{"id":1798,"date":"2018-10-10T05:11:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:36:07","slug":"on-todays-show-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2018\/10\/on-todays-show-24\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>LIFESTYLE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Grand Rapids, Michigan man curious about a rock he&#8217;d used for decades as a doorstop now knows its secret: it&#8217;s a meteorite worth $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the nearly 23-pound hunk of iron and nickel is the sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan.\u00a0 David Mazurek said he took his doorstop to Central Michigan university for examination after seeing reports in January of meteorite pieces selling for thousands of dollars.\u00a0 Mazurek said the meteorite came with a barn he bought in 1988 in Edmore. He said the farmer who sold him the property told him it landed in his backyard in the 1930s.\u00a0 More tests are being conducted to see if the meteorite contains rare elements.<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian and a mineral museum in Maine are considering purchasing the specimen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someone in West Virginia\u00a0has been steeling people&#8217;s mail . . . and replacing it with laminated photos of LLAMAS.\u00a0 One of their victims recently caught it on her security camera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The iconic \u201cFriends\u201d role of Rachel Green was almost played by \u201cSaved by The Bell\u201d actress Tiffani Thiessen instead of Jennifer Aniston. Thiessen, who\u2019s promoting her new cookbook \u201cPull Up a Chair,\u201d revealed that interesting tidbit on Nikki Glaser\u2019s show this week.\u00a0 Thiessen said that she was \u201cjust a little too young\u201d to be properly paired with the rest of the cast.\u00a0 Thiessen was 20 when the first episode of \u201cFriends\u201d aired in September 1994. Aniston was 25 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWorld Mental Health Day\u201d, a day for global mental health education and awareness. It was first celebrated in 1992 as an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, which operates in more than 150 countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEmergency Nurses Day\u201d, celebrated annually on the Wednesday of \u201cEmergency Nurses Week\u201d to recognize the dedication and commitment of ER nursing professionals, who bring care, comfort, and compassion to patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1976 [42] Greece\u2019s 98-year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis becomes \u2018Oldest Person to Complete a Marathon\u2019 (finishing 7 hours, 33 minutes later) (since broken by 100 year-old Fauja Singh)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>OCTOBER 10<sup>H<\/sup>, <\/strong>\u00a01992,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Chase&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, by\u00a0<strong>GARTH BROOKS<\/strong>, debuted at #1 on\u00a0<em>&#8220;Billboard&#8217;s&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0pop AND country album charts, knocking\u00a0<strong>BILLY RAY CYRUS&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>&#8220;Some Gave All&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0from the top spot on each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>A Guy &#8220;Sells&#8221; His Girlfriend on eBay as a Joke . . . and the Bidding Hits $119,000<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a guy in London named Dale Leeks.\u00a0 And over the weekend, he and his girlfriend Kelly Greaves were at a shop buying horse riding accessories . . . and she used a horse whip to hit him on the butt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So to get his revenge, he pulled his own prank . . . he listed her for SALE on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The posting was obviously a joke, and he described her like a used car with lines like, quote, &#8220;Starts okay but after a while there&#8217;s a constant whining noise I can&#8217;t seem to stop&#8221; and, quote, &#8220;bodywork is fairly tidy but close up shows signs of wear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well . . . somehow, he accidentally sparked a bidding war.\u00a0 And the price for Kelly got up to $119,000 before eBay pulled the ad 24 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They said it broke their policy against selling human body parts or remains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dale and Kelly say there aren&#8217;t any hard feelings between them after the post . . . but Kelly says she may be looking to pull another prank for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Army medic named Luis Ocampo left his home in Charlotte last month when his National Guard unit got called up to help with Hurricane Florence relief.\u00a0 And while he was gone, someone broke into his house and LOOTED it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They stole his computer, his gaming systems, and a bunch of other stuff.\u00a0 So one of his friends started a\u00a0GO FUND ME\u00a0campaign, trying to raise enough money to replace it all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their goal was $5,000, and they raised THREE TIMES that.\u00a0 But Luis didn&#8217;t want to MAKE money off of it.\u00a0 So he told them to stop accepting donations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said he couldn&#8217;t take advantage of people&#8217;s generosity by accepting more than he needed.\u00a0 So he took all the extra money and GAVE IT AWAY.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of it went to another soldier who had to move into a hotel after a tree fell on his house during the storm.\u00a0 And he gave the rest to a charity called the Soldiers and Airmen Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dale Earnhardt, Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>44<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett Favre<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>49<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanya Tucker<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>60<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HMMM<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>\u2022 48% of women say they purchase makeup when they are feeling down.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>35% of guys say they use hairspray daily.<\/li>\n<li>33% of employees would be willing to take a 20% pay cut for a shorter work week.<\/li>\n<li>26% of people say they sleep with someone who laughs in their sleep.<\/li>\n<li>15% of us actually prefer our pizza cold.<\/li>\n<li>11% of women say while pregnant, they craved soap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5% of us would be willing to go to jail to wipe out their debt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><strong>____________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>OGOPOGO MONSTER <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until\u00a0this month, it had been years since anybody claimed to have seen the legendary Ogopogo \u2014 Canada\u2019s version of the Loch Ness monster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the past three weeks however, there have been three sightings of the giant serpent-like animal said to dwell in Lake Okanagan in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sept.\u00a012, David Halbauer, his brother Keith and their families were enjoying a picnic at one of Lake Okanagan\u2019s many beaches when they saw something that left them awestruck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re sitting by the beach on a sunny day, you don\u2019t expect to see a dinosaur come out of the water,\u201d David Halbauer said. \u00a0\u201cI saw this black form come out of the water \u2014 cylindrical \u2014 and then roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The brothers likened the animal to a \u201cgiant snake\u201d moving across the water and said it was about 15 meters (49 feet)\u00a0long. Since that encounter, there have been two more sightings of Ogopogo, generating plenty of excitement among locals and tourists alike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>has earned approximately $2 billion since his death.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Before\u00a0<strong>Dave Thomas<\/strong>founded Wendy&#8217;s, he worked for KFC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>earned college credit for being on\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;American Idol&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It helped her get her degree in mass communications from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Steve Jobs<\/strong>only had a 2.65 GPA in high school.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10<sup>TH<\/sup>\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><strong>Dale Earnhardt, Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>44<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett Favre<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>49<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanya Tucker<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>60<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hurricane Michael strengthened into what the National Hurricane Center is calling an &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; Category 4 storm early this morning (October 9th) as it barreled toward the Florida Panhandle with landfall set for later today.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition to powerful winds and heavy rainfall, Michael is expected to bring a potentially deadly storm surge of up to 13 feet along Florida&#8217;s northeastern Gulf Coast. Some 375,000 people have been either ordered or urged to evacuate, as forecasters warned Michael could be one of the worst hurricanes ever to hit the Panhandle. Meteorologists also say that the storm could drop three to six inches of rain in Georiga, the Carolinas and Virginia, which are still recovering from Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>It was the classic baseball scenario last night in the Bronx . . . bottom of the 9th, bases loaded, the Yankees at bat, down 4 to 1 to the Red Sox.\u00a0 Then the Red Sox pitcher hit a batter, walking in a run.\u00a0 Another run scored on a fly ball out, making it 4 to 3, with two outs, and two runners still on base.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the final call, as the Red Sox won with an out at first.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll play the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A news anchor in Philly thinks the Eagles can turn their season around if they QUIT HAVING SEX.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a former player, and he said, quote, &#8220;It fogs up your mind.\u00a0 They can&#8217;t think!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>At the\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;American Music Awards&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>last night,\u00a0<strong>TAYLOR SWIFT<\/strong>\u00a0won four awards and told people to vote in the midterms.\u00a0 Kane Brown won 3 awards with Carrie Underwood and Florida Georgia Line picking up one each.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Cops in Florida recently arrested a 28-year-old guy who\u00a0used\u00a0a\u00a0library printer to print out a bunch of counterfeit bills.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a cop talking about how low-quality they were.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CARRIE UNDERWOOD, KANE BROWN, &amp; FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE TAKE HOME &#8216;AMA\u2019s&#8217; <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Country music was well represented at last night&#8217;s (Oct. 9)\u00a0<em>American Music Awards<\/em>\u00a0in Los Angeles. Carrie Underwood picked up the first country award for the night\u2026 and while accepting\u00a0<em>Favorite Female Artist for Country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kane Brown\u00a0collected 3 wins, including\u00a0<em>Favorite Male Artist<\/em>. And\u00a0Florida Georgia Line\u00a0won\u00a0<em>Favorite Duo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CHRIS JANSON&#8217;S HIT REMINDS HIS OF PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES &#8211; (10\/04\/2018)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Janson&#8217;s latest single, &#8220;Drunk Girl,&#8221; falls perfectly in line with the current headline-making stories of the victimization of women and the #metoo movement, but as a co-writer of the song, Chris tells us there&#8217;s no connection. And he wanted to release the song as the second single off sophomore album late last year because it reminded him of a popular Starbucks drink.<\/p>\n<p>FAST FACTS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drunk Girl&#8221; is nominated for Song and Music Video of the Year at next month&#8217;s\u00a0<em>CMA Awards<\/em>. The show airs live from Nashville on ABC on November 14th beginning at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Kristian Bush says the Sugarland song &#8220;Babe&#8221; with Taylor Swift\u00a0is about empowering women, and that&#8217;s why Taylor wanted to record it with them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAYLOR SWIFT<\/strong>\u00a0wrapped the U.S. leg of her Reputation Tour over the weekend in Arlington, Texas.\u00a0 And she had some big time guests join her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she brought\u00a0<strong>MAREN MORRIS<\/strong>\u00a0to the stage, and they performed\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Middle&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . .and on Saturday Taylor had\u00a0<strong>SUGARLAND<\/strong>\u00a0join her for their song\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Babe&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0It was the first time they&#8217;ve ever performed it together in public, and Taylor was into it . . . down to the choreographed dance at the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>KRISTIAN BUSH<\/strong>\u00a0was asked in an interview why Taylor gave them the song in the first place.\u00a0 He said it&#8217;s all about &#8220;empowerment&#8221; . . . and alluded to how\u00a0<strong>Jennifer Nettles<\/strong>\u00a0is such a strong presence in the duo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 10","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 20:41:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2018\/10\/on-todays-show-24\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}