\u27a2 There’s a 76-year-old billionaire investor named Bill who lives in Laguna Beach, California.\u00a0 And he’s been in a battle with his next door neighbor . . . a 56-year-old very-rich-but-slightly-less-rich guy named Mark who’s a tech entrepreneur.<\/p>\n
Mark doesn’t like that Bill put up a 22-foot-long blue glass sculpture on his property last year and put up poles and netting up to protect it.\u00a0 He says it’s blocking his view.\u00a0 So he called the city to complain. And Bill got revenge on him for the complaint by . . . blasting the\u00a0“Gilligan’s Island”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0theme song at all hours.<\/p>\n And now, lawsuits, charges, and restraining orders have been filed.\u00a0 There’s going to be a hearing on the restraining orders and harassment charges next week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 Here’s another product that dares to ask the question:\u00a0 Is there anything rich people WON’T pay for?<\/p>\n A boutique grocery chain out of San Francisco called Bi-Rite is selling bouquets of, quote, “organic fall leaves.”\u00a0 Yes, you’re buying a handful of red, orange, and yellow leaves . . . for $15.<\/p>\n The leaves come from maple trees on a ranch in California.\u00a0 The owner of the ranch says, quote, “They are three- to five-foot-tall branches with beautiful leaves.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 Instead of Halloween decorations, a guy in Nashville\u00a0put<\/a>\u00a0a big sign in his front yard that says “2020.”\u00a0 And he put another sign next to it that says, “It was the scariest thing I could think of.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 The release date for the new James Bond movie has been pushed back again. \u201cNo Time To Die\u201d, the 25th film in the iconic series was due to hit theaters next month, but the official James Bond Twitter account has announced it will now be delayed until April 2nd<\/sup>, 2021 \u201cto ensure a worldwide cinematic release\u201d. As well as being Daniel Craig\u2019s fifth and final portrayal of 007, the film will also see Rami Malek in the role of villain Safin. It was originally scheduled to hit screens in April this year, before being pushed back to November.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 Play-Doh just announced a brand new product line . . . “Play-Doh for Grown Ups.”<\/p>\n It’s just like regular Play-Doh, but it comes in “adult” scents called “overpriced latte” . . . “mom jeans” . . . “dad sneakers” . . . “spa day” . . . “lord of the lawn” . . . and “grill king.”<\/p>\n The people at Hasbro say those smells are meant to be things that make adults happy.<\/p>\n If you’re interested, the Play-Doh is already\u00a0on sale<\/strong><\/a>, and the six-pack of scents is just $12 . . . but it’s starting to sell out, so buy yours fast.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u27a2 White chocolate originates from the cocoa (cacao) plant, but it is not \u2018chocolate.\u2019 _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n David Lee Murphy<\/strong> scored his first and only\u00a0#1 in 1995 with “Dust On The Bottle”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Sitting on an Exercise Ball at Work Isn’t Better for You . . . and Might Even Be Worse<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A new study from the CDC found that sitting on an exercise ball instead of a chair at work isn’t ACTUALLY doing anything for your health.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In fact . . . it could make things worse.<\/p>\n The study found that when you sit on the ball all day, it doesn’t really do anything for your core strength or your posture . . . but it COULD lead to lower back pain.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And if you think you’re burning calories, the researchers found you’ll only burn an extra four calories an hour on a ball rather than a chair.\u00a0 That’s 32 calories during your work day . . . which is basically like burning off a quarter of a single Oreo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The researchers say exercise balls ARE good . . . for actual exercise.\u00a0 But as chairs?\u00a0 They’re just a gimmick and not one you need to buy in to.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n FOUR RANDOM FACTS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n How’s this for dedication?\u00a0 Two cops in Michigan recently\u00a0got<\/a>\u00a0married, but couldn’t travel or do a real honeymoon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So they went right back to work the next day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It happened during the riots in May, but the Grand Rapids Police Department just gave them a shout-out on Facebook.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [71] Caitlyn Jenner, reality star<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [65] Bill Gates, retired Microsoft mogul\/net worth: $113.7 billion<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [53] Julia Roberts, actress<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [48] Brad Paisley, country singer\/19 #1 country hits<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [46] Joaquin Phoenix, actor<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [22] Nolan Gould, actor (\u2018Luke Dunphy\u2019 on \u201cModern Family\u201d 2009-20)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n RACCOONS EJECTED FROM INSIDE CALIFORNIA BANK <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n They\u2019re masked, but they\u2019re not the usual burglars. The Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA say personnel responded to a bank in Redwood City, California after getting a call from a bank customer who spotted two raccoons inside while using an ATM outside the building.<\/p>\n Bank managers let in the animal rescuers, and it took them about ten minutes to chase down the racoons before they were safely able to shoo them outside. During a brief investigation muddy raccoon prints were found on a tree outside the bank, so it\u2019s thought the raccoons got onto the roof of the bank and then somehow got into the air ducts before falling through the ceiling tiles onto the floor of the bank.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TWO-HEADED SNAKE BROUGHT INSIDE BY FLORIDA WOMAN\u2019S CAT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Look what the cat dragged in, or don\u2019t, as it\u2019s kind of terrifying. Wildlife officials in Florida say a woman called them after daughter\u2019s cat, Olive, carried a two-headed snake into their living room. The snake is a black racer and is now in the care of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Research Institute. They note the condition is uncommon, and say the creature would be unlikely to survive in the wild due to having two independent brains, making it difficult to eat and escape from predators.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Meet the diabolical ironclad beetle, which can survive being run over by a car<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Scientists are unraveling the mystery of a bug with one of the coolest names in the animal kingdom: the diabolical ironclad beetle.\u00a0Phloeodes diabolicus has one of the toughest natural exoskeletons scientists have ever seen.<\/p>\n The insect’s armor is so durable, few predators have successfully made a meal out of it and it can even survive getting run over by a car. In compression tests, researchers found the beetle can withstand a force of about 39,000 times its body weight\u201d the equivalent of a 200-pound man enduring the weight of 7.8 million pounds.<\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n PARENTS LETTING KIDS TRICK-OR-TREAT AT JUST 5 HOUSES ON AVERAGE THIS YEAR <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A survey of 2,000 adults, half of them parents, finds most will be extra careful this Halloween, but still intend to celebrate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In fact, 75 percent of parents say they\u2019re taking their kids trick-or-treating, but that on average, they\u2019ll only let their child knock on five doors for treats. A third of parents say the house they do allow their kids to trick-or-treat at will be those of neighbors they know and have already checked in with to make sure they\u2019ve tested negative for COVID-19.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One more finding: 38 percent say they\u2019re excited to take a year off from handing out treats this year, even though they plan to buy them, as they are saving more treats for themselves.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28TH<\/sup> \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After last night’s win, legendary Dodgers and MLB announcer Vin Scully tweeted, “55, 59, 63, 65, 81, 88, and now 2020.\u00a0 What a year.\u00a0 What a season.\u00a0 What a team.\u00a0 Congratulations Dodgers.”\u00a0 Just think, he was there for ALL of those World Series wins, except this one.\u00a0 It was nice he was mentioned by Joe Buck right before the end of the game, and by the Dodgers owner.\u00a0 (From the “World Series” on Tuesday, October 27, 2020.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Are Engaged<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GWEN STEFANI\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0BLAKE SHELTON\u00a0<\/strong>are engaged.\u00a0 Gwen posted a\u00a0picture<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of herself yesterday, kissing Blake and showing off her ring.\u00a0 She captioned it, “Yes please!”<\/p>\n Blake posted the same picture and\u00a0wrote<\/strong><\/a>, “Thanks for saving my 2020 . . . And the rest of my life. \u00a0I love you. \u00a0I heard a YES!”<\/p>\n Gwen and Blake fell in love five years ago on the set of\u00a0“The Voice”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in 2015.\u00a0 They were both fresh out of their previous marriages . . . Gwen to\u00a0GAVIN ROSSDALE<\/strong>, and Blake to\u00a0MIRANDA LAMBERT<\/strong>.\u00a0 This will actually be Blake’s THIRD marriage.<\/p>\n Gwen is 51, Blake is 44.\u00a0\u00a0Their musical\u00a0collaborations since they’ve been in love are:\u00a0\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>Go Ahead and Break My Heart<\/strong><\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . .\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>You Make It Feel Like Christmas<\/strong><\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . .\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>Nobody But You<\/strong><\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . . and\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>Happy Anywhere<\/strong><\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n And as for songs that\u00a0were inspired by each other, Gwen told\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>Make Me Like You<\/strong><\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is about Blake. \u00a0And the press release for Blake’s hit\u00a0“<\/strong><\/em>Turnin’ Me On<\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0says “it’s not hard to figure out who the song is about.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JAMESON RODGERS IS ENGAGED TO LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jameson Rodgers<\/strong>\u00a0popped the question to his longtime girlfriend,\u00a0Sarah Allison Turner<\/strong>, on Wednesday (Sept. 30th) night at the famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Jameson and Sarah began dating five years ago.<\/p>\n Jameson sits inside the Top Five and climbing with his latest single, “Some Girls.” While the song’s subject matter pertained at one point in his life, Jameson is clearly in a much happier place. He tells us:\u00a0[“‘Some Girls’ is a song I fell in love with a few years ago. The song was written about the stage after a breakup where it can sometimes be very difficult to find some closure and this is something I’ve definitely been through but thankfully I survived and get to sing about it now.”]<\/p>\n Along with making his own music, Jameson has written hits for\u00a0 Florida Georgia Line (“Talk You Out of It”), Chris Lane (“I Don’t Know About You”) and Luke Bryan (“Born Here Live Here Die Here”)<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RASCAL FLATTS HOPE THEY ARE REMEMBERED FOR THEIR ‘SOUND’ <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Rascal Flatts\u00a0celebrates their 20th anniversary as a band with the release of\u00a0Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts \u2013 The Greatest Hits\u00a0<\/em>on Friday (Oct. 2nd).\u00a0 The project includes 20 of their biggest hits and fan favorite songs throughout their career, some of which were considered too pop for country music at the time the trio arrived on the scene back in 2000.<\/p>\n Gary Levox\u00a0tells us:\u00a0<\/strong>[\u201cSomething that we are real proud of, I think we opened the door for a lot of new artists doing the kind of music that you even hear today, 20 years later \u2013 the Dan & Shay\u2019s.\u00a0 Because there was no sound like the sound that we had when we came in, in 2000.\u00a0 You know, it\u2019d be nice to say that we\u2019ve had that kind of impact.\u00a0 And I think with our fans, the greatest thing that we hear continuously is that the music that we\u2019ve written or that we cut, we have told their life story through Rascal Flatts music, and that is the greatest reward as an artist that you could ever receive from fans.\u201d]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 28th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":17826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 18:27:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/10\/on-todays-show-484\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175","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=18175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18179,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions\/18179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n\u27a2 Switzerland is one of the top countries for chocolate consumption. The Swiss consume about 10 kg (22 lbs) of chocolate, per person, per year.
\n\u27a2 Most cocoa comes from West Africa.
\n\u27a2 Allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produces a similar reaction to that of a passionate kiss.
\n\u27a2 Cocoa beans were used as currency by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Perhaps this is where they saying \u201cMoney grows on trees\u201d came from.<\/p>\n\n
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