The BBC did a heartwarming story on a man named Terrence who does tons of volunteer work.\u00a0 He also struggles with depression and loneliness, and doesn’t have a Christmas tree this year, so they decided to change that. They got together with a nearby college and surprised him with presents, a Christmas tree, and a choral group singing his favorite carol,<\/p>\n
“Silent Night”<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 You can’t help but be moved when you see how touched he is by it all.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n An oncology nurse found out that her patient was Penn Pennington, a Nashville original guitar player since 1980, so she brought him her guitar and sang\u00a0“O Holy Night” with him to try and lift his spirits after a tough treatment.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Saturday, (Dec. 21,)\u00a0Cam<\/strong>\u00a0and her husband\u00a0Adam Weaver<\/strong>\u00a0welcomed their first child. She made the announcement via\u00a0Instagram<\/em>, with a post that read: \u201cBreech at 39 weeks, a next-day c-section (ouch) & here we are… three of us now.\u201d The couple named their newborn,\u00a0Lucy Marvel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n _________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you missed it the first time around,\u00a0CMA Country Christmas<\/em>\u00a0will air again tonight, (Christmas Eve.) This year\u2019s host\u00a0Trisha Yearwood\u00a0will be joined by an all-star cast of country artists. You can expect 2 hours of Christmas music by stars like\u00a0Rascal Flatts,\u00a0Lady Antebellum, Chris Young,\u00a0Chris Janson, and\u00a0Brett Young.<\/p>\n CMA Country Christmas<\/em>\u00a0airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET\u00a0(Christmas Eve) on\u00a0ABC<\/em>.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TOMORROW \u2013 \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY \u2013 _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n DECEMBER 24TH<\/sup>, <\/strong>2010\u00a0 <\/strong>Rascal Flatts were at #1\u00a0 with “Why Wait” which became the group’s eleventh #1 hit.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n In 1989, it was\u00a0\u201cWho\u2019s Lonely Now\u201d by Highway 101. And in 1979, it was\u00a0\u201cHappy Birthday Darlin\u201d by Conway Twitty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n When you’re flying for the holidays and packed into your seat back in coach, it’s totally natural to HATE all those lucky jerks up in first class.\u00a0 But here’s one of them who sounds like an exceedingly decent person . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last week, a guy was getting ready to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York with his family when he started talking to an 88-year-old woman in the terminal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We only know their first names are Jack and Violet.\u00a0 But they hit it off and really had a good talk.\u00a0 And apparently Jack mentioned he was up in first class.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Violet had always dreamed of sitting up front, but never had.\u00a0 So when they boarded the plane, he told her he wanted to SWITCH SEATS.\u00a0 And he sat in coach for their entire transatlantic flight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Violet recently had a knee replacement.\u00a0 So the extra leg room was probably nice.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Jack sat in her seat right next to the bathrooms in coach.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A flight attendant posted photos on Facebook, including one of Violet sitting in his seat with a glass of wine, a slice of cake, and a sampling of fine cheeses in front of her.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The flight attendant said she’s worked hundreds of flights in her career, but they were her two favorite passengers ever.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong> <\/u><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [45] Ryan Seacrest, TV host<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n CHRISTMAS DAY \u2013 \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0_____________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>HOW TO TELL IF IT\u2019S A COLD, FLU, OR ALLERGIES:<\/u><\/strong> \u2713 Allergies do not come with a fever.<\/p>\n \u2713 If you\u2019re sneezing and blowing your nose endlessly, it could be a cold or allergies, but a cold will leave after a week-to-10 days. Allergies linger.<\/p>\n \u2713 Allergies are not accompanied by pains, upset stomach, or exhaustion like the flu.<\/p>\n \u2713 Symptoms for allergies include \u2018allergy shiners\u2019, where blood vessels under eyes dilate, creating dark circles; and the \u2018allergy salute\u2019, whereby people constantly rub their nose.<\/p>\n \u2713 For colds, well, grandma was right. Chicken soup really is a good remedy, though doctors are not sure why.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 60-Second Breathing Trick for When the Holidays Are Driving You Nuts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n You’ll probably hit your breaking point at least once over the holidays.\u00a0 Family, shopping, screaming kids.\u00a0 It’s all stressful.\u00a0 So when you think you’re about to LOSE IT, here’s a 60-second breathing trick you can try.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It works by calming down your nervous system and forcing you out of “fight or flight” mode.\u00a0 And there’s actual science behind this that proves it works.\u00a0 Here are the two steps you need to remember . . .<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Step One:<\/strong>\u00a0 Breathe in through your nose.\u00a0 Then with your lips pursed, do 10 to 15 SHARP half-second exhales through your mouth.<\/p>\n You should make a “shhh” or “ffff” sound with each one, like the sound a boxer makes when they throw a jab.\u00a0 Push from your diaphragm, and flex your abs with each breath.\u00a0 It should almost feel like a light ab workout if you do it right.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Step Two:<\/strong>\u00a0 Close your eyes, and take a series of SLOW breaths.\u00a0 Breathe in deep through your nose and out through your mouth.\u00a0 But don’t let your shoulders move up and down with each breath.\u00a0 Let your stomach expand instead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do that a few times . . . try to slow your breathing down a little more with each breath . . . and you’re done.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0___________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TUESDAY DECEMBER 24TH<\/sup>\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 [45] Ryan Seacrest, TV host<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n CHRISTMAS DAY \u2013 ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TOR 8 – CAR 6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MIN 3 – CGY 0<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 BOS 7 – WSH 3 \u00a0\u00a0 TBL 6 – FLA 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CBJ 3 – NYI 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PHI 5 – NYR 1<\/p>\n OTT 3 – BUF 1 <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSH 3 – ARI 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MTL 6 – WPG 2<\/strong> NJD 7 – CHI 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 STL 4 – LAK 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VAN 4 – EDM 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n COL 7 – VGK 3<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MITCHELL TENPENNY CHOSE SOME OF HIS FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS TO RECORD –<\/u><\/strong> (12\/20\/2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n It was a good year for\u00a0Mitchell Tenpenny<\/strong>. Among other things, he got his\u00a0Opry<\/em>\u00a0debut in February, just days before his first ever ACM nomination was announced. Now he\u2019s ready for the holidays and has even recorded a few Christmas songs. We asked him about how he chose each song and he told us this about \u201cHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas:\u00a0[<\/strong>Yeah, \u201cHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas\u201d has always just been one of those melodies that kind of latched onto me as a kid.\u00a0 When I think of Christmas songs, it\u2019s kind of always the song I\u2019m humming in my head and so I just wanted to give it my version, but also a little kind of John Mayer kind of vibe.\u00a0 Slow it down and that\u2019s kind of what we did.]<\/p>\n Mitchell will play the\u00a0Grand Ole Opry<\/em>\u00a0on January 10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n JUSTIN MOORE SAYS SANTA WORKS HARD AT HIS HOUSE – (12\/20\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Justin Moore<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife\u00a0Kate<\/strong>\u00a0have four children. Three daughters and one son, all under the age of 10. He says\u00a0Santa\u00a0<\/em>works too hard at his house He explains:\u00a0[Probably my favorite part is Christmas morning when Santa Claus comes. My least favorite part is probably Christmas Eve when Santa Claus is working till 3:00 AM. I know how busy he must be.\u00a0 Naw, Christmas morning, when the kids are so excited and the whole bit.\u00a0 We have a tradition, Kate makes waffles every Christmas morning and so we have breakfast together. I just love being around family, you know, my parents and aunts and uncles and obviously my kids and wife and all that. Seems like everybody\u2019s in a good mood around that time of the year. If it could only last throughout the year.]<\/p>\n Justin Moore \u2013 says that his 10-year-old daughter has an odd gift request for Christmas: Crutches. And it\u2019s not like she needs them. Moore says: \u201cIt\u2019s just the strangest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of. It\u2019s bizarre, right?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n ELI YOUNG BAND CHRISTMAS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Eli Young Band\u2019s Mike Eli<\/strong>\u00a0says he loves\u00a0almost<\/em>\u00a0everything about Christmas. He and his wife,\u00a0Kacey<\/strong>\u00a0have two young children and they love glitter, the one thing he could do without. Mike explains:\u00a0<\/em>[<\/strong>For better or for worse, when glitter starts floating around, I kinda give a little eye roll to Christmas. Because that is the only thing that I don\u2019t like about Christmas is glitter. I live in a house full of girls and they like glitter and that\u2019s just one of those things that is a part of the holidays. So, they\u2019re very nice and understanding sometimes and try to pull back the amount of glittery items that make their way into the house. But it\u2019s funny because we get rid of the glitter, it takes six to seven months before you ever get rid of all the glitter, and then it\u2019s back in November. So, there\u2019s a lot of it. Ahhh, the holidays and glitter.]<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHAT AN 8 YEAR OLD LUKE BRYAN GOT FOR CHRISTMAS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Luke Bryan<\/strong>\u00a0told us recently that he and his family were going skiing for Christmas this year. He wanted the kids to have a white Christmas. We talked to Luke about pasts holidays and he told us of a very memorable gift he received, when he was 8 years old:\u00a0[My favorite Christmas gift is definitely my first Honda 50 motorcycle that I got back in 1984. It was just an amazing gift to have under the tree, and I never will forget seeing that as I walked out.]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n KEITH URBAN WILL BE TAKING HIS FAMILY TO THE BEACH FOR CHRISTMAS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n On this Christmas holiday, you can bet you\u2019ll find\u00a0Keith Urban, his<\/strong>\u00a0wife\u00a0Nicole Kidman<\/strong>, and their two daughters\u00a0Sunday<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Faith<\/strong>, on an Australian beach. It\u2019s an annual event in Keith\u2019s family. We talked to him recently and asked – if he plans to carry out the tradition again this year. He told us this:\u00a0[Yeah, we still love going to the beach at Christmas time, as long as we\u2019re in Australia, because it\u2019s like the Fourth of July. It\u2019s huge. Everybody\u2019s out. It feels very celebratory. It\u2019s in the \u201890s. It\u2019s crazy, but having grown up with that, it feels very natural to me. Albeit it, we still had all of the same Christmas songs, so we\u2019re in like 90-degree heat with shorts and tank tops singing \u2018Walking in a Winter Wonderland,\u2019 and I remember getting Christmas cards of like Santa on a surfboard, so that probably explains a lot.] SOUNDCUE\u00a0:33 (OC: that probably explains a lot)<\/p>\n FAST FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Keith just released his first Christmas song, \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Santa Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n After Christmas, Keith will be getting ready for his fourth headlining gig on New Year\u2019s Eve in Nashville. It\u2019s a free show.<\/p>\n Keith\u2019s dad took him to the beach growing up. He passed away 4 years ago this month.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n LITTLE BIG TOWN <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Each member of\u00a0Little Big Town<\/strong>\u00a0has their own Christmas traditions that they share with each other. And Although\u00a0Kimberly<\/strong>\u00a0is the one known as the cook of the group. It was Karen that talked to us about spending time in the kitchen, making candy for Christmas\u2026 A candy that even Kimberly had never heard of\u2026 Potato Candy.\u00a0Karen<\/strong>\u00a0told us this:\u00a0[Christmases at our house usually included making candy with my mother and my grandmother. We did everything from potato candy to chocolate dipped peanut butter (JIMI: \u201cThat all sounds amazing.\u201d) and fudge. My mom\u2019s fudge recipe is amazing.\u201d KIMBERLY: \u201cWhat is potato candy?\u201d KAREN: \u201cIt does use a potato, but it\u2019s rolled and it has peanut butter inside]<\/p>\n Little Big Town\u2019s first show of 2020 will be January 16, in New York City.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 24th ","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-11964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:08:36","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-301\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964","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=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11965,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions\/11965"}],"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=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/u><\/strong>\u2022 \u201cChristmas Day\u201d, a holiday in at least 105 nations.<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>\u2022 \u201cBoxing Day\u201d, a legal holiday in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the UK, which takes its name from the old English tradition of boxing up gifts & food for the less fortunate.<\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/u><\/strong>Singer Jimmy Buffett is 73; Movie actress Sissy Spacek (\u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter\u201d) is 70<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>A few tips from health experts \u2026.
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