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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 18, 2022
January 18, 2022
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POPE FRANCIS was caught on camera heading into a record shop in Rome this week. If you were the Pope, what album would you want? MADONNA's "Like a Virgin" sold a million copies in Italy years ago. Turns out his Holiness was just out to bless the newly renovated Stereo Sound shop near the Pantheon... not get a CD or an album for his study in the Vatican. Francis grew up listening to opera on the radio and loves tango, Mozart and Wagner. The shop owners gave him a CD of classical music.
Are your kids into the 'Baby Shark Dance'? It just hit 10 Billion-with-a-"B" views on YouTube, the first video to do it. In the video, two kids perform Baby Shark while the animated shark and his family, which includes a Grandpa Shark too, swim serenely before attempting to hunt the children. However, they fail and watch from afar, while the kids rejoice.
Italian police are reportedly revolting against wearing pink face masks they were just issued. The say it'll damage their image because it just doesn’t work with their snappy official uniforms. They only want white, blue or black masks. What color mask would you just... not... wear?
Must be tough to be royalty in England. PRINCE HARRY has had to appeal a government ruling that he should not receive police protection when he's on British soil-- even if he covers the cost himself. When he and MEGHAN are in Los Angeles, he pays for his own security, but when he's in England, no doubt he remembers his mother, Princess Diana, dying in a car crash while trying to escape the paparazzi.
Mexico has seized 380-thousand boxes of Kellogg's cereal, including Corn Flakes and Special K. Why? The raid was made because the cartoon mascots on some of the boxes supposedly breached recent laws aimed at improving children's diets. The seized cereals may not necessarily contain high levels of sugar but the laws ban food companies from using "marketing ploys" to entice children.
Who do you know who loves soaps? Turns out MERYL STREEP watches "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." Not exactly a soap, but lotsa similarities. She and JENNIFER LAWRENCE were out plugging their new movie when the revelation came out. And, as it turns out, Jennifer is a big fan, too.
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