On Today’s Show
➢ An iPhone repairman in Michigan shared a clip on TikTok after a cheating husband tried to bribe him. The guy came in with his wife to get his phone fixed. But then there was a note inside the phone, along with a $100 bill. The guy wanted him to claim the phone couldn’t be fixed, so his wife wouldn’t be able to check the call history.
And according to his TikTok, he decided he didn’t want to get in the middle of it, so when the wife came by to pick up the phone, he gave it to her and showed her the note and the bribe.
Then the husband came back and started throwing things, so Mani had to get the cops involved. There’s no word on what’s happened from there.
➢ Some YouTubers in the U.K. put a mattress under a tree and listed it on Airbnb as a joke. But then a bunch of people booked it. (Here they are reacting to all the bookings.)
➢ What would you be willing to do to break a world record? A Chinese man recently broke a Guinness World Record when his body was covered in more than 140 pounds of living bees. Ruan Liangming had multiple buckets filled with bees dumped over his head to get the insects to settle on his body. The bees weighed 140 pounds, 6.95 ounces, and was enough to earn him the world record for heaviest mantle of bees.
➢ Coca-Cola is finally getting rid of Tab, the diet soda that kept a small but diehard fan base for almost 60 years. Coke rolled out Tab in 1963 as its first foray into the diet soda market. The saccharin-sweetened drink — which Coke promoted as the soda “for beautiful people” in a 1978 ad — went on to become a cultural phenomenon. It was the leading diet soda by 1980 but fell by the wayside after Diet Coke debuted in 1982, and last year Tab accounted for just 0.1 percent of the world’s $22 billion in diet cola sales.
➢ Gal Gadot will reteam with “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins to bring Cleopatra back to the big screen in a woman-driven period biographical drama about the Egyptian ruler. Cleopatra was, of course, most famously played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film of the same name, whose $42 million budget made it the most expensive film at the time. The new project is reportedly on an “accelerated timetable” as it could be a big earner for the studio after the recent devastating blows to the film industry caused by the pandemic.
TODAY IS……………….
- “Sandwich Day”, celebrating the 1718 birth of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. A compulsive gambler, he wanted something that could be eaten at gaming tables and earned immortality when he began eating beef between slices of toast in 1792.
1995 [25] The NBA’s Toronto Raptors play their first regular-season game (a win over NJ Nets)
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
1980 Waylon Jennings was at #1 on the US Country charts with, “Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys)”. The theme to the CBS comedy adventure television series, The Dukes of Hazzard, spent seventeen weeks on the charts and became his biggest hit.
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Check Out a New Movie That Takes Place in Our Fourth Year of Lockdown
I have a feeling a lot of people aren’t going to be interested in this: There’s a new movie coming out called “Songbird”, and it takes place during YEAR FOUR of pandemic lockdown . . . where we’re dealing with COVID-23. (???)
It stars KJ APA from “Riverdale” as a delivery guy with a rare immunity that allows him to continue to work, and SOFIA CARSON from Disney’s “Descendants” as his girlfriend.
It was the first movie to start filming in L.A. since the pandemic shut everything down. There’s no word yet on a release date.
The director says, quote, “It’s a dystopian, scary world, but it’s a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can’t. It’s Romeo and Juliet, but they’re separated by her front door and by the virus.”
FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- A librarian at the University of New Hampshire saved for his whole life and left $4 million to the school when he died. And . . . they used $1 million of it on a new football scoreboard, which wasn’t exactly his vision.
- The first words Mickey Mouse ever said were “hot dogs,” in the animated short movie “The Karnival Kid”in 1929.
- When “Titanic”was filming, James Cameron and about 50 other cast and crew members were hospitalized after someone spiked the lobster chowder they were eating with PCP. The person who did it was never caught.
- Motel 6 got its name because it originally charged $6-per-night when it opened in 1962.
GOOD NEWS
An 18-year-old kid in Kentucky named Teo Jordan recently got a job bagging groceries.
And the other day, he saw an older guy who didn’t have enough money to buy everything in his cart.
So he reached into his own pocket, and gave him 35 bucks to cover the rest.
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BIRTHDAYS
[68] Roseanne Barr, actress (“Roseanne” 1988-1997, 2018)
[66] Phil Simms, NFL analyst (CBS-TV)/former NFL quarterback (2 Super Bowls with NY Giants)
[33] Colin Kaepernick, NFL QB (San Francisco 49ers 2011-16)/civil activist (Known for protesting what he viewed as the oppression of people of color in the US by “taking a knee” during the pre-game national anthem)
[33] Elizabeth Smart, activist (made international news after being kidnapped at age 14. She was rescued nine months later and later became a child safety activist and a contributor for ABC News)
FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM PARENTS:
⇒ Buy your toddler clothes with lots of snaps and buttons if you’ve ever thought it would be cool to do a puzzle that tries to kick you and run away while you solve it – Average Dad
⇒ I guess it’s time to get my Sunday going. These kids won’t yell at themselves. – Laura Marie
⇒ Me: get off that Xbox, it’s too violent. Son: what can we play instead?
Me: come sit down. this is hangman, an educational, family-friendly game where you get executed if you’re dumb – The Dad
⇒ Today our 4yo insisted on a large bowl of Golden Grahams, banana, and milk for breakfast, so long story short, my breakfast was 99% of a large bowl of Golden Grahams, bananas and milk – Dad on my Feet
⇒ They’re handling contact tracing all wrong. What they really need is to hire a team of relentless toddlers looking for their mothers when she’s just trying to shower or pee alone. – Rachel Sobel
⇒ Nearly lost my kids in the park today. Would have gotten away with it too if an old lady didn’t help them find me –Threetimedaddy
THE JEAN GENIE:
Clothing manufacturer Levi’s is offering to buy back their old jeans.
The Levi’s SecondHand program is the company’s way of creating what they call a “circular marketplace” for its best customers.
People are invited to drop worn jeans and jackets off at Levi’s stores, where they will receive a gift card for $15-25 for each denim item that can be resold, and up to $35 for vintage. If it is too worn for resale, customers still get a $5 credit.
Clothes sold in the SecondHand marketplace are priced between $30 and $100. Levi’s, which has made sustainability corporate priority, says that buying a used pair of jeans saves about 80% of carbon dioxide emissions in an industry that has been identified as one of the worst polluters.
Levi’s says this is the first second hand program of its kind from a global denim brand.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3RD
- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers downed the New York Giants 25-23 inMonday Night Football last night (November 2nd). Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady threw for two touchdowns, and Ryan Succop kicked four field goals, including one for 38 yards with 3:41 left that turned out to be the game’s deciding points.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey said Monday (November 2nd) that he’d tested positive for COVID 19, Several other NFL teams also reported positive tests: a Green Bay Packers player who is reportedly running back AJ Dillon; two Arizona Cardinals players, one of whom is linebacker Devon Kennard; and a Cleveland Browns player experiencing “Covid-19-related” symptoms.
- The least important electiontoday is in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, where the candidates for mayor include 13 dogs . . . a donkey . . . a rooster . . . a dead cat . . . and one human with NO chance of winning. They’ve been electing dogs as their unofficial mayor for 22 years. A French bulldog named Wilbur is currently in the lead. It’s really a fundraiser for the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. (Here’s the treasurer talking about a few other candidates.)
- Matthew McConaughey broke down his philosophyon drinking and hangovers. A big part of it is discipline. He says, quote, “I never have been one of those people that the next day goes, ‘Oh God, I’m never doing that again.’ Well, [B], you are.” (He talked about it on Dax Shepard’s podcast.)
- Ginger ale without the ginger, Netflix is raising prices, and Prince William had the coronavirus. (From Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers on Monday, November 2, 2020.)
LUKE COMBS’ DELUXE ALBUM TAKES TOP SPOT ON POP, COUNTRY ALBUMS CHARTS
Luke Combs’ new deluxe album, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, debuted at Number One this week on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart with 109,000 equivalent units sold.
It also set the new weekly streaming record for a country album with 102.26 million on-demand streams, breaking Luke’s own record which he set last November with the release of his platinum-selling What You See Is What You Get.
Luke’s new song, “Forever After All,” also made history this week debuting at Number Two on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, the highest entrance ever for a male country solo artist. The song also debuted at Number One on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, Number One in Country Streaming Songs with 29.1 million streams, and Number One in Country Digital Song Sales with 52,000 downloads.
Luke is nominated for six awards at the 54th CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year. The show airs live from Nashville on Nov. 11th on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
LUKE COMBS COMPLETES ‘TRILOGY’ ABOUT HIS WIFE WITH ‘BETTER TOGETHER’
Luke Combs‘ brand new deluxe album, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, was released on Friday (Oct. 23rd) and includes his latest hit, “Better Together,” which he co-wrote about his wife, Nicole. It’s one of three that have been inspired by his better half so far.
Luke tells us: [“I wrote this song in Boone probably two years ago, something like that, and ‘Beautiful Crazy’ was already done and out at that time and so I kind of felt like I needed to do another song that was kind of . . . I guess its ended up kind of turning into like a trilogy. It’s ‘Beautiful Crazy’ and then it’s ‘Better Together’ and then ‘Forever After’ all will be coming out on this deluxe and I feel like that’s kind of our total story up to this point in a way.”]
What You See Ain’t Always What You Get features all 18 songs from Luke’s platinum-certified What You See Is What You Get, as well as five new tracks including a collaboration with Amanda Shires.
DIERKS BENTLEY HAPPY TO BE LIVING IN COLORADO
Dierks Bentley and his family have relocated to Colorado for the foreseeable future. They were out in Box Canyon, CO in March for Spring Break when the COVID quarantine began and never really returned to Nashville. Dierks told People.com, “I put my kids in school out there and we just kind of moved.”
Dierks is loving this extra time with his wife and three kids saying, “I’m making up for lost time with my family. It’s been 18 years now of touring and being gone every weekend. Now I’m somewhere I can ride bikes with my kids to school. I put a camper on the back of my 1994 Chevy and we go camping almost every weekend.”
He added, “I am sure I will move back to Nashville because it’s the country music capital of the world and a great place to work out of, but someone is going to have to drag me out of Colorado because I do like being there.”
Dierks just released a new single called “Gone.”
OLD DOMINION – LEAN ON ME
In honor of U.S. Election Day, OLD DOMINION posted a video of themselves performing the ’70s classic “Lean on Me”. And in the caption they reminded us that it’s okay to disagree, get mad, and even raise your voices . . . but at the end of the day we’re all in this together. Quote, “Y’all be good to each other.”
