On Today’s Show
February 12, 2019 9:35 amA UPS driver in North Carolina saved an elderly man’s life on Tuesday. He noticed the guy hadn’t gotten the package he dropped off on Friday. Eventually he found the guy inside, having a medical emergency. He’d been on the floor for days. The driver talked about it with the local news, and got a little emotional. He said he develops friendships with people, and with some elderly rural customers, the only people they see during the week are the FedEx guy, UPS, or the mailman.
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An elderly couple in Houston misplaced their spare car key, and started noticing changes in their car . . . like the seat and mirrors were different. Turns out a guy had been STEALING it every night, using it as a getaway vehicle while he broke into other people’s cars, and returning it before they woke up.
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ENTERTAINMENT
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” on Blu-ray/DVD (PG-13, Bio-Drama): The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury
- “Ralph Breaks the Internet” (PG, Animation/Kids): Six years after the events of “Wreck-It-Ralph,” (John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot)
- “The Favourite” (R-Rated, Drama): In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead.
(Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz)
- “Creed II” (PG-13, Action/Adventure): Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago.
(Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone)
- “The Frontrunner: (R-Rated, Drama/Mystery): American Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he’s caught in a scandalous love affair.
(Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons)
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Good news, “Modern Family” fans: The show has been renewed for an 11th season. Bad news, “Modern Family” fans: That’s where it ENDS.
Even if you’re a FORMER fan who dropped off, you might want to jump back on. ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke promises, quote, “more milestone events that anyone who has been a fan of the series won’t want to miss.”
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TODAY IS……………….
- “Darwin Day”, commemorating the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809). The day is to highlight Darwin’s contribution to science and to promote science in general.
- “Paul Bunyan Day”, celebrating the gigantic lumberjack of American folklore. According to the story, Bunyan and his blue ox ‘Babe’ travelled around country where he became known for his logging feats.
2011 [08] XXI Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver BC
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
FEBRUARY 12th, 1998 Alabama picks up three multi-platinum albums: “Mountain Music” is certified quintuple-platinum, “Roll On” hits quadruple-platinum, and “Greatest Hits, Volume III” reaches double-platinum
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Guy Tried to Scam an Elderly Man… the Former Head of the FBI and CIA
94-year-old William Webster of Washington D.C. and his wife, Lynda, got a call about four years ago from a man who threatened to set their house on fire or shoot them if they didn’t pay him thousands of dollars.
What the guy didn’t realize is . . . William is a LEGEND in law enforcement. He’s the only person who’s ever been the director of the FBI and the director of the CIA. He headed up the FBI from 1978 to 1987, and the CIA from 1987 to 1991.
So when he got the first scam call, he immediately called the FBI. And when the guy kept calling, William and Lynda kept alerting the FBI . . . and Lynda even had an agent listen in on one of the calls.
The FBI traced the calls to a 29-year-old man in Jamaica named Keniel Thomas. And when he flew to New York in 2017 to visit a friend, he was instantly arrested.
He’s been in jail ever since, and he was just sentenced to six years in prison for trying to scam the Websters and successfully scamming several other elderly people. He’ll be deported to Jamaica when his sentence is over.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
There’s an 18-year-old kid outside Des Moines, Iowa named Clay Walker who’s legally blind and has cerebral palsy. He was born four months premature, so it was kind of a miracle he even survived.
Anyway, he loves basketball so much that he decided to sign up for his high school basketball team. He’s almost totally blind, which makes it hard for him to really play. So even though he’s an official member of the team, it’s more like an honorary thing.
But that changed last Friday when his coach put him into a GAME for the first time.
He always wears his uniform and sits on the bench. And his coach wanted to get him in, because it was Senior Night.
And here’s the cool part: He only got to take one shot . . . his only shot of the season . . . and he DRAINED it from about 15 feet.
Obviously everyone went nuts. Even the players on the other team were clapping for him. Clay’s team was way behind, so the points were irrelevant. But winning and losing didn’t really matter.
One of his teammates said the only part of the night that TRULY mattered was Clay hitting that shot.
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BIRTHDAYS
[63] Arsenio Hall, TV host
[51] Josh Brolin, actor (“Hail, Caesar!”, “No Country For Old Men”)
COMING UP . . . “Avengers: Endgame”, 2019
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What’s the Weirdest Thing That Caused Your Kid to Have a Meltdown?
Toddlers are the biggest drama queens in the world. They can have a full meltdown anywhere, anytime. So someone online asked parents to name the most RIDICULOUS things that have caused their kid to lose it.
Here are the ten best ones we saw . . .
- “My toddler lost it because the imaginary door on his imaginary fire truck wouldn’t open, and he was stuck inside.”
- “Our daughter cried because she didn’t go to our wedding . . . seven years before she was born.”
- “My kid screamed at his balloons for an hour, because they wouldn’t stop floating.”
- “My son wanted me to wrap him like a burrito for bed, then got angry I wrapped him like a bean burrito . . . because he wanted to be a chicken-and-rice burrito.”
- “Our toddler cried because we didn’t have a ‘hamburger bun’ color in our colored pencil set.”
- “Our 18-month-old son had a meltdown, because I wouldn’t let him pour his apple juice on the cat.”
- “My daughter lost it because she wanted a twin sister . . . even though she already HAS a twin sister.”
- “My toddler got ticked off because the trees are taller than our house.”
- “My son lost it because I wouldn’t let him get into the car parked next to our car.”
- “My toddler loves being tickled, so I was tickling him one day. He [passed gas] and immediately started crying and screaming. I asked him why . . . and he replied, ‘I was saving that for later.'”
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USB Stick Found in New Zealand Seal Poop Somehow Still Works
Did you lose a USB stick while canoeing along the beaches of New Zealand? Well, you’re in luck. Researchers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research have found it — inside a piece of seal poop.
NIWA scientists have posted video from the still-working stick on social media, in the hopes of reuniting it with its owner. According to NIWA’s website, the poo — or “scat” — was collected by a vet examining a sick leopard seal and sent to marine biologist Krista Hupman, for her study on these arctic predators. Hupman had stuck it in the freezer, where it stayed for over a year until just three weeks ago, when researchers defrosted it and discovered something large and hard inside.
But amazingly, the drive still works and features photos and videos of sea lions frolicking in the water — along with the nose of a blue kayak, from which the footage appears to have been shot.
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RANDOM REPORT
- Mr. Tpicked that as his stage name because he saw white people disrespect his family members by calling them “boy,” so he decided to make sure everyone called him “Mister.”
- Only one person under 30 has ever won the Oscar for Best Actor . . . Adrien Brodywon for “The Pianist” when he was 29.
- Coffee tables are a result of prohibition. Before 1920, the tables in living rooms were called “cocktail tables.” But once alcohol became illegal, people started serving coffee to their guests instead, and the name “coffee table” stuck.
- The guy who invented the Slinky had a nervous breakdown, moved to Bolivia to be a missionary . . . or possibly join a cult, the details are sketchy . . . left his company to his wife, and never came back.
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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[63] Arsenio Hall, TV host
[51] Josh Brolin, actor (“Hail, Caesar!”, “No Country For Old Men”)
COMING UP . . . “Avengers: Endgame”, 2019
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- NHL
San Jose 7 Vancouver 2
Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 1
Washington 6 L.A. 4
Just when it looked like the Browns were finally putting things together, they signed former Kansas City Chiefs star KAREEM HUNT, who was caught on camera last year assaulting a woman. Kareem is expected to be suspended for most of next season, but apparently the Browns are willing to take the risk.
- Believe it or not, “America’s Got Talent”will launch its 14th season this summer, and there will be some changes again.
TERRY CREWS will replace TYRA BANKS as the host . . . and there will be two new judges: GABRIELLE UNION and JULIANNE HOUGH. They’re taking over for MEL B and HEIDI KLUM.
The other two judges, SIMON COWELL and HOWIE MANDEL, will be back. There’s no premiere date yet.
- Ellen DeGeneres talked Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman into letting her shave off his beard, in exchange for donating $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Boston.
- Here are some of the late night guys looking at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards.
(From Conan, Kimmel, and Corden)
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REBA TO RETURN AS HOST OF ACM AWARDS
Reba McEntire will be back to host this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, taking place in Las Vegas on April 7th.
This will be Reba’s 16th time to host the ACM Awards. The 54th Annual show will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
Reba will appear live on CBS This Morning on Wednesday, February 20th to reveal the nominees for the ACM Awards. Additional nominees will then be announced live on ETOnline.com. Tickets for the ceremony are available for purchase now at axs.com.
In other Reba news, she announced yesterday (Monday, February 11th) that her next album, called Stronger Than The Truth, will be released on Friday, April 5th.
LADY ANTEBELLUM OPEN VEGAS SHOW WITH ‘NO MAJOR GLITCHES’
Lady Antebellum opened their brand new “Our Kind of Vegas” residency at The Pearl Theater inside The Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas this past weekend. They played shows on both Friday (February 8th) and Saturday (February 9th), and as Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley tell us, it surprisingly went off without a hitch.[“Well, knock on wood, there were no major glitches, which is awesome. (Charles Kelley) I can’t believe. (Hillary) I know, it’s kind of a miracle. (Charles) It felt like we were amongst a lot of friends. That’s the thing about being in a venue this size too, you know. We’ve been playing in amphitheaters and arenas and you feel like you have to just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom because everybody’s been sitting out tailgating since twelve o’clock, you know drinking, and you can’t lull it too much. And we felt like we could take a breath and we could have some conversations with the crowd. It was just refreshing. It was everything we dreamed of.”]
Lady A’s “Our Kind of Vegas” continues with shows on Wednesday (February 13th), Friday (February 15th) and Saturday (February 16th).
Here are the remainder of the group’s Vegas dates:
May 10, 11, 15, 17, 18
Aug. 23, 24, 28, 30, 31
Lady A is currently working on a new album, their first since signing with Big Machine Label Group.
GARTH BROOKS HITS SPRING TRAINING WITH THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES – (02/12/2019)
Garth Brooks has signed a week-long contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and has already joined the team for some spring training. According to reports, Garth reported on Monday (February 11th), and will be with the team until late next week. No, he’s not changing careers. Garth is once again participating in his Teammates For Kids charity, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
This marks Garth’s fourth stint with a Major League Baseball club during pre-season, having previously trained with the San Diego Padres (1999), New York Mets (2000) and Kansas City Royals (2004).
To date, Garth’s Teammates for Kids Foundation has raised more than $100 million for children’s charities. The foundation pairs children with professional athletes.
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Turns out KACEY MUSGRAVES won Grammys in the same four categories that TAYLOR SWIFT did in 2010. And . . . Kacey is the FIRST female solo artist to win a Grammy for Best Country Album twice.
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This post was written by Dave Palmer