BIG FRANK SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025
🍀 Today is St. Patrick's Day
- St. Patrick's Day is the fourth most popular drinking day of the year behind New Year's Eve, Christmas and July 4th
- 30% of people plan to attend a St Patrick's Day party
- 39% of people will drink Guinness beer today
- 30% of people feared leprechauns growing up

🐰 There are 34 days left until Easter

1845, the rubber band was invented
HBD actor Gary Sinise (70)
Severe storms swept across the US over the weekend
Wldfires rage in the TX Hill Country...around 9000 acres burned near Fredericksburg
Very dry! Fire dange continues to be high. Pray for rain!
Pope Francis is gradually showing signs of improvement as he remains hospitalized for double pneumonia
SpaceX capsule docked with the space station to bring home astronauts
Action-comedy "Novocaine" comes out on top in a slow weekend at the box office
NCAA men's college basketball bracket revealed; #1 seeds are Houston, Auburn, Duke and Florida. Also in is Texas Tech, Texas, Baylor and Texas A&M.
Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes is the winner of the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Holmes crossed the finish line early Friday morning in Nome in first place with ten dogs after a race that lasted a little over ten and a-half days. Holmes was a regular on the reality show "Life Before Zero," which follows subsistence hunters in the Last Frontier

TONIGHT: iHeartRadio Music Awards 7pm on FOX 38
Tune in to see Lady Gaga honored with the 2025 Innovator Award
Watch Mariah Carey receive the 2025 iHeartRadio Icon Award ·
See an EXCLUSIVE performance from Taylor Swift’s opening night show of The Eras’s Tour during the Awards telecast
Hosted By LL COOL J
Performances from Kenny Chesney, Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish and more.

ST PATRICK'S DAY IN CORPUS CHRISTI
Saint Patrick's Day celebrating Irish culture and commemorates the patron saint of Ireland. Traditionally, Christians who were fasting for 40 days during the period of Lent had their eating and drinking restrictions lifted on Saint Patrick's Day, allowing for feasts and for alcohol consumption. The National Retail Federation says they expect over 60 percent of Americans to celebrate the holiday, spending a total of about seven-billion dollars in the process.

St. Patrick’s Day Party at Brewster Street Downtown! 🍀🎉 🍺 $3 Green Beer 🎶 Live Music by Scarecrow People | 3-7PM 🍦 Blue Bell Shamrock Shakes Celebrate all day with festive drinks, good vibes, and the best St. Paddy’s party in town! Let’s sham-rock!

Join Bubba's 33 in Corpus Christi, TX, from 5pm - 9pm for our St. Patrick's Day Market event. 1921 SPID...Vendors, games, giveaways and a whole lot more.

Cassidys Irish Pub @ 601 North Water Street downtown...pub opens at 2pm. 🍀Olde Dogs 4:30-7 🍀Celtic Dancers 7-7:30 🍀CC Pipes & Drums 7:30-8 🍀Celtic Dancers 8-8:30 🍀CC Pipes and Drums 8:30-9 🍀Indiglo 9:30-1

THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Steel Dynamics and The United Way of the Coastal Bend have joined forces to provide some relief for those impacted by the recent fires in Sinton. All month-long Steel Dynamics will match every donation dollar for dollar. All the money raised will go towards the fire disaster relief fund. Visit uwcb.org/relief to donate now.

Local Native American advocate Larry Running Turtle Salazar, passed away early Sunday morning. He was 68. His mother was Cherokee and his father, Apache. Running Turtle advocated for many issues, appeared in documentaries, and wrote two books. Our condolences to his family.

Coming up this Saturday is the The Junior League of Corpus Christi 7th annual TOUCH-A-TRUCK. This FREE family-centric e

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