesson.

Almost all blue-blooded Americans know the story of the Watergate Scandal, the saga of corruption and unethical behavior that brought down President Richard M. Nixon. Most, although I would guess less so, also know Nixon was exposed in large part by two young investigative journalists, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who gained most of their information from a mysterious source they communicated with in clandestine meetings and referred to as “Deep Throat”. It was either before porn took off or people had any sense of what a good BJ was, not sure which. Either way I doubt it caused as much of a giggle fest back then. Anyway, “Deep Throat”, as some suspected, finally revealed himself in 2005 to be Mark Felt, the 2nd in command of the FBI at the time of the Watergate Scandal. Pretty big news.

Now, acclaimed rapper, former dealer, Drake hater. and possible crazy person Pusha T has come out and stated that he had his own Deep Throat. What’s more, Push claims that it was not Kanye West who spilled the beans about Drake’s love child, as Aubrey claimed to some fuckboy in a barber shop, but that it was Drake’s right hand man and producer, Noah “40” Shebib.  Ouch.

Now I don’t know if this was true, and even if it was how much malice was behind it. I don’t think anyone, including Wheelchair Jimmy, knew Pusha T had beef with Drake before he dropped a random diss track.

Maybe even 40 was tipsy and let it slip, not thinking it was the deep dark secret Drake made it out to be. I mean really it is his fault. He’s fucking Drake. This was going to come out. Why even bother try and hide it?

Maybe just maybe, though, this is as nasty as it sounds. Drake has been using some other producers, trying some new stuff. I’d even be lying if I said I didn’t miss “Thank Me Later” and “So Far Gone” -era Drizzy. It’s possible 40 took exception to that. It’s also possible he took A LOT of exception to that. We’ll know soon enough.

Either way loyalty is dead. Vinateri went to the Colts. Johnny Damon and his noodle arm went to the Yankees. Now 40 has turned his back, possibly, on Drake. The biggest split in music since Lennon and McCartney.

My God have mercy on all of us.

(O wait Stephen Hawking said he doesn’t exist).

-Joey B

Sears is on the Brink of Collapse and I’m Absolutely Thrilled

USA Today – For years, there have been reports of Sears death spiraling toward the corporate graveyard alongside other popular brick-and-mortar retailers. The company, once one of the great brands of America, has managed to stay afloat in recent years by borrowing cash from its CEO and selling off desirable assets such as real-estate and brands. Now, reports say Sears is working with advisers to prepare to possibly file for bankruptcy, as soon as this week.

I’ve never rooted against a business as hard as I root against Sears. You can add K-Mart to that list as well since they’re owned by them. In 2018, Sears has no business being allowed to function as an actual store. Every time I go into Sears it is a god damn disaster. There’s never more than two people working the place in the same shift. You got one guy floating around the sales floor folding jeans leaving the registers completely baron while the other guy is out back having a smoke. And K-Mart? Oh boy, do not even get me started. That place is an indoor flea market.

Now I understand, jobs are being lost here and I do feel bad for those just trying to make a living. This anger is directed towards upper management. The same breed of greedy SOBs that put our favorite toy peddling giraffe out on the streets. Get with the times or get left behind. I do hope a company like Macy’s steps up to the plate and hires all 15 of Sears employees as an act of good faith though. It’s funny, because an unnamed 300s blogger actually used to work at Sears back in the day, so we can just pretend it was his fault the company is in shambles now.

RIP Sears. It was fun while it lasted.

Genius and Condescending Marketing Has Millennials Everywhere Fired Up to Vote

AOL – A campaign that aims to get millennials to register to vote turned heads by enlisting the help of actors posing as elderly, white Trump supporters. The ad, titled “They’re doing fine, are you?” was created as part of the Knock the Vote movement, started by ACRONYM, an organization that claims to be “the largest digital program focused on electing Democrats to state legislative seats across the country.”

In the cheeky one-minute PSA, a group of elderly white actors purported to be Trump supporters urges “young people” not to get out and vote on Election Day for a plethora of outrageous reasons.

This is A+ stuff. Whether you’re into politics or not, this video cuts right to the core. Don’t vote? Fuck you, I’ll vote twice. Well, not really since thats frowned upon, but you get the point. Tell me not to do something and the first thing I want to do is exactly that because I’m a golden retriever at heart.

It doesn’t matter how great of a marketing campaign any voting PSA creates though because none will ever top the GOAT.

The 300s Just Had Its Best Month EVER. Get On This Train Now Before It’s Too Late

So just a quick little update for everyone that takes the time out of their day to read this humble Boston blog from time to time. September was the best month EVER for The 300s.

And I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for reading, commenting, tweeting, and sharing our stuff. This site continues to grow as does The 300s brand as a whole. The 300s Podcast also had its best month ever, no big deal. We’ve got some new things in the works over the next few months so keep an eye out for all those announcements. In the meantime, lets take a look at the top posts from September, the top performing month since I started this operation way back in 2016.

Walmart is Now Selling Bitcoin for $1….Soo What’s the Catch?

Techcrunch – Walmart is now selling bitcoin for $1. But in a new spin on the volatile and ever-changing world of cryptocurrency, this digital currency is made of chocolate. Frankford bitcoins, are 1.42 ounces of milk chocolate wrapped in gold-colored foil made by Frankford Candy. They’re reminiscent of the regular old foil-wrapped milk chocolate coins of yesteryear. But of course, entirely different because they’re called bitcoin.

Walmart is now selling *chocolate* Bitcoin for $1. Chocolate being the key word here. Don’t think for a minute some dude isn’t going to throw a nutty when he thinks he found the greatest investment since 7-Minute Abs, only to realize his new fortune is melting in his pocket. People are dumb. People will 100% buy this thinking it’s real Bitcoin.

Ironically enough, its really not that much cheaper than actual Bitcoin these days. Back in the wild wild west of 2017, Papa G and I chased that wave. We both put some hard earned American dollars into Bitcoin hoping to cash in on an early investment. Welp, Bitcoin has plummeted from its heyday of about $20,000 per coin to about $6,000 per coin now. Or if you’re counting at home, about a 75% loss on my initial investment. Thats called ROI folks.

Papa G was smart enough to jump off a sinking ship, but I decided lets roll with it and maybe we’ll catch the next upswing. I’m holding out hope that I get to be George Costanza when he held his money in a secret stock and made a killing after Jerry dumped his shares too early.

Ever hear of a robot butcher?

Google and Facebook No Longer Require College Degree to Get a Job. Cool, Guess I’ll Just Throw Mine Out Now.

Washington Examiner – Big companies like Google, Apple, and IBM are no longer requiring applicants to hold a college degree. This is a significant change. Historically, employers have required a college degree whether or not it was necessary to do the job.

Welp, its official. The long con is complete. The world is no longer even pretending that my college degree is worth anything more than the paper it’s printed on.

I’ve been on both the Google and Facebook campuses and I can tell you those places are packed to the gills with people smarter than I could ever hope to be. So maybe they’re sick of having all type-A Mark Zuckerberg types bombing around the campus on their motorized skateboards? I don’t know, but what I do know is this officially ends the hope of any of us normies getting jobs at a mega company like Google or Facebook.

Now the guy who was smart enough to punt on going into massive college debt and take a few Codecademy classes instead is going to be jumping into the fray too? Welp, lets all hope the blog game catches fire because these college degrees no longer promise us anything; not even pretend value.

A New Game To The Site – Let’s Play: CONNECT. THAT. HEADLINE!

So in this game, we are going to take a headline that smashes two stories into one like a freshman (or 29 year old blogger) with whiskey dick. Our first contestant, from Yahoo:

Elon Musk revives claim that Thai cave rescue here is a “pedo” after denying he cried in interview

Well now. Having fun yet? So there are really three stories here, as a special surprise for our first round. The stories are a.)Elon Musk, fuckhead extraordinaire, called the guy who rescued the kids from that cave in Thailand b.)He already had called said hero diver a pedo, but no one listened because of his extraordinary fuckheadedness, so he yelled it again from the rooftops c.)O and he got called out for crying in an interview so added that he in fact, had not cried.

We’ll pause so you can guess what transpired. Ready?

Soooo I breezed through the story because I am STEADFAST to our readers (Hi Mr. and Mrs. Z!) that I refuse to do research. But it would seem all of this went down on twitter and Yahoo has sort of just summed up a day of his 280 character word vomit. He actually brought the crying thing up first. I guess the New York Times said while being interviewed he began crying over not being able to see his kids enough. Naturally, this segued into, “speaking of kids, remember that fucking creepy hero diver guy?!”

First of all my guy, some kids lost in a cave in a 3rd world country is old news the day after their rescued. I don’t think they were even on Oprah and I’m pretty sure she even interviewed the raft Elian floated over on. 2nd of all to categorically deny missing your kids is just unecessary. I get you need to hold up your robot reputation, but as the real Jeffrey Lebowski once said, strong men do cry.

 

Who Should Host SNL?

As much as college football and pumpkin spice lattes, the Saturday Night Live season premiere is a sure sign that summer is over and fall has arrived. SNL’s 44th season will kick off less than a month from now on September 29. No hosts or musical guests for the upcoming season have been announced yet but since they asked, here are the three guys I’d most like to see host SNL.

  1. Bill Burr A comedian’s comedian and a regular on the late night talk show circuit, Burr would kill on SNL. Burr did some work on Chappelle’s Show back in the day and would bring an edge to Saturday night that SNL hasn’t had in quite a while.
  2. Bob Odenkirk Well before he took on the role of Saul Goodman, Odenkirk wrote for SNL back in the late 80s and early 90s. While he didn’t find the success at SNL that other writers did, he did find sketch comedy success on HBO in the mid-90s with Tobia Funke David Cross on Mr. Show. Currently on one of the best shows on television, Odenkirk going back to 30 Rock to host SNL would be a great story of comedic redemption.
  3. John Krasinski He interned on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the same building back in 2000 and was a key player on The Office, one of the most important shows on NBC for nearly a decade. It’s hard to believe that this guy has never been invited to host in Studio 8H. With Jack Ryan dropping on Amazon Prime today, now seems like the perfect time for Krasinski to head back to 30 Rock.

And special mention goes to Christopher Walken, who tops my returning hosts list. Walken was a mainstay during my prime SNL viewing years, hosting seven times in the 90s and 2000s. It’s hard to believe he hasn’t appeared on SNL in more than a decade. Definitely need to see him walken through the doors at 8H this fall.

 

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Counterpoint: All Yeezy Clothes Are Trash

The300s (somehow)Despite that, Yeezy sneakers are actually fire flames. At least the Yeezy Boosts…some of the other Yeezy sneakers look like they came out of the Steph Curry “Dad has to mow the Lawn 7’s” batch.

Editor’s note: I disagree. 

I am going to make this so simple that whether you walk the catwalk at fashion week or you are a hillbilly with 3 pairs of overalls you are going to understand.

First and foremost: Style and fashion are 2 different things.

Style is how you choose to dress and present yourself. Fashion is when some chick who hasn’t eaten in 3 weeks wears a wedding cake in Paris and people call it “emotional” or “evoking early 1900’s Romanticism”.

Secondly: I understand I am a known Kanye West hater and therefore this position is going to be looked at as biased. However I am also so practical and  pragmatic it bothers even me sometimes. If it’s hot, it’s hot, if it’s cold, it’s cold and if it sucks, it sucks. I am unable to shake my own brain from the roots of common sense.

When it comes to the #1 case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in rap and his clothing line Yeezy’s piss-yellow, road-rashed clothes and piss-yellow, retiree-approved shoes Suck.Out.Loud. Horrendous. Disgusting. If you put that shit on your body you are a lesser human being. That is Said Narcissict’s “fashion”. That is not, in any way, shape, or form, “style”. Style is clothes that don’t look like they were the victim of a vindictive house cat and a distracted Caitlyn Jenner and shoes that aren’t from the closet of a nursing home resident whomsts’ Depends failed.

Don’t be one of those people. Don’t be someone who says, “well all of the cool kids have a hoarder for a mom and no washing machine.” You look like a dipshit now. You’ll look like a GIGANTIC dipshit in a few years.

Don’t be that guy. Don’t be a tREnD.

Delta Air Lines to Connect Worcester and Detroit

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Boston Herald – Delta Air Lines will begin a nonstop flight between Worcester and Detroit next year in a move that officials say will offer MetroWest travelers convenience and boost the city’s economy.

The flight between Worcester Regional Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Airport will be operated by Delta Connection carrier SkyWest Airlines and will give passengers more than 100 connecting opportunities, both domestic and international, according to the airline and the Massachusetts Port Authority.

 

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I’m shocked to hear that Delta Air Lines will be operating this flight. A direct flight between Worcester and Detroit had Southwest written all over it. Want to fly from Boston to Tampa? Have fun connecting in Chicago. Want to fly from one second-rate city to another, like Milwaukee to Cleveland, nonstop? You’re in luck with Southwest!

Look, I’m all for regional airports offering travelers more options. Let the free market do its thing. I fly a lot and more options means lower prices for everybody. Looking at the Worcester Regional Airport flight board today, it looks like JetBlue has two flights going to Florida from there today. If I were going to Disney I would take a hard look at Worcester. I just can’t imagine many folks were clamoring for more options to get to the Motor City.

“People will be able to fly to Detroit and, from there, to San Francisco, Las Vegas, China, Japan,” said Massport CEO Thomas P. Glynn. “It’s a good option for people in MetroWest.”

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That’s where you lose me, Tommy. If Detroit’s not my final destination, no way I am flying out of Worcester to get there via Motown. I’ll gladly pay the toll and sit in hours of traffic on the Mass Pike if it means not having to spend twenty minutes at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport Subway.

At least the people on the flights from Worcester to Detroit will have rows to themselves. No chance these flights will be more than half full. So we’ll see how long this lasts. Hopefully it’s part of a bigger plan to eventually attract airlines with more enticing destinations. Let me know when know I can fly from Worcester to San Diego, Phoenix or Vegas in the middle of winter and then I’ll start making plans.

In the meantime, I’ll bet Larry Lucchino is a happy man today.

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