Born on this day!! Actor Eileen Atkins (“The Crown,” ″Doc Martin”) is 88. Actor Bill Cobbs is 88. Country singer Billy “Crash” Craddock is 84. Songwriter Lamont Dozier of Holland-Dozier-Holland is 81. Singer Eddie Levert of The O’Jays is 80. Actor Joan Van Ark is 79. Actor Geoff Pierson (“Splitting Up Together,” “Designated Survivor”) is 73. Singer James Smith (The Stylistics) is 72. Singer Gino Vannelli is 70. Actor Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne,” ″Norm”) is 67. Actor Arnold Vosloo (“The Mummy”) is 60. Actor Danny Burstein (“Boardwalk Empire”) is 58. Model-actor Jenny Shimizu is 55. Actor James Patrick Stuart (TV’s “The Closer”) is 54. Rapper MC Ren of N.W.A is 53. Actor Clifton Collins Jr. (“Westworld”) is 52. Actor John Cho (2009′s “Star Trek,” ″Harold and Kumar” movies) is 50. Actor Eddie Cibrian (“Third Watch”) is 49. Actor Fred Koehler (“Kate and Allie”) is 47. Actor China Shavers (“Boston Public”) is 45. Actor Daniel Bruhl (“Captain America: Civil War”) is 44. Actor Sibel Kekilli (“Game of Thrones”) is 42. Actor Missy Peregrym (“Rookie Blue”) is 40. Actor Olivia Hack is 39. “American Idol” runner-up Diana DeGarmo is 35. Bassist Ian Keaggy of Hot Chelle Rae is 35. Broadway actor Ali Stroker is 35.
THIS DAY IN GENIUS HISTORY
1858 – Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1487 – The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.
1904 – Events in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1963 – Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.
1996 – Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
2004 – The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
Today Is: Bloomsday, National Cracker Jack Day, Dump The Pump Day, Fudge Day, Ladies’ Day (Baseball), National Career Nursing Assistants Day, Recess At Work Day, World Tapas Day
TODAY ON TV!
Primetime TV (All Times Eastern)
CBS – 8:00 – Young Sheldon / 8:30 – United States Of Al / 9:00 – Ghosts / 9:30 – Positive / 10:00 – Bull
NBC – 8:00 – Law and Order / 9:00 – Law and Order SVU / 10:00 – Law and Order Organized Crime
ABC – 8:00 – NBA Finals
FOX – 8:00 – Master Chef / 9:00 – Don’t Forget The Lyrics
CW – 8:00 – Walker / 9:00 – Legacies
TV Talk Shows
Stephen Colbert: Tom Hanks
Watch What Happens Live: Constance Wu, Susan Kelechi Watson
Live with Kelly and Ryan: Andy Garcia, Keke Palmer
Ellen DeGeneres: Exciting moments from Season 19, Laura Dern, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Kelly Clarkson: Hailey Bieber, Anitta, Kang Daniel
Drew Barrymore: Elmo, Emmy Eaton (R 9/30/22)
WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN’ ABOUT? Here are today’s PPM-Friendly Topics!
QUESTION: Does this mean it’s finally OVER??? The King of COVID, Anthony Fauci, just announced he tested POSITIVE!! Boy, that vaccine REALLY WORKED!!!
QUESTION: What happened when a gas station manager accidentally set the price at 69 CENTS a gallon? Word spread FAST… and then… HE GOT FIRED!!! Oops!!!!!
QUESTION: How are BEN AND JERRY going to SAVE THE WORLD? They have a plan.. to STOP THEIR COWS FROM FARTING!!!! (and no.. it’s NOT Bovine Bean-o!!!!!)
QUESTION: Wanna take a WORLD TOUR via private jet and hit all 12 of the DISNEY PARKS?? That’ll be a mere $110,000!! We’re in.. but do we get FREE MICKEY EARS??
QUESTION: WHY did Disney replace Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of BUZZ LIGHTYEAR?? Patricia Heaton says, “They CASTRATED THE CHARACTER!!!!”
First Look At Ryan Gosling As Ken
Warner Bros. is teasing the new film Barbie. The studio shared a photo for the movie Wednesday featuring Ryan Gosling. In the photo, Gosling appears in costume as the character Ken. The actor sports platinum blonde hair and wears an open denim vest with matching jeans. Margot Robbie will play Barbie. Warner Bros. shared a first photo of the actress as Barbie in April. Barbie is written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and directed by Gerwig. The cast also features Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Simu Liu and Emma Mackey. The film opens in theaters July 21, 2023. See the pic HERE.
*****The hardest part of playing Ken is attaching the plastic codpiece!!!
******Ken dolls were always cheaper… because Barnie got all his stuff in the divorce!!
*******Now we know… we were RIGHT about Ken!!!
******The original Barbie did NOT come with gaydar!!
Amber Hear Still Loves Johnny Depp
Amber Heard still loves Johnny Depp – two weeks after he won his bombshell defamation trial against her, she said in an interview that aired Wednesday. “Absolutely. I love him. I loved him with all my heart,” Heard told Savannah Guthrie in Part 2 of her exclusive interview for NBC News. “I have no bad feelings or ill will toward him at all.” She continued, “I know that might be hard to understand, or it might be really easy to understand. If you’ve just ever loved anyone, it should be easy.” The surprising admission comes after a Virginia jury awarded Depp $10.35 million in damages, finding that Heard had defamed him by penning a 2018 Washington Post op-ed that identified herself as a victim of domestic abuse. The jury found for Heard as to a single claim in her countersuit, awarding her $2 million.
****Her heart goes where the money is!!
*****If she doesn’t shut up, experts are saying he can sue her AGAIN!! (true)
****If she loves him, then she knows why other people love him, and why she can’t beat him!!
Hailey Bieber Updates Justin’s Health
Hailey Bieber updated fans on her husband Justin Bieber’s health as he suffers from Ramsay Hunt syndrome and detailed her own recent health scare. She was asked about Justin’s health while promoting her new skincare line Rhodes. “He’s doing really well. He is getting better every single day. He’s feeling a lot better, and obviously it was just a very scary and random situation to happen, but he’s going to be totally OK. I’m just grateful that he’s fine.” She then opened up about her own health scare. The model suffered a mini-stroke earlier this year. “I feel a lot, well, I feel a lot better after that situation,” she admitted. “I feel good. You know, I had a procedure done to close this hole in my heart, and I’m just giving my body the time to heal and recover.” “It was a little hard for me to recover from the procedure just giving myself the time to work out again and feel like normal, if that makes sense. But I’m doing well now, and I’m not having to be on any medication anymore. So, I feel good.” Hailey revealed going through the health scares publicly brought the couple “a lot closer.”
********You DO get a lot closer when you’re confined to the house together!!
Ozzy Discharged From Hospital
Ozzy Osbourne was wheeled out of a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday, a day after undergoing grueling surgery to remove and realign pins in his neck and back. He stood up and got into a black Range Rover under his own power with guidance from a hospital attendant. He has been reeling from neck injuries stemming from a quad biking accident in 2003. A 2019 fall worsened the ailment and required 15 screws to be inserted into his back. “I’m just waiting on some more surgery on my neck,” he told Classic Rock magazine last month of the unspecified procedure. “I can’t walk properly these days. I have physical therapy every morning. I am somewhat better, but nowhere near as much as I want to be to go back on the road.” A source close to the family says there would be a “lengthy amount of convalescence” after the operation, and a nurse would be brought in to tend to Ozzy, who also suffers from Parkinson’s disease.
*********He’s a mess!!! But… he’s had his fun!!!
*******When he said “I am Iron Man,” this is not what he had in mind!!
*******It’ll be fun watching him try to get through the metal detector at the airport!!
Shaq Pays Big For Date Night
A date night over chicken satay had NBA great Shaquille O’Neal feeling generous on Sunday. He arrived to Chelsea hotspot Jue Lan Club with a mystery woman at around 8:30 p.m., we hear. By the end of the night, he was footing the bill for the entire eatery. Spies say he popped in with the unidentified woman, whom he was overheard describing as “my date,” and ordered Beijing chicken, shrimp tempura and the restaurant’s signature chicken satay. “She did all the ordering,” an insider said. After their meal, O’Neal proceeded to buy dinner for the entire server team. “And to top that off, he paid for everyone’s check [who was] dining at the restaurant,” the source added. Shaq apparently wanted to keep his generosity a secret from fellow diners. He asked the staff not to mention that he was paying the bill for over 40 tables until he left the restaurant. The bill amounted to “well over $25,000” in checks.
*********We’re in the wrong business!!!
*******You are what you eat… so he’s a “chicken Shaq!!!”
********Then he took his date home!! And we’re just guessing… she was on top!! Otherwise she’d be dead!!
Ripping The Tabloids (Throughout the week, we’ll give you the stories from that weeks tabs!)
**Please Credit Publication!
Loose Talk-(Us Weekly)
“I’m excited. I’ve got 50 or 60 years to go-I want to live to be 110, since I’ve got a young child.”-On embracing aging, Cameron Diaz.
“I honestly thought that I was well-suited for it. As it turns out, it really wasn’t a competition after all-the fix was in.”-On losing out on the Jeopardy! hosting gig, LeVar Burton.
“There’s many reasons why I dislike Zayn [Malik], and there’s many reasons why I’ll always, always be on his side.”-On his former One Direction bandmate, Liam Payne.
STUPID NEWS
Mystery Pig On The Run
Authorities in Tennessee said they are trying to find the owner of a 300-pound mystery pig spotted wandering loose and damaging property. The Carter County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the sow has been wandering for days in the Judge Ben Allen Road area, and no owners have yet come forward to claim the 300-pound animal. The sheriff’s office said the pig has been helping itself to plants on neighbors’ properties. Shannon Posada, director of the Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter, said officials are hoping an owner comes forward soon, because the county does not have the proper equipment to capture or house the pig. “We have no way to transport a 300-pound pig, we have nowhere to put a 300-pound pig … safely,” Posada told WJHL-TV. “Unless we ask for a foster, and we’re happy to ask for a foster, but still we have no way of transportation for that large of an animal.” Posada said officials might ask for help from local farmers if no owner is found. See the video HERE.
********A 300-pound pig?? Has anyone seen Michael Moore??
******We’d love to adopt the pig… but then we’d have to feed him!!!
******The pig’s owner is thinking, “Let him stay lost!!”
Beaver Knocks Out The Internet
Utility officials in British Columbia said a beaver was responsible for an outage that affected a small number of power customers and a large number of Internet, landline and cellular customers. Bob Gammer of BC Hydro said an aspen tree fell on BC Hydro lines and a Telus fiber-optic cable line strung from BC Hydro poles in the area between Topley and Houston. The tree caused 21 customers to lose power and hundreds of Telus customers to lose Internet, landline and cellular service in Burns Lake, Granisle, Haida Gwaii, the Hazeltons, Kitimat, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Smithers, Terrace, Thornhill, Houston, Topley, Telkwa, Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof. Gammer said workers found chew marks at the bottom of the felled tree and determined it had been toppled by a beaver. “It’s unusual, but it does happen every once in a while,” Gammer told CTV News. “So I wouldn’t be a rich man if I had a nickel for every beaver outage, but they do happen.” The tree caught fire when it came into contact with the lines, and the flames were extinguished by the Topley Volunteer Fire Department. Telus services were restored after about eight hours.
*****A beaver is a very powerful thing!!
*******Ironically, a lot of fiber-optic customers were SEARCHING for beaver when it happened!!
********The last beaver that broke the Internet was Kim Kardashian!!
Florida Man Tries To Flee To Cuba On A Jet Ski
A Florida man awaiting trial for allegedly submitting more than $4 million in fraudulent health-care claims was detained on a jet ski as he tried to flee to Cuba. Ernesto Cruz Graveran, a 54-year-old Cuban citizen, owned Xiko Enterprises, Inc., a company based in Hialeah that provided equipment to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Florida. As a result of claims for medical equipment he never provided, Graveran received a payout of $2.1 million over just two months in 2022, the feds say. In court, government officials said U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Coast Guard officers found Graveran just south of Key West on a broken-down jet ski, 90 miles away from his final destination: Cuba. He was aboard the jet ski with a man who the Department of Justice believes smuggles illegal immigrants across the border. The jet ski was strapped with special fuel meant for extended trips and “a trove” of food and water bottles, the criminal complaint says.
**********At least he DID have a plan!!!
UPDATE: He told officers he can’t swim!! So… maybe not such a good plan!!
Goodbye Internet Explorer!
As of yesterday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser Internet Explorer that legions of web surfers loved to hate. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history. IE’s demise was not a surprise. A year ago, Microsoft said that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, pushing users to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015. The company made clear then it was time to move on. Users marked Explorer’s passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a “bug-ridden, insecure POS” or the “top browser for installing other browsers.” For others it was a moment for 90′s nostalgia memes, while The Wall Street Journal quoted a 22-year-old who was sad to see IE go. Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. Today, the Chrome browser dominates with roughly a 65% share of the worldwide browser market, followed by Apple’s Safari with 19%, according to internet analytics company Statcounter. IE’s heir, Edge, lags with about about 4%, just ahead of Firefox.
*********We were complaining about this on our MySpace page… but no one commented!!
STUFF THAT’S COOL AND VIRAL
VIDEO: CRAZY FLOODING IN YELLOWSTONE PARK!
VIDEO: GAS THIEF IN UTAH LIGHTS HIMSELF ON FIRE! (NOTICE THE NAME OF THE TRUCK)
A LIST FOR THURSDAY
5 Tricks to Save Money on Your Next Food Delivery
HUFFINGTON POST
- Compare Different Delivery Services
While the food might be the same across food delivery services, the price can vary. Depending on the app, you may be charged different delivery fees, so it is always worth it to check out the same restaurant on a few different apps.
If that local pizzeria is on Grubhub, there is a good chance it might also be on Uber Eats. Compare prices across the popular food delivery apps in your area to find the best delivery fees and save a bit of money on your next food delivery.
- Choose Restaurants With Free Delivery
On most food delivery services, restaurants can choose how much to charge for delivery. Some restaurants may opt to offer free delivery. Others may charge you quite a dime. We’ve seen some restaurants charge over $5 for delivery.
Keep a sharp eye out for the delivery fee a restaurant charges. If you have multiple options, consider choosing a restaurant that offers free delivery to its customers. Your wallet — and your stomach — will thank you in the long run.
PRO TIP
Fresh restaurant food isn’t the only thing you can have delivered to your door. Check out our guide on the eight best grocery delivery services to keep your fridge stocked at all times.
- Keep an Eye Out for Coupons and Promos
Nearly every food delivery service offers promotions and coupons. Sometimes you’ll find the promotions listed directly in the app. Other deals require some searching on the web. Before ordering, see if any deals are available for a specific food delivery service or restaurants.
Often promos are offered within food delivery apps for trying a new restaurant or ordering a specific combination from a restaurant. You may end up trying a new restaurant instead of an old favorite, but a bit of an adventure may lead to even more savings. Also, who knows, maybe you’ll find a new favorite restaurant.
PRO TIP
As the cost of living rises, coupons can help your pennies go further. Whether it’s the grocery store or Amazon, there just might be a coupon to help you save money.
- Invite Friends and Snag a Few Discounts
Most food delivery apps offer the ability to refer friends and family in exchange for a discount. You send a referral link to someone, then you may see a credit added to your account when they place an order. Inviting friends is a great way to share your favorite food delivery service while earning a bit of money yourself.
Typically, you only get the kickback when your invitees make their first purchase. It isn’t enough that they simply sign up. Next time you split food with friends, consider having them order via your link to put a little money back in your pocket.
- Get a Delivery Subscription
If you order food frequently, consider signing up for a delivery subscription. Many food delivery apps — such as DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats — now offer subscriptions to help you save money on delivery fees, and nab free delivery from restaurants that normally charge a fee. Some apps even offer unlimited free deliveries with a subscription.
Food delivery subscriptions run about $10 a month and may include other perks. For example, Grubhub+ gives you a $10 monthly credit for a pickup order, which essentially makes the subscription free.
Bonus: Order Directly From the Restaurant
Here’s a bonus idea to save money: Skip the delivery app and call the restaurant directly. Most restaurants need to add fees — and sometimes increase food prices — to cover the cost of using delivery service.
If you order the old fashioned way, you may be able to have food delivered without the cost of a middle man. It’s also a great way to support local businesses.
The preceding material was compiled and edited by Brandon Castillo. The Editor-In-Chief is Gary Bryan. The Radio Genius Show Prep Service is licensed for use on-air only by subscribing radio stations. Other means of redistribution is forbidden.
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