{"id":22600,"date":"2021-05-26T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=22600"},"modified":"2021-05-26T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:30:42","slug":"on-todays-show-608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/05\/on-todays-show-608\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Florida high school is getting heat after editing at least 83 high school girl&#8217;s yearbook photos to take out\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/local\/83-high-school-girls-have-photos-digitally-altered-to-cover-chest\/77-7a237165-8521-454f-87d1-5b0f65225ee2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cleavage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a parent and student talking about the situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A high-end auto shop in the U.K. has started customizing new cars . . . to make sections of them look RUSTY. They did it with a few panels on a brand new Land Rover, where two sections of the hood are\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/506741\/pre-rusted-parts-land-rover\/\"><b>covered in rust<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, plus two vents on the side.\u00a0 So instead of the whole thing, it&#8217;s more like using rust as an accent color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the right price though, you can have your entire car rusted up if you really want to.\u00a0 And they can seal it to keep that FRESH rust look.\u00a0 Or you can leave it alone and let the, quote, &#8220;natural course of corrosion&#8221; continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s very difficult to play pool while on a yacht. Well, Bugatti, a company known for its exclusive sports cars, has unveiled their new luxury pool table that was designed to negate the rocking of a boat and remain level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The $300,000 table relies on highly advanced technology to remain perfectly level in virtually any conditions, including on yachts. The table has an all carbon-fiber finish, while the frame is built out of machined aluminum and titanium. Oh, and it comes with carbon fiber pool cues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remember the classic viral video &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/22\/us\/charlie-bit-my-finger-nft-trnd\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charlie Bit My Finger<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;?\u00a0 The NFT of the video has been sold for $760,000&#8230; meaning, in theory, you won&#8217;t be able to find it on YouTube anymore.\u00a0 (Here&#8217;s a clip from the &#8220;Charlie Bit My Finger&#8221; video.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man who brought Sebastian the crab to life in the 1989 Disney animated classic, &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221;, Samuel E. Wright, died Monday.\u00a0 He was 74.\u00a0 He battled prostate cancer the past three years.\u00a0 Here is a blend of his two big songs.\u00a0 (He was also nominated for a Tony for his role of Mufasa in &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright once told the\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;L.A. Times&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that he kept a collection of little red crabs in his home and, quote, &#8220;every time I pass one I genuflect and say, &#8216;Thank you for the house, my kids&#8217; education and the fact that we don&#8217;t have to eat cheese grits anymore.'&#8221;\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\"> \u201cWorld Dracula Day\u201d, Bram Stoker\u2019s Gothic horror novel \u201cDracula\u201d was first published on this date in 1897. According to legend, the character may have been based on Stoker\u2019s horrible boss.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cWorld Redhead Day\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u21d2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Less than 2% of the population has red hair.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u21d2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Redheads are more sensitive to hot, cold and pain, yet need about 20% more anesthesia to be sedated.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u21d2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Redheads are more likely to be left handed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Jason Aldean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s &#8220;Fly Over States&#8221; climbed to Number One in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>IF YOUR ALLERGIES ARE PARTICULARLY BAD THIS YEAR\u2014THERE\u2019S A REASON\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you suffer with seasonal allergies, you may have noticed they\u2019re worse than usual this year, and it\u2019s not just in your head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to recent research and forecasting, 2021 is shaping up to be a brutal allergy year, just like 2020, 2019, and 2018 were before it. The length and intensity of pollen seasons are growing, in large part due to climate change. Experts say if the planet keeps warming up, miserable allergies will likely be the norm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between 1990 and 2018, pollen concentrations in North America increased by 21 percent. Other factors can also contribute to making airborne pollen even more volatile. Internist and immunologist Dr. Tana Elliott explains, \u201cPollution like diesel exhaust and nitrogen oxide can lead to the creation of super pollen and very irritating air that triggers sneeze and mucus production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pollen can bind to diesel exhaust and it becomes super pollen\u2014traveling longer distances and being bigger\u2014making it a more potent allergen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some experts even say that because we spent most of the last year indoors, we had less exposure to allergens, and so any tolerance we built up in previous years may have waned slightly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0A caterpillar called the tobacco hornworm uses its bad breath to scare off predators. \u00a0It gets its bad breath from eating tobacco leaves.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><b>Michael Keaton&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">real name is Michael Douglas.\u00a0 He picked &#8220;Keaton&#8221; as a stage name because obviously there was ALREADY an actor named\u00a0<\/span><b>Michael Douglas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0. . . and he liked the way\u00a0<\/span><b>Diane Keaton&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0name sounded.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Keaton was a stage name for Diane Keaton too.\u00a0 Her real name is Diane Hall.\u00a0 Keaton was her mother&#8217;s maiden name.\u00a0 Also, her nickname is &#8216;Annie&#8217; . . . which is where\u00a0<\/span><b>Woody Allen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0got the title for\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Annie Hall&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The famous artist Caravaggio is actually FROM the city of Caravaggio, Italy.\u00a0 He chose to use that as his name because his first name was . . . Michelangelo.\u00a0 And clearly, another artist already had that one claimed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The average eel lives to be 10 to 15 years old.\u00a0 But an eel in Sweden lived to be 155.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the equivalent of a person living to 813 to 1,220 years old.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An 11-year-old Florida girl earned a Guinness World Record for mental math when she solved a 12-digit multiplication problem in under 10 minutes without a calculator, pen or paper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanaa Hiremath, who was diagnosed\u00a0with autism at age two, started showing an unusual aptitude for math when her parents began to home-school her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her father said she had actually failed math before switching to home-schooling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanaa&#8217;s pediatrician was so impressed with her math skills that it led her parents to research whether Sanaa&#8217;s gift could be a Guinness\u00a0 World Record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[72] Hank Williams Jr, country singer\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[72] Philip Michael Thomas, actor (\u2018Tubbs\u2019 on \u201cMiami Vice\u201d 1984-89)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A server at Cracker Barrel recently treated a customer to an amazing version of &#8220;Happy Birthday to You&#8221;.\u00a0 And now . . . a TikTok\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jaredgravatt\/video\/6957747990559837446\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of her performance has racked up over a million views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HMMMM\u2026..<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 89% of adults admit they can\u2019t read Roman numerals.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 87% of women say they have an eyelash curler in their purse.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 58% of men say they wash their face before going to bed.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 48% of us say we will miss social distancing when the pandemic is over.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 40% of men don\u2019t know their wife\u2019s shoe size.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 17% of adults say they dislike the smell of cooking bacon!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 15% of us have accidentally gotten into the wrong vehicle in a parking lot.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 13% of us admit we have stolen a roll of toilet paper at work.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>DANDY DANDELION WHACK FACTS:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dandelions are not weeds but are from the same family as sunflowers.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Every part of the dandelion is edible.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> One cup of dandelion greens equals 535% of the daily recommended Vitamin K and 112% of Vitamin A.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A dandelion seed can travel up to five miles (8km) before it lands.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The name \u2018dandelion\u2019 is taken from the French word \u201cdent de lion\u201d meaning lion\u2019s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2713<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Until the 1800s, people sometimes removed grass to plant dandelions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>When Was the Last Time You Tested Your Smoke Detectors?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When was the last time you checked your smoke detectors to make sure they&#8217;re working?\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t remember, it&#8217;s been way too long . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You&#8217;re supposed to check them once a month.\u00a0 But a recent poll found two-thirds of us haven&#8217;t, including 28% who haven&#8217;t checked them in three months or more.\u00a0 Here are five more quick stats about fires, and the risk factors you should know about . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Around 90% of us think we could protect ourselves in a fire.\u00a0 But the rest of these stats don&#8217;t really back that up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 1 in 4 people don&#8217;t own a fire extinguisher.\u00a0 And 1 in 10 people who do have one don&#8217;t know where it is right now.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 60% have never done a fire drill at home, or talked to their family about what to do.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 42% of us haven&#8217;t cleaned the lint filter in our dryer in a while.\u00a0 Which is a common thing that starts fires.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And 1 in 5 people said they blow fuses or trip their breaker at least every few months, which could be a sign your system is overloaded.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The top things that cause electrical fires include:\u00a0 Old wiring . . . bad outlets, appliances, and light fixtures . . . extension cords and power strips that are overloaded . . . and space heaters that are too close to things like curtains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WEDNESDAY MAY 26<\/b><b>TH<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Montreal Canadiens 0 &#8211; Toronto leads 3 games to 1<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carolina Hurricanes 3, Nashville Predators 2 (OT) &#8211; Carolina leads 3 games to 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Jays 6\u00a0 Yankees 2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cleveland 4\u00a0 Detroit 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he man who brought Sebastian the crab to life in the 1989 Disney animated classic, &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221;, Samuel E. Wright, died Monday.\u00a0 He was 74.\u00a0 He battled prostate cancer the past three years.\u00a0 Here is a blend of his two big songs.\u00a0 (He was also nominated for a Tony for his role of Mufasa in &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright once told the\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;L.A. Times&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that he kept a collection of little red crabs in his home and, quote, &#8220;every time I pass one I genuflect and say, &#8216;Thank you for the house, my kids&#8217; education and the fact that we don&#8217;t have to eat cheese grits anymore.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\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\">Paul McCartney is 78 and he doesn&#8217;t even need reading glasses, because he practices\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/paul-mccartney-says-practising-eye-yoga-has-helped-preserve-his-eyesight-2939830?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EYE YOGA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically just a routine of moving your eyes as far as you can up, down, side-to-side, and diagonally.\u00a0 Then you focus on something in the distance, and then the lines on your palm.<\/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 Dusty Slay on staying at cheap hotels, and stealing from some stuff.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>DIERKS BENTLEY PAYS HOUSE VISIT TO YOUNG CANCER PATIENT<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dierks Bentley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0paid a visit to a young fan suffering from cancer over the weekend in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. Dierks went to\u00a0<\/span><b>Baylee Barradas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; house where he performed a few songs for her and even FaceTimed another of Baylee&#8217;s favorite singers,\u00a0<\/span><b>Kelsea Ballerini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so they could meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dierks shared his meeting with Baylee on Instagram writing, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Didn&#8217;t think anything could top the recent club shows we did but that was before I got to play a private concert for my new friend Baylee Barradas . . . one of my hometown friends brought Baylee&#8217;s fight with cancer to my attention. Sweet girl really going thru it. Hard hard stuff. Could use all the prayers.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He performed the song &#8220;Riser&#8221;\u00a0 and also said, &#8220;I&#8217;m still thinking about her. Every day she&#8217;s in my heart. I didn&#8217;t think it&#8217;d affect me like it has, her story, but it really has had a big impact on me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Jake Owen on Getting Married, and Being Starstruck by Cher<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>JAKE OWEN<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and his fianc\u00e9e Erica Hartlein have a two-year-old daughter named Paris, but they&#8217;re still not married.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the holdup?\u00a0 Like everything these days . . . the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent interview he said they&#8217;re waiting until it&#8217;s safe for everyone to be there.\u00a0 Quote, &#8220;I love her, she loves me, we definitely want to get married, but not until the time is right . . . until I can party. \u00a0A big time party. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In another part of the interview he was asked about the last time he was starstruck.\u00a0 He said, quote, &#8220;I got starstruck when I released a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/134008\"><b>backstage acoustic<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0thing we did of\u00a0<\/span><b>Cher&#8217;s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0song,\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8216;Believe&#8217;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;She heard it and then retweeted it and said &#8216;Jake, I love your version, this is so cool.&#8217;\u00a0 She&#8217;s pretty iconic, and for her to acknowledge that was a pretty cool deal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ERIC CHURCH HAS A &#8216;HELL OF A VIEW&#8217; AT NUMBER ONE\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Eric Church<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0charts his 10th career Number One hit this week with \u201cHell Of A View.\u201d The song is included on his new triple album,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heart &amp; Soul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eric co-wrote &#8220;Hell of A View&#8221; with\u00a0<\/span><b>Casey Beathard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>Monty Criswell<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0while he was holed up with a group of hit songwriters in the mountains of North Carolina last year. He tells us:\u00a0<\/span><b>[\u201cCasey Beathard, the co-writer on this song, was working on something, and I remember walking in, and he looked at me and he goes, \u2018This is good. Listen to this.\u2019 And he started,\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(sings)<\/span><b>\u00a0I was no Daddy\u2019s dream\u2019, you know, the whole deal and he got to the Bronco, smoke my Bronco tires line, and I go, \u2018This is really good.\u2019 So, we wrote that song that day and the next day.\u201d]\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eric will head out on his 55-city\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gather Again Tour<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0beginning on Sept. 17 in Lexington, KY and running through late spring of 2022. Tickets are currently on sale at EricChurch.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>JON PARDI &#8211; DOWN ON THE FARM<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JON PARDI is finally showing off those cows he&#8217;s been bragging about.\u00a0 He posted a clip on his Facebook the other day where he&#8217;s feeding Holly, Opal, and Kyle.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also spreading the love to a couple of goats named Johnny and June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 26th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:44:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/05\/on-todays-show-608\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600","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=22600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22601,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22600\/revisions\/22601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}