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July 31, 2019 9:30 am Published by

The first FORTNITE World Cup happened in New York this weekend.  And eight gamers became instant MILLIONAIRES.

The total prize pool was THIRTY MILLION BUCKS.  A 16-year-old from Pennsylvania named Kyle Giersdorf won the grand prize of $3 million.  And seven other gamers won at least one million.  Most of them were teenagers . . .

A 16-year-old from California named Shane Cotton took home $1.2 million.  And a 15-year-old from England named Jaden Ashman won just over a million bucks.

Even gamers who DIDN’T do well took home a nice chunk of change.  200 people made it into the tournament by qualifying online.  And even last place got 50 GRAND.

The mother of the 15-year-old from England said she actually tried to get him to stop playing video games so his grades wouldn’t slip . . . and she even threw out his Xbox at one point.  But now he’s using some of his winnings to buy her a new HOUSE.

(After Kyle won the grand prize, his parents also talked about his education and why it’s important.  They said they know there’s a 12-year-old out there who could beat him next year.  So it can’t be his ONLY option for the future.)

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A woman in Tennessee was staying at a Hampton Inn on Friday, and woke up to a snake in her bed.  It was just a garden snake and wasn’t dangerous, but it freaked her out.  She says employees were very helpful, and refunded her room.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Hulu has renewed “The Handmaid’s Tale” for a fourth outing. The news comes with three episodes of the third season still to air. “Handmaid’s” has become a signature original series for Hulu, which says that it is the most-watched show on the streaming service.

 

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “Mutts Day”, honoring all dogs of mixed breeds. Purebred owners often view them as lesser in many ways but mutt owners know better!

 

  • “Cotton Candy Day”, celebrating the sweet, sugary taste-treat that melts in your mouth. It was invented in 1897 as ‘Fairy Floss’, then renamed in 1920. In Greece, Israel, and India it is often referred to as ‘Old Woman’s Hair’. Yuck.

 

  • “Avocado Day”, it’s not just for delicious guacamole. Targeting insulin resistance with heart-healthy fats and fighting Alzheimer’s with its Omega 3 fatty acids, the avocado also prevents and repairs damage due to its abundance of Vitamins C, E and K.

 

2012 [07] US swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the record for ‘Greatest Number of Medals Won at the Olympics’ by increasing his total to 22. (Retired from competition with 28)

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

JULY 31st, 1992   Garth Brooks scored his ninth #1 Country single with “The River”, the fifth and final single from his album Ropin’ the Wind.

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RANDOM REPORT

  1. Babies are born without kneecaps. They just have cartilage that hardens into bone as they get older.

 

  1. The biggest property theft in history happened in 1990, when two men dressed as cops and stole $500 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.  The case is still unsolved and the art is still missing.

 

  1. Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles live together.

 

  1. There are two people named Harrison Ford with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:  The one we all know, and a silent film star from the early 1900s.  They aren’t related.

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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS

An 87-year-old guy in Maryland was out walking through the woods with his two dogs on Monday.  And he tried to grab a stick for them to play with, but got stuck in knee-deep mud.

 

When he tried to free himself, he just kept sinking deeper.  But luckily his dogs realized he needed help and went to find some.

 

They left him in the woods . . . ran to a nearby trail . . . and started barking at people riding by

on bikes.

 

One of the bikers realized something was wrong and stopped to check it out.

 

They eventually found the guy in the woods.  And firefighters managed to free him from the mud, so he’s okay.  In the end, he was only stuck for about an hour.

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BIRTHDAYS

[70] Susan Bennett, Burlington VT, voice actress (best known as the original voice of Apple’s virtual assistant “Siri”)

[61] Mark Cuban, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas Mavericks owner/reality TV star (“Shark Tank” 2010-present)/chairman of AXS TV/entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Billion in 1999

[57] Wesley Snipes, actor

[41] Zac Brown, Cumming country singer

[21] Rico Rodriguez, actor (‘Manny Delgado’ on “Modern Family” since 2009)

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD:
➢ A piece of street art in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg was covered with asphalt just a few days after it was completed. The artwork – a giant black and red cross incorporating calligraphy quotes by an avantgarde artist, was painted by a small army of 20 volunteers, and took three days to complete. The last thing local residents expected was for a roadworks team to turn up unannounced with heavy machinery and, oblivious to its artistic value, proceed to pour asphalt on it until they were stopped when the local authorities were alerted. One Facebook user wrote after the “fantastically beautiful work” was “smeared with tar”: “What is happening now is a crime against art, culture, and the city.” Authorities blamed the incident on “miscommunication”.

 

➢ The police in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania were hunting for a woman who went to a Walmart last Wednesday night . . . and PEED on top of the POTATOES.  They were at the floor level, so she just squatted, peed, and walked away.

An employee spotted her, so the store got rid of all the potatoes and sanitized the area.

But the woman got out of the store . . . so the police released the surveillance footage of her to try to track her down.  It’s surveillance footage of her walking out of the store . . . not, you know, watering the produce.

Anyway, after the story blew up yesterday, the woman turned herself in.  It turns out she’s a 20-year-old woman named Grace Brown, and she’s facing charges of indecent exposure and public drunkenness.

So why’d she do it?  She said she was, quote, “not thinking” . . . and she doesn’t remember doing it.  The West Mifflin police chief says, quote, “Honestly I think she thought it was a toilet.”

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HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU SPEND ONLINE EACH WEEK? (TellWut)
An online poll of over 2,500 people reveals how many hours people say they spend surfin’ the net each week:

 

39% five to ten hours

 

34% 20 hours or more

 

27% 10 to 20 hours

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A Couple Who Don’t Sleep on the Same Sides of the Bed Every Night Are Confusing the Internet

There’s a Twitter thread going viral right now from a “Washington Post” reporter who revealed that a couple he’s friends with don’t sleep on the same sides of the bed every night.

 

Like, when they get into bed every night, they don’t know who will sleep on which side.

 

Sometimes the guy is on the left and the woman is on the right, sometimes vice versa.

 

If you’re curious, they only have one nightstand, and they both put their phones on it.

 

And . . . the responses to this concept are mostly from people CONFUSED and FREAKED OUT that any couple could do something so insane.

 

On a semi-related note, a new survey found that 9% of people say their ideal sleeping situation with their partner is separate beds in separate rooms . . . and 5% want separate beds in the same room.

 

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WEDNESDAY JULY 31ST                                           

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[70] Susan Bennett, Burlington VT, voice actress (best known as the original voice of Apple’s virtual assistant “Siri”)

[61] Mark Cuban, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas Mavericks owner/reality TV star (“Shark Tank” 2010-present)/chairman of AXS TV/entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Billion in 1999

[57] Wesley Snipes, actor

[41] Zac Brown, Cumming country singer

[21] Rico Rodriguez, actor (‘Manny Delgado’ on “Modern Family” since 2009)

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  1. MLB

Toronto                9              Kansas City         2

LA Angels            6              Detroit                  1

 

  1. A fan of the band Linkin Park used the lyrics from the song “One More Light” to comfort a man who was sitting on the ledge of a highway overpass . . . thinking about jumping.  She said that he cried when he heard the lyrics, and stayed on the ledge long enough for the police to rescue him.  Here she is, along with body cam audio of the deputy helping him.

 

  1. A guy named Mark Rosenthal runs an exotic animal rescue center in Michigan called Animal Magic.  And one of his videos racked up tons of hits over the weekend.  It’s an exotic bird in a pet carrier, and it sounds exactly like a crying baby.

He puts it in the pet carrier when he travels . . . but it gets him in trouble because people think there’s a baby inside.

 

  1. Leo’s much younger girlfriend, Uber layoffs, Hawaiian shirts for your dog, Siri listens to your sex, and Teslas will soon stream Netflix.  (From David Spade, Seth, and Fallon on Tuesday, July 30, 2019)

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KANE BROWN SELLS OUT STAPLES CENTER IN UNDER TWO HOURS – (07/31/2019)

Kane Brown sold out the Los Angeles Staples Center in less than two hours on Friday (July 26th) for his headlining concert there on October 18th. The event marks the kick off of the venue’s 20th anniversary celebration and is the first major milestone event in what will be a year long celebration of the arena’s history since opening the doors on October 17, 1999.

Kane’s fans are among the most loyal and enthusiastic about their favorite artist, so when he hits the stage, he tells us he turns off the chill vibe and gives it all he’s got. [“Well I’m laid back, so for me it’s like five minutes before I go on, that’s when I just kind of kick everything on, but I just go out there and my fans that are here let me hear it so I perform for them and just try and give them the best show that I can.”]

FAST FACTS

Kane is the first artist in Billboard history to Top all 5 Billboard Country charts simultaneously.

With the 4X Platinum certification of “Heaven,” he became one of only five country acts with multiple 4X Platinum hits joining Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt and Taylor Swift.

 

 

DUSTIN LYNCH IS ‘WRITIN’ (ON THE) ROADS’ – (07/29/2019)

Dustin Lynch is enjoying his time out on the Very Hot Summer Tour with headliner Thomas Rhett. For one, he’s surrounded by hit songwriters on the trek, including Thomas’ dad, Rhett Akins, Russell Dickerson and, of course, Thomas. That said, Dustin tells us he’s making good use of his downtime. [“Off stage I look forward to writing a lot. We have Rhett Akins opening. We got Russell out there. We got myself and TR, and that leaves a lot of open bunks for songwriters to jump out and join us, and you never know what can happen so I’m gonna be writing with the intention of we could be going in the studio next week if we get a good one, you know, and so I’m writing a lot off stage.”]

The Very Hot Summer Tour rolls on to Camden, NJ on Thursday (August 1st). The tour wraps up on October 12th in Nashville.

 

 

RASCAL FLATTS’ SUMMER FUN

Everyone loves Summer and that includes the guys in Rascal Flatts. In between dates on their Summer Playlist Tour, Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney all have their own plans for enjoying the sun and fun. Gary tells us: [“You’ll find me, I’ll be on my farm planting food plots for the upcoming deer season, so I’ll be out there working the dirt and taking soil samples and getting ready to plant beans and corn and clover. (Jay) You’ll find me by my pool grilling burgers and dogs and swimming with my kids and my wife. (Joe Don) I’ll be over at Jay’s house with his kids and his wife. I might go out to Gary’s farm and get those feed plots ready. You know what, summertime for me, it’s all about golf. I mean I love golf because all the major championships are coming up after Augusta, and yeah, you’ll find me on the golf course.”]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer