Monday, February 7, 2022 – Edition: #7162
Don’t Take Any Sheet, Unless It’s Pure Bull!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Brian Austin Green and his girlfriend, Sharna Burgess, are expecting. The baby is Green and Burgess’ first together, but his fourth overall. He shares 3 sons with ex-wife Megan Fox. Fox and Green split in 2020 after almost 10 years together, and finalized their divorce in 2021. The baby news comes 2 weeks after Fox announced her engagement to Machine Gun Kelly.
-Yahoo
★ Chelsea Handler was forced to call off a few Oregon shows on her (ahem) “Vaccinated & Horny” comedy tour after suffering a health scare. She apologized to fans on her Instagram Story after calling off her Friday and Saturday shows. In a clip filmed in hospital, she assured fans she was okay and would find alternate dates for the canceled shows, saying “I had a scare at the hospital, and I don’t have COVID, and I’m okay, but I had to reschedule my shows.” She then added” “And I’m not pregnant”.
-People
★ “The Tinder Swindler,” an eye-opening documentary about a notorious con man who used the dating app to defraud multiple women, could be getting the movie treatment. Netflix is in talks with producers about dramatizing the wild documentary that’s likely to make any Tinder user’s blood run cold. The Tinder Swindler doc debuted on the streaming service last Wednesday, and has already cracked the platform’s Top 10. It tells the story of Israeli fraudster Simon Hayut, who conned Scandinavian women into parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be the son of an Israeli diamond tycoon.
-Yahoo
★ With its Joe Rogan deal in a white-hot spotlight, Spotify has pulled an additional 70 episodes of the podcaster’s show from the platform. The shows removed Friday were recorded between 2009-18, long before the pandemic. But singer India Arie recently announced she was pulling her music and podcasts off Spotify, “for reasons other than COVID interviews” but for his language around race.” She subsequently posted a video clip on Instagram compiling 24 times Rogan used a racist slur on his podcast. Rogan has apologized.
-Variety
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Keegan-Michael Key, Jennifer Coolidge, Sylvan Esso
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Bradley Cooper, Robert Finley with Dan Auerbach (R)
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Jamie Foxx, Coldplay featuring We Are KING & Jacob Collier (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): “Below Deck” Season 9 Reunion Show
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Dr. Ashish Jha
• “The Talk” (CBS): Joanna Garcia Swisher
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Laverne Cox, Dale Talde
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Chelsea Handler, Scott Eastwood
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Check local listings): Charlie Puth, Troy Aikman
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Check local listings): Nicole Byer, Edy Massih
• “The Bachelor” (ABC): Clayton and one lucky woman head to Galveston TX for a high-stakes date.
• “2022 Winter Olympics” (NBC, CBC): Women’s short track 500m final, women’s speed skating 1500m final, women’s freestyle big air final, men’s alpine super-G, men’s figure skating short program, snowboard, women’s hockey – USA vs. Canada
• “American Experience” (PBS): Season 34 premiere. The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop.
• “1000-lb. Best Friends” (TLC): Series premiere. Meghan had bariatric surgery, but has stopped shedding pounds, Vannessa hopes to get surgery but gorges on fast food; they visit Dr. Procter to get back on track.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ – The song, from the movie “Encanto”, has become the first track from a Disney animated film to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart since Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “Aladdin” theme ‘A Whole New World’ in 1993. The song was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and is performed by an ensemble cast.
• Olivia Rodrigo — is set to receive the highest honor at the 2022 Billboard Women in Music Awards. Friday, it was announced that she has been named Billboard’s Woman of the Year. Billboard Women in Music Awards will take place on March 2 at the YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Inglewood CA.
• Rod Stewart – will hit the road in the US with opening act Cheap Trick this summer. In a video shared on his social networks, he said: “We really want you to come out because we had a bad time lately and it’s gonna be really fun. So, I’ll see you there”. There is also one Canadian date: July 26 in Toronto.
• Pearl Jam — Nikki Sixx has responded to criticisms Eddie Vedder made about Mötley Crüe and the scene that spawned them. In an interview, Vedder said that he despised bands that monopolized late-‘80s MTV and specifically mentioned Mötley Crüe as “so vacuous.” Sixx tweeted: “Considering that they’re one of the most boring bands in history it’s kind of a compliment, isn’t it?”
• Liam Gallagher – The former Oasis singer has released a lyric video for his new song ‘Everything’s Electric’ which features Dave Grohl on drums. The Foo Fighters leader co-wrote the tune, which will appear on Gallagher’s upcoming solo album “C’mon You Know”, out May 22. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/ycy9yd2s
• Jethro Tull – have landed their first Top 10 in 50 years on the UK Albums Chart. Their 22nd studio album “The Zealot Gene” entered the chart at #9. Their last Top 10 was 1972’s “Living In The Past”.
• Cole Swindell — will release his 4th album “Stereotype” on April 8. It will include his 10th career, multi-week #1 ‘Single Saturday Night’, as well as his current single ‘Never Say Never’ with Lainey Wilson.
• Thomas Rhett – On Thursday, he joined Kane Brown, Chase Rice and Restless Road on stage in Phoenix to perform the good-vibe anthem ‘Famous Friends’. Casually dressed in flannel and a camouflage Yeti hat, Rhett rolled out from backstage with a T-shirt gun in hand and a microphone in the other. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/exkmxf6m
• Dolly Parton — has been named host of the Academy of Country Music Awards, which will be streamed live March 7 on Prime Video from Las Vegas. That follows last week’s news that she’s been named as a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and that she’ll appear in the documentary “Still Working 9 to 5”, which will debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
SHOOTING THE BULL
WHAT WORDS TO WORDLE WITH:
Wordle has definitely taken over the internet. And one of the keys to success in the game is a good starter – a word that contains the most common letters, or as many vowels as possible. With that in mind, here are some top opening words to help you win, according to the experts . . .
• Adieu: It knocks out 4 vowels at once, which is very handy, and by default, gives you an idea of if the fifth vowel is in there. (But it’s not English?)
• Soare: This old word for a young hawk was determined to be the best starting word by an engineer at Slack, who used data to discern the best strategy.
• Arose: A guy who hosts a Microsoft Excel YouTube tutorial channel determined that s, e, a, r, and o are the 5 most common letters, so he figures that a word using those 5 letters will work pretty well.
• Another tip: Never end a word with an “s.” There are no plural words in the possible solutions list.
(How, exactly does one become a Wordle expert? The game’s only been around for, like, 5 minutes!)
(I’LL say Wordle has taken over the internet. The last thing I remember getting this much attention online involved a big bare butt cheek…and another big bare butt cheek!)
-CNN
NEW GOOD NEWS:
➢ Leaving her ex, Amazon Exec Chairman Jeff Bezos, far behind in the generosity department, MacKenzie Scott, has donated $133.5 million to educational non-profit Communities in School, an organization that helps students navigate issues inside and outside of the classroom. Communities in School works in 2,900 schools in America, reaching a total of about 1.6 million kids. Their goal is to support students at risk of dropping out and provide resources to help young people be successful. Partly because of Scott’s donation, CIS says it will now be able to expand its operations. Since her divorce from Bezos, Scott has donated more than $8.5 billion to organizations focused on a range of issues. According to Forbes, Scott has given away approximately 18% of her fortune. Bezos, by comparison, has reportedly given away a measly 1%. (In a world of Jeff Bezos’s, be a MacKenzie Scott!)
➢ An 800-mile, $78 journey brought a smiling snowman to a Florida classroom full of kids. When kindergarten teacher Robin Hughes, realized almost all the kids in her classroom had never laid eyes on frozen precipitation after reading a book about snow with them, she asked her sister, Amber, of Louisa KY if she would mail her some, on the off-chance that it snowed there this year. Fast forward to January 8th, and hearing of a coming Kentucky snowstorm, the teacher asked her sister to build a snowman for her classroom. And thus, “Lucky” was born, with blueberries, carrots, and twigs for eyes, a nose, and arms. Sealed in a temperature-controlled package with ice, Lucky flew priority USPS to Riverview, FL. Lucky was received at the school with utter wonderment from the children, who Hughes says just wanted to touch him, and asked if he was going to “come to life”. Now, Lucky is kept cold in the school cafeteria, and brought out for other classes to demonstrate the majesty of snow. (Maybe those kids would like to return the favor, and send some sunshine north!)
-CNN, Forbes, GoodNewsNetwork
APPLE RECORDS:
This year, Apple will launch a record-breaking number of new products and now the company has accidentally revealed the first of them. According to “91Mobiles”, Apple has filed official model numbers for 2 new iPads and 3 versions of a new budget iPhone, and inadvertently leaked their prices. According to import data filed by Apple, the 3 new budget iPhones will be listed at US $300, a new iPad will go for $500-700, and the new iPads for $300.
(Sure glad I just paid $600 for a USED one!)
(I’m just gonna say that if they’re accidentally leaking info about their own products, what does that say about the security of your info?)
-Forbes
THE 10 WORST FOODS FOR YOUR HEALTH:
(According to experts…)
1. Bacon: Darn, I saw that coming. The World Health Organization has classified bacon in the same category as tobacco when it comes to carcinogens. (What about ‘smoked bacon’?)
2. Turkey bacon: Sorry, you can’t go there either. It’s the processing that makes the meat harmful. So turkey bacon isn’t a healthier substitute. (Oh, well – back to bacon!)
3. Fried food: In general, fried food is higher in fat, salt, and calories, all of which are horrible for heart health. (This is why I got an air fryer that I have no idea how to use…)
4. Potato chips: They’re low in nutrition, and high in cheap fats and sodium. (I suppose you’re going to say the same thing about Doritos?)
5. Added sugars: If you see added sugars on the nutrition panel of packaged foods, steer clear. It has essentially zero nutritional value and increases risk of obesity and metabolic disease. (And cavities!)
6. Processed oils: Grapeseed, soybean, canola, cottonseed, corn, and vegetable oils are heated to extremely high temperatures during processing, which oxidizes the oils, creating damaging free radicals.
7. Hydrogenated fats: Common in packaged foods, they have been shown to increase mortality rates. (You’ve just ruined peanut butter for me!)
8. Refined carbs: These include white bread, white rice and pasta, pastries and pizza. Refined grain products promote inflammation, are generally higher in sugar and are largely stripped of fiber and nutrients.
9. Breakfast sausages: See bacon. (No one said the world is fair…)
10. Any other processed meats: Hot dogs, deli meats, packaged bologna, beef jerky, pepperoni and others should all be avoided or eliminated from your diet completely. They all contain chemicals that are not present in fresh meat, and are classified as group 1 carcinogens. (Uh, do you think they’re trying to tell us something?)
(***TOMORROW – The BEST foods to snack on before bed***)
-NYPost
DID YOU KNOW?
IKEA is making 3-D printed vegan meatballs. As you know, no trip to IKEA is complete without enjoying the company’s iconic Swedish meatballs. Now, as a way to invite prospective candidates to join their expanding tech team in Europe, the company is serving up the 3D-printed vegan meatballs during job interviews, as part of its newly-launched “Taste the Future” recruitment campaign. IKEA has committed to offer 50% plant-based meals in its restaurants by 2025 as part of its efforts to make health-conscious and sustainable options easy, desirable, and affordable.
-ApartmentTherapy
BS CHRONOMETER 02.07.22
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Ballet Day”, an annual celebration of the artistic dance-form that keeps people on their toes.
• “Fettuccine Alfredo Day”, an annual appreciation of the pasta dish that involves tossing fettuccine noodles with heavy cream & cheese. (Which sits in your stomach like a bowling ball.)
• “Send a Card to a Friend Day”, obviously created by a greeting card company.
• “Wave All Your Fingers at Your Neighbors Day” … instead of just the middle one. (And they’ll be wondering, “What the heck does that idiot want now?”)
• “International Clash Day”, an international observance that honors and celebrates the legendary punk rock band The Clash. (I see that [***co-host***] has a safety pin in his [***her] nose for the occasion…)
• “Rose Day”, marking the beginning of the love week. On this day you are free to buy as many roses as your pocket permits, and present them to your loved ones.
COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Boy Scouts Day
[Tues] Laugh and Get Rich Day
[Wed] Chocolate Day
[Wed] Toothache Day
This Week Is…National Marriage Week
This Month Is…Black History Month
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1960 [62] James Spader, Boston MA, TV actor (“The Blacklist” since 2013; “The Office” 2011-12, “Boston Legal” 2004-08)/movie actor (“Lincoln”, “Sex, Lies & Videotape”)
1962 [60] Garth Brooks, Tulsa OK, country singer (‘The Dance’, ‘Friends in Low Places’)/married to Trisha Yearwood since 2005
1962 [60] David Bryan (Rashbaum), Perth Amboy NJ, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-‘Wanted Dead or Alive’, ‘It’s My Life’)
1965 [57] Chris Rock, Andrews SC, comedian/movie actor (“Grown Ups”, “Madagascar” films)
1974 [48] Steve Nash, Johannesburg South Africa (raised in Victoria BC), retired basketball pro (8-time NBA All-Star, 2-time MVP)/Member of the Order of Canada/head coach of Brooklyn Nets since 2020
1978 [44] Ashton Kutcher, Cedar Rapids IA, TV actor (“The Ranch” 2016-20, “Two-And-a-Half Men” 2011-15, “That ’70s Show” 1998-2005) COMING UP…”The Long Home”
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2006 [16] Uma Thurman is named a knight of the “Order of the Arts and the Letters” of France for outstanding achievement in art and literature
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2008 [14] Britney Spears’ family stage an intervention that lands her in the psychiatric ward of UCLA Hospital. This leads to the infamous conservatorship led by her father, Jamie, giving him complete control of her assets.
2016 [06] Coldplay headlines the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers. After a set that includes ‘Viva La Vida’ and ‘Paradise’, Bruno Mars appears, followed by another odd pairing, Beyoncé, who blasts out her new song, ‘Formation’.
TODAY’S RECORDS . . .
1976 [46] Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs sets NHL record with 10 points in a game (6 goals, 4 assists)
2009 [13] Melbourne, Australia’s highest temperature on record (46.4° C/115.5° F) sparks the “Black Saturday” bushfires, worst (at the time) in Australian history
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
✓ When you become really close to someone, you can hear their voice in your head when you read their texts.
✓ Until around 1900, jump rope was primarily considered a boy’s game.
✓ The “Big Dipper” is known as “The Casserole” in France.
✓ A housefly flies at only 4.3 mph (6.9 kph).
✓ The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”.
-WOWFacts, RandomFactGenerator
Best of BS . . .
BS THINGS I DON’T GET ABOUT FOOTBALL:
• Why do the referees dress like they work at Footlocker?
• Do they wear all that gear to protect themselves, or to hurt others?
• How is it that the coaches can’t hear me yelling the correct play call through the TV?
• When is the third half?
• Where are the moms on the sidelines with oranges?
• Why isn’t the ball shaped like a foot?
• How is it that it hasn’t been officially promoted to a religion yet?
• Having your punter as the lead blocker on a fake punt. I mean…really.
• What is super about the bowl?
• Why is the field measured in yards if it’s called FOOTball?
• What’s the difference between a home run and a hole in one?
• The appeal.
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019
BS UNUSUAL AFFIRMATIONS:
• “I am wealthy and prosperous and can cook ramen without burning down the kitchen.”
• “There’s nothing terribly wrong with me.”
• “I can eat this whole pizza myself.”
• “Dance like people are watching.”
• “You’re not the ugliest OR dumbest…So there’s that.”
• “Believe in yourself, because I sure as hell don’t believe in you.”
• “I can even today!”
• “I can…but I won’t.”
• “AA is for quitters!”
• “You kind of suck.”
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019
TODAY’S SCOOP OF BS:
➠ Super Bowl 56 is this weekend. (It should be a good game. Both teams have deep rosters, a ferocious pass rush, and one more thing I heard someone on TV say that I can’t remember…)
➠ Scientists believe that people who enjoy lowbrow humor may be more likely to get dementia. (So, if you find yourself laughing during this show, it’s probably time for a physical.)
➠ A study finds that couples who communicate via social media are less connected. (Interesting. I’ll have to Tweet this story to my wife right after our zoom therapy session.)
➠ Super Bowl Factoid: (Even though the 49ers aren’t playing, San Francisco will still stage a massive parade on Monday.)
➠ Fact of the Day: Mosquitoes prefer biting people who are drunk. (Who doesn’t?)
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
• What was the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics?
a) PyeongChang, South Korea [CORRECT]
b) Vancouver, Canada
c) Sochi, Russia
d) Athens, Greece
• Who was the 2021 Super Bowl halftime performer?
a) J Lo & Shakira
b) The Weeknd [CORRECT]
c) Katy Perry
d) Miami Sound Machine
• What team was NBA champion in 2021?
a) Los Angeles Lakers
b) Toronto Raptors
c) Milwaukee Bucks [CORRECT]
d) Jacksonville Jaguars
BS WEB GOODIE:
Just moseying into a new work-week: https://tinyurl.com/2p82kn3s
BS RANDOM JOKE:
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.
BS PHONE STARTER:
What is the craziest thing that you’ve ever done for money?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: A survey found THIS is to most common place for people to accidentally leave their cellphone. Where?
Answer: A coffee shop
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
