On Today’s Show
➢ An ice cream shop in Massachusetts finally got to re-open last Friday under new social-distancing guidelines. But it had to close down again the very next day after customers got angry about wait times, and kept verbally abusing the workers. The owner said it was so bad, one employee quit at the end of her shift.
Well, the owner started a GoFundMe for a 17-year-old employee who was verbally abused. And people have already donated almos 40,000 dollars for her college fund.
➢ How would you feel if someone walked around your neighborhood in a full plague doctor outfit? Police in Norfolk, England are on the search for a person who has been seen walking the streets in a 17th century plague doctor outfit as the coronavirus lockdown continues. The unidentified person has been spotted wearing a long black cloak, a hat, and a pointed beak-like mask in recent weeks. The police say, “Although no offences have been committed at this time, officers are keen to trace the individual in order to provide words of advice about the implications of his actions on the local community”
➢ Keli Harpet of Gilbert, Arizona says her security camera recently gave her dozens of alerts overnight about her front door. When she investigated she found there was no intruder, but rather thousands of bees swarming. She says the bees have chosen her porch as their new swarming spot, and there’s so many of them in one area that “it looks like a bad paint job with texture.” She said her camera also captured the moment a surprised FedEx driver dropped off a package and sprinted for safety when he spotted the bees. Harper says she contacted a beekeeper who removed the swarm.
➢ When George Montgomery moved into his home in Georgia in November 2018, it didn’t take him long to realize the property had bees. . “You could hear them slapping against the wall as they landed to crawl into the hive.” In late February 2020, when the weather started to warm up, Montgomery went out to mow the lawn and had to duck from all the bees swarming.
It cost Montgomery less than US$1,000, to have the bees removed and when they were done they safely removed about 100,000 bees. He said a normal colony, for comparison, has only about 10,000 to 80,000 bees. The bees are settled into a new hive in North Georgia.
Montgomery is happy to be bee free — and even got to keep some of the ceiling honey for himself.
➢ Paul Willis, said a postcard appeared in his mailbox recently from his sister, Annie Lovell, and he soon noticed the card bore a picture of Lovell on a Grand Canyon hike in 1987 — and a San Francisco postmark from December of that same year. Willis said the postcard bore a second postmark from April 29 of this year in Des Moines, so he called the post office to see if they had any explanation for the postcard’s tardiness. “She said, ‘Well, the post offices are all going through deep cleaning because of COVID-19, the postcard may have been discovered while furniture and machines were being moved for cleaning.
TODAY IS……………….
- “Tulip Day”, celebrated in several countries to welcome Spring.
- “Apple Pie Day”, The first apple pie recipe was printed in England in 1381. Ingredients included good apples, good spices, figs, raisins, pears, saffron and cofyn (a type of pastry crust).
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
Darius Rucker is 54 today. Started out as lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Hootie & the Blowfish who had the 2008 US Country #1 hit “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” Rucker won the Country Music Association’s New Artist of the Year in 2009. Rucker scored two US Country #1’s in 2010 with “Come Back Song’, and “This”.
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Things People Have Discovered about Their Partner Since Being Quarantined Together
- “I discovered that my boyfriend doesn’t clip or file his nails he just rips them off with his fingers. He RIPS. THEM. OFF.”—bridgets5
- “My husband pronounces fajitas as ‘fa-jeet-ers.’ And his whole family does, too!”—ccle182
- “I learned that my boyfriend doesn’t think cheese needs to be refrigerated. He literally keeps it on the counter, because that way ‘it melts better.’ Umm, What?”—1313tacocat1313
- “I learned that my husband clears his throat literally all day, every day. He inhales really big, then clears it with a weird, ‘ahem.’ He says he doesn’t even notice it, but I can hear it from outside!”—samanthar42a22da62
- “My boyfriend didn’t know how to make microwave popcorn. He has never made it before, and didn’t even know which side goes up.”—tepettit
- “My boyfriend didn’t know you should brush your tongue and the roof of your mouth when you brush your teeth.”—hbarney80
FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- The three densest cities in the world are all in the Philippines. All have at least 90,000 people per square mile.
- Your dog causes twice as much pollution as an SUV. That’s based on the energy it takes to produce enough food to feed a dog in its lifetime.
- When 3 Musketeers bars were released in 1932, they had three small candy bars in a package: One chocolate, one strawberry, and one vanilla. That’s how it got the name . . . which stuck even when it became just one candy bar in 1945.
- E.T.’s actual name was Zrek. It was going to be revealed in the sequel, which never wound up being made.
GOOD NEWS
Dennis Ruhnke is the Kansas farmer who went viral last month after he sent his extra N95 facemask to New York to help out. Well, it turns out Dennis went to Kansas State when he was younger, but had to drop out when his father passed away. He was only two credits short of graduating. So last week, the school rewarded him with a diploma.
An elementary school teacher in Indiana built a flexible plastic barrier around her door . . . kind of Bubble Boy style . . . so she could safely give her students hugs.
A pregnant woman from New Jersey named Donna Molina got sick back in March, and had an emergency C-section two months before the baby was due. Right after the surgery, doctors had to put her in an induced coma. But she beat the virus, tested negative last week, and got to meet her new daughter just in time for Mother’s Day.
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BIRTHDAYS
[81] Harvey Keitel, actor (“Reservoir Dogs’, “Pulp Fiction”, “From Dusk till Dawn”)
[70] Stevie Wonder
[56] Stephen Colbert, TV host
[54] Darius Rucker, singer
[34] Robert Pattinson, actor (“Twilight Saga”) COMING UP…”The Devil All the Time”
(27) Morgan Wallen, Country singer
Top TV Shows People Started Watching While Social Distancing
The streaming search engine Reelgood has a list of the top TV shows its users are watching for the FIRST TIME since March 16th, when COVID-19 started forcing Americans to start social distancing. They then calculated the first-time streams for those top titles and ranked them accordingly. They listed 19 in all . . . but here are the Top 10:
- “Ozark”, Netflix, 2017-present
- “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness”, Netflix, 2020
- “Breaking Bad”, AMC, 2008-2013
- “Game of Thrones”, HBO, 2011-2019
- “Westworld”, HBO, 2016-present
- “Better Call Saul”, AMC, 2015-present
- “The Office”, NBC, 2005-2013
- “The Good Place”, NBC, 2016-2020
- “Stranger Things”, Netflix, 2016-present
- “The Walking Dead”, AMC, 2010-present
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That Annoying Co-Worker in a Zoom Meeting
A comedian named Caitlin Reilly posted a video of herself pretending to be an annoying co-worker in a Zoom meeting.
First she sucks up to the boss, and then spends the rest of the meeting passive-aggressively calling out her co-workers.
People Are Making More Impulse Buys to Cope During the Pandemic
Over the past few months, have you found yourself dropping big bucks on stuff you NEVER thought about buying before? You’re not alone.
According to a new survey, even with the economic situation where it is, Americans are making MORE impulse buys during the pandemic than we were before.
In January, the average person was spending $155-a-month on impulse buys. In April, that jumped up to $183.
And there are two main reasons. One . . . we’re stocking up on stuff that’s hard to get or that we want to grab while it’s on sale. And two . . . online shopping is one of the big ways we’re coping and improving our mood.
The top five most common impulse buys are all pandemic must-haves: Cleaning supplies . . . hand sanitizer . . . toilet paper . . . hand soap . . . and canned food.
But the survey also found 21% of people have bought themselves a, quote, “treat” they’ve had their eye on for a while . . . 17% have grabbed a video game console . . . and 17% have bought shoes.
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WEDNESDAY MAY 13TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[81] Harvey Keitel, actor (“Reservoir Dogs’, “Pulp Fiction”, “From Dusk till Dawn”)
[70] Stevie Wonder
[56] Stephen Colbert, TV host
[54] Darius Rucker, singer
[34] Robert Pattinson, actor (“Twilight Saga”) COMING UP…”The Devil All the Time”
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- Neighbours in Austrailia decided to cut out a section of their shared fence and put up plastic sheeting so they can still visit and see each other safely
- This seven-second clip from the movie “Fun with Dick and Jane” sums up what every over-compensated CEO has been saying during the COVID-19 crisis. In this case, it’s Alec Baldwin’s character saying things got so bad for him that he had to sell one of his houses . . . the one in Martha’s Vineyard.
- Brian Regan says he always goes to the airport early just to hear the music they play.
- Drive-in church services, and the founder of Quibi blames the coronavirus for what’s going wrong with his service. (Only Jimmy Fallon today. From “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday, May 12, 2020)
TODAY’S SCOOP:
➠ During a US Supreme Court conference call amid the COVID-19 outbreak last week, one of the Judge’s toilets was heard flushing.
➠ Florida Man jumped into a canal to avoid arrest, only to get arrested on other side of canal. (He’s facing charges of driving with a suspended license, resisting an officer)
➠ A wanted British man who hid in bushes in an attempt to evade police blew his cover when he accidentally passed gas. The smell alerted an officer who found him.
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TIM McGRAW GETS CHOKED UP TALKING ABOUT HIS MOM
Tim McGraw gets very emotional while talking about his new single, “I Called Mama.” He said it takes him back to his childhood when his mom was working three jobs to make ends meet and life wasn’t easy for the single mother of three. [“I can remember walking through the kitchen one night getting up late and I don’t know how old I was — 10, 11, 12 years old, something like that — and she had her head down on the table at like two in the morning with bills everywhere and was crying, and she didn’t see me, but I’ve told her that story before and she didn’t remember it cause she didn’t see me but for her that was probably a hundred different nights I didn’t know about, but that’s something that really resonates with me and sticks out to me, and I think about that when I hear this song.”]
“I Called Mama” is the debut release from Tim’s upcoming studio album.
Midland’s Cameron Duddy Is Best Friends with a Guy Who Slept with His Girlfriend Then Beat Him Up
Midland bassist CAMERON DUDDY was talking about their single “Cheatin’ Songs” . . . and he shared a pretty good cheating story of his own from back in high school.
It all started when he found out that his girlfriend and his best buddy were sneaking around behind his back . . . so he made the mistake of challenging the guy to a fistfight.
Quote, “[I] was thinking that I had the upper hand in my rage, I went into this fight very arrogant. Let’s just say I forgot that he was a southpaw, and he rang my bell. I suffered a concussion. He’s also twice as big as me. I was concussed.
“It knocked the jealousy out of me though, I’ll tell you that.” It’s all water under the bridge now because he and that guy are still best friends.
KEITH URBAN, KELSEA BALLERINI SET TO PLAY OPRY THIS WEEKEND
Opry members Trace Adkins, Dustin Lynch, and Blake Shelton, along with special guest Gwen Stefani performed on the Grand Ole Opry’s 4,923rd consecutive Saturday night broadcast over the weekend. Gwen’s duet performance with Blake on their Number One single, “Nobody But You,” marked her Opry debut as they performed remotely from Ole Red in Tishomingo, Oklahoma near Blake’s home where the two artists are quarantined.
This weekend’s Opry performance lineup includes Opry members Keith Urban and Kelsea Ballerini as well as Morgan Evans. The show will be broadcast on Saturday (May 16th) live on Circle and Gray TV stations, DISH Studio Channel 102, Sling TV and other TV affiliates in addition to a companion live stream on Circle All Access and YouTube.
