{"id":22937,"date":"2021-06-10T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2021-06-10T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:25:08","slug":"on-todays-show-619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/06\/on-todays-show-619\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People on TikTok have been\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5gy3m\/the-mystery-illness-taking-the-us-by-storm-is-the-common-cold\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">talking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0about a new MYSTERY illness going around that&#8217;s worse than allergies, but not nearly as bad as Covid.\u00a0 Yeah . . . it&#8217;s just the common cold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A parking space in an affluent Hong Kong neighborhood sold for $1.3 million &#8212; a new world record. The parking space at the luxury Mount Nicholson residential project was sold by Wharf Holdings Ltd. and Nan Fung Group sold for a total $1.3 million to an unidentified buyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An emu that who became a star on social media after running around the city of\u00a0Prince George, B.C., is once again on the loose after being captured at the local airport and later vaulting\u00a0its way to freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The origins of the\u00a0giant bird are unknown. However, the emu was seen running alongside a train and spotted in an industrial section of town before makings its way\u00a0to fields surrounding the airport where it was briefly\u00a0captured before making its escape a second time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brent Meise of Blackspruce Farm managed to shepherd the emu into a horse trailer before it escaped a second time. Meise keeps his own emus in a specialized pen but said the birds are territorial, so it wouldn&#8217;t be safe to introduce one in a panicked state to a new environment, especially without getting a vet check for communicable diseases first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;So we put in the horse corral, which was not very effective,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The emu managed to hook its\u00a0foot on the bottom rung of the corral and used it to launch itself to freedom a second time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former Disney employee shared the stupidest question she ever got from a guest.\u00a0 Listen to it,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bcros0\/video\/6968620784956787974?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6891329151716197893\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0(The guest thought Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Magical Express Service&#8221; was supposed to pick up their luggage from their front porch at home . . . and deliver it to their hotel room.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cBall Point Pen Day\u201d, commemorating its 1943 invention by Lasalo Biro of Budapest, Hungary. During WW2, Britain\u2019s Royal Air Force commissioned him to develop an instrument that could write under low atmospheric pressure at high altitude.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cAlcoholics Anonymous Founders\u2019 Day\u201d On June 10, 1935, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith set out to find the best way to reform alcoholics, and Alcoholics Anonymous was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Clint Black<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s debut single, &#8220;A Better Man,&#8221; reached Number one on the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">country chart in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0There was a\u00a0<\/span><b>Gene Autry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western in 1935 called\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;The Phantom Empire&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where a singing cowboy discovers an underground high-tech civilization with robots under his ranch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are four NFL teams that have won every Super Bowl they&#8217;ve played in.\u00a0 The Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are both 2-and-0 . . . and the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints are 1-and-0.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The version of\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Willy Wonka &amp; the Chocolate Factory&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with\u00a0<\/span><b>Gene Wilder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0was kind of a bomb . . . it cost $3 million to make and only made $4 million at the box office in 1971.<\/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\"> It took the creator of the Rubik\u2019s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; the world record is 3.47 seconds.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>GOOD NEWS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Calm app has pledged to pay $15,000 to a French mental health organization in support of the world&#8217;s Number 2-ranked women&#8217;s tennis player Naomi Osaka &#8212; and to do the same for any other French Open player who opts out of press appearances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Osaka withdrew from the French Open after the first round, following her being fined for choosing not to participate in required press events that she says are damaging to her mental health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To show support for Osaka and to take a stand for the importance of mental health, the Calm app has pledged to donate $15,000, the same amount as Osaka\u2019s fine, to a French mental health organization<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[57] Kate Flannery, actress (\u2018Meredith Palmer\u2019 on \u201cThe Office\u201d 2005-13)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[56] Elizabeth Hurley, actress\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[42] Lee Brice, country singer\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[29] Kate Upton, model\/sometime movie actress\/married to Houston Astros pitcher\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Justin Verlander since 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>A Guy in a D.A.R.E. T-Shirt Was Busted for Drugs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Someone crashed their car in Columbia, Missouri last Thursday and got busted for driving while intoxicated.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not the person who made headlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">27-year-old Tanner Hutcheson was a passenger in the car.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not clear if he&#8217;d been drinking too.\u00a0 But he was wearing a &#8220;D.A.R.E.&#8221; T-shirt that said &#8220;Drugs Are Bad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And cops ended up finding drugs on him and arresting him for possession of a controlled substance. No word yet on what kind of drugs they were, but he was on probation for a previous drug arrest last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in December, he was sentenced to five years in prison for drugs, but a judge suspended it and gave him five years&#8217; probation instead.\u00a0 Meaning he&#8217;s probably going to prison for a while now. And also a bummer:\u00a0 They confiscated his shirt as evidence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Image of kidnapped woman on truck\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This really isn\u2019t cool. Police were recently called in England after drivers spotted a truck bearing the image of a woman lying down tied up on the back of it. The truck was reported to police after being spotted at traffic lights near Norwich, Norfolk. A police spokesman said, \u201cA woman reported seeing a blue pick-up truck with vinyl printed on the back of the truck showing a woman being tied up, blindfolded, [and] bound as if being kidnapped. Enquiries are ongoing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Scientists Figured Out Why the Sound of People Eating Annoys Us So Much<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There&#8217;s a reason your parents told you to chew with your mouth shut.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just rude, it&#8217;s also ANNOYING.\u00a0 And scientists may have finally figured out why we hate it so much . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People who get REALLY annoyed by it have something called misophonia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Pronounced miss-oh-FONE-ee-uh)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 That&#8217;s where common sounds like chewing or heavy breathing can drive you nuts. Researchers scanned people&#8217;s brains while they played different sounds that might trigger a reaction.\u00a0 And for people who have the condition, certain parts of their brain lit up MUCH more than people who don&#8217;t have it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One section that lit up was the part of your brain that processes sound, which makes sense.\u00a0 And that happened with everyone, even people who aren&#8217;t extra-sensitive to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, hearing someone chew their food can activate the part of your brain that wouldn&#8217;t usually kick in unless YOU were chewing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So for people with misophonia, it can feel like an intrusion.\u00a0 And it can give them the urge to chew or swallow, even though they&#8217;re not eating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>THURSDAY JUNE 10<\/b><b>TH<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NYI 6\u00a0 Boston 2\u00a0 (NYI 4-2)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Jays 6\u00a0 White Sox 2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mariners 9<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tigers 6<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 JBS USA, the world&#8217;s largest meat processing company, said yesterday evening (June 9th) that it had paid an $11 million ransom those behind the cyberattack that led to the shutdown of its U.S. beef processing operation last week. Their CEO\u00a0said,\u00a0&#8220;This was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me personally. However, we felt this decision had to be made to prevent any potential risk for our customers.&#8221;. The U.S. believes a criminal gang which is based in Russia or Eastern Europe, carried out the cyberattack.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A woman on TikTok discovered her\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/separated-sisters-learn-they-have-matching-tattoos\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">long-lost sister<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and that they had matching tattoos. Victoria Voorhees found her half-sister through a 23andMe DNA home testing kit.\u00a0 Here is Victoria talking about how it happened.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Here&#8217;s a classic from George Carlin, about unusual things that we all seem to do.\u00a0 (From his 1992 HBO special, and 14th album, &#8220;Jammin&#8217; in New York&#8221;.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kane Brown Was the Big Winner at Last Night&#8217;s &#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>KANE BROWN<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0was the big winner at last night&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0He won the Male Video of the Year trophy for\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Worship You&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0. . . and, along with\u00a0<\/span><b>CHRIS YOUNG<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, won Collaborative Video of the Year for\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Famous Friends&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>CARRIE UNDERWOOD\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u00a0<\/span><b>JOHN LEGEND<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0took home Video of the Year for\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Carrie&#8217;s 23rd\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tn-state-wire-music-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-7ce11b04df32df67cecee6d184709247\"><b>award<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and counting.\u00a0 She has the most in CMT history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the actual show . . . it was all over the place.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 They still did social distancing, so artists performed at so many different locations it was hard to keep track.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We learned some history last night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b>MICKEY GUYTON<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMT\/status\/1402799382576128000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1402799382576128000%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmt.com%2Fnews%2F1834810%2Ftop-five-memorable-moments-from-the-2021-cmt-music-awards%2F\"><b>introduced<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0an eye-opening video tribute to\u00a0<\/span><b>LINDA MARTELL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who was given the CMT Equal Play Award.\u00a0 Linda was the first black woman to crack the Top 20 Country Airplay chart back in 1969, and she faced terrible discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Carrie Underwood\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with\u00a0<\/span><b>John Legend<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Female Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The Good Ones&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Gabby Barrett<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Male Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Worship You&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Kane Brown<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Duo \/ Group Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Wine, Beer, Whiskey&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Little Big Town<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> CMT Performance of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The Other Girl&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Kelsea Ballerini\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u00a0<\/span><b>Halsey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. . . from\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;2020 CMT Music Awards&#8221;<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Collaborative Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Famous Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Chris Young<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u00a0<\/span><b>Kane Brown<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Breakthrough Video of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Nobody&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><b>Dylan Scott<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>(You might also be interested in CMT&#8217;s list of their &#8220;<\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1834810\/top-five-memorable-moments-from-the-2021-cmt-music-awards\/\"><b><i>Top Five Memorable Moments<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>&#8221; . . . including Lindsay Ell and her broken foot, which happened while chasing her dog.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/cmt-awards-2021-lindsay-ell-broke-foot-chasing-her-dog\/\"><b><i>True<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>KANE BROWN, CARRIE UNDERWOOD BIG WINNERS AT CMT MUSIC AWARDS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Kane Brown<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0not only co-hosted last night&#8217;s (Wednesday, June 9th)\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CMT Music Awards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in Nashville with\u00a0<\/span><b>Kelsea Ballerini\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but managed to take home the most trophies with two wins for Male Video for &#8220;Worship You&#8221; and Collaborative Video with\u00a0<\/span><b>Chris Young<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for &#8220;Famous Friends.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><b>Carrie Underwood\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">took home the night&#8217;s biggest award, Video of the Year, for &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; with\u00a0<\/span><b>John Legend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gabby Barrett\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">won Female Video of the Year for &#8220;The Good Ones,&#8221; however she was not there to receive it. She pulled out of the show &#8212; and a scheduled live performance &#8212; a few days prior citing &#8220;personal circumstances.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We learned some history last night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b>MICKEY GUYTON<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMT\/status\/1402799382576128000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1402799382576128000%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmt.com%2Fnews%2F1834810%2Ftop-five-memorable-moments-from-the-2021-cmt-music-awards%2F\"><b>introduced<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0an eye-opening video tribute to\u00a0<\/span><b>LINDA MARTELL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who was given the CMT Equal Play Award.\u00a0 Linda was the first black woman to crack the Top 20 Country Airplay chart back in 1969, and she faced terrible discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here is the complete list of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CMT Music Awards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0winners:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Video of the Year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carrie Underwood with John Legend, &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Female Video of the Year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gabby Barrett, &#8220;The Good Ones&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Male Video of the Year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kane Brown, &#8220;Worship You&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Duo\/Group Video of the Year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Big Town, &#8220;Wine, Beer, Whiskey&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Collaborative Video of the Year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Young and Kane Brown, &#8220;Famous Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Scotty McCreery on Being Starstruck by Dolly, and Mistaken for Clay Aiken<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>SCOTTY MCCREERY<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0says he still gets starstruck by his country music heroes.\u00a0 He gets tongue-tied around people like\u00a0<\/span><b>Garth Brooks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b>George Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0. . . but the ultimate was when he met\u00a0<\/span><b>Dolly Parton\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the very first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/music\/country\/scotty-mccreery-on-being-mistaken-for-clay-aiken\"><b>Quote<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, &#8220;The most starstruck was meeting Dolly.\u00a0 Somebody captured a 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