Today we visit with author Kimberly Potts. We will visit with her about her new book “It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History & Help Build a Network” AVAILABLE NOW: https://amzn.to/4odGzmR
TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
Georgia Day
https://www.cocktailwave.com/recipes/georgia-peach
SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
A study revealed that nearly half of British adults feel they’ve forgotten how to enjoy play. People over age 42 are the most affected. To remind everyone that fun is timeless, a giant ball pit with 65,000 red balls was installed in Manchester—encouraging people to play, laugh, and donate for charity. It was nostalgic, silly, and served a worthy cause.
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
Gwyneth Paltrow’s relationship with Luke Wilson tends to get overshadowed by the fact that she dated Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck. But her one-year romance with her “Royal Tenenbaums” costar wasn’t an insignificant chapter of her love life. According to the new book “Gwyneth: The Biography” by journalist Amy Odell, Paltrow even considered starting a family with the actor. It’s unclear how or why Paltrow and Wilson broke up — but around the same time of her family-planning thoughts, Paltrow attended a Coldplay concert, where she met the future father of her children, Chris Martin.
More than 3 decades after “Mrs. Doubtfire” hit theaters, one of its stars is dreaming up a way to honor the film’s late and legendary lead Robin Williams. Matthew Lawrence, who played one of the Hillard children in the 1993 comedy, revealed during a Comic-Con appearance that he’d love to see Williams’ iconic voice brought back to life through AI — with support from the late actor’s family, of course. Lawrence was 12 when he starred alongside Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, the heartwarming hit about a devoted dad who transforms into a Scottish nanny to stay close to his kids following a divorce. Now 45, he says those memories, and Williams’ voice, have stuck with him ever since.
Fox will keep it simple with its fall premiere schedule. The network will roll out all of its entertainment lineup in the second half of September, with every show debuting in its regular timeslot. No post-NFL premieres (other than for its regular Sunday animated comedies), no 2-hour openers — just a lineup that’s heavy on game shows and other unscripted fare. Two of the game shows, “Celebrity Name That Tune” and “Celebrity Weakest Link”, will kick off Fox’s season on Sept. 15. The rest of the non-sports lineup will follow, with “Murder in a Small Town” and “Doc” debuting Sept. 23; game shows “The Floor” and “99 to Beat” on Sept. 24; and competition series “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Special Forces” on Sept. 25.
DID YA KNOW!?
Octopuses don’t actually have tentacles. They have eight limbs, but they're arms (for most species). Technically, when talking about cephalopods (octopuses, squids etc), scientists define tentacles as limbs with suckers at their end. Octopus arms have suckers down most of their length.
JOKE
OF THE DAY
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HEIDI)
SCOOP
OF THE DAY
It’s International Clown Week! New South Wales is mourning the death of Mazza the Clown.
Last week was “Shark Week”. I looked it up. Sharks kill about 5 people on average every year, while cows kill about 20.
Amazon just bought Bee, a startup that makes a bracelet that basically records everything it hears. The wearable AI assistant listens to conversations around you, then uses AI to summarize your day, remind you of stuff, and offer suggestions through its app. For $50 plus a $20 per month fee, you can even let it pull info from your emails, calendar, photos, and more, to help it keep track of your life. The idea is to create a kind of searchable memory on your wrist. Amazon says it’s bringing Bee on board to make AI even more personal and helpful. Bee has a no-audio-storage policy, and Amazon says it “cares deeply” about privacy and will work to give users even more control once the acquisition is finalized. By the way, for those interested in this option, Bee can also be used to provide an analysis of your swearing habits.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
If you have a favorite quote.... you can send it to us at the bottom of the page at JohnAndHeidiShow.com
"I am a cotton-headed ninny-muggins!" Elf, 2003
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ In a test, those using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving performed as poorly as, or worse, than those driving drunk.
✓ It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
✓ Your eyeballs do not grow or change their size as you age.
✓ The Monster in “Frankenstein” was never actually named, although the Monster itself proposed the name “Adam.”
✓ Cats have 5 toes on the front paws, but only 4 on the back.
WEIRD NEWS
Waze co-founder Uri Levine predicts that the next generation of kids will never learn to drive. The serial entrepreneur believes that within a decade, most paid mobility and transportation services will be autonomous. He compared the shift to driverless cars to past automations, like elevator operators. Levine, who also helped build the journey-planner app Moovit, predicts kids born today, known as Generation Beta, will never end up behind the wheel, and, “A generation after that, if you will tell them that you used to drive cars yourself, they will not believe you.”
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Oddly, about 1700 people are injured every year doing THIS. What is it?
Answer: Watching a professional baseball game
HEIDI HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM WOMEN:
⇒ Standing desk usage so far: time sitting: 90% time standing: 5% time accidentally hitting the button that makes it go up and down: 117% — Meghan
⇒ Why do dogs sigh like they pay taxes? — busyblackbookworm
⇒ “you’re acting weird” ok, well first off, I’m not acting – rustybeaches
⇒ Being in your 30s is just texting your girlfriends cool-sounding events and saying “we have to go to this!!” and never going — saralememe
⇒ The DMV: Did you bring your 3rd grade report card with you? — Kristen
⇒ I love when I come home I put on my Adam Sandler clothes. — Bre
⇒ Midway through his third day of bedrest post-vasectomy, my husband got out the paperwork to show me that he is not allowed to lift anything or walk or talk to anyone, and discovered that it says 24 hrs of bedrest, not 2 weeks. He is now sheepishly Doing Things again. — rachelscotland
⇒ I just high fived a fist bump. Do I sign up for assisted living or do they find me? — samantharonson
GOOD NEWS
World’s
Most Premature Surviving Baby Turns One, Sets New Guinness Record
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news
