On Today’s Show

➢ New York City is having a huge issue with loud fireworks.  So hundreds of people sat outside the mayor’s mansion Monday night and honked their horns to wake him up, just so he’d know how it feels.  Yesterday, the city announced it will start cracking down on illegal fireworks.  (The guy talking in the clip is a city councilman named Chaim Deutsch, who was part of the protest.)

 

➢ Anthony Slaughter was doing the weather on “Today in St. Louis” yesterday, and thought he was doing a taped report.  It was actually live.  He later explained to viewers he hadn’t eaten all morning.

 

➢ A bulldog allegedly stolen in Brampton, Ontario, has now been adopted by the woman who unknowingly bought the puppy from the suspects. Stephanie Barrantes was messaged by the illegitimate seller on Snapchat and sent two e-transfers totaling $1,000 for the dog. She never met the seller and agreed to pick-up the puppy at a park at a predetermined time and location . She wasn’t aware the puppy had been stolen and picked it up without meeting the seller because of Covid. With the help of police, she was able to connect with the puppy’s owner and has now become the rightful owner of Loki at no extra cost.

 

➢ A python hunter in Florida said he might have a new record on his hands after bagging

a huge snake that put up a fierce fight. He’s known as the Python Cowboy, and posted photos and videos to his Instagram showing his struggle with the python, and his injuries following the successful capture. He said the snake left him bleeding from his arm.

The snake, measuring more than 17 feet long and weighing about 150 pounds, might be a new record. He said he is waiting to hear back from state officials.

 

➢ Today, there are dozens of murder mystery reality shows.  But in the ’80s, there was only one, “Unsolved Mysteries”, hosted by Robert Stack.  Netflix just released the trailer for their reboot of the show.  (This is an edited version.  It ends with the signature theme song on piano.  The six-episode series begins streaming July 1st.)

 

 

TODAY IS……………….

• “Leon Day” (‘Noel’ spelled backwards), observed exactly 6 months from Christmas

 

• “Color TV Day”, this date in 1951, CBS broadcast the first color television show, “Premiere”. The variety show included Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore and Robert Alda.

 

1978 [42] The rainbow flag is first used as a symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker for a march in San Francisco

 

1993 [27] Kim Campbell becomes Canada’s first female Prime Minister (for a brief 4 months)

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Fly became the second Dixie Chicks album certified for shipments of 10 million copies in 2002.

 

Fly is the fifth studio album from the Dixie Chicks. It debuted at #1.  Multiple singles including

“Ready to Run”, “Cowboy Take Me Away”, “Without You”, “Goodbye Earl”, and  “Cold Day in July”.The album earned four Grammy nominations in 2000, and the group won two: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group for Ready to Run and Best Country Album

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Raising a Child Now Costs a Grand Total of $252,000

A new study found that raising a child now costs an average of $252,000 in the U.S.  That works out to $14,000 a year for 18 years.  Here’s how it breaks down . . .

 

1. Housing costs the most.  An average of $3,971 extra each year.

 

2. Food, $2,482 a year.

 

3. Child care and education, $2,280.  That includes day care, babysitters, and school expenses.  But not college, or private school.

 

4. Transportation, $2,127.

 

5. Healthcare, $1,302.

 

6. Clothing, $795 a year.

 

7. Miscellaneous expenses, $1,047.  That’s everything from toys to haircuts.

All those stats are based on people with two kids . . . so $14,000 per kid, or $28,000 a year.  If you only have one, it costs about $17,800 a year.  And if you have three, it costs less . . . about $10,600 per child.

 

 

FOUR RANDOM FACTS

1. The first prize Bob Barkerever announced on “The Price Is Right” when it started in 1972 was a fur coat.  The actual retail price was $595, and a woman who bid $350 won.

 

2. In the early 1900s, before alarm clocks were popular, people in England would hire people to knock on their windows with a pole to wake them up.

 

3. The most remote place on Earth where people live is an island called Tristan Da Cunha in the south part of the Atlantic ocean.  There are around 250 people living there, and the closest people live 1,243 miles away.

 

4. It’s illegal to own any debris from the Challenger explosion.  If you get caught with some, you could get up to 10 years in prison.

 

 

GOOD NEWS

A Florida woman said she feels a little closer to her late husband after donating a kidney to the man who received two of her spouse’s organs 16 years earlier.

 

Terri Herrington, of Pensacola, said she struck up a close friendship with Jeffrey Granger, of Wacissa, after the man received a kidney and a pancreas from her husband, Bryan Herrington, when he died after a workplace accident in 2004.

 

Herrington said she did not hesitate to offer one of her kidneys to her friend when he announced in 2019 that the kidney was failing. Granger posted on social media that he was seeking a new kidney, and Herrington responded by asking: “Did you think I was kidding?”

 

Granger admitted he thought the offer had been a joke. The pair underwent surgery at the University of Florida and their Doctor says he was not aware of any previous cases of a husband and wife donating organs to the same person.

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BIRTHDAYS

[73] Jimmie Walker, actor/comedian (‘J.J. Evans’ on “Good Times” 1974-1979)

[59] Ricky Gervais, actor

[57] Doug Gilmour, Kingston ON, retired NHL player (1989 Stanley Cup winner)

[49] Angela Kinsey, actress (‘Angela Martin’ on “The Office” 2005-13)

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UNUSUAL RODENT ENGINE PROBLEM HAS SUDDENLY BECOME ‘SUPER COMMON’

Little animals can cause big problems. People who work at garages are saying pre-pandemice every once in a while they’d have a serious case of a mouse living in, and damaging a car engine, but now the issue is getting much more common.

 

Recently the New York Times reported about a car dealership in Michigan that reported five people called in one week to complain about rats living in their car engine when one technician says he usually sees about two calls per month about mice invading cars this time of year. This follows the last month’s announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which warned of unusual or aggressive rat behavior caused, in part, by many restaurants shutting down during the pandemic as the animals depend on the tossed-out food scraps.

 

Now, the varmints are looking elsewhere for food, and your engine could be it. To lower your chances of having this problem drive your car once per day, leave it parked outside, and consider spraying around the car with peppermint oil or commercially approved rodent repellent. 

  

THURSDAY JUNE 25^TH  

 

1. The Toronto Blue Jays have now been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19.

Less than a day after Major League Baseball announced a 60-game schedule, a Jays source confirmed that several Toronto players and staff based in Florida have tested positive.

Adding to the complications, the Jays have been trying to finalize plans for an abbreviated training camp beginning on July 1. The team had originally planned to hold camp at its development facility in Dunedin, Fla., but  the outbreak could change that and team president Mark Shapiro is expected to address all of that  on the Jays’ plans on a Friday conference.

While the 29 other MLB teams will report to their home-city ballparks for the three-week training camp in advance of a July 23 opening day, the Jays would need to have rules on the closed Canada-U.S. border to be relaxed.

The team is not releasing names of those affected with the positive tests, though a source confirmed multiple players and staff were involved.

 

2. Covid is beginning to spread more quickly with a younger demographic.  Here’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Dr. Fauci, and Dara Sweat, who contracted the virus when she attended a birthday party with other female friends.  None of them were wearing masks.  Now she is giving advice.  (34 cases in Michigan were traced to young adults who went to the same maskless bar.)

 

3. Here’s comedian Kyle Kinane talking about the time he was delivered an unsliced pizza.  (He took it as a message that they already knew he was going to eat it all by himself.)

 

4. A bidet company will pay ten grand to study your bathroom habits, the European Union may ban Americans from traveling there, and a rare “Star Wars” action figure.  (From Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, June 24, 2020)

 

 

TITANIC

The U.S. government will try to stop the Atlanta-based salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc.’s planned mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine from the wreckage site on the ocean floor of the North Atlantic.

The U.S. contends that the expedition would break federal law and a pact with Britain to leave the 1912 shipwreck site undisturbed. The salvage mission set to begin in August could require cutting into the wreckage to allow an underwater vehicle to get in, and the U.S. says they can’t do that. The U.S. filed its challenge with the same federal judge who ruled last month that the salvage mission could go forward, agreeing with RMS Titanic Inc. that the telegraph is historically important and could soon disappear in the rapidly decaying wreck.

 

 

 

 

JASON ALDEAN, LUKE COMBS FEATURED ON ‘CMA SUMMER STAY-CAY’ LIVE STREAM EVENT –

CMA’s upcoming social media special, CMA Summer Stay-Cay, a multi-hour live stream variety event, will feature more than 50 country stars celebrating summer with performances, Q&As, games and more. CMA Summer Stay-Cay, hosted by Jimmie Allen and Lindsay Ell, will stream on CMA’s YouTube channel and Facebook page on July 1st beginning at 6 p.m. ET.

Jason Aldean, Ingrid Andress, Gabby Barrett, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Jordan Davis, Brantley Gilbert, Chris Janson, Lady A, Dustin Lynch, Maddie & Tae, Ashley McBryde, Scotty McCreery, Justin Moore, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Rascal Flatts, Michael Ray, Darius Rucker, Cole Swindell, and Brett Young are just some of the featured on CMA Summer Stay-Cay.

The ABC-TV special CMA Best of Fest, a three-hour retrospective hosted by Luke Bryan, is set to air on Monday, July 13th at 8 p.m. ET.

 

 

GABBY BARRETT ‘S NEW ALBUM  

Gabby Barrett’s brand new album , Goldmine was released on Friday (June 19th) and includes the chart-topping hit “I Hope.” She says there’s a story behind the project’s glittery title. [“I named the album Goldmine because when I would think back to people that worked in goldmines it was notoriously known to be very hard work, and over the past two years of writing I really feel like I have dug for these songs, and with these 13 tracks that we’ve narrowed it down to I feel like I struck my own little goldmine.”]

 

 

BRAD PAISLEY, DARIUS RUCKER TAKING THEIR LIVE SHOWS TO DRIVE-INS

Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker and Jon Pardi are jumping on the drive-in concert bandwagon. They are each set to perform a few such concerts in July as part of Live From The Drive-In, an event organized by Live Nation. They will all perform in Nashville over the course of three days, while Brad is set to play shows in St. Louis and Indianapolis.

Live From the Drive-in is set to take place July 10-12.

Tickets for Live From the Drive-in shows will go on sale on Friday (June 26th) at LiveNation.com.

FAST FACTS

Fans will be able to hear the concert through a professional PA system, as they would at a typical show.

Cars will be socially distanced to create safe tailgating zones. While fans can bring in their own food and drinks, including alcohol, grilling and barbecuing will not be allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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