On Today’s Show
➢A guy in Medicine Hat, Alberta recently started something called The 40 Hot Meal Project, where businesses buy meals from restaurants and donate them to food banks. So it helps feed people AND keep restaurants open. He started it a month ago, and it’s already a hit. Businesses have already spent $44,000 and donated over 4,000 meals.
➢ There are arts and crafts and then there’s this. A man in Brantford, Ontario, allegedly used diaper boxes to create fake license plates. Police posted about the man on Twitter, sharing photos of his homemade license plates. They say the 37-year-old faces several charges including driving without legal plates or a license as well as driving while suspended.
➢ There’s a guy named Stefan Thomas in San Francisco. And he has a digital wallet with 7,002 Bitcoin in it . . . which means it’s worth around $234 MILLION.
But Stefan has a serious problem. The private keys he needed to unlock his account are on an encrypted hard drive. And Thomas LOST the password to that hard drive.
You only get 10 guesses at the password before the hard drive permanently encrypts its contents and can’t be unlocked. And Stefan has already made eight wrong guesses.
So he only has two more shots to figure out his password . . . or he’s out $234 MILLION forever. And since Bitcoin is decentralized, there’s no “get my lost keys” option. You either have them or you don’t and you’re out of luck.
➢ A huge nudist festival is set to go ahead despite concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. For the past 5 years, more than 8,000 nude revelers have been gathering over the first weekend in February on the southern coast of Mexico. The Festival on the country’s only legal nude beach. Despite the country having recorded more than 1.4 million cases of the deadly disease, with over 130,000 COVID-related deaths in the past year, the hotly-anticipated event is expected to go ahead as planned. Town officials have agreed the festival can proceed as long as the country’s protocols are met.
➢ The record for the most expensive trading card EVER just got smashed. A 1952 Topps
MICKEY MANTLE card was purchased for $5.2 MILLION.
The buyer was Rob Gough, an actor and entrepreneur who owns the DOPE clothing and CBD line.
The previous record was set in 2020, when somebody paid $3.93 million for an autographed 2009 MIKE TROUT draft prospects card.
(On a related note, a “Batman” #1 comic book from 1940 sold for $2.2 million. That’s the most anyone’s ever paid for a Batman comic.)
TODAY IS……………….
1967 [54] The first “Super Bowl” (although it isn’t called that until 2 years later), as 61,946 fans pay 10 bucks to watch legendary coach Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers beat the KC Chiefs 35-10 in Los Angeles (MVP is Packer QB Bart Starr) …30-second TV commercials cost $42,000
2001 [20] “Wikipedia”, the free online encyclopedia, goes online
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
Alan Jackson‘s Drive album was released in 2002
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FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM PARENTS:
⇒ Thoughts with the parent at my son’s school who offered to have the class guinea pig over the Xmas holidays & is now in for the long haul – Will Wood
⇒ There was 15 Oreo cookies left, so to give each of my 4 children the same, I was forced to eat 11 of them. — Jessie
⇒ The 8yo disrupted my sleep again, so I texted my mom at 2AM to ask when it stops. – Laura Marie
…AND A FEW FROM WOMEN:
⇒ sorry I didn’t text you back I was pretending I didn’t see it and I ended up actually forgetting – Rex Highstar
⇒ I’m doing laundry and just whispered “It’s almost our anniversary” to the pair of yoga pants I’ve been wearing since March. – Elizabeth Hackett
⇒ not enjoying this bonus week of 2020 content for hardcore fans – Alexandra Petri
GOOD NEWS
A bunch of people at a nursing home in Wisconsin got vaccinated on Saturday.
And they’d been joking that they wanted to throw a party when the vaccines arrived.
So, the nurses went for it and turned it into a disco party.
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BIRTHDAYS
[74] Andrea Martin, actress
[42] Drew Bees, (NFL quarterback who led the New Orleans Saints)
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What Are the Products You’re Not Willing to Compromise On?
There are plenty of times where it makes sense to save money on something instead of buying the expensive option.
And actually, according to a new survey, more than half of people say they sometimes go for a cheap or generic option when they’re buying something to save money.
But there are some cases where we’re NOT willing to compromise . . . and we’ll spend more money to get the better option.
The survey also found the most common products people aren’t willing to compromise on. Here are some of the most popular answers . . .
Quality toilet paper . . . mattresses . . . coffee brands . . . wifi quality and speed . . . chocolate . . . shampoo . . . ketchup . . . cell phones . . . brands of potato chips . . . haircuts . . . paint colors . . . and restaurants.
FRIDAY JANUARY 15TH
- WSH 6 – BUF 4 BOS 3 – NJD 2 SO NYI 4 – NYR 0 CAR 3 – DET 0
NSH 3 – CBJ 1 WPG 4 – CGY 3 OT EDM 5 – VAN 2 SJS 4 – ARI 3 SO
VGK 5 – ANA 2 MIN 4 – LAK 3 OT
SATURDAY-
• “NFL Football” (FOX, CTV): Divisional round: Los Angeles at Green Bay
• “NFL Football” (NBC, CTV): Divisional round: Baltimore Ravens at Buffalo Bills
SUNDAY-
• “NFL Football” (CBS, CTV): Divisional round: Cleveland at Kansas City
• “NFL Football” (FOX, CTV): Divisional round: Tampa Bay at New Orleans
- Oscar Mayer is hiringWienermobile drivers again. They’re accepting applications until January 31st. (Here’s their classic jingle.)
- A racing pigeon somehow managed to fly 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Oregon to Australia . . . and now, Australian authoritieswant to KILL it because it’s a COVID risk. (One source says the racing band is a fake, only used as a selling tool. Here’s the guy that found the bird.)
- Here’s Miranda Lambert and Jay Buchanan joiningBarry Gibb for a country cover of the Bee Gees classic “Jive Talkin'”. (From the album “Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1”.)
- Carrie Underwood — surprised a young fan during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show”, teaming up with the host to donate $10,000 to 7-year-old Hayley Orlinsky’s local children’s hospital. Hayley is from Chicago and has been selling homemade bracelets to raise money after hearing that frontline workers were running out of PPE amid the pandemic. She has now raised over $27,000.
Luke Combs Opens Up About His Battles with Anxiety
I never thought of LUKE COMBS as being the anxious type. He seems so laid back. Well, surprise to me. He’s had anxiety issues since middle school. He talks about it in an interview with DAN RATHER.
Quote, “It’s a unique form I have called Purely Obsessional OCD. [But] my version are thougts that I play over and over in my head. It’ll be something about my health. I’ll be worried that I’m about to have a heart attack or a stroke.
“It becomes this very obsessive thing that you never have an answer to. That’s the awful part of it. You have to teach yourself to become comfortable knowing you’ll never get an answer and that it’s a super uncertain thing.”
Luke’s episode of “The Big Interview with Dan Rather” airs tomorrow night at 8:00 P.M. on AXS TV. One more thing: Are you still on the fence about buying a pair of Luke Combs Signature Crocs? You shouldn’t be. DIERKS BENTLEY wears his while flying his plane, feeding his pets, driving his car, doing a coffee run, and hanging out in the snow.
DIERKS BENTLEY HAPPY TO ‘BRAG ON’ LATEST SINGLE
Dierks Bentley is a big fan of his latest single, “Gone,” and he’s not shy about saying that. It’s one of the few songs he’s recorded over the years that he didn’t have a hand in writing, so he says that gives him license to sing its praises. [“It touches on a little bit of way we can all relate to but I just love the groove. I love the way it feels. One of the good things about not writing the song is I can brag on it. It’s just written well. It’s well, well-written with a great groove. It’s fun to listen to and I just wanted to put something out there that you enjoy listening to. You don’t think too much about it. It just feels like a great song.”]
“Gone” is the debut single from Dierks’ next studio project.
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87-Year-Old Willie Nelson Got His COVID-19 Vaccine
WILLIE NELSON got his COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-up clinic in Cedar Park, Texas on Wednesday. He’s 87 years old, and suffers from the lung condition COPD, so there’s no doubt he’s at high risk.
Still, his wife Annie made it clear they didn’t jump the line. She told “Rolling Stone“, quote, “We made sure that he wasn’t cutting anybody. In fact, the healthcare workers were kind of angry that we had waited so long.”
She added that she’s been “insanely type A” about keeping Willie safe. Quote, “Stuff doesn’t even come into the house unless it gets sterilized.”
The clinic got a little PR out of it too.
They took photos of Willie in his mask GETTING the shot . . . and posted them on Facebook with the caption, “Getting your COVID vaccine is ‘Willie cool.’ [We] encourage everyone to continue to get routine tests and signup for a vaccine.”
