{"id":20636,"date":"2021-03-02T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2021-03-02T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T12:24:49","slug":"on-todays-show-557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/03\/on-todays-show-557\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Someone in Sacramento who&#8217;s angry about the school shutdowns\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\/news\/local-news\/bringg-kids-bacc-vandals-target-twin-rivers-school-board-members-leave-note\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">broke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a school board member&#8217;s car window, and left a note that said &#8220;brinng kids bacc&#8221; . . . but &#8220;bring&#8221; and &#8220;back&#8221; were both spelled wrong<\/span><b><i>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was fascinated by an Irish reporter&#8217;s accent, and completely missed his question.\u00a0 Listen to it happen,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1364368104759963651?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A burger restaurant in Toronto, ON has renamed items on its menu so that customers can expense them, a move that social media users are calling \u201cgenius\u201d. They changed the name of some of its burgers and sides on Uber Eats and DoorDash, encouraging people to \u201cOrder. Eat. Expense. Repeat.\u201d Its signature Fortune Burger has become a \u2018Basic Steel Stapler\u2019, while the Diamond Chicken Burger is now a \u2018Mini Dry Erase Whiteboard\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can also pick up fries disguised as a \u2018Braided HDMI Cord\u2019, or a ginger beer called\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Yellow Lined Sticky Notes\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A plastic surgeon in California named Scott Green\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/plastic-surgeon-turns-up-for-zoom-court-hearing-while-in-the-middle-of-operating-on-a-patient-12231344\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a virtual court date for a traffic ticket last Thursday.\u00a0 And when he showed up for it, he was in the middle of an operation.\u00a0 He said it was fine, because another surgeon was there helping him, but the judge said no way and rescheduled it for this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last night on &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=294&amp;v=EpQc_mddvRQ&amp;feature=emb_logo&amp;ab_channel=TheVoice\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Voice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;, Blake and John turned their chairs for 45-year-old Pete Mroz.\u00a0 Pete was in a group with Blake, but Blake didn&#8217;t recognize him.\u00a0 (From &#8220;The Voice&#8221; on Monday, March 1, 2021.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cDr Seuss Day\u201d, celebrating the 1904 birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield MA, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of children\u2019s books including \u201cThe Cat in the Hat,\u201d \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas!\u201d and many other classics. He died in 1991.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cInternational Rescue Cat Day\u201d, a day to bring a new member into your family by adopting a cat! There are so many out there just waiting for a home, so make sure to rescue when you decide to adopt a cat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1962 [59] Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores a pro basketball record 100 points vs the NY Knicks (breaking his own record of 78 set earlier the same season)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1997\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shania Twain released her third studio album\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Come On Over<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0which became the best-selling country music album, by a female act. To date, the album has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and stayed there for 50 non-consecutive weeks, staying in the Top Ten for 151 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Five Things to Look Forward to in March<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Daylight Saving Time starts this month.\u00a0 We spring forward on March 14th.\u00a0 So the days will start feeling a little longer, but in a good way.\u00a0 And after some crazy late-winter weather, the first day of spring is coming up on the 20th.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The first\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/basketball-men\/article\/2021-march-madness-schedule\"><b>March Madness<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in TWO YEARS gets started March 18th and runs through April 5th.\u00a0 Last years got cancelled because of covid.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the only time that&#8217;s ever happened since the tournament started in 1939.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Golden Globes were Sunday night, but we&#8217;ve still got\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/grammys\/news\/2021-grammys-complete-nominees-list\"><b>The Grammy Awards<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in two weeks on March 14th.\u00a0 Then the Oscar nominees\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/awards\/2021-awards-season-calendar-dates\/\"><b>are<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0announced a day later.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Some big shows come back this month:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;The Voice&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">returned last night . . .\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Good Girls&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0this Sunday . . .\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;The Masked Singer&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0next Wednesday . . .\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0next Thursday . . . and\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Keeping Up with the Kardashians&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0on the 18th.\u00a0 Also, the new\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0movie hits theaters and HBO Max March 31st.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And finally, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nationaltoday.com\/march-holidays\/\"><b>holidays<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 The big ones are St. Patrick&#8217;s Day on the 17th, and Passover, which starts March 27th.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve also got some lesser-known holidays coming up . . .\u00a0<\/span>This Sunday is National Cereal Day . . . Ranch Dressing Day is the 10th . . . National Napping Day on the 15th . . . Crunchy Taco Day is the 21st . . . National Puppy Day on the 23rd . . . and International Waffle Day on March 25th.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The first appearance of Cookie Monster was in an IBM training film in 1967.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Elephants grow six different sets of teeth in their lives. \u00a0Once the sixth ones fall out, they die of starvation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Diet Pepsi isn&#8217;t vegan . . . but Pepsi won&#8217;t say what animal ingredient it uses that keeps it from being vegan because that&#8217;s, quote, &#8220;commercially sensitive information.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><b>The Beatles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are the only artists that ever had five songs in the top five spots on the Billboard chart simultaneously. On April 4, 1964, the top five were:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Twist and Shout&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;She Loves You&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;I Want to Hold Your Hand&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Please Please Me&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pandemic first hit and parks closed, a guy in Florida named Scott Friga\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/florida\/florida-dad-builds-roller-coaster-in-back-yard-for-his-kids\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">built<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0his kids a full basketball court to play on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then gyms closed, so he built them a gym.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And now he&#8217;s finished his latest project . . . a 310-foot rollercoaster in the woods behind their house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[53] Daniel Craig, actor (\u201cSkyfall\u201d, \u201cCasino Royale\u201d) COMING UP\u2026\u201cNo Time to Die\u201d, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[40] Bryce Dallas Howard, actress (\u201cJurassic World\u201d, \u201cThe Help\u201d)\/daughter of actor\/director Ron Howard. UP NEXT: \u201cJurassic World: Dominion\u201d, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[39] Ben Roethlisberger, NFL QB (2 Superbowl wins with Pittsburgh Steelers: 2006, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[31] Luke Combs, country singer\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>MAKING CONTACTS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, Twitter user Jennifer Wortman shared how weird she thought it is that her husband has her listed in his phone contacts as \u201cJennifer Wortman\u201d, and it went insanely viral. Soon, others started sharing the funny contact names they have saved on their phones. Here are some of the best:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I have my husband as \u201cProbably Brad\u201d since he\u2019s the only one who calls, if it rings it\u2019s probably Brad \u2013 Green Eyed Momster<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> One of my identical twin (brothers) has the other twin in his phone as \u201cspare parts\u201d \u2013 Jon Birger, author<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In my daughter\u2019s phone I\u2019m listed as Birthgiver \u2013 Dr. Liza Wieland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My kid has me listed as The Feds \u2013 Dr. Sandra Steingraber<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My kid has me as Mothership \u2013 April Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Full name for my husband, which I finally changed from \u201cOK Cupid Guy #3\u201d after 5 years of marriage \u2013 Allison K Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I had mine as his full name until he left and now he is Lord Voldemort \u2014 megabyte<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u261e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (My hubby has me as) Fran new number. I\u2019ve had this phone number for more than 10 years <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The Average Person Wears a Mask Three Hours a Day and Owns Six of Them<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Someone polled 1,000 mask-wearers, and the average person now spends 2 hours and 54 minutes a day in a mask.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> How many masks do you currently have in rotation?\u00a0 The average person has six.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We spent $28 on masks last year, on average.\u00a0 Women spent $8 more than men, because they either bought more masks, or more-fashionable ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Just over a third of us use disposable masks most of the time.\u00a0 Everyone else uses cloth masks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What&#8217;s the longest you&#8217;ve gone without washing your reusable mask?\u00a0 The average answer was nine days . . . but 1 in 9 people said more than two weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 1 in 4 people have SHARED a mask with someone else since the pandemic started.\u00a0 Gen Xers were the most likely to say they&#8217;ve done it.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>TUESDAY MARCH 2<\/b><b>ND<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 CAR 3 &#8211; FLA 2 OT <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OTT 5 &#8211; CGY 1 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VAN 4 &#8211; WPG 0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TOR 3 &#8211; EDM 0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VGK 5 &#8211; MIN 4 OT <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">STL 5 &#8211; ANA 4 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SJS 6 &#8211; COL 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ready to question reality?\u00a0 Check this out . . .<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It turns out all of us have been saying &#8220;BMW&#8221; wrong our entire lives.\u00a0 Because it&#8217;s a German brand, the last letter isn&#8217;t pronounced like a &#8220;w.&#8221;\u00a0 No, we should actually be pronouncing it &#8220;bee em vee.&#8221; You&#8217;re not the only person who had no idea.\u00a0 A survey found 95% of people had no idea . . . and frankly, I&#8217;m surprised there were even 5% who did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A dog was sucked out of a house in North Carolina by a tornado . . . and managed to find her way back home a few hours later.\u00a0 (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2021\/02\/17\/dog-sucked-out-home-tornado-returns-hours-later\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the owner talking to her local news about the ordeal.)<\/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 Orlando Leyba on instantly becoming a fan of a well-known cable network.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>LINDSAY ELL HELPING KIDS CREATE MUSIC\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LINDSAY ELL helped lead a songwriting workshop with fourth grade music students at an elementary school in Nashville.\u00a0 It was a virtual classroom, but they still managed to create a song together.\u00a0 It was part of the CMA Foundation&#8217;s Music in Our Schools program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to what they created together,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/lindsay-ell-help-fourth-grade-students-write-an-original-song-over-zoom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>JUSTIN MOORE\u2019S DAUGHTER WANTS TO GROW UP TO BE A BUTTERFLY\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Justin Moore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and his wife\u00a0<\/span><b>Kate\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have four kids and says there\u2019s never a shortage of interesting discussions. Especially when the kids talk about what they want to be, when they grow up. Justin tells us more:\u00a0<\/span><b>[<\/b><b><i>\u201c<\/i><\/b><b>Ella, my oldest, I think the last that I heard she wanted to be a teacher, God love her. I mean they have a tough job. I\u2019ve learned that over this quarantine time. And then I think last I heard, Kennedy, she was still holding out hope she could be a butterfly, whatever the heck that means. We haven\u2019t broken it to her that that\u2019s probably not gonna happen. You can be anything you wanna be, except probably a butterfly.\u201d]\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children\u2019s ages: eleven, nine, six, and three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tim McGraw&#8217;s Salute to His Resilient, Hard-Working Mom<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">March is Women&#8217;s History Month, so\u00a0<\/span><b>TIM MCGRAW<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0shared a heartfelt tribute to his mom, Betty.\u00a0 He told the story of how she got pregnant with him while still in high school.\u00a0 Because of that she didn&#8217;t get to graduate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She had Tim&#8217;s two sisters sometime later and struggled as a single mom.\u00a0 There was one story from when he was around 10 that still stands out in his memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quote, &#8220;I remember us being on our own, my mom and my two sisters, and her working three jobs just to try to keep the basics.\u00a0 She made no money.\u00a0 I remember walking through the kitchen one night [and] she had her head down on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[It] was two in the morning, there were bills everywhere, and she was crying.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t see me, but I&#8217;ve told her that story before and she didn&#8217;t remember it.\u00a0 For her that was probably 100 different nights that I didn&#8217;t know about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;But that\u2019s something that really resonates with me and sticks out with me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Blanco Brown Opens Up About His Near-Fatal Motorcycle Accident<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview with\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9532765\/blanco-brown-first-interview-near-fatal-motorcycle-accident\/\"><b><i>Billboard<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>BLANCO BROWN<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0opened up about his near-fatal motorcycle crash, when he collided head-on with a pickup truck last August. \u00a0He says the accident was NOT his fault, but he&#8217;s not allowed to elaborate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scariest moment was being rushed into surgery and hearing a doctor say he wasn&#8217;t sure if he would make it.\u00a0 Quote, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;That was a moment. \u00a0I could only lay there. \u00a0I was like &#8216;Please don&#8217;t let me leave.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He was really busted up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He broke both of his arms, wrists, legs, and his pelvis, and spent almost a month in the hospital.\u00a0 Quote, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t turn in the bed. \u00a0External pipes were sticking out of my body holding my pelvis together.\u00a0 I had to learn how to do simple things [like] feed myself.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visitation was tough because of COVID, but family, friends, and fellow artists did their best.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim McGraw sent a black cowboy hat and signed it, &#8220;Love ya, Blanco.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says, quote, &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What&#8217;s so crazy is that day I was really down, just thinking like, &#8216;Am I going to heal at this rate?&#8217; 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