{"id":20873,"date":"2021-03-12T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20873"},"modified":"2021-03-12T05:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:33:37","slug":"on-todays-show-564","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/03\/on-todays-show-564\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today’s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u27a2<\/span>The inventor of cassette tapes has\u00a0<\/span>passed away<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at age 94.\u00a0 Lou Ottens and his team of engineers debuted the first compact cassette tape in 1963, but it didn’t truly catch on until the ’70s and ’80s.\u00a0 It was actually created for making sound recordings outside, because it was much more portable than reel-to-reel machines.\u00a0 But once they realized the quality was good enough for music listening, they started putting albums on them. Over 100 billion were sold worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

He’s also credited with helping develop the first CDs<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>(Here’s a\u00a0<\/i><\/b>clip<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0from the trailer for “Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape.”\u00a0 He starts talking halfway through.)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u27a2<\/span> This happened last Saturday but the video’s making the rounds now.\u00a0 A former college football player\u00a0<\/span>named<\/b><\/a>\u00a0Nicholas Lee helped rescue a woman who was stuck inside the cab of a truck that overturned on a highway near Sacramento.<\/span><\/p>\n

He crawled inside the cab, helped free her leg, and then started kicking and punching the windshield until the hole was big enough for him to squeeze through. Then he reached back inside and helped the woman get out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u27a2<\/span> A little advice for all of you fugitives out there… don’t come out of hiding to buy your favorite\u00a0<\/span>video game<\/span><\/a>!\u00a0 Escaped convict, Clint Butler, broke out of prison in November and was caught by police when he came out of hiding to buy the new “Call of Duty” video game.\u00a0 You can hear police approach Butler and the altercation that ensued after.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u27a2<\/span> Netflix is\u00a0<\/span>testing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0a verification system that could be part of a crackdown on password-sharing.\u00a0 Some people are getting an\u00a0<\/span>onscreen message<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that prompts them to enter a code that’s sent to the account holder.\u00a0 But for now, you’re also given the option to continue watching and “verify later.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But for people who are INTENTIONALLY sharing passwords, it just means that you’d occasionally also have to share codes, which could be tolerable, unless they force you to verify every time people sign in from different locations. By the way, a LOT of people share streaming accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent\u00a0<\/span>survey<\/b><\/a>\u00a0of over 1,500 Americans found that nearly 40% of Americans are mooching off of someone else’s streaming account, and about 33% do so without permission from the account holder.<\/span><\/p>\n

TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n