On Today’s Show

In advance of a new noise bylaw coming into effect this October, Toronto Police and City of Toronto bylaw officers held a press conference g to announce a blitz aimed at drivers whose vehicles “have been modified, altered or used in a way that is excessively noisy.”

Officials are taking particular aim at people who blast music from their vehicles, rev their motorcycles, honk their horns ad nauseum, have booming mufflers or participate in stunt driving. Toronto Mayor John Tory went on to say that the problem extends beyond the downtown core, that residents are continuously filing complaints about it, and that there really is no excuse for what these drivers are doing and he repeated something his wife says. . . that guys who drive loud cars are compensating for something…..

Those caught will face fines of up to $155 per offence.

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After an infant was born on July 11 (7/11) at 7:11 p.m. weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces, 7-Eleven pledged $7,111 toward a college fund for her. Baby Aime Brown stunned parents Johntez Brown and Rachel Langford with her coincidental timing. Once news of the baby caught on, the couple said they planned to alert the company of the birth. After catching wind of the incredible news, 7-Eleven decided to pledge $7,111 to the newborns college fund to honor her entry to the world it told the news outlet. Along with this pledge, the brand has also provided the family with diapers, 7-Eleven onesies and other newborn goodies.

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ENTERTAINMENT

QUENTIN TARANTINO’s new movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” had a strong opening weekend at the box office, raking in $40.4 million.

But as expected, it was still second to “The Lion King”, which made another $75.5 million in its second week.

3. “Spider-Man: Far From Home”, $12.2 million.  Up to $344.5 in its 4th week.

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If you thought the “Baby Shark” craze was FINALLY starting to come to an end. . . you were wrong.

Kellogg’s just announced it will be launching a “Baby Shark” cereal in August.  It’s berry-flavored loops with actual marshmallows in it.

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TODAY IS……………….

• “National Chicken Wing Day”, first proclaimed in 1977 by Buffalo NY mayor Stan Makowski. Legend has it that spicy “Buffalo Wings” were invented at the city’s Anchor Bar in 1964.

• “Rain Day” in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, an annual festival that started when a local farmer noticed it always seems to rain on July 29th. They now claim it’s rained on this date in 115 of the 145 years since.

2005 [14] An anonymous bidder plays $1 million at auction for the original handwritten lyrics to The Beatles’ ‘All You Need Is Love’

2013 [06] In one of the largest-ever jewelry heists, close to €103 million in diamonds and other jewels are stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel diamond show in Cannes, France

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Josh Turner‘s single “Long Black Train” was released in 2003.

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Monday Is the Most Productive Day of the Week . . .

When are you ACTUALLY powering through stuff at your job, not just half working, half randomly going down rabbit holes on YouTube?

According to a new survey, workers say they’re the most productive on Mondays . . . and productivity goes down just a little bit every day after that.

29% of people feel most productive on Mondays . . . 27% peak on Tuesdays . . . 20% on Wednesdays . . . 13% on Thursdays . . . and only 11% on Fridays.

The survey also found that 44% of people say they’re most productive early in the morning.

31% are best in the late morning . . . 2% at lunch time . . . 14% in the early afternoon . . . 6% in the late afternoon . . . and 2% at night.

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RANDOM REPORT

1. The guy who invented USB wanted it to be flippable, but that doubled the cost, so we got what we got:  USB devices that only plug in one way.  And always, somehow, the opposite of the way you try to plug them in on your first try.

2. Belize is the only country in Central America that’s never gotten a visit from a U.S. president, even though we’ve always had good relations with them.

3. “The Jetsons”came out 57 years ago, in 1962 . . . and was set in 2062, which is 43 years from now.  In other words, we’re now much closer to the future it predicted than the year it came out.

4. The reason your fingers prune up in water is so it’s easier to grab wet things.

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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS

New York Mets outfielder JEFF MCNEIL is among the National League leaders in batting.  So he probably didn’t need a good luck charm.  But now he’s got one anyway . . .

An animal shelter in New York brought some puppies down on the field during warmups on Friday.  And it turns out Jeff REALLY likes puppies.

He posed for a photo with one, and said he wanted to adopt it.  But he had to clear it with his wife first.  Then in the third inning, he hit a three-run homer.  And he gave the PUPPY credit for it after the game. He said he was planning to use it as a bargaining chip to convince his wife Tatiana that the puppy’s good luck.

And apparently she bought it.  Because they adopted it the next day.

(In other SPORTS GOOD NEWS:  A 10-year-old Make-A-Wish kid named Nico Sapienza hung out with Red Sox star Mookie Betts before their game on Friday, and asked him to hit a home run for him.  So Mookie went out and hit THREE of them. 

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BIRTHDAYS

[53] Martina McBride, country singer

[47] Wil Wheaton, actor

[45] Josh Radnor, actor (Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mother” 2005-14)

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Woman Wins the Lottery, Then Gets Busted for Drugs Hours Later

A 59-year-old woman in Deltona, Florida named Migdalia Cruz recently won $20,000 on a scratch-off ticket.  And she took her 39-year-old son Luis with her to claim her money on Tuesday.

Then a few hours later, they both got arrested for DRUGS. Right after they got home, police showed up with a warrant.  And the son had three bags of heroin and fentanyl on him.

We’re assuming they used some of their winnings to buy the drugs, but it’s not clear.  And it sounds like they were already on the cops’ radar for dealing.

Police found more drugs when they searched their house, and arrested both of them.  Another woman who was there also got arrested.

The mom got released on $5,000 bail.  Last we heard, the son was still being held on a $36,000 bond.

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Woman Gets a DUI for Pouring Hennessy Into a Taco Bell Drive-Thru Worker’s Mouth

23-year-old Elianna Aguilar-Aguilar from Cornelius, Oregon was going to a Taco bell drive thru around  1:20 A.M. on Saturday.

And for some reason, she wound up whipping out a bottle of Hennessy . . . and POURING it into the drive thru worker’s MOUTH.  And he clearly had to be willing, since that’s not exactly a stunt you can pull off without cooperation.

But Elianna’s generosity backfired . . . because a cop randomly happened to be behind her in the drive-thru line and saw the entire thing go down.

He pulled her over and her blood-alcohol level was .12, which is above the legal limit of .08, so she was arrested for a DUI.

As for the drive-thru employee, the cops say they talked to him and he said he didn’t know Elianna . . . and he didn’t drink most of the Hennessy because it spilled on his shirt.

There’s no word on what Taco Bell thinks of him drinking on the job.

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There’s a Petition to Change the Date of Halloween . . . and It Has 100,000 Signatures

Halloween has been on October 31st for all of our lifetimes.  But does it HAVE to be?

There’s an online petition right now to change the date of Halloween from October 31st to the last Saturday in October.

The thinking is that it’d be better for everyone if it were on a Saturday . . . from parents looking to take their kids trick-or-treating to people in their 20s looking to party.

So far, the petition on Change.org has around 100,000 signatures.  When a petition crosses the 75,000 mark, it’s sent to the president so . . . I guess we’ll see what happens with that.

For what it’s worth, this petition has been going since last year . . . but it’s finally getting more steam now, so maybe this time it’ll have a shot?

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A Study Finds a Great Way to Lose Weight Is . . . Stop Eating After 2:00 P.M.

Apparently you can lose weight without having to cut your calories or carbs or sugar.  You just have to cut out dinner.

A new study by the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that when people only ate between 8:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. it helped them burn way more fat than people eating three meals a day . . . even though they ate the same number of calories.

The people who stopped eating at 2:00 P.M. also found themselves hungry less often than the people who were eating all day long . . . which is basically the opposite of what you’d think.

So why does this happen?  The researchers think your body quickly adapts to eating less often and produces less of the hormone ghrelin that makes you hungry . . . and more of the hormone peptide YY that makes you feel full.

The researchers say they’re REALLY optimistic about the success people can have with the plan because they’re not feeling as hungry . . . so they’re not as likely to break the diet.

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MONDAY JULY 29^TH                                          

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[53] Martina McBride, country singer

[47] Wil Wheaton, actor

[45] Josh Radnor, actor (Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mother” 2005-14)

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1. There was a mass shooting last night at the world famous Gilroy Garlic Festival in northern California, just south of San Jose.  Here’s Gilroy Chief of Police, Scot Smithee, commenting on how quickly police at the scene shot and killed the suspect, and that there may be another suspect.  Five were killed and more than a dozen wounded.

2. QUENTIN TARANTINO’s new movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”had a strong opening weekend at the box office, raking in $40.4 million.

But as expected, it was still second to “The Lion King”, which made another $75.5 million in its second week.

3. “Spider-Man: Far From Home”, $12.2 million.  Up to $344.5 in its 4th week.

3. 3. No winning ticket for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.

However, the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on July 31 will be approximately $9 million.

Someone who bought a Lotto Max ticket in Richmond, BC is about to be $60 million richer.

A single ticket claimed the jackpot Friday night. Friday night’s draw included six Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, however, none of them were won.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on July 30 will be approximately $16 million

According to Lotto Max, they are now looking for the Canadian who is the winner of a $60 million unclaimed Edmonton lottery ticket which has been unclaimed since October 26, 2018. As the year anniversary rolls closer, Lotto Max is hoping to find the winner of the ticket, as only three months remain to claim the large, life-changing prize.

4. Here’s Jerry Seinfeld about call waiting.  He says people on call waiting seem like souls that have left their bodies, stranded in time.

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BRETT YOUNG AND WIFE ‘NARROWING’ LIST OF BABY NAMES 

Brett Young and his wife, Taylor, are in the process of trying to decide on a name for their baby girl, who is due this fall. They have been keeping track of names they like, but as Brett tells us, whittling it down and agreeing on several, much less one, is no easy task.[“Both me and my wife had like running lists but neither of us had the name. You know, it was just whenever we would think of or see something we liked, it’d go into the boy column or the girl column. And so what was interesting is when we found out it was a girl we went and A/B’ed our girl column and a lot of them were the same. And so that’s a good thing, but also the problem with that is that now you have a ton that you have to whittle down. The good news is, is we’re whittling down from names we both had in lists.  But we’re still narrowing.  We’re not quite there yet.  I think the fun thing about naming a child is, I’m not one of those people that thinks you have to see the baby’s face before you know what their name is. I think they become their name. So it’s gonna be fun watching her grow into whatever her name ends up being.”]

In the meantime, Brett continues touring the country. His latest single, “Catch,” is making its climb up the country charts.

FGL’S TYLER HUBBARD SHARES DETAILS BEHIND BABY’S NAME

Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and his wife, Hayley, will welcome their second child, a baby boy, into the world next month.  The couple has chosen the name Luca Reedfor their son, which Tyler explains: [ “We liked the name Luca, thought it was kind of American but kind of cultured as well. And also it means bringer of light. So we kind of thought that was cool.  And the middle name Reed is my middle name, so we just want to carry that over, thought it kinda had a little ring to it, Luca Reed. I can’t take a lot of credit.  My wife’s the one that came up with all that, but I definitely agree and think it’s a cool name.”]

Florida Georgia Line continue on their Can’t Say I Ain’t Country Tour with special guest Dan + Shay and Morgan Wallen. They play this weekend in Raleigh and Charlotte, NC.

FAST FACTS

The duo returns to Las Vegas for the next dates on their residency at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood in November.

ZAC BROWN BAND TO RELEASE ‘THE OWL’ ALBUM IN SEPTEMBER 

The Zac Brown Band will release their sixth studio album, called The Owl, on Sept. 20th.

The Owl will be available on vinyl, CD and download across digital streaming platforms and it’s available for pre-order now.

The new digital single, called “Leaving Love Behind,” is out now and available across all digital streaming platforms.

FAST FACTS

The Owl follows Zac Brown Band’s 2017 studio album, Welcome Home.

Their debut major label studio album, The Foundation, was released in 2008 and has been certified 5x platinum.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer