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September 8, 2020 9:35 am Published by

➢ Number one ranked tennis star Novak Djokovic is sorry after he intentionally smacked a tennis ball in frustration at the U.S. Open, and it hit a line judge in the throat.  She’ll be okay, but Novak was disqualified from the tournament.  (Here’s audio of the incident.)

 

➢ Imagine waking up and finding yourself high in the clouds and hurtling toward earth.  This guy passed out while skydiving with his instructor, and when he woke back up he forgot where he was and started screaming.  Their chutes were attached.

 

➢ You may remember the story about a library in Washington that was getting a makeover when workers discovered a stash of beer and chewing gum behind a shelf (See the full story here: http://www.pulseofradio.com/content/story/447164). Now, Hamm’s beer, which was the beer found in the library stash, has announced a contest to find the library-goer who hid their brand of beer behind some paneling at the Washington state library some time in the 1980s. The brand wrote on social media, “Prove that the 30-year-old Hamm’s were yours and there might be a special surprise in it for you.” The “special surprise” is a gift card for 30 cases of Hamm’s, or for “one [case] for every year they’ve been missing the beer.”

 

➢ Christopher Nolan’s new movie “Tenet” made $20.2 million over Labor Day Weekend.  Pre-pandemic that would be a pretty weak showing, but it’s the biggest gross in North America since theaters reopened.

“Tenet” hit theaters overseas last weekend, and its global total so far is $146.2 million.  Analysts think it has a shot of making $500 million.

“New Mutants” earned $3.5 million in its second weekend, while the RUSSELL CROWE thriller “Unhinged” took in $1.7 million.

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Telephone Tuesday”, calls to businesses often peak on the day following Labor Day. There are several reasons for this. It follows a long weekend, summer is ending and people want to take care of things they’ve been putting off the whole season, school is starting, and people want to get things in order before the holiday season begins.

 

  • “Star Trek Day”, the first episode of The Original Series aired on September 8, 1966. Star Trek was first seen in Canada on the 6th — two days before the US got to see it.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Brad Paisley‘s duet with Keith Urban, “Start A Band,” was released to radio in 2008.

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The Creator of Jelly Belly Is Giving Away a Candy Factory, Willy Wonka Style

If you’ve got a child with behavior issues who needs to be taught a gruesome lesson and then possibly have that lesson explained to them in song by Oompa Loompas, maybe keep them away from this contest.

 

A guy named David Klein is the founder of Jelly Belly jelly beans.  He’s getting ready to retire.  So he’s giving away one of his candy factories . . . Willy Wonka style.

 

Here’s how the contest works.  He’s gone to all 50 states and hidden a special necklace in each state.  For $50 at TheGoldTicket.com, you can get a ticket to a scavenger hunt for the necklace in your state.

 

And if you find it, you get $5,000 . . . plus you’re entered in the grand prize drawing, where one of the 50 winners will get the candy factory.

(Then again, he’s selling 1,000 tickets for each treasure hunt . . . so that’s $45,000 profit per state after the $5,000 prize.  All added up, that’s a total of $2.25 million.  I’m sure the candy factory costs more than that . . . but that cash softens the blow.) 

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS

  1. “SOS”by ABBA is the only Top 40 song ever where the song title AND the artist are both palindromes.

 

  1. WD-40 has never been patented because doing so would force the company to disclose its recipe.
  2. A 7-foot-tall man in the U.S. has a one in seven shot of making it to the NBA.  A man under six feet has a one in 1.2 million shot.

 

  1. If you’re 18 years old, you have about 3,300 weekends left in your lifetime

 

GOOD NEWS

When two women set out to rescue a dog, they never expected that they’d end up saving 10.

 

Megan Wedge found a stray dog wandering around a parking lot in Dalton, Georgia, in mid-May. When she spoke to her sister, Sarah Bauer, Bauer decided to take in the dog, which she named Izzy.

 

But she soon found out Izzy had experienced serious trauma. A visit with a veterinarian determined Izzy had been run over and shot with buckshot. X-rays showed the damage from the buckshot, but an ultrasound found an additional heartbeat.

 

At her follow up appointment, Bauer got an even bigger surprise when it was found that Izzy was pregnant with nine puppies, and she delivered the healthy pups from June 11th to June 12th.  A GoFundMe has been created for Izzy’s needed surgery for her injuries, which costs $4,000. Bauer hopes Izzy’s story will help to raise awareness about animal abuse.

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BIRTHDAYS

[79] Bernie Saunders, politician

 

[49] Martin Freeman, actor (‘Dr John Watson’ on “Sherlock” 2010-17, “Fargo” 2014)

 

[18] Gaten Matarazzo, Little Egg Harbor NJ, TV actor (Dustin on “Stranger Things”)

 

  

This Week in Science:

  1. This isn’t a cure, but there’s a promising new treatment for ALS that slows it down.  And some of the money that paid for the studycame from the Ice Bucket Challenge.  It went viral back in 2014 and raised over $200 million for ALS research.

 

  1. A study in Australia found that the venom from honeybeesis really good at killing breast cancer cells.  And it could lead to a new treatment.

 

  1. Junk food doesn’t just affect your waistline.  A new study found that ultra-processed foods also mess with your chromosomes and make you age faster.

 

  1. Researchers at Princeton say it’s theoretically possible to build wormholesin outer space that would let you travel across the universe and survive.

 

  1. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is now calling for an end to Daylight Saving Time.  They saythere’s plenty of evidence that shifting the clocks twice a year is bad for us.  So it’s just not worth it.  (We fall back this year on November 1st.)

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EATING OUT:
The city of Chicago is offering $5,000 for the best ideas to facilitate cold weather outdoor dining.

 

As restaurants adapt to the new normal, eateries that largely rely on outdoor dining are growing concerned about their next obstacle: winter.

 

In an effort to help, the city has announced a “Winter Design Challenge” aimed at finding an innovative solution that still adheres to local health and safety guidelines. The winners will receive $5,000 for their most creative, feasible ideas.

 

The contest just wrapped up yesterday and winners will be chosen in three categories: “outdoor, standalone structures”; “indoor-adjacent spaces”; and “cultural shifts making winter dining more appealing.”

 

  

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH  

 

  1. NBA PLAYOFFS:

Boston Celtics 111, Toronto Raptors 89 — Boston leads series 3 games to 2 (East)

L.A. Clippers 113, Denver Nuggets 107 — Los Angeles leads 2 games to 1 (West)

 

NHL PLAYOFFS:

Tampa Bay Lightning 8, New York Islanders 2 — Tampa Bay leads series 1 game to 0 (East)

 

  1. A guy in New Jersey was vice-president at an ad agency before he got laid off in June.

And while he searches for a new job, he’s been mowing senior citizens’ lawns for free.

He says he, quote, “just wanted to put some good out there.”

 

  1. A guy in Kansas named Kenneth Torres broke out his Halloween and Christmas decorations early, and he’s usingthem to encourage people to wear a mask.  One part of it is a mannequin in his front yard with a sign that says, “I used to look like this.”  And it’s next to a skeleton with a sign that says, “Don’t end up like me.  Wear a mask.”  He says he wants to get the outbreak under control, or we might not be able to enjoy the holidays this year.

 

  1. There are a lot of prison reality shows all over cable and streaming networks.  We can’t seem to find one with comedians doing their acts for the inmates . . . and it really happens.  Here’s comedian Nate Bargatze.

 

 

No winning ticket was sold for the whopping $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. There were also seven Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and three of them were won — two by ticket holders in Ontario and the other by a lottery player in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw TONIGHT will grow to approximately $65 million, and there will be eight Maxmillions prizes to play for.

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $11-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.

However, the guaranteed $1-million prize was won by a lottery player in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw WEDNESDAY will be approximately $14 million.

 

 

 

LUKE COMBS ‘THANKFUL AND HUMBLED’ BY CMA AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Luke Combs walked away with a whopping six CMA nominations last week . Luke – who is the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year as well as Song of the Year recipient – tells us: [“You know, you never really expect something like this when you move to Nashville. I mean, getting six CMA nominations is pretty insane, two in the same category is just unbelievable, especially in a category that means so much to me, Song of the Year. And obviously, being in the conversation for Entertainer of the Year for the first time is such a huge deal, and having a seat at the table with Carrie and Miranda and Keith and Eric, it’s just an honor. I’m just really thankful and really humbled.”]

The 2020 CMA Awards ceremony will be broadcast on ABC on Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 8 p.m. ET.

 

 

Chris Stapleton on the Pandemic, His Mountain Bike, and the Route 91 Tragedy

CHRIS STAPLETON was promoting his forthcoming album “Starting Over” . . .  and he was asked if he has any doubts about releasing it in the middle of a pandemic.

He said everybody has doubts these days about everything . . . and if they tell you they haven’t reached a breaking point, they’re lying.

He’s been coping with it all by riding his mountain bike in the woods.  Quote, “It’s helped tremendously in a ‘centering’ kind of way.”

One of the songs is called, “Watch You Burn” . . . and he wrote it after the Route 91 shooting.  It opens with the lyrics, “Only a coward would pick up a gun, and shoot up a crowd trying to have fun.”

He talked the Black Lives Matter movement, and how it’s turned his reality upside down.  Quote, “You know, I thought we were living in a different country.  And that’s 100% real.  I feel like the country that I thought that we were living in was a myth.”

When asked if he supports it, he said quote, “Do I think Black lives matter?  Absolutely.  I don’t know how you could think they don’t.  We all have a lot of work to do, as individuals and as a society.  And if you don’t think that, I think you’re not looking.”

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FGL’S TYLER HUBBARD TAKES A TUMBLE

Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard is still recovering from ankle surgery but took a spill in front of his house while getting used to riding on his knee scooter. Tyler was heading out the front door and onto the sidewalk when his home security camera captured him taking a tumble into the landscaping. He was ultimately able to get up and get back on the scooter, moaning and groaning from the pain, and he immediately heads back into the house.

Tyler shared the video on Instagram writing, “Yup, it’s still 2020 and I just had another piece of humble pie. @hayley_hubbard and I laughed until we cried watching this last night…”

Tyler recently suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and broke one of the bones in his ankle due to a dirt bike accident.

He and his wife, Hayley, are expecting their third child in the next few weeks.

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CARRIE AND BRAD AT THE OPRY

Here’s Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley at the Opry performing “Whiskey Lullaby”.

(It was during their appearance over the weekend on the “Saturday Night Grand Ole Opry”.)

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer