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January 15, 2020 9:35 am Published by

There’s a 44-year-old billionaire named Yusaku Maezawa in Japan, and he’s having quite a year.  He kicked off 2020 by promising to GIVE AWAY $9 million to random people on Twitter as a “social experiment.” And now . . . there’s this.

Yusaku is single, and he’s looking for a girlfriend.  And if it winds up being you, your official first date with him will be . . . a trip to the MOON.

Seriously.  He was the first person to buy a private trip to the Moon from SpaceX.  And he wants a new girlfriend to go up there with him. If you’re interested, he’s looking for single women over 20.  Applications are due by Friday and, naturally, all of this will be covered by a reality show.

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A restaurant in Utah is facing some backlash for serving kangaroo burgers as their exotic meat of the month.  The manager says they ordered the meat from Australia before the fires started, and they thought about delaying.  But they had hundreds of pounds of meat and nowhere to store it.

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ENTERTAINMENT

 

On “The Tonight Show,” Will Smith said that Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz were originally cast as the “Bad Boys.”  (From “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, January 9, 2020)

 

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“Breaking Bad” fans who don’t have a Netflix subscription will finally be able to see the follow-up film, “El Camino.” AMC has set the TV premiere for the film for Feb. 16. The film, which originally premiered on Netflix and in theaters on Oct. 11, will air as part of a “Breaking Bad” marathon that begins on Sunday, Jan. 19. The marathon leads into the fifth season premiere of “Better Call Saul,” which is set for Feb. 23.

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TODAY IS……………….

2009 [11] Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger makes a successful emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly take off

 

1967 [53] The first “Super Bowl”as 61,946 fans pay 10 bucks a ticket to watch legendary coach Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers beat the KC Chiefs 35-10 in Los Angeles. 30-second TV commercials cost $42,000

 

2001 [19] “Wikipedia”, the free online encyclopedia, goes online

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Alan Jackson‘s Drive album was released in 2002

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RANDOM REPORT

  1. There’s a patron saint of television. It’s St. Clare of Assisi, and the Pope made her the patron saint of TV in 1958.

 

  1. Colgate toothpaste was sold in jars when it came out in 1873 . . . and one of the ingredients was SOAP.

 

  1. Whenever characters on “The Big Bang Theory”wear superhero t-shirts, they’re always for characters from DC Comics, like Superman and Batman.  That’s because the show and DC Comics are both owned by Warner Brothers.

 

  1. The Beatles spent the most weeks at number one on the Billboard album charts.  When you factor in all their albums, it’s 132 weeks total.  That’s more than two-and-a-half years.

 

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A New Study Finds the Exact Age When We’re the Most Miserable

A new study out of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire looked at data from almost eight million Americans over the past three decades to figure out when people are the most MISERABLE.

 

And the answer is . . . when you’re 47.2 years old.

 

Basically, our happiness as adults goes in a U-shaped curve.  We’re happy when we’re 18, then we start getting more and more miserable over our 20s, 30s, and 40s.  It bottoms out when we’re 47.2 . . . and then we start getting happier again.

 

By the time you hit 70, you’re just as happy as you were when you were 18.

So why is middle age so depressing?  Basically, the researcher says it’s because you realize your big dreams really AREN’T going to come true.  Sorry.

 

But as you get older, you start to put your life in a better perspective and you become grateful for what you have, which is why you start getting happier again.

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GOOD NEWS

Terry Ingram, a photographer in Nebraska was snapping some nature photos on Saturday when a car sped past him, flipped over, and landed upside down in a pond.

 

So he jumped into the freezing water and pulled all three victims out.  Two of them were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

 

He got emotional talking about it later on.  Especially when he mentioned that one victim’s mom reached out to him.

 

Ingram said he’ll now look back at the pictures taken that day and be thankful the timing was just right. “God puts people places for a reason. I think he told me my camera’s dead, go up there and wait,” he said.

 

Ingram said he hopes to meet up with the three men to see how they’re doing.

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BIRTHDAYS

[73] Andrea Martin, actress

 

[41] Drew Bees, (NFL quarterback who led the New Orleans Saints)

 

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Things We’re Worse at Because of Technology

Technology helps us in a lot of ways.  But it’s also made us worse at certain things.  For example, 13% of people in a recent survey said they don’t even know their OWN phone number, because they don’t have to.

 

Here are the top 10 things we’ve gotten worse at because of technology . . .

 

  1.  Remembering passwords.
  2.  Remembering other people’s phone numbers.
  3.  Knowing how to spell certain words, because we all have spell check now.
  4.  Handwriting, because we don’t write stuff down anymore.
  5.  Math, because everyone has a calculator on their phone.
  6.  Remembering our own phone number.
  7.  Remembering who starred in movies and TV shows.
  8.  Knowing your friends’ addresses.
  9.  Being able to slow down and relax.
  10.  How to completely stop and do nothing for a while.

 

A few more that made the top 20 were remembering birthdays, names, and how to drive without GPS.

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How Long Will You Stay on Hold? And What Type of Music Do You Hate Least?

More than one in five will stay on hold with customer service INDEFINITELY, according to a new poll.

 

31% will only wait five minutes . . . 34% will wait up to 15 minutes before they hang up . . . and 22% said they’ll stay on the phone “as long as [they] need to.”

 

The remaining 13% said they REFUSE to wait on hold.  They’ll either request a call back, or find another way to get in touch.

 

One in seven people also said they wish HOLD MUSIC wasn’t a thing.  15% of us would rather sit and stew in silence while we wait. The most popular type of hold music is classical with 20% of the vote.  Country music and “rock or pop” tied for second . . . then hip hop.

 

Just over a quarter of us think that “listening to annoying music or repeated messages while on hold” is one of the most annoying things about customer service.

 

And 80% of us have gotten so frustrated, we’ve either started SWEARING at a customer service rep, or broken down in tears.

 

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ARE WE WASHING OUR CLOTHES TOO OFTEN?

When was the last time you did laundry? Home appliance company Bosch surveyed 2,000 British adults and found most people (58%) are not opposed to other people re-wearing their clothes multiple days in a row, but a quarter admitted they’d feel dirty doing so themselves.

 

Also, nearly a quarter of people said they feel pressure from society to look presentable, with 16 percent worrying that a second wear could leave a bad impression.

 

These pressures are causing people to wash clothing more frequently than is necessary, which isn’t good news for our environment.

 

Bosch is encouraging consumers to wash their clothing less frequently.

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15TH                                              

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[73] Andrea Martin, actress

[41] Drew Bees, (NFL quarterback who led the New Orleans Saints)

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  1. NHL

BUF 4 – VGK 2    TOR 7 – NJD 4                     TBL 4 – LAK 3 SO                NYI 8 – DET 2                       PIT 7 – MIN 3

CBJ 3 – BOS 0      CHI 3 – OTT 2 OT                WPG 4 – VAN 0                  DAL 3 – COL 2 OT               EDM 4 – NSH 2 ARI 6 – SJS 3

 

  1. Last night, Ken Jennings won the “Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time” competition and took home $1 million.  James Holzhauer won one match and Brad Rutter was kind of just there.  They will each take home $250,000.  (From “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” on Tuesday, January 14, 2020)

 

  • “The Goldbergs” (ABC): The return of season 7
  1. A YouTube bassist named Charles Berthoud posted a video of himself playing the “Seinfeld” theme song.  He’s a pro and he takes it to another level.

 

  1. The LSU Tigers, J Lo wants to simplify, a Florida woman building a bomb in Walmart, and the new Oreo cookie.  (From Jimmy Fallon, David Spade, Conan, and Seth Meyers on Tuesday, January 14, 2020)

 

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Adlin Lewis of Brampton. won the biggest lottery prize in Canadian history a record-breaking $70 million jackpot from the Tuesday, January 7, 2020 LOTTO MAX draw.

The Brampton resident checked his ticket the morning after the historic draw. “While I was warming up my car, I scanned my ticket on the OLG Lottery App but I got an error message, so I tried again. And then I saw the words ‘Big Winner’ and the number 70! I was shocked and wanted to confirm what I saw so I went online to see the winning numbers and one by one they matched!”

Though Adlin knew he had a winning ticket, he still went to work and contemplated how to share the unbelievable news with his wife. “I wanted to tell her in a special way – with a trip or something creative – but I couldn’t keep this news to myself, so I ended up waking her up in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday and just telling her outright,” he laughed.

Adlin has a reputation for being a lucky guy. “A couple of years ago I won a car, and then more recently, I won both the first and second prizes in a workplace holiday draw.

As for his plans for the life-changing prize? “We have a lot of options now. I’ll be making some investments, taking many trips, enjoying life. Also, my wife has always wanted to try those VIP $100 slots in Las Vegas and now I can make that dream come true for her,”.

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BROOKS & DUNN RETURN TO TOURING AFTER A DECADE 

Ten years after parting ways, Brooks & Dunn will hit the road this summer for their first nationwide tour together. Brooks & Dunn Reboot 2020 Tour will kick off in St. Louis, MO on May 15th with several yet-to-be-announced special guests.

Ronnie Dunn joked, “So much for ‘we quit,’ huh? That horse that we were afraid of riding into the ground apparently didn’t share our sentiment . . . he gotta fire in his belly raring to go another round or two. I like the ring of it . . . ‘Brooks & Dunn ride again!’”

Brooks & Dunn released their Reboot album last year. It featured collaborations on some of their biggest hits with special guests like Luke Combs, Brett Young, Jon Pardi, Thomas Rhett, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown, to name a few.

The duo is currently nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Duo/ Group Performance for their collaboration with Luke Combs on “Brand New Man” on the album. The Grammy Awards airs live from Los Angeles on Jan. 26th on CBS.

 

 

MIRANDA LAMBERT CELEBRATES FIRST RESPONDERS ON ‘WILDCARD TOUR’

Miranda Lambert is using her Wildcard Tour to pay respect to local first responders in each city.

Radio listeners can nominate these special people to participating country stations, and the selected honoree will receive two show tickets and meet & greets with Miranda.

The Wildcard Tour gets underway on Thursday (Jan. 16th) in Tupelo, Miss. with special guests Cody Johnson and LANCO. Miranda chose to surround herself with a bunch of guys on the new tour who all inspire her in some way. She tells us: [“I’m taking fellow Texan Cody Johnson out. He’s just country and I love country music, like stone cold country, and then LANCO I saw at a festival in Canada last summer and I watched their show and it was like in the afternoon and it was so energetic and they had the crowd so excited and they’re like cool and young and have these hip vibes. I love that. I want to be inspired every night, you know? I watch every one of my openers almost every night and I want to have to go out there and bring my A game, you know?”]

Miranda is climbing the charts with her latest single, “Bluebird.”

 

TIM McGRAW ANNOUNCES ‘HERE ON EARTH’ SUMMER TOUR

Tim McGraw will head out on the Here On Earth Tour launching this summer with special guest Midland and newcomer Ingrid Andress. The tour opens on July 10th in Syracuse, NY. Tim will also join forces with Luke Combs for two stadium shows in Philadelphia and Los Angeles in September. Tickets for select shows on the Here On Earth Tour go on sale beginning Jan. 24th at Megaticket.com.

Yesterday (Monday, Jan. 13th), Tim headlined at the College Football Playoff Game, performing his new song “Way Down” from a upcoming album later, as well as his hit “Something Like That,” in New Orleans’ Woldenberg Park.

July 25    Toronto, ON    Budweiser Stage

 

 

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer