On Today’s Show

December 7, 2020 9:35 am Published by

➢ On Black Friday last week, customers at a northern California Best Buy waited in line for many hours during a pandemic to buy the new PlayStation 5.  Would you stay in line for 36 hours?  The first guy did.  (Others had their cards declined, and one guy is honest about his plans.  They were all wearing masks.

 

➢ A guy in Maine who was adopted as a kid recently tracked down his biological father, and they met for the first time over Thanksgiving when he picked him up at the airport . . . dressed as Will Ferrell’s character from the movie “Elf.”  He recreated the scene where Buddy the Elf meets his dad and sings a song.  The dad had never seen the movie, so the joke didn’t really land.  But the internet loved it.

 

➢ People from a northern Spanish region shared photos of the hair-covered skin of their young children and officials have admitted that about 20 children were mistakenly given minoxidil, a medication for hair growth, instead of a med which is used to treat acid reflux because it was mislabeled.

It took authorities two months to realize the labeling error and shut down the laboratory where the mistake was made as well as recall the medicine. The families filed civil and criminal complaints against the laboratory and several companies. It’s not clear if the condition is reversible in the children.

 

➢ An unnamed Russian man, now age 59, was just six-years-old when he wedged a coin into his right nostril. He was “too scared” to tell his “strict” mother about the incident and reportedly later “forgot” about it. It seems the coin didn’t bother him until recently, when he started to complain that he couldn’t breathe at all out of his right nostril, and visited a hospital. A scan revealed that a blockage had formed around the coin, blocking air. Doctors performed  surgery to remove the stones and the coin. The man has regained full breathing ability in that nostril.

 

➢ GEORGE CLOONEY recently revealed that he’s been using a Flowbee to cut his own hair for more than years.

The Vice President of Flowbee says sales have gone up TENFOLD over the past week . . . and they’ve completely sold out.  (Who would’ve predicted that 2020 would be the year that Flowbees were harder to get than Coachella tickets.)

The company says that due to the surprise, quote, “Clooney effect,” it’ll be at least two to four weeks before they can get supply back up to meet demand.

The company hasn’t worked with Clooney before . . . and they didn’t even know he was a customer.  But obviously, they’re thrilled, and they’re planning on sending him a thank you package.

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Letter Writing Day”, when we’re encouraged to take a few minutes to send someone a handwritten letter. Letter-writing has almost become a lost art. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone, either printed or in cursive?

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Alan Jackson‘s “Little Bitty,” written by Tom T. Hall, hit Number One in 1996.

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If the Hand Sanitizer in Your Car Freezes, Throw It Away

Here’s a good tip as temperatures drop:  If you ever leave hand sanitizer in your car and find it FROZEN the next morning . . . throw it away.

 

It’s not because cold weather ruins it.  It’s because if it freezes at all, it was probably no good in the first place.

 

Most hand sanitizers are alcohol-based.  So they shouldn’t freeze until the temperature gets REALLY low.  Like negative-50 degrees or lower.

 

So if it does freeze, it means there wasn’t enough alcohol in there to be effective.  Or it was a cheap knock-off that didn’t have the ingredients listed on the label.

 

Alcohol-free hand sanitizers DO exist.  A new study actually found they might work just as well as the alcohol kind.  (Instead of alcohol, they use something called benzalkonium chloride to kill germs.)

 

But almost all the brands you see at stores contain alcohol.  So if yours freezes, check the label.  And if it’s alcohol-based, throw it out.

 

 

GOOD NEWS

A teacher in India just won an annual competition called the Global Teacher Prize that comes with a $1 million cash prize.

 

And right after he won, he announced he’s taking half of the money and giving it to the other nine finalists.

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BIRTHDAYS

[88] Ellen Burstyn, Detroit MI, actress (“Requiem for a Dream”, “The Exorcist”)

 

[42] Kristofer Hivju, Oslo Norway, actor (‘Tormund Giantsbane’ on “Game of Thrones”)

 

 

 

LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE 

  1. A massive radio telescope collapsedin Puerto Rico this week, and now there’s video.  It’s called the Arecibo Observatory.  (Arr-uh-SEE-bo)  You might know it from the movies “GoldenEye” and “Contact”.  Luckily no one was hurt.  It’s not clear if they’ll rebuild or not.

 

  1. A new study found that if life ever existed on Mars, it might have been miles below the surface.  The sun wasn’t hot enough billions of years ago.  But geothermal heat below the surface might have been enough to support life.

 

  1. A team in China built a new jet enginethat could hit Mach 16 . . . or 16 times the speed of sound.  That’s fast enough to get anywhere in the world in under two hours.

 

  1. Three former presidents . . . Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush . . . all saythey’re willing to get vaccinated on TV to show people it’s safe.  Obama talked about it in a radio interview the other day.

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HAWAIIAN PIZZA #1 IN THE U.S.

Hawaiian pizza, which was invented by Sam Panopoulos who said he created the pizza in 1962 at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ont.has been deemed the most popular pizza in the U.S. for 2020, according to an annual report from food delivery app GrubHub.

 

They found it was 689 per cent more popular than last year.The “Taste of 2020” report is based on trends from more than 30 million orders.

 

Panopoulos claimed to media outlets over the years to be the first to put pineapple on pizza after deciding that chunks of the canned fruit might make a tasty topping. He reportedly called it Hawaiian pizza after the brand of canned pineapple he used.

 

 

MONDAY DECEMBER 7TH  

 

  1. The New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs became the first NFL teams to clinch playoff spots yesterday (December 6th). The Saints were guaranteed a playoff berth with their 21-16 win over the Atlanta Falcons and the Chicago Bears’ 34-30 loss to the Detroit Lions. The Chiefs secured their playoff spot with a 22-16 defeat of the Denver Broncos.

Detroit Lions 34, Chicago Bears 30

Tonight’s games:

Washington Football Team at Pittsburgh Steelers (5:00 p.m. ET on Fox)

Buffalo Bills at San Francisco 49ers (8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN/ABC)

Tuesday’s game:

Dallas Cowboys at Baltimore Ravens (8:05 p.m. ET on Fox/NFL)

 

  1. David Lander, a.k.a. “Squiggy” from “Laverne & Shirley” passed awayon Friday at the age of 73.  He died of complications from multiple sclerosis.  He was first diagnosed in 1984, but didn’t make it public until 1999.

 

Here’s David Lander explaining how “Squiggy” came to be on “Laverne & Shirley”.  (Penny Marshall asked him and Michael McKean, who played his sidekick “Lenny”, to demo the characters at a party.)

 

  1. A group of teens brokea water line at a restaurant in Miami on Saturday, because they were angry at the owner for telling them to wear masks.  But they went back the next day to apologize face-to-face and pay for the damages.  The owner is glad they came forward, and says everyone makes mistakes.

 

  1. Here’s Kevin James talking about why he’s not a fan of encores at concerts.

 

 

WEEKEND LOTTERIES

No winning ticket was sold for the $17 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

The jackpot for the next draw on TOMORROW will be approximately $22 million.

 

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $14.9-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.

However, the guaranteed $1-million prize went to a lottery player in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw WEDNESDAY will be approximately $18 million.

 

 

 

Morgan Wallen Poked Fun at Himself on “SNL”

MORGAN WALLEN made his “SNL” debut on Saturday . . . two months after getting yanked for partying without a mask and breaking their COVID-19 safety protocols.

He made fun of the whole thing during a sketch on the show.  He’s partying at a University of Alabama bar when host JASON BATEMAN bursts through the door AS the ghost of Morgan ONE MONTH in the future.  He warns him not to party.

But then the Jason version of the ghost starts getting tempted by all the girls and booze at the bar, so cast member BOWEN YANG enters as the ghost of Morgan TWO MONTHS in the future with more warnings.

It ends with Morgan making up a song called “Focus on the Future” where he thanks the show for “giving this poor Southern boy a second Yankee chance.”

By the way . . . the two songs he performed as musical guest were “7 Summers” and “Still Goin’ Down”.

 

DAN + SHAY BRING HOLIDAY ‘JOY’ WITH ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS SONGS

Dan + Shay have been making the media rounds and spreading holiday cheer over the last week with their two new original songs, “Take Me Home For Christmas” and “Christmas Isn’t Christmas.”

Dan Smyers says that the first song, “Take Me Home For Christmas,” is something that almost everyone can relate to. [“This song is about that feeling whenever you’re with someone, you’re in a new relationship, you haven’t quite met their family yet . . . it’s about that time of year when everybody parts, they go their own ways for the holidays, but you just want to stay with that person, you want to spend Christmas with them, you want to spend New Years with them, you want to learn about their family, you want to learn about where they grew up. So, the song is basically just a story about that. That feeling that we felt with our wives when we first met them, and we got to go home and meet their families for the first time. We’re so proud of this song, and hopefully it can bring a little bit of joy into people’s lives this holiday season.”]

 

 

GABBY BARRETT BILLBOARD TOP NEW COUNTRY ARTIST FOR 2020

Gabby Barrett has landed at #1 on Billboard’s 2020 Top New Country Artist chart.

Her 3x Platinum debut and -Top 3 hit, “I Hope,” claimed honors as the #1 year-end single on the Hot Country Songs, Country Digital Song Sales, and Country Streaming Songs charts.

In addition, she ranks in the top charting females on four other Billboard charts.

Gabby is also spotlighted as #2 among Top Country Artists (female) and #7 among Top Country Artists overall.
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    • “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Nick Kroll, Jeremy O. Harris, Sam Hunt,

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