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A house owned by Dr. Phil is for sale for US$5,750,000. The home, listed in a celebrity-dense neighbourhood in L.A. isn’t actually Dr. Phil’s personal residence, but is currently used by a family member who has decided to move on.

Since it hit the market a few days ago, the home’s bizarre design has captured the internet’s fascination. Cartoonish statuettes of bears and rabbits are littered across the property, and a grand staircase adorned in twisting snakes – or are they vines?

In the dining room, an entire wall is dedicated to at least a dozen guns. In the living room, a pink neon sign reads “HELLO THERE.” The floors of the billiards room appear to be splattered in white paint. As for the bizarre interior design, the listing says the “eclectic finishes” can be kept or “transformed into your own vision.”

McGraw was the 9th-highest-paid entertainer of 2019, with reported earnings of US$95 million

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A five-year-old girl in California named Katelynn Hardee found out that parents of other kids at her school couldn’t pay off their kids’ lunch debts.  So she told her mom she wanted to sell cookies and hot chocolate to raise money for them.  And she ended up with enough to cover the debts of 123 students.

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ENTERTAINMENT

For the third straight week, the new “Star Wars” movie “The Rise of Skywalker” won the box office.  It made another $33.7 million . . . bringing its domestic total up to $450.8 million.

“The Grudge” made $11.3 million and came in fourth despite horrible reviews . . . and “Frozen 2” made another $11.29 million to become the highest grossing animated movie of all time.

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Emma Watson is hiding copies of “Little Women” around the world for fans to find. She plays Margaret ‘Meg’ March in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 19th-century novel. Watson launched her feminist book club in 2016 and teamed up with ‘The Book Fairies’, who hide reading material in public places. For her latest initiative, she will be distributing 2,000 copies of “Little Women” across 38 countries, with ”a special note” inside.

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TODAY IS……………….

  • “Epiphany” (aka “Three Kings Day”), a public holiday in Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Puerto Rico. In Ireland it’s known as “Little Christmas”; in Italy the kindly witch ‘La Befana’ slides down chimneys on her broom to bring toys & goodies for kids; in Mexico, where it’s known as “Dia de los Santos Reyes”, kids leave shoes out to be filled with toys

 

  • “Carnival Season” begins, which runs from today (“Epiphany”) until February 25th (“Shrove Tuesday”).

 

2016 [04] “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” breaks the North American box office record, passing the $760.5m record set by “Avatar”

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Don Williams reached #1 with “Tulsa Time” in 1979

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THIS YEAR’S SCAM:
It looks like those “2020” warnings that you may have seen pop up in your Facebook or Twitter feed could be legit. As you try to remember to write the correct year on official forms and documents, experts say you should write the  full year, rather than simply putting “20” to signify the year 2020. Why?

 

When 2020 is abbreviated, those looking to exploit unsuspecting people can easily manipulate those numbers and leave people potentially vulnerable to fraud. For example, a document dated 1/4/20 can easily be changed to 1/4/2021 by adding two numbers at the end.

There’s no evidence yet that anyone has been scammed in this manner. But it’s better to be safe than sorry, so be sure to wrote out the full four digits of the year.

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RANDOM REPORT

  1.  There was a radioactive tonic called Radithor sold in the U.S. from 1918 to 1928. It promised to cure lots of issues, including impotence.  But it killed people who drank it, and they were buried in lead coffins to keep the radiation from spreading.

 

  1. Duffel bags are named after a town in Belgium called Duffel, where the fabric for the bags originally came from.

 

  1. There have been seven prison escapes in U.S. history where the inmates got away in a helicopter . . . but they were caught again every time.

 

  1. The only planet that’s not named after a Roman god or goddess is . . . Earth.

 

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GOOD NEWS

Ninety-fifth time’s the charm. That’s how many RedditGifts exchanges a Michigan woman had to participate in before she got the ultimate Secret Santa, the one everyone fervently hopes they’ll get: Bill Gates.

 

Shelby—as the recipient of a Christmas package sent by the world’s on again-off again richest man wants to be IDed—explained that when she first got an alert that her Reddit Secret Santa gift had been overnighted via FedEx, she noticed the package was coming from Washington state.

 

She also saw that the package weighed 81 pounds and, finally, that the person who’d sent it was indeed Gates. “Bill Gates is my Secret Santa, I just won Secret Santa 2019!” is how Shelby reacted. A Reddit rep confirms Gates sent the package.

 

Gates always goes out of his way to customize his Secret Santa gifts—and for Shelby, who “loves letting her geek flag fly,” her presents couldn’t have been more perfect.

 

Included in Gates’ give: Harry Potter and Star Wars Lego sets and other branded merch; Twin Peaks memorabilia; a Legend of Zelda handmade quilt; lots of Oreos; and a bound manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The best gift of all, however: a donation from Gates to the American Heart Association in memory of Shelby’s mom, who died earlier in the year.

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BIRTHDAYS

[65] Rowan Atkinson, actor (“Mr. Bean”)

 

[51] Norman Reedus, actor (‘Daryl Dixon’ on “The Walking Dead” since 2010)

 

[39] Eddie Redmayne, actor (“Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them”, “The Theory of Everything”) COMING UP…”The Trial of the Chicago 7″, 2020

 

[36] Kate McKinnon, comedian/actress (“Ghostbusters”)

 

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PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE YEAR 2020 (from way back when…):
☞ Human feet will become one big toe:  In a 1911 lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, surgeon Richard Clement Lucas said that the “useless outer toes” will become used less and less, so that “man might become a one-toed race.”

 

☞ We’ll have ape chauffeurs:  In 1994, the RAND Corporation, a global think tank that’s contributed to the space program and the development of the internet, said they expected us to have animal employees by the year 2020.

 

☞ Flying houses:  Arthur C. Clarke — who wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” — believed that houses of the future would have nothing keeping them on the ground and they would be able to move to anywhere on earth on a whim. In fact, he even suggested that whole communities would be able to fly south for winter.

☞ C, X and Q will be eliminated:  In 1900, John Elfreth Watkins Jr., the curator of mechanical technology at the Smithsonian Institution, predicted that those three letters would become unnecessary. He said that by now, we’d be spelling mostly by sound and would communicate with “condensed words”.

☞ No more coffee, tea or tobacco:  In 1937, Nikola Tesla predicted that “within a century, coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer be in vogue.” He wrote that “It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients.”

 

☞ All roads will become tubes:  A 1957 Popular Mechanics article said that every street in America will be “replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes.” Your car would only need power to get from your home to the nearest tube. Then, “they will be pneumatically powered to any desired destination.”

☞ Nobody will work, and we’ll all be rich:  In 1966, Time magazine predicted that “machines will be producing so much that everyone will be independently wealthy.” Without lifting a finger, the average family could expect to earn a salary of $30,000 – $40,000. That’d be around $300,000 now.

☞ We’ll eat candy made of underwear:  The New York Times’ longtime science editor Waldemar Kaempffert wrote in 1950 that it would be possible to take ordinary objects like old table linens and “rayon underwear” and bring them to “chemical factories to be converted into candy.”

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STUDY: DRINKING COFFEE FROM A ‘SMOOTH’ CUP MAKES IT TASTE BETTER –

The cup you’re drinking your coffee out of matters. Scientists in Brazil found people thought their coffee tasted better when they drank it out of a smooth porcelain cup as opposed to a ceramic mug with a rough finish on the outer and inner walls.

 

The participants rated the coffee from the smooth cup as tasting sweeter, and the coffee from the rough cup as more acidic.

 

Psychologist Dr. Fabiana Carvalho explains, “These results demonstrate that haptic cues influence the judgement of basic tastes as well as mouth-feel attributes in specialty coffee.”
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PEOPLE WHO LIVE BY THE SEA ARE LESS ANXIOUS AND DEPRESSED

It pays to live near the coast. Researchers from Exeter University found people living around a half a mile from the coast are 22 percent less likely to experience mental health problems like anxiety and depression compared to those who live 31 miles away or more.

 

The scientists say the coast may act as a “protective zone” for psychological well-being and also highlight the importance of so-called “Blue Health”– the link between health and the natural environment.

 

Researcher Dr. Matthew White adds, “We need to help policy makers understand how to maximize the well-being benefits of ‘blue’ spaces in towns and cities and ensure that access is fair and inclusive for everyone, while not damaging our fragile coastal environments.”

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MONDAY JANUARY 6TH                                             

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[65] Rowan Atkinson,actor

[51] Norman Reedus, actor (‘Daryl Dixon’ on “The Walking Dead” since 2010)

[36] Kate McKinnon, comedian/actress (“Ghostbusters”)

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  1. WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY

Canada           4          Russia  3

 

Saturday, January 4th

Houston Texans 22, Buffalo Bills 19 (OT) (AFC)

Tennessee Titans 20, New England Patriots 13 (AFC)

Sunday, January 5th

Minnesota Vikings 26, New Orleans Saints 20 (OT) (NFC)

Seattle Seahawks 17, Philadelphia Eagles 9 (NFC)

Next weekend’s Divisional playoffs matchups:

Saturday, January 11th

Minnesota Vikings at San Francisco 49ers (NFC)

Tennessee Titans at Baltimore Ravens (AFC)

Sunday, January 12th

Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs (AFC)

Seattle Seahawks at Green Bay Packers (NFC)

 

  1. • “The Bachelor” (ABC): Season 24 premiere. Airline pilot Peter Weber begins his search for love; Hannah Brown returns to host the second group date.
    • “America’s Got Talent” (NBC): Ten of the most memorable acts from around the globe perform; four advance — two chosen by a panel of superfans, one Judges’ Choice and one who receives a Golden Buzzer

 

  1. David Lee Roth — almost ruined a marriage by giving out an old phone number to women. Author Nancy French claims that not long after her wedding, she became suspicious of the number of calls from mysterious women her husband David was receiving. They soon discovered that he had Roth’s old number, which he had been handing it out to women whom he wanted to let down easy.
  2. Brian Regan on spelling in school

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The richest prize in Canadian lottery history remains up for grabs.

No winning ticket was sold for the $70 million dollar jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

The draw also offered 26 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, and eight of them were won.

They will be split amongst 13 winning ticket holders — eight in Ontario.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 7 will remain at approximately $70 million and there will be 25 Maxmillion prizes.

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $21-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.

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

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Jan. 8 will be approximately $25 million.

 

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JIMMIE ALLEN DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE AFTER GETTING HIS DEGREE IN ‘PEOPLE’

Jimmie Allen says he got his degree in “people” before dropping out of college after more than two years. He tells us exclusively that college was a means to an end, and that end was the career he’s currently enjoying. [“I went to school to socialize, hang out. Like, when I went to college I had no intention on graduating. Like for me, I knew I wanted to be an entertainer. In order to be an entertainer you kind of gotta get to know other people from different cultures, different backgrounds and kind of be able to put yourself in their shoes and I was like why not college. You meet so many different people, so for me college was just meet as many people as I can, get to know ’em and after two and a half years I left. I said, ‘I got my degree in people. I’m done.’ (laughs) It paid off (laughs).”]

Jimmie sits inside the Top 10 and climbing with his latest single, “Make Me Want To.”

He celebrated the Christmas holiday at his favorite place, DisneyWorld in Orlando, with his son, Aadyn, and his fiancee, Alexis.

He and his fiancee are expecting a baby girl in March.

 

 

LADY ANTEBELLUM NEW TOUR

Lady Antebellum will set sail on their Ocean 2020 Tour beginning on May 21st in Albuquerque, NM and wrapping up on September 12th in Nashville. They will be joined by special guest Jake Owen as well as Maddie & Tae. Tickets for select cities go on sale beginning Jan. 24th at Megaticket.com.

Charles Kelley said, “After our Vegas residency and working on this record for the past year we are itching to get back out on the road and see how the fans gravitate to some of the deeper cuts off of Ocean. We’ve missed those huge crowd sing-alongs and we are looking forward to having Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae light up the stage every night. May can’t come fast enough.”

Lady A sits at Number Two on the Mediabase chart with “What If I Never Get Over You,” the lead single from Ocean which was released in November.

FAST FACTS

Here are the Ocean 2020 Tour dates:
5/21/2020  Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
8/21/2020  Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
8/22/2020  Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre

 

Lady Antebellum is bringing Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae on their Ocean 2020 Tour . . . so they posted a video of them doing karaoke trying to figure out what song they’ll choose to perform together at each show.

 

 

Jake Owen – says he broke his wrist while warning his daughter, Pearl, “what not to do.” He posted a video where he shows his cast and says that he “was riding a skateboard in my driveway…And I showed her what not to do, all right … don’t break your wrist, Pearl.” He says he’ll be OK for some important events booked for 2020.

 

 

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