A house owned by Dr. Phil is for sale for US$5,750,000. The home, listed in a celebrity-dense neighbourhood in L.A. isn\u2019t actually Dr. Phil\u2019s personal residence,\u00a0but is currently used by a family member who has decided to move on.<\/p>\n
Since it hit the market a few days ago, the home\u2019s bizarre design has captured the internet\u2019s fascination. Cartoonish statuettes of bears and rabbits are littered across the property, and a grand staircase adorned in twisting snakes \u2013 or are they vines?<\/p>\n
In the dining room, an entire wall is dedicated to at least a dozen guns. In the living room, a pink neon sign reads \u201cHELLO THERE.\u201d The floors of the billiards room appear to be splattered in white paint. As for the bizarre interior design, the listing says the \u201ceclectic finishes\u201d can be kept or \u201ctransformed into your own vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGraw was the 9th-highest-paid entertainer of 2019, with reported earnings of US$95 million<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A five-year-old girl in California named Katelynn Hardee\u00a0found out\u00a0that parents of other kids at her school couldn’t pay off their kids’ lunch debts.\u00a0 So she told her mom she wanted to sell cookies and hot chocolate to raise money for them.\u00a0 And she ended up with enough to cover the debts of 123 students.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n For the third straight week, the new\u00a0“Star Wars”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0movie\u00a0“The Rise of Skywalker”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0won\u00a0the box office.\u00a0 It made another $33.7 million . . . bringing its domestic total up to $450.8 million.<\/p>\n “The Grudge”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>made $11.3 million and came in fourth despite horrible reviews\u00a0. . . and\u00a0“Frozen 2”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0made another $11.29 million to become the\u00a0highest grossing\u00a0animated movie of all time.<\/p>\n ————————————————————————<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emma Watson is hiding copies of \u201cLittle Women\u201d around the world for fans to find. She plays Margaret \u2018Meg\u2019 March in Greta Gerwig\u2019s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott\u2019s 19th-century novel. Watson launched her feminist book club in 2016 and teamed up with \u2018The Book Fairies\u2019, who hide reading material in public places. For her latest initiative, she will be distributing 2,000 copies of \u201cLittle Women\u201d across 38 countries, with \u201da special note\u201d inside.<\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2016 [04] \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d breaks the North American box office record, passing the $760.5m record set by \u201cAvatar\u201d<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Don Williams<\/strong>\u00a0reached #1 with “Tulsa Time” in 1979<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n THIS YEAR\u2019S SCAM:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n When 2020 is abbreviated, those looking to exploit unsuspecting people can easily manipulate those numbers and leave people potentially vulnerable to fraud. For example, a document dated 1\/4\/20 can easily be changed to 1\/4\/2021 by adding two numbers at the end.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no evidence yet that anyone has been scammed in this manner. But it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry, so be sure to wrote out the full four digits of the year.<\/p>\n ________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n _________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Ninety-fifth time’s the charm. That\u2019s how many RedditGifts exchanges a Michigan woman had to participate in before she got the ultimate Secret Santa, the one everyone fervently hopes they’ll get: Bill Gates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shelby\u2014as the recipient of a Christmas package sent by the world’s on again-off again richest man wants to be IDed\u2014explained that when she first got an alert that her Reddit Secret Santa gift had been overnighted via FedEx, she noticed the package was coming from Washington state.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She also saw that the package weighed 81 pounds and, finally, that the person who’d sent it was indeed Gates. “Bill Gates is my Secret Santa, I just won Secret Santa 2019!” is how Shelby reacted. A Reddit rep confirms Gates sent the package.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gates always goes out of his way to customize his Secret Santa gifts\u2014and for Shelby, who “loves letting her geek flag fly,” her presents couldn’t have been more perfect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Included in Gates’ give:\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0Lego sets and other branded merch;\u00a0Twin Peaks<\/em>\u00a0memorabilia; a Legend of Zelda handmade quilt; lots of Oreos; and a bound manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s\u00a0The Great Gatsby.<\/em>\u00a0The best gift of all, however: a donation from Gates to the American Heart Association in memory of Shelby’s mom, who died earlier in the year.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [65] Rowan Atkinson, actor (\u201cMr. Bean\u201d)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [51] Norman Reedus, actor (\u2018Daryl Dixon\u2019 on \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d since 2010)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [39] Eddie Redmayne, actor (\u201cFantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them\u201d, \u201cThe Theory of Everything\u201d) COMING UP\u2026\u201dThe Trial of the Chicago 7\u2033, 2020<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [36] Kate McKinnon, comedian\/actress (\u201cGhostbusters\u201d)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE YEAR 2020 (from way back when\u2026):<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n \u261e We\u2019ll have ape chauffeurs:\u00a0 In 1994, the RAND Corporation, a global think tank that\u2019s contributed to the space program and the development of the internet, said they expected us to have animal employees by the year 2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u261e Flying houses:\u00a0 Arthur C. Clarke \u2014 who wrote \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey\u201d \u2014 believed that houses of the future would have nothing keeping them on the ground and they would be able to move to anywhere on earth on a whim. In fact, he even suggested that whole communities would be able to fly south for winter.<\/p>\n \u261e C, X and Q will be eliminated:\u00a0 In 1900, John Elfreth Watkins Jr., the curator of mechanical technology at the Smithsonian Institution, predicted that those three letters would become unnecessary. He said that by now, we\u2019d be spelling mostly by sound and would communicate with \u201ccondensed words\u201d.<\/p>\n \u261e No more coffee, tea or tobacco:\u00a0 In 1937, Nikola Tesla predicted that \u201cwithin a century, coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer be in vogue.\u201d He wrote that \u201cIt will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u261e All roads will become tubes:\u00a0 A 1957 Popular Mechanics article said that every street in America will be \u201creplaced by a network of pneumatic tubes.\u201d Your car would only need power to get from your home to the nearest tube. Then, \u201cthey will be pneumatically powered to any desired destination.\u201d<\/p>\n \u261e Nobody will work, and we\u2019ll all be rich:\u00a0 In 1966, Time magazine predicted that \u201cmachines will be producing so much that everyone will be independently wealthy.\u201d Without lifting a finger, the average family could expect to earn a salary of $30,000 \u2013 $40,000. That\u2019d be around $300,000 now.<\/p>\n \u261e We\u2019ll eat candy made of underwear:\u00a0 The New York Times\u2019 longtime science editor Waldemar Kaempffert wrote in 1950 that it would be possible to take ordinary objects like old table linens and \u201crayon underwear\u201d and bring them to \u201cchemical factories to be converted into candy.\u201d<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n STUDY: DRINKING COFFEE FROM A ‘SMOOTH’ CUP MAKES IT TASTE BETTER –<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The cup you’re drinking your coffee out of matters. Scientists in Brazil found people thought their coffee tasted better when they drank it out of a smooth porcelain cup as opposed to a ceramic mug with a rough finish on the outer and inner walls.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The participants rated the coffee from the smooth cup as tasting sweeter, and the coffee from the rough cup as more acidic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Psychologist Dr. Fabiana Carvalho explains, “These results demonstrate that haptic cues influence the judgement of basic tastes as well as mouth-feel attributes in specialty coffee.” \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n PEOPLE WHO LIVE BY THE SEA ARE LESS ANXIOUS AND DEPRESSED <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n It pays to live near the coast. Researchers from Exeter University found people living around a half a mile from the coast are 22 percent less likely to experience mental health problems like anxiety and depression compared to those who live 31 miles away or more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The scientists say the coast may act as a “protective zone” for psychological well-being and also highlight the importance of so-called “Blue Health”– the link between health and the natural environment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Researcher Dr. Matthew White adds, “We need to help policy makers understand how to maximize the well-being benefits of ‘blue’ spaces in towns and cities and ensure that access is fair and inclusive for everyone, while not damaging our fragile coastal environments.”<\/p>\n \u00a0______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n MONDAY JANUARY 6TH<\/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 [65] Rowan Atkinson,actor<\/p>\n [51] Norman Reedus, actor (\u2018Daryl Dixon\u2019 on \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d since 2010)<\/p>\n [36] Kate McKinnon, comedian\/actress (\u201cGhostbusters\u201d)<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n Canada \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Russia\u00a0 3<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, January 4th<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Houston Texans 22, Buffalo Bills 19 (OT) (AFC)<\/p>\n Tennessee Titans 20, New England Patriots 13 (AFC)<\/p>\n Sunday, January 5th<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Minnesota Vikings 26, New Orleans Saints 20 (OT) (NFC)<\/p>\n Seattle Seahawks 17, Philadelphia Eagles 9 (NFC)<\/p>\n Next weekend’s Divisional playoffs matchups:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, January 11th<\/strong><\/p>\n Minnesota Vikings at San Francisco 49ers (NFC)<\/p>\n Tennessee Titans at Baltimore Ravens (AFC)<\/p>\n Sunday, January 12th<\/strong><\/p>\n Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs (AFC)<\/p>\n Seattle Seahawks at Green Bay Packers (NFC)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ——————————————————————————<\/p>\n The richest prize in Canadian lottery history remains up for grabs.<\/p>\n No winning ticket was sold for the $70 million dollar jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.<\/p>\n The draw also offered 26 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, and eight of them were won.<\/p>\n They will be split amongst 13 winning ticket holders — eight in Ontario.<\/p>\n The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 7 will remain at approximately $70 million and there will be 25 Maxmillion prizes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No winning ticket was sold for the $21-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.<\/p>\n However, the draw’s guaranteed $1-million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec.<\/p>\n The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Jan. 8 will be approximately $25 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n _________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JIMMIE ALLEN DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE AFTER GETTING HIS DEGREE IN ‘PEOPLE’<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jimmie Allen\u00a0says he got his degree in “people” before dropping out of college after more than two years. He tells us exclusively that college was a means to an end, and that end was the career he’s currently enjoying.\u00a0[“I went to school to socialize, hang out. Like, when I went to college I had no intention on graduating. Like for me, I knew I wanted to be an entertainer. In order to be an entertainer you kind of gotta get to know other people from different cultures, different backgrounds and kind of be able to put yourself in their shoes and I was like why not college. You meet so many different people, so for me college was just meet as many people as I can, get to know ’em and after two and a half years I left. I said, ‘I got my degree in people. I’m done.’\u00a0(laughs)\u00a0It paid off\u00a0(laughs).”]<\/p>\n Jimmie sits inside the Top 10 and climbing with his latest single, “Make Me Want To.”<\/p>\n He celebrated the Christmas holiday at his favorite place, DisneyWorld in Orlando, with his son,\u00a0Aadyn, and his fiancee,\u00a0Alexis.<\/p>\n He and his fiancee are expecting a baby girl in March.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n LADY ANTEBELLUM NEW TOUR<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Lady Antebellum<\/strong>\u00a0will set sail on their\u00a0Ocean 2020 Tour<\/em>\u00a0beginning on May 21st in Albuquerque, NM and wrapping up on September 12th in Nashville. They will be joined by special guest\u00a0Jake Owen<\/strong>\u00a0as well as\u00a0Maddie & Tae<\/strong>. Tickets for select cities go on sale beginning Jan. 24th at Megaticket.com.<\/p>\n Charles Kelley<\/strong>\u00a0said, “After our Vegas residency and working on this record for the past year we are itching to get back out on the road and see how the fans gravitate to some of the deeper cuts off of\u00a0Ocean<\/em>. We’ve missed those huge crowd sing-alongs and we are looking forward to having Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae light up the stage every night. May can’t come fast enough.”<\/p>\n Lady A sits at Number Two on the\u00a0Mediabase<\/em>\u00a0chart with “What If I Never Get Over You,” the lead single from\u00a0Ocean<\/em>\u00a0which was released in November.<\/p>\n FAST FACTS<\/p>\n Here are the\u00a0Ocean 2020 Tour<\/em>\u00a0dates: <\/p>\n Lady Antebellum is bringing Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae on their Ocean 2020 Tour . . . so they posted a\u00a0video\u00a0of them\u00a0doing karaoke trying to figure out what song they’ll choose to perform together at each show.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jake Owen \u2013 says he broke his wrist while warning his daughter, Pearl, \u201cwhat not to do.\u201d He posted a video where he shows his cast and says that he \u201cwas riding a skateboard in my driveway\u2026And I showed her what not to do, all right \u2026 don\u2019t break your wrist, Pearl.\u201d He says he\u2019ll be OK for some important events booked for 2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 6th ","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-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 18:09:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/01\/on-todays-show-307\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","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=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions\/12130"}],"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=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/u>It looks like those \u201c2020\u201d warnings that you may have seen pop up in your Facebook or Twitter feed could be legit. As you try to remember to write the correct year on official forms and documents, experts say you should write the \u00a0full year, rather than simply putting \u201c20\u201d to signify the year 2020. Why?<\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/u>\u261e Human feet will become one big toe:\u00a0 In a 1911 lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, surgeon Richard Clement Lucas said that the \u201cuseless outer toes\u201d will become used less and less, so that \u201cman might become a one-toed race.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\u2022 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d (NBC): Ten of the most memorable acts from around the globe perform; four advance \u2014 two chosen by a panel of superfans, one Judges\u2019 Choice and one who receives a Golden Buzzer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
\n5\/21\/2020\u00a0 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
\n8\/21\/2020\u00a0 Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
\n8\/22\/2020\u00a0 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre<\/p>\n