Thursday, March 21, 2019 – Edition: #6419
Nothin’ Like a Bull in Your Radio Shop!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Wendy Williams is taking the steps to seek treatment for herself after returning from an extended break away from her talk show. She made the announcement Tuesday morning on her show in New York, telling her audience she has been living in a sober facility as she deals with ongoing struggles with addiction. She did not reveal exactly what the problem is, but admitted she has had struggles with cocaine in the past and never fully received treatment. In January, Williams took an extended leave from “The Wendy Williams Show” after announcing she was suffering complications from Graves’ Disease.
-TheBlast
★ James Corden will return to Broadway this June — in a manner of speaking — as he has been set as the host of this year’s Tony Awards on CBS. It marks his second time running the show. The “Late Late Show” host previously presided over Broadway’s biggest night in 2016 for the Tonys’ 70th annual ceremony, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program. The 2019 awards ceremony will air live on Sunday, June 9 from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
-TheWrap
★ Jon Snow has had quite the effect on Kit Harington’s life throughout his time on “Game of Thrones”. But one point in particular sent the actor into therapy and forced him to question his role on the epic series. Harington says that the moment where Jon Snow became the focus of the series and the fan frenzy that followed his “death” on the show “was a time when I started therapy, and started talking to people.” Harington said in an interview that he “felt very unsafe, and I wasn’t talking to anyone. I had to feel very grateful for what I have, but I felt incredibly concerned about whether I could even act.” Game of Thrones returns on April 14.
-Popculture
★ According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Soap star Kristoff St. John died from hypertrophic heart disease, but investigators noted his heart muscle had “myocardial bridging,” and showed signs of alcohol abuse. The death is categorized as an accident. The “Young and the Restless” star was laid to rest in a private memorial earlier this month and buried next to his son.
-TheBlast
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Sean Penn, Retta, Jenny Lewis
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joel Kinnaman, a performance by the Broadway cast of “Ain’t Too Proud”
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Kit Harington, Amber Tamblyn, Hozier (R)
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Rannells, Carla Lalli Music
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Matt LeBlanc, Will Arnett, Broods (R)
• “Conan” (TBS): Gad Elmaleh
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Willie Geist
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Day of Hot Topics
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Liam Hemsworth, Trevor Noah, Christina Hendricks, Avril Lavigne
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): David Letterman, Dermot Kennedy
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Cardi B — will make her feature film debut in the upcoming stripper scam flick “Hustlers”, joining previously announced co-stars Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Hustlers follows a group of strippers as they scam their Wall Street clientele out of thousands of dollars.
• Iggy Azalea — has started the rollout for her long-awaited sophomore album by releasing the first track, ‘Sally Walker’. She has been teasing the new track since late February, but finally dropped the song and the video this week. It will appear on “In My Defense”, the follow-up to 2013’s “The New Classic”.
• Metallica – are marking the 20th anniversary of their seminal live album “S&M” with a special orchestral show. They will once again perform with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the opening of the new Chase Center in San Fran on September 6.
• Elton John – The storied venue The Troubadour in Los Angeles was the stage for a sneak peek of the Elton John biopic “Rocketman” on Monday night. Some of the stars of the movie got together to watch 20 minutes of the film at the spot where John made his legendary US debut almost 50 years ago.
• Burton Cummings – The owner of a Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan fitness studio who says he complained about her music is facing noise bylaw charges. Kyra Klassen, who owns Dance Fitness With Kyra, says Cummings lives in a residential building next to her business, and while she’s tried to find a solution, even sound-proofing some walls, Cummings continued to complain to police and the city about the sound.
• Jerry Lee Lewis — has been admitted to a rehabilitation centre for “aggressive and intensive rehab,” two weeks after suffering a minor stroke. His publicist says that that the 83-year-old has been moved to a centre in Memphis, about 20 miles from his home, and he is expected to make a full recovery.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – singer Johnny Van Zant says that the band has a new studio album written and ready to be recorded after their current farewell tour. He added that the group are planning a concert movie release from a recent Jacksonville, FL performance.
• George Strait – has announced an Aug 17 show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Blake Shelton, Cody Johnson and Caitlyn Smith are also on the bill. Didn’t George retire? In an interview, he recently said: “I don’t know where that came from. I guess when I said I wasn’t going to tour anymore that they thought maybe I was retiring. But that was never my intention.”
• Luke Bryan – His fellow American Idol judge Katy Perry revealed to a contestant on the March 10 episode that Bryan tapes his boots to his jeans to keep them in place. During Clay Page’s audition, Perry asked the hopeful if his boots were taped to the jeans he was wearing. Page laughed at the question — and Perry dropped the bomb, saying: “Well, Luke’s boots are.”
NOT SO SWEET:
Uh-oh. The more sugary drinks you consume, the more likely you are to die early, according to a new study. Researchers reviewed the deaths of more than 36,000 people whose health had been tracked dating back to the 1980s. Their findings showed a clear connection with women who drank two or more sugary beverages a day being 63% more likely to die than women who only had one sugary drink per month. For men, the difference was 29%. Each daily serving of sugar-sweetened drinks makes people more likely to die in general and 10% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. Although the risk of death was found to be lower if people replaced their sugary drinks with beverages sweetened with artificial sweeteners, researchers still recommend water as the best and healthiest choice.
(See, my problem with drinking water is that I always want to put some sugar in it…)
(I’d like to make a claim of diplomatic immunity for coffee!)
(This weekend, my rum and coke becomes scotch and water because…science!)
-CTV
PERFECT ODDS:
Every year, millions fill out a bracket for the NCAA tournament, silently hoping that maybe, this year, they just might become the first person ever to fill out a perfect bracket. Well, there is a perfectly good reason that it has never been done. Although it is very difficult to calculate the infinitesimal odds against your doing so, we’ll try to give you an idea. There are 63 games in a normal NCAA tournament bracket. The number of possible outcomes for a bracket is 9.2 quintillion. In case you were wondering, one quintillion is one billion billions. Still not staggered by the odds?
• A group of researchers at the University of Hawaii estimated that there are 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on Earth.
• There are 31.6 million seconds in a year, so 9.2 quintillion seconds is a quick 292 billion years.
• There have been 5 trillion days since the Big Bang, so repeat the entire history of our universe 1.8 million times.
• The Earth’s circumference is approximately 1.58 billion inches, so you’d have to walk around the planet 5.8 billion times.
• There are about 3 trillion trees on the planet. Imagine that there was one single acorn hidden in one of those three trillion trees, and you were tasked with finding it on the first guess. Your odds of success are approximately three million times greater than picking a perfect bracket.
One more thing: If every person in the United States filled out a completely unique bracket that was 66.7 percent accurate every year, we’d expect to see a perfect bracket 366 years from now.
(I’m glad that you don’t have to be perfect to win the bracket around here!)
(I don’t understand all those numbers, but I’m starting to understand how I lose money on this every year!)
(That’s no bracket….it’s a racket!)
-NCAA
STRANGE PHOBIAS YOU RARELY HEAR ABOUT:
☞ Chronophobia: The fear of time moving forward or passing time. (I know. I’ve had it for some time now…)
☞ Chiclephobia: The fear of chewing gum. Oprah Winfrey suffers from this. Not kidding. (Not kidding about it being called ‘Chiclephobia’, either…)
☞ Venustraphobia: The fear of beautiful women. (What do you call the reverse of that…when beautiful women are all afraid of me?)
☞ Siderophobia: The fear of stars in the sky. (Probably not the type to buy a car with a sunroof!)
☞ Vestiphobia: The fear of clothing. (And let’s face it, at a certain age, we all had this…some of us as toddlers….some of us in college!)
☞ Arachibutyrophobia: The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. (You think it’s hard to say now? Try saying it with peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth!)
☞ Phronemophobia: The fear of thinking. (No fear of that around here…)
☞ Phobophobia: The fear of phobias. (Which I didn’t have until I heard about all of these!)
-Unbelievable-Facts
DID YOU KNOW?
The reason that there is a light in your refrigerator and not your freezer is simple: Money. Since people tend to open their refrigerators more than their freezers, there is an established need for a fridge light. The cost of adding a freezer light outweighs the benefits. For manufacturers, the money they save justifies their decision to forego that second light.
(Great. Now tell me why there is a ‘d’ in “fridge” but none in “refrigerator” …)
-MSN
BS CHRONOMETER 03.21.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1944 [75] Timothy Dalton, Colwyn Bay Wales, movie actor (“The Living Daylights”, “Licence to Kill”) COMING UP…”Toy Story 4″, 2019
1958 [61] Gary Oldman, London UK, movie actor (“The Dark Knight Rises”, 2018 ‘Best Actor’ Oscar for “Darkest Hour”) COMING UP…”The Woman in the Window”, 2019
1962 [57] Matthew Broderick, NYC, Broadway actor (Tony Award-“The Producers”)/movie actor (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”)/married to actress Sarah Jessica Parker since 1997
1962 [57] Rosie O’Donnell, Commack NY, TV talk show host (“The Rosie Show” 2011-12, “The View” 2005-07, 2014-15, “Rosie O’Donnell Show” 1996-2002)/movie actress (“A League Of Their Own”)
1980 [39] Deryck Whibley, Ajax ON, rock guitarist-vocalist (Sum 41-‘In Too Deep’, ‘Fat Lip’)/wed to Avril Lavigne 2006-10
1986 [33] Scott Eastwood, Monterey County CA, movie actor (“Suicide Squad”, “The Longest Ride”) COMING UP… “The Outpost”, 2019
2004 [15] Forrest Wheeler, LA CA, TV actor (‘Emery Huang’ on “Fresh Off the Boat” since 2015)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Common Courtesy Day” … if you please. Thanks for your adherence!
• “Fragrance Day” and “Flower Day”, always observed on the 1st full day of Spring. So smell a flower or wear a favorite scent…if that’s still allowed where you work.
• “Single Parents Day”, saluting those dedicated folks who single-handedly do the work of two in raising and providing for their families.
• “Teenagers Day”, a day to quit picking on them for their awkwardness and angst, and admit that they aren’t so bad after all. So tell them how special they are … and they’ll grunt at you. Just don’t tell them that it’s also…
• “Absolutely Incredible Kid Day”, encouraging adults to let kids know just how amazing and valuable they are. The idea is to write a note (text?) of support and encouragement to a kid of your choice.
• “Memory Day”, but we can’t remember why.
• “World Poetry Day”, a good day to sample some ‘modern poetry’ by reading the inane lyrics to a hit song over a mushy violin background track. Find lots of dumb lyrics here …
NET: http://www.lyrics.com
• “Companies That Care Day”, celebrated on the 3rd Thursday of March to encourage employers to foster a people-supportive work environment and to strengthen their ties to the local community.
NET: http://tinyurl.com/la8qtuw
COMING UP . . .
[Fri] National Goof-off Day
[Fri] World Water Day
[Sat] Cuddly Kitten Day
[Sat] National Puppy Day
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2006 [13] Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sends the first-ever tweet over his new social networking site, which reads “inviting co-workers” (not too creative, huh?)
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2013 [06] John Mayer becomes the 1st celebrity to host a Google+ ‘Hangout’, an online virtual meeting place with his fans
2015 [04] Jason Aldean weds former “American Idol” contestant Brittany Kerr in Mexico
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2011 [08] 1st ‘Full Face Transplant’ is performed by surgeons at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston MA
2013 [06] The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old (roughly…)
TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2000 [19] *NSYNC’s “No Strings Attached” sets an all-time benchmark for ‘Single-Day Album Sales’ at 1.1 million units (Most of which can now be found on ‘Facebook Marketplace’…)
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ A typical microwave oven uses more electricity keeping its digital clock on standby than it does heating food.
✓ The common cold is caused by over 200 different viruses.
✓ To increase sales, some clothing stores use mirrors with curved glass that make people look about 10 pounds thinner.
✓ Selfie sticks are banned from all Disney theme parks.
✓ A man named Jeff Reitz has visited the parks of the Disneyland every day since January 1, 2012. That’s 2637 days in a row. And counting.
✓ An estimated 80% of the ‘close door’ buttons in elevators don’t actually do anything.
BS UNLIKELY HOME REMEDIES:
• If you’re choking on an ice cube, pour boiling water down your throat.
• Use red wine to remove red wine stains.
• A spoonful of sugar helps the insulin go down.
• Put salt on an open wound.
• In a pinch, denture tablets can be used in place of Alka-Seltzer.
• You put de lime in de coconut, you drank ’em bot’ up.
• Always apply a heating pad over an ice pack.
• Take two of these and call me in a year.
• Laughter is the best medicine. Mix with scotch and serve on ice.
• If you stop asking your wife for sex, her headaches will clear up pretty quickly.
–Twitter
Best of BS . . .
Highlight bits culled from 25 years of “Bull Sheet” back issues …
BS SIGNS YOUR TAX PREPARER IS WACKY:
• Shows you how to make paper hats from tax forms.
• Asks you how many monies you made last year.
• Suggests you claim multiple personalities as dependents.
• When filling out your form she asks, “What color crayon you want?”
• That ain’t no calculator, it’s a TV remote!
• Repeatedly grabs himself and says, “Tax this, am I right?”
• His only other client is ‘The Situation’.
– First published in “BS” 1995.
BS PHONE STARTER:
What is the rudest thing a guest in your home has ever done?
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
• Most know that a group of Lions is called a ‘Pride’. What is a group of Owls called?
a. Pod
b. Smack
c. Parliament [CORRECT]
d. Murder
• Which species contains the most poisonous animal in the world?
a. Frog [CORRECT]
b. Snake
c. Spider
d. Butterfly
–PubTimeTrivia
BS RANDOM JOKE:
I used to have winter fat but now I have spring rolls.
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 16% of men have THIS on their desk. What is it?
Answer: A picture of their pet
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
