On Today’s Show
A guy in Regina, Saskatchewan spent over a thousand hours setting up a massive Christmas display in his front yard this year, with 36,000 lights. And on Tuesday, some grinch drove onto his lawn and destroyed it with their truck. Now he’s working overtime to get it all fixed, but says it should be ready by Christmas.
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Someone posted a video of some pigeons in Las Vegas wearing tiny cowboy hats, and people thought it was cute at first. But apparently they’re glued on. So now a group of animal lovers are trying to find the birds and rescue them. Even they admit it looks cute until you realize it might be putting the birds in danger.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Eddie Murphy has ten kids, and he gets different reactions from people. Other men want to know how much he has to shell out to all those kids and baby mamas, while women think him having ten kids is SEXY. (From “Ellen”)
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British actor Clive Owen is stepping into the shoes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton for the third season of “American Crime Story”. “Impeachment: American Crime Story” will delve into the scandal that marred the 42nd president’s time in office, following his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment in 1998. The casting of his wife and fellow politician, Hillary Clinton, has yet to be announced. The series, which will be co-produced by Lewinsky, is scheduled to debut a month before the 2020 elections.
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TODAY IS……………….
- “National App Day”, “App” was named word of the year in 2010 by the American Dialect Society. Apps have changed how we work, live and play. They have created thousands of new companies, millions of new jobs and billions of dollars in revenue
- “National Have a Bagel Day”, here are today’s five food things to know about the Bagel:
– The bagel originated in Poland and it was designed for Lent.
– The hole in the center is for multiple bagels to be threaded onto a dowel, which allows bakers to transport them more easily.
2014 [05] The number of Instagram subscribers overtakes Twitter, 300 million+ monthly users to 284 million (Today: Insta – 1 billion+, Twitter – 330 million)
2014 [05] Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
Brad Paisley scored his first number one single with “He Didn’t Have To Be” in 1999.
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RANDOM REPORT
- Scientists estimate that there are a trillion different species on Earth . . . but 99.999% haven’t been discovered. Meaning they’re mostly microorganisms.
- No woman has ever run a mile in less than four minutes. The women’s world record is four minutes and 12 seconds. The men’s record is three minutes and 43 seconds.
- The guy who wrote Elizabeth Taylor’sobituary for the “New York Times” died before SHE did. He wrote it while she was still alive . . . the way they do with some celebrities . . . and he died in 2005. She died in 2011.
- The word “vodka” comes from the Russian word “voda” . . . which means water.
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91% of Us Don’t Trust Other Drivers in the Winter
Almost no one trusts other people to drive well in the winter, according to a new survey. But two-thirds of us think WE’RE pretty good at it.
91% said they don’t trust other drivers in winter weather. And 23% have at least one family member they won’t ride with, because they don’t trust their driving skills.
Meanwhile, 64% of us think WE’RE good drivers in the winter. 90% feel very confident driving in the rain . . . 76% feel fine in snow and sleet . . . and 55% feel comfortable driving on icy roads.
So in other words, be very careful with other drivers, because we’re all a bit overconfident.
Here are three quick tips that could help you be a little safer this year . . .
- Check your tire pressure. 21% of people don’t know temperature affects your tire pressure, which affects traction. As the temperature drops, it lowers your tire pressure, about one PSI for every 10 degrees. And having enough tread is really important too.
- Test your battery. Cold weather can make old batteries fail. And that can be dangerous if you get caught out somewhere and can’t get home.
- Don’t use cruise control in bad weather. 30% of drivers don’t know it’s dangerous.
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GOOD NEWS
A Toronto busker got the biggest payday of his life when a group of people he believed were commuters suddenly tipped him hundreds of dollars as he serenaded them at a subway station.
Mo Guzman, 26, a full-time busker for five years and was ”shocked and surprised” when people starting dropping $20, $50 and $100 dollar notes in his guitar case.
The money actually came from Toronto marketing company Zulu Alpha Kilo, which wanted to do a good deed for the holidays. When cameras arrived on November 26 to film Guzman at King subway station, officials from the TTC told him that he was being filmed for a documentary on subway buskers.
A video shows Guzman’s genuine shock as 40 Zulu Alpha Kilo employees approached and paid him some very generous tips.
Guzman told the crowd “I just recently had my daughter, she’s like three months old. Just doing my thing as a first-time dad and honestly thank you. I’m at a loss for words, I’ve never had an experience like this. I feel truly blessed,” he said.
Guzman and his partner welcomed their daughter Malia almost four months ago. He thanked the company and the TTC for the kind gesture.
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BIRTHDAYS
[75] Brenda Lee, singer (‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’, ‘I’m Sorry’)
[23] Hailee Steinfeld, actress (“Pitch Perfect 2″, “True Grit”)
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JENNIFER GARNER LOST HER CAR
Jennifer Garner shared a video ― filmed by an unknown friend ― of herself wandering through a parking garage in search of her car. With a Build-A-Bear in her arms, Garner opens the video by saying she’s been looking for her car for 10 minutes and that she was certain she’d parked it in the Y section of the garage.
The car was, unfortunately, not in the Y section at all, leaving Jen and her friend to run around the garage both on foot and then later in her friend’s car in desperate search for her vehicle.
Garner says she’s sweating at one point and that they’ve hit the 25-minute mark on the search for a car in a one-level parking garage.
Finally, she finds her car in ― of all places ― the F section of the lot. It’s so rude to just move someone’s car to F, she quips upon realizing she completely flubbed where she’d parked.
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YOU DO HAVE TIME TO EXERCISE: ADULTS HAVE FIVE HOURS OF FREE TIME DAILY, BUT CHOOSE TO STARE AT THEIR PHONES
If you think you’re too busy to work out, think again. A poll of 32,000 Americans by the Ramd Corporation finds that people have an average of 4.5 hours of free time each day, with men having a half hour more than women.
But, men spent 211 minutes of their free time looking at screens (about 3.5 hours), while women did the same for under three hours. However, men spent just 6.6 percent of their time exercising, while women spent five percent of their time exercising.
Study co-author Dr. Deborah Cohen says, “Increasing the public’s awareness of how they actually use their time and creating messages that encourage Americans to reduce their screen time may help people to become more physically active.
These findings suggest getting Americans to devote at least 20 or 30 minutes each day to physical activity is feasible.”
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[75] Brenda Lee, singer (‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’, ‘I’m Sorry’)
[23] Hailee Steinfeld, actress (“Pitch Perfect 2″, “True Grit”)
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TBL 2 – FLA 1 MTL 4 – PIT 1 BUF 5 – STL 2 NSH 3 – SJS 1 ANA 3 – MIN 2 SO WPG 5 – DET 1 DAL 2 – NJD 0 CAR 6 – EDM 3 CGY 5 – ARI 2 TOR 4 – VAN 1 VGK 5 – CHI 1 LAK 3 – NYR 1
- • “The Masked Singer” (FOX): Holiday semi-finals
• “The Goldbergs” (ABC): Mid-season finale
• “Modern Family” (ABC): Mid-season finale - A lot of stores that sell makeup have “testers” you can use to see if a certain shade looks good on you. But they’re sometimes contaminated with a ton of bacteria. A news station in Charlotte just tested a bunch of them and found all sorts of gross stuff, like mold and staph bacteria. One doctor they talked to said he’s amazed anyone uses them. He compared it to testing out a toothbrush.
- Vanna White fills in for Pat, pigeons with hats, Lulu Lemon boss. (From Seth Meyers, David Spade, and Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, December 10, 2019)
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“Billboard’s” 35 Best Country Songs of the Decade
“Billboard” has a list of their 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s, and Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” is Number One. It’s followed by Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush”, and Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow”.
- “The House That Built Me”, Miranda Lambert, 2010
- “Girl Crush”, Little Big Town, 2014
- “Follow Your Arrow”, Kacey Musgraves, 2013
- “Body Like a Back Road”, Sam Hunt, 2017
- “Nobody to Blame”, Chris Stapleton, 2015
- “Humble and Kind”, Tim McGraw, 2016
- “Blue Ain’t Your Color”, Keith Urban, 2016
- “Even Though I’m Leaving”, Luke Combs, 2019
- “If I Die Young”, The Band Perry, 2010
- “Something in the Water”, Carrie Underwood, 2014
CHRIS YOUNG BORROWS A PAGE FROM CLARK GRISWOLD – (12/11/2019)
This time every year, Chris Young takes the liberty of turning his parents’ front yard into a Christmas wonderland, although it’s not necessarily very appreciated. Chris tells us: [“I just leave it to their yard. I still go and decorate my parents’ yard every year. My mom told me last year, she’s like, ‘It’s not the problem that you decorate our yard with so much random stuff or that it looks like the Griswold house.’ She was like, ‘It’s that you don’t come back to undecorate the front yard.’ I leave that up to my dad, so I don’t think he loves me as much after Christmas during that process but I still do that every year.”]
Chris recently got in the holiday spirit with a performance on CMA Country Christmas, which aired on ABC earlier this month.
He continues climbing the charts with “Drowning,” the latest single from his upcoming Raised On Country album. No release date has yet been announced.
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Don’t Be Sad That Willie Nelson Has Quit Smoking Weed
By now you’ve heard that WILLIE NELSON has quit smoking weed because his lungs just can’t take it. He talked about it in an interview last week.
Quote, “I’ve abused my lungs quite a bit, so breathing is more difficult these days, and I have to be careful. I’ve mistreated myself since I was ‘this big’ and started out smoking cedar bark and went from that to cigarettes . . . and that almost killed me.”
He added, “I don’t smoke anymore. I take better care of myself today than I did then.”
I’m guessing your first thought after hearing what Willie said was, well, there are other ways to partake. And that’s exactly what he’ll be doing, according to his publicist.
She says quote, “Willie does what he wants when he wants regarding smoking. There are numerous ways of consumption.”
