BILL BLOG

Monday, February 16, 2026

 

It’s Monday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville. We’ll get up to 60 for high toda.

 

THE WEEKEND

Good be home, after a run to Greensburg, Indiana, last week with Freedom Sings USA.

 

 

 

One of the things Greensburg, Indiana, is famous for is this tree that’s grown out of the courthouse roof. It’s been growing for 100 years or more. It’s hard to miss if you drive through town.

Just thought you should know in case you ever wind up in Greensburg.

 

 

NEW RETREAT

I got word that Freedom Sings USA will travel to Durham, North Carolina, on June 4 and 5. Our first time in North Carolina at the VA Medical Center working with veterans. Looking forward to that. 

 

 

 

BOOK SIGNING

My wife Kathy will have her first official book signing in Nashville on Saturday, February 28, at the Enclave Clubhouse in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, from 3-5 pm that day. If you’re in Music City that day, come on by and be one of the first to get an autographed copy of her book “Subtle Frequency.” Complete details are here at this LINK.

 

SONG OF THE DAY

How about these little candy hearts?

 

Someone sent this to my co-writer, Brent Burns, on that song with that title. Love it.  So much so that I’m going to make “I’m Going Ugly Early” the song of the day. This is the Cledus T. Judd version of our song. Click the link to listen.

 

HEALTH NOTES

A Los Angeles man was awarded $25 million after developing a rare chronic lung disease known as “popcorn lung” from an ingredient in the popular cooking spray PAM.

 

Meanwhile, COSTCO has been sued over alleged salmonella risk in their $5 rotisserie chicken.

 

And…23,000 pounds of ground beef have been recalled across 3 states over E. coli contamination worries. Those states are California, Idaho, and Oregon.

 

HERE’S YOUR SIGN

Solid advice there.

 

WINTER OLYMPICS

Gosh, Lindsey Vonn has had to go through 4 surgeries after her horrific crash at the Olympics.

Remind me not to take up downhill racing. Here’s to her full recovery.

 

NEW OLYMPIC SPORT?

Up in Wisconsin, they’ve invented “Beer Curling”. 

 

I like the USA's chances in this sport as we have WAY more rednecks in our country. France doesn't have a chance.

 

MEANWHILE ON THE RACE TRACK

Michael Jordan just added another championship to his resume. One of the drivers on his NASCAR team, Tyler Reddick, won the Daytona 500 yesterday.

 

I have no idea where he puts all the trophies he’s won.

 

GIRL SCOUTS

How about this young 6-year-old from Pennsylvania who broke the record for selling the most Girl Scout cookies in a single season? Pim Neill is her name. She used her socials and the old door-to-door method to break the record.

 

A motivational speaker named Katie Frances holds the record for most boxes sold in a lifetime, selling 180,000 boxes between 2011 and 2020.

And that brings me to my own Girl Scout cookie true story.

 

HERE’S THE STORY

When I was doing the morning show at WMIL Radio in Milwaukee, shortly after I arrived there, my daughter Heather became a Girl Scout. I was brand new to Milwaukee, and when you’re a brand new personality on the air in a new market, folks are not always happy. They were used to the “old guy” they used to listen to. And it’s not that folks don’t like you, they just don’t like “change”. And I kind of sort of knew that.

 

So I brought Heather into the studio one morning, and we took Girl Scout Cookie orders on the air. It was pretty cute hearing my daughter say on the radio, “Hi, this is Heather, what kind of cookies would you like”? It was a hit, and we received a large number of orders. We had boxes stacked up at our house.

 

 

And I then decided that we would deliver every single box to those listeners ourselves. So I borrowed the station van with our call letter WMIL on the side, and Heather put on her little uniform, and we hand-delivered every box that was ordered on the radio. I’d introduce myself as the new guy on their radio station, and Heather would hand them their box of cookies.

 

I’ve made some instant fans because I have a cute daughter. And it helped break the ice for me, being a new guy on their favorite radio station.

 

SAY WHAT?

Thousands of smoke detectors sold on Amazon have been recalled due to their being a potential fire hazard. 

 

 

So the thing you just bought to help alert you to a fire could be alerting you to a fire that it started. Geez.

 

BUNCH OF GRAND SLAMS

This was unreal over the weekend. A baseball player at Baylor, Tyce Armstrong, hit THREE grand slams in ONE game. That’s only happened one other time in baseball history. I couldn’t even calculate the odds of that happening once. Unreal. Watch THIS.

 

I love the play-by-play announcer’s call, “That’s nuts, that is absolutely nuts”! And it was.

 

GET THIS

That “Bad Bunny” controversial half-time show at the Super Bowl this year spiked a 24% interest in traveling to Puerto Rico, where Mr. Bunny is from. Wow.

 

I’m going to change my stage name to “Crazy Squirrel” and see if I can spike travel interest to my home state of Missouri. Wish me luck.

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY

From Robert Frost:

“It’s a funny thing, when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

 

TODAY

An off day, so I think I’ll run out and get a mattress since it’s President’s Day.

Have a great Monday!