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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Dec 4, 2020
December 4, 2020
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Join MAREN MORRIS, BON JOVI, SNOOP DOGG and other artists doing a special concert to raise funds for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and WhyHunger. The one-hour CBS special, "Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change," will air at 9 pm (Eastern), and hosted by KEVIN BACON and EVE, with sets from New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. Viewers can donate to the organizations by texting the code “Playon” to 44-321.
Correction: That one-hour CBS special, "Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change," featuring MAREN MORRIS, BON JOVI, SNOOP DOGG and other artists doing a special concert to raise funds for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and WhyHunger has been postponed from this past Friday and will now air Tuesday, Dec 15th at 8 pm (Eastern). Hosted by KEVIN BACON and EVE, with sets from New York's Apollo Theatre, Nashville's Bluebird Cafe and The Troubador in Los Angeles, it also features LL COOL J, SHERYL CROW and special appearances by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JOHN LEGEND and RINGO STARR. Viewers can donate to the organizations by texting the code “Playon” to 44-321.
Julien’s Auctions’ annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Auction is over and Rolling Stone magazine reports three of EDDIE VAN HALEN's guitars topped the list by selling for a total of $422-thousand dollars. A couple of Fender guitars smashed by KURT COBAIN sold for a combined $281,600, BOB MARLEY’s first guitar ever to come to auction sold for $153,600 and a mid-1960s Hammond B-3 organ played by GREG ALLMAN went for $102,400.
Three former presidents --BARACK OBAMA, GEORGE W. BUSH and BILL CLINTON say they plan to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera to raise confidence in its safety. In the most recent Gallup poll, just 58-percent of Americans say they'd take the vaccine. Question for listeners: why wouldn't you take the vaccine? Scared? Or is it a government plot?
If you're a fan of Oreo cookies --you've got a brand-new treat coming. The first Oreo was sold in New York back in 1912. The company now produces 40 billion cookies a year. And the latest incarnation is a brand-new LADY GAGA “Chromatica” edition. The name is taken from Gaga's latest album, and will have pink Oreo cookies with green-colored filling and four different designs on the pink cookies. Look for them in six packs at convenience stores in January. You'll also reportedly get to buy whole packs of the cookies later next year.
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