{"id":13243,"date":"2020-02-25T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2020-02-25T05:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:13:30","slug":"on-todays-show-342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/02\/on-todays-show-342\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one way to make a statement. The town board in Croyden, New Hampshire voted to shut down the small town&#8217;s one-man police department The town has decided to pay state police to cover the town&#8217;s policing needs instead. The Police Chief since 2000, Richard Lee, was told he would need to turn in his badge and uniform immediately, and he so he stripped then and there. He walked out into a winter storm in his boots and underwear only and waited for his wife to pick him up. Lee says he was blindsided by the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a new app that could go a long way toward stopping the thousands of robocalls which occur every day. The creators of the \u201cDoNotPay\u201d app recently rolled out a feature called \u201cRobo Revenge,\u201d which provides users with a credit card that can be given to scammers in order to obtain information that can be used to track them down. In the U.S., the Telephone Consumer Protection Act gives people the right to sue someone for up to $3,000 if they\u2019re found to have violated your privacy. Robo Revenge gives users the necessary legal documents to make a claim in court. Unfortunately, because there are no global rules concerning the practice, there is nothing that can be done if the calls are generated outside the US<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FROZEN 2<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this sequel to the 2013 hit. Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>KNIVES OUT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When wealthy crime novelist played by Christopher Plummer dies during a family gathering to celebrate his 85th birthday, the family believes it was suicide. However, a famed Southern detective played by Daniel Craig suspects foul play.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Daredevil Nik Wallenda will risk his life on live television yet again, this time with a high-wire walk over an active volcano in Nicaragua. The walk will be 1,800 feet long and is described as his highest and longest walk ever. He\u2019d also be the first person to ever walk across the volcano. The two-hour TV special will air on Wednesday, March 4.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPancake Day\u201d, also known as \u201cMardi Gras\u201d, aka \u201cFat Tuesday\u201d or \u201cPancake Tuesday\u201d, the last big blow-out before Lent begins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNational Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day\u201d, The first chocolate-covered peanut candies were \u2018Goobers\u2019, which were first sold in 1925.\u00a0 The word \u201cGoober\u201d was a common slang word for peanut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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><strong>Wade Hayes<\/strong>\u00a0scored his first Number One with &#8220;Old Enough To Know Better&#8221; in 1995<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>People Don&#8217;t Care About Milestones Like Getting Married, Having Kids<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you were growing up, there were probably some milestones in your life you always planned on hitting:\u00a0 Getting married, having a kid, buying a house, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Well, those days are pretty much over.\u00a0 According to a new survey, 61% say a lot of the traditional milestones aren&#8217;t really important to them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The five things we&#8217;re now fine with delaying or even totally skipping are:<\/p>\n<p>Saving for retirement . . . getting married . . . having kids . . . buying a home . . . and getting engaged. So why are we delaying them?\u00a0 The five main reasons are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personal insecurities . . . not being financially stable . . . being with a partner who doesn&#8217;t prioritize those things . . . paying off student loans first . . . and our friends are also delaying those things, so we don&#8217;t feel any pressure to do them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Even though the Soviet Union hasn&#8217;t competed in the Summer Olympics since 1988, it&#8217;s still second in the all-time medal count.\u00a0 America has 2,522 medals . . . the Soviet Union has 1,010 . . . and Great Britain is third with 851.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Cher<\/strong>was one of the background singers for\u00a0<strong>The Righteous Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;ve Lost That Lovin&#8217; Feelin'&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Long johns are named after a boxer in Boston in the 1870s named John Sullivan . . . he would wear them in the ring.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Snakes sleep with both eyes open.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A guy in New Brunswick, New Jersey named David Caldwell was freaking out last month when his fianc\u00e9e went into labor 10 weeks early.\u00a0 And a nurse named Lissa McGowan helped calm him down.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(It&#8217;s pronounced like Lisa.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best news is David&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e and their son Zayne are both doing well.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been putting on<\/p>\n<p>weight and getting stronger every day.\u00a0 But they&#8217;re in the news because of a weird coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Zayne was born, David started looking at old photos of himself as a baby, because he was also a preemie.\u00a0 And it turned out Lissa was the same nurse who took care of HIM as an infant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both of them were born at Saint Peter&#8217;s University Hospital.\u00a0 And she&#8217;s been working there as a nurse for over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David found a photo from 1986 of her holding him as a newborn, and his fianc\u00e9e realized it was the same nurse.\u00a0 So they recreated the photo with their son last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lissa says she bonded with David immediately when they met last month.\u00a0 And finding out she cared for him as a baby was a, quote, &#8220;very nice surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[55] Carrot Top, comedian (red-haired prop comedian)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[54] T\u00e9a Leoni, actress (\u2018Elizabeth McCord\u2019 on \u201cMadam Secretary\u201d 2014-19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[49] Sean Astin, actor (\u201cLord Of the Rings\u201d, \u201cGoonies\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[42] Shawna Thompson, country singer<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Five Common Habits That Could Make You Sick<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the flu and coronavirus going around, we&#8217;ve got to be more careful than ever when it comes to staying healthy.\u00a0 But here are five common habits that could easily get you sick.\u00a0 And chances are you&#8217;re guilty of at least ONE of them . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Biting your nails.\u00a0 Putting your fingers in your mouth and biting your nails is unsanitary and can expose you to all sorts of bacteria, viruses, and infections.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also not good for your teeth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Eating at your desk.\u00a0 You&#8217;re typing on a keyboard that&#8217;s most likely covered in germs, and then putting food in your mouth.\u00a0 Not a good combo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Smoking.\u00a0 This one should be obvious.\u00a0 If the cancer risk alone isn&#8217;t a good enough reason, smoking can decrease your immune function, making you more likely to catch the flu, a cold, or pneumonia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Not changing your sheets.\u00a0 Dust mites love your nice, warm bed as much as you do.\u00a0 And even though dust mites themselves are harmless, their droppings and body fragments can cause colds and trigger asthma symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Not getting enough sleep.\u00a0 According to BetterSleep.org, about half of Americans say they don&#8217;t get enough sleep, which is between seven and nine hours a night.\u00a0 And when you DON&#8217;T sleep enough, it decreases your energy levels and makes you more susceptible to illness, since your cells can&#8217;t fully recharge while you snooze.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>STUDY: TO GET KIDS TO EAT THEIR GREENS, BOTH PARENTS NEED TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want your small child to eat their green you better be doing so too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>University of Eastern Finland researchers found that a positive example set by both mother and father promotes the consumption of vegetables, fruit, and berries among children ages three to five.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The study also showed that dinner is the most important meal at home when it comes to teaching kids to eat their vegetables. Researcher and Nutritionist Kaisa K\u00e4hk\u00f6nen says, &#8220;This shows that teaching children to eat their greens is not something mothers should be doing alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A positive example set by both parents is important, as is their encouragement of the child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0_________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25<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<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[55] Carrot Top, comedian (red-haired prop comedian)<\/p>\n<p>[54] T\u00e9a Leoni, actress (\u2018Elizabeth McCord\u2019 on \u201cMadam Secretary\u201d 2014-19<\/p>\n<p>[49] Sean Astin, actor (\u201cLord Of the Rings\u201d, \u201cGoonies\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>[42] Shawna Thompson, country singer<\/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><strong><u>NHL<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>CBJ 4 &#8211; OTT 3 OT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u2022 \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d (ABC\/Global): Elisabeth Moss, Dan Abrams, Dustin Lynch<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cThe Voice\u201d (NBC): Coaches Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, John Legend and Blake Shelton vie to discover and coach the next singing phenomenon on the second night of blind auditions.<\/li>\n<li>A bank thought a woman was robbing them when she came in wearing a facemask\u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Jim Gaffigan on the song Mary Had a Little Lamb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>DID YOU KNOW?<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nYou\u2019ve seen photos of LeBron James with his knees wrapped in ice packs and his feet in a bucket of ice. But never has there been a published, peer-reviewed research paper that has definitively shown that ice is beneficial to the healing process.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, recent studies have shown the opposite. Ice can delay healing, increase swelling, and possibly cause additional damage to injured tissues.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THOMAS RHETT&#8217;S LATEST HIT CAME FROM DAY ON THE GOLF COURSE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea for\u00a0<strong>Thomas Rhett<\/strong>&#8216;s latest hit, &#8220;Beer Can&#8217;t Fix,&#8221; came to him and one of his co-writers,\u00a0<strong>Julian Bunetta<\/strong>, on the golf course. In fact, they put the theory to the test on the course that day, as Thomas tells us:\u00a0[\u201c&#8217;Beer Can\u2019t Fix&#8217; literally stemmed from a joke that was made on a golf course. We were playing golf and we were just doing terrible and we just decided to grab a beer and see how we played after that, and we both started playing a lot better after that. There\u2019s a couple of situations in life where beer just makes experiences better, golf and fishin\u2019 being two of those. And we just started kind of riffing this idea on there\u2019s not much that beer can\u2019t fix.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>The song&#8217;s other co-writers are\u00a0<strong>OneRepublic<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Ryan Tedder<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Zach Skelton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0<em>Center Point Road Tour\u00a0<\/em>opens in late May with special guest Cole Swindell and Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GARTH BROOKS SAYS &#8216;FUN&#8217; ALBUM DUE OUT THIS SUMMER <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>\u00a0has been talking about his upcoming studio album,\u00a0<em>Fun<\/em>, for some time but it looks likes fans finally have a timeline for when the project will be released. Before his\u00a0<em>Stadium Tour<\/em>\u00a0stop at Ford Field in Detroit on Saturday (Feb. 22nd), Garth gave reporters an update on the project.\u00a0[&#8220;Something has happened at the very last second that might have a song make it on there, so we&#8217;re exploring that over the next two weeks. I&#8217;m supposed to deliver it by March 1st, so it&#8217;ll be in production throughout March and April, so\u00a0(it&#8217;s)\u00a0looking like summer at some point. Music retail is totally different than what it was five years ago, way different than what it was 10 years ago, so now new ways to bring the music to the people are out there and we&#8217;re gonna explore those new ways this summer.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Garth&#8217;s latest hit, &#8220;Dive Bar,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<strong>Blake Shelton<\/strong>\u00a0will be included on the\u00a0<em>Fun\u00a0<\/em>album, along with his previous singles &#8220;All Day Long&#8221; and &#8220;Stronger Than Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>DON\u2019T LISTEN TO COUNTRY <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has a mental conditioning coach who advises\u00a0him to avoid listening to country music because, quote, &#8220;it&#8217;s so negative.&#8221;\u00a0 He says you need to be mindful of the impact that music has, and you don&#8217;t want negative music dictating your &#8220;internal ad campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 25 ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 08:18:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/02\/on-todays-show-342\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","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=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13244,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/13244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}