NOTE: Subscribers can download the DIY graphics, sales one sheets and audio clips on the Show Prep page here with their login or in the shared Dropbox folder.  

Tease: Coming up in ___________ minutes, good vaccine news  

Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson say they’ll produce 240 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of March, enough to fully vaccinate a third of Americans. Also, the FDA will now allow the Pfizer vaccines to be stored in standard freezers, expanding the number of sites that can administer it. The shots can last 2 weeks in a standard freezer. Provided you make room by throwing out the Thanksgiving leftovers you’re never going to eat. (Additional out) Making my idea to vaccinate people at the Chick-fil-A drive-thru much more viable.  

Tease: In ___­­­­___ minutes, a Tiger Woods update  

Tiger Woods is awake and recovering from surgery on his right leg and ankle. Yesterday morning the golf legend was involved in a serious one-vehicle rollover car accident near LA. Woods was trapped but conscious when emergency responders reached the scene. Surgeons have inserted a rod and screws into his leg that suffered a compound fracture. The 45-year-old had also recently went through his fifth back operation. We hope he has a speedy recovery.  

Tease: Coming up at ­­­­­­­­­­­­_____, the new post office mail truck is tall and weird looking  

Yesterday the US post office unveiled their next generation mail truck and it looks super odd, go to our website to see the pic. The new van has a low engine compartment and hood and a VERY high windshield, leading some to compare it to a duck’s head, complete with a bill. The much taller version of the mail delivery vehicle was designed to carry more packages but it won’t hit the road until 2023. Giving us all plenty of time to get used to how ugly it looks. (Additional out) As you'd expect, everyone made the same Pixar joke on Twitter.  

Tease: In _____ minutes, where venomous spiders shut down a library  

The University of Michigan says it shut down a campus library for two days after discovering venomous spiders. The ‘small number’ of venomous Mediterranean recluse spiders were uncovered in the basement mechanical room in late January and have since been found in basements and remote areas of other buildings due to low occupancy. The Mediterranean recluse spider is a cousin to the brown recluse spider, but is even more reclusive. We can relate, we all have that weird cousin nobody talks to anymore, and if you don’t, then it’s you. (Additional out) As if college kids need another reason to avoid libraries.  

Phone Topic/Web Poll: Now that filming has resumed for most TV shows, many of them are incorporating the pandemic into storylines. That’s receiving mixed reviews from viewers with some complaining that they would prefer an escape from TV rather than a constant reminder of our reality. What do you think, do you want to see pandemic plotlines in your favorite TV shows or should they avoid it?  

Contest Tease: Coming up at _____________, women are better at this than men according to a new study? The correct answer wins ________.  

[Contest setup] Researchers at the University of Bath, Cardiff and London just published a study that pointed out another key difference in the sexes. According to their findings, women are better at what than men?  

A: Letting go of a grudge  

B: Reading minds  

C: Predicting the weather  

Answer: B, the group of psychologists developed the first ever ‘mind-reading questionnaire’ and found that women are better than men at reading minds. Hence why they’re well aware than men only think about food, sports and that other thing.  

[DIY Feature] What in the World Wednesday: I’ll give you riddle clues about a place, person or thing and the first person to guess it correctly wins _________. If no one gets it I’ll give you more clues.  

Hint: Animal  

Clue 1: They can run twice as fast as humans  

Clue 2: The largest of them get up to 10 feet long and weigh 1,500 pounds  

Clue 3: Koalas are not one but Pandas are  

Answer: Bears  

5 Things You Need to Know  

1) Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson say they’ll produce 240 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of March, enough to fully vaccinate a third of Americans. Also, the FDA will now allow the Pfizer vaccines to be stored in standard freezers, expanding the number of sites that can administer it. The shots can last 2 weeks in a standard freezer. Provided you make room by throwing out the Thanksgiving leftovers you’re never going to eat.  

2) Tiger Woods is awake and recovering from surgery on his right leg and ankle. Yesterday morning the golf legend was involved in a serious one-vehicle rollover car accident near LA. Woods was trapped but conscious when emergency responders reached the scene. Surgeons have inserted a rod and screws into his leg that suffered a compound fracture. The 45-year-old had also recently went through his fifth back operation. We hope he has a speedy recovery.  

3) Yesterday the US post office unveiled their next generation mail truck and it looks super odd, go to our website to see the pic. The new van has a low engine compartment and hood and a VERY high windshield, leading some to compare it to a duck’s head, complete with a bill. The much taller version of the mail delivery vehicle was designed to carry more packages but it won’t hit the road until 2023. Giving us all plenty of time to get used to how ugly it looks.  

4) The University of Michigan says it shut down a campus library for two days after discovering venomous spiders. The ‘small number’ of venomous Mediterranean recluse spiders were uncovered in the basement mechanical room in late January and have since been found in basements and remote areas of other buildings due to low occupancy. The Mediterranean recluse spider is a cousin to the brown recluse spider, but is even more reclusive. We can relate, we all have that weird cousin nobody talks to anymore, and if you don’t, then it’s you.  

5) Researchers at the University of Bath, Cardiff and London just published a study that pointed out another key difference in the sexes. The group of psychologists developed the first ever ‘mind-reading questionnaire’ and found that women are better than men at reading minds. Hence why they’re well aware than men only think about food, sports and that other thing.  

Should TV Shows Avoid Pandemic Plot Lines?  

Now that filming has resumed for most TV shows, many of them are incorporating the pandemic into storylines. That’s receiving mixed reviews from viewers with some complaining that they would prefer an escape from TV rather than a constant reminder of our reality. What do you think, do you want to see pandemic plotlines in your favorite TV shows or should they avoid it? We posed those questions to our  _________ listeners, click below to hear their responses, take the web poll below to weigh in, then listen tomorrow at _______ to hear the results.  

(Upload audio from your best calls)  

(Web poll)  

Should TV shows avoid pandemic storylines?  

Yes  

No