On Today’s Show

➢ A teacher in Cleveland is lucky she’s okay after a guy with a knife broke into her house during one of her virtual classes last month.  She managed to let her dogs loose on him, grabbed some scissors, and chased him out of the house.  She continued chasing him down the street until a random guy tackled him and held him until the cops got there.  A student’s parent was already on the phone with 911, so they got there pretty quick.

➢ The internet wants nothing to do with doll heads in walls. A woman recently shared a video on Twitter of her sister’s new house. The post reads, “My sister moved into a new house and found this in the wall of her basement.” It shows a doll face with a missing eye dried into the cement wall. Lots of people were freaked out by the find, saying the sister should definitely move out. But one person wrote, “Those are cellar babies. In the late 60s/early 70s it was a trend in both NYC and California to embed doll parts in the walls of your house, including basements. Sometimes items of these as well including newspaper clippings and (rarely) cash.”

➢ This kid has the right idea. A mother recently shared a video on Instagram of her two-year-old son, Noah, hiding in a cabinet to watch cartoons and eat crackers in peace. Blair Walker says her daughter discovered the hiding spot. In her video she opens the cabinet to find the little boy contentedly watching cartoons on an iPad and eating crackers while under a blanket. When she asks sarcastically, “Are we disturbing your peace?” Noah nods and points to the door. His mom soon closes the door for him.

➢CBS has released the first teaser for its upcoming “Silence of the Lambs” sequel “Clarice,” with Rebecca Breeds playing FBI agent ‘Clarice Starling’. The drama will premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 11th. Breeds takes over the role that was portrayed by Jodie Foster in the 1991 classic. In the new series, Clarice “returns to the field in 1993, one year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs”.  LINK:  https://tinyurl.com/yyt2nc4h

➢Today, we’ve gotten used to being told to stay at home to avoid COVID-19.  But for Throwback Thursday, let’s revisit 2014 when a weatherman was telling everyone to stay off the roadways because it’s dangerous . . . but this woman who went out anyway because . . .

TODAY IS……………….

• “Nobel Prize Awards Day”. The awards were established by the will of Swedish chemist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and have been held on this date since 1901. The current value of each award is about US $1.1 million.

1984 [36] The African famine relief song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ by Band Aid is released

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

1970   Born on this day in Redding, California, was Kevin Sharp country music artist and author who made his debut on the country music scene in 1997 with a cover of R&B artist Tony Rich’s single “Nobody Knows”, a cover which topped the Billboard country charts for four weeks. Sharp died on 19th April 2014 after a long-running and high-profile battle with cancer.

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The Internet Says You’re Hanging Your Christmas Tree Lights Wrong

A lot of us look forward to the tradition of decorating our Christmas tree.  But according to the Internet you’re probably hanging the lights TOTALLY WRONG.

A different way of hanging lights is trending this year:  Instead of wrapping them the whole way around the tree, just do the front . . . and hang them VERTICALLY.

You start at the bottom . . . go straight to the top . . . then back down to the bottom . . . and keep going until the entire front is filled.

You could also zig-zag them horizontally across the front.  But people on social media claim that vertical lets the lights sit closer to the tips of the branches for “maximum sparkle.”

According to one source, that’s how they do the lights on the tree in Rockefeller Center.  So it might be worth a try.

The other benefit is they’re a lot easier to take off and replace if one strand of lights stops working.  And they’re easier to take down at the end of the year.

FOUR RANDOM FACTS

1. Lobster wasn’t always considered a delicacy . . . before the late 1800s, lobsters were called the “cockroaches of the sea” and fed to prisoners to save money.

2. CNN has a video clip ready to air if the world is about to end.  It’s a band playing the song “Nearer My God to Thee”.

3. There have been around 19,000 Major League Baseball players in history . . . and not a single one had a last name that started with the letter X.  There are 52 whose last name started with Q, and 98 with Z.

4. MySpace was in talks to acquire Facebook in 2004 but passed . . . because Mark Zuckerbergwanted $75 million and they felt that was too much.  Facebook’s current market cap is $445 billion . . . MySpace sold in 2011 for $35 million.

GOOD NEWS

A dog that went missing from her owner’s Alabama back yard turned up three weeks later when the canine wandered into a Walmart store and found her owner working at a checkout lane.

Danielle Robinette, a customer service associate at the Walmart store in Dothan, said she was baffled when a black-and-white dog wandered into the store. “I’m a huge animal lover, so I just followed her, and she ran up to register No. 6.”

The cashier at register No. 6, June Rountree, was able to solve the mystery – it was her missing dog, Abby. She had vanished from her back yard three weeks earlier, leaving her collar behind.

She said she and her husband had been searching for the dog, but were unable to find any sign of their missing pet. “I bent over and hugged her. I completely lost it then. I couldn’t speak. I was in complete shock and just couldn’t believe it.”

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BIRTHDAYS

[68] Susan Dey, actress (“The Partridge Family” 1970-74, “L.A. Law” 1986-1992)

[60] (Sir) Kenneth Branagh, actor (“Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets”)/movie director (“Thor”)/screenwriter (“Hamlet”) COMING UP…”Death on the Nile”

OLD-SCHOOL SKILLS THAT ARE BECOMING OBSOLETE:
☞ Reading and writing in cursive:  These days, it seems he only time kids need to know cursive is when they get cards from their grandparents.

☞ Dialing a rotary phone:  Although kids could learn this skill in about a minute, let’s face it, NO ONE needs this skill anymore.

☞ Sewing:  Martha Stewart says its still important for practical and educational reasons . . . it can help develop planning and math skills, and hand-eye coordination.

☞ Navigating with a map or compass:  Reading maps helps build spatial reasoning skills, and understanding compass directions can also be handy in a pinch. It’s tough to compete with the technology behind a map app, though.

☞ Driving a standard-shift car:  It may be a cool skill to have, but only 1.2% of cars sold in 2019 had manual transmissions. (

☞ Looking something up in a dictionary, thesaurus or encyclopedia:  It’s difficult enough to FIND one of these in book form, let alone actually look something up. In fact, there is only ONE general encyclopedia still in print today.

☞ Remembering phone numbers:  Who does THIS anymore?

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Has Your Car Ever Been Stolen?

The Oregon city topped a list of major metropolitan areas with the worst auto theft rates compiled by AutoInsuranceEZ.com.

The report used data from the 2017-2019 FBI Uniform Crime Reports and ranked the top 15 metro areas with populations of a million or more, excluding Denver due to a lack of data.

Portland had an average of 487 thefts per 100,000 residents during the period and was followed by San Jose, Calif., at 483 and Seattle at 473.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 10^TH  

1. Chatham Outreach for Hunger is in need of some help; They’re shelves are empty.

We are throwing together a drive thru drop off for December 17 – 6-10am at the radio station (117 Keil Dr)

2. A Rhode Island property is offering Lord of the Rings fans the opportunity to live out their Middle Earth fantasies in rental “hobbit homes.” The Preserve at Boulder Hills Club and Residences, a sports club with luxury residential housing in Richmond, said the hobbit houses have been under construction for 36 months and two of the structures are now complete and ready to be rented for events. The houses are based on those used by the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

3. A World War Two vet in Alabama named Major Wooten beatCOVID-19 just in time to celebrate his 104th birthday last week.  His granddaughter talked to the local news last week after his doctors and nurses sang “Happy Birthday” as he left the hospital in his wheelchair.

4. This Christmas will be different.  That’s why we changed this classic into our latest “QuaranTune”.

GARTH BROOKS, TRISHA YEARWOOD TO PERFORM ‘A HOLIDAY CONCERT EVENT’

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will bring the Christmas cheer with their upcoming CBS special, Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event. The one-hour virtual concert is set to air on Sunday, December 20th at 8:30 p.m. ET.

The happy couple will perform songs live by request from fans watching them from their home recording studio, Studio G. Garth will share details for making those requests over the next few weeks on his weekly Facebook Live show, “Inside Studio G.”

This is Garth & Trisha’s second virtual concert for CBS. Their first happened on April 1st during which they also played songs requested by fans.

LUKE COMBS VISION FOR CHRISTMAS

Despite the pandemic, Luke Combs has had a phenomenal year. He’s won awards, had #1 songs and also married his long-time girlfriend. With less than three weeks until Christmas, we asked Luke what this year’s holiday was going to be like for him: [“You know, I think this year will be… I don’t know if it will be any different than any other year, I guess, that we’ve had. Hopefully, I have, you know, both sets of our parents in town and my wife’s sister I think. That’s usually what we do, you know, keep it small. My mom’s side of the family always has a big Christmas party in Charlotte and me and my wife always go to that every year too. Couple traditions, that’s really it, we like to keep. I think. You know, I grew up, we were always very family oriented in that sense when it came to the holidays so I have a lot of fond memories of growing up with my cousins and hanging out with my grandparents and my aunts and uncles. That’s the thing I think I look forward to most about the holidays. It’s not getting gifts or getting drunk, which is also cool, but I think just hanging and seeing people you haven’t seen in a while and catching up with them I think is what I look forward to the most.”]

FAST FACTS

Luke and wife Nicole were married in August.

DOLLY PARTON WANTS BEYONCE TO RECORD ‘JOLENE’

Dolly Parton would like Beyonce to record a cover of her hit song “Jolene.” While the song has already been recorded worldwide of 400 times, Dolly says that no one has “ever really had a big hit record on it.”

She said, “I’ve always hoped somebody might do it someday, someone like Beyonce.”

Whitney Houston turned her song “I Will Always Love You” into one of the best-selling singles of all time when she recorded it for the soundtrack of the 1992 movie The Bodyguard.

In other Dolly news…… she confirmed the rumor that Katy Perry asked her to perform with her at the 2015 Super Bowl.  Dolly had to say no because her husband was sick.

RILEY GREEN AT HOME

RILEY GREEN has a Facebook page called Acoustic from Home.

If you check in here and there you might find something like this post from yesterday.

It’s a 59-second clip of him performing an unreleased song called “Keep Comin’ Round”.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer