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Another beautiful day in the neighborhood today here in Trinidad with sunny skies and temps climbing up to 80 degrees for the high.
Tonight, mostly clear and a rather pleasant low in the lower 50s.
For Thursday, sunny skies bring our temps up to near 80 degrees again, but we’ll start getting some cool northern winds dropping us down to lows in the mid 20’s Thursday night.
Now, here’s the news.
Trinidad just got their own nightly show, but it’s a little different than your run-of-the-mill talk show. C.O.U.G.A.R. Nights is a unique show live-streamed every evening Monday through Friday via Facebook and YouTube and the show’s creator and host, Jay Gillespie said he’s excited to bring another element of creative expression to a town known for such.
The show itself is a series of 30 to 40 segments at one minute to a minute and a half and airs Monday through Friday around 8 p.m., streamed live via Facebook and YouTube. What does C.O.U.G.A.R. stand for? Gillespie said the meaning behind the acronym had been lost to time over the past couple of weeks. The show is largely a fast paced, entertaining improv routine and Gillespie added that he pulled the majority of his content, “strait out the dome.”
As with any artist, Gillespie said much of the reasoning for doing it five nights a week was to challenge himself to do improv for just under an hour and push the boundaries of his comedic craft.
Gillespie started playing around with a format similar to COUGAR Nights during his time with Sexpot Comedy Studios back in Denver and when he moved to Trinidad earlier this year, he knew he wanted something similar, but also definitive of the town, leading him to set his gaze on Main Street.
But, writing off a Main Street location as a pipe dream, he kept it in mind and went about getting settled in Trinidad. However, other forces at play would make his nightly show on Main Street a reality. Unrelated to Gillespie, the owner of the comedy studio in Denver, with whom he had hosted his previous show, that’s Kayvan Khalitbari, also moved to Trinidad and promptly purchased the building at 135 East Main. With plenty of space and an open view to the front, the new ownership wasted no time giving Gillespie access to the space.
The show is a hilarious ride through questionable news topics along with a dabble of randomness and Gillespie said he challenges himself not to use cursing or vulgar language, making it a local show you don’t have to hide from the kids. Additionally, viewers have the ability to call into the show during the live stream to tell him what they’re thinking; about anything.
Moving forward, as the show gains viewers he hopes to be able to bring on guests and create new segments.
Until then, with viewers steadily rising as he moves into his third week of broadcasting, Gillespie said he hope it becomes something the whole town enjoys.
Gillespie said if you enjoy the show to consider making a gift on patreon.com/CougarNights which will help him to continue keeping things fresh and fun. People can tune into the show at Facebook.com/TrinidadCougarNights. Viewers can also call 520-236-9777 during the show to chat with Gillespie literally about anything on your mind.
Rocket scientists in Littleton anxiously watched OSIRIS-REx — the space probe built by Lockheed Martin — land on an asteroid to scoop up dirt CBS Denver reported yesterday.
The probe started chasing the asteroid named Bennu two years ago — and then had to spend a year find a spot to land.
When NASA makes the collection attempt, OSIRIS-REx will break orbit and descend toward Bennu’s surface. The plan is for OSIRIS-REx to touch the Bennu for just 16 seconds, using nitrogen gas fired into the robotic collector to stir up and capture some of the asteroid’s surface materials.
If the sample collection is successful, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to depart the asteroid in March 2021 and return to earth in September of 2023. The return capsule containing the sample will separate from OSIRIS-REx and collected in Utah.
Scientists are eager to study material from a carbon-rich asteroid like dark Bennu, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old. It could give scientists clues as to what the solar system was like as it was formed, what chemical building blocks jumpstarted life, how organic material gets transported within the solar system, and what Mars and Venus may have looked like in the past.
This could also very well be a big step toward mining minerals from other asteroids and the like which in itself is a huge economic leap from the finite planet, to the infinite stars.
EVENTS
Speaking of rockets, this coming Friday head out to Central Park to check out a model rocket launch by the Trinidad Model Rocket Club starting at 10:30 a.m. pending clear weather.
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