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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2^ND                          –                                   WHAT’S HAPPENING

The Michigan Lottery is trying to find the holder of a $25,000-a-year-for-life lottery ticket that is due to expire in just one week. The lottery said the Lucky For Life ticket, which won a $25,000-a-year-for-life prize in a Jan. 1, 2018, drawing, will become worthless at 4:45 p.m. TODAY. (Michigan Lottery officials said Lucky For Life tickets usually expire exactly one year from the drawing, but the owner of the missing ticket has an extra day because Jan. 1 is a state holiday.) The ticket, which also offers an option to collect a one-time $390,000 lump sum, was purchased from the Picnic Basket store in Plymouth. Officials said the prize money will go to the state’s School Aid Fund if the winner fails to come forward before the deadline.

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In case you needed some nightmare fuel, here it is: a man in Gorman, Texas was working out in the woods on his property this weekend when he came upon an abandoned hunting shed.

Bobby Cowan and two of his friends noticed a rattlesnake making its way underneath the shed, so they used a machine to lift the structure in search of the snake. But instead they found dozens of rattlesnakes– Cowan estimates there were more than 30 under the shed.

The men used long sticks and trash cans to remove and relocate the rattlesnakes to another part of the property that was not near any livestock.

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ENTERTAINMENT

What a way to start off the New Year! Chrissy Teigen appeared on NBC’s New Year’s Eve segment Monday with Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones.

When the New Year turned and hugging commenced, Jones unwittingly jabbed Teigen in the face with an umbrella, creating the first viral celeb moment of the year. Thankfully, all is well!

Jones later Tweeted “I hug too hard what can I say,” Teigen replied to Jones when she tweeted her apologies, with a picture of her sending Jones a kiss.

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TODAY IS……………….

• “Happy Mew Year”, because cats insist on holidays all their own.

2008 [11] Oil reaches $100 US per barrel for the first time (today it’s about $45.50)

2009 [10] A rare, unrestored 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante Coupe is found in the garage of English surgeon Harold Carr, who’d died 2 years previous (a month later, it sells at auction in Paris for a whopping $4.4 million … thereby thrilling his heirs)

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

JANUARY 2^ND, 2003
Shania Twain was at #1 with her fourth studio album Up! The album debuted at #1 on both the Top Country Albums chart and the Billboard 200, after selling 874,000 copies in its first full week of release, it then stayed in the Top 100 of the Billboard chart for more than 60 weeks.

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A buffet of buffet facts:
Today (January 2^nd) is “National Buffet Day”

➢The concept arose in mid 17th century France, when gentleman callers would arrive unexpectedly at the homes of ladies they wanted to woo.

➢ It was during the expansion of the railroads throughout Europe that the smorgasbord buffet increased in popularity.

➢In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair exhibition, the Swedes used a smorgasbord to showcase the best of the Swedish food to visitors attending the fair.

➢The all-you-can-eat buffet made its restaurant debut in 1946, when it was introduced by Vegas hotel manager Herb MacDonald.

➢By the mid-1960s, virtually every casino in Las Vegas sported its own variation.

➢Today the casino buffet costs a bit more than the average $1.50 price of the 1960s, but the

buffets continue to be one of the best deals in Vegas and elsewhere.

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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS

Top Good News Stories of 2018

1. The Hockey Team for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High SchoolWon the State Championship.  It was less than two weeks after the tragic shooting that happened in February.

2. A Guy Donated Bone Marrow Just to Talk to a GirlStanding in Line . . . Then Ended Up Marrying Her and Saving a Kid’s Life

3. Someone Paid $1 Million to Buy Out a Toys “R” Us StoreBefore It Closed Down, and Then Gave Away All the Toys 

4. For 44 Years, a Wannabe DJDid a Show That Only His Wife Heard . . . Then Finally Got His Own One-Hour Radio Special 

5. A Jesus Statuein Toronto Stopped a Runaway Truck A truck driver near Toronto had to swerve to avoid a wreck on Monday, and may have gotten some help from ABOVE.

It’s not clear if his brakes malfunctioned or what.  But he was blowing through a red light, and had to swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid the intersection.

He didn’t stop though, and was still barreling toward a bunch of cars and pedestrians.  But luckily, the truck went right past a church . . . and stopped when it slammed into a JESUS statue.

The statue is a sculpture called “Homeless Jesus” by an artist named Timothy Schmalz.  It depicts Jesus lying on a park bench with a blanket over him.  And another version of it was blessed by the POPE back in 2013.

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BIRTHDAYS

[51] Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (“The Butler”, “Jerry Maguire”)

[48] Taye Diggs, actor

[44] Dax Shepard, actor

[36] Kate Bosworth, actress

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How Much Would You Pay for a Perfect Night of Sleep?

Imagine what it would be like to lay down in bed and sleep like a damn rock for eight hours without waking up even once.

How much would you pay for that perfect night of sleep? According to a new survey, the average answer is . . . $290.

Unfortunately, most of us could only afford to do that a few times . . . since that would add up to almost $106,000 over the course of a year.

The survey also found the average American got six hours and 17 minutes of sleep per night this year.

And we had 106 “perfect” nights of sleep . . . and 99 terrible ones.

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CABBIN’ PRESSURE:
The concept of “flying cars” has always been one that was thought of as something that will happen “in the future”, but it seems the future might be closer than you think.

About 12 companies are currently testing flying cars, or passenger drones, and experts predict that there will be 15,000 air taxis in the sky by 2035. Vertical takeoff and landing craft (VTOLs) could deliver people and goods across traffic-clogged cities in a fraction of the time it takes to drive, and take cars off the road at the same time.

Most air-taxis currently being developed run on battery power and could potentially transport their cargo at speeds of 150-330 km/h (90-200 mph).  At this point the question isn’t ‘if’ but ‘when’.

And the biggest obstacle isn’t in creating the vehicle, but in figuring out a safe way to integrate thousands of these vehicles into a safe air mobility system above heavily congested cities.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[51] Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (“The Butler”, “Jerry Maguire”)

[48] Taye Diggs, actor

[44] Dax Shepard, actor

[36] Kate Bosworth, actress

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1. NHL

The Boston Bruins beast the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 yesterday (January 1st) in the NHL’s Winter Classic. A sellout crowd of 76,126 was on hand for the 11th annual outdoor New Year’s Day game, which was played this year at Notre Dame.

Nashville 4          Philadelphia 0

Las Vegas 2         Los Angeles 0

NBA

Toronto 122        Utah 116              Kawhi Leonard career high 45 points

Raptors travel to San Antonio to face his former team and ex Raptor Demar DeRozen Thursday

WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY

Kazakhstan         vs            Denmark             2pm

Switzerland        vs            Sweden                               4pm

Finland                 vs            Canada                 6:30pm

Czech Republic  vs            USA                       8pm

Slovakia                vs            Russia                   10:30

2. • “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back” (FOX): The Season 2 premiere: Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell On Wheels” travels to the Trolley Stop Café, a classic Cajun-inspired restaurant in New Orleans.

Gordon Ramsay and his family rang in the New Year with some happy news. The 52-year-old has four children, Matilda, 17, 19-year-old twins Holly and Jack, and Megan, 20, with his wife Tana. The family broke the news in a video. Two years ago, Gordon shared the news of Tana’s “devastating” miscarriage.

• “The Masked Singer” (FOX): The premiere of the singing competition in which celebrity singers face off against each other while wearing elaborate costumes to hide their identities.

3. A 46-year-old guy in Maryland is facing charges after he made his five-year-old daughter steal a package off someone’s porch, then tried to blame her for it.

4. Apparently, the best way to keep your New Year’s resolution is by…keeping it a secret.  An NYU study found that telling others about your resolution makes you subconsciously believe that you have already partially succeeded in your goal – something that psychologists call “social reality”.  As a result, you tend to put less effort into actually achieving what you set out to do. And it seems that the more dedicated you are to your goals, the worse the effect is.

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MITCHELL TENPENNY’S ENTERTAINER FRIENDS HAVE HIS BACK 

Mitchell Tenpenny has found a welcoming group of supporters in his fellow singer/songwriters. While they’re all working towards the same goals and looking for their own space on Country radio, Mitchell tells us he’s always blown away by the support and encouragement he finds in friends like Devin Dawson, Brett Young and Luke Combs. 

Mitchell closed out 2018 with his first Number One hit with “Drunk Me,” and the release of his first major label album, Telling All My Secrets.

He joins Old Dominion on the Make It Sweet tour in February.

BROTHERS OSBORNE GAIN SUPPORT OF INDUSTRY, FANS

Brothers Osborne took home their third consecutive CMA Vocal Duo of the Year award this year adding to their collection of similar wins at the ACM Awards for the past two years. The brother duo is obviously connecting with both fans and industry in some way, and as far as TJ Osborne can figure, it’s because they don’t pretend to be anyone other than themselves.

Brothers Osborne kick off the new year with the continuation of their headlining tour in Chicago on January 10th.

DOLLY PARTON & FGL’S BRIAN KELLEY 

Brad Paisley’s wife, actress Kimberly Williams Paisley, and Julianne Hough, who once pursued a career in country music, have been tapped to play roles in Dolly Parton’s upcoming Netflix series, Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings. Deadline reports they will star in the “Jolene” installment of the series, with Julianne playing Jolene, Kimberly playing a wife and mother named Emily, and Dolly playing Babe, a local honky tonk owner who employs Jolene as a waitress.

Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and his wife, Brittney, recently renewed their wedding vows to celebrate their five-year wedding anniversary. Brian and Brittney tied the knot for the first time on December 16, 2013. According to a post on Brian’s social media, they said “I do” again last month in Big Sur, CA.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer