The List for Tuesday June 1st, 2021

Welcome to The List,

We start today with Sam Hunt, and what he likes to do on his days off…It’s not writing song, it’s not fishing or hunting.  As it turns out he likes to play Basketball.  “Usually at lunch, they start running basketball games up at the Y so, me and my brother Van we get up in the morning get a pot of coffee goin and turn on the movie ‘Troy’ to get us all amped up.”

Blake Shelton was asked to describe his most unusual live performance, So he talked about a time he did a breakfast performance at a McDonald’s in Alabama for a radio station…A guy walks up and hands him a brown bag and says “I brought something for you” turned out to be a bag of marijuana…Blake thought he was being set up for sure…

Who should be the permanent host for Jeopardy?  A poll was taken, and the big winner was Ken Jennings, followed by Aaron Rodgers. But MOST 51% had no opinion at all…

We Got This Covered says Dwayne ”The Rock” Johnson reportedly wants to fight Sly Stallone in one of his movies. Sly will turn 75 this year. The website also claims Sylvester wants to develop sequels to some of his older movies. He is open to doing another Tango & Cash movie with Kurt Russell and a “Cliffhanger” sequel

Variety Magazine is reporting that Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played Seaman “Happy” Haines on “McHale’s Navy’, Murray on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat” had died.  His nephew Mark, confirming the report that he passed early morning May 29^th.  No cause of death has been given, but his health had declined in recent months.  Gavin MacLeod was 90.

Happy Birthdays to Spider-man star Tom Holland 25 – Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn is 68 and Morgan Freeman is 84

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