{"id":25070,"date":"2021-09-22T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=25070"},"modified":"2021-09-22T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:22:48","slug":"on-todays-show-675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/09\/on-todays-show-675\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Christmas may be a few months off, but if you&#8217;re planning on getting a tree this year, you might want to start saving now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The artificial Christmas tree industry expects prices on its products to go up by double-digital percentages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some holiday companies say current global supply problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and high shipping expenses are among the reasons why tree costs are going up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It\u2019s September and Halloween is closer than Christmas, but experts say go ahead and put up your Christmas decorations if you feel like it&#8211; it will make you happier. Research shows those who put up their Christmas decorations early are happier and more relaxed than those who wait. Psychoanalyst Steve McKeown says that people who start Christmas decorating right after Halloween are driven by nostalgia. He adds, \u201cIn a world full of stress and anxiety people like to associate to things [sic] that make them happy and Christmas decorations evoke those strong feelings of childhood. Decorations are simply an anchor or pathway to those old childhood magical moments of excitement.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This family&#8217;s cat meows a lot, and when it\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EbSO7G2GT1w&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">does<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, their parrot swears and tells it to shut up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u27a2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A &#8220;Twins&#8221; sequel called &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/09\/twins-sequel-triplets-tracy-morgan-joins-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito-ivan-reitman-hot-toronto-film-package-1234830766\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Triplets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; may start filming early next year.\u00a0 In this one, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito find out they have a third brother, played by Tracy Morgan.\u00a0 Eddie Murphy was originally supposed to do it, but he&#8217;s too busy now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cAutumnal Equinox\u201d in the Northern Hemisphere, as Fall officially arrives this afternoon at 3:21 EDT.\u00a0 Fall ends with the start of Winter on December 21\u2026in 90 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1994 [27] \u201cFriends\u201d debuts with the episode \u2018The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate\u2019 (the show is originally called \u201cFriends Like Us\u201d, but is temporarily changed to \u201cSix of One\u201d to avoid confusion with \u201cThese Friends of Mine\u201d \u2026 which later becomes \u201cEllen\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2003 [18] Detroit Tigers set an American League record with their 118th loss of the season (12-6 to KC Royals), beating the previous mark by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1915 (Tigers finish at 43-119\u202643 games out of the post-season)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2000\u00a0 Jo Dee Messina was at #1 with &#8220;That&#8217;s the Way&#8221; the lead-off single for her album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Burn.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song spent four weeks at #1. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week #1 songs from the same album, (the 1998 album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;m Alright<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>EVERYTHING NICE ABOUT PUMPKIN SPICE:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With fall officially arriving today, for some it\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year: Pumpkin Spice season.\u00a0And if you are one of those people who want pumpkin spice in everything from your Oreos to your\u2026pumpkin spice\u2026here is some good news:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The spices that are mixed together to make pumpkin spice each have their own health benefits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s right:\u00a0Pumpkin spice is actually pretty good for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The flavor is generally made up of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and allspice.\u00a0Cinnamon is thought to help control blood sugar levels, nutmeg has been used to treat many afflictions including cancer and kidney disease, but more research is needed.\u00a0Ginger seems to be an effective treatment for nausea and morning sickness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloves are used to treat toothaches, and allspice is good for things like intestinal gas, diarrhea, flu and colds.\u00a0And let\u2019s not forget pumpkin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it isn\u2019t actually an ingredient in ALL pumpkin spice products, if it is used, you\u2019re in luck.\u00a0Pumpkin is high in vitamin A, which is good for your eyes, skin, and fighting infections.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><b>FOUR RANDOM FACTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Honey bees can &#8220;tell time&#8221; and can experience jet lag.<\/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 is a bowling alley in the White House basement, which was added by\u00a0<\/span><b>Richard Nixon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in 1969.<\/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\"> It would take a sloth roughly 6.6 hours to travel a mile.<\/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\"> \u00a0Only 30% of people can flare their nostrils.<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BIRTHDAYS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[63] Andrea Bocelli, operatic singer\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[34] Tom Felton, actor (\u2018Draco Malfoy\u2019 in \u201cHarry Potter\u201d films)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><b>____________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>First Adult Purchase We Get Excited About Happens at 22<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You could argue that anyone who USES the word &#8220;adulting&#8221; isn&#8217;t a real adult yet.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m about to use it, so never mind . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new poll on &#8220;adulting&#8221; asked people how old they were the first time they got excited about a LAME adult purchase, like buying a vacuum cleaner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It actually happens pretty young.\u00a0 The average answer was 22 years old.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(That makes sense, because it&#8217;s right around when a lot of people get their first place.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average person doesn&#8217;t start feeling like an adult until 25 though.\u00a0 Here are a few more random stats from the poll . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The top signs you&#8217;re a true adult include:\u00a0 Saving money . . . doing taxes . . . sticking to a budget . . . buying life insurance . . . and making regular doctor&#8217;s appointments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 39% of us feel like our friends are significantly better at adulting than we are.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 51% of adults go to older people with questions about things like taxes, mortgages, and life insurance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 43% of parents say that having kids has made them a more careful driver.\u00a0 And just under a third said they&#8217;re more likely to read nutrition labels now.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>FALL IS HERE\u2026\u2026&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you excited that we&#8217;re now entering fall, or are you sad that we&#8217;re leaving summer?\u00a0 According to a new\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/topics\/science\/survey-results\/daily\/2021\/09\/20\/c6ff0\/3\"><b>poll<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, summer has a bigger fanbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">33% of people said summer is their favorite season, followed by 22% who chose spring.\u00a0 Fall wasn&#8217;t too far behind with 19%.\u00a0 Only 7% of people said they like winter best, while 18% said that they don&#8217;t know or don&#8217;t have a favorite season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were big differences among age groups.\u00a0 Gen Z preferred winter 23% to spring&#8217;s 9%, while those 65 and older were the opposite, loving spring 32% over winter&#8217;s 2%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22<\/b><b>ND<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 Blue Jays 4\u00a0 Rays 2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tigers 5\u00a0 White Sox 3<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nissan appointed a man with an enhanced sense of smell the job of &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/nissan-worker-smells-new-car-smell-as-job\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">odor evaluation lead engineer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; at its European Technical Centre in Bedfordshire.\u00a0 Here is Peter Karl Eastland talking about his job.\u00a0<\/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\"> \u00a0 \u2022 \u201cThe Goldbergs\u201d (ABC): Season 9 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cThe Wonder Years\u201d (ABC): Series premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cThe Conners\u201d (ABC): Season 4 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cA Million Little Things\u201d (ABC): Season 4 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cSurvivor\u201d (CBS): Season 41 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cChicago Med\u201d (NBC): Season 7 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cChicago Fire\u201d (NBC): Season 10 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cChicago P.D.\u201d (NBC): Season 9 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (FOX): Season 6 premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Did you sleep well last night?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s comedian Pete Holmes breaking down how we spend a third of our lives.\u00a0 (From his 2016 HBO special, &#8220;Faces and Sounds&#8221;.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>CARLY PEARCE \u201cWRITTEN IN STONE\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carly Pearce&#8217;s new album,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">29: Written In Stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was released (Friday, September 17th). The project is an expansion of her\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">29<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0EP which was released in February.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carly has added eight new songs to the original seven, including one called &#8220;Dear Miss Loretta&#8221; featuring\u00a0Patty Loveless\u00a0and another collaboration with\u00a0Ashley McBryde\u00a0which was released earlier this week called &#8220;Never Wanted To Be That Girl.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carly tells us that when she began writing these additional songs she had no intention of adding them to\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">29<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In fact, she says she didn&#8217;t have any specific intention other than to get a few things from the past year out of her system.\u00a0<\/span><b>[\u201cI think that I knew I had to get some things off my chest, and never thought that people would connect with it as they did.\u00a0 But as they were connecting and as my career was kind of taking off, I felt so inspired to keep going, and I think they finish out this chapter of my life. I think they finish out what the year 29 was for me. It was a really defining year for not only myself personally, but also for my music. And I think that seeing the reaction of the first seven, I felt so inspired in the midst of that to keep going and to keep writing until I felt like it was finished, and now I feel like I can close that chapter.\u201d]<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Trace Adkins Doesn&#8217;t Get to Shoot Anyone in the &#8220;Monarch&#8221; Series<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When\u00a0TRACE ADKINS\u00a0is in a movie, he shoots people.\u00a0 Hey, I&#8217;m just quoting Trace.\u00a0 Somebody asked about his upcoming series\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Monarch&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and he said things are a little different this time around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quote, &#8220;I pull a gun in this, but I don&#8217;t actually shoot anybody.\u00a0 I think that may be a first for me in a Western. \u00a0I have shot people in every one, I think.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trace has a leading role as the &#8220;reigning king of country music.&#8221;\u00a0 The star of a show usually doesn&#8217;t die, and that&#8217;s also the case here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quote, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t get killed in this one either, which is unusual.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been getting killed in every movie I do for the last couple of years, but they didn&#8217;t kill me in this one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Monarch&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">also stars\u00a0SUSAN SARANDON\u00a0as Trace&#8217;s wife. \u00a0It premieres January 30th on Fox . . . after the NFC championship game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>______________________________________________________________________________<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>PARKER McCOLLUM TAKES ON GEORGE STRAIT FOR SPOTIFY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Parker McCollum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0has released his own version of fellow Texan\u00a0<\/span><b>George Strait\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s classic \u201cCarrying Your Love with Me\u201d as part of a new Spotify campaign which celebrates country music of the 90s. \u201cCarrying Your Love With Me\u201d was a hit for\u00a0George\u00a0in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Breland\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u00a0<\/span><b>Tenille Arts\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are also part of the Spotify campaing. Breland offers his version of\u00a0<\/span><b>Deana Carter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s &#8220;Strawberry Wine,&#8221; while Tenille takes on\u00a0<\/span><b>The Chicks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; &#8220;Wide Open Spaces.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to unique user data from Spotify, US streams of the 90s Country playlist have grown 150% since 2018, and 70% among Gen-Z users in that time. 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