On Today’s Show

July 2, 2020 9:35 am Published by

➢ Yesterday, a 97-year-old woman in Canada who entertained troops in World War Two couldn’t perform at a venue on Canada Day.  So she went outside and sang for all her neighbors.  She says a huge part of making it to her age is all in your head.

➢ A 22-year-old Amazon driver in Detroit quit in the middle of his shift the other day, and left the van at a gas station.  He told a reporter there were just too many packages to get through, and he was sick of it.

➢ A fresh-off-the-lot Lamborghini was totaled in Yorkshire, northern England, this week after just 20 minutes on the road. West Yorkshire police said a mechanical failure forced the brand-new Huracan Spyder — reportedly worth around $250,000 — to stop on the M1 highway last Wednesday. It was then “hit from behind by an innocent motorist” in a van, police said. Neither driver was seriously injured in the accident. Police shared pictures of the wrecked car to Twitter with the hashtag #couldhavecried.

➢ This was certainly someone’s lucky day. A California scuba diver known as “Merman Mike” recently plunged into the Sacramento River and was able to recover a lost ring worth $17,000. Mike Pelley, who has a YouTube channel, says he was approached by a man named Bill Fitty who heard about his underwater exploits and wanted his help finding a lost item. Pelley was able to find the lost ring on his second attempt. Fitty said he wants to reward Pelley with $1,500 to buy an underwater metal detector for future dives.

➢ D.L. HUGHLEY never really felt the effects of COVID-19 . . . until it mixed with other issues and caused him to pass out onstage at a comedy club in Nashville last month.

D.L. thinks he caught the virus in Dallas, then returned home to do his radio show . . . and promptly gifted it to everyone he works with, including his son.

He says, quote, “I’m a regular Typhoid Mary . . .

“It [makes] me feel horrible to know that not knowing, I potentially jeopardized so many people.  We need to have a uniform approach to this thing.  I think that everybody needs to get tested, everybody needs to wear a mask.”

It was AFTER he did the radio show that the Nashville incident happened.

 

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Halfway Point of the Year”, the 184thday of the year (because it is a leap year). There are 183 days before today and 182 after.

 

  • “World UFO Day”, a day in which individuals and groups are encouraged to gather together to watch the skies for Unidentified Flying Objects.

1996 [24] “Independence Day”, starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum, opens in movie theaters and grosses $100 million in 7 days … a new record

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Rascal Flatts‘ “Fast Cars And Freedom” hit #1 in 2005.

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Things to Look Forward to in July

  1. Hockey, Baseball AND basketball are set to return.  The Major League Baseball season startsin about three weeks.  Then the NBA is slated to return at the end of the month on July 30th. The NHL plans to open training camps on July 10th

 

  1. A few shows worth mentioning:  The “Unsolved Mysteries”reboot hit Netflix yesterday.

The cast of “30 Rock” will reunite to host the NBC “Upfront” special on July 16th.  And Jim Gaffigan’s newest stand-up set hits Amazon Prime July 24th.

 

  1. In movies:  “Hamilton”lands on Disney-Plus this Friday.  The Tom Hanks World War Two movie “Greyhound” premieres on Apple TV July 10th.  And Andy Samberg’s new “Palm Springs” movie hits Hulu July 10th.  (It follows the “Groundhog Day” time-loop formula and was a hit at Sundance this year.)

 

  1. Next Monday is National Fried Chicken Day . . . French Fry Day is July 13th . . . Mac and Cheese Day is July 14th . . . National Ice Cream Day is the 19th . . . National Hot Dog Day is the 23rd . . . and National Tequila Day is July 24th.

 

 

FOUR RANDOM FACTS

  1. Phil Robertsonfrom “Duck Dynasty” played quarterback at Louisiana Tech University in the late ’60s.  He left school early to focus on duck hunting, which opened up the spot for the backup quarterback . . . Terry Bradshaw.

 

  1. Rainbows are actually full circles.  You just can’t see the bottom half because of the ground.

 

  1. Paul McCartneywrote “Let It Be”, and then sent it to Aretha Franklin.  She recorded it, but held up the release for so long, The Beatles decided to just do it themselves.

 

  1. A football player named Bobby Singhwon a Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams in 2000 . . . an XFL championship with the L.A. Xtreme in 2001 . . . and a CFL championship in 2006 with the B.C. Lions.  No other player ever won all three.

 

GOOD NEWS

An axe-throwing club in San Diego finally got to reopen.  And they’re offering it up to healthcare workers for FREE as a, quote, “ultimate stress reliever.”

 

 

There are a lot of OTHER frontline workers out there too.  A neighborhood in Miami Beach threw an outdoor surprise party for its garbage collectors , and the Mayor showed up.

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BIRTHDAYS

[73] Larry David, TV producer-director-writer-actor

 

[34] Lindsay Lohan, actress

 

[30] Margot Robbie, actress

 

 

 

Growing List of MLB Players Are Opting Out of the Shortened Season

Major League Baseball and the NBA continue to insist that they’re coming back THIS MONTH.  But every day, they seem more and more DOOMED.

 

At least four MLB players have opted out . . . Mike Leake of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross of the World Champion Washington Nationals, and Ian Desmond of the Colorado Rockies.

 

They’re all sitting out for concerns over COVID-19, whether for themselves or high-risk family members.

 

Several other players have tested positive for COVID-19.  Last we heard, the season was supposed to start around July 23rd . . .

 

But there’s still no schedule, and very little information about how the league will keep COVID-19 from infiltrating traveling teams, especially as it’s running rampant across the U.S.

 

Oh, and minor league baseball has officially been canceled.

 

The same goes for the NBA.  At least a half-dozen players are sitting out the upcoming season.

And 79-year-old announcer Marv Albert says he’s not taking his chances.

 

Unlike Major League Baseball, the NBA is playing in a “bubble” in Orlando, but Florida has emerged as a COVID-19 hotspot . . . and people are already questioning if the league will be able to keep its players inside the bubble.

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Did You Ever Run Out of Toilet Paper During the Pandemic?

For now, it seems like the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 is over and there’s enough supply to meet our filthy demand.

 

But when everybody was rushing out to stores and hoarding it, did you ever run out?

 

According to a new survey, 14% of people say YES . . . at some point, their house did run out of toilet paper.  81% said no, and 4% somehow don’t know.

 

The younger someone is, the more likely they are to have run out.  26% of people 18 to 24 say their toilet paper supply dried up at some point during the past few months . . . versus just 6% of people over 55.

 

 

STUDY: ALLERGIES COULD OFFER PROTECTION AGAINST CORONAVIRUS

If you’ve been dealing with seasonal allergies lately you might consider yourself lucky.

 

Doctors and researchers have started sifting through statistics and discovered that the number of allergy and asthma patients who were severely affected by COVID-19 is lower than in the general population.

 

In fact, a paper published in April by the U.S. and U.K. in April found that cells in the lungs of children and adults with allergic rhinitis (cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose, caused by an allergy) and allergic asthma (asthma triggered by things such as cats, dust, or pollen) have lower numbers of ACE2 receptors– the same receptors that COVID-19 uses to enter the cells in our bodies.

 

It’s not clear why those with allergies have fewer ACE2 receptors. The researchers add that the most common medications used to prevent and treat asthma—such as steroids and airway-dilating medicines—may also help reduce the risk of a serious COVID-19 infection.

 

 

THURSDAY JULY 2ND  

 

  1. California shut down bars, theaters and indoor dining again yesterday (July 1st) in 19 counties where nearly three-quarters of the population lives, amid a surge in cases in the state. The number of confirmed cases in California has grown by nearly 50 percent in two weeks and hospitalizations are up 43 percent.

Arizona reported single-day records in new cases, ER visits, hospitalizations and deaths.

Texas and Georgia set daily records for new cases, and Louisiana had its biggest daily increase since April.

Beaches are closing in South Florida to keep away large crowds over the Fourth of July weekend.

The return of indoor dining in New York City is being indefinitely postponed out of concern it could lead to the same kind of spike in cases now being seen in many other states.

There have been more than 128,000 deaths in the U.S. as of last night, according to Johns Hopkins University’s count, and more than 2,686,000 confirmed cases.

 

  1. Comedy legend Carl Reiner diedJune 30th of natural causes.  He was 98.  He created “The Dick Van Dyke Show“.  Reiner appeared in it as TV show host, Alan Brady.

Trivia:  Did you know that Carl was the original “Robbie Petrie?”  His original idea of a TV writer with family at home was called “Head of the Family”.  After the show wasn’t picked up, Reiner recrafted it with a new star, Dick Van Dyke as Rob Petrie.

 

  1. A carjacker in Santa Cruz, California triedto run from the cops on Tuesday, and ended up driving off a cliff into the ocean.  He somehow survived, and started climbing back up the cliff before cops arrested him.  It happened on Highway 1, which has a lot of curves.  A woman who saw him speed by said he was probably going way too fast.  (Note:  They interviewed her right next to where it happened, so the background noise is the ocean.)

 

  1. Now that casinos are reopening in Las Vegas, here’s comedian Sebastian Maniscalco talking about how he thought people were already embarrassing themselves there.

 

SPORTS COMING BACK?

Baseball’s minor leagues canceled their seasons Tuesday (June 30th) because of the pandemic, the first time it’s ever happened.

 

With the NBA season set to resume at the end of this month with all games played at the Walt Disney World Resort complex in Orlando, Commissioner Adam Silver conceded that the spread of the virus among the NBA community could lead to a suspension of play again.

 

The Denver Nuggets said that they’ve closed their practice facilities after three members of the NBA team’s traveling party — which includes players, coaches and staff — tested positive.  Meanwhile, New Orleans Pelicans general manager David Griffin said three of the team’s players have tested positive for the virus and are in self-isolation. The 22 NBA teams that will restart the season at the end of this month returned to their practice facilities last week.

 

 

BRAD PAISLEY REACHES OUT TO REWARD ‘REGULAR HEROES’

Brad Paisley is at it again via Zoom, but this time he helped out a farmer and his wife in Kentucky. As part of the new Amazon docuseries Regular Heroes, Brad FaceTimed Daniel Hayden, who owns a cattle and chicken farm. Taste of Country reports the surprises just kept coming, starting with a year’s supply of N95 masks to protect their health while working on the farm, as well as two matching belt buckles emblazoned with “Hayden Farms,” and finally, financial assistance for infertility treatments, an issue the couple has been struggling with.

An emotional Hayden said, “That means the world to us. That is our number one priority — passing it on to the next generation . . . We’ve had trouble with that for a while.”

The last new episode of Regular Heroes will be released this Friday (July 3rd). Other celebrities who have participated in the show include Nick Jonas, Alicia Keys and Kevin Hart

 

TENILLE TOWNES

Tenille Townes raised $89,000 on Tuesday (June 30th) night during her virtual “Big Hearts For Big Kids” fundraiser with all proceeds benefitting two organizations: Sunrise House (a local youth shelter in Townes’ hometown of Grande Prairie, Alberta) and Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee’s Troop 6000 (an initiative that supports girls without permanent housing in the Nashville area).

In the eleven years since Townes started the annual fundraiser, “Big Hearts For Big Kids” has raised over $2 million. Hosted at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, the virtual event featured performances by Tenille, Dierks Bentley, Brandi Carlile, Luke Combs, and many others.

 

RASCAL FLATTS TO RELEASE SEVEN-SONG EP

Rascal Flatts will be releasing a new seven-song EP called How They Remember You on July 31st. The project includes their brand new single, which is the album’s title track, as well as their version of Kenny Rogers‘ hit “Through The Years,” which they performed during CMT’s recent tribute to the late icon.

None of the the three had a hand in writing the song “How They Remember You,” but Jay DeMarcus tells us it immediately reminded him of another one of Rascal Flatts’ big hits. [“It’s just a masterpiece. I felt much the same way listening to this song as I did when we heard ‘Broken Road’ for the first time. It’s a timeless message that will inspire people, and it’s about what kind of mark you leave behind when you leave this world.  What kind of legacy do you have? And for me, when I heard it, I first went ‘What are people going to say about me when I’m gone?’ It’s a song that I believe will challenge listeners when they hear it and they’ll wonder about what their life’s legacy is going to look like once they’re gone. And I think it’s a wonderful thing. I really do, and a timely message for right now.”] SOUNDCUE (:28 OC: . . . for right now.)

The EP commemorates Rascal Flatts’ 20-year anniversary.

 

 

 

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