{"id":2110,"date":"2018-10-25T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:36:03","slug":"on-todays-show-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2018\/10\/on-todays-show-35\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>LIFESTYLE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police in Blackpool, England posted a\u00a0surveillance photo\u00a0on Facebook of a guy who committed a robbery, and asked people if they recognized him.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t get any leads, but a ton of people pointed out that he looks just like\u00a0<strong>DAVID SCHWIMMER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The cops received SO many &#8220;tips&#8221; that it was David, that they actually updated the post, adding, quote, <strong><em>&#8220;We have investigated this matter thoroughly and have confirmed that David Schwimmer was in America on this date.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And someone on social media joked, quote, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s been this guy&#8217;s day, his week, his month or even his year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story went VIRAL, and David responded with an ALIBI.\u00a0 He said, quote<strong><em>, &#8220;Officers, I swear it wasn&#8217;t me.\u00a0 As you can see, I was in New York.\u00a0 To the hardworking Blackpool Police, good luck with the investigation.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He attached a video where he&#8217;s carrying an armful of beer just like the suspect, but he&#8217;s in a New York supermarket with ads for the YANKEES.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a single mother in Merseyside, England who just posted\u00a0a job ad on a British site called Childcare.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Quote, <em>&#8220;I get very scared at Halloween because of the costumes and speaking to strangers to ask for sweets for kids.\u00a0 I have severe social anxiety and am uncomfortable trick-or-treating, but I&#8217;d like for my kids to experience it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So . . . she&#8217;s looking to hire someone to take her nine-year-old, her seven-year-old, and her three-year-old trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s offering to pay $65-an-hour and she figures it should take about four hours total.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s actually a really good deal for whoever gets the gig.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A remake of the movie\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Indecent Proposal&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is in the works.\u00a0 The original was released in 1993, and starred\u00a0<strong>ROBERT REDFORD<\/strong>\u00a0as a lonely billionaire who offers a young married couple a million dollars to spend a night with the woman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEMI MOORE\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>WOODY HARRELSON<\/strong>\u00a0played the couple . . . and the arrangement did NOT work out well for their relationship. \u00a0There aren&#8217;t any details on the remake yet.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the original was a big success, raking in $266 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TIM ALLEN\u00a0<\/strong>says that he was close to getting\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Home Improvement&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0revived before Fox brought back\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It sounds like he expected\u00a0<strong>Patricia Richardson<\/strong>\u00a0and all three boys back . . . meaning we missed out on the return of\u00a0<strong>JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS<\/strong>!<\/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>\u201cGreasy Foods Day\u201d. From pizza and nachos to burgers and French fries, it\u2019s nearly impossible to ignore this guilty pleasure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1978 [40] \u201cHalloween\u201d, directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released (Latest \u201cHalloween\u201d movie was released Oct. 19)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1955, The\u00a0<strong>FIRST MICROWAVE OVEN<\/strong>\u00a0was sold. . . by Tappan.\u00a0 It cost $1,200. . . but it could cook bacon in 90 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2010, Sony discontinued the production of the original cassette Walkman.<\/p>\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>2017 [01] Nashville stages a star-studded farewell concert for Kenny Rogers, who is retiring after a 60-year career. Among the tributes, Chris Stapleton sings \u2018The Gambler\u2019, Lionel Richie with \u2018Lady\u2019 and Don Henley performing the Eagles\u2019 \u2018Desperado\u2019, which Rogers covered. The highlight of the evening is when Rogers takes the stage with Dolly Parton, and the two close out the night with \u2018Islands in the Stream\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>None of the original eight\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>movies ever won an Oscar.\u00a0 But the first spin-off,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, won for Best Costume Design.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>No century can ever start on a Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a long mathematical explanation for why, but basically, because of how the calendar repeats, new centuries have to start on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The all-time high temperature in Antarctica is 63 degrees, and it happened in 2015.\u00a0 The high before that was 62.6 degrees back in 1976.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Bob Ross<\/strong>painted 381 pictures in the 11 years\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Joy of Painting&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was on PBS.\u00a0 And 91% of them contained at least one &#8220;happy little tree.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>33-year-old Megan Yunn used to run a youth program in Pittsburgh.\u00a0 And back in 2011, she was helping a 12-year-old girl named Beverly with her vocabulary homework when she found out the girl had never had a birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She tried to explain what the word &#8220;accustomed&#8221; meant by asking her what people are &#8220;accustomed&#8221; to eating at birthday parties.\u00a0 But Beverly didn&#8217;t know the answer was cake, because she&#8217;d never HAD birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her parents were having major financial issues.\u00a0 And Megan says she cried in her car on the way home just thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So a few months later, she started a nonprofit called Beverly&#8217;s Birthdays that throws birthday parties for homeless kids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It got going in February of 2012.\u00a0 And since then, she and about 200 volunteers have thrown parties and given presents to over 30 THOUSAND kids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Megan says it&#8217;s never really been about birthdays though.\u00a0 She says that when you quote, &#8220;strip away the birthday aspect, [it&#8217;s just] about letting children and their parents know they MATTER.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also do baby showers for women in shelters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[90] Marion Ross, actress (\u201cMarion Cunningham\u201d on \u201cHappy Days\u201d 1974-1984)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[61] Nancy Cartwright, really rich voice actress (\u2018Bart Simpson\u2019 and others on \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d since 1989)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[49] Samantha Bee, Toronto ON, comedian\/TV personality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[47] Craig Robinson, actor (\u201cHot Tub Time Machine\u201d films)\/\u201cThe Office)<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Woman Admits She Secretly Plumped Up Her Bridesmaids Before Her Wedding<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a woman in Australia named Penny.\u00a0 And she just shared the story of what she did before her wedding to try to guarantee she&#8217;d look better than her bridesmaids . . . her older sister Maggie and her younger sister Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Penny says that in the month leading up to the wedding, she&#8217;d make them breakfast smoothies every day.\u00a0 She SAID they were, quote, &#8220;slimming smoothies&#8221; so all three of them would look skinny at the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But she was secretly putting a triple serving of WEIGHT GAIN POWDER from a bodybuilding shop in her sisters&#8217; drinks . . . to plump them up so she&#8217;d look skinnier next to them in photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And her plan worked . . . they both gained enough weight that they had to have their dresses altered to fit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So Penny says when she looks at her wedding photos now, quote, &#8220;I sometimes feel a twinge of guilt . . . but mostly I feel happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HELPING YOU QUIT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a company in Japan called Exit, and they only do one thing:\u00a0 Quit your job for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to leave your job, but you&#8217;re too afraid to have that talk with your boss, you pay Exit $450 and they take care of it.\u00a0 They call your boss and the HR department, break the news, and get the paperwork started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The people at Exit say most of their clients are in their 20s and 30s, and the main reasons they want someone to quit for them are they&#8217;re afraid their bosses will try to talk them into staying . . . or, yeah, they&#8217;re just too nervous to do it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Have You Been Using Cheese Graters Wrong Your Whole Life?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently someone posted a video\u00a0that shows how most of us use can openers so the part you crank is facing off to the side.\u00a0 But they were designed to be used with that part facing UP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if you do it the right way, it&#8217;s easier to get the lid off, because it won&#8217;t fall into the can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s another video that claims we&#8217;ve also been using CHEESE GRATERS wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a specific type of cheese grater called a box grater . . . the kind with four sides and a handle on top, so all the cheese falls out the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re not totally sold on the idea this is how they&#8217;re really INTENDED to be used.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve seen people online who&#8217;ve tried it, and they claim it does make the process a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:\u00a0 Instead of holding it so the cheese falls down through the bottom, try turning it on its SIDE and grating the cheese that way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of an up-and-down motion, you can go back-and-forth.\u00a0 Which they claim is easier and saves time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you do it that way, all the cheese still stays inside the grater, and you can dump it out into a bowl when you&#8217;re done.\u00a0 The\u00a0video on how to do it has racked up about 3 million hits on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THURSDAY OCTOBER 25<sup>TH<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katy Perry\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0<strong>34<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;American Idol&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0judge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Robinson\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0<strong>47<\/strong>.\u00a0 Darryl on\u00a0<em>&#8220;The Office&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARION ROSS\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0<strong>90<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mrs. &#8220;C&#8221;.\u00a0 Marion Cunningham on\u00a0<em>&#8220;Happy Days&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0won Game 2 of the World Series last night, 4 to 2.\u00a0 They now lead the Dodgers 2 games to none.\u00a0 The series moves to L.A. now, with Game 3 going down tomorrow night.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>We may never know who won the $1.537 BILLION Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday night.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because South Carolina is one of just seven states where lottery winners don&#8217;t have to be identified publicly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As for the winner in South Carolina, they have six months to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Someone posted a picture of their ticket on Reddit yesterday.\u00a0 They hit the first two numbers . . but then missed the other three numbers and the Mega Ball by JUST ONE DIGIT.\u00a0 They had 63, 66, 69, and six for the Mega Ball . . . the results were 62, 65, 70, and five. So instead of splitting the jackpot . . . the ticket was worth nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>A new poll says that\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Exorcist&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>is the best horror movie of all time, followed by\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Halloween&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And\u00a0<em>&#8220;Elm Street&#8217;s&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><strong>Freddy Krueger<\/strong>\u00a0is the best horror movie VILLAIN.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LADY ANTEBELLUM TAKE ON FIRST VEGAS RESIDENCY NEXT YEAR \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady Antebellum\u00a0<\/strong>has announced their first-ever Las Vegas residency, called Our Kind of Vegas. The shows will run on select dates throughout February, May and August at the Palms Casino Resort\u2019s Pearl Concert Theater beginning on February 8th.<\/p>\n<p>The trio plans to bring Nashville to Sin City with stripped-down performances each night that will often feature the songwriters behind the group\u2019s fan-favorite hits<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available to fan club members beginning on Monday (October 29th) before the public on sale date of Friday, November 2nd at 10 a.m. PT through www.ticketmaster.com\/LadyA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THOMAS RHETT AND WIFE LAUREN DON&#8217;T SEE EYE TO EYE ON ONE THING &#8211;<\/u><\/strong> (10\/15\/2018)<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Rhett\u00a0and his wife,\u00a0Lauren, celebrated their wedding anniversary this weekend and he posted this: &#8220;Happy 6th anniversary babe. You will forever be my favorite person on the planet. I hope we are still spinning DJ sets when we are 90.&#8221; The happy couple does have one ongoing disagreement though and that&#8217;s football. He&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>Georgia Bulldog<\/em>\u00a0fan and she roots for the\u00a0<em>UT Vols<\/em>. He says when his team wins, it&#8217;s best to keep quiet and not gloat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Midland singer Mark Wystrach says the most fun he ever had dressing up for Halloween was going as The Dude from &#8220;The Big Lewbowski&#8221;.\u00a0 From the robe, sandals, and boxers . . . to shaving his beard down to the exact same goatee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 25th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 13:53:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2018\/10\/on-todays-show-35\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}