{"id":19215,"date":"2020-12-14T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=19215"},"modified":"2020-12-14T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:14:16","slug":"on-todays-show-512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/12\/on-todays-show-512\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u27a2 Vanderbilt kicker\u00a0<strong>SARAH FULLER<\/strong>\u00a0hit an extra point on Saturday, becoming\u00a0the first woman to SCORE in a Power 5 game.\u00a0 Naturally, she was pretty excited, as were her teammates.<\/p>\n<p>The Power 5 conferences are the major ones:\u00a0 The ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12, and the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>She also kicked another extra point later in the game, but Vanderbilt lost 42-17.\u00a0 Afterward, she said, quote, &#8220;At the end of the day, they treated me like an athlete and that&#8217;s the best I could ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2The Florida Gators\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/12\/florida-lsu-marco-wilson-thown-shoe\">lost<\/a>\u00a0the game against LSU because one of their players chucked a shoe that had fallen off of an LSU player.\u00a0 The score was tied, and LSU would&#8217;ve had a fourth down, but this penalty made it first and ten.\u00a0 The ref even tells us know how far it went.\u00a0 LSU made a long field goal and won, 37-34.\u00a0 (We&#8217;ve provided Austin Powers with a gap at :08, if you choose not to air him.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2Michigan shoppers are upset after an online rumor claimed that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.com\/wwjnewsradio\/news\/local\/shoppers-stampede-into-walmart-in-search-of-ps5\">PlayStation 5<\/a>\u00a0would be for sale at a Troy Walmart.\u00a0 Almost 100 shoppers lined up in the cold before doors opened, some for several hours&#8230; before stampeding the doors when the Walmart opened up.\u00a0 The only problem&#8230; they didn&#8217;t have any PlayStation 5 gaming systems for sale.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t believe everything you read on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u27a2 A woman on TikTok asked her young daughter what her answer would be if a stranger came up and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m your mom&#8217;s friend and she sent me to pick you up.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the little girl&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@imperfectmom4\/video\/6898406648067443974?lang=en&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6891329151716197893&amp;is_from_webapp=1%20%20imperfectmom4\">response<\/a>.\u00a0 (Her answer was, &#8220;You&#8217;re a liar, because my mom doesn&#8217;t have any friends.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u27a2A documentary about the beloved children\u2019s show \u201cSesame Street\u201d is coming to HBO Documentary Films. \u201cStreet Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,\u201d will debut in 2021. It follows the work of Muppets creator Jim Henson along with some of the other pivotal voices who helped bring \u201cSesame Street\u201d to air in the 1960s and made it a household name for generations.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cInternational Monkey Day\u201d, to raise awareness about monkey issues, monkeys in the news, and ways you can help monkeys . . . apes and other primates included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1977 [43] At the peak of the disco era, the film \u2018Saturday Night Fever\u2019 opens in theaters. The soundtrack contains the #1 hits \u2018Stayin\u2019 Alive\u2019 and \u2018Night Fever\u2019, among others<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FOUR RANDOM FACTS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The day after\u00a0<strong>Osama bin Laden&#8217;s<\/strong>death, Disney tried to trademark the name &#8220;SEAL Team 6&#8221; . . . but it was rejected.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Harrison Ford&#8217;s<\/strong>pay for doing the first\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Star Wars&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was $10,000.\u00a0 He made 50 times more than that for\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Return of the Jedi&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . . $500,000.\u00a0 And 2,000 times more than that for\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Force Awakens&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. . . $20 million.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>There are still approximately 1.6 MILLION Americans who don&#8217;t have INDOOR PLUMBING . . . and use an outhouse or a hole in the ground.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Philadelphia is the only city that&#8217;s had four major sports teams in a championship game in the same year.\u00a0 In 1980, the Phillies were in the World Series, Eagles in the Super Bowl, 76ers in the NBA Finals, and Flyers in the Stanley Cup Finals. But . . . only the Phillies won the title.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A guy in Massachusetts named Matt Goodman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/taunton-mans-late-father-leaves-him-10-buy-first-beer-21st-birthday\/JNZP2XBYABFTNCOQCJOIGKKVFE\/\">lost<\/a>\u00a0his dad to cancer six years ago, but got a surprise gift from him on his 21st birthday last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before he passed, his dad John gave Matt&#8217;s sister a $10 bill, and said he wanted to buy Matt his first beer.\u00a0 He used it to buy a Bud Light, which was his dad&#8217;s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then the people at Budweiser heard about it and sent Matt eight more 30-packs.\u00a0 And people from all over the world are now hitting him up on Venmo, trying to buy him a beer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s asking them to donate to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute instead.<\/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>[36] Jackson Rathbone, actor (\u201cTwilight\u201d franchise)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[32] Vanessa Hudgens, actress (\u201cHigh School Musical\u201d movies, \u201cThirteen\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The former head of Israel&#8217;s space program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weird-news\/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333\"><strong>claimed that aliens exist<\/strong><\/a>and we&#8217;ve already made contact.\u00a0 He claims that Aliens have reached an agreement with the US government to keep quiet about the experiments they conduct on Earth \u2014 as well as their secret base on Mars \u2014 until mankind is ready to accept them. Haim Eshed told an Israeli newspaper that Donald Trump was on the \u201cverge of revealing\u201d but aliens in the Galactic Federation pressured him to wait because \u201cThey don\u2019t want to start mass hysteria.\u201d So, an agreement was reached to keep their existence under wraps. Fortunately, according to Eshed, they come in peace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>SpaceX&#8217;s newest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/spacex-starship-prototype-explosion-sn8\/\"><strong>Starship prototype<\/strong><\/a>had a perfect launch and test flight this week . . . but had trouble landing and EXPLODED on impact.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Bill Nye<\/strong>posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephenlaconte\/bill-nye-tiktok-how-masks-work-coronavirus?origin=tuh\"><strong>another video for anti-maskers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that explains why the coronavirus can&#8217;t get through masks.\u00a0 Basically, virus particles don&#8217;t float around on their own.\u00a0 They cling to tiny droplets of spit, which are much larger than the gaps in face masks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>A new-age\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/12\/un-computable-quantum-maze-computed-by-quantum-maze-computer\/?fbclid=IwAR3txqmqB6GCSVosKsiOyW5yZrJlQbWFpd8WbzSS1kd4ljD_aLibOptyqrI\"><strong>quantum computer<\/strong><\/a>took a problem that a normal computer would take 2.6 BILLION YEARS to solve . . . and did it in four minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>A study in Canada found that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/09\/us\/murder-hornets-honey-bees-asia-trnd\/index.html\"><strong>honeybees<\/strong><\/a>cake the entrance of their nest with other animals&#8217; POOP to discourage hornets from attacking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>A new study found that we&#8217;ve now hit the point where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5919294\/human-materials-biomass-2020\"><strong>man-made objects<\/strong><\/a>outweigh ALL living things on Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ALL ABOUT EGGNOG<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>An online poll of over 1,500 people reveals the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>59% say they do NOT love eggnog<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>41% say YES they love eggnog<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>MONDAY DECEMBER 14<sup>TH<\/sup> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Country music legend\u00a0<strong>CHARLEY PRIDE<\/strong>passed away on Saturday in Dallas due to complications from COVID-19.\u00a0 He was 86. \u00a0This took everyone by surprise because he never publicly announced he had the disease.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It was just last Tuesday that he posted a video on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/charleypride\/videos\/1303801189971851\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about his new website, and he seemed fine. \u00a0But after he passed away his family released a statement saying he was admitted to the hospital in late November with COVID-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>He died almost a month to the day after being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/148202\"><strong>given<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the CMAs.\u00a0 That was also his last public performance. \u00a0He and\u00a0<strong>Jimmie Allen<\/strong>\u00a0sang his 1971 crossover hit\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The show was held indoors, so people have been wondering if that&#8217;s where he caught the virus.\u00a0 The CMAs and Charley&#8217;s reps issued a joint statement on that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmaworld.com\/statement-on-behalf-of-cma-and-representatives-of-charley-pride\/\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;Everyone followed strict testing protocols outlined by the city health department and unions. \u00a0Charley was tested prior to traveling to Nashville. \u00a0He was tested upon landing in Nashville, and again on show day, with all tests coming back negative.<\/p>\n<p>He had 29\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9498752\/charley-pride-biggest-billboard-hits\/\"><strong>Number One<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0hits between 1967 and 1988, plus 27 Top 10 Country Albums.\u00a0 He was the CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1971 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Green Bay Packers 31,\u00a0<em>Detroit Lions\u00a0<\/em>24<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Buffalo Bills<\/em>\u00a026, Pittsburgh Steelers 15<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tonight&#8217;s<em>\u00a0Monday Night Football\u00a0<\/em>game on ESPN:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Ravens at\u00a0<em>Cleveland Browns<\/em>\u00a0(8:15 pm\u00a0ET)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Vanderbilt kicker\u00a0<strong>SARAH FULLER<\/strong>hit an extra point on Saturday, becoming\u00a0the first woman to SCORE in a Power 5 game.\u00a0 Naturally, she was pretty excited, as were her teammates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Power 5 conferences are the major ones:\u00a0 The ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12, and the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>She also kicked another extra point later in the game, but Vanderbilt lost 42-17.\u00a0 Afterward, she said, quote, &#8220;At the end of the day, they treated me like an athlete and that&#8217;s the best I could ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Here&#8217;s comedian Dan Soder joking about what we should do with people who never look up from their cell phones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LOTTERIES THIS WEEKEND <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No winning ticket was sold for the $27 million jackpot in Friday night&#8217;s Lotto Max draw.<\/p>\n<p>That means the jackpot for the next draw TOMORROW will grow to approximately $32 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No winning ticket was sold for the $21 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 Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw WEDNESDAY will be approximately $25 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CHARLEY PRIDE DEAD AT 86 FROM COVID-19<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>County Music Hall of Fame<\/em>\u00a0member,\u00a0<strong>Charley Pride<\/strong>\u00a0died on Saturday morning (Dec. 12) in Dallas, Texas from Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>He charted 67 songs and 29 of them were #1\u2019s. He earned CMA\u2019s\u00a0<em>Entertainer of the Year<\/em>\u00a0in 1971 and was twice named\u00a0<em>Male Vocalist of the Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Opry<\/em>\u00a0star gave his last public performance on the\u00a0<em>CMA Awards<\/em>\u00a0on November 11, he sang his cross-over hit, \u201cKiss An Angel Good Morning.\u201d That night he also received the\u00a0<em>Willie Nelson<\/em>\u00a0<em>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/em>. Charley Pride was 86.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAST FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was inducted into the\u00a0<em>Country Music Hall of Fame<\/em>\u00a0in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>When he was 16, Charley played professional baseball in the Negro League and in his later years became part owner of the\u00a0<em>MLB Texas Rangers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was the first Black artist to co-host the\u00a0CMA Awards. That was in 1975 alongside\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Glen Campbell<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GABBY BARRETT KNOWS IT&#8217;S CHRISTMASTIME WHEN SHE SEES EGGNOG IN THE STORES <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabby Barrett\u00a0<\/strong>says the Christmas holiday season officially begins for her when she first lays eyes on eggnog in the grocey store. While it excites her because it means the holidays are upon us, she tells us she is not a fan of the popular Christmastime beverage.\u00a0[&#8220;Eggnog, that&#8217;s what does it for me, every single time cause I go grocery shopping so often that when you see the eggnog all stacked up . . . I don&#8217;t like it, sadly. I don&#8217;t. My husband loves it. I remember not liking it at a young age. Maybe I need to try it again now that I&#8217;m pregnant cause I might end up liking it, so we&#8217;ll see\u00a0(laughs).&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Gabby released her own version of &#8220;The First Noel&#8221; back in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>OLD DOMINION RELEASES E.P. OF SONGS WRITTEN FOR OTHER ARTISTS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Dominion<\/strong>\u00a0has released their latest EP,\u00a0<em>Band Behind The Curtain<\/em>. It\u2019s a collection of the band\u2019s own studio versions of songs they penned that became #1 songs for other artists.<\/p>\n<p>Lead singer,<strong>\u00a0Matthew Ramsey<\/strong>, said, \u201cWith songwriting we made the decision to write what we thought was cool and what we were enjoying instead of chasing something.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Trevor Rosen\u00a0<\/strong>added, \u201cFirst and foremost, you just gotta try to write a great song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with the music, there\u2019s a video that gives a glimpse of the songwriting process.\u00a0<em>Band Behind The Curtain<\/em>\u00a0was released on Friday (12-4.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAST FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They recently took home\u00a0<em>Song of The Year<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Group of the Year<\/em>\u00a0wins at the recent\u00a0<em>ACM Awards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The band has had eight #1 songs as a band.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 14th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":19162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 10:34:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/12\/on-todays-show-512\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215","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=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}