On Today’s Show

➢ SpaceX is planning to launch its first all-civilian flight this fall.  And a 29-year-old woman who beat cancer as a kid just got a free ticket.  Her name is Hayley Arceneaux.  She was a patient at St. Jude’s two decades ago, and now works there as a physician assistant.  A billionaire named Jared Isaacman is paying for her seat.  And you could also win one by donating at least $10 to St. Jude’s by this Sunday.  (Here’s a clip of Hayley and Jared talking about it.)

➢ A woman in Alaska named Shannon Stevens used an outhouse while camping last weekend, and got attacked from below by a BEAR.  It got in through an access hole that was covered up by rocks.  She ended up with a puncture wound, but wasn’t seriously injured.

➢ Two women in Florida were caught trying to get the vaccine by dressing up as old ladies.  One of them is 44, and the other is 34.  It turned out they’d already gotten their first dose using a fake I.D. and were coming back for their booster shot.  They didn’t get it though, and the cops shamed them pretty hard.  It doesn’t sound like they’re facing charges though.

➢ This feels like a world record that was destined to fall during the pandemic.  A 24-year-old woman in Belleville, Ontario set the world record for finishing a 40,320-piece puzzle of Disney characters in 150 hours.  The old record was 423 hours.

➢ On “Home Improvement”, TIM ALLEN and RICHARD KARN played the hosts of a show called “Tool Time”.  Now they’re back, hosting a History Channel competition series called “Assembly Required”, and they’ve come full circle.

Tim calls “Assembly Required” sort of a real-life version of “Tool Time” .

“Assembly Required” features builders competing from their own home shops, with Tim and Richard visiting them virtually to, quote, “deliver colorful commentary and oversee their work.”

The show debuts TONIGHT at 10:00 P.M.

TODAY IS……………….

• “Banana Bread Day”, the first cookbooks mentioning banana bread were published during the Great Depression. Culinary historians believe that a resourceful housewife who didn’t want to throw away over-ripe bananas may have invented the original recipe.

• “Diesel Engine Day”, on this day in 1893, Rudolf Diesel received a patent for his diesel engine. Instead of gasoline, this engine burns fuel oil, and uses compressed air in the cylinder instead of a spark to ignite the fuel.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Steve Holy, who has scored fifteen singles on the charts, including the #1 hits “Good Morning Beautiful” (which was featured in the movie Angel Eyes) and “Brand New Girlfriend” turns 49 today. 

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

1. On hospital TV shows, CPR saves people’s lives about two-thirds of the time.  In real life, it only saves people’s lives about 10% to 20% of the time.

2. The World Series has been a best-of-nine four times instead of the traditional best-of-seven:  1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921.  The goal was to generate more revenue by having more games.

3. Elvisonly held three concerts outside of the U.S. in his entire career.  They were all in Canada in 1957.

4. Even though she has been the face of her own fragrance line for more than 10 years, Beyoncé is allergic to perfume.

GOOD NEWS 

A nurse in North Carolina is going viral after sharing some good news with her dad.  

She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma a year-and-a-half ago, and found out last week that she’s now cancer-free.  

She told her dad on Valentine’s Day, but wanted to have fun with it.  So she made him put headphones on, and recorded him while he tried to read her lips.  

And when he realized she was saying “cancer-free,” he FREAKED out.

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BIRTHDAYS 

[56] Michael Dell, founder & CEO of Dell Computer/current net worth: $41.8 billion

[40] Josh Gad, actor (“Frozen”, “Jobs”)

[38] Emily Blunt, actress (“The Girl On the Train”, “The Devil Wears Prada”)/married to John Krasinski since 2010. COMING UP…”Jungle Cruise”, 2021

[27] Dakota Fanning, actress

DEER CRASH THROUGH HOMES IN PENNSYLVANIA NEIGHBORHOOD 

A woman in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, says her doorbell camera recorded footage of a deer crashing into her home through the front door, running around inside and then leaving through the same door. Another deer crashed through a picture window into a neighboring home a second later, and then ran out through the same window. Neighbors say the two deer were part of a small herd that ran through the area Saturday morning (February 13th.) Multiple residents reported damaged property. There were no reports of injuries.

ESCAPED COW CHARGES INTO HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM AND ATTACKS PATIENTS 

An escaped cow ran inside a hospital in Colombia and wreaked havoc on those in the waiting room. Security cameras show a group of people running for safety but the cow still manages to catch up and slams into them. In the video the cow falls several times, and some patients escape, but the animal leaves an injured woman trapped on the floor as two men manage to grab the animal’s lead and pull it away. The cow is eventually seen exiting the hospital. Reports say that nobody was seriously injured in the incident.  

WATER FOR A SNAKE

An Indian man came to the rescue of a thirsty — and potentially deadly — cobra by pouring water from a bottle into the venomous snake’s mouth. The video, shared by Indian Forest Service officer Susanta Nanda, shows the man, believed to be an IFS official, gently holding the water bottle while the cobra drinks from the opening.  The man touches the cobra with his other hand to keep the snake steady and calm while drinking.

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UNCLASSIFIED FLYING OBJECTS:
The US Pentagon has admitted that it has held on to and tested wreckage from UFO crashes. Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote a letter to the Defence Intelligence Agency 3 years ago requesting details of UFO material and tests that may have been carried out. 

In response to his Freedom of Information request, the DIA released 154 pages of results, including information of a ‘memory’ metal called Nitinol which remembers its original shape when folded.

Bragalia says what he received is a “stunning admission” that The Pentagon has held and tested debris from UFOs. Quote: “They have been able to learn some things about the materials of construction which hold tremendous promise as futuristic materials which will change our lives forever.” But the DIA did hold back certain details, including whether any materials could be of alien origin.

MLB Is Stuck with Four Million Unused Bobbleheads from Last Season

Major League Baseball is stuck with FOUR MILLION bobbleheads that were supposed to be given out last year.  In some cases, they can just be held for the future, but a lot of the featured players are no longer with their teams.

For example, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a Trevor Williams bobblehead day set for last August.  

They planned on giving away 10,000 bobbleheads with Trevor in a “Star Wars”-inspired stormtrooper outfit. The celebration never happened . . . and now, Williams has moved on to the Chicago Cubs.  The Pirates sent him 200 of the bobbleheads . . . and the rest, which are jammed into 917 boxes, are in a storage unit in Pittsburgh.

The company that makes the majority of the bobbleheads estimates that about FOUR MILLION of them are sitting in warehouses somewhere.

Obviously, the teams will try to use some of the items in future promotions, offer them to season-ticket holders, or donate them to charity.  And really, there are a lot of kids who won’t care if the player is no longer with the team. Worst case . . . the teams will just recycle them. 

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23RD  

1.   FLA 3 – DAL 1 TBL 4 – CAR 2 NYI 3 – BUF 2 CGY 3 – TOR 0 

LAK 3 – STL 0 VGK 3 – COL 0 ARI 4 – ANA 3 MIN 6 – SJS 2

2.   A woman had her boyfriend do some spectacular impressions of “Star Wars” characters.  Listen to it, here.  (He does Kylo Ren, Yoda, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader, old Obi-Wan Kenobi, new Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jabba the Hutt, Palpatine, and Chewbacca.)

3.   A guy on Twitch recently turned his speakers up all the way before he went to bed.  And if you tipped him, you couldplay any sound you wanted to scare him awake.  It was a huge hit, and lots of people got in on it.  They even had a running joke where they’d scare him into thinking a burglar was coming in through his window.  And in seven hours, he made $16,000 in tips.  (Here’s a quick montage from the videohe posted.)

4.   Here’s comedian Greg Warren on being middle-aged and still single.

FREE POTATOES IN FRANCE

Burger Kings in France are giving out free bags of potatoes at the drive-thru, just to help potato farmers.  

They purchased an extra 200 tons of them to help out. 

THOMAS RHETT AND DISNEY MUSIC

Thomas Rhett has got some competition when it comes to his music as far as his three daughters are concerned, but they are also big fans of their dad’s music. He tells us: [“My girls, at this state, listen to nothing but the Disney+ channel. And they’re all over the Moana soundtrack, the Mulan soundtrack.  But they do you love country music, and so even when I turn the radio on, if it’s not my voice coming through the radio, then they tell me to change it and put one of my songs on, which definitely forces me to really dislike a lot of my songs before the record even comes out because all they want to listen to is daddy’s music.”] 

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FGL’S BRIAN KELLEY’S MUSICAL TO PREMIERE AT TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 

Florida Georgia Line‘s Brian Kelley and his production company will world premiere the musical May We All in June 2022 as a special part of Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Broadway at TPAC series in Nashville. 

The Nashville debut will also jumpstart a 2022/23 national tour of the show, whose name is borrowed from FGL’s chart-topping hit “May We All” which featured Tim McGraw.

Following production delays in 2020 due to the pandemic, the previously announced developmental production of May We All at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN is now planning to proceed in Fall 2021.

May We All is a story of disappearing small-town America as seen through the eyes of its youth. Jenna Coates, a fledgling Country singer, reluctantly comes home after a rough start in Nashville.

The musical features the music of a number of Country artists as Tim McGraw, Sara Evans, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Shania Twain, and many, many more. 

Two original songs co-written by Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard of FGL are also featured in the score and will debut exclusively in the project. 

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CHASE BRYANT SURVIVED SUICIDE ATTEMPT 

Chase Bryant has revealed that he tried to commit suicide back in 2018. The failed attempt was brought on by depression and anxiety, along with turning into someone he no longer recognized. He told People, “I was chasing success… I wasn’t chasing happiness. I was trying to be something I wasn’t.”

Chase said he went to a gas station in Nashville, left a long goodbye note on the seat of his truck and put his loaded .357 revolver to his head. He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. After checking the chamber, he realized the gun had only five bullets in it, not six.

He said, “So, when I looked at it at that moment, it was like, life’s too short, don’t make it any shorter. It ain’t worth it. We all have something to be thankful for, right? Looking back at it now, it’s so weird. You’re so dark and then all of a sudden you’re like, ‘OK, I got to get my s**t right so I can help somebody else.'”

Chase has been back in the studio working on his first full-length project he has titled Upbringing. 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer