{"id":20604,"date":"2021-03-01T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20604"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:34:22","slug":"on-todays-show-556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/03\/on-todays-show-556\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A World War Two vet in Fort Lauderdale named Donald Dennis just\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/life\/heartwarming\/wedding-ring-missing-for-years-found-in-rubble-of-aldi-store-remodeling-given-back-to-owner-on-his-100th-birthday-florida\/77-460b539b-8d1c-4d0d-be89-009df5a4cee1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">got<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0his wedding ring back five years after he lost it at a grocery store in Minnesota.\u00a0 Someone found it while the store was being remodeled, and saw his wife&#8217;s name inscribed in it.\u00a0 Donald&#8217;s daughter surprised him with the ring on his 100th birthday this last weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A guy in the U.K.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/invited-covid-vaccine-because-nhs-19857990\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0ended up on the list of people who were at high-risk for COVID and could get a vaccine.\u00a0 And he was confused, because he&#8217;s healthy and only 32.\u00a0 It turned out it was all caused by a hilarious computer glitch.\u00a0 (In the system, he was listed as 6.2 centimeters tall instead of 6-foot-2.\u00a0 So his body mass index was sky high.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A woman in Kentucky got a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/laurenstrapagiel\/woman-wins-for-unfortunate-pandemic-tattoo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tattoo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0on March 4th of last year saying, quote, &#8220;Courageously and radically refuse to wear a mask.&#8221;\u00a0 She meant it metaphorically.\u00a0 Then the pandemic happened.\u00a0 And once anti-maskers became a thing, she says she spent the entire year wearing long sleeves to keep the tattoo covered up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(On March 6th, Kentucky\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wfpl.org\/kentucky-has-first-confirmed-case-of-covid-19-from-coronavirus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0its first case of COVID-19.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> According to the old saying, \u201cmoney can\u2019t buy happiness,\u201d but a new study has found that\u2026yeah\u2026that\u2019d be wrong. Although previous studies have found there\u2019s a limit to how much a person\u2019s income impacts their happiness, new research says the sky\u2019s the limit when it comes to money\u2019s influence over well-being. They studied over 33,000 people. Other studies have concluded that money stops mattering at income levels of around $75,000. The new study, however, revealed that rising income continues to affect the earner\u2019s well-being even into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LADY GAGA got her dogs back and the dog-walker Ryan Fischer is expected to make a full recovery.\u00a0 His family said he&#8217;s &#8220;receiving extraordinary care in the hospital.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A woman turned them in to the police on Friday.\u00a0 She wasn&#8217;t involved or associated with the attack . . . so Gaga will give her the $500,000 reward.\u00a0 The thieves are still on the loose.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TMZ says the they were found tied to a pole in an alley, &#8220;miles away&#8221; from where they were abducted<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cPeanut Butter Lovers\u2019 Day\u201d, ah, but is one day enough?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1968 \u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnny Cash married June Carter. Johnny had proposed to June while onstage in London, Ontario the previous month. Cash and Carter continued to work together and tour for 35 years until Carter&#8217;s death in 2003. Cash died four months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The dinosaurs are only on screen for 15 minutes total in the original\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The first feature film ever made from a Marvel comic book was . . .\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Howard the Duck&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in 1986.\u00a0 And it bombed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 At one point, \u201cJay\u201d was slang for \u201cfoolish person.\u201d So, when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was a \u201cjaywalker.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Philadelphia Cream Cheese was actually created in Chester, New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A five-year-old in Pennsylvania named Rosyln Kane\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/roslyn-kane-lullaby-bristol-man-chorus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0having nightmares.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So her dad reached out to a men&#8217;s choir in the U.K., because she loves their YouTube videos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they recorded a lullaby just for her and her sister Evelyn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>(It&#8217;s called &#8220;Rosyln&#8217;s Lullaby,&#8221; but they used both girls&#8217; names in the lyrics.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[94] Harry Belafonte, singer (\u2018The Banana Boat Song [Day-O])\u2019, \u2018Shake, Shake Senora\u2019)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[67] Ron Howard, movie director (\u201cApollo 13\u201d, \u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[52] Javier Bardem, actor (\u201cSkyfall\u201d, \u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>SCIENCE NEWS:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you haven&#8217;t seen the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4czjS9h4Fpg\"><b>crazy footage<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the new Mars rover touching down, it&#8217;s pretty amazing.\u00a0 And people online spotted a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/perseverance-rover-mars-parachute-secret-message-solved\"><b>hidden message<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in its parachute.\u00a0<\/span>It turns out the super-nerds at NASA used patterns in the parachute to spell out a message in binary computer code.\u00a0 And translated, it says to, quote, &#8220;Dare Mighty Things.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<b><i>(The rover also sent back the first true\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-mars-perseverance-rover-provides-front-row-seat-to-landing-first-audio\"><b><i>audio<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0ever recorded on Mars.)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Scientists confirmed the orbit of the most distant object in our solar system, and it&#8217;s got a great name . . . it&#8217;s called &#8220;Farfarout.&#8221;\u00a0 They named it that because before they discovered it, they found another rock floating out there and named that one &#8220;Farout.&#8221;\u00a0 But this one&#8217;s farther.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a hundred times farther away from the sun than we are, and a full orbit takes about a thousand years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In similar-but-opposite news:\u00a0 Biologists accidentally found\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2267737-life-found-beneath-antarctic-ice-sheet-shouldnt-be-there\/\"><b>life under Antarctica<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 They threaded a tiny camera down a 3,000-foot borehole in an ice shelf to look at the seabed.\u00a0 And it landed on a boulder with 16 sea sponges and 22 tiny animals that look like barnacles.\u00a0 No one&#8217;s sure how they survive there.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>(Here&#8217;s a\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mvCvsWu1VgQ\"><b><i>video<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And a team of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/real-time-communication-while-dreaming.html\"><b>sleep scientists<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">found you can still communicate with people while they&#8217;re dreaming.\u00a0 Volunteers were able to hear and answer questions, even while they were technically asleep.\u00a0 The study involved people who can &#8220;lucid dream,&#8221; which is when you&#8217;re aware you&#8217;re dreaming, and can even control what happens in them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>SAY BYE TO DRY EYES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019ve been spending all day in front of a computer like many people during the pandemic, your eyes may be feeling the effects. But here\u2019s some good news: a behavioral optometrist says that our vision should improve as our lives get back to \u2018normal\u2019, after the worst of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bhavin Shah, who also works as a myopia (near-sightedness) management consultant in London, UK, believes that many people have overworked their eyes, and they could use some recovery time. He has seen an increase in patients experiencing eyestrain, fatigue, and tired and blurry eyes, but says the simple acts of commuting to work and working in an office atmosphere allows for more breaks and natural eyes movements and focusing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This will allow our eyes to get the rest and recovery time they need, and from there, things should definitely start to \u201clook up.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Five Cooking Mistakes You&#8217;re Making, According to Chefs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Someone recently asked professional chefs for the top cooking mistakes us average Joes are making.\u00a0 Does cereal count as cooking?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are the highlights . . .<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Don&#8217;t use dull knives.\u00a0 You&#8217;re actually more likely to cut yourself.\u00a0 So sharpen those babies up . . . then be careful.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Stop cutting your vegetables unevenly.\u00a0 If you take time to cut them evenly, they&#8217;ll cook more evenly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Don&#8217;t leave a huge mess of pots and pans.\u00a0 Knock out some of those dishes during prep, so it&#8217;s not so overwhelming at the end.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Taste everything as you go, and adjust if something doesn\u2019t taste right.\u00a0 That way there&#8217;s still time to fix it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0Stop constantly checking your food in the oven.\u00a0 Opening the door lets heat fly out, and your oven has to preheat again.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>MONDAY MARCH 1<\/b><b>ST<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> BOS 4 &#8211; NYR 1 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHI 3 &#8211; BUF 0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NSH 3 &#8211; CBJ 1 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WSH 3 &#8211; NJD 2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NYI 2 &#8211; PIT 0 <\/span> <b>CHI 7 &#8211; DET 2<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A woman in Tennessee climbed into her frozen pool to rescue her dog after it fell through the ice.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s\u00a0Jennie Tatum\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2021\/02\/23\/dog-frozen-pool-rescue-Murfreesboro\/3111614113149\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">talking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">about saving her dog&#8217;s life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A guy programmed his Tesla engine to make the &#8220;Bruh&#8221; sound.\u00a0 You can listen to him explain it, and test it out,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=98&amp;v=cQTBFAgNGR0&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here&#8217;s comedian Jim Gaffigan who says his three boys are savages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>WEEKEND LOTTERIES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A ticket holder in Ontario won Friday night\u2019s whopping $70 million\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/lotto-max\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lotto Max<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0jackpot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OLG said\u00a0 the ticket was sold in the Sudbury region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nine of the draw\u2019s Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each were also won, with one of those prizes being split between two lottery players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Winning Maxmillion tickets were sold in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the Prairies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw tomorrow will be approximately $24 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No winning ticket was sold for the $12 million jackpot in Saturday night&#8217;s Lotto 649 draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the draw&#8217;s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $15 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>MAREN MORRIS IS ACM&#8217;S MOST NOMINATED FEMALE IN &#8216;WEIRDEST YEAR OF THE MUSIC\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Maren Morris<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0leads this year\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACM Awards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0nominations, tied for most with six: Female Artist of the Year, which she took home at last year\u2019s awards; Single of the Year and Song of the Year (as writer and performer) for her hit \u201cThe Bones;\u201d Group of the Year with The Highwomen; and Video of the Year for \u201c Better Than We Found It,\u201d on which Maren partnered with emerging director\u00a0<\/span><b>Gabby Woodland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for whom this is the first nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maren talked about it just before the nominations were announced, and while she didn&#8217;t know which awards she&#8217;s be up for, she was very interested to see who would get nominated in such an off year due to COVID.\u00a0<\/span><b>[&#8220;I\u2019m super excited. There\u2019s been so much great music and it\u2019s been such a creative time for artists in our genre. This last year even though no one can tour, some amazing albums and singles have been released so I\u2019m . . . this is like our first real nomination cycle for an award show to come out after a year of COVID, so I\u2019m wondering, like, where the nominations go because it\u2019s just been the weirdest year of the music industry.&#8221;]\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACM Awards\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">will air live from Nashville\u2019s Grand Ole Opry House, Ryman Auditorium and Bluebird Cafe on Sunday, April 18th at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BROTHERS OSBORNE \u2018TRYING TO KEEP BUSY\u2019 DURING PANDEMIC\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone is dealing with the pandemic in their own way and in a lot of cases, learning how to slow down.\u00a0<\/span><b>TJ<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>John<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><b>Brothers Osborne<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0are doing the same. John tells us how he\u2019s handling it:<\/span><b>\u00a0[\u201cWe have to keep ourselves busy. TJ and I grew up just working really hard, and we\u2019re busy bodies. We\u2019ve never been mandated to take some time off, so we just work all the time. So, the very first thing we had to learn how to do was just slow it down a little bit, and then simply working around the house or yard work, those cathartic experiences that we don\u2019t get a lot of because we\u2019re always out on the road. The cool thing about it all is we\u2019re only doing it when we want to do it. There\u2019s no rush to do anything. There\u2019s no time frame, there\u2019s no deadline. It\u2019s just waking up every day and going, \u2018I feel like doing this today. This is what I want to do,\u2019 and there\u2019s something really nice about that.\u201d]\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>LUKE BRYAN SAYS HE\u2019S GOOD AT SOCIAL DISTANCING\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pandemic has created big changes for everyone and\u00a0<\/span><b>Luke Bryan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0says that between fishing and hunting trips, he can go isolate pretty good a home. And about social distancing, he says \u201cI rock that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But after a year of waiting to get back out on the road, when the moment comes to hit the stage again, he will be emotional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview posted on\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taste of Country<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Luke admitted that he had gotten &#8220;a little calloused&#8221; and sometimes felt obligated, not lucky, to keep up with soundchecks, meet-and-greets and the other responsibilities.\u00a0Seeing it all go away for so long has helped him &#8220;reset and recalibrate&#8221;\u00a0his &#8220;appreciation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke says he has cherished being at home with his family over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The ACM Nominees Are Led by Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACM nominees were announced Friday, and Chris Stapleton and Maren Morris picked up six each.\u00a0 Miranda Lambert got five, which ups her career total to 68, and keeps her as the most-nominated artist in ACM history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Entertainer of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Bryan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eric Church<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Combs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomas Rhett<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Stapleton<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Female Artist of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kelsea Ballerini<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miranda Lambert<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ashley McBryde<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maren Morris<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carly Pearce<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Male Artist of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dierks Bentley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eric Church<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Combs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomas Rhett<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Stapleton<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Duo of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brooks &amp; 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