On Today’s Show
Back in 2009, a woman in Quebec fined $100 for not holding the handrail on a subway escalator. She fought it. And now a decade later, she just won $20,000 in a Supreme Court case. She says she spent more than that in legal bills, but it was worth it.
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The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Jets 22-6 to win their first game of the season, which means the crazy fan that pledged to live on his roof until the Bengals won a game was able to come back down. He’d been up there since October 7th.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Will Smith thought it would be fun to live video his colonoscopy, but it got serious after his doctors found a precancerous polyp. (From “Ellen” on Wednesday, December 4, 2019)
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Fans hoping to see more of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker might be in luck. Director Todd Phillips is said to be in talks with Warner Bros. for a sequel now that the movie has crossed the $1 billion mark at the box office. Phoenix would be expected to return to the role, as his contract has sequel options in place.
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TODAY IS……………….
“Bathtub Day”, encouraging a luxurious long, hot bath to develop inner peace.
“World Soil Day”, first declared in 2013 to raise awareness of the importance of soils for food security, agriculture, and sustainable development.
- “International Volunteer Day”, honoring the selfless people who make many of the good things in life happen by volunteering their time.
84 years ago . . . In 1933, PROHIBITION in the U.S. ENDED at 5:32 P.M. as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment. That one repealed the 18th Amendment that had outlawed all booze for nearly 14 years.
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
DECEMBER 5TH, 1978 The Charlie Daniels Band records “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”
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GOOD NEWS
Kelsea Ballerini gifted one of her fans, a kid named Aiden who is blind and battling cancer, a guitar with his name on it in braille. It happened around a month ago but she is just now commenting on it. Here she is along with some of Aiden’s reaction to his gift.
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BIRTHDAYS
[52] Gary Allan, country singer
[34] Frankie Muniz, actor
[33] James Hinchcliffe, Oakville, ON Canada, IndyCar racer (winner of 5 IndyCar races over seven years/finished second in season 23 of “Dancing With The Stars”)
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FOOT DOCTOR:
Nike has created a new shoe for “everyday heroes” like doctors, nurses and home health aides. Nike Air Zoom Pulse is an athletic shoe designed for those in the medical profession.
The company says in designing the shoe, they went sent a team to a Portland, OR hospital, and observed the challenges of those on the job– including long hours on their feet and liquid spills — and the comfort needed for long shifts. The shoe is designed like a clog, which is popular among medical workers, but is more athletic in appearance and performance.
It has a rubber outsole that provides traction even when liquid or water is present, and is said to be easy to put on with one hand.
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SOUNDS APEELING:
Yes, bananas are good for you. But, as it turns out, so is the PEEL.
Top dietician Susie Burrell says that eating banana skins can improve your sleep, enhance your skin and even boost weight loss. She says that if you can manage to get them down, you’ll up your fibre content by at least 10%, you’ll get almost 20% more vitamin B6, and about 20% more vitamin C.
You’ll also boost your potassium and magnesium intake. But please note, she is NOT suggesting that you just start chewing on the peel once you’ve finished eating the inside.
She suggests putting it in a smoothie, baked goods or a curry to boost your nutritional intake.
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 5TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[52] Gary Allan, country singer
[34] Frankie Muniz, actor
[33] James Hinchcliffe, Oakville, ON Canada, IndyCar racer (winner of 5 IndyCar races over seven years/finished second in season 23 of “Dancing With The Stars”)
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- NHL
COL 3 – TOR 1 PIT 3 – STL 0 OTT 5 – EDM 2 WSH 3 – LAK 1
- • “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (ABC): Linus helps Charlie Brown with what Christmas is all about, plus “Charlie Brown Christmas Tales” features a vignette of each “Peanuts” character.
- “A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special” (NBC): A collection of “Saturday Night Live’s” Christmas-themed sketches, including D… in a Box, Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song’, Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas and more.
- An emergency evacuation slide fell off a Delta plane flying over Massachusetts on Sunday and landed in someone’s yard. Luckily it didn’t land on anyone. The owner of the home is a guy named Wenhan Huang, and he called 911. He says he’s just happy it didn’t hurt anyone, or land on his house.
- Not enough Baby Yodas, Brad Pitt didn’t cry, how much TV people watch, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, and the #1 tourist destination from Uber. (From David Spade, Conan, and Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, December 4, 2019)
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JASON ALDEAN RETURNS TO VEGAS FOR FIRST SHOWS SINCE ROUTE 91 TRAGEDY – (12/05/2019)
Jason Aldean heads to Las Vegas this weekend for three back-to-back shows at Park Theatre at Park MGM. This marks the superstar’s first full headlining shows in Sin City since the tragic Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in 2017.
Fans have been anxious for Jason to return to Vegas to play a full show, but as he tells us, he wasn’t in a rush. [“We always wanted to go back and do that when we felt like the timing was right, and we had an opportunity to go back out and not do one show but do three, do it in a smaller setting. There’s gonna be a lot of people at that show that were at Route 91 and some of those people may not have been to a show then, you know what I mean, so the smaller the venue I feel like it kind of maybe makes them a little bit more at ease, it’s a little bit more intimate. I don’t know, just to me it felt like the right setting, the right time to go back and do that.”]
Jason Aldean: Ride All Night Vegas begins on Friday (Dec. 6th).
LUKE BRYAN’S SON IS GRATEFUL FOR DAD: ‘I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE LUKE BRYAN!’ –
Luke Bryan‘s two sons finally understand that their dad is a celebrity, and with that comes some perks. Luke tells us about a recent pivotal moment when his nine-year-old son Tate made the connection. [“They get what dad is now. The cutest thing happened. I was playing in Hershey, at Hershey Park and we get the fast passes or whatever. Tate’s just bouncing off the walls and he got on one roller coaster and he says, ‘Oh my God, Dad, I’m so glad you’re Luke Bryan. I’m so glad you’re Luke Bryan,’ cause he understands that we’re getting the fast passes, so . . . And then we sent them somewhere on a trip without old Dad to get ’em there and, yeah, they don’t want to do that no more. They want old Dad there.”]
Luke is inside the Top 20 and climbing with “What She Wants Tonight,” which will be included on his upcoming studio album.
FAST FACTS
Luke will host his annual Crash My Playa event in Cancun, Mexico next month with special guests Jason Aldean, Dustin Lynch, Old Dominion, Jordan Davis and Lee Brice, to name a few. The event is sold out.
Luke returns to the judges table during the new season of American Idol which returns to ABC on February 16th.
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CHRIS STAPLETON, MARTINA McBRIDE TO BE FOCUS OF 2020 HALL OF FAME EXHIBITS – (12/05/2019)
The Country Music Hall of Fame’s 2020 roster of new exhibits includes Chris Stapleton, Martina McBride and Bill Anderson.
The Chris Stapleton exhibition will open on June 26th and will explore his personal and musical influences and his climb to stardom.
An exhibit exploring Martina McBride’s legacy opens on Aug. 21st.
On Nov. 20th, the museum will open it’s exhibit spotlighting Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson
