On Today’s Show

A daycare worker in Florida got fired after they used a permanent marker to write a note on a little kid’s stomach, telling his parents they needed to buy more diapers.  The daycare originally sent a normal note home, but the mom didn’t see it.  She says they did the same thing last year, and she didn’t say anything.  But this time, she’d had enough.

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An Ohio couple received 55,000 identical letters at the same time due to a glitch in the system of a student loan company. Dan Cain said the clerk at the Post Office told him during a recent visit that all of his mail wouldn’t fit through the front door, so he pulled around back and was presented with 55,000 identical letters from College Avenue Student Loans.

The company told him the statement inside the letters was incorrect and they will be sending a corrected statement. Cain said he is now mulling what to do with the 55,000 incorrect statements.

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ENTERTAINMENT

“Parasite” had a huge night at the Oscars, becoming the first Foreign-language movie to win Best Picture.

It also won Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay . . . and Bong Joon Ho picked up Best Director. Meanwhile, “1917”, “Joker”, and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” won three Oscars apiece.

All the big wins for “Parasite” were NOT good news for Netflix, which didn’t get much love from the Academy . . . again.  Netflix came in with 24 nominations, which was more than any other studio.

But it only won two:  Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress for “Marriage Story”, and “American Factory” won Best Documentary Feature.

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The Harley Quinn movie “Birds of Prey” easily won the box office over the weekend . . . but it only made $33.3 million, which is a big disappointment.

As recently as last Thursday, the studio was expecting around $45 million in its opening weekend . . . while some industry experts said it was tracking to make around $60 million.

For what it’s worth, the movie’s budget was reportedly around $95 million.

2. “Bad Boys for Life”, $12 million.  Up to $166.3 million in its 4th week.

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TODAY IS……………….

• “Flannel Day”, a day for people to wear their best lumberjack-esque attire and enjoy a piece of clothing made to keep them warm during a long winter.

• “Clean out Your Computer Day”, an annual event on the 2nd Monday of the month when we’re encouraged to delete all the digital chaff we’ve collected over the past year.

• “Oatmeal Monday”,  a holiday that was traditionally celebrated at Scottish universities. From the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, students at Scottish universities were required to bring their own food and fuel to campuses, such as oatmeal and firewood.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Eddie Rabbitt began a three-week stay at #1 with the theme from the Clint Eastwood movie “Every Which Way But Loose” in 1979.

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RANDOM REPORT

1. Bill Murrayagreed to do the voice of “Garfield” because he thought the script was written by Joel Coen, the guy behind “Fargo” and other critically acclaimed movies.

It was actually written by Joel Cohen, the guy who wrote “Daddy Day Camp” and “Cheaper by the Dozen”.

2. The favorite pizza topping in Australia is eggs.
3. No one born before 1816 ever appeared in a movie.  A woman named Sarah Whitley who was born in 1816 appeared in the first film ever in 1888.  It was called “Roundhay Garden Scene”.

4. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Bill Gatesall spent time as the richest man in the world . . . and all of them had a father named William.

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GOOD NEWS

Police in Milton, Ont., are praising a local teenager for her honesty after she turned over a large sum of cash she found.

She was walking in the town Saturday evening when she noticed a package on the ground.

They say that when the girl discovered the bag contained several bank deposit envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars in cash, she immediately handed it over to the local police division.

Police say they quickly determined the money belonged to a business and had inadvertently been dropped by an employee.

The money was then returned to its rightful owner.

Police didn’t name the business or release the identity of the teen, however, they said “it is acts of honestly and civic duty like this that replenishes faith in the good-hearted nature of the majority of youth in our community.”

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BIRTHDAYS

[53] Laura Dern, actress COMING UP…”Jurassic World 3″, 2021

[46] Elizabeth Banks, movie actress-director (“Pitch Perfect” films, “Hunger Games” films)

[39] Uzo Aduba, Boston MA, TV actress (‘Suzanne’ on “Orange Is the New Black” 2013-19)

[29] Emma Roberts, actress American Horror Story since 2013

[23] Chloë Grace Moretz, actress

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Now There Are Instagram Influencers Who Never Drink Water

In case you needed ANOTHER reason not to take serious health advice from Instagram influencers, here you go . . .

Apparently, there are some wellness influencers on Instagram who’ve stopped drinking WATER.  They say they choose to hydrate from eating fruits and vegetables instead.

One says, quote, “Bottled water is probably really toxic and dirty,” and the push for us to all drink more water is, quote, “All business and huge marketing.”

Another says, quote, “I stopped drinking empty water from bottles or the tap.  You hydrate with living water because there’s nothing in the water in bottles.”

So what do doctors say?  One says, quote, “I would highly discourage people from giving up on water . . . we need water to break down all the nutrients, we need it for our metabolism.  There’s so much more to suggest dehydration isn’t good for you.”

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Five Things That Go on Sale in February

The coupon website RetailMeNot posted a list of five things that usually go on sale in February.  So if you’re in the market for any of this stuff, now might be a good time to buy . . .

1. Custom items, like engraved picture frames.  Stuff like that gets marked down an average of 40% ahead of Valentine’s Day.

2. Food delivery.  DoorDash has 25% of your first purchase right now, and Postmates has a $15 delivery credit for existing users.

3. TVs.  They’re around 30% off, because there’s a lot of leftover stock after the Super Bowl.  February is the second-cheapest time of year to buy a new TV.  The only time they’re cheaper is around Black Friday.

4. Flowers.  An average of 21% cheaper than normal because of Valentine’s Day.

5. Subscriptions to online dating sites, like Match.com.  Dating sites always go after single people around Valentine’s Day.  So most of them have deals right now.  The average is 20% off, but eHarmony currently has a coupon for 35% off.

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 10^TH                                              

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[53] Laura Dern, actress COMING UP…”Jurassic World 3″, 2021

[46] Elizabeth Banks, movie actress-director (“Pitch Perfect” films, “Hunger Games” films)

[39] Uzo Aduba, Boston MA, TV actress (‘Suzanne’ on “Orange Is the New Black” 2013-19)

[29] Emma Roberts, actress American Horror Story since 2013

[23] Chloë Grace Moretz, actress

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1. NHL

DET 3 – BOS 1      ANA 3 – BUF 2    NYR 4 – LAK 1      WPG 5 – CHI 2    COL 3 – MIN 2

2. OSCAR Winners included:

Best Picture: “Parasite”

Best Director: Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”

Best Actress: Renee Zellweger, “Judy”

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”

3. Actor Robert Conrad passed away Saturday, at the age of 84, due to heart failure.  Conrad was the star of the ’60s TV series “Wild Wild West”, which went on to become a terrible movie starring Will Smith.  In the ’70s, he played a World War 2 pilot in the series “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, a.k.a. “Black Sheep Squadron”.  Here he is in one of those old Eveready commercials where he’d put a battery on his shoulder and dare us to knock it off.

4. Paula Poundstone talks about cable TV channels, like the long run of ESPN channels, and the Viagra ads.

No winning ticket was sold for the $40 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

That means the jackpot for the next draw tomorrow night will be approximately $50 million, and two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each will also be offered.

The $9 million Lotto 649 jackpot was won last night by a lucky ticket holder in who purchased their ticket in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next draw on Wednesday will be an estimated $5 million.

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FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE ‘STAY IN STATE OF THANKFULNESS’

Like they sing about in their latest hit, “Blessings,” the guys in Florida Georgia Line know they have been blessed and try to take nothing for granted. In fact, Tyler Hubbard tells us that he and Brian Kelley make a daily conscious choice to be thankful for those blessings and the ones to come. [“We’re always trying to stay in kind of a mind state of thankfulness and we really have been blessed.  And there was a time where we didn’t have anything to lose, kind of didn’t have a whole lot, and were just chasing a dream and a passion, and knew that God had a plan for us and knew there was a wife out there for us and a family.  It’s hard to be in a bad mood or stay down too long if you’re kind of staying in that mind state of thankfulness. So I think you can kind of train yourself to be that way, no matter where you’re at or what you have materialistically. So, it’s something we’re working on and really enjoy trying to stay there.”]

FGL will play the stadium dates on Kenny Chesney‘s upcoming Chillaxification Tour beginning on April 18th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.

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INGRID ANDRESS SETS MARCH RELEASE FOR DEBUT ALBUM

Newcomer Ingrid Andress will release her debut album, called Lady Like, on March 27th. It will include her current debut hit single, “More Hearts Than Mine”.

Ingrid made history as having the only debut from a solo-female to crack the Country Airplay Top 20 in 2019.

She’ll hit the road this spring on Dan + Shay’s North American arena tour and help Thomas Rhett kick off his Center Point Road Tour in May before heading out with Tim McGraw for his Here On Earth stadium tour this summer.

She will join Keith Urban’s All for the Hall benefit concert in Nashville TONIGHT alongside Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton and Tanya Tucker, to name a few.

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Fire Destroyed Neal McCoy’s Tour Bus on Saturday, but He Performed That Night

A fire broke out on NEAL MCCOY’s tour bus Saturday morning on a highway near Mansfield, Louisiana.  He was able to get OFF the bus in time, and no one was hurt.  Unfortunately, the bus was totaled.

He went live on Facebook around 6:30 A.M. while it was STILL up in flames.  You can tell he’s shaken up, who wouldn’t be.  He was mostly getting the word out that everyone was okay.  He also grieved a little for the bus, which he called “Old Glory.”

Despite the chaos he still did his show on Saturday in Alexandria, Louisiana.

Taste of Country put together a list of other country artists who’ve had tour bus fires or accidents.  It includes Trace Adkins, Randy Houser, Lee Brice, Jerrod Niemann,

Joe Diffie, Willie Nelson, and Canaan Smith.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer