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The Scoop for April 14, 2020

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The Scoop for April 14, 2020

John Krasinski has a YouTube show called “Some Good News”, and yesterday, he not only reported some good news, he helped create some. He teamed up with David Ortiz from the Boston Red Sox to give the doctors and nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston a pretty amazing gift.
Lifetime Red Sox tickets.
Pretty sweet, lifetime Red Sox tickets. But not quite everyone got tickets.
John has been on the waiting list for 16 years, and hasn’t heard back.
See, if you can’t find enough good news out there, just go out and make your own.


George Stephanopoulos is the latest celeb type person to test positive for Covid-19, but his situation is a bit different.
He’s basically asymptomatic.
So yeah. Just goes to show you why we’re social distancing. You could have it and not even know. This thing is crazy.


And Matthew McConaughey is at it again. This time he’s got a new persona, Bobby Bandito
As if this guy didn’t have enough voices in his head. So why is Bobby B making his presence knows? He’s showing you how to make your own face mask out of a bandana and a coffee filter. Really.
Is it just me or would you watch a Bobby Bandito/Tiger King cross over movie?


Bonus Scoopage:

Here’s Brian May from Queen with a new song about a potato and the coronavirus, or something.


 

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