On Today’s Show

➢ It may not be “Shark Week” but there are plenty of shark news stories.  New York City and Jersey Shore residents better look out… there have been three shark sightings already in the local waters.

 

And in waters off of North Australia, multiple species of “walking sharks” have been discovered.  This evolutionary feature helps sharks slink along dry land and the bottom of shallow waters.   “Instead of swimming around, these little bottom-dwelling sharks actually ‘walk’ using their pectoral and pelvic fins, which makes it easier for them to poke their heads under coral and rocks as they look for small fish, snails and crustaceans to eat,”

 

➢ A couple guys were fishing for snapper when a great white shark started circling their boat.  The guys stuck a GoPro in the water and recorded the shark biting the boat.   (The camera was underwater when he says “He just bit the boat.”)

 

➢ People working remotely could soon do so from the Caribbean. Barbados is thinking about introducing a “12-month Barbados welcome stamp” that would allow visitors the option to work remotely from the Caribbean island for a year at a time.

Tourism makes up about 40 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and about 30 percent of its workforce is employed by the industry. Their PM says, “You don’t need to work in Europe, or the US or Latin America if you can come here and work for a couple of months at a time; go back and come back.” Barbados officially reopened its borders to international travel Sunday.

 

➢ TOM BERGERON is OUT at “Dancing with the Stars” after 15 years and 28 seasons.  ERIN ANDREWS won’t be back either.  She’s been with the show since Season 18 in 2014.

There’s no word on WHY Tom isn’t being brought back . . . but it’s possible that it had to do with him publicly denouncing the casting of SEAN SPICER last year.  He said the producers previously promised NOT to cast a polarizing politician.

No replacements have been named.

 

 

➢ Did Netflix cancel your favorite show?  “Business Insider” put together a list of 21 critically acclaimed shows that got the ax.

1. “Ozark”, canceled after 4 seasons.
2. “Marvel’s Luke Cage”, canceled after 2 seasons.
3. “Santa Clarita Diet”, canceled after 3 seasons.
4. “Dead to Me”, canceled after 3 seasons.
5. “The Kominsky Method”, canceled after 3 seasons.

 

 

 

 

TODAY IS……………….

• “Shark Awareness Day”. Demand for shark-fin soup and shark-tooth medallions combine to make sharks endangered, with millions killed each year.

 

• “Mac & Cheese Day”. In Canada, the most popular brand is known as “Kraft Dinner”, In the US and Australia, it’s “Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner” or “Kraft Mac & Cheese”, and in the UK, it’s called “Macaroni Cheese” or “Cheesey Pasta”.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Garth Brooks‘ “The Dance” became his second Number One hit in 1990.

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Tips for Wearing Your Face Mask This Summer

If you’re worried about wearing a face mask in the summer heat, here are tips to make it more bearable . . .

 

1. Choose the right fabric.  A lighter, breathable material like cotton will keep your face cooler than a mask made from synthetic materials.

 

2. Skip the makeup.  Heat and sweat mixed with makeup and oily skin care products can leave a sticky mess under your mask.

 

3. Keep it dry.  If your mask gets damp due to breathing and sweating it can make it less effective at filtering particles.

 

4. Bring a spare.  If you can’t keep your face mask from getting damp throughout the day, always have some spare ones on hand to swap it out.

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS

1.  Russian cosmonauts used to carry special pistols to space . . . so they could shoot any bears and wolves that attacked them when they landed in Siberia.

 

2. The official bird of the city of Redondo Beach, California is the Goodyear Blimp.

 

3. There’s one hour a day where it’s three different dates in three parts of the world.  When it’s 11:00 P.M. Monday in American Samoa, it’s 5:00 A.M. Tuesday in New York, and 12:00 A.M. Wednesday in the Pacific island country Kiribati.

 

4. Diarrhea was the leading cause of death for troops in the Civil War, and soldiers had an honor code where they wouldn’t shoot someone who was pooping.

 

 

GOOD NEWS

Darrell Parker and Dr. Corey Adams arrived separately to hike Calgary’s Grassi Lakes Trail with their families on June 20. The two men were strangers, but within days, Adams had saved Parker’s life. Twice.

 

Parker was enjoying a hike with his family when he suddenly collapsed. He was having a heart attack. Adams, a heart surgeon, was leaving the trail with his family when he heard the calls for help. He and his wife, who is also a doctor, immediately leapt into action.

 

Adams, his wife, and another hiker performed CPR for the next 20 minutes until emergency response teams arrived with a defibrillator. At that point, they were able to get him “back into a normal rhythm,” Adams said.

 

While most stories would end there, these two men were surprised when just five days later, Adams had another opportunity to save Parker’s life. Parker needed a quintuple bypass and was transferred to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary — the hospital where Adams works.

 

Following the heart surgery Adams performed, Parker is expected to make a full recovery. He said the whole incident made him feel like the “luckiest person in the world.”

 

Parker hopes to return to the site of his heart attack for another hike next summer.

When that happens, Adams said he’d consider joining him.

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BIRTHDAYS

[60] Jane Lynch, actress (“Glee” 2009-15)

 

[54] Matthew Fox, Actor (‘Jack Shephard’ in “Lost” 2004-2010)

 

[45] Jamey Johnson, country singer (‘In Color’)/country songwriter (‘Honky Tonk Badonkadonk’, ‘Give It Away’)

 

[32] Conor McGregor, retired MMA Fighter/boxer

 

 

 

 

Man in a Stolen Vehicle Crashes into a Woman in a Stolen Vehicle

Police in Newberg, Oregon got a call about a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV.

 

They tracked it down, and got into a chase with the car thief . . . who turned out to be a 27-year-old guy named Randy Lee Cooper.

 

As Randy sped through the town, he CRASHED into a parked Buick Regal.  That let the cops catch up with him, and they arrested him on several charges including unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, eluding, assault, and more.

 

But that’s not all.  It turned out the Buick he crashed into was ALSO STOLEN.  And a 25-year-old woman named Kristin Begue was inside, and she was drunk.

 

So she was also arrested for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, plus a DUI.

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Cops Recover a Stolen SUV . . . Then Someone Else Steals It From the Police Station

The police in Chicago got a call around 8:30 A.M. on Sunday about a suspicious vehicle parked near a trail.  When they got there, they found it was a 2015 Chevy Suburban that had been reported stolen earlier that day.

 

So they towed it to the parking lot of the police station. But less than two hours later . . . someone stole the SUV right out of their parking lot.

 

The cops are now investigating BOTH thefts.

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NATIONAL MAC AND CHEESE DAY

To celebrate National Macaroni and Cheese Day, here are some fun facts about the childhood staple.

 

1. Kraft sells around a million boxes of macaroni and cheese a day.

 

2. The record for eating an entire box of macaroni and cheese is 1 minute and 2 seconds.

 

3. There are over 50 varieties of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

 

 

 

Tips for Wearing Your Face Mask This Summer

If you’re worried about wearing a face mask in the summer heat, here are tips to make it more bearable . . .

 

1. Choose the right fabric.  A lighter, breathable material like cotton will keep your face cooler than a mask made from synthetic materials.

 

2. Skip the makeup.  Heat and sweat mixed with makeup and oily skin care products can leave a sticky mess under your mask.  According to one dermatologist, just using moisturizer or sunscreen under your mask is your best bet.

 

3. Keep it dry.  If your mask gets damp due to breathing and sweating it can make it less effective at filtering particles.

 

4. Bring a spare.  If you can’t keep your face mask from getting damp throughout the day, always have some spare ones on hand to swap it out.

 

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 14^TH  

 

1. Naya Rivera’s body was found yesterday, floating in the lake where she went missing last week.  Police said there’s no evidence of foul play or suicide . . . she probably drowned getting her son back to the boat after it drifted in a current.  (Here’s Sheriff Bill Ayuba speaking at the press conferenceyesterday.)

 

2. A woman near Houston collapsedin a grocery store.  And even though there’s a pandemic, a random guy who was there buying milk immediately did CPR and saved her life.  It sounds like she probably had a heart attack.

 

3. A poll by eHarmony foundthe lockdown is causing “turbo-charged relationships,” where couples commit to each other a lot faster.  Over a third of people who recently moved in together said they think the past two months have been the equivalent of two years.  (A charity called Relate helps couples with relationship issues, and they were involved in the study.  (Here’s one of their counselors talking about the results.)

 

4. Jerry Seinfeld’s new stand-up special “23 Hours to Kill” is on Netflix.  Here he is kicking off the show, talking about going out with friends.  (Jerry Seinfeld began a residency at New York’s Beacon Theater in 2019.  He added dates into 2020, but the shows were cancelled.  That’s where this special was taped.)

 

SPORTS………..

Yesterday, the Washington Redskins finally made the official announcement:  They’re changing their name . . . to . . . SOMETHING.  Despite reports that they’d be announcing a new name, they just confirmed that they’re, quote, “retiring the Redskins name and logo.”

Sources say they HAVE decided on a new name, but they’re waiting for legal reasons . . . possibly due to trademarks.  Rumor has it that the frontrunners are:  The Warriors . . . the Redtails, after the Tuskegee Airmen from World War Two . . . the Presidents . . . the Generals . . . the Lincolns . . . the Redhawks . . . and the Redwolves.

 

The Houston Rockets’ Russell Westbrook revealed yesterday (July 13th) that he’d tested positive for COVID. The NBA star hasn’t yet arrived at the league’s campus at Walt Disney World, where games will be played when the season restarts, and it’s now not clear when he will get there.

 

NHL teams began their training camps yesterday (July 13th) for the upcoming playoffs when their season restarts. That’s set to begin on August 1st, with an expanded 24-team playoff in two hub cities in Canada, Toronto and Edmonton. Meanwhile, the NHL announced that 43 players had tested positive for the coronavirus from June 8th through the end of the league’s optional workouts.

 

Organizers of the Chicago Marathon announced Monday (July 13th) that it had been canceled due to the pandemic. The annual event, which had been scheduled for October 11th, usually draws some 45,000 runners and more than one million spectators. The Boston Marathon was postponed from its April 20th date until September and then canceled, and the New York Marathon, which was scheduled for November 1st, has also been canceled.

 

 

RANDY HOUSER SPARKS DEBATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Randy Houser has opened the door to a debate about whether music venues should be allowed to open considering commercial airplanes are filled with shoulder-to-shoulder passengers.

He shared a photo of a packed plane full of people wearing masks alongside a picture of an empty venue writing, “Anybody see a problem?” The post got quick responses of support from Miranda Lambert and Jason Aldean!

No concerts or people going to their everyday jobs but let’s pack em in airplanes like sardines breathing recirculated air. Makes complete sense to me,” followed by an eye roll emoji.

 

 

MIRANDA LAMBER IS A TENILLE TOWNES FAN

If you haven’t discovered TENILLE TOWNES yet, MIRANDA LAMBERT thinks you should.  Quote, “Tenille can make an amazing catalogue because of her lyrics and what she’s not afraid to say.  She doesn’t write conventional love songs.  She writes about things that are a little hard to hear, which I think is amazing.”

 

 

MORGAN WALLEN IS A DAD!

Morgan Wallen and his ex-girlfriend, Katie Smith, welcomed a baby boy on Friday (July 10th) in Nashville. Indigo “Indie” Wilder weighed in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces.

Morgan shared the big news on social media last night (Monday, July 13th) with a picture of him holding his infant son. Morgan kept news of the pregnancy under wraps. In his social media post he wrote, “I knew this day was coming when I got to share this news with y’all. And I’m glad that day is here . . .”

The new dad is climbing the charts with his latest single, “More Than My Hometown.”

 

 

 

 

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