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October 2, 2019 9:35 am Published by

Did you know you can set your Apple Watch to text an emergency contact if it detects a hard fall?  It happened to a 62-year-old guy in Washington state this month while he was riding his bike.  His Apple Watch texted his son, who he was supposed to be meeting up with.  Then it texted the son again after someone picked him up, and his location changed to a nearby hospital.  Luckily he’s okay.  The son says it was amazing to see the technology work.

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A 30-year-old guy named Kyler was at a State Park in Utah back in June when a BISON charged at him, GORED him, and trampled him.  Kyler had a collapsed lung, broken ribs, and other internal injuries . . . but he survived. Well, on Friday he went on a date with a 22-year-old woman named Kayleigh and they went back to that State Park. And while they were walking around . . . a bison attacked Kayleigh.

She was trying to get out of the way of some bikers when a bison charged at her and flipped her up into the air.  She wound up with a broken ankle and a huge cut on her leg where the bison gored her . . . but like Kyler, she survived.There’s no word on whether they’re going to go on another date.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Yesterday on “The View”, Whoopi said her new white hair isn’t by choice, it’s because she’s in a new adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand”.

The Stand is King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Goldberg) and a handful of survivors.

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“Batwoman” Ruby Rose has revealed she needed emergency surgery after a serious injury left her facing the possibility of paralysis. Sharing the details on Instagram, she wrote: “To everyone asking about my new Pez dispenser scar on my neck… A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming paralyzed. I had herniated two discs doing stunts, and they were close to severing my spinal chord. I was in chronic pain and yet couldn’t feel my arms.” Rose, who appeared on “Orange Is the New Black”, was tapped last year to play Batwoman in the upcoming CW series, which premieres on Sunday on The CW.

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TODAY IS……………….

“Custodial Workers Day”, honoring those who clean up after the rest of us. Nicer names for ‘Janitor’ include: ‘Caretaker’, ‘Maintenance Coordinator’, and ‘Sanitation Engineer’.

1928, eight songs were recorded at VICTOR RECORD STUDIOS in NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE . . . the first songs to be recorded in Music City, USA.

 

1959, “The Twilight Zone”, created and hosted by ROD SERLING, debuted

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

OCTOBER 2ND, 2012    Darius Rucker was invited to became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The way he found out was a bit unorthodox. After playing a set at the Opry, Darius answered a few questions from the audience. The person asking the final question, though, turned out to be Brad Paisley, who asked two questions: “Are you still the worst poker player in the world?” And then, “Would you like to be the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry?”

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The Kale Craze Appears to Be Over

It looks like the love affair with kale may be coming to an end.

 

“The Atlantic” took a look at some key indicators . . . and they all point to the kale craze ending.  Check this out . . .

 

  1. Google searches for kale have been steadily dropping since they peaked in 2014.  They’re currently HALF of what they were then, and they’re back where they were in 2011, before kale started going mainstream.

 

  1. According to the latest data from the Produce Market Guide, there was a 6% drop in kale sales from 2016 to 2017 . . . that’s eight million fewer pounds of kale.

 

  1. Other vegetables are seeing increases while kale’s declining . . . like spinach sales going up 4% and Brussels sprouts up 19%.

 

  1. And there’s only one month of the year when kale sells really well:  January, when everyone’s temporarily trying to be healthy.

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RANDOM REPORT

  1.  Even if only 1% of the people on Earth think you’re sexy, that means 76 million people are into you.

 

  1. The first person to refer to the F-word as an “F-bomb” was a catcher on the New York Mets named Gary Carter.  There’s a quote from him in “Newsday”in 1988 where he says an umpire threw him out of a game for using the “F-bomb.”

 

  1. 22% of people say the first time they figured out how to send text messages was when they were voting for “American Idol”.

 

  1. Disney originally had “Aladdin”set in Baghdad, but when the Gulf War broke out, they mixed the letters around, swapped a few out, and changed the city to Agrabah.

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GOOD NEWS

There’s a 16-year-old kid named Zac Clark who plays high school football in Butler, Ohio and sadly, his dad passed away a little over a year ago.

 

But he was doing some yardwork for his mom this month when he heard his neighbors yelling for help. It turned out a guy who lives next door was working on his car when it fell and LANDED on him.  And he was pinned underneath it.

 

So Zac ran over . . . reached under the 3,000-pound car . . . and LIFTED it just enough for someone to pull the guy out.

 

His neighbor ended up with a few broken ribs, but he’ll be okay.  His doctors told him he wouldn’t have made it much longer though. Zac says he’s not sure where the burst of strength came from.  But he was thinking of his dad when he did it.

 

He says he knew his neighbor had kids, and didn’t want them to lose THEIR dad.  So he just dug deep, and did everything he could to save him.

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BIRTHDAYS

[49] Kelly Ripa, TV talk show co-host

 

(46).Efren Ramirez,  Pedro in “Napoleon Dynamite”

 

[45] Sam Roberts, rock singer-songwriter

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RACCOONS BREAK THROUGH ROOF TO RANSACK BRITISH COLUMBIA HOME

This is a break-in, but not your usual type. A British Columbia man got a call from neighbors about a possible break-in and returned from vacation to find a group of raccoons had broken through his ceiling and ransacked the house.

He says the animals bored a hole through his wooden shingle roof to get into the garage attic, and from there were able to make their way into the house. The animals basically trashed the home– leaving their waste around, eating sugar, and damaging or destroying many valuable items– but somehow missed a pantry full of food.

BEAR BREAKS INTO CALIFORNIA HOME, RAIDS FRIDGE

You expect to maybe catch human intruders on your security cameras, not bears. A California family was watching TV at their vacation home, when they heard loud noises coming from the kitchen. They quickly found it was a black bear trying to take taco meat and ice cream from the refrigerator.

The bear’s feast was recorded by home security cameras. A Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to the home and was able to drive the bear away. The family says the animal apparently got inside through an open garage door.

 

FAMILY’S RENTAL VANS RAIDED BY BEARS OUTSIDE TENNESSEE RENTAL HOME

A Michigan family vacationing in Tennessee caught the moment a family of bears raided their two rental vans on camera. The family says they had only been at their rental house for less than an hour when the bears showed up. The family was unpacking the vans and the bears stole some Pop Tarts and other snacks from inside the vehicles, but otherwise left them undamaged. Nobody was injured.

 

WISCONSIN COUPLE FIND MYSTERY PYTHON LURKING UNDER PORCH

If you shudder at the idea of a raccoon making its way through your backyard, you’ll hate this story even more. A Wisconsin couple actually found a four-foot ball python living under their back porch. The home owners say they initially thought it was a toy, but then they saw the creature’s eyes moving. Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission officers took the snake into custody, and say it’s unclear if the animal is an escaped pet or if it was abandoned by its owner.

 

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WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DO YOU USE MOST OFTEN WHEN DOING YOUR LAUNDRY?
An on-going, online poll shows the form of soap people usually use when doing their laundry:

 

63% liquid detergent

16% detergent pods/ packs

13% powder detergent

4% N/A- I don’t do my own laundry

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NO CAPS:
Daniel Colin James, a writer for the ‘Ideas and Perspectives’ website Medium.com says that it is time to banish the “Caps Lock’ button from the keyboard.

 

He writes that the Caps Lock function was invented for typewriters in the 1960s, so those typing out addresses on envelopes had a way of keeping upper case engaged without changing the number buttons into their upper-case counterparts, the dollar signs, and number symbols and all those.

 

Caps Lock was also used as a way to provide a difference between headers and body at the time as well, because on a typewriter, we didn’t have all the font sizes and styles that we have at our disposal now.

 

James writes that now, the All Caps button is not only unnecessary, it also takes up a lot of valuable real estate on an already crowded keyboard.

 

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2ND                                             

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Kelly Ripa  (49)

 

Efren Ramirez is 46.  Pedro in “Napoleon Dynamite”, the voice of Pedro in the “Napoleon Dynamite” cartoon and . . . well, that’s about it.

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  1. MLB

Post season major league baseball kicked off with a lot of excitement in D.C. last night, especially when the Nationals’ Juan Soto hit to right field and the ball rolled under the glove of Trent Grisham.  The error allowed the Nationals to take the lead.  Chaos ensued with the sold out crowd.

(Washington Nationals 4 – Brewers 3.  The Nats advance to the National League Divisional Series vs the L.A. Dodgers.  Game 1 is tomorrow night.  Tonight the A’s host the Rays in the AL wild card game.)

 

  1. There’s a YouTube Original documentary coming out November 11th called “The Gift:  The Journey of Johnny Cash”.  It features “recently discovered archival materials, plus interviews with family members, musical collaborators, and friends.”  They released a trailer from it yesterday.

 

  1. There’s a truck stop in Louisiana that has a petting zoo with a camel.  And a group of people were harassing it the other day when it got spooked by their dog.  Then it pinned a lady against a building and sat on her.  So she fought back . . . by biting its privates.  Luckily both of them are okay.  The manager of the petting zoo says the camel isn’t usually aggressive.

 

  1. Jim Gaffigan says he was invited to a birthday party . . . for a dog.  He realized it would be great for comedy material, so he went.  (From his 2019 Amazon special “Quality Time”)

 

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ERIC CHURCH ON TRIBUTE VIDEO: ‘IT’S THE COOLEST THING I’VE BEEN A PART OF’

Eric Church was celebrating his latest two Number One hits — “Round Here Buzz” and “Some Of It” — earlier this week at a party in Nashville when his label surprised him with a tribute video of sorts. Fellow artists like Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore, Ashley McBryde, Cole Swindell, Luke Combs, Jason Aldean, and Ray Wylie Hubbard thanked Eric for inspiring them to chase a musical dream and praised him for his passion and artistic integrity. Eric was a bit speechless after watching the video, ultimately addressing the subject before the crowd of partygoers. He said: [“That video was one of the coolest things – no, that’s about the coolest thing I’ve been a part of. My intention was to try to make great music, write great songs. And to see it matter is something . . . I will say this after seeing the video; I’m not done. I’m not retiring. I’m not dying, so I appreciate that. I appreciate that very much, and I look forward to kicking their asses every night on stage.”]

 

 

ARE CARLY PEARCE & MICHAEL RAY GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEKEND? – (10/02/2019)

Looks like Carly Pearce and Michael Ray might be tying the knot this weekend. During a recent interview with Carly and Lee Brice about their new duet, she told us that her wedding date is pretty easy to figure out by studying the facts. She explains: [“It’s funny to me how many people are guessing when our wedding is. Go look at our calendars and see what’s the one weekend of the year that we’re both off (Lee Brice laughs). It’s really not that hard to figure out (laughs). It’s very soon and we’re really excited. It’s crazy how quickly it happend, how quickly we went from planning to ‘oh my goodness, it’s here,’ but I finished writing my vows this past weekend and that was such a sweet moment for me, and it’s just fun to have so many different things going on right now that I’m really excited about on all sides.”]

In checking both their calendars, this weekend seems to be wide open.

In the meantime, Carly and Lee are excited about their new single, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” Carly co-wrote the song with Luke Combs, among others.

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NEW  JOHNNY CASH DOCUMENTARY

There’s a YouTube Original documentary coming out November 11th called “The Gift:  The Journey of Johnny Cash”.  It features “recently discovered archival materials, plus interviews with family members, musical collaborators, and friends.”  They released a trailer from it yesterday.

 

 

 

 

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