The List for Thursday, April 14th 2022

Welcome to The List,

You may have heard that Willie Nelson likes to smoke a little smoke.  Okay, a LOT of smoke . . . and that’s the key ingredient to this story from Tim McGraw  It happened one year at the CMAs.

As Tim tells it he and Willie were in an elevator with two cops and their police dog.  Things got a little tense there for a minute.  After the cops got off Willie joked that it must’ve been a “bomb dog” . . . as in, NOT a “drug-sniffing dog.”

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Remember Ted the foul-mouthed teddy bear? Word it there’s going to be a “Ted” prequel series set in 1993 when the newness of a talking teddy bear has worn of and now it’s day to day with a 16 year old ‘John” who was played by Mark Wahlberg in the movies.  Seth Macfarlane is going to voice Ted again, and also write, direct, A release date hasn’t been announced yet but I can tell you ‘Ted’ is coming to Peacock.

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Congratulation to Jamey Johnson last month he was informed that he was no longer going to be a guest at the Grand Ole Opry – that’s because Whispering Bill Anderson extended the invite to Jamey for him to become a member. Now we know that next month on May 14th Jamey will be inducted as the newest member of the Opry.

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”Top Gun: Maverick” is getting traction and director Joseph Kosinski tells Empire magazine that he shot 800 hours of footage for the film. Saying ”The sequel shot as much footage as the three ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies combined.  Out of a 12 or 14-hour day, you might get 30 seconds of good footage.  That’s what it took to get good aerial shots.  ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ after multiple delays since it’s original release date of July 2019 will finally be in theaters May 27^th.

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First times are important…you first beer…first time you drove a car…Your first concert?  Cole Swindell remembers his first concert “Randy Travis and my grandparents took me to it – and something that you know I was very young so it’s kind of hard to…I just remember being there and buying a T-shirt.” Now, they’re label mates at Warner Brothers…crazy cool how things work out.

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Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion, The billionaire and founder of electric car maker Tesla, who earlier this month disclosed he owns a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Saying the social media company “needs to be transformed as a private company.” And believes free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. In a statement, Twitter said it has received Musk’s offer and that its board “will carefully review the proposal.”

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