A guy in Regina, Saskatchewan spent\u00a0over a thousand hours setting up a massive Christmas display in his front yard this year, with 36,000 lights.\u00a0 And on Tuesday, some grinch drove onto his lawn and destroyed it with their truck.\u00a0 Now he’s working overtime to get it all fixed, but says it should be ready by Christmas.<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Someone\u00a0posted\u00a0a video of some pigeons in Las Vegas wearing tiny cowboy hats, and people thought it was cute at first.\u00a0 But apparently they’re glued on.\u00a0 So now a group of animal lovers are trying to find the birds and rescue them.\u00a0 Even they admit it looks cute until you realize it might be putting the birds in danger.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Eddie Murphy has ten kids, and he gets different reactions from people.\u00a0 Other men want to know how much he has to shell out to all those kids and baby mamas, while women think him having ten kids is SEXY.\u00a0 (From “Ellen\u201d)<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n British actor Clive Owen is stepping into the shoes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton for the third season of \u201cAmerican Crime Story\u201d. \u201cImpeachment: American Crime Story\u201d will delve into the scandal that marred the 42nd president\u2019s time in office, following his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment in 1998. The casting of his wife and fellow politician, Hillary Clinton, has yet to be announced. The series, which will be co-produced by Lewinsky, is scheduled to debut a month before the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2014 [05] The number of Instagram subscribers overtakes Twitter, 300 million+ monthly users to 284 million (Today:\u00a0 Insta \u2013 1 billion+, Twitter \u2013 330 million)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2014 [05] Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Brad Paisley<\/strong>\u00a0scored his first number one single with “He Didn’t Have To Be” in 1999.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 91% of Us Don’t Trust Other Drivers in the Winter<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Almost no one trusts other people to drive well in the winter, according to a new survey.\u00a0 But two-thirds of us think WE’RE pretty good at it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 91% said they don’t trust other drivers in winter weather.\u00a0 And 23% have at least one family member they won’t ride with, because they don’t trust their driving skills.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, 64% of us think WE’RE good drivers in the winter.\u00a0 90% feel very confident driving in the rain . . . 76% feel fine in snow and sleet . . . and 55% feel comfortable driving on icy roads.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So in other words, be very careful with other drivers, because we’re all a bit overconfident.<\/p>\n Here are three quick tips that could help you be a little safer this year . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n __________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A Toronto busker got the biggest payday of his life when a group of people he believed were commuters suddenly tipped him hundreds of dollars as he serenaded them at a subway station.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mo Guzman, 26, a full-time busker for five years and was \u201dshocked and surprised\u201d when people starting dropping $20, $50 and $100 dollar notes in his guitar case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The money actually came from Toronto marketing company Zulu Alpha Kilo, which wanted to do a good deed for the holidays. When cameras arrived on November 26 to film Guzman at King subway station, officials from the TTC told him that he was being filmed for a documentary on subway buskers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A video\u00a0shows Guzman\u2019s genuine shock as 40 Zulu Alpha Kilo employees approached and paid him some very generous tips.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guzman told the crowd \u201cI just recently had my daughter, she\u2019s like three months old. Just doing my thing as a first-time dad and honestly thank you. I\u2019m at a loss for words, I\u2019ve never had an experience like this. I feel truly blessed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guzman and his partner welcomed their daughter Malia almost four months ago. He thanked the company and the TTC for the kind gesture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [75] Brenda Lee, singer (\u2018Rockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u2019, \u2018I\u2019m Sorry\u2019)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [23] Hailee Steinfeld, actress (\u201cPitch Perfect 2\u2033, \u201cTrue Grit\u201d)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JENNIFER GARNER LOST HER CAR<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jennifer Garner shared a video \u2015 filmed by an unknown friend \u2015 of herself wandering through a parking garage in search of her car. With a Build-A-Bear in her arms, Garner opens the video by saying she\u2019s been looking for her car for 10 minutes and that she was certain she\u2019d parked it in the Y section of the garage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The car was, unfortunately, not in the Y section at all, leaving Jen and her friend to run around the garage both on foot and then later in her friend\u2019s car in desperate search for her vehicle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Garner says she\u2019s sweating at one point and that they\u2019ve hit the 25-minute mark on the search for a car in a one-level parking garage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally, she finds her car in \u2015 of all places \u2015 the F section of the lot. \u0093It\u2019s so rude to just move someone\u2019s car to F,\u0094 she quips upon realizing she completely flubbed where she\u2019d parked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n YOU DO HAVE TIME TO EXERCISE: ADULTS HAVE FIVE HOURS OF FREE TIME DAILY, BUT CHOOSE TO STARE AT THEIR PHONES <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n If you think you’re too busy to work out, think again. A poll of 32,000 Americans by the Ramd Corporation finds that people have an average of 4.5 hours of free time each day, with men having a half hour more than women.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But, men spent 211 minutes of their free time looking at screens (about 3.5 hours), while women did the same for under three hours. However, men spent just 6.6 percent of their time exercising, while women spent five percent of their time exercising.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Study co-author Dr. Deborah Cohen says, “Increasing the public’s awareness of how they actually use their time and creating messages that encourage Americans to reduce their screen time may help people to become more physically active.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These findings suggest getting Americans to devote at least 20 or 30 minutes each day to physical activity is feasible.”<\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11TH<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [75] Brenda Lee, singer (\u2018Rockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u2019, \u2018I\u2019m Sorry\u2019)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [23] Hailee Steinfeld, actress (\u201cPitch Perfect 2\u2033, \u201cTrue Grit\u201d)<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TBL 2 – FLA 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MTL 4 – PIT 1<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BUF 5 – STL 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSH 3 – SJS 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ANA 3 – MIN 2 SO \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WPG 5 – DET 1<\/strong> DAL 2 – NJD 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CAR 6 – EDM 3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CGY 5 – ARI 2 \u00a0 TOR 4 – VAN 1<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VGK 5 – CHI 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LAK 3 – NYR 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Billboard’s” 35 Best Country Songs of the Decade<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n “Billboard”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has a list of their 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s, and\u00a0Miranda Lambert’s<\/strong>\u00a0“The House That Built Me”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is Number One.\u00a0 It’s followed by\u00a0Little Big Town’s<\/strong>\u00a0“Girl Crush”<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0Kacey Musgraves’<\/strong>\u00a0“Follow Your Arrow”<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n CHRIS YOUNG BORROWS A PAGE FROM CLARK GRISWOLD – (12\/11\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n This time every year,\u00a0Chris Young\u00a0takes the liberty of turning his parents’ front yard into a Christmas wonderland, although it’s not necessarily very appreciated. Chris tells us:\u00a0[“I just leave it to their yard. I still go and decorate my parents’ yard every year. My mom told me last year, she’s like, ‘It’s not the problem that you decorate our yard with so much random stuff or that it looks like the Griswold house.’ She was like, ‘It’s that you don’t come back to undecorate the front yard.’ I leave that up to my dad, so I don’t think he loves me as much after Christmas during that process but I still do that every year.”]<\/p>\n Chris recently got in the holiday spirit with a performance on\u00a0CMA Country Christmas<\/em>, which aired on ABC earlier this month.<\/p>\n He continues climbing the charts with “Drowning,” the latest single from his upcoming\u00a0Raised On Country\u00a0<\/em>album. No release date has yet been announced.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t Be Sad That Willie Nelson Has Quit Smoking Weed<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n By now you’ve heard that\u00a0WILLIE NELSON<\/strong>\u00a0has quit smoking weed because his lungs just can’t take it.\u00a0 He talked about it in an interview last week.<\/p>\n Quote, “I’ve abused my lungs quite a bit, so breathing is more difficult these days, and I have to be careful.\u00a0 I’ve mistreated myself since I was ‘this big’ and started out smoking cedar bark and went from that to cigarettes . . . and that almost killed me.”<\/p>\n He added, “I don’t smoke anymore.\u00a0 I take better care of myself today than I did then.”<\/p>\n I’m guessing your first thought after hearing what Willie said was, well, there are other ways to partake.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what he’ll be doing, according to his publicist.<\/p>\n She says quote, “Willie does what he wants when he wants regarding smoking. \u00a0There are numerous ways of consumption.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 11","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 11:05:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/12\/on-todays-show-292\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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