{"id":14079,"date":"2020-03-31T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=14079"},"modified":"2020-03-31T05:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:27:24","slug":"on-todays-show-366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/03\/on-todays-show-366\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is issuing further restrictions and extending its state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency and all of its orders currently in effect will be extended from March 31 until April 13.\u00a0 In addition to the declaration, the province has issued a new emergency order\u00a0to close all outdoor recreational amenities \u2014 such as sports field, playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, off-leash dog parks, beaches, skateboard and BMX parks, picnic areas, park shelters, outdoor exercise equipment, condo parks and community gardens \u2014 effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 50s has been given some great news after being identified as Chatham-Kent\u2019s first confirmed case of COVID-19.Officials with the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit said the individual has made a full recovery. He was tested after he\u00a0developed symptoms following a cruise.There are five\u00a0more confirmed cases\u00a0in Chatham-Kent that are still in isolation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There have been rushes on grocery stores but there are some things that are SO undesirable that they managed to stay on the shelves while people bought up everything around them.<\/p>\n<p>A website compiled a bunch of people&#8217;s social media pictures to put together a list of the foods that no one wanted, even now.\u00a0 Those include . . .<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Frozen pizzas with pineapple . . . or with cauliflower and broccoli crusts.<\/li>\n<li>Cans of Manhattan Clam Chowder soup in a New England grocery store.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Tamales-flavored Peeps. 4.\u00a0 Baby Shark cereal.<\/li>\n<li>Aquafina water. 6.\u00a0 Gluten-free battered halibut.<\/li>\n<li>Unsalted potato chips.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THIS WEEK\u2019S NETFLIX (Canada) RELEASES:<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u><strong>\u27a2<\/strong><strong> March 31:<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d (Drama): \u00a0After their father\u2019s death, two young women have to navigate the tricky and patriarchal rules of inheritance in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. (Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cStep Brothers\u201d (Comedy): \u00a0Two middle-aged men who still live at home are forced to live together when their parents get married. (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly)<br \/>\n<strong>\u27a2<\/strong><strong> April 1:<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 \u201cCommunity, Seasons 1-6\u201d (Comedy): \u00a0The wacky, witty, and self-aware sit-com about a group of misfits who bond at an eccentric community college.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cReservoir Dogs\u201d (Drama): \u00a0The complicated lives of professional thieves intertwine with the police after a robbery goes spectacularly wrong. (Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cMagic Mike\u201d (Comedy-Drama):\u00a0 A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. (Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey)<\/p>\n<p>After Kelly Clarkson made a comment about having a musical crush on contestant\u00a0Mandi Castillo, and Blake said he had one on the &#8217;80s hair metal band RATT.\u00a0 Yeah, the comment tanked.\u00a0 (From &#8220;The Voice&#8221; or Monday, March 30, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><strong>____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarm Workers Day\u201d, encouraging us to thank agricultural laborers for their role in growing what we eat.<\/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><strong>Alabama<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0Greatest Hits\u00a0album was certified gold and platinum in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COVID UPDATES\u2026\u2026<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two quick health updates:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>PRINCE CHARLES<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0out\u00a0of self-isolation, while<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLACIDO DOMINGO<\/strong>\u00a0has now been hospitalized<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>38-year-old Nic Brown was one of the first people in Ohio to get sick.\u00a0 He ended up in the ICU at Cleveland Clinic, and was in really bad shape.\u00a0 He was even on full life support for a while. While he was fighting it, his Doctors and Nurses would write daily goals\u00a0for him to read on a window in his room.\u00a0 And at the bottom, they&#8217;d write, &#8220;We WILL get you home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, they kept their promise.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now RECOVERED.\u00a0 And before he went home, he wrote something for THEM that&#8217;s going viral.\u00a0 He thanked them for being &#8220;rock stars&#8221; and working so hard around the clock.\u00a0 And he said it&#8217;s changed him as a person to know there are, quote, &#8220;such wonderful people dedicated to the care and concern of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A regular customer at a restaurant in Florida recently left a $10,000 tip, and asked the owner to give all 20 employees 500 bucks.\u00a0 And someone in Arizona left a $2,000 tip\u00a0to help the owner of a pizza place keep paying his staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year-old wrote about homeschooling in his journal, and his mom shared\u00a0it online.\u00a0 Quote, &#8220;My mom&#8217;s getting stressed out.\u00a0 [She] is really getting confused.\u00a0 We took a break so [she] can figure this stuff out.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m telling you, it is not going good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember this guy who went viral last week?\u00a0 A guy in Brooklyn saw a woman dancing on her roof, and\u00a0used his drone to give his phone number.\u00a0 Well, now they&#8217;re DATING.\u00a0 They had a virtual dinner date from across the street.\u00a0 Then he got inside a big plastic Zorb ball, and they went on a walk together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen members of an orchestra in the Netherlands did Beethoven&#8217;s\u00a0ODE TO JOY\u00a0from their homes, and the video&#8217;s going viral.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FOUR RANDOM FACTS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Betty Boop was originally a talking French poodle when she debuted in 1930.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t become a person until 1932.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Purple Skittles aren&#8217;t grape in other countries.\u00a0 In England and Australia they&#8217;re black currant.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A Hungarian fencer named Pal Szekeres won a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics.\u00a0 Then he became disabled after a bus accident, and went on to win six medals in wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That makes him the only person who&#8217;s won a medal at the Olympics before a disability, then won one at the Paralympics when he was disabled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Mary Shelley\u00a0<\/strong>got the idea for\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Frankenstein&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0from a nightmare.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man who allegedly tried to kidnap three children from a convenience store in New Mexico was stopped when a champion high school wrestler intervened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canaan Bower, age 16, was getting gas in Las Cruces on Wednesday morning (March 25th) when he noticed commotion at a convenience store across the street. A woman there told him she was waiting for an Uber with her three children, all under age 10, when a man grabbed her two-year-old\u2019s arm and demanded the children go with him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The woman said she kicked the man, who then punched her in the head, causing her to fall on the infant in a carrier on her back. The suspect, Daniel Beltran, also punched a man and woman on the scene, and that\u2019s when Bower jumped in his truck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say that within seconds of his arrival, Bower had pinned Beltran to the ground. Bower had won his high school district\u2019s heavyweight wrestling championship in February, and his father said he kept the assailant in a chokehold as he waited for police to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beltran is in custody and has been charged with four counts of battery, two counts of assault, two counts of child abuse, and one count of kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u> <\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[77] Christopher Walken, actor (Oscar-\u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[72] Rhea Perlman, actress (\u201cCheers\u201d 1982-1993)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[49] Ewan McGregor, actor<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Do You Eat These Eight Foods the Way Other People Eat Them?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over one million people recently took an online survey.\u00a0 Here are eight questions, and how people answered them . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When you make a sandwich, what&#8217;s the best way to cut it . . . down the middle, or diagonally?\u00a0 80% said diagonal is better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Do you eat pizza flat, or do you fold it?\u00a0 31% of us like to fold.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>What&#8217;s the best way to eat an apple?\u00a0 Slice it up, or just bite into it?\u00a0 Slices won with 56% of the vote.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Do you put ketchup on your fries, or on the side for dipping?\u00a0 92% prefer to dip.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>What&#8217;s the best brownie . . . corner piece or middle piece?\u00a0 57% said corner piece.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Do you peel string cheese, or just bite into the whole chunk?\u00a0 85% peel it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>What&#8217;s the right way to eat a popsicle, lick it or bite it?\u00a0 77% said they mostly lick.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Do you eat a bagel one half at a time, or put the two halves together and eat it like a sandwich?\u00a0 We were surprised . . . 22% go sandwich-style.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0___________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TRAVEL POSTERS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>48-year-old Jennifer Baer, a graphic designer and illustrator who works for the NASA Ames Research Centre and is based in Palo Alto, California.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She created coronavirus travel posters because she felt a sense of urgency to contribute and be part of the solution to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baer said she had a trip planned to Tofina to see the whales, but it was cancelled by the outbreak. She said she watched her peers rally for N95 masks and then remembered she had the ability to communicate using humour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The posters have gone viral since she tweeted them. Baer says she is overwhelmed by the response. She said: &#8220;J.K. Rowling retweeted the posters this morning. Who am I? Where am I?<\/p>\n<p>Is this real life?&#8221; Due to popular demand you can buy your own for $11.99<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TUESDSAY MARCH 31<sup>ST<\/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\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>[77] Christopher Walken, actor (Oscar-\u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>[72] Rhea Perlman, actress (\u201cCheers\u201d 1982-1993)<\/p>\n<p>[49] Ewan McGregor, 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>The Ontario government is issuing further restrictions and extending its state of emergency.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The state of emergency and all of its orders currently in effect will be extended from March 31 until April 13.\u00a0 In addition to the declaration, the province has issued a new emergency order\u00a0to close all outdoor recreational amenities \u2014 such as sports field, playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, off-leash dog parks, beaches, skateboard and BMX parks, picnic areas, park shelters, outdoor exercise equipment, condo parks and community gardens \u2014 effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 50s has been given some great news after being identified as Chatham-Kent\u2019s first confirmed case of COVID-19.Officials with the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit said the individual has made a full recovery. There are five\u00a0more confirmed cases\u00a0in Chatham-Kent that are still in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>A guy in New Jersey got arrested\u00a0Friday night for throwing a coronavirus party with a DJ.\u00a0 Police found 47 people crammed into an apartment that was only 550 square feet.\u00a0 Governor Phil Murphy\u00a0talked\u00a0about it in his briefing the next day and called it an example of &#8220;what NOT to do.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Conan did his first full show from home last night on TBS.\u00a0 He had his neighbor and longtime friend, Adam Sandler as a guest.\u00a0 They were both in their own homes, telling stories about how they don&#8217;t know how to do things in them.\u00a0 (From &#8220;Conan&#8221; on Monday, March 30, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THOMAS RHETT RELEASES STAR-STUDDED SONG TO BENEFIT COVID-19 RELIEF<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (Monday, March 30th), on the occasion of his 30th birthday,\u00a0<strong>Thomas Rhett<\/strong>\u00a0released a song he co-wrote called \u201cBe A Light.&#8221; It features his friends\u00a0<strong>Reba McEntire, Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Keith Urban<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas said, \u201cI wrote \u2018Be A Light\u2019 last year as a way to process negativity and sadness I was seeing in the world. Now, as I sit in my home with my family on my 30th Birthday, we are in the middle of a world-wide pandemic affecting every single human on earth, all while our town of Nashville is still healing from devastating tornadoes that destroyed so much of our city less than one month ago. But, among the wreckage, I see us come together in ways I never dreamed possible. I knew in my heart this was the time to share this message with the world and our community. The voices who join me on this track are some of the brightest lights I know. I hope this song serves as a reminder that we are all in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and the song\u2019s collaborators will donate all proceeds from \u201cBe A Light\u201d to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, which helps people in the music industry affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and subsequent cancellation of multiple music events.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>____________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Behold Blake Shelton&#8217;s Striped Mullet<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s here, people.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>BLAKE SHELTON&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0new mullet debuted in a GIF on Twitter, and it&#8217;s better than expected.\u00a0 The &#8220;business on the side&#8221; has two stripes shaved out so that it kinda resembles a mohawk.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;party in the back&#8221; is very short, and in the GIF you see\u00a0<strong>GWEN STEFANI&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0hands pulling down as if she&#8217;s trying to make the hair longer.\u00a0 Some people say the mullet reminds them of\u00a0<strong>JOE EXOTIC<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0the Netflix docuseries\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Tiger King&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Blake\u00a0captioned\u00a0it &#8220;Quarantine mullet update 3\/26\/2020 . . . @GwenStefani has decided to take it to the next level . . . Stripes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BRAD PAISLEY, DUSTIN LYNCH SHARE &#8216;GRATITUNES&#8217; WITH VANDY MEDICAL STAFF <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Paisley\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Dustin Lynch\u00a0<\/strong>are just a couple of Nashville&#8217;s country stars joining the &#8220;Gratitunes&#8221; movement as a way of saying thank you to the staff at Music&#8217;s City&#8217;s Vanderbilt University Medical Center for all they&#8217;re doing in the fight against Covid-19. The program launched yesterday (Monday, March 30th), on National Doctor&#8217;s Day, with an acoustic rendition of \u201cSouthern Comfort Zone\u201d done by Paisley.<\/p>\n<p>The gratitude will continue for the next 30 days where each artist will post their own \u201cGratitune\u201d to Instagram.\u00a0<strong>Lauren Alaina, Lindsay Ell, Sara Evans, Amy Grant, Jewel, Walker Hayes<\/strong>, and hit songwriter\u00a0<strong>Shane McAnally<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cBody Like a Backroad\u201d) have all signed on to contribute. Fans are also encouraged to contribute a song. 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