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April 16, 2019 9:30 am Published by

 

A retired teacher in L.A. was jogging on a treadmill at his local gym on Tuesday morning, when he got hit by a car.  A woman smashed her red Mercedes SUV through the glass wall in front of him, and took out a couple treadmills.  He got thrown into the back wall and covered in glass, but he’s okay.  The woman tried to leave, but an off duty cop stopped her.  It’s not clear why it happened.  Here’s the teacher and a gym employee.

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The local news in Georgia interrupted coverage of the Masters on Sunday afternoon, to do a tornado watch . . . and their meteorologist got death threats because of it.  They did a split screen for ten minutes, so people could see the Masters but not hear it, while they tracked a severe storm in the Atlanta area.  And a tornado did touch down an hour outside of Atlanta.  She addressed it on air later that day, and said the backlash was disgusting.

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ENTERTAINMENT

 

AMC has confirmed plans to launch a third “Walking Dead” series in 2020 that seeks to bring “new life” to the hit zombie franchise. The upcoming, as yet untitled drama series will stand alongside its predecessors “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead”, in an effort to allow the universe to grow. The third series, which will shoot in Virginia, will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.

 

 

Ryan Reynolds is behind “Don’t,” an original game show that has been picked up by ABC. “Don’t” is described as a “comedic physical game show” in which families of four are asked to perform various challenges. Each episode will focus on one family as they go through the “Don’t” tests. If they succeed, they’ll win a cash prize. But if the family fails a challenge, one of them will be eliminated. When just one contestant is left, the last remaining family member must compete on their own. Ryan Reynolds will co-executive produce the show.

 

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “Stress Awareness Day”, focusing on one of the world’s leading health problems. Stressed out? Research shows housecleaning for 20 minutes can help.

 

A new survey asked people how they DE-STRESS.  And the top three answers are watch TV or a movie . . . talk to family or friends . . . and EAT.

So what do we eat to feel less stressed?  The top three things are chocolate . . . potato chips . . . and cookies.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Tim McGraw‘s A Place In The Sun album was released in 1999.

 

A Place in the Sun was his 5th studio album. “Please Remember Me” was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal at the 2000 Grammy Awards. “My Best Friend” was nominated in the same category the following year.

This album produced the singles “Please Remember Me”, “Something Like That”, “My Best Friend”, “My Next Thirty Years” and “Some Things Never Change”; “Except for the #7-peaking “Some Things Never Change”, all the singles on this album reached number one

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RANDOM REPORT

  1. Hillary Clintonworked at a salmon cannery in Alaska after she graduated college, but got fired for being too slow at scooping out salmon guts.

 

  1. The first text message ever was sent on December 3rd, 1992 by a British engineer.  And it said “Merry Christmas.”

 

  1. Slot machines show fruit symbols because when they debuted in the late 1800s, some of the prizes really WERE those fruits.  By giving away fruit instead of money, companies avoided breaking gambling laws.

 

  1. The Havasupai Indians have a reservation near the floor of the Grand Canyon.  It’s the only place in America that gets mail delivered every day by MULE.

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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS

A guy named Jay Singh moved to the U.S. from India about 12 years ago, and owns a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio.  And last Saturday, he caught a teenager stealing from him, but decided NOT to press charges.

 

He noticed the kid acting suspicious, then called him out on it and told an employee to call 911.

The kid asked if he could just put the stuff back and leave.  But Jay made him put all of it on the counter, and it was all FOOD.

 

When he asked the kid why he was stealing, he said he was hungry.  And he was trying to get food for his younger brother too.

 

So Jay told the cops not to come.  Then he filled up a whole BAG with food, and GAVE it to the kid.

 

A customer named Cedric Bishop was there, and said the whole exchange made him pretty emotional.  Then he posted about it on Facebook, and the news picked it up.

 

Jay says he just didn’t want to ruin the kid’s life over it.  And in India, it’s considered a blessing to give food to someone who’s hungry.

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BIRTHDAYS

[67] Bill Belichick, NFL head coach (New England Patriots since 2000)

 

[54] Jon Cryer, actor (‘Alan Harper’ on “Two-and-a-Half Men”)

 

[54] Martin Lawrence

 

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BIOLOGICAL LIFE HACKS:
☞ When running, to go faster, pump your arms faster than your legs:  Your legs will follow suit.  Since the arms counter the legs, pumping the arms will cause the legs to move faster.  This technique is mainly used by sprinters.

☞ To see more clearly, make a hole by curling the fingers and look through it:  Believe it or not, doing so allows short- or long-sighted people to see or read something that they normally couldn’t without glasses.

☞ Fasting during a flight can help you avoid jet lag:  You can manipulate your body’s biological clock by manipulating your feeding clock.  When taking a long flight, do not eat at the airport or while aboard the plane.  Drink plenty of water, and eat close to local meal times when you land.

 

☞ A warm shower before bed can help you fall asleep much faster:  The shower spikes your body temperature.  After you towel off, you feel a chilling effect. This lowers your body temperature, indicating to the brain that it’s time for sleep.

 

☞ To stop hiccups, eat a spoonful of creamy peanut butter very slowly:  Take a spoonful of peanut butter and hold it in your mouth for five seconds. Then, swallow it very slowly. You will notice that your hiccups will stop immediately.

 

☞ To cure a headache, pinch the area between your thumb and index finger:  This is called ‘acupressure’.   Pinch the area for 10 seconds. Then, using the thumb of your other hand, make small clockwise circles on this area for 10 seconds. Then make anticlockwise circles for 10 seconds. Then repeat the whole process on the other hand.

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NETFIX:
Binge-watching may not be a totally new concept, but it is quickly becoming the new normal.

 

A Netflix study found that 61% of users binge-watched shows regularly.  And that was 6 years ago.  So, what is it that makes us decide to watch just one more episode as the clock ticks past midnight on a worknight?

It’s because your brain treats binge-watching like an addiction. A Clinical psychologist says that binge-watching a show produces a continuous stream of dopamine in our brains.

Like some drugs, that tells your brain, “This feels good. You should keep doing this!”

 

And just like gambling and other behavioral addictions, binge-watching eventually produces less dopamine, and it takes more of the same activity to get the same feeling of enjoyment, making it even harder to stop.

 

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Disney Finally Releases the Pricing, Premiere, and Launch Details for Its Would-Be Netflix Killer, Disney+

Disney has FINALLY released a bunch of information on their upcoming streaming service, Disney+.  They’re hoping it’s a Netflix-killer, but in reality, it’s yet ANOTHER streaming service that’s reaching for your wallet.

 

Here’s what we know:

Disney+ will launch November 12th . . . and it’ll cost $6.99 a month, which isn’t bad.  But enjoy it while it lasts . . . that’s probably just the introductory price, and at some point they’ll start jacking it up, Netflix-style.

 

You can also save a few bucks by choosing the $69.99 annual plan.

 

Like Netflix, there won’t be any ads.  And Disney will likely bundle Disney+ with its other streaming products, ESPN+, and Hulu, but there aren’t any details yet.

 

On Day One, it’ll be stocked with programming from across their vast library, including 18 Pixar movies, 13 animated classics that have previously been locked inside the Disney ‘vault,’ all the “Star Wars” films . . .

 

Marvel titles like “Black Panther” and “Captain Marvel”, some 250 hours of National Geographic programming, 100 Disney Channel Original Movies, and “nine exclusive originals.”

Also, Disney+ will become the EXCLUSIVE streaming home for the entire 660-episode-plus library of “The Simpsons”.  They acquired the show as part of their recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox.

 

There will be new stuff too . . .

They’ve announced multiple Marvel shows:  Tom Hiddleston will star in “Loki”.

Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan are teaming up for “The Falcon and Winter Soldier”.  And Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany will reprise their roles as Wanda Maximoff and The Vision in a series titled “WandaVision”.

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TUESDAY APRIL 16TH                                          

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[67] Bill Belichick, NFL head coach (New England Patriots since 2000)

[54] Jon Cryer, actor (‘Alan Harper’ on “Two-and-a-Half Men”)

[54] Martin Lawrence

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  1. Notre Dame caught on fire yesterday . . . the famous 850-year-old cathedral in Paris, not the college.  It’s not clear what caused it, but it had been undergoing restoration efforts.  It took 400 firefighters to get it under control, but not before the spire on top collapsed and two thirds of the roof was destroyed.  We’re talking oak from the 13th century.  The two main stone towers in front weren’t damaged.  Crowds of people in Paris sang hymns outside while it happened, to show solidarity.

 

  1. NHL

Toronto Maple Leafs 3, Boston Bruins 2 — Toronto leads 2 games to 1

Carolina Hurricanes 5, Washington Capitals 0 — Washington leads 2 games to 1

Nashville Predators 3, Dallas Stars 2 — Nashville leads 2 games to 1

Colorado Avalanche 6, Calgary Flames 2 — Colorado leads 2 games to 1

 

MLB

Toronto           5          Minnesota       3

The Tigers had the night off

 

  1. The ending of the Boston Marathon yesterday was a photo finish.  A guy from Kenya was in second place behind a guy from Ethiopia, but sprinted the last block to win by two-tenths of a second.

 

  1. Bed, Bath & Beyond rebranding, “Game of Thrones” ratings, and Delta reducing the amount you can recline your seat.  (From Fallon, Conan, and Seth on Monday April 15, 2019.  Colbert was in England not telling jokes, and Kimmel missed the cut.)

 

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KANE BROWN AND WIFE EXPECTING FIRST CHILD

Kane Brown is going to be a dad! He and his wife, Katelyn, are expecting their first child. They both shared the big news on their respective Instagram pages yesterday (Monday, April 15th) with Kane sharing an ultrasound picture writing, “It’s been so hard keeping this a secret!!!!! But the KB’S ARE GONNA BE PARENTS!!! KB3 IM GONNA BE A DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”   The couple have yet to announce a due date.

Kane and Katelyn tied the knot in October of last year.

 

THOMAS RHETT DESCRIBES UPCOMING ALBUM AS ‘VERY NOSTALGIC’

Thomas Rhett’s upcoming album, Center Point Road, digs back in time to his formative years growing up in a suburb of Nashville. He tells us: [“Center Point Road is a street that I grew up on 20 minutes north of Nashville in a town called Hendersonville, and so much of the songs on this album really were shaped from just past experiences of being in high school and in college and being young and successes and failures and all the firsts and all the disasters in your life. I think I got to pull out of inspiration from that so on this record I kind of went a little more rootsy and just very, very, very nostalgic on this record so I think people are gonna really enjoy it.”]

Center Point Road will be released on May 31st.

 

 

CARRIE UNDERWOOD JUMPED AT CHANCE TO BE PART OF ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ SOUNDTRACK –

Carrie Underwood’s latest hit, “Love Wins,” is featured on the soundtrack of the new film, Breakthrough, which stars Chrissy Metz, Josh Lucas and Topher Grace. Carrie was out on the road promoting her latest album, Cry Pretty, when the movie people came calling. She tells us: [“They sent us the movie to watch ‘cause I definitely wanted to get to see it before I could say yes, I want to be a part of that, and the second it was over, I said, ‘Yes. I want to be a part of this.’ It’s such an inspiring movie. I just think it something that everybody will be able to relate to in some way or another, and it’s such an inspiring film. I cried my way through it. I was bawling about 10 minutes in (laughs), in a good way, but, yeah, I’m just always happy when I can be part of things that can inspire and I was honored that they wanted to use ‘Love Wins’ in the movie.”] SOUNDCUE (:36 OC: . . . in the movie.)

Breakthrough arrives in theaters on April 17th.

 

 

’90s Country Star Hal Ketchum is Suffering from Alzheimer’s

HAL KETCHUM has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and is retiring from the road.

His wife Andrea revealed the news on Facebook.  She said, quote, “Unfortunately, Hal is suffering from Alzheimer’s / Dementia.

“He has been battling this for some time now, but because of his love for his fans, he continued performing as long as it was possible.  Dementia is an exhausting and confusing illness and it’s time for Hal to stay home with loved ones.

Hal charted 13 country songs in the ’90s.  You may recognize SMALL TOWN SATURDAY NIGHT“ or HEARTS ARE GONNA ROLL

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer