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Happy Monday!!  Today we start with some behind the scenes with Liam Neeson and his movie “Taken” remember the “Very particular set of skills” speech?  Well Liam had NO IDEA it would become such an iconic speech. In fact, when he was delivering those lines, he actually thought they were CORNY. Quote, "It was a cornball.  I really did feel that.  It's nice to be proven wrong." So you can imagine after he delivered the line, he looks at the director and they both start laughing…

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"Judge Mathis" and "The People's Court" are both ending their runs at the end of the current season.  "Mathis" has been on the air for 24 seasons, and "The People's Court" is in its 26th.

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Olivia Newton-John's final recording is a duet with Dolly Parton singing Dolly’s classic "Jolene".  It'll be included on an upcoming posthumous release of Olivia's called "Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection".  It comes out May 5^th,

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A home gardening company called Epic Gardening teamed up with Carrie Underwood to help her build out her greenhouse.  They released a 26-minute video of the process, which includes a tour led by Carrie of her property and the chicken coop.  Ya gotta have chickens!!!

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A couple Hollywood quickies - Richard Gere was hospitalized in Mexico with pneumonia he was celebrating his wife’s 40^th birthday when he got the bug…but good news he’ll be alright.  Tom Sizemore from "Saving Private Ryan", "Pearl Harbor" and "Black Hawk Down" is in critical condition after suffering an aneurysm…he is in critical condition and is in a ‘Wait and see situation’.

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Lastly, our thought and prayers are with former President Jimmy Carter and his family.  The former president entered hospice care over the weekend.  He's 98.

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The diagnosis is in…Bruce Willis Has Dementia: The NY Post says he’s been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia or FTD. His family released a statement saying ....Today there are no treatments for the disease.

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Jack Nicholson Has Love Child: The NY Post says she’s breaking her silence. Tessa Gourin is 28. Her mother was working as a server when she had an affair with Jack in 1994. Jack refuses to acknowledge Tessa. Tessa says, “ I was raised by a single mother in a really intense, nuanced situation,” My mom wanted me to have a relationship with him, but he said he wasn’t interested.

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Would the world be a better place if more people got CLOCKED for doing ignorant stuff?  Brantley Gilbert thinks so.  He just did an interview with Outsider.com this is what he said, "A lot of the problems in our society right now stem from the fact that people don't get punched in the face anymore."  He said it applies to people being jerks online too, and hiding behind their laptops. He referenced a video of him just the other day jumping off stage to kick a guy out of a recent concert.  The guy reportedly hit a GIRL in the crowd, and Brantley saw it.

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Radar Online claims Arnold Schwarzenegger's friends allegedly want him to hire a chauffeur because of his latest traffic accident in which he hit a biker. A source tells the website, Arnie’s pal thinks it’s time to let someone else do the driving. He loves cruising around Los Angeles, but he seems to be cursed, and his friends want him to quit while he’s still ahead.

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Tractor Supply Company partnered with Lainey Wilson, Ashley McBryde, Jimmie Allen, Dustin Lynch, along with the Opry, to launch something called the "Emerging Artists Program."  It's basically a platform to discover and develop new country music artists.  Lainey Wilson made the announcement on the Opry stage just this week.

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And finally, Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce will host "Saturday Night Live" on March 4th with musical guest Kelsea Ballerini.

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We start with sad news today…One of the greatest sex symbols of all time is no more.  Raquel Welch passed away yesterday. .  There's no word yet on the cause of death. Raquel's big break was the 1966 sci-fi classic "Fantastic Voyage".  That same year, she wore her iconic animal skin bikini as the cavewoman Loana in the 1966 prehistoric classic "One Million Years B.C. It was even promoted as "Mankind's first bikini."  Raquel Welch was 82.

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For the first time ever, adults in the U.S. will spend more time watching digital content on platforms like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube, than traditional TV. "Linear TV" in 2023 will average under three hours a day . . . Netflix and YouTube are leading the way when it comes to digital video viewing.  People are watching about 33 minutes of each per day..We even Tic Tok more…Gone are the days of “Gunsmoke”.

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Lindsay Ell was recently diagnosed with an eating disorder.  She's been in denial about it for a long time, because she didn't LOOK like someone who was sick.  But when it started "taking over her life" she knew it was time to confront it. She's sharing her journey with fans in hopes that her experience can help someone else . . . just as other stories helped her.

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"You, Me, And Whiskey" ..Is a great song from Justin Moore and Priscilla Block.  They just released the video for the song and Justin says it’s pretty spicy. “It’s definitely the spiciest, sexiest, most sultry, whatever you wanna say, video that we’ve done. And in talking to our team about what we wanted the video to look like, it just kind of lent itself to that, to me, and we haven’t done that. And so I thought it was kind of cool, and I didn’t have to take my clothes off and get in bed, so that’s even better. It wouldn’t be that had I had to.” which is why he hired two actors to play the married couple.

https://youtu.be/4nwYUx4MLVU

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The new trailer for Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid" is out.  There's a glimpse of Melissa McCarthy as Ursula at the end.  It hits theaters on May 26^th, you can see it here...

https://youtu.be/6QbHoQzmLdc

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And lastly…"How to Train Your Dragon" is getting the live-action treatment at Universal.  It's expected to hit theaters March 14th, 2025…

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Remember Blockbuster? Well…The last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon saw a huge boost in sales thanks to its Super Bowl ad. If you don't remember the ad, that's because it didn't actually air during the game.  They posted it on social media during the Halftime Show.  And it WORKED.  Sales went up 200% after the ad went up. While you CAN actually rent movies at this Blockbuster. The ad is really good.  It promises that even after the world ends, this Blockbuster will STILL be here.

https://youtu.be/YxJumUOGIPw

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For those who keep track, a fourth "Spider-Man" movie with Tom Holland is in the works.  Also, Harrison Ford's Thunderbolt Ross will be the president of the United States in the upcoming "Captain America: New World Order".

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Corey Kent tells Billboard magazine that there's no substitute for practice if you want to get better at something. The “Wild As Her’ singer says muscle memory will get you so far…then I’m realizing that there is a certain element that is God-given ability. But honing your craft and putting in tens of thousands of hours. You have to be willing to do that if you want to succeed.”

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Tom Brady tells the Let's Go podcast that he had to look up what a ‘thirst trap’ was after he posted a picture of himself in his underwear. ''That's, I think, millennial verbiage. I actually had to look that up so I didn't quite know what it meant, but I just thought it was a good picture with some underwear. Nothing more than that.

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Is a Matthew McConaughey presidential bid a possibility? Not if you ask his wife Camila!!  Radar Online claims She’s against him running in 2028. A source tells the website, “Camila got Matthew to pull away from acting so he could be a more present father.  She thinks if he runs it will consume him and potentially tear their family apart.

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Carrie Underwood's family of four is now a family of five after the country music superstar welcomed an adorable new addition to her household! The Denim & Rhinestones singer on Sunday officially introduced fans to Charlotte "Charlie" Nilla Fisher, the new adorable puppy she adopted from North Carolina's Pawsitive Impact NC Dog Rescue.

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