On Today’s Show
➢ Here’s your sign to check the pockets of anything you plan to donate. Employees at the Goodwill in Fort Worth, Texas, say a man came into the chain’s location in Hurst in early February to report that his wife had mistakenly donated an old jacket that had an envelope in the pocket containing $5,000 in cash. Store manager Rhonda Davis says she told him they get about 50 to 200 donations per day, so they needed to go and sort bag-per-bag. Davis says workers searched through donations for several days without success, and finally employee Maqayla DeLaPena found the envelope three weeks after the search started. The cash was returned to the customer and DeLaPena was rewarded with a bonus and the Goodwill Medal of Integrity.
➢ A Missouri man had quite the run in with a tom turkey during the bird’s mating season. Evan Travers was filling a bird feeder near a flock of turkeys when he began being chased down by the aggressive tom. Just a heads up… apparently it’s goose and turkey mating season… just stay away from them right now.
➢ A UK company is catching some heat online for selling glass bottles filled with the “freshest coastal air” for up to US $105 each. Coast Capture Air started bottling fresh air and selling it as a souvenir and a talking point about the importance of clean air, but then people from polluted areas of the world started buying them for practical purposes, such as inhaling the clean coastal air every day. Customers told the company that it helped counter the harmful effects of air pollution. The company’s website says: “Each Coast Capture Air signature glass bottle holds fresh coastal air in its purest form, direct from the natural and unspoiled coast lines of Great Britain”, and points out that the air is “bottled at source”.
➢“Entourage” star Kevin Connolly threw a tantrum after his car was towed from a flower shop. The store manager had left multiple notes on his car, warning him not to use the parking lot, but last Tuesday, after Connolly’s car remained parked for more than an hour, a tow truck was called. Connolly entered the flower shop not long after, in a scene recorded on security cameras. He appeared to yell at staff and then stormed out, kicking a couple of items near the door as left the store. The store manager has now banned him from the premises.
➢ Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have made another very generous donation. The couple has pledged $250,000 to the Influence Mentoring Society, an organization that helps support Indigenous youth in pursuit of post-secondary education in Canada. Reynolds and Lively shared, “All too often, diverse groups are left behind in the things we take for granted. This program aims to rectify that imbalance.”
TODAY IS……………….
- “Barbie Day”, the anniversary of the day the world’s most successful doll was first unveiled in 1959 at NYC’s “International Toy Fair”. Since then, more than 1 billion Barbies have been sold in over 150 countries.
1964 [57] The first Ford Mustang is manufactured (it goes on to become a classic collectible)
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
Jo Dee Messina and Tim McGraw scored a Number One hit with “Bring On The Rain” in 2002
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You Can Now Have Photos of Your Dead Relatives Animated to Make Them Move
You know those photos in “Harry Potter” where the dead people move around and wave? That magic is now real. And it’s also real creepy.
The genealogy site MyHeritage is offering a new service where they’ll animate photos of your dead relatives. Or anyone else, I guess.
They’re using deepfake technology to make the faces in the pictures move and make different expressions.
They will NOT make the people in the pictures talk, since that could get them into some legal trouble with the laws around deep fakes in some countries.
The reanimation feature is FREE if you want to try it out . . . even with a photo of yourself.
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FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- The record holder for most Grammys won is . . . Sir Georg Solti. He’s a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years and won 31 Grammys.
- An average of 350 slices of pizza are sold in the U.S. every second.
- If you drop Silly Putty from a high place, it doesn’t bounce . . . it shatters.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy . . . and it’s not even that close. There are around three trillion trees versus 100 to 400 billion stars.
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GOOD NEWS
A group in B.C. started a program where teenagers can sign up to call seniors once a week, just to check in and talk for a while.
And it’s been a huge success. 53 seniors and 47 young people are now involved.
They’re supposed to talk for 30 minutes, but a lot of the calls run long. One 17-year-old girl inb Chilliwack who wants to be a nurse got paired with a 99-year-old who used to be a nurse.
They just got to meet in person for the first time after talking on the phone for a month.
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BIRTHDAYS
[45] Ben Mulroney, TV personality
[41] Matthew Gray Gubler, actor (‘Dr. Spencer Reid’ on “Criminal Minds” 2005-20)
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WHAT’S THE ONE THING YOU DID WRONG THAT YOUR FAMILY WILL NEVER LET YOU FORGET
Asked my 5-year-old what she wanted for dinner and she said “not a burned quesadilla” bc in the summer of 2019 I overcooked one side of her quesadilla – TODD DILLARD
My older brother convinced me to eat a chicken bouillon cube by telling me it was a crouton.
I can still taste it. It’s been 45 years.
MY DAD RAN OUT OF MILK AND USED SCALLOP JUICE FROM DINNER THAT NIGHT IN MY BOXED MAC AND CHEESE. NEVER FORGAVE HIM
At a crosswalk with the stroller, I stopped short once, thinking a car was going when it wasn’t. Now, a year later, at every crosswalk my toddler says loudly to me (and to anyone else who can hear): “DON’T GET SCARED!”
I made butterscotch cookies per the request of my 6-year-old bff, and upon eating one he cried because it was too much butterscotch.
Three years ago I accidentally caught some skin when I clipped my son’s bike helmet on.
To this day if I’m helping him he’ll say, “don’t clip my skin in like you did that one time” and if he’s doing it himself he asks me if I remember the time I clipped some of his skin in …
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DID YOU KNOW?
A man has pinpointed the location of the famous Windows XP background. First, a bit of background: The iconic Windows XP default desktop wallpaper of a sloped green hill beneath a bright blue sky is one of the most viewed photos in the world, but its generic pleasantness has long stumped PC people in regards to its real-world location — with some believing it’s not even a real photo.
Grant Marek recently set out to find the earthly location of the computer background and discovered it covered in wine grapes, across the street from an alpaca farm and Highway 12 in Sonoma, California. According to his research, Charles O’Rear uploaded the photo to a stock photo agency in 1996.
When Microsoft discovered it, the company paid a reportedly six-figure sum for the rights and promptly plastered it across the globe as part of a $1 billion marketing campaign for Windows XP. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/dur7wza2
QUESTION…. WHAT BROWSER DO YOU USE MOST OFTEN?
TUESDAY MARCH 9TH
- MIN 2 – VGK 0 SJS 3 – STL 2 OT EDM 3 – OTT 2 ARI 3 – COL 2
VAN 2 – MTL 1 SO ANA 6 – LAK 5 OT
- A guy calling himself the “Covid Bandit” recently walked into a restaurant in Denver and lefta $6,800 tip . . . $200 for each of the 34 employees. (Here’s one of the workers talking about it.)
- North Carolina is opening up vaccines to more people. And starting March 24th, that includesanyone who’s smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their life. (Here’s a classic clipfrom “Seinfeld” where George pretends to be a smoker so his fiancée will break up with him.)
- Here’s comedian Steve Hofstetter downplaying parenthood.
TRISHA YEARWOOD TESTS NEGATIVE FOR COVID, REVEALS NEW COOKBOOK COVER
Trisha Yearwood‘s latest test for Covid is negative after being diagnosed a few weeks ago.
She posted the good news on social media yesterday (Monday, March 8th) in addition to sharing the cover of her new cookbook, called Trisha’s Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family.
She posted that “good news comes in 3s,” pointing out that the first was no more Covid and second was the care that her husband, Garth Brooks, gave her while she was recovering from the virus. [“I feel very lucky that my experience was considered a mild case. But I did have a lot of symptoms, so…just making myself really rest and take it easy and let my body do what it needed to do I think has been the hardest part. And just wanting to get back to being busy, but I’m just so grateful that I had, again, mild symptoms…and that I had the best caretaker on the planet! I mean, Garth – he was just wonderful. He just took great care of me. So I was very lucky.”]
The third bit of good news was about the cookbook, which will be available on September 28th.
CARLY PEARCE BORROWS FROM FEMALE INFLUENCES ON ’29’
Carly Pearce’s female country influences really shine through on her new project, 29. On this International Women’s Day, Carly is proud to namecheck those women who came before her and helped her become the artist she is today. [“If you listen to it, you’ll hear a lot of 90s female country influences on it, like Patty Loveless, LeeAnn Womack, The Chicks, Sara Evans, Dolly, Reba … all of them. What I love about 90s country and all of those females is the amazing production. I feel like it was honest, rootsy, vulnerable, sassy, all wrapped up into one. And they all had very distinct tones. And they were true artists, which I think is so special.”]
29 features Carly’s latest single, “Next Girl.” It includes seven songs, all of which were co-written about Carly.
BLAKE SHELTON SPENT TIME STUDYING BLACK BEARS OVER THE WEEKEND
Blake Shelton spent Saturday (March 6th) studying black bears in eastern Oklahoma with researchers and biologists, according to the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation.
Blake sits on the board of the Foundation, and he watched the experts as they collected data from a bear cub. The Foundation posted a picture of Blake holding a cub on their Facebook page.
Blake is from Oklahoma and lives there part of the time. He and his fiancee, Gwen Stefani, got engaged in his home state last year.
