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January 25, 2021 9:35 am Published by

➢ Two random people in Missouri pulled a driver from a burning truck recently and saved his life.  Now cops are trying to track them down to say thanks.  A guy who got it on video said the whole thing was really inspiring to watch.

 

➢ Someone spotted a new electric Amazon van making deliveries in L.A that makes a weird musical sound as it drives around.  For safety reasons, it has to emit some sort of sound because it doesn’t have an engine.  And the pitch changes as it speeds up.

 

➢ This might sound like torture to most, but this woman did break a Guinness World Record. A 40-year-old swimmer from Moscow, Russia, recently wore only a one-piece swimsuit to swim about 280 feet under the ice of Lake Baikal without surfacing for air. Yekaterina Nekrasova finished the swim in about one-and-a-half minutes, and beat out the previous world record of 230 feet.

 

➢ Hopefully Dan Levy inherited his father’s sketch comedy chops. The “Schitt’s Creek” co-creator and son of Eugene Levy is set to host “Saturday Night Live” next month. Dan Levy will make his hosting debut on Feb. 6, joined by singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers. NBC says “SNL” will return from hiatus for a five-week run starting on Jan. 30, when John Krasinski will kick things off.

TODAY IS……………….

“Irish Coffee Day”, Joe Sheridan, a bartender at Foynes Airbase in Ireland, invented the concoction in 1942 as replenishment after a miserably cold 18-hour journey across the Atlantic.

Robbie Burns Day”, party time for Scots everywhere! It honors Scotland’s national poet who was born January 25, 1759 and whose most famous composition was ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

 

1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France.

 

1961, WALT DISNEY’S animated movie “101 Dalmatians” was released in movie theaters.  It cost $4 million to make.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

JANUARY 25TH, 1988  Randy Travis wins four awards, paced by “Forever And Ever, Amen,” at the 15th annual American Music Awards

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS

  1. In the novel “Forrest Gump”, Forrest is 6-foot-6, 242 pounds.  The author, Winston Groom, says he pictured John Goodmanplaying him in a movie.

 

  1. The oldest cat in history lived to be 38 years and three days old . . . that’s about the equivalent of 169 in human years.  It died in 2005.

 

  1. When a mosquito bites you, it needs to clear room in its body for the blood . . . so it pees on you.

 

  1. Initially, ATM’s were thought to be failures, because most early users were either prostitutes or gamblers, who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.

 

GOOD NEWS

A five-year-old girl named Aryana Chopra spent two weeks making 200 “Happy New Year” cards for people at a nursing home in New York.

 

Her mom says she was worried they were lonely, and came up with the idea herself.

 

She also emptied out her piggy bank, and used the money to buy them gifts.

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BIRTHDAYS

[68] The Honky Tonk Man (Roy Wayne Farris), professional wrestler, (held the WWF Intercontinental Championship for a record 64 weeks, currently working in the independent circuit)

 

[59] Chris Chelios, former pro hockey player (3-time Stanley Cup champ, second oldest person to play in the NHL (at age 48 in 2010)

 

 

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE

  1. A SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico with 12 bottles of wine on board.  They’d been on the Space Station for about a year.  Now experts get to taste the wine to see how microgravity and radiation affect the aging process.  It’s part of a study to figure out how to grow food on space flights, or on Mars.

 

  1. Flu casesin the U.S. plummeted last year, and experts say it shows just how much more contagious the coronavirus is.  During the 2019 flu season, around 65,000 cases were diagnosed, compared to just 1,016 during the 2020 flu season.  That’s even though six times more people were tested for the flu last year than in 2019.

 

  1. The “dire wolves” in “Game of Thrones”were based on real-life dire wolves that died out 10,000 years ago.  Now researchers think they know why they went extinct.  New DNA tests found their genes weren’t similar enough to mate with other types of wolves.  So the wolves we have today took over.

 

  1. Researchers at Texas A&M are working on an implant that could help people lose weight.  It uses light to trigger the nerves in your stomach, so you don’t feel hungry.

 

  1. Researchers in Indonesia found the oldest work of artever discovered.  It’s a picture of a warthog drawn on a cave wall over 45,000 years ago.

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FEELING THE BERN:
There were many memorable Inauguration Day outfits on display at Wednesday’s ceremony, but none quite like Senator Bernie Sanders’ upcycled mittens made from old sweaters and lined with fleece made from recycled water bottles.

 

While the makers of the much-memed mittens has been overwhelmed by requests isn’t taking any more orders, Sanders’ team selling a sweatshirt featuring an image with the now-famous image—and selling them to benefit Meals on Wheels Vermont.

 

But if only mitts will do, here are some small-scale producers who offer unique and handmade mittens with all the charm of Bernie’s. Search for them on Etsy.com

➢ Mitten Heaven: They turn castoff clothes into cute mittens by hand in Flint, Michigan. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/y48u42d7

➢ Old Wool New:  Based in Omaha, Nebraska, they recycle sweaters into fleece-lined mittens and other accessories. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yy52gjoy

 

MONDAY JANUARY 25TH  

 

  1. The match-up for Super Bowl 55was set last night.  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who beat the Packers . . . will take on the Kansas City Chiefs, who defeated the Bills.  So, TOM BRADY is headed to his 10th Super Bowl.

It’s also just the seventh Super Bowl between QBs who had previously won one.  The Bucs will also be the first team in history to play in a Super Bowl in their home stadium.

 

  1. Larry King diedSaturday at a hospital where he’d been admitted earlier this month due to COVID-19.  He was 87 years old.  Larry hosted “Larry King Live” on CNN from 1985 to 2010.  (Here’s a clip from a 2014 interview with Conan O’Brien where he says he wants to be frozen.)

 

Former home run king Hank Aaron died Friday . . . peacefully in his sleep according to his family.  He was 86 years old.  (Here’s a clip of him breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 715 home runs.)

 

  1. The Honolulu Police Department caughtheat for spending $150,000 in CARES Act funds on a robot dog from Boston Dynamics.  So here’s a question:  Would you ever consider getting a robot pet?  A recent survey asked 6,000 Americans, and 23% said yes.  It didn’t work out well when George Jetson tried it with “Lectronomo.”  (Here’s a clip from a 1962 episode of “The Jetsons” when the robot dog bites his butt.  They eventually went with their real dog, Astro.)

 

  1. Here’s comedian Ron White making fun of his cousin getting a little too excited about a successful deer hunt.

 

 

 

A ticket holder from Winnipeg won Friday night’s whopping $60 million Lotto Max jackpot.

The draw also offered six Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each, and one of them was claimed by a lottery player in Quebec.

The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 26 will be approximately $15 million.

 

Two winning tickets were sold for the jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw — one in Quebec and the other in British Columbia.

Each ticket is worth $4.2 million.

The draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in B.C.

The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Jan. 27 will be approximately $5 million.

 

DIERKS BENTLEY MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME WITH FAMILY IN COLORADO

Dierks Bentley and his family are still enjoying their time together out in Telluride, Colorado. The family of five headed out there right around the start of quarantine last year, and as Dierks tells us, he’s loved every second of their extended vacation. [“We went out there in March, I guess it was, for a family trip and then COVID hit and we never left. I was worried about the fall and schools and being in person and being in big cities, and there’s a little school out there they can go to, so they’re doing that. If I’m gonna be unemployed and if I’m gonna have this time,  I just wanna be somewhere where I can make up for lost time on the road as far as like mountains and rivers and hiking and biking and family time and riding bikes with my kids to school and so much to do with them and outdoors all the time, which I kind of needed after this many years on the bus and on the road.”] SOUNDCUE (:34 OC: . . . on the road.)

Dierks is making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Gone.” It’s the lead single from his upcoming studio project.

 

 

GARTH BROOKS TESTED NEGATIVE FOR COVID BEFORE HUGGING FORMER PRESIDENTS

Garth Brooks has been catching some flak for shaking hands with and hugging former presidents and first ladies while maskless during last week’s inauguration ceremony, but his rep told NBC’s Today show that he had tested negative for COVID several times prior to the event, including right before hitting Capitol Hill.

Garth was there to sing an a cappella rendition of “Amazing Grace” after Joe Biden was sworn in as president.

Garth also apparently borrowed fellow performer Lady Gaga‘s glam squad to help him get camera-ready for the gig. He reached out to her on social media and thanked her for sharing her crew tweeting, “You were fabulous today and every day. A national treasure. Please tell Frederick and Miss Sarah thank you for me! They saved a cowboy today.” He’s referring to Gaga’s hairstylist Frederic Asprias and her makeup artist Sarah Tanno.

 

 

LINDSAY ELL NAMED ARTIST AMBASSADOR FOR CMA FOUNDATION INITIATIVE

Lindsay Ell has been named the next Artist Ambassador to join the Unified Voices for Music Education (UVfME) initiative in conjuction with the CMA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Country Music Association (CMA). Lindsay is the third artist to join the initiative following Jimmie Allen and Ashley McBryde.

The CMA Foundation launched UVfME last July in response to a need for resources, stemming from COVID-19’s impact on music education. The online collective serves as a place where music educators can interface through lesson ideas and other creative methods, as they find innovative ways to teach and connect with students during this challenging school year.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer