Friday 1/17/25
Celebrate:
Ben Franklin Day
Cable Car Day
Customer Service Day
Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
Judgment Day
Kid Inventors' Day
National Bootlegger's Day
National Classy Day
National Hot Buttered Rum Day
National Hot Heads Chili Day
Popeye the Sailor Man Day
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New in Theaters
Wolfman - Horror movie with Christopher Abbott...guess what it's about. It's from BlumHouse so it could be good.
One of Them Days - Comedy with Keke Palmer, Lil Rel Howery, Maude Apatow, Katt Williams, SZA, and Janelle James.
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Bob Uecker, "Mr. Baseball" died at 90.
Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts will, sadly, never sound the same.
The voice of the team on the airwaves for 54 years, a Baseball Hall of Famer and local, statewide and national icon, died Thursday.
He started his baseball career as a player and got a World Series ring in 1964.
Uecker began his broadcasting career in 1969 with a two-year run in the booth with the Braves before returning home and starting his legendary run in 1971 with the Brewers. Along the way, Uecker also called national games on multiple networks from the 1970s into the 1990s.
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David Lynch died at 78.
He was the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks.”
He received nominations for directing “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and, in 2019, was presented an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
Producer Dino De Laurentiis then hired Lynch to director a big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune.” The film was a flop with critics and audiences — Lynch described producers’ trims and tweaks in post-production as “a nightmare” — but, still, the movie attracted a cult following over the years.
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From the...didn't they already do that????
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it’s banning the use of Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that gives food and drinks their bright red cherry color but has been linked to cancer in animals.
The dye is still used in thousands of foods, including candy, cereals, cherries in fruit cocktails and strawberry-flavored milkshakes.
Red No. 3, approved for use in foods in 1907, is made from petroleum.
California as well as 10 other states have already made moves to ban the food dye, according to CSPI. It's also banned or severely restricted in places outside the U.S., including Australia, Japan and countries in the European Union.
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Some people say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And 23% of American adults say it's their FAVORITE meal of the day. But still, we have ZERO TIME for it.
In a new poll, 56% of people say they "always" or "usually" have breakfast, and 57% of people say they usually prepare their own breakfast.
But 10% of people say they scarf their entire breakfast down in LESS than five minutes. 34% say they carve out five to 10 minutes for eating it. 33% say it takes 11 to 20 minutes to eat breakfast. And another 14% say it can take 30.
Only 1% of people devote up to an hour for breakfast and 0% of people say it takes them more than an hour to enjoy breakfast.
One reason is that breakfast isn't a communal meal for most people. 53% of people say they eat breakfast alone . . . 47% of people watch TV while they eat breakfast (mostly older adults) . . . 34% "look at their phone" while eating breakfast (mostly younger adults) . . . and 17% listen to music or podcasts.
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Is fitness your resolution this year? Are you still engaged with it?? There are some new fitness trends that might keep you motivated!
1. Team sports and studio-based workouts are trendy. 19% of people who work out regularly expect to participate in team sports this year, up from 11% in 2020. Studio-based workouts like yoga and spin classes are up three points.
2. Personal trainers are still popular, but trending down. 21% said they'd worked with a health or wellness coach recently, down from 25% last year. But that's still higher than 18% in 2023. They're great, but also expensive.
3. More people at your gym will be on Ozempic. The poll found people on weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy tend to prefer working out in a gym. They're less likely to exercise at home or outdoors.
4. Turning your workout into a game is more popular. That means things like Apple Watch challenges and Fitbit badges. 8% "always" gamify their work out, up from 6%. Another 16% said sometimes, up four points.
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Has this ever happened at your office? A woman in Indonesia got her nose ring caught in the mesh on the back of her office chair.
No one could free it, so they called for help. The woman and the attached chair were taken in the back of a van to a local fire department where they were able to cut her free.
And related:
Buzzfeed asked What's the silliest way you've ever injured yourself?
A woman was singing "Part of Your World" from "The Little Mermaid" at karaoke, got way too into it and tore her ACL.
A guy waxed his floor, tried to do the Tom Cruise slide from "Risky Business", but didn't stop. and busted his lip on a doorframe.
Someone tried ice skating for the first time, immediately tried a jump, and broke their tailbone.
A woman dislocated her knee trying to kick a balloon.
"I stood on a beach ball and fell into a coffee table."
A woman was washing her face in the shower, shoved her pinky finger up her nose, and got a horrible nosebleed.
Someone tried to walk down a set of stairs with roller skates on and needed ten stitches in their knee.
Someone was riding their bike, got distracted when they saw a cute puppy, and crashed into a mailbox.
"I sliced my finger open on a disco ball."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Facebook uses blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. Quote, "Blue is the richest color for me, I can see all of blue."
(I'm actually not sure this is true..but it doesn't matter, it's facebook...so ...well, there you go.)
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