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February 22, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢ A United Airlines flight out of Denver had to return to the airport on Saturday, because one of its engines exploded after takeoff.  Luckily, no one was hurt.  (Here’s the mayday call from the pilots, along with some eyewitness accounts.)

 

➢An eagle-eyed snowplow driver in Wisconsin recently saved a little kid’s life.  David Gehrke was plowing the streets in West Bend around 4:00 AM last Friday when he spotted a five-year-old kid walking in his pajamas in the freezing cold.  It turned out he’d wandered off and was trying to get to his grandfather’s house.

 

➢ A Scottish woman is being hailed as “Wonder Woman” after she helped push a milk truck up a hill. Charlene Leslie says she was headed for the store when she noticed the large truck full of milk struggling to make it up a hill. She decided to run out and help the truck along.

A view was captured of the mom of 3 helping the truck that has since gone viral. The chairman of the company that owns the truck was so impressed that he awarded Leslie with free milk and other high-protein products for a whole year.

 

 

➢ Digging your car out of snow is no joke in a big city, and a Chicago man’s unusual way of calling “dibs” on his parking spot has gone viral. Adam Selzer posted photos to Twitter of him reserving a shoveled-out space using pairs of frozen pants that he shaped to stand up on their own. This is a common practice in Chicago, with residents often using lawn chairs or traffic cones to mark off the spots they shoveled.

 

 

➢ A quiz show contestant in Iceland threw a tantrum and destroyed part of the set after losing.  The host tries to keep going as he throws his buzzer to the floor, flips his podium, and whips a glass of water that almost hits a fellow contestant.  You can listen to that, here,

 

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Cook a Sweet Potato Day”

 

  • “Margarita Day”, Tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and ice are everything you’ll need to celebrate

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Brooks & Dunn climbed to Number One with “A Man This Lonely” in 1997.

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STRESSED? TRY SCREAMING. YES, REALLY

If you’ve been feeling stressed you might just want to scream, and you should, it could help you feel better. Avi Klein, a psychotherapist, says, “I think every emotion that we feel has a kind of correlating action that goes along with it.

 

It feels really good or even healthy to discharge that emotion.” John Norcross is a professor of psychology at the University of Scranton and says that no matter how you vent your feelings out, it’s a good way to relieve tension.

 

Klein notes that simply screaming won’t fix your issues, and you’ll still have to face whatever it is that is bothering you and work through it, even after taking the edge off.

 

He advises that if you don’t feel like screaming all the time you should figure out what issues are giving you those emotions, and work on finding some healthier coping mechanisms for solving the problem.

 

 

FOUR RANDOM FACTS

  1. Three of the first five countries to send someone to space are no longer countries:  The USSR, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany.  (The other two are the U.S. and Poland.)

 

  1. Birds don’t pee.  All of their waste leaves as poop . . . which then winds up on your windshield.

 

  1. Freddie Mercurysigned off on the “Wayne’s World” scene where the guys sing along to “Bohemian Rhapsody” while he was on his deathbed.  Freddie loved it and approved it.

 

  1. The next time there will be a full moon on Friday the 13th is in August of 2049.

 

 

GOOD NEWS

A homeless guy in Hawaii stole a bunch of tools from a construction site, but came back three days later to apologize.

 

So, the owner gave him a job.

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BIRTHDAYS

[62] Kyle MacLachlan, actor

 

[54] Paul Lieberstein, actor (‘Toby’ on “The Office” 2005-2015)

 

[46] Drew Barrymore, actress

 

 

LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE…………….

  1. NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Marsyesterday and sent back its first photo a few minutes later.  It’ll use a special laser to vaporize tiny rocks, analyze the Martian soil, and look for signs of ancient life.

It also has a small helicopter that’ll cruise around up there, and two microphones to capture true audio on Mars for the first time.

There’s some cool tech on the latest rover, that the first one on Mars didn’t have.

Here’s Acting NASA Administrator, Steve Jurczyk talking about it, moments after the rover landed.

 

  1. A team at the University of Maryland figured out how to make transparent wood.  It’s stronger and less breakable than glass, and also insulates better.  So it could be used for windows.  They say you could even build an entire house out of it if you wanted to.

 

  1. A new weight-loss drugis coming, and the researchers behind it say it’s a “game-changer.”  It’s called semaglutide.  (Pronounced semuh-GLUE-tide)  They just finished a trial where some people got an injection once a week, along with diet and fitness advice.  The ones who got the drug lost an average of 33 pounds in just over a year.  The ones who got the placebo only lost six pounds.

 

  1. You might be able to have a robot train your dogsoon.  Two grad students at the University of Colorado trained an A.I. system to detect whether a dog is following commands like sit, stay, and roll over.  And when they do it, it gives them a treat.

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NINE LIVES AND TEN YEARS:
Larry the Downing Street Cat, a kitty employed to keep the British prime minister’s office and residence free of mice, is celebrating 10 years on the job.

 

The cat, known as the “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office”, has been patrolling the inside and outside of 10 Downing Street, the headquarters of the British government and the prime minister’s official residence, for 10 of his 14 years, marking his official anniversary Monday.

 

Larry was adopted from a shelter 10 years ago and has served under three different prime ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. He was “appointed” to his current position after a large black rat was spotted near the Cabinet Office during a live television broadcast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONDAY FEBRUARY 22ND 

 

  1. WSH 4 – NJD 3 OTT 3 – MTL 2 OT        BOS 7 – PHI 3               WPG 4 – VAN 3 OT

 

  1. Two people in St. Louis werearrested last week after they stole a funeral home’s van with a dead body inside.  It sounds like they didn’t know the body was in there and just wanted the van.  Cops eventually caught up with them at a Walmart.

 

  1. A doctor in Massachusetts named Ben Moor starteda program where hospital workers who are fully vaccinated can sign up to spend their free time sitting with COVID patients, so they don’t have to fight the virus alone.  He’s got about 50 people doing it already, and wants to expand it to other hospitals around the country.

 

  1. German YouTuber Flula Borg doesn’t understand baseball . . . and his attemptto explain it is hilarious.

 

 

 

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

However, one of the six Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each that were up for grabs was won by a ticket holder in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw tomorrow will be approximately $65 million, and there will be 10 Maxmillion prizes to play for.

 

No winning ticket was sold for the $6 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 $8 million.

 

 

KEITH URBAN & P!NK’S DUET WAS VERY SOCIALLY DISTANCED

Keith Urban‘s latest hit single, “One Too Many,” a duet with pop star P!nk, is a product of modern technology. The two were unable to be in the same room at the same time due to the global pandemic so they recorded their vocals in their respective home studios.

[“This song was written as a duet, and I sent the song to her and luckily she loved it. I loved the song and I was really hoping she would love it, because she’s truly one of the great singers of our generation. So, to hear her voice on this song was phenomenal. We had such a great time getting to do that. I wish we could’ve done it in the same space, but you know with the situation we’re in, of course, we couldn’t do that. So, she recorded her vocal at her house and I did mine at my house, and we put it together.”] 

“One Too Many” is included on Keith’s latest studio album, The Speed of Now Part 1.

FAST FACTS

The Speed of Now Part 1 was released in September of last year.

Keith says there will definitely be a Part II, however no release date has yet been announced.

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TIM McGRAW IS THE GODFATHER TO GARRETT HEDLUND & EMMA ROBERTS’ SON

Tim McGraw has been honored with the role of godfather in the life of actor Garrett Hedlund and actress Emma Roberts‘ newborn son, Rhodes.

Garrett Hedlund was on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” talking about it, you can listen to it, here.

Tim and Garrett starred together in the movies Friday Night Lights and Country Strong dating all the way back to 2004.

Garrett shared that news during last week’s visit to The Kelly Clarkson Show. He said, “He’s somebody that I admire and respect, not only as an amazing father, an amazing husband (but as an) amazing musician and amazing actor — his name is Tim McGraw. I’ve known him for a long time.”

Garrett and Emma welcomed Rhodes in December.

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Vince Gill Would Like to See More Country Artists Speak Up About Diversity

If you haven’t seen it, VINCE GILL was on “CBS This Morning” recently talking about how country music is dealing with the subject of race . . . especially following the Morgan Wallen controversy.

Vince admitted that he was “nervous” to even discuss it because you can have good intentions but still “get ripped” for what you say.  And he pushed back on the idea that everybody in country music leans far to the right.

Quote, “I think most people perceive that country music is extremely conservative, and I’m not sure that’s true.  Maybe the audience might be predominantly conservative, I don’t know that the artistry is, I don’t know that the community is.”

He does think it “would be nice” if more country artists decided to speak up.

“And when White America makes the argument, ‘I hear it in rap music all the time’, I go, ‘Have you not been paying attention to the last 3-400 years, how that word has been used by the white community?  It’s derogatory, dismissive, and hurtful.  It doesn’t have a place.'”

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This post was written by Dave Palmer