{"id":19093,"date":"2020-12-07T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=19093"},"modified":"2020-12-07T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:21:22","slug":"on-todays-show-507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/12\/on-todays-show-507\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u27a2 On Black Friday last week, customers at a northern California Best Buy waited in line for many hours during a pandemic to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VlSHE05_fps\">buy<\/a>\u00a0the new PlayStation 5.\u00a0 Would you stay in line for 36 hours?\u00a0 The first guy did.\u00a0 (Others had their cards declined, and one guy is honest about his plans.\u00a0 They were all wearing masks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2 A guy in Maine who was adopted as a kid recently tracked down his biological father, and they met for the first time over Thanksgiving when he picked him up at the airport . . .\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2020\/12\/03\/maine-man-meets-dad-dressed-as-buddy-the-elf\">dressed<\/a>\u00a0as Will Ferrell&#8217;s character from the movie &#8220;Elf.&#8221;\u00a0 He recreated the scene where Buddy the Elf meets his dad and sings a song.\u00a0 The dad had never seen the movie, so the joke didn&#8217;t really land.\u00a0 But the internet loved it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u27a2 People from a northern Spanish region shared photos of the hair-covered skin of their young children and officials have admitted that about 20 children were mistakenly given minoxidil, a medication for hair growth, instead of a med which is used to treat acid reflux because it was mislabeled.<\/p>\n<p>It took authorities two months to realize the labeling error and shut down the laboratory where the mistake was made as well as recall the medicine. The families filed civil and criminal complaints against the laboratory and several companies. It\u2019s not clear if the condition is reversible in the children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2 An unnamed Russian man, now age 59, was just six-years-old when he wedged a coin into his right nostril. He was \u201ctoo scared\u201d to tell his \u201cstrict\u201d mother about the incident and reportedly later \u201cforgot\u201d about it. It seems the coin didn\u2019t bother him until recently, when he started to complain that he couldn\u2019t breathe at all out of his right nostril, and visited a hospital. A scan revealed that a blockage had formed around the coin, blocking air. Doctors performed\u00a0 surgery to remove the stones and the coin. The man has regained full breathing ability in that nostril.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2 <strong>GEORGE CLOONEY<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/148485\"><strong>recently revealed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that he&#8217;s been using a Flowbee to cut his own hair for more than years.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President of Flowbee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/12\/06\/flowbee-sales-up-after-george-clooney-endorsement-sold-out\/\"><strong>says<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0sales have gone up TENFOLD over the past week . .\u00a0. and they&#8217;ve completely sold out.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(Who would&#8217;ve predicted that 2020 would be the year that Flowbees were harder to get than Coachella tickets.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The company says that due to the surprise, quote, &#8220;Clooney effect,&#8221; it&#8217;ll be at least two to four weeks before they can get supply back up to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p>The company hasn&#8217;t worked with Clooney before . . . and they didn&#8217;t even know he was a customer.\u00a0 But obviously, they&#8217;re thrilled, and they&#8217;re planning on sending him a thank you package.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cLetter Writing Day\u201d, when we\u2019re encouraged to take a few minutes to send someone a handwritten letter. Letter-writing has almost become a lost art. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone, either printed or in cursive?<\/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><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Little Bitty,&#8221; written by\u00a0<strong>Tom T. Hall<\/strong>, hit Number One in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>If the Hand Sanitizer in Your Car Freezes, Throw It Away<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good tip as temperatures drop:\u00a0 If you ever leave hand sanitizer in your car and find it FROZEN the next morning . . . throw it away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not because cold weather ruins it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s because if it freezes at all, it was probably no good in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most hand sanitizers are alcohol-based.\u00a0 So they shouldn&#8217;t freeze until the temperature gets REALLY low.\u00a0 Like negative-50 degrees or lower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So if it does freeze, it means there wasn&#8217;t enough alcohol in there to be effective.\u00a0 Or it was a cheap knock-off that didn&#8217;t have the ingredients listed on the label.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol-free hand sanitizers DO exist.\u00a0 A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/alcohol-free-hand-sanitizer-effective-against-covid\/\"><strong>study<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0actually found they might work just as well as the alcohol kind.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(Instead of alcohol, they use something called benzalkonium chloride to kill germs.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But almost all the brands you see at stores contain alcohol.\u00a0 So if yours freezes, check the label.\u00a0 And if it&#8217;s alcohol-based, throw it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A teacher in India just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/education-55168602\">won<\/a>\u00a0an annual competition called the Global Teacher Prize that comes with a $1 million cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And right after he won, he announced he&#8217;s taking half of the money and giving it to the other nine finalists.<\/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>[88] Ellen Burstyn, Detroit MI, actress (\u201cRequiem for a Dream\u201d, \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[42] Kristofer Hivju, Oslo Norway, actor (\u2018Tormund Giantsbane\u2019 on \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d)<\/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>LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A massive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/12\/nsf-had-a-drone-watching-as-arecibos-cables-snapped\/\"><strong>radio telescope collapsed<\/strong><\/a>in Puerto Rico this week, and now there&#8217;s video.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called the Arecibo Observatory.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(Arr-uh-SEE-bo)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 You might know it from the movies\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;GoldenEye&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Contact&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Luckily no one was hurt.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not clear if they&#8217;ll rebuild or not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>A new study found that if life ever existed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/02\/world\/mars-subsurface-habitability-scn-trnd\/index.html\"><strong>Mars<\/strong><\/a>, it might have been miles below the surface.\u00a0 The sun wasn&#8217;t hot enough billions of years ago.\u00a0 But geothermal heat below the surface might have been enough to support life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A team in China built a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3111985\/chinese-team-test-jet-engine-able-reach-anywhere-earth-within-2\"><strong>new jet engine<\/strong><\/a>that could hit Mach 16 . . . or 16 times the speed of sound.\u00a0 That&#8217;s fast enough to get anywhere in the world in under two hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Three former presidents . . . Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush . . . all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/12\/03\/covid-vaccine-obama-bush-clinton-said-theyll-take-publicly\/3806592001\/\">say<\/a>they&#8217;re willing to get vaccinated on TV to show people it&#8217;s safe.\u00a0 Obama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yNEggfPggyY\">talked<\/a>\u00a0about it in a radio interview the other day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HAWAIIAN PIZZA #1 IN THE U.S. <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hawaiian pizza, which was invented by Sam Panopoulos who said he created the pizza in 1962 at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ont.has been deemed the most popular pizza in the U.S. for 2020, according to an annual report from food delivery app GrubHub.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They found it was 689 per cent more popular than last year.The &#8220;Taste of 2020&#8221; report is based on trends from more than 30 million orders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panopoulos claimed to media outlets over the years to be the first to put pineapple on pizza after deciding that chunks of the canned fruit might make a tasty topping. He reportedly called it Hawaiian pizza after the brand of canned pineapple he used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>MONDAY DECEMBER 7<sup>TH<\/sup> \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs became the first NFL teams to clinch playoff spots yesterday (December 6th). The Saints were guaranteed a playoff berth with their 21-16 win over the Atlanta Falcons and the Chicago Bears&#8217; 34-30 loss to the Detroit Lions. The Chiefs secured their playoff spot with a 22-16 defeat of the Denver Broncos.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Detroit Lions 34,\u00a0<em>Chicago Bears<\/em>\u00a030<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonight&#8217;s\u00a0games:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington Football Team at\u00a0<em>Pittsburgh Steelers<\/em>\u00a0(5:00 p.m. ET on\u00a0Fox)<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Bills at\u00a0<em>San Francisco 49ers<\/em>\u00a0(8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN\/ABC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday&#8217;s game:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys at\u00a0<em>Baltimore Ravens<\/em>\u00a0(8:05 p.m. ET on Fox\/NFL)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>David Lander, a.k.a. &#8220;Squiggy&#8221; from &#8220;Laverne &amp; Shirley&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/laverne-and-shirley-star-david-lander-dies-at-73\/\">passed away<\/a>on Friday at the age of 73.\u00a0 He died of complications from multiple sclerosis.\u00a0 He was first diagnosed in 1984, but didn&#8217;t make it public until 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s David Lander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8tIgl_4Lfo&amp;ab_channel=PopGoesTheCultureTV\">explaining<\/a>\u00a0how &#8220;Squiggy&#8221; came to be on &#8220;Laverne &amp; Shirley&#8221;.\u00a0 (Penny Marshall asked him and Michael McKean, who played his sidekick &#8220;Lenny&#8221;, to demo the characters at a party.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A group of teens\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/ms-cheezious-co-owner-maskless-customers-who-broke-waterline-apologize-agree-to-pay-damages\/\">broke<\/a>a water line at a restaurant in Miami on Saturday, because they were angry at the owner for telling them to wear masks.\u00a0 But they went back the next day to apologize face-to-face and pay for the damages.\u00a0 The owner is glad they came forward, and says everyone makes mistakes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Here&#8217;s Kevin James talking about why he&#8217;s not a fan of encores at concerts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WEEKEND LOTTERIES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No winning ticket was sold for the $17 million jackpot in Friday night&#8217;s Lotto Max draw.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot for the next draw on TOMORROW will be approximately $22 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No winning ticket was sold for the $14.9-million jackpot in Saturday night&#8217;s Lotto 649 draw.<\/p>\n<p>However, the guaranteed $1-million prize went to a lottery player in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw WEDNESDAY will be approximately $18 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Morgan Wallen Poked Fun at Himself on &#8220;SNL&#8221;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORGAN WALLEN<\/strong>\u00a0made his\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;SNL&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0debut on Saturday . . . two months after getting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/146999\"><strong>yanked<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for partying without a mask and breaking their COVID-19 safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>He made fun of the whole thing during a sketch on the show. \u00a0He&#8217;s partying at a University of Alabama bar when host\u00a0<strong>JASON BATEMAN<\/strong>\u00a0bursts through the door AS the ghost of Morgan ONE MONTH in the future. \u00a0He warns him not to party.<\/p>\n<p>But then the Jason version of the ghost starts getting tempted by all the girls and booze at the bar, so cast member\u00a0<strong>BOWEN YANG<\/strong>\u00a0enters as the ghost of Morgan TWO MONTHS in the future with more warnings.<\/p>\n<p>It ends with Morgan making up a song called\u00a0<em>&#8220;Focus on the Future&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0where he thanks the show for &#8220;giving this poor Southern boy a second Yankee chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the way . . . the two songs he performed as musical guest were\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;7 Summers&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Still Goin&#8217; Down&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>DAN + SHAY BRING HOLIDAY &#8216;JOY&#8217; WITH ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS SONGS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan + Shay<\/strong>\u00a0have been making the media rounds and spreading holiday cheer over the last week with their two new original songs, \u201cTake Me Home For Christmas\u201d and \u201cChristmas Isn\u2019t Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Smyers<\/strong>\u00a0says that the first song, \u201cTake Me Home For Christmas,\u201d is something that almost everyone can relate to.\u00a0[\u201cThis song is about that feeling whenever you\u2019re with someone, you\u2019re in a new relationship, you haven\u2019t quite met their family yet . . . it\u2019s about that time of year when everybody parts, they go their own ways for the holidays, but you just want to stay with that person, you want to spend Christmas with them, you want to spend New Years with them, you want to learn about their family, you want to learn about where they grew up. So, the song is basically just a story about that. That feeling that we felt with our wives when we first met them, and we got to go home and meet their families for the first time. We\u2019re so proud of this song, and hopefully it can bring a little bit of joy into people\u2019s lives this holiday season.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GABBY BARRETT BILLBOARD TOP NEW COUNTRY ARTIST FOR 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabby Barrett<\/strong>\u00a0has landed at #1 on<em>\u00a0Billboard\u2019s<\/em>\u00a02020\u00a0<em>Top New Country Artist<\/em>\u00a0chart.<\/p>\n<p>Her 3x Platinum debut and\u00a0-Top 3 hit, \u201cI Hope,\u201d claimed honors as the #1 year-end single on the\u00a0<em>Hot Country Songs<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Country Digital Song Sales<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Country Streaming Songs<\/em>\u00a0charts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she ranks in the top charting females on four other\u00a0<em>Billboard\u00a0<\/em>charts.<\/p>\n<p>Gabby is also spotlighted as #2 among\u00a0<em>Top Country Artists<\/em>\u00a0(female) and #7 among\u00a0<em>Top Country Artists<\/em>\u00a0overall.<br \/>\n<strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d (NBC\/CTV): Dolly Parton, Jos\u00e9 Feliciano<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d (CBS\/Global): Meryl Streep, Chris Stapleton<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers\u201d (NBC\/CTV): Nick Kroll, Jeremy O. 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