On Today’s Show

➢ How would you react to seeing a bunch of kangaroos running at you? Emilie Kenny, age 27, was in Cape Bridgewater, in Victoria, Australia on Monday (August 2nd) hoping to spot some seals. But after parking her car she was confronted by a pack of nearly 20 kangaroos. She caught the whole thing on camera and says in the video, “Just in case I die there is a stampede of kangaroos coming towards me.” She then quickly composes herself and hides in some bushes, all while recording the group of kangaroos making their way towards her. But the animals ended up bouncing over a nearby fence after getting startled. There were no injuries.

➢ This is one thing you’d never want to find inside a new home: bees. Sara Weaver says she and her husband bought a farmhouse built in 1872 in Skippack, Pennsylvania, without conducting an inspection because they had really wanted a home in the area and moved quickly when they saw the home listed. They purchased the home in winter 2020, and Weaver says on the seller’s disclosure it said “bees in wall,” and she didn’t think much of it until the spring, when the bees became active. She hired a contractor who is also a professional beekeeper to get rid of the estimated 450,000 insects inside the walls of the home. She adds the total cost of bee removal and reconstruction was about $12,000 and the bees have new homes at a honey Farm.

➢ This gives “flushing money down the toilet” a new meaning:  A university in South Korea is testing a new type of commode that turns your waste into DIGITAL CURRENCY.  Or more simply . . . it pays you for your POOP.

It’s called the BeeVi toilet, and an engineering professor came up with it.  It basically collects everyone’s waste and turns it into methane and manure.  Then the methane powers things in the building, and the manure is used in a nearby garden.

Each time a student uses the toilet, they get paid in a digital currency the professor created called “Ggool,” which means “Honey” in Korean.  Then they can use that Honey to buy stuff on campus, like coffee and snacks.  He says the point is to show how valuable our waste can be if we just think outside the box.

➢ Ready to watch a, quote, “time-traveling quest for love” straight out of a JANE AUSTEN novel?  Peacock just ordered a new dating show called “Pride & Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance”.

The show description says it’ll be a group of eligible and hopeful suitors who have to win the heart of the heroine and her court.  They’ll be staying in a castle in the countryside.

Contestants will use handwritten letters to communicate and participate in archery, carriage rides and boat rides on the lake.  With the help of her court, the heroine will choose who is worthy of her heart.  Casting is currently open.

TODAY IS……………….

2017 [04] A 100-year-old fruit cake by Huntley & Palmers is deemed “almost eatable” after being discovered in a hut used by Captain Scott’s expedition in Antarctica

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

2013  With 22 weeks at #1, “Cruise” by Florida Georgia Line set a new record for most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, breaking a three-way tie of 21 weeks at #1 jointly held by Eddy Arnold (“I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms),” 1947), Hank Snow (“I’m Movin’ On,” 1950) and Webb Pierce (“In the Jailhouse Now,” 1955). “Cruise” benefited from changes in Billboard’s methodology, made in 2012, from a country airplay-only chart to one that reflected all-genre airplay, music downloads and streaming.

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Bees Are Better at Their Jobs if They’re Provided with . . . Caffeine?

There’s a new study out that says that having caffeine in the morning can help with job performance and memory . . . in BEES.

Researchers found that caffeinated bees were better equipped to find target crops, so a little caffeine buzz helped the bees do their everyday jobs more efficiently. Obviously, the bees weren’t just jacked up on pumpkin spice lattes. 

The scientists created some kind of caffeinated nectar, and added it to certain flowers.  The bees DID show a preference to return to the flowers that had that GO JUICE . . . so yeah, it might be just as addictive for bees as it is for humans.

The researchers were also able to observe the effects of caffeine improving memory.

It boosted performance in general . . . and it wasn’t just about the bees immediately flying over to that one plant that always has the good stuff.

This insight could be used to enhance the productivity of commercial bees in pollinating crops. 

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BIRTHDAYS 

[62] Rosanna Arquette, actress 

[61] Antonio Banderas, actor 

[50] Justin Theroux, actor 

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Kristen Bell Agrees with Not Bathing Kids Until You Smell the Stink

We recently found out ASHTON KUTCHER and MILA KUNIS don’t bathe themselves OR their kids often.  Until they actually SEE dirt.  And now, on “The View”, KRISTEN BELL said she AGREES.

She said, quote, “I’m a big fan of waiting for the stink.  Once you catch a whiff, that’s biology’s way of letting you know you need to clean it up . . . Honestly, it’s just bacteria . . . once you get bacteria you gotta be like, ‘Get in the tub or the shower.'”

It’s unclear how closely Kristen follows this approach. She and DAX SHEPARD have two daughters, who are eight and six. 

Dax was also in the interview, and he said that they initially bathed their girls every single night as a routine, but then they started forgetting, and couldn’t remember when they last had a bath.

Jake Gyllenhaal is the latest celeb to enter the debate about bathing — and he has his own reason for skipping showers. He told Vanity Fair: “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times. I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves.” 

Although Gyllenhaal sometimes skips showers, he did clarify that he brushes his teeth often. 

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2% of Americans Have Never Washed Their Pillowcases

When was the last time you washed your PILLOWCASES?

They absorb a lot of dirt, oil, and dead skin.  So you’re supposed to do it every week or two at most.  But a lot of us aren’t hitting that mark. Around 1 in 3 people admit they go longer than that . . . including 2% of Americans who say they’ve NEVER washed their pillowcases.

Most people don’t go more than a month.  That includes 35% who said they wash them at least once a week.

But women wash their pillowcases more often than guys do.  And people under 25 are the most likely to be sleeping on pillowcases that have never been washed.

TUESDAY AUGUST 10TH  

1.   The Blue Jays and the Tigers had the night off. 

2.   Billie Eilish was on “The Tonight Show” last night and said she has a neurological condition called Synesthesia.  It causes her to associate colors, sounds, and smells with certain things.  She sees Jimmy as a brown, vertical rectangle.  

3.   COVID vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert was honored with a Barbiedoll made in her likeness.  Here she is talking about what it means and what she plans on doing with it.

4.   Matt Damon is still paying the price for saying his daughter convinced him to stop using a certain gay slur.  Here’s a comedian pretendingto be Matt’s PR agent hearing about it for the first time . . . from Matt . . . during a phone call.

MADDIE & TAE, BRELAND PARTICIPATE IN THIS SEASON OF HALL OF FAME’S SONGWRITING PROGRAM 

Maddie & Tae, Breland, and Charlie Worsham are among this year’s second season of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Words & Music at Home songwriting program. The program premieres on YouTube every Thursday at 7 p.m.

The event features conversations with songwriters, ideas about the creative process and behind-the-scenes stories of some of the writer’s hits. Viewers are also encouraged to submit their ideas from the comments section during the live YouTube broadcast to participate in the songwriting process.

CMT.com reports that the finished product will be made available, on-demand, via the museum’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and website.

The program is part of the museum’s educational Words & Music program.

Words & Music has taught songwriting to more than 150,000 people since its inception in 1979.

Kacey Musgraves’ Next Album Will Be Like a Greek Tragedy

KACEY MUSGRAVES’ next album will have 15 songs split evenly into three acts, and there’s a reason for that.  She wrote it after her divorce, and was feeling like she had just been through a three-part Greek tragedy.

She tells “Crack“ magazine, quote, “Denial, anger, sadness, depression, bargaining, guilt . . . I’ve felt all of those things.”  She also realizes her fans may be a little surprised by it.

Quote, “My last album is what people know me for.  They see me as this starry-eyed, rose-colored glasses kinda girl . . . the ‘Golden Hour’ girl.  Well, here I come with a post-divorce album, bursting the bubble.” But it’s not all doom and gloom.  She adds, quote, “One thing that’s interesting to me is ‘what comes after golden hour.  Nighttime.’  And so I’m in a nighttime period.  And what’s cool about that is there will be light again.” No word yet on a title or release date of the new album. 

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CHASE RICE CLAIMS TOP OF BILLBOARD CHART WITH FGL COLLAB 

Chase Rice‘s collaboration with Florida Georgia Line, “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen., claims the Number One spot on the Billboard chart this week. It also lands at Number Two on Spotify’s most-streamed “Hot Country” songs of the year thus far. 

The single is Chase’s second number one as an artist, following “Eyes On You, which reached the top in 2019.  The achievement marks a full circle moment for Chase and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, who first topped the charts as co-writers on FGL’s Diamond-certified hit “Cruise” when making music together as new-to-Nashville roommates more than a decade ago.

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Clare Dunn Was Physically Assaulted by a Lyft Driver Back in June

In an interview with “People“, CLARE DUNN revealed that she was physically assaulted by a Nashville Lyft driver on June 26th.  She reported it to the police and there’s a warrant out for the guy’s arrest. She was in Nashville to do some songwriting.  She went out with friends that night, and shared a Lyft home with ONE of them.  The driver dropped her friend off first, but wouldn’t follow Clare’s directions to her place. She said, quote, “[I] was like, ‘That was my turn.  Where are you going?’  He was screaming at me.”  She didn’t let up on the guy, so he decided to pull the car over about a mile from her house.  And that’s when it got real bad. 

Quote, “Before I could even get my phone to try and call 911, he grabbed me by the collar, ripped me out of the backseat and slammed me face-first down into a ditch.”

She had bruises on her face, and was bleeding, so she went to the emergency room.  She also filed a police report and a detective helped her identify the driver.  And she’s speaking out because she wants to share the lessons she learned.

She says you should always take a screenshot of the driver’s information from the rideshare app.  And, take a photo of their license plate BEFORE getting into the car . . . because the driver’s info goes away after the ride is completed. 

Lyft put out a statement saying they’ve “permanently removed the driver from their platform.” They also reached out to Clare to offer support and are assisting the police with the investigation.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer