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Debuting on Hulu on Veterans Day, the ABC News documentary ‘3212 Un-Redacted’

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Debuting on Hulu today, Veterans Day, is the ABC News-produced documentary 3212 Un-Redacted.

The film centers on a military operation in 2017 that resulted in the deaths of four U.S. Special Forces soldiers, killed in an ambush by ISIS fighters near Tongo Tongo, Niger, and the Pentagon cover-up afterward.

The investigations into the operation resulted in the families of the fallen — Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black and Sgt. LaDavid Johnson — being lied to to protect senior military members.

“The conclusion of the first major investigation by United States Africa Command, which oversees operations on the continent, was that this team [3212] had embarked on a rogue mission which was intended to capture or kill a senior ISIS commander,” says ABC News’ James Gordon Meek, one of the film’s producers. “They said that these men were — again, most of them were Green Berets — ‘poorly trained and ill-prepared, and did not have basic soldiers skills to engage in such an operation.'”

“What they didn’t tell [the families] was the involvement of CIA, which was part of the mission,” Meek continues. “And most importantly, they didn’t tell them that the ground commander, Capt. Mike Perozeni, had actually pushed back on the missions that he was supposedly ‘going rogue; to carry out… [H]e made repeated calls and texts to his superiors, saying, ‘This is a bad idea…'”

Those who survived were investigated, and their reputations sullied.

Meek says releasing the film today is a reminder of the importance of Veterans Day, and its focus on those who fought, and who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation.

“As Congressman Mike Waltz says in the film, there’s no exception. The family should always be told the full truth, and they were not in this case,” Meek adds.

Jack White to release two new albums in 2022; watch video for “Taking Me Back” now

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Get ready for a double dose of Jack White in 2022.

The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather rocker has announced not one, but two new solo albums to be released next year. The first, titled Fear of the Dawn, will arrive April 8, followed by the second, Entering Heaven Alive, dropping July 22.

The records mark White’s fourth and fifth solo releases, and his first since 2018’s Boarding House Reach.

White’s single “Taking Me Back,” which just dropped in October, is the opening track off Fear of the Dawn. The acoustic version of the song, dubbed “Taking Me Back (Gently),” closes out Entering Heaven Alive.

Along with the album announcements, White has premiered the video for “Taking Me Back,” which finds him rocking both guitar and drums while showing off his new blue hairstyle. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

Here are the track lists for Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive:

Fear of the Dawn
“Taking Me Back”
“Fear of the Dawn”
“The White Raven”
“Hi-de-ho” feat. Q-Tip
“Eosophobia”
“Into the Twilight”
“Dusk”
“What’s the Trick?”
“That Was Then (This Is Now)”
“Eosophobia (Reprise)”
“Morning, Noon and Night”
“Shedding My Velvet”

Entering Heaven Alive
“A Tip from You To Me”
“All Along the Way”
“Help Me Along”
“Love Is Selfish”
“I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
“Queen of the Bees”
“A Tree on Fire From Within”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
“A Madman from Manhattan”
“Taking Me Back (Gently)”

Korn announces new album, ‘Requiem’; listen to single “Start the Healing” now

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Korn has announced a new album called Requiem.

The 14th studio effort from the “Freak on a Leash” metallers will arrive February 4, 2022. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s The Nothing.

Our first preview of Requiem is the lead single “Start the Healing,” which is available now for digital download. You can also watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Here’s the Requiem track list:

“Forgotten”
“Let the Dark Do the Rest”
“Start the Healing”
“Lost in the Grandeur”
“Disconnect”
“Hopeless and Beaten”
“Penance to Sorrow”
“My Confession”
“Worst Is on Its Way”

Meghan Trainor opens up about her big “parenting fail”

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Meghan Trainor is a first-time mom, which means she’s still learning her fair share of painful parenting lessons. However, she hopes that by sharing her biggest parenting fail “so far,” she can spare other moms from the same embarrassment.

The Grammy winner revealed to Ellen DeGeneres‘ Mom Confessions that she and husband Daryl Sabara would take their newborn son, Riley, out on morning walks. But instead of giving the baby some fresh air and sunshine, they accidentally gave him heat rash.

“We would take him on these walks out here in California, and I would come home and he would have these little red bumps all over him,” said Trainor, 27. “I sent pictures to my pediatrician after the third day in a row, and I was like, ‘What’s going on? I rub cream on him. I don’t know what this is!'”

After finding out that Riley had heat rash, the Clash of the Cover Bands judge sheepishly admitted, “I was boiling my son on my morning walks. So, don’t do that!”

Mayo Clinic says infants can develop heat rash in hot, humid weather. However, the biggest culprit is overdressing, with the institution advising parents to dress their infants in lightweight, cool clothing when in those conditions.

Mayo Clinic says heat rashes go away on their own, but notes that cool baths or being taken out of the hot temperatures can also help.

Cranberry production stays afloat with price increases, other Thanksgiving items with lower inventory

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — With supply chain issues hitting the fresh food industry, due to delays and struggles to get products from farms to store shelves, certain Thanksgiving staples like cranberries will have a steeper cost and potentially less stock.

Ocean Spray president and CEO Tom Hayes joined Good Morning America on Thursday to address the upcoming run on Thanksgiving items and how his company’s signature fruit has had to stay afloat amid supply chain woes.

“Ocean Spray has had supply chain challenges, the whole industry has. We will continue to do our best to keep supplies going and supplies on shelves, but we’ve had to be resilient this year,” Hayes said. “We’re owned by 700 family farms and they continue to do everything they have for 90 years to keep the supply flowing, but it has been a challenge. Whether it’s steel cans and making supply chain adjustments, we have had to do it, and this year has been difficult of course.”

When it comes to price forecasting, Hayes explained that his company “unfortunately” has to pass on the rising production costs to consumers.

“That’s just a reality. We have a lot of costs going up — all ingredients, transportation. It is something that is continuing to affect us as a company and we do have to pass those on,” he said. “Remember, they’re family farms, so we have to make sure they have a livelihood too and we’re balancing that. We haven’t taken pricing in 10 years at Ocean Spray. We’re doing our best to keep costs down, but we have taken pricing and are looking forward to still having a great season.”

By the end of October, there were already some shortages on other crucial Thanksgiving items.

Turkeys were 60% out of stock, which was a little more than half of stock compared to the same time last year. Yams and sweet potatoes were 25% out of stock, while stock on refrigerated pies were down 5% and cranberries were 20% out of stock.

If consumers shop early, those products should be available, but — with price increases at the highest in 30 years — they will cost more.

To save some money on the total bill, experts recommend shopping now for non-perishable items and considering a potluck style Thanksgiving to spread the cost around.

“This is our super bowl at Ocean Spray,” Hayes said. “We are working day in and day out, all night in a lot of cases, to deliver products to the market.”

“My advice is to be absolutely flexible. Whether it’s jellied, whole or fresh cranberries,” he added. “Plan early and make sure you get to the grocery store. It will be a happy Thanksgiving, but you have to demonstrate more flexibility than you have in the past.”

Boy born at 21 weeks named world’s most premature infant to survive

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — A boy who weighed just 15 ounces at birth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature infant to survive.

Curtis Means, of Alabama, was born on July 5, 2020, when his mom, Michelle Butler, went into labor just 21 weeks into her pregnancy and gave birth to twins in an emergency C-section.

Curtis’s sister, C’Asya, died one day after birth, but Curtis survived while being cared for in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) at University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women and Infants Center.

Bulter said she remembers praying that one of her twin newborns would survive the premature delivery.

“My prayers have been answered,” Butler told Good Morning America. “I gave God my little girl and he let me continue to be the mother to Curtis.”

Curtis, who was born 132 days premature, was so delicate at birth that Butler said she had to wait four weeks after giving birth to hold her son. At the time, he could fit in palm of her hand.

Curtis would go on to spend the next nine months in the RNICU, where doctors and nurses cared for him around the clock.

Butler, also the mother of two older children, ages 14 and 7, commuted from her house to the RNICU three or four times a week, a three-hour commute round trip, to see her son. On days she could not visit in person, Butler said the nurses would coordinate video calls so she could see Curtis.

“It was ups and downs, good and bad days,” she said. “For a couple of weeks he’d do really well and then he’d get sick and go about five steps backwards.”

Though he had a less than 1% chance of survival at birth, according to doctors, Curtis graduated from the RNICU after 275 days.

Butler took him home on April 6, 2021, where he met his siblings for the first time. They had not been able to visit Curtis in the RNICU due to COVID-19 restrictions.

“I surprised my kids,” said Butler. “They didn’t know we were coming home and they were so excited.”

Six months after that surprise, Butler and Curtis returned to the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women and Infants Center, where they were surprised by doctors and nurses who presented them with the Guinness World Records certificate naming Curtis as the world’s most premature infant to survive.

Curtis, now 16 months old, now weighs nearly 19 pounds.

He is still on oxygen and is still on some medications, but is continuing to thrive at home, according to Butler.

“He’s a happy baby,” said Butler. “He’ll laugh and smile at you.”

Looking back on Curtis’ long journey since birth, Butler said she would encourage other parents of premature babies to be their child’s “biggest advocates.”

“Us parents are the biggest advocates for our children, so whatever you feel in your heart you go by it,” she said. “And continue to pray.”

‘Selena + Chef’ renewed for season 4

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Selena Gomez is heading back to the kitchen with a fourth season of her HBO Max show Selena + Chef.

The streamer announced the renewal of her home cooking show on Wednesday and revealed that the upcoming season will feature an exciting change of scenery. For season four, Selena, along with her friends and family, will head to a beach house to continue their cooking lessons.

Like previous seasons, the “Lose You to Love Me” singer will expand on her cooking skills with the help of all-star chefs. They’ll also continue to highlight a different charitable organization during each episode, hopefully adding to the already $400,000 raised.

Selena said in a statement, “I am looking forward to another season of being in the kitchen with some of the world’s best chefs. Hopefully, my skills have improved. More importantly, we’ve been able to raise money for incredible charitable organizations.”

Season four of Selena + Chef is slated to premiere next year.

Travis Scott’s attorney criticizes the “finger-pointing” in Astroworld concert failures

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Travis Scott‘s attorney has issued a statement saying that authorities should stop insinuating that the rapper is to blame for the tragedy at last weekend’s Astroworld Festival — which left eight fans dead and hundreds more injured — because Scott didn’t immediately stop the show.

In the statement, obtained by ABC News, Attorney Edwin F. McPherson said, “There has been multiple finger-pointing, much of which has been by city officials, who have sent inconsistent messages and have backtracked from original statements.”

McPherson goes on to say that Houston Police Chief Troy Finner had been quoted as saying that officials felt they couldn’t stop the concert because there were 50,000 people there, and they were concerned that “a group [of fans] that young” would start to riot. However, McPherson says that Finner later stated that it was Travis Scott’s responsibility to stop the show.

McPherson notes, “It was reported that the Operations Plan designated that only the festival director and executive producers have authority to stop the show, neither of which is part of Travis’s crew.”

McPherson also points out that at 2019’s Astroworld Festival, it was the Houston PD that “shut down the power and sound…when the performance ran over 5 minutes.”

“Investigations should start proceeding over finger-pointing so that together, we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from happening again,” McPherson concludes.

Lady Gaga says one of the best lines in ‘House of Gucci’ was improvised

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Lady Gaga is sharing some secrets about her upcoming movie House of Gucci, in which she plays Patrizia Reggiani, the ambitious socialite who orchestrated the death of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the “Applause” singer revealed that one of the standout lines heard in the movie’s first trailer was not part of the script, but something that came organically when running lines with her co-star.

“That was something Jared [Leto] and I came up with together,” Gaga revealed of the improvised prayer, “Father, son and house of Gucci.” “Well, it was the first time, and then we kept it.”

She continued, “These things came to us, I think they came from a real place of spontaneity on set, where you can do as much work as possible before, and then when you get there, you just throw it out, and you just talk to each other.”

Gaga admits she fell very deep into character, so much so that she had a hard time separating herself from Reggiani when filming wrapped.

“I think the hardest thing for me, was psychologically to drop the character,” she admitted. “For what it’s worth, I don’t know entirely what my process is like to get rid of a character. I do know that when I went home, a lot of people in my life told told me that I had no accent, but was acting weird.”

House of Gucci opens November 24.

Benedict Cumberbatch admits he gave himself nicotine poisoning when filming ’The Power of the Dog’

November 11, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t proud of the bad habits he picked up while filming his new Western, The Power of the Dog.

Speaking to Esquire, the British actor admitted he fused with his character, Phil Burbank, a rancher from the 1920s that smoked like a chimney and rarely bathed — two unsavory habits that rubbed off on the actor.

“That was really hard,” Cumberbatch said of having to constantly smoke on camera. “Filterless rollies, just take after take after take.”

The Doctor Strange star said he smoked so much he “gave myself nicotine poisoning three times.”

“When you have to smoke a lot, it genuinely is horrible,”admitted Cumberbatch.

Bathing was another obstacle, with the 45-year-old revealing, “I wanted that layer of stink on me. I wanted people in the room to know what I smelt like.”

“It was hard, though. It wasn’t just in rehearsals,” he continued. “I was going out to eat and meet friends of Jane and stuff,” referring to director Jane Campion. “I was a bit embarrassed by the cleaner, in the place I was living.”

Benedict became so entrenched in the character of Phil Burbank, he didn’t break from his newfound stinky, smoking persona until filming wrapped. He even adopted an “ominous Montana drawl.”

However, he admits there is one thing he really tried but failed to master.

“I really wanted to become world class at the banjo,” Cumberbatch lamented, “And I’m very much not. I’m very far off.”

The Power of the Dog, also starring Kirsten Dunst, rides into theaters on November 17.

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