On Today’s Show

➢ An 82-year-old woman named Wally Funk trained with NASA in 1961 and did BETTER than the guys.  But she never got to go to space because she’s a woman.

But now 60 years later, that’s about to change.  Because Jeff Bezos just announced she’ll be joining him on a Blue Origin rocket later this month.  And she’ll also become the OLDEST person to go to space.

The launch date is July 20th.  Jeff’s brother is going too, along with someone who paid $28 million for a seat.  Jeff posted a video with Wally on Instagram yesterday, and she’s thrilled about it.  He said “no one has waited longer” than she has.

➢ After a few years of fighting, a woman in Hillsborough, California finally won the battle to keep her strange-looking house just as it is. The town decided to allow the house, which is designed to look like it’s out of “The Flintstones,” to keep additions recently made to the property. 

The town had previously taken owner to court, claiming she had violated local codes. Her front yard features metal sculptures of dinosaurs, statues of the cartoon characters from the show, and more. The town argued these items were eyesores. When she ignored the town’s stop-work orders back in 2019, the town sued her, and she, in turn, sued them back. 

A decision last week was made that will allow her to keep her new yard additions and the town will also reportedly pay Fang $125,000.

➢ In case you haven’t seen this:  A woman wore the SAME Hawaiian shirt for 264 work Zoom meetings in a row, and no one said a word.  

And then she wore it AGAIN when she finally returned to the office, and they still didn’t notice.

➢ ZOOEY DESCHANEL loves dating JONATHAN SCOTT from “Property Brothers” because he always has the right tool for the job.  And that’s NOT sexual innuendo.

She says, quote, “It’s great because he fixes everything.  He can fix anything.  It’s amazing.  He just like gets out his tool kit and he fixes stuff.  He’s so great.

“I’ll be like, ‘Oh, the fridge is broken’ or, you know, ‘Oh, that, uh, the picture needs to be hung up.’  He can do everything.  It’s so nice.  And then I like decor and stuff like that.  So like, I love buying, you know, I like buying things.”

Zooey was already a fan of “Property Brothers” before she met Jonathan, but she says the idea of a relationship never crossed her mind.  They met by chance, doing “Carpool Karaoke”, and hit it off.

COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

2020 [01] Charlie Daniels dies at 83 after suffering a stroke

_____________________________________________________________________________

FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

1. Days Inn didn’t get its name because you’re supposed to stay for days or anything like that . . . it’s named after its founder, Cecil B. Day.

2. Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Porsche aren’t competitors . . . they’re actually all owned by the same company, the Volkswagen Group.

3. There are TWO current NBA teams that have won every NBA Finals they’ve played in.  The Chicago Bullsare 6-and-0.  Not coincidentally, Michael Jordan was on all six of those teams.  And in 2019, the Toronto Raptors won in their first and only NBA Finals appearance.

4. The Hawaiian Islands span a distance of 1,523 miles, from the Big Island of Hawaii in the outheast to the Kure Atoll in the northwest.  This makes Hawaii the world’s longest island chain.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

GOOD NEWS 

When boat captain Jennifer Dowker saw a small green bottle at the bottom of the Cheboygan River in Michigan, she picked it up, thinking it might keep a prospective client interested in scuba diving. 

But Dowker, the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures, which runs shipwreck tours and scuba diving lessons in Cheboygan, Michigan, found a message in the bottle dated from 1926. 

It read: “Will the person who finds this bottle, return this paper to George Morrow, Cheboygan, Michigan, and tell where it was found?” 

The name Morrow is fairly common in the area, so Dowker figured if she posted a picture of the note and the bottle on Facebook, the letter-writer would be found. She got a call from a woman named Michele Primeau on Father’s Day, whose father, George Morrow, died in 1995. 

At the request of Primeau, Dowker and her team will hold the bottle in a shadowbox along with a photo of Primeau’s father from 1926.

______________________________________________________________________________

BIRTHDAYS 

[75] George W. Bush, 43rd US president 

[75] Sylvester Stallone   

[73] Peter Mansbridge, former TV news anchor 

[42] Kevin Hart, comedian/movie 

_____________________________________________________________________________________

More Than 80 People Were Caught . . . In an Illegal Coupon Ring?

Authorities near Houston, have just completed an eight-month investigation that uncovered an illegal, underground crime ring known as “Dark Side.”

More than 80 people involved with Dark Side have been identified.  And what kind of crime was Dark Side wrapped up in?  They were producing counterfeit COUPONS. 

You know, like 50 cents off toothpaste, diapers, cleaning wipes, and soap.

But they were allegedly doing it on a large scale.  And one individual somehow purchased more than $200,000 worth of items from different stores in just ONE YEAR using these fake coupons.  That’s nearly $550 a day.

The “thieves” made it look like these were discounts from manufacturers . . . and “stole” items from places like Walmart, Kroger, Target, and Walgreens.  Then, they’d sell the items at flea markets and online.

The coupons only LOOKED legit . . . they wouldn’t actually work if you scanned them . . . but they were so convincing that store employees would honor them.  One estimate claims the ring is responsible for $10 to $20 MILLION in losses.

_______________________________________________________

A Fake Cop Pulled Over a Real Cop Who Recognized Him

Well this is unlucky:  27-year-old Vincent Marks lives in Louisiana near Baton Rouge, and likes to PRETEND to be a cop.  

And earlier this month, he pulled someone over near New Orleans.

His car had flashing lights, so the driver assumed it was a real cop and pulled into a parking lot.  Then Vincent used his own car to block the guy in.

He whipped out a fake badge and acted like a police officer.  But it turned out he picked the wrong person to mess with . . . because the driver happened to be a REAL cop who was off-duty.

The guy also recognized Vincent, because they’d had a run-in before.  He was involved in some sort of domestic dispute earlier this year.

He’s facing charges for impersonating an officer.  

________________________________________________________________________________________

Did You Experience “GOMO” While Watching TV During the Pandemic?

Most people know that “FOMO” stands for the “fear of missing out.”  But have you heard the term “GOMO” before?  That’s the “GRIEF of missing out,” and a new study found it was common last year.

Four in 10  say that watching normal things happen on TV shows and in movies has given them GOMO during the pandemic.  Here are the top five things from shows and movies that triggered it . . .

1. People eating at restaurants.  60% of viewers who had GOMO said that triggered it.

2. Characters shopping in person at stores and malls, 52%.

3. Seeing people going to the movies, 52%.

4. People swimming, 44%.

5. Watching people have new experiences in general, 43%.

38% of people in the poll even said they watched shows and movies just to live vicariously through the characters, and feel like they were out socializing too. 

TUESDAY JULY 6TH  

1.   Montreal 3  Tampa Bay 2 (OT)  (Tampa 3-1)

Tigers 7  Rangers 3

2.   A Florida man is being accused of beating another man with a golf clubbecause the golf course he was attending was closing.  Here is an employee explaining what happened during the incident. 
3. 
     Almost seven in ten people admit to intentionally not using deodorantduring the pandemic because they didn’t plan on seeing other people.  That being said, as the world opens up, 55% say they plan on using deodorant more frequently. 

4.   Comedian Matt Fugate learned that Omaha, Nebraska takes their fireworks very seriously.

CHRIS LANE ASKS FOR PRAYERS FOR HOSPITALIZED SON 

Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell‘s one-month-old son, Dutton, has been hospitalized in Nashville. While there are no details about the situation, Chris posted a story on Instagram yesterday (Monday, July 5th) with the caption, “Spent the night in the hospital. If you pray, Dutty Buddy needs some prayers.”

Chris and Lauren welcomed Dutton, who is their first child, on June 8th.

He recently released a song he wrote for Dutton before he was born called “Ain’t Even Met You Yet.”

Five boys in Iowa have dedicated time this summer helping turtles cross over a busy highway that runs between a marsh wildlife area and a nearby lake.  Here they are talking about the work they’ve been doing. 

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Are Married

GWEN STEFANI and BLAKE SHELTON got married Saturday at Blake’s estate in Oklahoma . . . where he built an actual chapel for the occasion. 

There’s no word how many people were there, but it seems like the guest list was pretty small. 

The ceremony was officiated by CARSON DALY, the host of “The Voice”.  But Blake’s BFF ADAM LEVINE wasn’t there.  He was off recording in Miami.

TMZ got a picture of them cutting their cake, and a clip from their first dance . . . which was to PETER GABRIEL’s “In Your Eyes”.

Gwen also posted a Boomerang of herself putting on her veil, followed by some official wedding photos.  (Page Six also has some wedding day shots from outside Blake’s home.)

Gwen and Blake got together in 2015, after meeting when they were both doing “The Voice”.  Blake proposed last October.

______________________________________________________________________________

GARY ALLAN’S NEW ALBUM TAKES FANS ON A ‘WHOLE JOURNEY’ 

Gary Allan’s new 13-track album, Ruthless, is available now. It’s his first release since 2013’s Set You Free.

Gary tells us that he combined his influences and the music he loves on Ruthless: [“I like the albums to ping off everything. I like it to take you on a whole journey. This album, I’ve got stuff on there that’s kind of like big band, old-time, not really Sinatra. I like it to all feel different. I like it to go ‘Wow! I haven’t heard anything like this.’”] 

Gary played a free album release show for fans in Nashville on Friday (June 25th). It was his first show in Music City in eight years.

______________________________________________________________________________

TIM McGRAW, FAITH HILL SELL TENNESSEE FARM FOR $15 MILLION 

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have sold their 620-acre farm in Franklin, TN for $15 million to a newly formed group of real estate investors. The property includes a home previously owned by Hank Williams, Sr. as well as one of Williamson County’s oldest antebellum properties called Beechwood Hall.

Tim and Faith originally bought more than 750 acres of this property and sold 131 acres in 2015.

The couple are currently selling their nearly 20-acre private island in the Bahamas which is priced at $35 million, according to The New York Post. Tim and Faith purchased the island, called L’île d’Anges, in 2003 but didn’t actually complete the residence and move in until 2012.

Categorised in: Mornings

This post was written by Dave Palmer