This #MovieStarMonday we visit with Catherine Curtin is best known for playing Claudia Henderson (Dustin's mother) in the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons of the Netflix original television series, Stranger Things, as well as correctional officer Wanda Bell in the Netflix comedy-drama series (2013-2019). Other notable recurring roles include Homeland.Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Catfight (2016), The Light of the Moon (2017), Beauty Mark (2017), Bad Education (2019), Worth (2020), The Half of It (2020), Chemical Hearts (2020), Werewolves Within (2020), Red Pill (2021), Bad Shabbos (2024), and Saturday Night (2024).
IF THAT MOCKINGBIRD DON'T SING, AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND
After being brutally dumped, 17-year-old Sydnie discovers she's pregnant. Seeing this as an opportunity to get her ex back and give her life direction, she decides to keep the baby. She soon realizes this won't be the quick fix she had hoped for and finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle.
Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5PW-s2CowA
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TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
Green Juice Day
https://mybartender.com/drinks/green-cocktails/
SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
For 25 years, Pew Research Center has tracked some of the biggest technological shifts in history. Today, most Americans subscribe to home broadband internet and own a smartphone. About four-in-ten describe their internet use as almost constant. But use of these technologies is not universal. For instance, Americans with the lowest household incomes are far less likely than their higher-income peers to subscribe to broadband internet at home. Here are the findings on technology use and digital divides from a 2025 survey: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/08/internet-use-smartphone-ownership-digital-divides-in-u-s/. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults use the internet daily, including 41% who say they’re online almost constantly. This is on par with what they found in 2023 and 2024 as well.
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on “Joe Rogan” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” and the long-time friends and collaborators shared their thoughts on how the streamer is changing the way movies are made. Damon pointed out that because viewers give a “very different level of attention” to a movie at home versus in a theater, Netflix wants to push the action toward the beginning of the film, rather than the third act. He also said there are behind-the-scenes discussions about reiterating “the plot 3 or 4 times in the dialogue” to account for people being on their phones.
DID YA KNOW!?
DID YOU KNOW… There are taste receptors in your lungs. These receptors help detect harmful substances and trigger protective reflexes like coughing. Taste, it turns out, is not limited to your tongue.
JOKE
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SCOOP
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In the 2023 movie Plane starring Gerard Butler, a commercial aircraft is caught in a terrible storm. Dark purple thunderclouds suffocate the sky. The plane shakes and the lights go out. Turbulence throws an unbelted passenger across the cabin. Eventually a lightning strike cuts the plane’s power, forcing it to crash land in a warzone, where the movie’s story really begins. In reality, plane crashes in thunderstorms are extremely rare—largely because pilots seldom fly into thunderstorms in the first place. “You’re never going to intentionally fly into a thunderstorm, because thunderstorms contain the roughest air, as well as other hazards,” says Patrick Smith, an airline captain and writer of the Ask the Pilot blog. Avoiding thunderstorms, Smith explains, involves close collaboration between meteorologists, air traffic control, and the flight crew, both before and during the flight. Even though pilots avoid thunderstorms, sometimes they can’t, that is why most commercial planes get struck by lightning a couple times a year. https://www.popsci.com/science/how-pilots-avoid-storms/
THE MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY
If you have a favorite quote.... you can send it to us at the bottom of the page at JohnAndHeidiShow.com
"Fish are friends, not food." — Finding Nemo, Bruce, 2003
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ Knitting was initially a male-only occupation. In fact, when the very first knitting union was established in Paris in 1527, no women were allowed.
✓ In the 1600s, French women wore high heels to show that they were too rich to walk.
✓ If you point your car fob to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range. This works by using your brain to act as a radio transmitter.
✓ The spiked dog collar was invented by the Ancient Greeks to protect their dogs from wolf attacks.
WEIRD NEWS
A bizarre YouTube video, uploaded on January 5, consists of a blank screen with no audio or visuals. But that’s not the bizarre part. The information portion for the clip shows a duration of…140 years. The video’s description is equally puzzling, written in Arabic symbols that apparently translate to “Come, meet me in hell”. The good news? Once you click the play button, it drops to 12.5 hours. It was uploaded by the channel named @ShinyWR and has been viewed nearly 2 million times. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2S_jYomUw
QUESTION OF THE DAY
In a survey, 23% of people admitted they get a bit tipsy before going to THIS event. What is it?
Answer: The office holiday party
SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH HEIDI SMALL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
CELEB DEATH POOL:
The celebrities most likely to die in 2026, according to a ranking by “Death List.net”…
1. Esther Rantzen – UK TV Presenter – turns 86 years old in 2026
2. Dick Van Dyke – Actor – 101
3. Eva Marie Saint – Actor — 102
4. Pete Murray– UK Radio Presenter – 101
5. Buzz Aldrin – Astronaut – 96
6. Sonny Rollins – Jazz Musician – 96
7. Alan Greenspan – Economist – 100
8. Mel Brooks – Comedian/Director – 100
9. Noam Chomsky – Intellectual – 98
10. Jesse Jackson – Civil Rights Activist – 85
GOOD NEWS
'I Just Want To Share My Happiness': Lottery Winner Spends $20,000 On Groceries For Strangers. https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news
