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May 14, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢ A stolen dog was retrieved after a news crew in Boston spotted the dog and the suspect while shooting at the location of the crime.  Here’s some of the confrontation between the reporter and the suspect. 

 

➢ JEFF BEZOS is building a yacht that’s so big it needs its own SUPPORT YACHT.

The main yacht will be 420 feet long, and it’ll cost around $500 million.  It’s a SAILING yacht so it’ll have three giant masts on it.

That’s one of the reasons it needs a support yacht:  Because the masts mean that the main ship won’t have room for a HELIPAD.  And as we all know, every yacht needs a helipad.

 

➢ You know how iPhones have that “live photo” feature where if you press down on the picture, it shows you a few seconds of video before and after the picture?

Yeah . . . that feature just took down a relationship.

A woman named Serena Kerrigan posted a video on TikTok on Sunday showing how her boyfriend sent her a photo of an empty bed in a hotel room and telling her that he missed her.

But when she pressed down to see the live photo . . . at the end of the clip, some random woman jumped onto the bed.

The video went viral pretty much immediately and it already has millions of views. 

    

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Canadian Tulip Festival”, returns locally & online through May 24 in Canada’s Capital Region of Ottawa-Gatineau. The world’s largest tulip festival is thanks to a gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs from Dutch Princess (later Queen) Juliana in 1945 as thanks for providing her a home during WW2. LINK: https://tulipfestival.net/

2020 [01] Keith Urban becomes the first major artist to play a drive-in concert in the US during the pandemic, performing to an audience of health care workers in Watertown, Tennessee

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias’ “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” single was certified gold in 1984.  The song would go on to earn Platinum status and was a top 10 hit in over 15 countries. 

Nelson and Iglesias were also named “Duo of the year” by the Country Music Association, and “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” was named single of the year by the Academy of Country Music

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What Parts of Life Are Never Going to Go “Back to Normal”? Here Are People’s Top Picks

No matter how “normal” life gets again after the pandemic, some things are just going to be different forever.  You can’t go through something like this and have NOTHING change.

 

There’s a discussion on Reddit right now where people are answering the question:  What will never be the same again once the pandemic is over?  Here are some of the top answers . . .

 

  1. Sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room when you’re sick.

 

  1. Dragging yourself to work when you’re sick.

 

  1. Shopping for groceries in person.

 

  1. Eating at buffets.

 

  1. Snow days.

 

  1. Commuting every single day.

 

  1. Quote, “The blissful ignorance of sticking my fingers in a random bowling ball, then proceeding to eat food without a care in the world.” 

 

The CDC has announced that fully vaccinated people no longer need to physically distance or wear masks in most indoor and outdoor situations.  CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky explains.

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

  1. If you pay $3 for a coffee, that’s a 2,900% price markup on what it would cost you to make it at home . . . 10 cents.

 

  1. The tallest men in the world are in the Netherlands, with an average height of just over six feet.  The shortest are in Indonesia, with an average height of 5-foot-2.  

 

  1. It costs you approximately 21 to 29 cents every year to use your turn signals, based on the amount of energy they use and the tiny amount of gas that takes.

 

  1. The person who invented the stethoscope was a guy named Rene Laennec . . . and he came up with it because he didn’t feel comfortable putting his ear directly on women’s chests.

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GOOD NEWS 

A 60-year-old man from Pennsylvania has become a viral TikTok star. 

 

Dean Wenrich is now also known as #ShuffleDad and has over a million views on his daughter’s TikTok account. In the posts he’s skating through Overlook Roller Rink in Lancaster, as various music plays.

 

Wenrich now has over 10 million combined views on TikTok. He says he’s flattered with how the platform’s younger audience embraced him. 

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BIRTHDAYS 

[77] George Lucas, semi-retired filmmaker (“Star Wars” series, “Indiana Jones” series)

 

[52] Cate Blanchett, actress 

 

[37] Mark Zuckerberg, (founder & CEO of Facebook)/one-time ‘World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire’/net worth: $103.6 billion — 5th-richest in the world

 

[36] Dustin Lynch, country singer 

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“Most Bizarre Question Ever” from a Job Interview Is Going Viral

Have you ever had a job interview where they threw one of those brainteaser questions at you to see how you think on your feet?  This is like an extreme example of that.

 

A woman named Beeta Golshani in Los Angeles just tweeted out a picture of a question she got on an online job interview.  She wrote, quote, “This is definitely the most bizarre question I have ever seen on a job application.”

 

The question is, quote, “You’ve been given an elephant.  You can’t give it away or sell it.  What would you do with the elephant?”

 

We don’t know what the job was or how Beeta answered . . . but her tweet is going viral now and people are throwing in their own ideas.

 

One person said they once took a course on how to respond to interview questions and there’s actually a correct answer:  “Open a business where you hire the elephant out for events.”

 

But I like some of the other people’s ideas more, like:  

“Unfortunately I can no longer work here, raising this elephant is my full-time job.  We are going to travel from town to town solving mysteries” 

 

or “Give me the job or my elephant will sit on your car.”  

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Dracula’s Castle in Romania Is Now a Vaccination Site

I’m not sure if you want to get people vaccinated it’s a good idea to LURE them to a place that’s famous for draining their blood.

 

Dracula’s Castle in the Transylvania region in Romania is now a vaccine site.

 

The government says there are two goals:  One, get more people vaccinated by doing it in a cool spot.  

 

And two, get tourists going to the castle again, because people basically stopped going during the pandemic. 

 

FRIDAY MAY 14TH 

 

  1.   Blue Jays 8  Braves  5 Tigers 4  Royals 3

 

  1.   Two teenagers in Alberta were mountain biking when they accidentally went straight into a rattlesnake den.  Somehow neither one of them got bitten.  (Here’s 14-year-old Raiden Peter and snake wrangler Ryan First Diver.)

 

  1.   Here’s comedian Nate Bargatze talking about his young daughter.  (From his 2021 Netflix special, “The Greatest Average American”.)

 

  1.   This is from a while back but it’s making the rounds again.  A YouTuber who goes by the name “Josh Turner Guitar” got together with some musicians for a cover of The Beach Boysclassic “Sloop John B”.

And they increased the degree of difficulty by recording it in the lounge of somebody’s bus. 

(Here’s the video.)

 

Tickets to See Tom Brady’s Return to New England Are $$$

Tickets for the upcoming NFL season went on sale yesterday, and the HOTTEST game is in Week Four.

That’s when TOM BRADY makes his first return to New England as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  It’s happening on October 3rd.

As of last night . . . the cheapest prices for a single seat on the secondary market were around $1,100.  And if you want a GREAT seat at the 50-yard line, you’ll have to pay up to $12K.

Chances are, the prices will only go UP as we get closer to the game . . . barring anything crazy with the pandemic.

For comparison, prices for the Patriots’ home game against the New Orleans Saints the week before start at around $300.

By the way, if Brady keeps up his current pace for passing yards per game, he’ll surpass Drew Brees for the NFL’s career passing record . . . DURING that Week Four game in New England.  Which would be pretty wild.

The CMT Music Award Nominations Have Been Announced

They announced the nominees for the “2021 CMT Music Awards”.  

MIRANDA LAMBERT and MAREN MORRIS lead the way with four nominations each.

The show’s co-hosts KANE BROWN and KELSEA BALLERINI have three apiece . . . as do 

LITTLE BIG TOWN and MICKEY GUYTON, who is a first-time nominee.

It’s a fan-voted awards show and you can vote up to 20 times per category.  

The show airs June 9th.

There are 14 nominees in the Video of the Year Category.  They’ll narrow that down to Five Finalists on June 1st, and the Top Three of those will be announced June 8th. 

Final voting will be on social media and announced as the final category on the show.

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SAM HUNT SAYS A CHANGE OF SCENERY — AND WARDROBE — SPARKED A CREATIVE VIBE 

Sam Hunt spent the early part of this year getting in a creative zone for a few weeks with some of his songwriter friends. He tells us: [“Something switched in my brain when I got down there to the beach. I was down there for three weeks, (and) it took a couple of days to kind of get into the groove, but once I locked in…you know, I rarely write, get up in the morning and write from like nine to midnight, but that’s what I was doing for two weeks straight. Now, I probably should’ve paced myself. I was there for three weeks. That last week I was just burnt; I was worn out, but I was just so inspired while I was down there.”] 

Sam says he managed to keep that summertime vibe going by wearing his beachwear everywhere once he got back to Nashville.

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GRAND OLE OPRY PERFORMANCE

Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson performed together on last week’s “Grand Ole Opry Live”.  Here they are doing Randy’s song, “Evangeline”.

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer