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June 15, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢ A 56-year-old lobster diver says he survived being swallowed by a humpback whale and then spat out. But at least one doctor isn’t so sure.

Michael showed up at an emergency room in Cape Cod.  And one of the doctors there says that if he came up from 45 feet that fast, he should have had THE BENDS.  Meaning his body wouldn’t have had time to deal with the pressure change.  But the medical report only mentioned some light bruising, and nothing serious.  Here is Michael Packard explaining what happened.

 

➢ A mysterious black substance has been staining the feet of visitors at Maine beaches.  And experts now say it’s the crushed remains of tiny insects.  (Here’s Anne King and recently retired oceanographer John Lillibridge.)

 

➢ Social distancing is becoming less necessary which means hugs are coming back.  That being said from people saying hugs are “uncomfortable” to their “face is being pushed directly in someone’s chest”… according to a new article not everyone is excited. 

 

➢ The iconic Los Angeles mansion from “The Godfather” is up for sale…with a price tag of $89.75 million. The Hearst estate was built in 1927, and is named for politician William Randolph Hearst, who was an early tenant. The mansion, called one of the 10 most-iconic homes in LA”, features 8 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a two-story paneled library, two screening rooms, and an art deco nightclub. The exterior was used in scenes of The Godfather, as well as “The Bodyguard.” It was also used in Beyoncé’s “Black is King” music film.

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Fly a Kite Day”, on the anniversary of the date in 1752 when Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm, with the intent of proving that lightning was caused by a discharge of electricity (Some sources say he flew his kite on June 10).

 

  • “Global Wind Day”, a day for promoting wind, its power, and the possibilities it holds to change our world. 

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Joe Diffie’s single, “If The Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),” went to Number One in 1991.

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

  1.  Starting in the early ’80s, pieces of telephones shaped like Garfield the Cat washed up on beaches in northwest France, and no one knew why.  In 2019, a farmer finally found a wrecked shipping container in a cave that was spilling out the phones.

 

  1. Mercury thermometers are useless in Antarctica be cause it is so cold that the mercury freezes.

  2. “Billboard”started in 1894 as a magazine about ACTUAL billboard advertising.  It started focusing more on music in the 1930s.

 

  1. Marlon Brandohad 16 children . . . and it’s believed he’s the father of a 17th, a woman named Linda Carroll.  Linda went on to have a daughter . . . Courtney Love.  So it’s possible Brando was Courtney Love’s grandfather. 

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GOOD NEWS 

A 2-year-old dog went missing after he was ejected from a vehicle during a car crash.  

 

Days later, Tilly, a Border Collie mix, was found by an Idaho sheep farmer doing what it was bred to do . . . herd sheep.  

 

Here’s the owner and farmer talking about what happened. 

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BIRTHDAYS 

[67] Jim Belushi, actor (“According to Jim” 2001-2009)

 

[58] Helen Hunt, actress (“Twister”), TV actress (“Mad About You” 1992-99)

 

[57] Courteney Cox, actress (“Friends” 1994-2004), “Cougar Town” 2009-15)/movie actress (“Scream” movies) COMING UP…”Scream”, 2022

 

[52] Ice Cube, movie producer (“Straight Outta Compton”)/actor (“Are We There Yet?”, “Barbershop” movies)/rapper (NWA 1986-89)

 

[48] Neil Patrick Harris, actor (“Gone Girl”)/TV actor (“How I Met Your Mother” 

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MOVIE STORIES  

There’s an iconic shot in the original “Mission: Impossible” movie, where Tom Cruise gets lowered by cables and hovers just inches away from an alarmed floor.  

 

It turns out, the shot took a very long time to perfect, because Tom’s balance would be off, and his face would hit the floor.  

 

The solution was Tom asking the crew for POCKET CHANGE to put in his shoes, to even things out.  He tells the story in an extra on the 25th anniversary Blu-ray.  (Here’s the movie version of the theme to use while you discuss. 

 

 Tom also said when he finally got the shot, director Brian DePalma prolonged Tom’s agony by not yelling “cut” for a while.  “I was holding it, holding it, holding it.  I’m sweating and sweating.  And he just keeps rolling.  He started laughing and called cut.”)

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Charles Bronson could have played Curly in “City Slickers”, but he refused.  

 

Jack Palance ended up winning an Oscar for the part.  Here’s the star of the movie, Billy Crystal, telling the story why.  (Bronson said he never dies in movies.)

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Did You Know Some of the Sounds in Nature Documentaries Are Fake?

A lot of the sounds you hear in nature documentaries don’t actually come from nature.  They come from a guy in a room making noises with random stuff.

 

It can be hard to capture natural sounds for various reasons.  Sometimes the camera is too far from the action.  

 

Sometimes the subject being filmed is too small to make noises you can actually hear.  The guy who creates those sounds in a studio is called a foley artist.  And a profile on a foley artist named Richard Hinton shows some of those tricks . .

 

(Check out this montage of mushrooms growing [rubber innertubes rubbed together], a spider walking across a web [tapping 8mm tape wrapped around a reel], a spider shooting its web [a stretched-out Slinky shaken close to the mic], and a bear blinking its eyes [a piece of fur ruffled along with crumpling a wet chamois.)

 

(Check out the video here . . . and you’ll never watch a nature documentary again without questioning everything you hear.)

 

TUESDAY JUNE 15TH  

 

  1.   VGK 4 – MTL 1 (LV 1-0)

 

Red Sox 2  Blue Jays Tigers 10  Royals 3

 

  1.   A Florida woman left her young kids at home while she vacationed in California.  Why?  Because they were mean to her.  She’s now been chargedwith two counts of child neglect.  (Here’s a clip from “Home Alone“.)

 

  1.   Howie Mandel says we don’t know how bad his struggleswith anxiety and OCD can get.  Howie tells “People” magazine that he’s “living in a nightmare.”  Here he is talking about people that tell him they’re a little OCD.

 

  1. Diarrhea shuts down a TV show, new tech eliminates having to take off your shoes at the airport, and an alligator at a post office.  (From Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers, on Monday, June 14, 2021.)

 

JOSH TURNER TO CELEBRATE DELUXE ALBUM WITH VIRTUAL ALBUM RELEASE EVENT 

Josh Turner celebrates 15 years of Your Man with a special deluxe edition of the album being released on June 25th. He will celebrate the project with a virtual album release event at 7p.m. CT on June 24th, including performances of some of his most memorable hits from Your Man. Attendees must RSVP for the event at https://umusic.digital/joshturner/.

The Your Man Deluxe Edition features all 11 original tracks including collaborations with John Anderson, Dr. Ralph Stanley, and Diamond Rio’s Marty Roe, Gene Johnson, and Dana Williams, plus live versions of the title track “Your Man,” fan favorite “Me and God,” and multi-week Number One hit “Would You Go With Me.”

Pre-order is available now including limited edition packages, merchandise and autographed memorabilia exclusively at YourMan.JoshTurner.com. This deluxe edition also marks the first time the signature album has been pressed on vinyl which will be available exclusively at Walmart.

 

THOMAS RHETT’S LATEST HIT WAS PERSONAL PRIORITY CHECK

Thomas Rhett‘s latest single, “Country Again,” contains a message that he really needed to be reminded of at the time he wrote it. He tells us: [“You know, I think this song really is about my life, just slowing down and really trying to look at the priorities in my life and what they mean to me. And realizing that it’s okay just to stop for a second. It’s okay to live simple and to really just put your priorities at the top of your list – the ones that are most important to you. And for me, that’s becoming a better dad, a better husband, a better friend, a better son, a better brother, and really just kinda getting back to my roots a little bit and what all that entails.”] 

Just seven weeks after its release, the song is already inside the Top 20 and climbing on the charts.

Thomas performed “Country Again” during Wednesday (June 9th) night’s CMT Music Awards in Nashville.

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ERIC CHURCH

The concert scene is FINALLY coming back.  Eric Church hopped into the crowd while performing at the Carolina Country Music Fest . . . and said, quote, 

“For all of the pandemic, I’ve been dreaming about nights like this right here.  Where we can all gather again, where we can all be together and we can all just be us.”

 

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MIRANDA LAMBERT & FRIENDS – TONIGHT SHOW 

If you like old-school country music, you’ll love this.  

 

Here’s Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, & Jon Randall performing “Two-Step Down to Texas” on “The Tonight Show”. 

 

 

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