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July 29, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢ Canada 74  Korea 53 Bridget Carlton with 18 points!  

 

Breanne Nicholas  Canada 33 Brazil 0 first game…. Lost this morning to Fiji 26-12

 

The Canadian women *just* missed the podium in the 4x200m freestyle relay #tokyo2020

But at the end of the day, Summer McIntosh, Kayla Sanchez, Rebecca Smith and Penny Oleksiak still set a Canadian record with a time of seven minutes, 43.77 seconds 

 

➢ RON POPEIL . . . the genius who amassed a $200 million fortune selling products like the Veg-O-Matic, Mr. Microphone, the Pocket Fisherman, and the Inside the Shell Egg Scrambler . . . died yesterday.  He was 86.

Popeil basically invented the infomercial, selling products from his Ronco company on late night TV . . . beginning with the Chop-O-Matic in 1959.  His commercials also spawned catchphrases like, “But wait, there’s more!” and “As seen on TV.”

Not to mention “Set it and forget it,” the slogan for his Showtime Rotisserie and Barbeque . . . 

But right now, we’d like to pay tribute to Ron, with his commercial for the product that inspired many a radio talent.

 

 ➢ A 13-year-old Australian girl named Rylee Stuart was eating Doritos last week, and she came across a “puffy” chip, which isn’t THAT different from those 3-D Doritos.

She posted it on TikTok, and asked people if she should eat it or try to sell it. 

But then the auction got shut down. That’s when Doritos stepped in, and offered Rylee $20,000 for the chip.  Not because they want to investigate it . . . it’s just a chip that has a big pocket of air inside . . . they just saw an opportunity to turn it into a marketing thing.

They said, quote, “We’ve been so impressed with Rylee’s boldness and entrepreneurial spirit, so we wanted to make sure the Stuart family were rewarded for their creativity and love for Doritos.” 

 

 

➢ This happened last year, but it’s making the rounds now.  A couple was having an outdoor wedding, and when the officiant asked if there were any objections . . . a dog started barking right on cue.

 

➢It was announced yesterday that a “heart-related incident” is what caused BOB ODENKIRK to collapse Tuesday on the set of “Better Call Saul”.  He’s still in the hospital, but his son says, quote, “He’s going to be okay.” Bob collapsed on the set of “Better Call Saul” in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tuesday.  He’s 58 years old.

 

TODAY IS……………….

  • “Rain Day” in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, an annual festival that started when a local farmer noticed it always seems to rain on July 29th. They now claim it’s rained on this date in 115 of the 147 years since. 

 

1981 [40] His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales weds Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral, London (they divorce in 1996)

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Martina McBride is 55 today 

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37% of Us Follow the “Five-Second Rule,” Plus Ten More Questionable Cooking Habits

How would you rate your cooking skills on a scale from 1 to 10?  The average American says they’re a 6.8 . . . 7 for women, and 6.5 for men.

 

The poll also found 37% of us believe in the “five-second rule,” and almost a third of us have used it while cooking.  31% have dropped food on the ground and then used it in a meal anyway.  Here are ten more stats on our questionable cooking habits . . .

 

  1. 65% of us like to eyeball it instead of using measuring cups.

 

  1. 58% don’t usually follow a recipe.

 

  1. 41% have used a spoon to taste something, and then kept using it to mix.

 

  1. 38% use dull kitchen knives, which are more dangerous than sharp ones.

 

  1. 34% rinse chicken in the sink, which isn’t necessary and is actuallyLESS sanitary.

 

  1. 26% of us don’t rinse fruits and vegetables.

 

  1. 23% of Americans have cooked a full meal while drunk, or on drugs.  

 

  1. 15% of people don’t wash their hands while cooking.

 

  1. 14% will use the same cutting board for raw meat, and then vegetables.

 

  1. 8% of us burn things on purpose, because we like the taste.  

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS 

  1. Not that the original version of “The Exorcist”needed to be any scarier . . . but it turned out one of the actors from it was a real-life SERIAL KILLER.  The guy who played a surgeon’s assistant was later convicted of killing six men.

 

  1. Yosemite National Park has struggled to design garbage cans, because they have to be easy enough for humans to open, but complex enough so bears can’t, and they’ve found there’s a, quote, “considerable overlap” between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

 

  1. The snow in “The Wizard of Oz”was pure asbestos. The Wicked Witch’s broom and the Scarecrow’s costume were also made with asbestos.

 

  1. Sweden pays high school students $120 per month to attend school.

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BIRTHDAYS 

[55] Martina McBride,  country singer 

 

[49] Wil Wheaton, actor (“Star Trek: The Next Generation” 1987-94, “The Big Bang Theory”)

 

[47] Josh Radnor, actor (‘Ted Mosby’ on “How I Met Your Mother” 2005-14)

 

[38] Ashley McBryde, country singer-songwriter 

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Are These the Saddest Country Songs of All Time?

The readers of Whiskey Riff voted for The Saddest Country Song of All Time.  They were asked to choose from a list of songs, and they also wrote-in a few of their own.  Here’s the Top Five:

 

  1. “Whiskey Lullaby”, Brad Paisleyand Alison Krauss

 

  1. “Alyssa Lies”, Jason Michael Carroll

 

  1. “He Stopped Loving Her Today”, George Jones

 

  1. “Go Rest High on That Mountain”, Vince Gill

 

  1. “Concrete Angel”, Martina McBride

 

The most popular write-ins included 

Cole Swindell’s “You Should Be Here” . . . 

“The Father, My Son, And The Holy Ghost” by Craig Morgan . . . 

Luke Bryan’s “Drink a Beer” . . . and Hank Williams’ all-time classic “Your Cheatin’ Heart”.

(Hit up WhiskeyRiff.com for the write-up, AND video links to the Top Three.) 

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MAKING WAVES:
The Zoom wave. Are you familiar with it? It’s that awkward-feeling habit of signing off on video calls with that little wave that so many of us do, and then wonder why we just did it, and why it feels strange.

 

Erica Dhawan, author of “Digital Body Language”, says the Zoom wave is just a part of our evolving body language in an increasingly digital world. In your real-world interactions with co-workers, you are able to smile, give a firm handshake and use other body language clues to signal a beginning and end to an interaction – but on a video call, it is much harder to give that signal. 

 

Another aspect is that we aren’t physically going anywhere. Instead of waving as we walk away, we wave, click a button, and are still sitting in the same place. And the way we need to keep out hands close to our head during a Zoom wave, to ensure that it is visible contributes to the feeling of awkwardness. How can you overcome the dreaded Zoom wave? 

 

Dhawan says to just forget your awkwardness, and embrace it as a part of how we 

 

THURSDAY JULY 29TH  

 

  1.   Canada 74  Korea 53 Bridget Carlton with 18 points!  

 

Breanne Nicholas  Canada 33 Brazil 0 first game…. Lost this morning to Fiji 26-12

 

The Canadian women *just* missed the podium in the 4x200m freestyle relay #tokyo2020

But at the end of the day, Summer McIntosh, Kayla Sanchez, Rebecca Smith and Penny Oleksiak still set a Canadian record with a time of seven minutes, 43.77 seconds 

 

Blue Jays 4  Red Sox 1 Red Sox 4  Blue Jays 1 Tigers 17  Twins 14

 

  1.   RON POPEIL . . . the genius who amassed a $200 million fortune selling products like the Veg-O-Matic, Mr. Microphone, the Pocket Fisherman, and the Inside the Shell Egg Scrambler . . . died yesterday.  He was 86.Popeil basically invented the infomercial, selling products from his Ronco company on late night TV . . . beginning with the Chop-O-Matic in 1959.  His commercials also spawned catchphrases like, “But wait, there’s more!” and “As seen on TV.”

    Not to mention “Set it and forget it,” the slogan for his Showtime Rotisserie and Barbeque . . . 

    But right now, we’d like to pay tribute to Ron, with his commercial for the product that inspired many a radio talent.

 

  1.   A mom was carrying her eight-month-old baby across the street last Friday in Yonkers, New York when an out-of-control car hit them and crashed into a barbershop.  Police and bystanders came to the rescue by LIFTING the car off the baby, and saving her life.  They also saved the mom, who was in the wreckage, but not under the car.  Listen to the rescue from audio on an officer’s bodycam.

 

  1.   Here’s comedian Kevin James on how he feels when he’s on people movers at the airport.

 

LEVAR BURTON – JEOPARDY 

It was LeVar Burton’s highly-anticipated debut as a fill-in “Jeopardy!” host Monday, and while it remains to be seen if the episode broke any ratings records – a different kind of record was broken — the record for lowest score ever. The contestant was Patrick Pearce, and with his number of wrong answers dipping into double digits, he was climbing out of the hole most of the night before taking a major blow during a Daily Double. It was a question about U.S. government buildings overseas that finally put him into record breaking territory. Pearce’s final score of MINUS $7,400 breaks a record previously held by Stephanie Hull since March of 2015.

 

 

LAINEY WILSON KNEW HER PLAN A WOULD ‘WORK AT SOME POINT’ 

Lainey Wilson seems to be an overnight success as her debut single, “Things A Man Oughta Know,” sits inside the Top 10 and climbing on the country charts, but the truth is she’s been chasing this music dream since she was nine years old. That’s when Lainey wrote her first song, and she’s already been living in Nashville for a decade.

[“This year I have been here for 10 years. Even when I got here I still didn’t know what to do or how to even get started and so I just kind of kept my blinders on and would hope and pray for opportunities along the way and I knew that timing is important, and I knew that one day I was gonna have my time if I didn’t have a plan B so I was like, ‘You know what? If you ain’t gotta plan B, if you got a plan A then it’s gotta work at some point in time.”] 

Lainey released her debut album, Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’, in February.

She will join headliner Jason Aldean on his Back In The Saddle Tour beginning next month.

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TENILLE TOWNES VIDEO 

Tenille Townes has released the video for her new song, “Girl Who Didn’t Care.” Her vision is to inspire young girls to always chase their dreams, no matter how hard or how distant they may seem, so she chose three real-life “girls who didn’t care” to star in the clip — Sarah Fuller, the first woman to play and score points in a Power Five College Football game when she stepped in as a place kicker for Vanderbilt University; 

Alyssa Carson, who is the only person to have attended every space camp offered around the world and will be one of seven ambassadors representing Mars One, a mission to establish a human colony on Mars in 2030; and Shannon Wells, a Nashville firefighter and one of just two females in her training class. 

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MICKEY GUYTON TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM IN SEPTEMBER 

Mickey Guyton will release her debut full-length album, Remember Her Name, on September 24th. She co-penned 15 of the 16 songs on the album.

Mickey said, “Remember Her Name is a culmination of the last ten years of my life in Nashville. This album is the closing of a chapter.  All those years ago, I set out to create music that would make people feel self-empowered, loved, and comfortable with being themselves and this album holds true to all of that. I hope everyone who listens finds something that connects and speaks to them.”

Remember Her Name follows the release of her 2020 EP, Bridges, which included “Black Like Me” which earned her her first Grammy nomination.

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer