On Today’s Show
February 17, 2021 9:35 am➢ Two garbagemen in Louisiana saved a 10-year-old girl who’d been kidnapped last week. Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine saw an Amber Alert come through, noticed a car in a field that matched the description, and used their truck to block the only exit until cops got there.
➢ Would you want to stay in the home of a fictional serial killer? Fans of “Silence of the Lambs” now have the chance to stay in the home that was portrayed as Buffalo Bill’s home soon. The home is located in Pennsylvania, and was recently sold. The new owner, Chris Rowan, says he plans to turn the home into a bed and breakfast. Rowan adds that he plans to renovate parts of the home to match the film, and says he is hosting a contest to choose who will be first to spend the night there once the renovations are complete.
➢ A video of a National University of Singapore professor realizing towards the end of his 2-hour Zoom lecture that he was muted, is going viral. The video, on YouTube, shows an associate professor in NUS’s mathematics department, finishing his lecture with the typical call for questions. But no one answers. After he asks if he can finish the class, a few students speak up, informing him that he had been on mute mode since shortly after his introduction.
➢ Ashley Judd is detailing how she became involved in a “catastrophic accident” in which she nearly lost a leg, while doing conservation work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Speaking from her hospital bed, Judd explained that a faulty head lamp made it difficult for her to see during an excursion and she tripped over a fallen tree, breaking her leg in 4 places and suffering nerve damage. Judd is currently recovering in an ICU trauma unit in a South Africa hospital and is unable to walk. She said it took 55 “harrowing” hours to get her from the rainforest to the hospital, where she had surgery to save her right leg.
TODAY IS……………….
- “Ash Wednesday”, the first day of Lent, a day of prayer, fasting, and, depending on denomination, a ritual using ashes, observed in many Western Christian denominations.
- “Random Acts of Kindness Day”, studies show the positive effects on us of doing kind acts for others as well as receiving or even witnessing kindness. This year, we are encouraged to “Explore the Good and Make Kindness the Norm”.
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
Bryan White turns 47 today. He’s charted seventeen singles on the Billboard country charts, of which six reached #1.
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CLEARING UP SOME MYTHS ABOUT CLEANING:
➢ Bleach is best: Though most of us associate the smell of bleach with clean, bleach doesn’t really clean at all. It disinfects, kills germs, and can whiten stains, but it doesn’t clean dirt and grime. So, if you’re trying to remove the grit from your bathtub, you’ll need an actual cleaning product.
➢ Newspaper will give you streak-free glass: At one time, newspapers were made of papers and ink that left mirrors and glasses streak-free. Today, it’s made from different materials that do leave streaks on your mirrors. Use rubbing alcohol or a glass cleaner with a microfibre cloth.
➢ Feather dusters dust: More often than not, they just spread the dust around. Instead, reach
for a vacuum with a nozzle attachment or a damp cloth.
➢ You should wash all clothes in cold water: Most laundry can be washed in cold water, but some things, like whites, should be washed on ‘hot’, and man-made fibres, knits, and jeans should be washed on ‘warm’.
➢ Cleaning solutions act instantly: You can’t expect to spray a product and instantly see a perfectly clean, spotless surface. After applying a cleaning solution, let it soak. You usually need to add a bit of elbow grease, too.
FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- There are 1,600 Chili’s locations around the world . . . and every single one has a picture hanging upside down. They say it’s for good luck.
- When Eggos were invented in 1953, they were called Froffles, for “frozen waffles.” But people started calling them “eggos” because they kinda tasted like eggs . . . and within two years, that became their official name.
- The drink Fruitopia was discontinued in America in 2003, but it’s still on sale in Canada and Australia.
- Zebras don’t have black and white stripes . . . they’re black and covered in white stripes.
GOOD NEWS
A guy in Chicago has been going around to different street vendors and buying ALL of their tamales, so they don’t have to stand out in the cold all day.
His name is Robert Magiet, and he gives them to homeless shelters.
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BIRTHDAYS
[59] Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (“Young Guns”, “La Bamba”)
58] Michael Jordan, retired pro basketball player (Chicago Bulls 5-time NBA MVP, 6-time NBA champion, 14-time All-Star, 10-time scoring champ, and 2009 Hall of Famer)
[50] Denise Richards, actress (“Wild Things”)
[40] Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor-director-producer (“Lincoln”, “The Dark Knight Rises”)
[40] Paris Hilton, socialite-sometime TV personality /great-granddaughter of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton
THIEF STEALS 10 PINTS OF HAAGEN-DAZS ICE CREAM
What would you do for free ice cream? Police with New York City’s 23rd Precinct recently shared that a robbery suspect was left clinging to the side of a building in East Harlem after allegedly stealing eight pints of Häagen-Dazs ice cream and then trying to flee from police. Police posted a photo of the man dangling from the side of the building on Twitter, noting, “After stealing 8 pints of Häagen-Dazs from a local business, this man’s getaway didn’t go as planned. We found him, rescued him & brought a safe conclusion to this precarious icecapade in #EastHarlem.” Thirty-year-old Anthony Pastore allegedly stole what was later confirmed to be ten pints of ice cream from a nearby CVS. He’s been charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
HITTIN’ ON A JUDGE
A guy in Florida had a court appearance on Thursday for an attempted burglary charge . . . and he used his time to hit on the judge. He told her she was, quote, “so gorgeous” . . . but it didn’t sway her. She ruled there was probable cause to charge him and gave him a $5,000 bond.
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STUDY: CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING ALLERGY SEASON WORSE
Climate change isn’t just heating things up, it’s also making allergy season worse.
The University of Utah’s data shows that pollen season starts 20 days earlier, lasts 10 days longer, and creates 21 percent more pollen now than it did in 1990.
Lead study author William Anderegg says, “The strong link between warmer weather and pollen seasons provides a crystal-clear example of how climate change is already affecting peoples’ health across the U.S.”
Though previous studies have looked at the link between increased temperature and the uptick in pollen production, as well as the worsening of allergy season in some places, this new study was conducted on a larger scale.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17TH
- NYI 3 – BUF 0 WSH 3 – PIT 1 NJD 5 – NYR 2 COL 3 – VGK 2
LAK 4 – MIN 0
- One of the new dating terms to come out of the pandemic is “Fauci-ing” . . . which is where you stop dating someone because they’re not taking social distancing or other precautions seriously enough. Dr. Fauci himself just learnedabout the term, and it got a big laugh out of him.
- A guy used a megaphone to shame a woman who never picked up after her dog when it pooped in his yard. You can hear it all, here.
- Here’s Nate Bargatze on how bad he is at driving.
Ashley McBryde — will drop the six-song EP “Never Will: Live From A Distance,” on May 28. The lead-off track ‘First Thing I Reach For’ has been released, as well as her current single ‘Martha Devine’, which also will be on the EP.
Garth Brooks – He and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, have canceled everything on their calendar for two weeks to quarantine “due to someone on their team testing positive for Covid-19” according to a tweet from his official account. The couple backed out of their scheduled appearance as “Ellen” co-hosts scheduled for Friday (Feb. 12).
Blake Shelton Can’t Imagine Life Without His Future Stepchildren
BLAKE SHELTON and GWEN STEFANI have been together for five years, and in that time he’s grown pretty close to her three sons . . . 15-year-old Kingston, 13-year-old Zuma, and seven-year-old Apollo.
He was asked if it’ll be an easy transition when he and Gwen get married this year. He admitted that he doesn’t know, but he does have a very good example to learn from.
Quote, “I have a stepfather in my life who is one of my heroes. I love [him] and I look up to him, and he’s like a father to me, so I have a good inspiration in my life of how to do this and the kind of stepdad I want to be. And I think it’s very serious.
“But I also have a blast with it. I don’t take it so serious that I’m not enjoying this time because I really am. Especially now that we’re five years into this thing. I can’t imagine my life without them.”
KEITH URBAN WRITES, RECORDS SONG FOR CALM APP
Keith Urban has composed and recorded an hour-long song called “I Am Home” exclusively for the Calm app. The tune is designed to help people drift off to sleep.
He posted a video on social media where he explained, “I’ve never written a ‘sleep song’ before. This process was different on every level because I wasn’t trying to come up with a hook/chorus. It felt like an incredible amount of liberation and freedom to just let the things flow and move where they wanted to go.”
Keith added, “I just went with what I felt flowed and what I would want if I wanted to bring my energy down.”
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ACM AWARDS TO RETURN TO NASHVILLE FOR APRIL SHOW
The Academy of Country Music Awards will again be held in Nashville this spring. The 56th ACM Awards will broadcast live from three iconic country music venues: the Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium and The Bluebird Cafe on Sunday, April 18th at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
In support of the city of Nashville, ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the Academy of Country Music, will donate $25,000 to the Music City, Inc. foundation for their Nashville Christmas Day Explosion Relief Fund, with funds earmarked for local musicians out of work due to damage to venues.
Last year’s ACM Awards was pushed from April to September, where it took place from the same three venues and followed set Covid protocol, which included no live audience.
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This post was written by Dave Palmer