On Today’s Show
➢ NASA says it has an “exciting new discovery” about the moon, and it will be revealed today. Here’s what we know: The new discovery has something to do with the Artemis program, which is the plan to send humans back to the Moon in 2024, and Mars in the 2030s. The info is coming from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the world’s largest airborne observatory. SOFIA’s instruments have previously been given credit for detecting oxygen in the Martian atmosphere and countless infrared measurements that are very important to people who understand that kind of stuff. All will be revealed in a live audio briefing at 12 noon EDT on NASA’s website.
➢ A Florida couple named Joe and Eve Loreth have been married 60 years. And they just reunited after seven months apart. Joe got really sick in March with an unknown illness, and Eve couldn’t visit him because of the pandemic. He finally moved into her new retirement home last Wednesday, and a caretaker got the reunion on video.
➢ To celebrate its 50th anniversary, U.K.-based supermarket “Iceland Foods” sent a single chicken nugget into space. It took about 2 hours for the breaded, deep-fried chicken snack to reach more than 33,000 metres (20.5 miles) above Earth. After reaching its height, the piece of chicken — Iceland Foods’ most popular selling item — plummeted back down to Earth at 322 km/h (200 mph) before a parachute opened to ensure a safe landing. The company says the altitude reached equals the height of 880,000 chicken nuggets.
➢There’s a new scam targeting seniors, where someone calls and claims you missed jury duty. And if you don’t pay them thousands of dollars, you’ll go to jail. A 72-year-old woman in Florida fell for it and lost $3,200. Luckily, cops arrested the woman who scammed her, but they haven’t arrested her accomplices yet.
“The Price Is Right” is heading back into production with a redesigned, COVID-friendly set and all of its usual rounds, but, for the first time in its nearly 50-year run, it will be without its audience. Unlike some other entertainment formats, the Drew Carey-hosted show is not able to have a virtual audience, because it would be impossible to ensure that they weren’t looking online to find the “actual retail values.” Producers say that although it was necessary to completely rebuild the set, they’ve figured out a way to bring back all 77 games featured on the show. Contestants will be in-studio.
TODAY IS……………….
- “Pumpkin Day”, celebrating the orange member of the squash family best known for being carved into jack-o-lanterns or made into pie filling. Did you know that pumpkins are 90% water? At one time, they were recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites.
1984 [36] “The Terminator,” directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, is released in the U.S.
1975 [45] ‘Heimlich Maneuver’ is first approved as an aid for people choking on food (named for its co-developer, Dr Henry Heimlich, who was able to use his own maneuver in 2016 at age 96 to save an 87-year-old woman at his senior living center)
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
1967 Born on this day in Whangarei, New Zealand, was Keith Urban. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch. Since 2006, he has been married to actress Nicole Kidman.
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FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM PARENTS:
⇒ What I say: Be ready, we are leaving in five minutes. What the child hears: Get undressed. Start finger painting. Lose at least one shoe. – Rodney Lacroix
⇒ I want my 13-year-old to understand how important honesty is but also know that she is 12 when kids eat free. – Simon Holland
⇒ My 4yo thinks she looks just like Elsa because “they both have necks” – Professional Worrier
⇒ What I say: “don’t do that it’s dangerous” What my toddler hears: “prove to me you’re not a coward” – The Dad
…AND A FEW FROM PET OWNERS:
⇒ Only interested in folks who look at me the same way my dog looks at squirrels. – Petra Hunter
⇒ If I could say one sentence to cats and make them understand it, it would probably be, “When you puke, please try to do it on a hard surface.” – Tom Cox
⇒ My cat constantly cries to go out the front door lately.. (he’s an indoor cat) and I’ve never related to him more… – Gingy the Ginger Queen
FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- The first candy produced by a machine was Necco Wafers. A guy named Oliver Chase made them with a lozenge cutting machine in 1847.
- There was a team that only lasted for ONE game in the NFL. The Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen from Tonawanda, New York joined the NFL in 1921 . . . lost 45-to-nothing to the Rochester Jeffersons . . . and disbanded.
- The Guinness world record for the most keys removed from a key ring by a parrot is 22 in two minutes.
- The cheeseburger was invented in 1926 at a restaurant called the Rite Spot in Pasadena, California. The owner’s 16-year-old son randomly threw cheese onto a patty on the grill. Then they added it to their menu, and called it a “cheese hamburger.”
- Anytime your food has carmine, cochineal extract, or natural red 4 in its ingredients . . . it means the color comes from crushed up bugs.
GOOD NEWS
A 12-year-old boy in Canada recently went hiking with his dad and found a 69-million-year-old dinosaur fossil.
His name is Nathan Hrushkin, and he wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. They’d explored the same area before, because fossils have been found there in the past. But this is the first time the two of them have found anything major.
A team of researchers eventually unearthed around 40 bones from a duck-billed dinosaur called a hadrosaur.
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BIRTHDAYS
[75] Jaclyn Smith, actress (“Charlie’s Angels” 1976-1981)
[74] Pat Sajak, TV game show host (“Wheel of Fortune” since 1981)
[73] Hillary Rodham Clinton, former US presidential candidate/Secretary of State 2009-13
[53] Keith Urban, country singer
[43] Jon Heder, actor (“Napoleon Dynamite”, “Blades of Glory”)
LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE
- NASA and Nokia are putting a 4G cell network on the Moon. It’s to help astronauts communicate and control robots the next time we send people up there.
- In other space news: Could aliens be watching usfrom their own planets? A study at Cornell found more than 1,000 solar systems that have a perfect sightline to Earth. They’re trillions of miles away though, so they’d need a pretty good telescope to see anything fun.
- A team of scientists in the Netherlands think they found a new organlocated in our head. It’s a set of salivary glands behind our nose that might help lubricate the throat. They discovered it by mistake while doing prostate cancer research. (???)
- Scientists in Germany set a new record for the shortest unit of time ever measured . . . 247 zeptoseconds. A “zeptosecond” is one-trillionth of a billionth of a second. Or 0.0 followed by another 19 zeroes, and then a 1.
- Researchers in Maryland figured out the exact gene in our bodies that tells us when it’s time to pee.
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Movies That Are Still Supposed to Hit Theaters This Year
Disney just announced that the new Pixar movie, “Soul”, will skip a theatrical release and go straight to Disney+ on Christmas Day. Free to subscribers, by the way. They’re not charging extra like they did with “Mulan”.
But several movies are STILL scheduled to hit theaters this year. Here are some of the highlights . . . as of now, anyway:
November 13th: “Freaky”: A horror-comedy starring Vince Vaughn as a killer who swaps bodies with a high school girl.
November 25th: “Happiest Season”: A holiday comedy starring Alison Brie, Mackenzie Davis, and Kristen Stewart.
December 11th: “Free Guy”: An action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds.
December 18th: “Coming 2 America”.
Christmas Day: “Wonder Woman 1984”.
A Guy Is Busted Stealing Newspapers Out of Stores . .
There’s a 70-year-old guy named Peter De Yager from Hull, Iowa. And back in August, he was charged with two misdemeanor counts of theft and trespassing for stealing political yard signs. (They were Biden signs, if you’re curious.)
The “Dickinson County News” newspaper had a small blurb about the crime in its police blotter on September 2nd.
And Peter clearly didn’t want people to read about what he’d done. Because he went around to different stores in the area STEALING every copy of the paper.
He cleared out vending boxes, stole them off news racks, and did whatever he could to make sure no one would read his blurb in the police blotter.
Anyway, as local businesses started reviewing their security footage, they all saw it was the same guy stealing the papers.
And the police figured out it was Peter . . . so he was arrested for theft. And thanks to his terrible attempt to cover up his first crime, now he’s making national news. Well played, sir.
MONDAY OCTOBER 26TH
- Even though the Dodgers won last night, and are a win away from winning the World Series, people are still talking about how they lostin Game 4, on Saturday night. It was a great back and forth game, but the Tampa Bay Rays won when a Dodgers outfielder took his eye off a ground ball, then made a bad throw to home plate. The Rays winning run almost never made it home, because he fell down on the way. He ended up crawling to home plate. Here’s how it sounded on TV, and on Tampa sports radio. (From the “World Series” and WDAE radio on Saturday, October 24, 2020.)
The Atlanta Falcons lost yesterday . . . because they scored a touchdown. The problem was that they scored too soon and left enough time on the clock for the Lions to retake the lead. Falcons running back Todd Gurley tried to stop short of the end zone, but fell INTO it. (Final score: Lions 23 – Falcons 22. The Falcons fall to 1 – 6.)
(Even great teams had last-minute disappointment yesterday. The 5 -0 Titans had a chance to tie the game with the 5 – 0 Steelers, but missed a relatively easy field goal, making Pittsburgh the only undefeated team in the NFL. And the 5 – 0 Seattle Seahawks had a chance to beat Arizona in overtime, but threw an interception.)
Monday Night Football tonight: Chicago Bears visit the Los Angeles Rams
- A middle school student in Fort Myers, Florida wassent home and told to quarantine after she reported symptoms. But it turned out it was just her time of the month. She’d told the school nurse that she was really fatigued, and officials say they were just being cautious. They let her come back after she tested negative, but her mom is still upset about it.
- A 102-year-old woman in Maryland went skydivingfor the first time.
- Comedian John Mulaney is a huge fan of the TV show, “Law and Order”. Here he is breaking down the characters.
No winning ticket was sold for the $42 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.
That means the jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 27 will grow to approximately $50 million.
There will also be two MaxMillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs.
A ticket holder in Ontario won Saturday night’s $14.2 million Lotto 649 jackpot.
The draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in Ontario.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Oct. 28 will be approximately $5 million.
GARTH BROOKS’ NEW SINGLE, ‘SHALLOW,’
The next single from Garth Brooks‘ upcoming album, Fun, is his duet with wife Trisha Yearwood on a cover of “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.
He also spoke about the new studio album and how he arrived at its title, Fun. [“I think the title probably wraps this up more than any album that we’ve had. When people go, ‘What’s it been like to be in the studio?’ . . . it’s just been FUN! It’s probably the happiest record I think I’ve ever got to do, and I think the reason for that is the Stadium Tour. Man, you talk about the thing you miss in this time – I think we all miss what we get to do. And I sure miss getting to play music right now.”]
Fun will be released on Nov. 20th, along with Triple Live Deluxe, a standalone offering of 30 live performances, including a few from his current Stadium Tour.
Garth will preview both projects in a live, interactive event tonight after he had to cancel the event last Wednesday because of injuring his hand in what he called a farming accident.
KANE BROWN’S ‘WORLDWIDE BEAUTIFUL’ VIDEO WAS ‘OVERWHELMING’ FOR HIM TO SEE
Kane Brown recently released the music video to “Worldwide Beautiful,” in which his infant daughter, Kingsley, makes her small screen debut. The video drives home the song’s message of unity and equality, with Kane starring alongside children who play the lead roles. The clip was shot in Mt. Pleasant, TN.
Kane tells us: [“Filming the music video for “Worldwide Beautiful” was awesome… Especially getting to see the kids with all different ethnicities just playing together you know, and just loving one another. It was awesome. The city was cool with the flipped over cars, probably one of my favorite music videos that I ever got to shoot. You know, when I saw the outcome of it with the flowers growing and everything it was beautiful. It was overwhelming for me.”]
Kane co-wrote “Worldwide Beautiful” for his latest project, the Mixtape Vol. 1 EP, which was released in August.
