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April 22, 2019 9:30 am Published by

There’s a stigma about peeing in the shower . . . but maybe there shouldn’t be.

There’s an article going viral right now making a case for why we should all pee in the shower.  It’s because in the U.S. alone they would save 1.3 TRILLION GALLONS of water a year by not flushing the toilet all those times.

(By the way, 80% of people say they DO pee in the shower.)

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This could be really interesting, or a FABULOUS DISASTER.  ABC is staging LIVE remakes of episodes of “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons”.

The show will air on May 22nd.  It’ll be 90 minutes long, and Jimmy Kimmel will co-host it with Norman Lear, who created both shows.  And the cast that’s been announced so far is phenomenal:

Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, and Ellie Kemper will play their daughter Gloria.

Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will play George and “Weezie” Jefferson.  Justina Machado from the “One Day at a Time”reboot and “Jane the Virgin” will play their maid, Florence.

And Will Ferrell will play their white neighbor Tom Willis.

The rest of the cast will be announced later.

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ENTERTAINMENT

The box office tornado known as “Avengers: Endgame” descends upon us Friday.  This weekend was obviously the calm before the storm . . . with the horror movie “The Curse of La Llorona” taking the top spot with a mere $26.5 million.

This was the worst Easter weekend in 14 years.

 

 

On “The Late Late Show,” Rob Lowe said he turned down “Grey’s Anatomy” for a show called “Dr. Vegas” and that decision cost him at least 70 million dollars.

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “Earth Day”, the 46th anniversary of the international celebration of the planet we all call home. Begun in 1970, it’s now the largest environmental event worldwide.
  • “Jelly Bean Day”. Originally, they only came in a few colors but nowadays you can get them in lip-smacking flavors like Toasted Marshmallow, Café Latte, and Piña Colada.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Ronnie Milsap, Mac Wiseman and songwriter Hank Cochran were announced as the 2014 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees during a press conference in the Hall of Fame’s Rotunda Room in 2014.

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RANDOM REPORT

  1. Champagne corks kill around 24 people a year . . . meaning they cause more death than sharks.

 

  1. “Aladdin 2: The Return of Jafar” was Disney’s first direct-to-video sequel.  It became one of the top 15 best selling videos of all time, so they started making direct-to-video sequels for pretty much all their movies.

 

  1. The term “trick-or-treat” is from Canada.  The first time in recorded history it was ever used was in a newspaper in Blackie, Alberta in 1927.

 

  1. Penn Jilletteof Penn and Teller has a patent for a hot tub . . . with jets strategically placed to stimulate the ladies underwater.  It’s never been manufactured, but he has a prototype . . . in his house.

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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS

If you haven’t heard about this, it’s pretty cool.  A 34-year-old woman named Tammy Lewis used to hold the record for the smallest premature baby who’d ever survived in a Texas hospital.

 

She was born three and a half months early in Temple, Texas, about 70 miles north of Austin.  And she weighed 1 pound 4 ounces at birth, but had some very good doctors and nurses, and survived.

 

And now at age 34, she’s returning the favor . . . by working as a nurse at the SAME hospital that saved her life.

 

She’s a respiratory therapist in the neonatal intensive care unit.  So she helps save OTHER premature babies that wouldn’t make it on their own.

 

She’s been there for a while, but a local news station did a story on her this month.  When she first started, she says some of the doctors and nurses who saved her were still there.  So she got to work with them.

 

She says she knew she wanted to work there when she first started training to be a nurse.  And she hopes her story gives her patients’ parents a little more hope.

 

There’s even a poster in the hospital with her photo on it, so everyone knows her story.

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BIRTHDAYS

[82] Jack Nicholson, actor/3-time Oscar winner

 

[33] Amber Heard, actress

 

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Happy Earth Day! Here Are Five New Stats on Our Recycling Habits

A new survey for Earth Day found 62% of us are worried we’re not recycling right, because we don’t know what can and can’t be recycled.

 

Here are two of the most common things we get wrong . . .

 

68% of us think used plastic utensils can be recycled.  And technically, they can.  But it costs too much.  So most recycling plants won’t do it.

 

And 53% of us think greasy pizza boxes should go in the recycling bin.  But they can’t be recycled either.  Here are five more recycling stats for Earth Day . . .

 

 

  1. 82% want to be more environmentally friendly.  But only 31% of people said they always recycle.

 

 

  1. The average person throws out five things a week that could be recycled instead.

 

 

  1. Three in ten are now using reusable water bottles instead of plastic.  And 29% of us try to avoid straws too.

 

 

  1. 83% of us would be willing to pay extra for products if they were more environmentally friendly.

 

 

  1. Our top five excuses for not recycling are:  “It’s not convenient enough” . . . “I don’t have space for the extra bin” . . . “I don’t have time to separate my recycling” . . . “I don’t have enough information about how to do it” . . . and, “I’m too lazy.”

 

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LOTTO MAX CHANGES

A ticket holder in Ontario won the $13.4-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The draw’s guaranteed $1-million prize also went to a player in Ontario.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on April 24 will be approximately $5 million.

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $25.5 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

That means the jackpot for the next draw on April 26 will grow to approximately $35 million

 

Beginning May 11, Lotto Max players will be able to purchase tickets for the regular Friday draws as well as a new weekly draw on Tuesdays.

 

Additionally, the maximum jackpot will increase from $60 million to $70 million.

 

Before Lotto Max players get too excited, however, the odds of winning will actually decrease under the new system. Come May, gamblers will be able to choose numbers between 1 and 50 instead of the previous available options of 1 and 49.

 

With the additional number, the odds of winning the jackpot jumps from 1 in 28 million to 1 in 33 million.

 

They will add two new lower-tier bonus prizes and Maxmillion prizes will continue to be added when the jackpot reaches $50 million. The $5 cost per play will remain the same.

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THERE MAY BE A COPY OF WIKIPEDIA . . . ON THE MOON

There may be a copy of Wikipedia on the moon — but no one knows exactly where.

 

In addition, there’s also a library of 30,000 books and 5,000 languages. The project was started by the Arch Foundation — the same company that gave Elon Musk a test copy of Isaac Asimov‘s Foundation Trilogy to put aboard his spacebound Tesla Roadster.

 

The Arch Lunar Library contains 100GB, or 30 million pages of text and pictures and it’s embedded in 25 nickel disks in the tiniest type you can imagine. This library was supposed to be delivered to the surface of the moon by Israel’s Beresheet Mission last week. But, after a glitch that turned its engine off and on again at the most crucial moment, the Beresheet lander smashed into the moon at 300 miles per hour.

 

But there’s good news! Those disks were designed to be indestructible. And the Arch Foundation is pretty sure its payload survived the crash.

 

Arch Mission co-founder Nova Spivack said, “We have either installed the first library on the moon, or we have installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon.”

 

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MONDAY APRIL 22ND                                          

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[82] Jack Nicholson, actor/3-time Oscar winner

[33] Amber Heard, actress

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  1. NHL

Colorado Avalanche 5, Calgary Flames 1 – Colorado wins 4-1

St. Louis Blues 3, Winnipeg Jets 2 – St. Louis wins 4-2

Dallas Stars 5, Nashville Predators 3 – Dallas leads 3-2

Washington Capitals 6, Carolina Hurricanes 0 – Washington leads 3-2

Boston Bruins 4, Toronto Maple Leafs 2 — Series tied 3-3

San Jose Sharks 2, Vegas Golden Knights 1 — Series tied 3-3

 

  1. Lorraine Warren died . . . she’s the paranormal investigator depicted in the “Conjuring” movies.  She was 92 and died in her sleep.  Her husband Ed was a demonologist, and together they investigated the house from the original “Amityville Horror”, and the haunted doll from the “Annabelle” movies.

 

  1. No winning ticket was sold for the $25.5 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

That means the jackpot for the next draw on April 26 will grow to approximately $35 million

 

A ticket holder in Ontario won the $13.4-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The draw’s guaranteed $1-million prize also went to a player in Ontario.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on April 24 will be approximately $5 million.

 

  1. It’s all Jimmy Fallon for the best in late night over the weekend because he was the only one telling jokes. (From “The Tonight Show” on Friday, April 19, 2019.  Colbert was doing commentary, SNL was a rerun and the others were off.)

 

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GARTH BROOKS SETS ANOTHER STADIUM RECORD – (04/22/2019)

Over the weekend (Saturday April 20), Garth Brooks’ Stadium Tour stopped in at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Ticket sales went beyond 75,000 and that made it the largest ever for any non-athletic event at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Only three shows into the tour and each stop has set a record. [“We’ve got some pretty cool cities that are comin’ up. This has been…this has been the sweetest tour so far. And I was amazed, you know, because the shows – there’s not six in a city or five in a city. There’s just one with the exception of St. Paul-Minneapolis, but…I gotta tell ya – the fun I’m having at the one…and all the things that surround it…it really makes it almost feel more like a family than when you got to go camp there for six or seven days.”]

FAST FACTS

The stadium ranks among the 20 largest in the world and has nearly 90 years of history behind it.

Garth’s show was the first concert to be held at the historic venue in 25 years.

 

 

CARRIE UNDERWOOD ON NEW TOUR: ‘FANS WILL BE ABLE TO FEEL THE LOVE’ – (04/16/2019)

Carrie Underwood has been busy rehearsing for her upcoming Cry Pretty Tour 360, which kicks off in just a few weeks. She tells us she and her band and crew have worked really hard to bring a brand new show to the fans.[“It is super crazy that the Cry Pretty Tour 360 starts May 1st, because it’s right around the corner. Rehearsals have been going really great. I feel like every year and every album, everybody gets more comfortable with each other and people just have even more fun on stage. I feel like fans are really going to be able to feel the love and all the hard work that has gone into this tour.”]

The Cry Pretty Tour 360 also features Maddie & Tae and Runaway June. Their first show is on May 1st in Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

 

BLAKE SHELTON TO PERFORM CONCERT TO BENEFIT ‘MUSICIANS ON CALL’ – (04/22/2019)

Next month, Blake Shelton will perform at Musicians On Call’s 20th Anniversary Kick-Off Celebration.

Proceeds will help the non-profit bring live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities such as children’s hospitals, VA hospitals, and hospices.

Along with the performance, a silent auction will be held and artist Lauren Alaina will receive the Music Heals Award thanks to her commitment to volunteering

The show will be held May 31 at a small theatre inside the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

 

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer