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‘The Bachelorette’ recap: A shocking and emotional departure rocks Gabby ahead of hometown visits

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Gabby and Rachel’s journeys to find love continued amid the charming canals and tulip fields of Amsterdam on Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette, but with hometown visits right around the corner, Gabby faced her toughest breakup yet.

Ahead of her one-on-one date with Nate, who has a daughter, Gabby came to the conclusion that the complicated relationship she had with her estranged mother made it impossible for Gabby to take on the responsibility of being a mother herself. That left her with no other choice but to send Nate home, leading to one of the most emotional breakups of the season.

“I take the potential of being a mom so seriously because of my past and at…times childhood was hard and parenting didn’t look like it does in other people and I’m terrified of maybe putting someone else in my position or maybe making the wrong decision,” the former Denver Broncos cheerleader shared in a confessional. “I have to weigh these options seriously,”

The news left Nate, who had a previous one-on-one with Gabby and seemed to be a frontrunner in the competition, with “a bit of heartbreak” and “confusion.”

“She’s going to be a hard connection that I don’t think I’ll be able to replicate,” he added, addressing the camera before boarding the car that would take him home.

Later, on a group date in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, Gabby’s men displayed their kinky side, while Rachel’s group proved their love with a cheese weightlifting competition. Rachel’s rose went to Tyler, while Gabby’s afterparty was canceled after Logan tested positive for COVID-19, eliminating him from the rest of the competition as well.

Earlier, a one-on-one date between Rachel and Tino ended with him getting a rose.

Monday’s rose ceremony saw Ethan and Spencer eliminated from Rachel and Gabby’s respective groups.

Here are the men whose families Gabby and Rachel will meet:

Rachel:
Aven, 28, a sales executive from San Diego, California
Tino, 28, a general contractor from Playa Del Rey, California
Tyler, 25, a small business owner from Wildwood, New Jersey
Zach, 25, a tech executive from Anaheim Hills, California

Gabby:
Erich, 29, a real estate analyst from Bedminster, New Jersey
Jason, 30, an investment banker from Santa Monica, California
Johnny, 25, a realtor from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Nate, 33, an electrical engineer from Chicago, Illinois

The Bachelorette returns Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Guess what? Adele’s song “Hello” isn’t about heartbreak

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

As part of covering ELLE’s September 2022 global issue, Adele has made a video that takes fans behind the lyrics for some of her best-known songs. But one of the most surprising things revealed in the video is that her #1 hit “Hello” isn’t about the heartbreak of a shattered romance … it’s about herself.

In the video, Adele is asked to talk about the meaning behind the lyrics “Hello from the outside/at least I can say that I’m tried/to tell you I’m sorry for breaking your heart/but it don’t matter/it clearly doesn’t tear you apart anymore.”

“I hadn’t long had a baby when I wrote ‘Hello,’ and it was also on the 25 album, which was following 21, which just blew up … it was massive,” Adele recalls in the video. “So I guess I was a little bit of a stranger to myself in the way that my life had changed because of my career, but also becoming a mum.”

“I missed my friends and I missed my life before being a mum, before being famous, all of those things,” she continues. “And I feel like when you have a kid … it brings up a lot to do with your own parents, because you’re trying to be a parent … so it was very much inspired by that.”

And so, Adele reveals, “Hello” “was about my younger self. It was my older self talking to my younger self, like, ‘Who am I?’ I remember it very clearly. I don’t feel like that at all anymore, which is a relief!”

In the video, Adele also reminisces about writing “Easy On Me,” “Chasing Pavements,” “All I Ask” and “Someone Like You.”

Before “Sunroof,” Nicky Youre was ready to write himself off as a one-hit wonder

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Nicky Youre‘s summer hit “Sunroof,” which he wrote in 2021 while he was still in college, has made him a star. But he says if things had gone differently, he would’ve ended up giving up on music altogether before he ever came up with that song.

“In college is when I almost quit music,” he tells ABC Audio. ” I was making a ton in high school with my buddy who introduced me to the whole process and I was enjoying college a lot and I was enjoying making music. But he lived an hour away and I didn’t have any friends that made music in college, so I slowed down a lot.”

He did come up with one song that got a lot of attention online — it was called “Sex and Lemonade” — but he didn’t think he could follow it up.

“[It was] the first pop song that I ever made and I knew right then that I wanted to make more of that stuff,” recalls Nicky. “But I didn’t really have any producers [to help me] that were making pop. So I was like, ‘I’ll just be a one-hit wonder…[with] with my one song,’ ’cause it was doing well. And I was like, ‘I’ll just be done with music.'”

But then, he got some unexpected encouragement.

“Luckily, my manager reached out to me and was like, ‘Dude, you gotta keep going. You’ve got too much cool stuff to, like, not at least give it a try when you’re young,'” says Nicky. “So I’m super-grateful for him and I’m glad I kept going with it.”

It’s a good thing he did. He says last spring, “I was feeling bad one night at my college house and wanted to make something that was going to make me feel good. And ‘Sunroof’ was born.”

Machine Gun Kelly reflects on tour-ending hometown show: “It’s a fairy tale”

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

For Machine Gun Kelly, this is what dreams are made of.

The “Bloody Valentine” rocker has shared a statement reflecting on his sold-out, headlining concert at the FirstEnergy Stadium in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. The show, which took place Saturday, marked the final date on MGK’s U.S. tour in support of his latest album, Mainstream Sellout.

“I typed out and erased how I’m feeling 20 times but I’ll never be able to put it in words so I won’t even try,” Kelly writes. “Just know I’m still smiling ear to ear and wiping tears.”

To add to the excitement of the concert, Cleveland declared August 13 to be Machine Gun Kelly Day.

“Sold out stadium show in my hometown (on MGK Day) to end a legendary tour,” Kelly muses. “It’s a fairy tale.”

Kelly also retweeted a post from Travis Barker congratulating him on his successful homecoming.

“Brother I’m so proud of you,” Barker writes. “A…sold out stadium in your hometown!!!! It doesn’t get any better.”

The Blink-182 drummer, who worked with MGK on Mainstream Sellout and 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, adds, “I’m so proud of the albums we made and watching thousands of kids sing the songs we’ve written together.”

Machine Gun Kelly will return to the road for a European tour launching in September.

Gone fishing: Sam Hunt features his favorite fishing hole in “Water Under the Bridge” video

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The location for Sam Hunt‘s “Water Under the Bridge” video is a personal one.

One of the main features of the video is the river where Sam and his friends are fishing and partying. Turns out, it’s a secret spot that the singer frequents. Sam found the fishing hole in Middle Tennessee a few years ago and it’s become his favorite spot for catching smallmouth bass.

“Middle Tennessee has some really good smallmouth water, and that’s a cool little place I found several years ago,” he describes. “I have a canoe that I’ll strap onto the top of the Jeep or truck and take over there and float that little stretch and sometimes catch fish, sometimes not. But it’s so pretty over there, it’s worth taking the trip in the summer or early fall.”

“Water Under the Bridge” is the second single off the Georgia native’s upcoming album. It follows the #1 hit “23,” marking his ninth single to achieve the feat.

Julian Lennon says watching ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ docuseries “brought back … loving memories” of his late dad

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Julian Lennon, the elder of John Lennon‘s two sons, says watching his late father in the acclaimed Disney+ docuseries The Beatles: Get Back made him feel close to his dad, who was murdered in December 1980 at age 40.

Julian, who was the only child John had with his first wife, Cynthia, didn’t see his father very often after the famous Beatles co-founder left Cynthia for second wife Yoko Ono in 1968.

Julian tells ABC Audio that when he first watched an abbreviated version of Get Back at a screening in Los Angeles last year, it helped to remind him of the positive aspects of his father that he experienced when John was still regularly part of his life.

“[W]hat I was seeing was Dad how I knew Dad before we separated, before … he went off,” Julian notes. “So, that just brought back all the warm, funny, great, loving memories that I have up until the age of around 5 … I mean, obviously, I saw him a few times later in life, as a teenager, but that was him … before everything changed. … I just remember that warmth, the comedy, the cheekiness.”

The 59-year-old singer/songwriter says the docuseries also helped demonstrate what “phenomenal players” The Beatles were. He marveled at watching how they were able to create a set of great originals songs so quickly leading up to their famous rooftop performance.

“I mean, you were sitting in the theater going, ‘How can they do this?'” Julian says. “And yet, they were ultimate professionals in every way, shape or form. And … that again reminded us of why they … were so successful, because they were just, they were really on it.”

Julian is preparing to release his seventh studio album, Jude, on September 9.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

‘The Bachelorette’ recap: A shocking and emotional departure rocks Gabby ahead of hometowns

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Gabby and Rachel’s journeys to find love continued amid the charming canals and tulip fields of Amsterdam on Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette, but with hometowns right around the corner, Gabby faced her toughest breakup yet.

Ahead of her one-on-one date with Nate, who has a daughter, Gabby, came to the conclusion that the complicated relationship she had with her estranged mother, made it impossible for Gabby to take on the responsibility of being a mother herself. That left her with no other choice but to send Nate home, leading to one of the most emotional breakups of the season.

The news left Nate, who had a previous one-on-one with Gabby and seemed to be a frontrunner in the competition, with “a bit of heartbreak” and “confusion.”

“She’s going to be a hard connection that I don’t think I’ll be able to replicate,” he added, addressing the camera before boarding the car that would take him home.

Earlier, a one-on-one date between Rachel and Tino ended with him getting a rose.

Monday’s rose ceremony saw Ethan and Spencer eliminated from Rachel and Gabby’s respective groups.

Here are the men whose families Gabby and Rachel will meet:

Rachel:

Aven, 28, a sales executive from San Diego, California
Tino, 28, a general contractor from Playa Del Rey, California
Tyler, 25, a small business owner from Wildwood, New Jersey
Zach, 25, a tech executive from Anaheim Hills, California

Gabby:

Erich, 29, a real estate analyst from Bedminster, New Jersey
Jason, 30, an investment banker from Santa Monica, California
Johnny, 25, a realtor from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Nate, 33, an electrical engineer from Chicago, Illinois

The Bachelorette returns Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Scoreboard roundup — 8/15/22

August 16, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4, Detroit 1
Detroit 7, Cleveland 5
Tampa Bay 4, NY Yankees 0
Baltimore 7, Toronto 3
Minnesota 4, Kansas City 2
Chi White Sox 4, Houston 2
Final Texas 2 Oakland 1
Seattle 6, LA Angels 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3
Miami 3, San Diego 0
Washington 5, Chi Cubs 4
Atlanta 13, NY Mets 1
LA Dodgers 4, Milwaukee 0
San Francisco 6, Arizona 1

Millions of people in Midwest to experience ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053: Report

August 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are at risk of experiencing an “extreme heat belt” that would affect parts of the Midwest over the next three decades, according to a new report from the nonprofit research group First Street Foundation.

By 2053, 1,023 counties, an area home to more than 107 million Americans and covers a quarter of U.S. land, are expected to see the heat index, or the feels-like temperature, surpass 125 degrees Fahrenheit at least one day a year, according to the report, which was released Monday.

According to the First Street Foundation’s study, those high temperatures, considered extremely dangerous by the National Weather Service, are expected to affect 8 million Americans this year and increase 13 times over 30 years.

The “extreme heat belt” extends from Texas’ northern border and Louisiana north through Iowa, Indiana and Illinois, the report shows.

Other parts of the country are expected to see hotter temperatures, harming people living in areas not used to excessive heat, the report found.

“This reality suggests that a 10% temperature increase in Maine can be as dangerous as a 10% increase in Texas, even as the absolute temperature increase in Texas is much higher,” researchers wrote in the report.

The researchers cited the changing condition in the environment that’s leading to higher temperatures and more humid conditions.

“When everyone thinks of this extreme summer we [are having], this is probably one of the best summers over the next 30 years,” Matthew Eby, founder and CEO of the First Street Foundation, told ABC News. “It’s going to get much worse.”

Extreme temperatures can cause health issues, from fatigue to life-threatening problems such as heat strokes.

Scientists have said that prolonged heat waves result from climate change, particularly in different countries at the same time, as was the case last month in parts of the continental U.S. and Europe.

Jason Smerdon, a climate scientist for the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, told ABC News last month that extreme heat is a “basic consequence of climate change.”

“While each heat wave itself is different and has individual dynamics behind it, the probability of these events is a direct consequence of the warming planet,” Smerdon said.

The First Street Foundation is a Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit research and technology group that quantifies climate risks.

ABC News’ Julia Jacobo contributed to this report.

7th child in US tests positive for monkeypox

August 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — A child in Martin County, Florida, has tested positive for monkeypox, state health data shows.

Across the U.S., at least seven children have now tested positive for monkeypox. The child in Florida is between the ages of 0 and 4 years old, according to the state health data.

The additional pediatric case comes after health officials in Maine announced Friday that they, too, had confirmed a positive monkeypox case in a child.

In Maine, no further information about the case has been released due to concerns over patient privacy, officials said.

“Maine CDC [Center for Disease Control and Prevention] is working to identify any others who may have been exposed and make vaccination available to close contacts,” officials wrote in a press release.

In addition to the cases in children reported in Maine and Florida, two cases have been confirmed in California, as well another two in Indiana, and a case in a non-U.S. resident reported in Washington, D.C.

The majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak have been detected in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men. However, health officials have repeatedly stressed that anyone can contract the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously warned that there has been some preliminary evidence to suggest that children younger than 8 years old are at risk of developing more severe illness if infected, alongside pregnant people and those who are immunocompromised.

However, last week, in an effort to protect the youngest Americans, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization that allows health care for children under 18 who are at high risk of monkeypox to be vaccinated.

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Across the globe, nearly 32,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported, including more than 11,000 cases in the U.S. — the most of any country, according to the CDC. All but one U.S. state — Wyoming — have now confirmed at least one positive monkeypox case.

Monkeypox primarily spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact with infected people’s lesions or bodily fluids, according to the CDC. In addition to lesions, which can appear like pimples or blisters, the most common symptoms associated with monkeypox are swollen lymph nodes, fever, headache, fatigue and muscle aches.

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