{"id":22356,"date":"2021-05-12T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=22356"},"modified":"2021-05-12T05:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T09:18:58","slug":"on-todays-show-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/05\/on-todays-show-600\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Many people get injured every year playing video games.\u00a0 What about when it happens to a major-league baseball pitcher?\u00a0 Oakland A&#8217;s starter, Jesus Luzardo,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/as-jesus-luzardo-freak-injury-video-games\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">injured<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0his throwing hand while gaming over the weekend.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s A&#8217;s team\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSAthletics\/status\/1388945607411257346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1388945607411257346%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fmlb%2Fathletics%2F2021%2F05%2F02%2Fjesus-luzardo-as-left-hander-breaks-pinkie-while-playing-video-game%2F4916815001%2F\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">manager<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Bob Melvin on the injury. (Sadly, no mention of what video game.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It was a great gig but now the jig is up. Police in Italy say a slacker didn\u2019t show up for work at the Pugliese Caccio hospital\u2026for 15 years, but got paid for the entire time, netting a total of nearly US$647,000. The unidentified 67-year-old man has been charged with abuse of office, forgery, and aggravated extortion. Police are also probing 6 managers for allegedly helping him carry out his plot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A YouTuber named Nick Smith imagined what every conversation is going to be like for the next few months now that we&#8217;re meeting in person again.\u00a0 Check it out,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L7fLvmi1hFs\"><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\"> If you think prices are going up on many of the things you need to buy, you&#8217;re not wrong. CNN Business says some price increases start at the source, where wholesale prices for products from lumber to corn and cheese are rising.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A shortage of computer chips is inevitably pushing up prices for electronics and appliances. And, diaper prices have risen sharply and are going higher soon. Economists can&#8217;t agree on whether it&#8217;s a short-term problem as we transition to a post-lockdown world or if it&#8217;s a longer-term problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2026AND SPEAKING OF PRICES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0In the U.S. they are expecting higher gasoline prices by late this week if the giant Colonial Pipeline isn&#8217;t up and running again soon. The pipeline, which stretches all the way from Texas to New Jersey, shut down last Friday after it was targeted by a ransomware attack on the system&#8217;s computer network. Officials are calling it the worst cyberattack yet on U.S. soil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cInternational Nurses Day\u201d, a highlight of \u201cNursing Week\u201d that commemorates the 1820 birth date of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. Here\u2019s to you, RNs, NPs, and all nurses!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2013 [08] After Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield records the David Bowie song \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 on board the International Space Station, his rendition is posted to YouTube, and quickly garners millions of views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Rascal Flatts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; &#8220;Stand&#8221; climbed to\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billboard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s #1 position in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TRILLIONS OF CICADAS ABOUT TO EMERGE ACROSS THE U.S.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within days, trillions of cicadas will come out of the ground across parts of the U.S. and Canada. Scientists say within a couple of weeks at most, cicadas of Brood X will emerge after 17 years underground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the largest and most noticeable brood of periodic cicadas. The experts say the bugs will mostly come out at dusk to try and avoid predators, and as they emerge from the ground they\u2019ll try to climb up trees or anything vertical. Once off the ground, they shed their skins and try to survive at that vulnerable stage (or be eaten by anything from ants to birds, dogs and cats.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So here&#8217;s a gross question:\u00a0 Should we start EATING THEM?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A surprising number of people are up for it. 25% say they&#8217;d give cicada-based food a shot.\u00a0 That includes 9% who are VERY willing to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another 13% said probably not, but maybe . . . 44% said no way. Men were 50% more likely than women to say they&#8217;d give it a try.\u00a0 And young people were more likely to say yes than older people. 28% also\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2021\/05\/10\/85dc3\/2\"><b>said<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0they&#8217;d be up for trying SOME sort of insect-based food.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a third of us\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2021\/05\/10\/85dc3\/1\"><b>think<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0insects as food will become a bigger trend in the next ten years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Based on the average life expectancy, if you&#8217;re 18 years old, you only have about 3,160 weekends left in your life.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re 40, you only have 2,015 left.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There was an episode of\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Scrubs&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in 2002 where\u00a0<\/span><b>Zach Braff<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>Sarah Chalke&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0characters went skydiving . . . and they had stunt doubles do the skydive.\u00a0 So their stunt doubles met on set that day . . . and wound up getting married.<\/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\"> The McDonald&#8217;s character Grimace was originally evil . . . in 1971 he was called Evil Grimace and his goal was to steal milkshakes.\u00a0 But by 1972 they turned him into a purple monster who&#8217;s a good guy and not very bright.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are five MLB teams that have won every time they&#8217;ve been in the World Series.\u00a0 The Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays are both 2-and-0, and the Los Angeles Angels, Washington Nationals, and Arizona Diamondbacks are 1-and-0.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police in Arkansas recently helped capture a loose pig.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Barling Police Department said in a Facebook post that its code enforcement and animal control officer was dispatched to capture a \u201chamburglar\u201d\u2014or a loose pig wandering the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The department noted that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOfficers established a perimeter around the suspect to keep from getting hambushed by any partners in swine he might have.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re happy to report that our culprit\u2019s owner was sowprized it was loose and quickly helped apprehend our suspect.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The pig was returned to its owner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[66]\u00a0 Kix Brooks, country singer (Brooks &amp; Dunn- \u2018Boot Scootin\u2019 Boogie\u2019, \u2018My Maria\u2019)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[59] Emilio Estevez, actor (\u201cBreakfast Club\u201d, \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d, \u201cMighty Ducks\u201d movies)\/brother of Charlie Sheen, son of Martin Sheen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[43] Jason Biggs, actor (\u201cAmerican Pie\u201d franchise)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[40] Rami Malek, actor (\u2018Elliot Anderson\u2019 on \u201cMr. Robot\u201d 2015-19)\/movie actor (Best Actor Oscar for \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d) COMING UP\u2026 \u201cNo Time to Die\u201d, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>SWAN TERRORIZES HOMEOWNERS BY CONSTANTLY KNOCKING ON FRONT DOORS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Swan in a town in England is being super annoying. Homeowners in Northampton, England have been dealing with a swan that seemingly likes to knock on doors. The locals say the swan couple has been there for seven or eight years, and that about five years ago the male swan started messing around with people\u2019s front doors. One man says the swan rattles his letter box, and it does no damage, but it\u2019s very irritating as it echoes through the house. He adds the bird will sometimes keep up this behavior for three hours. A local news outlet says the bird has only been targeting houses on a specific block. One woman affected by the swan says, \u201cIt happened about the same time last year and I think they could be hungry in nesting season. At first, I couldn\u2019t believe what was happening but I\u2019ve gotten used to it now.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>POLICE TACKLE TRESPASSING DEER INSIDE WISCONSIN NURSING HOME\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s assumed people in nursing homes enjoy getting visitors, but it\u2019s not clear if they appreciated this one. The Wausau Police Department in Wisconsin says officers were dispatched to a nursing home after witnesses reported a deer was wandering through the building after crashing through a window. One of the officers, Aaron Karlen, a former college and Canadian professional football player, was able to tackle the deer so it could be brought outside. The deer was not seriously injured and was released back into the wild.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>A Tiger Belonging to a Murder Suspect Got Loose in a Neighborhood . . .\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday night, a TIGER was loose in a neighborhood in Houston.\u00a0 Yeah, an actual tiger was just walking around on the street.\u00a0 There&#8217;s even a video\u00a0of an off-duty cop who lives in the area pointing a gun at the tiger and telling its owner to get it back inside.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So who is the owner?\u00a0 He&#8217;s a 28-year-old guy named Victor Cuevas.\u00a0 And he doesn&#8217;t just have a tiger . . . he&#8217;s also a MURDER SUSPECT who&#8217;s out on bond.\u00a0 He shot and killed a guy in 2017 . . . he says it was self-defense, but he&#8217;s facing murder charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyway, when the off-duty cop called for backup, Victor put his tiger into his white Jeep Cherokee and drove off.\u00a0 They were on the run until Victor was caught yesterday and he was hit with a felony charge for evading arrest.\u00a0 The tiger is MIA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victor&#8217;s lawyer is already trying out some CRAZY theories on this.\u00a0 Quote, &#8220;People are making a lot of assumptions . . . maybe he might be the hero out there who caught the tiger that was in the neighborhood.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victor also had two monkeys in his house.\u00a0 Those are legal in Houston, but having a tiger isn&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0___________________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A HAT TRICK HONOURED\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ottawa Senators rookie <\/span><b>Tim St\u00fctzle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has had a great first year in the NHL but of course it\u2019s different with no fans in the stands but some Ottawa kids tried to make up for that on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St\u00fctzle, who scored his first-ever hat trick on Saturday, was greeted with a handful of hats being thrown over his fence into his backyard. He watched from his porch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the video posted by a Senators\u2019 season ticket holder, a handful of kids wearing Senators jerseys start throwing hats over the fence. St\u00fctzle, who was recording video on his phone and laughing, clapped and thanked the kids. When all the hats were thrown, the kids, and the adults supervising, all started banging on the fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St\u00fctzle\u2019s roommates, Josh Norris and Brady Tkachuk, joined him on the porch for a group photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat was unreal,\u201d St\u00fctzle <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timstuetzle8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote on his Instagram Story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThank you &lt;3&#8243; Now that&#8217;s how you properly celebrate a hat trick in a pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>SOME OF THEIR BEESWAX:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dutch researchers have trained bees to detect COVID-19. The insects, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, have proven to be able to identify samples infected with the coronavirus, which could eventually cut waiting times for test results to just seconds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To train the bees, scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands gave them sugary water as a reward after showing them samples infected with COVID-19. They would get no reward after being shown a non-infected sample.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once accustomed to the system, the bees would spontaneously extend their tongues to receive the reward when presented with an infected sample. Currently, it can take hours or days to get a COVID-19 test result, but the response from the bees is immediate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The method is also cheap, potentially making it useful for countries where tests are scarce.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>WEDNESDAY MAY 12<\/b><b>TH<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 WSH 2 &#8211; BOS 1 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WPG 5 &#8211; VAN 0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Jays 5\u00a0 Braves 3<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tigers 8\u00a0 Royals 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Conan O\u2019Brien has announced that after 11 years, he will be \u201cwinding down\u201d his TBS late night show, with the final episode airing June 24. O\u2019Brien said he is leaving to launch a \u201cfourth iteration\u201d of his program with HBO Max later this year, and that his final two months on TBS will be dedicated to clips of his favorite moments, and will feature special guests.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Jimmy Fallon read a bunch of &#8220;Why I&#8217;m Single&#8221; Tweets from viewers.\u00a0 (From &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; on Thursday, April 29, 2021)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of the best bits from George Carlin.\u00a0 His opinion of the meaning of life.\u00a0 (A place for your stuff.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Italy Wants Kim Kardashian to Return a Stolen Roman Sculpture<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>KIM KARDASHIAN<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is being forced to forfeit an ancient Roman sculpture that was illegally smuggled out of Italy five years ago.\u00a0 She denies any involvement and says someone else must have bought it in her name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 2016, the feds seized an ancient Roman sculpture that had apparently been bought on her behalf, then illegally smuggled out of Italy and imported into L.A.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That stolen sculpture\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">might<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0date as far back as the 1st or 2nd century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Italian archaeologist verified\u00a0its\u00a0authenticity in 2018, and the case is STILL tied up in American courts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It&#8217;s not clear how much that one artifact is worth, but it arrived in a shipment of 40 antiques that had been valued at a total of just over $745,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The art dealer who sold the smuggled artifact to Kim&#8217;s people is a guy named Axel Vervoordt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He&#8217;s the same guy who did the interior design for the mansion she shared with Kanye before they split up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Lane Blames the Pandemic for His Dad Bod<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remember when the pandemic started, and we all promised to use that extra time to get in shape . . . and then we didn&#8217;t? \u00a0CHRIS LANE\u00a0remembers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says, quote, &#8220;I have 100% taken on the dad bod at this point.\u00a0 I should be in the best shape of my life, but being at home every night and having a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/137623\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wife<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0that cooks, I&#8217;ve been eatin&#8217;, eatin&#8217;, eatin&#8217;, man.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the good ole days he was always on the go . . . performing, traveling, doing radio interviews, but that all ended when the world shut down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quote, &#8220;During this pandemic I go write [music] and sit in a room all day and keep eatin&#8217; snack after snack after snack, so [it&#8217;s] been hard.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a change is on the way.\u00a0 He adds, quote, &#8220;My first show back is July 3rd and I&#8217;ve made a commitment and promise to myself by then I will be back in tour shape.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(He&#8217;ll\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/iamchrislane.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">be<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in Columbus, Ohio on July 3rd.\u00a0 Somebody take pics.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>MIRANDA LAMBERT MARFA TAPES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Marfa Tape<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s, the new project by\u00a0Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram\u00a0and\u00a0Jon Randall, is available everywhere. The three longtime friends and co-writers returned to their favorite writing spot in Marfa, Texas to record acoustic versions of the songs they wrote together over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miranda tells us they hoped to bring some of the town&#8217;s &#8220;magic&#8221; to their fans via this project.\u00a0<\/span><b>[&#8220;Marfa is such a magical place. It just \u2013 the songs are in the air out there in the desert. And I can\u2019t really explain it but we try to do our best to bring people to Marfa through this music, and it\u2019s one of those places where you just go to disappear and you know writing with two people that you can really be your total self with you know it\u2019s \u2013 it feels good that we all get to go out there and just celebrate each other and celebrate creating music.&#8221;]<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miranda, Jack and Jon are set to perform on CBS\u2019\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Thursday (May 13th).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>LITTLE BIG TOWN TO CONTINUE ON &#8216;NIGHTFALL TOUR&#8217; THIS FALL\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Little Big Town<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0will resume their\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nightfall Tour<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of small clubs beginning with three back-to-back shows at the Paramount Theater in Denver, CO September 3-5. The trek will wrap on November 5 in Greensboro, NC. Their rotating opening acts are\u00a0<\/span><b>Ashley Ray<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>Caitlyn Smith<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Big Town kicked off the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nightfall Tour<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0early last year but had to halt the shows due to the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They posted the rescheduled tour dates on social media yesterday (Monday, May 10th) writing, \u201cNightfall Tour\u2026 returns. 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