Beaver dams. Brian’s wild weekend. Roadkill in a restaurant freezer.
Rain today…a bit cooler this entire week with highs right around 60°.
As we get back to work this morning, we both recapped our weekends. Brian was busy with Pat McCurdy on Friday night and emceeing the “Beverages & Bites” festival on Saturday. Jean spent the weekend helping with some yard work as part of the Habitat For Humanity’s “Neighbor’s Day”.
In the news this morning, the latest on the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner over the weekend, a brewery in Wisconsin is going viral for their posts about the President, Trader Joes is getting sued because their coffee allegedly doesn’t have enough caffeine, and the Wisconsin Grilled Cheese championships were held this weekend in Dodgeville!
In sports, the Brewers managed a win over the Pirates yesterday after losing their previous four games, a look at the NBA & NHL Playoffs, the T-Wolves are going to be without two of their top players for awhile, and Carson Hocevar gets his first Cup series win yesterday at Talladega!
We talked about what’s on TV today/tonight and what we’ve been watching over the weekend.
A round of “Did You Know” this morning…including a MASSIVE beaver dam in Canada. And some interesting stats about Blockbuster video.
The #1 pick in the NFL Draft last week was Fernando Mendoza, and he’s making even more news with his recent donation to the National MS Society in honor of his mother. And a guy in Boston nearly drowned after jumping into a freezing river to save his dog.
And speaking of dogs…and the NFL draft. Please tell me you’ve seen the pooch who just wanted his spot on the couch back!!! It’s hilarious!
Elsewhere in sports, the Red Sox cleaned house over the weekend, the NHL Winter Classic is going to be on New Years Eve in Utah, and Sabastian Sawe breaks the 2-hour marathon barrier.
A waitress is going viral for her video about a family that sent their meals back SIX times! And check out this incredible celebration by a soccer club & it’s fans when they get a promotion.
And in today’s edition of “Bad News with Happy Music”, we had stories about a drunk #FloridaWoman who tried to get her Tesla to drive her home on autopilot, a cop that’s being investigated for allegedly racing his cop car against another vehicle, a Chinese food restaurant in Louisiana that’s in some trouble after they were caught storing roadkill in a restaurant freezer, and a missing woman in Mexico who was hard to find because of the pics they used on her “missing poster”.
