Southwest announced their first ever mother-daughter co-pilot team. Captain Holly Petitt was joined by her daughter Keely Petitt on a flight last month. Keely says she was 14 when she knew she wanted to follow in her mom’s footsteps…………… Lindsey Bembli, a woman in Florida crawled 300 feet through a sewer to rescue a kitten last…… read more »
Aerosmith continues to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and part of that celebration is a streaming concert series called “50 Years Live!: From The Aerosmith Vaults”. The band is featuring “offical bootlegs” of five shows from their vaults. The first installment is “Live From The Summit, Houston, TX, 1977”. (Warning: NSFW) Joe Walsh has announced his…… read more »
A campaign just launched in Minnesota that allows people to support local breweries AND dogs at the same time. For $30, you can buy a “Sidewalk Dog” pass to visit 33 dog-friendly breweries and sample 47 free beers. 5% of the proceeds benefit the American Humane Society………….. Researchers may have found the key to treating…… read more »
Here’s a guy who beat the odds: Franklin Estes lives in New Hampshire and just turned 106 years old on Friday. He was born premature in 1916, and then survived polio. He had to have a pacemaker put in on his 105th birthday last year, but he’s still kickin’. He had a less stressful birthday…… read more »
A tourist in Greece was recently stranded at sea for 18 hours, and managed to survive by staying afloat using a volleyball he found until he was rescued. So everyone’s comparing it to Wilson from “Cast Away”…………………. Last week, we heard about a heroic 25-year-old man named Nick Bostic who ran into a burning house in…… read more »
David Lee Roth released an ode to Van Halen called “Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway”. (Warning: NSFW) Dee Snider may be liberal, but he won’t stop conservative politicians from using his music. Quote, “I wrote it for everyone . . . cherry picking who uses it is censorship.” Metallica released a new…… read more »
A banner plane crashed just off the California shore recently . . . but coincidentally, a lifeguard competition was happening nearby, and multiple lifeguards sprang into action and saved the pilot’s life……………….There’s video of a Ukrainian soldier hiding in a huge box so that he can surprise his young daughter, who he hadn’t seen in…… read more »
Rice University researchers found a way to use dead spiders as the raw material for robotic grippers. They’re excited about it . . . but turning dead spiders into robots sounds like an idea that BETTER NOT BACKFIRE……………….. Firefighters in east Tennessee saved a kitten that somehow got stuck inside a Pepsi vending machine outside…… read more »
This year’s Farm Aid will be September 24th in Raleigh, North Carolina. The line-up includes Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Chris Stapleton, and Margo Price. Pre-sale tickets go on sale July 27, with the general public sale on the 30th. Check out pro filmed video of Metallica performing “Bleeding Me” in Copenhagen,…… read more »
The FCC is FINALLY cracking down on those annoying auto-warranty robocalls, which are often scams. That said, the people behind these calls have purchased access to hundreds of thousands of phone numbers, so it won’t be easy shutting it down………………..J.J. Watt may be an Arizona Cardinal now, but he would never turn his back on…… read more »