On Today’s Show
Remember the woman who fell asleep on an Air Canada plane a few weeks ago, and got left there? She woke up in a dark, parked, empty plane. It happened to someone else. Back on April 6th, a 69-year-old woman landed in Toronto after a vacation, and needed a wheelchair to get off. But no one ever came with one. A maintenance worker eventually found her a short time later. Here’s her daughter, the woman, and an aviation lawyer.
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A woman went into a Walmart in Wichita Falls, Texas last week, picked up a cake at the bakery, and ATE half of it as she walked around the store.
Then when she got to the register, she said she wasn’t going to pay full price for the cake . . . since half of it was missing.
She refused to pay more than half price for the half of the cake . . . even though the other half was in her stomach. And the store wound up calling the cops.
The woman wasn’t arrested, but she did get banned from the store.
It’s already been quite a year for Walmarts in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Back in January in a different store in the city, a woman was banned for driving her motorized shopping cart around the parking lot for hours while she drank wine out of a Pringles can.
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ENTERTAINMENT
- “Spider-Man: Far from Home” (PG-13, Action/Adventure – opened Tuesday): Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
(Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal)
- “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” (R-Rated, Documentary): An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. (Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins)
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“Breaking Bad” fans are poring over a new image that star Aaron Paul shared of himself and Bryan Cranston. In the photo, the two men hold their shoes as they walk barefoot through a creek, Paul slightly in front of Cranston. Paul captioned the photo: “Even sooner.” Fans immediately responded with Breaking Bad reactions, GIFs and memes. Many wondered if Paul’s vague caption had to do with the project’s release date possibly being sooner than anticipated.
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TODAY IS……………….
- “Calgary Stampede”, the annual rodeo & 10-day festival through July 14th in Calgary, Alberta. “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth”, attracts over one million visitors per year
- “Bikini Day”, celebrating the July 5, 1946 unveiling of the landmark swimsuit by designer Louis Reard at a Paris press conference, which he described as ‘4 triangles of nothing’. The bikini is named after a tiny Pacific atoll (ring-shaped reef) where the first atomic bomb tests were performed earlier that week.
1989 [30] The pilot episode of “Seinfeld” airs (originally titled “The Seinfeld Chronicles”). The show, starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards, would last for 180 episodes through 1998
1607 [412] Britain’s national anthem ‘God Save the King’ (Queen) is first sung in public
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
JULY 5TH, 1982 Born on this day in Augusta, Georgia, Dave Haywood, country music singer-songwriter with Lady Antebellum, who scored the 2009 US #1 Country hit “I Run To You.” The group won five awards at the 2011 Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year for “Need You Now”. Lady Antebellum was also awarded the “Best Country Album” award at the 54th Grammy Awards.
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Arctic fox treks 3,500 km from Norway to Canada in 76 days
An Arctic fox has been tracked on a massive polar trek from the Norwegian Arctic all the way across to Canadian territory.
Newly released research shows the young fox left from Norway on March 26, 2018 and arrived at Ellesmere Island in Nunavut on June 10th with a brief stop in Greenland along the way.
That’s a 76-day odyssey, some 1,789 km as the crow flies, but a total distance of 3,506 km. On average, the intrepid fox covered 46.3 km but travelled 155 km in a single day at the maximum.
The crossing was so epic that, at first, the researchers couldn’t actually imagine it was happening. They wondered if someone had taken the collar off and if it was on a boat but no boats go that far up in the ice.
The researchers say the fox settled on Ellesmere Island, at least as far as they know: The tracker attached to the fox gave out in February this year.
The fox has been a gold mine of understanding how the Arctic mammals behave and migrate especially as Arctic sea ice continues to decline. Earlier this year, an Environment Canada report said Canada as a whole was warming twice as fast as the global average, while the Arctic will be especially hard hit and at this rate the region will be largely ice-free year round by 2050.
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RANDOM REPORT
- There’s a phenomenon called the “Ikea Effect” . . . where you feel better about buying something if you have to put it together.
- Virginia is the biggest U.S. state, population-wise, that doesn’t have a pro sports team.
- JFK’sbrain is missing. It was stored in the National Archives after his assassination, but disappeared three years later and has been gone ever since.
- New York City could’ve had seven boroughs instead of five, but the people in Yonkers and Mount Vernon voted against merging with the city in 1898.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
Feuzi Zabaat is 17 years old and lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
And he was walking down the street the other day when he saw a two-year-old girl playing near an OPEN WINDOW two floors up.
There were a bunch of other people around, including other kids. And apparently no one else noticed. But luckily he did.
So he walked up and stood under the window, just in case. Then she fell . . . and he CAUGHT her.
She almost slipped through his arms, but he hung on. And she wasn’t even hurt.
A security camera got it on video, and now it’s going viral.
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BIRTHDAYS
[56] Edie Falco, Brooklyn NY, TV actress (“Nurse Jackie” 2009-15, “The Sopranos”
1999-2007)/winner of 4 Emmys, 2 Golden Globes, and 5 SAG Awards
[37] Dave Haywood, country musician (Lady Antebellum)
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MOVIES PEOLE CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
GOODWILL HUNTING
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
OLD SCHOOL
WIZARD OF OZ
RAINMAN
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
ANCHORMAN – THE LEGEND OF RON BURGANDY
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
GOODFELLAS
Kevin Hart is working on a “Scrooged” remake. According to reports, Hart will be producing the movie, and possibly starring in it. No official casting announcements have been made. The original “Scrooged” movie in 1988 starred Bill Murray and was directed by Richard Donner as a modern-day retelling of the Charles Dickens novel “A Christmas Carol”.
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LIGHT SLEEPER:
By now, most of us aware of the evils of the “blue light” of our electronic devices when it comes to disrupting our sleep.
Now, scientists are saying that even the amount of light emitted even by a few candles is enough to slow down the production of melatonin, the hormone that spikes in the evening to make us sleepy. Researchers studying how different levels of light affect us found that some people’s tolerance may be up to 58 times higher than others.
They found that a level of light too low to read in still stunted melatonin by 50 per cent in the average person. But others with a higher tolerance didn’t have the 50 per cent drop in melatonin levels until they were exposed to a light level equal to that of a sunrise.
One professor says: “For some people, a dim reading light might as well be daylight, and for others it might as well be darkness.” Or as another professor, who is seemingly one of those most affected by light, put it: “I keep my home as dim as I can without bumping into furniture.”
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STUDY: BINGE-WATCHING OVER FOUR HOURS RAISES DEATH RISKS BY 50%
It turns out what you’re doing while sitting has an impact on how much it messes with your health.
A new study from the American Heart Association found Americans who spend more than four hours a day watching TV have a 50 percent higher risk of developing heart disease or dying an early death compared to people who watch for less than two hours.
The difference between sitting on the couch and vegging out and sitting at your desk working is that people tend to eat big meals or lots of snacks before or while watching TV, at least that’s what study authors suspect.
To offset things the scientists recommend eating healthier snacks and walking around during commercial breaks.
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FRIDAY JULY 5TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[56] Edie Falco, Brooklyn NY, TV actress (“Nurse Jackie” 2009-15, “The Sopranos”
1999-2007)/winner of 4 Emmys, 2 Golden Globes, and 5 SAG Awards
[37] Dave Haywood, country musician (Lady Antebellum)
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- MLB
Boston 8 Toronto 7
Detroit 11 Chicago WS 5
Joey Chestnut won Nathan’s annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest for the 12th time yesterday, eating 71 franks and buns on the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn. Chestnut beat 17 other opponents, but fell short of the 74 hot dog record he set last year. Chestnut has only lost once since 2007.
Miki Sudo won the women’s competition by scarfing down 31 hot dogs for her sixth consecutive title. Both of them won $10,000.
The strongest earthquake in 20 years shook a large part of Southern California and parts of Nevada yesterday causing injuries and damage in a town near the epicenter, followed by a swarm of ongoing aftershocks.
The 6.4 magnitude quake struck at 10:33 a.m. Thursday in the Mojave Desert, about 150 miles (240 kilometres) northeast of Los Angeles, near the town of Ridgecrest, California.
- July 5th is the 30th anniversary of the first episode of “Seinfeld”. The “show about nothing” premiered on July 5th, 1989. It was originally called “The Seinfeld Chronicles”, and was an NBC summer replacement series. Ratings were bad. So NBC offered it to Fox, who passed. The second season, it was ranked 46th. By seasons five through eight, it was either ranked first, second, or third. When it ended in 1998, it was the number one show on television. Here’s the theme music.
- A Dad in Florida was using his drone to take photos of his kids at the beach the other day, and saw a shark headed straight for his kids. So he yelled for them to get out of the water.
- Comedian Ivan Decker talks about a Canadian airport that allows you to buy live lobsters near your gate, and take them on the plane. (From the 2019 Netflix specials “Comedians of the World”.)
‘MAD’ MAGAZINE TO NO LONGER BE ON NEWSSTANDS:
The satirical MAD magazine will no longer be on newsstands after its August issue, but will still be available in comic shops and through the mail to subscribers. However, after its fall issue, it will only reprint previously published material, with new material just coming in special editions at the end of the year. The 67-year-old humor magazine is known for its smiling, gap-toothed mascot, Alfred E. Neuman.
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GARTH BROOKS SAYS BLAKE SHELTON’S ACM AWARDS PERFORMANCE SPARKED DUET
Garth Brooks knew he wanted to collaborate with Blake Shelton after watching him perform on an award show earlier this year. [“I was watching the ACMs this year, and there was something in Blake’s face, man. When he was singing ‘God’s Country,’ I looked at his face and said, ‘This guy is believing every word and it’s got him.’ When a song gets a singer, when it grabs a singer, you can see it in their face. And this guy wasn’t just performing – he was living and breathing it. So I called him up right after – I said, ‘Hey, man.’ I said, ‘I don’t know if you’d ever think of somethin’ this crazy, but I’ve got this song called ‘Dive Bar’.”]
FAST FACTS
“Dive Bar” is the third single off Garth’s upcoming album, Fun. The album is due out later this month.
BRETT YOUNG APPRECIATES FANS’ CREATIVE BABY GIFTS – (07/01/2019)
The baby gifts have been pouring in for Brett Young and his wife, Taylor, who will welcome their first child, a daughter, into the world this fall. Aside from the typical necessary items, Brett tells us his fans and friends and have gotten really creative with their gifts. [“We are getting some really cool baby gifts. I think the most popular thing has been personalized onesies, and so people are coming up with clever little play on my lyrics, from ‘You’ve got me trying to catch my food’ instead of ‘catch my breath’ on a little bib or onesie or… It’s all been really cute. You know we got some really fun little onesies that were like play on old Kiss lyrics or Kiss album covers, or people are getting pretty creative and keeping it very musical, so it’s been pretty cool. Everybody’s been really fun about having the baby.”]
FAST FACTS
He continues playing fairs and festivals through the fall.
MAREN MORRIS TEASES NEW GROUP THE HIGHWOMEN
Maren Morris has teased a newly-formed group of gals on social media called the Highwomen.
In addition to Maren, the foursome includes Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby. Maren posted a picture of the four taken from behind writing, “Excited for this to pop off soon @TheHighWomen.”
Brandi recently told Popculture.com that the group just finished recording their first album, and that the idea for the Highwomen stemmed from the lack of female artists on country radio these days
