{"id":12607,"date":"2020-01-27T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2020-01-27T05:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:22:46","slug":"on-todays-show-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/01\/on-todays-show-322\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA legend\u00a0<strong>KOBE BRYANT<\/strong>\u00a0and his 13-year-old daughter were killed in a tragic helicopter crash in L.A. yesterday morning, along with seven other people.\u00a0 Kobe was 41.\u00a0 The investigation is still ongoing, but\u00a0the weather may have been\u00a0a factor.\u00a0 It was extremely foggy at the time of the crash. They were headed to Kobe&#8217;s Mamba Sports Academy, where Gianna had a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>They were traveling with a guy named John Altobelli, his wife Keri, and their daughter Alyssa.\u00a0 Alyssa was on Gianna&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Girls basketball coach Christina Mauser was also killed in the crash, along with the pilot and two other passengers who haven&#8217;t been identified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kobe Bryant grew up in Italy. . . where his father, Joe &#8220;Jellybean&#8221; Bryant, went to continue HIS basketball career, after eight seasons in the NBA.\u00a0 Here, Kobe says it was INFURIATING to be a basketball prodigy in Italy. . . &#8217;cause no one believed that his skills would hold up against the ballers back in the states.<\/p>\n<p>(From &#8220;Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith&#8221; on Monday, January 30, 2006.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A popular Canadian milk brand is recalling some of its products over fears of sanitizer contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Agropur Cooperative has recalled several varieties of its\u00a0Sealtest milk products sold in Ontario and Quebec with best before dates of February 8, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u00a0Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued the recall on Friday \u201cdue to the presence of sanitizer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without any major competition,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Bad Boys for Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0kept the top spot at the box office for a second straight week, with another $34 million.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;1917&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0came in second, with $15.8 million.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cDolittle&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> was third.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day\u201d, an annual Memorial Day commemorating the victims of the holocaust initiated by the WWII Nazi regime and its collaborators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBubble Wrap Appreciation Day\u201d, an annual event on the last Monday of January celebrating the padding we all like to pop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2010 [10] Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils a new invention, a tablet PC called the \u2018iPad\u2019, at a press conference in San Francisco CA<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Dixie Chicks<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Without You&#8221; became their fifth Number One single in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Asphalt isn&#8217;t a modern invention . . . it&#8217;s been around for more than 4,000 years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The guy who designed the Oscar statue went on to win 11 of them himself.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Cedric Gibbons<\/strong>was a production designer who won Oscars for Best Art Direction on movies like\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;An American in Paris&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Bad and the Beautiful&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The most common domain extension is .com.\u00a0 The second-most common is .ru, which belongs to Russia.\u00a0 And the third most popular is .org.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Billy Crystal<\/strong>turned down the chance to be Buzz Lightyear in\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Toy Story&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, so it went to\u00a0<strong>Tim Allen<\/strong>.\u00a0 When Pixar found out Billy Crystal called it the biggest mistake of his career, they offered him the role of Mike in\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Monsters, Inc.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . . and he accepted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This NFL fan avoided a season&#8217;s worth of hangovers AND just got this nice cherry on top . . .<\/p>\n<p>Kameron Rees is a Kansas City Chiefs season ticket holder.\u00a0 And he&#8217;s extra excited they&#8217;re in the Super Bowl next week, because he gets to go to the game for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This season, he signed up for a designated driver\u00a0program\u00a0through the NFL called &#8220;Responsibility Has Its Rewards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you agree to not drink at games so you can drive your drunk friends home.\u00a0 And it enters you in a sweepstakes to win Super Bowl tickets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people signed up.\u00a0 Then one fan from each Super Bowl team got picked.<\/p>\n<p>Kameron recently got a text telling him he&#8217;d won.\u00a0 And he thought it was a scam at first, but it was legit.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(A 49ers fan named Erin Keeley also\u00a0won)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It comes with two tickets to next Sunday&#8217;s game in Miami, worth about $1,400.\u00a0 Plus free airfare and two nights in a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kameron&#8217;s giving the other ticket to his dad, who took him to his first NFL game 26 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[80] James Cromwell, movie actor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[61] Cris Collinsworth, NFL TV analyst<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[52] Tracy Lawrence, country singer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[51] Patton Oswalt, actor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0_________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HMMMM\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>\u2022 90% of adults say they\u2019ve shown up at work sick.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>70% of us say our significant other is guilty of selective hearing.<\/li>\n<li>62% of adults say they\u2019d be mortified if their friends saw their high school yearbook photo.<\/li>\n<li>27% of us say they\u2019ve never set foot in their neighbor\u2019s house.<\/li>\n<li>23% of adults say they play video games regularly while on the clock at work.<\/li>\n<li>25% of adults say they are relieved when friends cancel their plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>STAYING IN CONTACT:<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>A start-up company called Mojo Vision has unveiled a working prototype of what they are calling \u201cthe world\u2019s first true smart contact lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it\u2019s just what you thought: A miniaturized Augmented Reality display that you can wear in your eye. It is said that it can provide directions, sports scores or even enable the wearer to see in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer says that others can\u2019t tell that someone is wearing one, and all interaction is performed using just the eyes. And since it\u2019s a contact lens, the screen will still be visible even when the wearer\u2019s eyes are closed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The miniature MicroLED display at the center of the smart lens features a pixel density of 14,000 pixels per square inch (a world record \u2014 the iPhone 11 has a pixel density of 323ppi). Mojo Vision is now working with the US Food and Drug Administration to develop a final product, aimed at the vision impaired, that complies with regulations and standards.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>A THIRD OF FOOD IS WASTED <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers estimate that $240 billion worth of food is wasted annually in the U.S., or an average of roughly $1,900 per household.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This waste also produces a lot of greenhouse gas, making it &#8220;the third-largest emitter of carbon after the U.S. and China.&#8221; Ultimately, they determined that the average household wastes 31.9 percent of the food is acquires, and more than two-thirds of the households in the study wasted between 20 and 50 percent of the food they acquired.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One interesting find: people who went food shopping with a list wasted less food, as did those who had to travel farther to reach a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>MONDAY JANUARY 27<sup>TH<\/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<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[80] James Cromwell, movie actor<\/p>\n<p>[61] Cris Collinsworth, NFL TV analyst<\/p>\n<p>[52] Tracy Lawrence, country singer<\/p>\n<p>[51] Patton Oswalt, actor<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>At yesterday&#8217;s press briefing, L.A. County Fire Chief, Daryl Osby described the initial report on the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant and eight other people.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t mention Kobe by name.\u00a0 Firefighters had to hike to the crash site to deal with the brush fire and\u00a0paramedics were lowered in from a helicopter to the crash site.\u00a0 They found no survivors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During yesterday&#8217;s press briefing, L.A. County Sheriff, Alex Villanueva said they wouldn&#8217;t be naming the helicopter victims until the coroner had made determinations, and families contacted.\u00a0 While making his comments, he slammed TMZ for announcing Kobe Bryant earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>No winning ticket was sold for the $17 million jackpot in Friday night&#8217;s Lotto Max draw.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That means the jackpot for the next draw on Jan. 28 will grow to approximately $22 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No winning ticket was sold for the $7-million jackpot in Saturday night&#8217;s Lotto 649 draw.<\/p>\n<p>However, the guaranteed $1-million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in the Prairies.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Jan. 29 will be approximately $9 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A new study says that people who have more than one tattoo tend to be more reckless\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Jim Gaffigan on swimming pools in hotels<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>T-MINUS 100 SECONDS . . .<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>I\u2019m not sure how your Monday is going so far, but this probably won\u2019t help. On Friday, the Doomsday Clock, which is used to illustrate how close humanity is to annihilation, was moved to its closest position to apocalypse since it was first started in 1947. It now stands at 100 seconds to midnight. President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Rachel Bronson said in a press release that the move was made to express how close the world is to catastrophe due to the climate crisis, two threats of nuclear war, the rise of false information online, and the refusal of world leaders to act on these critical issues. The Doomsday Clock was set at two minutes to midnight in 2018, and had remained there ever since.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COUNTRY GRAMMY WINNERS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are the Country Grammys from last night.<\/p>\n<p>BEST COUNTRY ALBUM, &#8220;While I&#8217;m Livin'&#8221; by Tanya Tucker . .<\/p>\n<p>BEST COUNTRY SONG, &#8220;Bring My Flowers Now&#8221; by Tanya Tucker . . .<\/p>\n<p>BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE, \u201cRide Me Back Home\u201d &#8221; by Willie Nelson . . . and<\/p>\n<p>BEST COUNTRY DUO OR GROUP PERFORMANCE, &#8220;Speechless&#8221; by Dan + Shay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HOT COUNTRY KNIGHTS TAP DIERKS BENTLEY, TRAVIS TRITT FOR DEBUT SINGLE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nineties throwback band\u00a0Hot Country Knights\u00a0(HCK) are releasing their debut single called &#8220;Pick Her Up&#8221; and it features special guest\u00a0Travis Tritt.\u00a0Dierks Bentley\u00a0AKA HCK lead singer\u00a0Doug Douglason\u00a0co-wrote the song and produced it.<\/p>\n<p>HCK has taken full credit for everything 90s, from the music to the fashion and even the mullets. During a press conference with the band yesterday (Thursday, Jan. 23rd), one reporter asked HCK about\u00a0Morgan Wallen&#8217;s part in bringing the mullet back into 2020 and Doug was pretty offended. He said:\u00a0[&#8220;We patented and trademarked the mullet. We own it, just like we own 90s. If you do anything 90s country hashtag that&#8217;s us. Go look on your Google machine right now and go to the Instagram and put in #90s country. If the Knights don&#8217;t pull up first I&#8217;ll be damn. We own that, and we trademarked the mullet. We had it first, and so whatever Morgan&#8217;s doing now we need to get our people on that, make sure we&#8217;re getting a piece of that.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Hot Country Knight&#8217;s single &#8220;Pick Her Up&#8221; is now available at all digital retailers and heads to Country radio early next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Why Is Chase Rice &#8220;Jacked Up&#8221; by What &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; Did to Him?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHASE RICE<\/strong>\u00a0will be performing TONIGHT on <em><strong>&#8220;The Bachelor&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . . and that&#8217;s good exposure for him, right? \u00a0Well, yes, but there&#8217;s a twist . . . because there&#8217;s always a twist on that show.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, Bachelor\u00a0<strong>PETER WEBER<\/strong>\u00a0takes contestant\u00a0<strong>VICTORIA FULLER<\/strong>\u00a0on a date that includes a private concert.\u00a0 And when she sees it&#8217;s Chase Rice she tells Peter that they dated.\u00a0 Then the tears flow, because tears always flow on that show.<\/p>\n<p>Chase didn&#8217;t know any of this.\u00a0 No one told him she was a contestant, and he&#8217;s not happy about it.\u00a0 He said, quote, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know exactly what happened. \u00a0I wish it wouldn&#8217;t have happened, but I understand it from their side of it. &#8220;They&#8217;ve got to make TV [but] it&#8217;s pretty surprising that they brought me into that, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a coincidence.\u00a0 It&#8217;s either the reality TV gods, just some crazy coincidence or some producer did a really good job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either way, it&#8217;s pretty weird they pulled me into that.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a little jacked up they&#8217;re going to do that to me.\u00a0 It was a pretty big surprise that wasn&#8217;t what I wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chase says he negotiated with the show for about a year, but he never thought they&#8217;d pull him into the storyline. \u00a0And yet, here we are talking about it and I think he realizes that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, quote, &#8220;At the end of the day, if it brings it back to the music and if it brings people to my music, that&#8217;s what I want people to take away from it.\u00a0 If the music&#8217;s good, it&#8217;ll always go back to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 27th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 12:25:56","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-322\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607","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=12607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12608,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions\/12608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}