{"id":3191,"date":"2018-12-31T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:34:52","slug":"on-todays-show-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2018\/12\/on-todays-show-71\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today’s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Durex is pulling some of its condoms from store shelves after they failed to pass shelf-life tests.<\/p>\n

The specific types of condoms in the recall issued Friday are\u00a0Durex Real Feel Extra Lubricated 10ct condoms and Durex Real Feel 20ct condoms. The company says they failed burst pressure tests.<\/p>\n

The company is asking consumers to check the batch numbers on either the box they came in or on the back wrapping of the individual condoms themselves. Health Canada also\u00a0released a report\u00a0concerning the same products on Friday.<\/p>\n

The company advised there is no safety risk for those who use the condoms, but anyone wishing to get a refund can either return the condoms to the retailer they bought them from or\u00a0contact Durex\u00a0directly.<\/p>\n

The company added none of their other products are affected.<\/p>\n

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Pedialyte, the parental staple for fighting infant dehydration, is now being aggressively marketed for adults who indulge in holiday booze binges. Pedialyte is touting powdered drink packets in cherry and grape flavors. Just add water and experience the <\/em><\/strong>\u0093<\/em><\/strong>Pedialyte Sparkling Rush<\/em><\/strong>\u0094<\/em><\/strong> that will <\/em><\/strong>\u0093<\/em><\/strong>help prevent dehydration caused by vomiting, diarrhea, exercise, travel, and heat exhaustion.<\/em><\/strong>\u0094<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Pedialyte\u0092s Twitter, followers have taken to posting pics of their New Year\u0092s Eve Pedialyte survival kits. Many point to Pedialyte\u0092s claims that it works better than sports drinks because it contains two times more electrolytes and two times less sugar.<\/p>\n

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ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aquaman<\/em>\u00a0snagged $51.55 million in its second weekend of release and over 10 days, the\u00a0movie has brought in $188.79 million, and will likely exceed $200 million domestically by New Year\u2019s Eve. If so, it will surpass\u00a0A Star Is Born\u00a0<\/em>as\u00a0Warner Bros.\u2019 biggest domestic release in 2018. Worldwide,\u00a0Aquaman<\/em>\u00a0has grabbed about $750 million.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s\u00a0Mary Poppins Returns<\/em>, meanwhile, held the No. 2 spot, bringing in $28 million.\u00a0Bumblebee<\/em>\u00a0rounded out the top three, snagging $21 million.<\/p>\n

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The results are in, and Macaulay Culkin is the winner. That\u2019s what people voting on what Macaulay Culkin should change his middle name to overwhelmingly decided in a poll on the actor\u2019s website. So now the Home Alone stars full name will be Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.<\/p>\n

He announced the results in a Christmas Day tweet, in which he said he would legally change his middle name from its current \u0093Carson\u0094 in 2019. Culkin announced the poll to change his middle name in November, and voting was open until Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

Options included the victorious \u0093Macaulay Culkin<\/strong>\u0094 (60,990 votes); \u0093TheMcRibIsBack<\/strong>\u0094 (14,558 votes); Kieran<\/strong> (13,559 votes); \u0093Publicity Stunt<\/strong>\u0094<\/strong> (9,644 votes); and Shark Week<\/strong> (7,515 votes).<\/p>\n

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TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YEAR\u2019S EVE\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Year\u2019s Eve has been celebrated for millennia. \u00a0Honoring the end of one year goes hand in hand with celebrating new beginnings in the new one.<\/p>\n

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1907<\/strong>\u00a0For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the New Year<\/p>\n

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2010<\/strong>\u00a0Post-apocalyptic zombie TV series “The Walking Dead” premieres<\/p>\n

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2017<\/strong>\u00a0Cleveland Browns lost 28-24 to Pittsburgh to become only the 2nd team in NFL history to finish season with 0-16 record<\/p>\n

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

John Devner was born on this date in 1943. He died in a plane crash in 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trends We<\/u><\/strong>\u2019<\/u><\/strong>ll Be Obsessing over in 2019<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Flip phones will make a comeback.\u00a0<\/strong>By this time next year, an old school flip phone with smartphone technology will be the hottest tech of 2019. But the return of this once antiquated design isn\u2019t about nostalgia \u2014 it\u2019s about being practical. One tech expert says \u201cEvery person I know has broken the glass in their phone at least once and a folding phone that can protect its face and be half the size is responding to a real need.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. More companies will try the 30-hour work week.\u00a0<\/strong>2019 could be the year when a four-day work week becomes the norm. For one thing, millennials want it. Several recent studies have found that younger workers prioritize \u201cwork-life balance\u201d over career advancement. And a recent experiment at a New Zealand firm found that a four-day work week made employees more productive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Bite-sized travel will be the new big vacation.\u00a0<\/strong>Over half of global travelers \u2014 53 percent \u2014 plan on taking smaller weekend trips in 2019 instead of big, extravagant vacations that last for a week or more. Just getting out of town for a night is enough, and the short jaunts have partly been fueled by social media. One travel expert says \u201c<\/em><\/strong>People like to brag about what they do rather than what they have, micro-trips allow travelers to have multiple experiences,<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/strong> giving them lots to brag about year-round.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

        We hear the phrase “it’s better to give than to receive” a lot around the holidays.\u00a0 Which is hard to take seriously while you’re unwrapping a new big-screen TV.\u00a0 But according to this, it really is true . . .<\/p>\n

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        Researchers at Northwestern and the University of Chicago teamed up to see what’s better . . . the joy of giving people gifts, or the joy of getting them.\u00a0 And GIVING was the clear winner.<\/p>\n

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        They gave 100 people $5 a day for five days in a row.\u00a0 Each person could either keep the money, or give it away.\u00a0 But they had to do the same thing with it all five days.\u00a0 And if they gave it away, they had to give it to the same person every day.<\/p>\n

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        On the first day, both groups reported similar levels of happiness.\u00a0 But after that, the amount of happiness people got from keeping the money started to drop dramatically.<\/p>\n

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        The level of joy people got from keeping $5 on Day Five was much lower than it was on Day One.\u00a0 But meanwhile, the group that gave the money away continued to derive the SAME amount of pleasure from it, regardless of how many times they did it.<\/p>\n

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        So why was that the case?\u00a0 One theory is that when we receive a gift, we tend to focus on<\/p>\n

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        WHAT we’re getting.\u00a0 And we subconsciously compare it to stuff we’ve gotten in the past.\u00a0 In other words, getting $5 after you already got $5 is somewhat boring.<\/p>\n

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        But when we give, we’re a lot LESS focused on what we’re giving, and more focused on the joy that comes from the act itself.<\/p>\n

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        BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

        Anthony Hopkins\u00a0(actor) (81)<\/p>\n

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        Val Kilmer\u00a0(actor) (59)<\/p>\n

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        Ben Kingsley\u00a0(English actor, won an Oscar for playing the title role in\u00a0Gandhi<\/em>) (75)<\/p>\n

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        Actor\/Comedian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gerry Dee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50<\/p>\n

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        CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM<\/strong> is a Data Reporter for the Washington Post and he lives in rural Minnesota. He owns a lizard and decided to go online and order some crickets to feed it. What follows in a series of Tweets from the weekend is hilarious\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

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        So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first-time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        They were in a cardboard box. And I cut the tape and opened the box and SURPRISE! Crickets everywhere. It was the middle of the workday and I didn’t have time to deal with cricket logistics, so I put the tape back on the box.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        And then I put the box in the upstairs bathroom, the only semi-contained place in the house where I knew the kids and the cats and the dogs wouldn’t be able to get at the box. <\/em><\/p>\n

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        About 20 minutes later I’m back at work on my computer, and I hear my wife in the kitchen: “where are these damn crickets coming from.” I freely admit I had not kept her fully up-to-date on my cricket purchasing plans.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        And at first I was like “okay, maybe one or two got out when I initially opened the box. No biggie.” I kept working. With the benefit of hindsight, this was a mistake.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        Eventually I get up to investigate. I say, “So uh the crickets got here toda–” “I REALIZE THAT,” she says. “WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER THE KITCHEN”<\/em><\/p>\n

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        I say “That’s a good question. Let me check something.” I walk over to the bathroom. I open the door. There are crickets. Everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

        Crickets on the floor. Crickets on the walls. Crickets in the sink. Crickets in the toilet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        For some reason my first instinct is to flush the toilet, as if that will do anything to solve the problem of crickets in all the other places that were not the toilet. I shut the door. “Uh, don’t come in here!” <\/em><\/p>\n

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        Of course by this point many had migrated elsewhere. They were in the closet. In the shoes. Making their way downstairs to the playroom. The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        I tried to collect all of them. It was like the world’s worst game of Pokemon. But here we are, roughly 10 hours after the initial catastrophe, and stray crickets are still turning up in odd places.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night. And that’s the news from Red Lake Falls.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        New Year<\/u><\/strong>\u2019<\/u><\/strong>s Resolutions Last Exactly This Long<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

        Before the first month of the year has even come to an end, most people have given up on their annual commitment to themselves.<\/p>\n

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        Research has discovered that Saturday, Jan. 12, is the fateful day of New Year\u2019s resolutions. After analyzing more than 31.5 million online global activities last January, researchers were able to pinpoint the date when most people report failing their resolution.<\/p>\n

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        According to another study, just 8 percent of people achieve their New Year\u2019s goals, while around 80 percent fail to keep their New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n

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        Unrealistic expectations are a big reason resolution failed. But there is hope, it\u2019s just about how you set up resolutions. Researchers found that if exercising was one of your resolutions, then working with others encouraged more activity while joining a club boosted people\u2019s activity 46 percent.<\/p>\n

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        QUESTION\u2026. <\/strong>Do you make New Year\u2019s resolutions?<\/p>\n

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        RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Our bodies burn about 10% more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than at other times of the day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. The Rubik’s Cube was originally called the Magic Cube when it came out in 1975.\u00a0 It was renamed in 1980 because they realized a more unique name would make it easier to patent around the world.\u00a0 So it was named after its inventor, Erno Rubik.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. Your heaviest organ is your skin . . . it weighs about 20 pounds.\u00a0 Your intestines are second heaviest, at about seven-and-a-half pounds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              1. The name Pepsi comes from the word “dyspepsia,” which means indigestion . . . since its original purpose was to help people with digestion issues.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                MONDAY DECEMBER 31ST<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\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

                TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                Anthony Hopkins\u00a0(actor) (81)<\/p>\n

                Ben Kingsley\u00a0(English actor, won an Oscar for playing the title role in\u00a0Gandhi<\/em>) (75)<\/p>\n

                Actor\/Comedian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gerry Dee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50<\/p>\n

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                1. World Junior Hockey<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Last night<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                  Russia 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Switzerland 4<\/p>\n

                  Slovakia 11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kazakhstan 2<\/p>\n

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                  Canada\u2019s next game is tonight at 8 against Russia<\/p>\n

                  Today\u2019s other games\u2026\u2026<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                  Czech Republic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 vs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Denmark \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (4pm)<\/p>\n

                  Kazakhstan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 vs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sweden\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (6:30pm)<\/p>\n

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                  NFL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                  Saturday, January 5<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                  No. 6 Indianapolis at No. 3 Houston, 4:35 p.m. ET (ESPN\/ABC)<\/p>\n

                  No. 5 Seattle at No. 4 Dallas, 8:15 p.m. ET (Fox)<\/p>\n

                  Sunday, January 6<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                  No. 5 Los Angeles Chargers at No. 4 Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET (CBS)<\/p>\n

                  No. 6 Philadelphia at No. 3 Chicago, 4:40 p.m. ET (NBC)<\/p>\n

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                  1. No winning ticket was sold for the $13-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in the Prairies.<\/p>\n

                    The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $16 million.<\/p>\n

                    \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

                    The winning ticket for Friday night’s $39.5 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot was purchased in \u00a0B.C. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 4 will be approximately $10 million.<\/p>\n

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                    1. Keith Urban\u00a0is set to headline\u00a0Music City on New Year\u2019s Eve<\/em>for the third consecutive year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      He\u2019ll perform and will be featured on\u00a0NBC\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve<\/em>, which will be hosted by\u00a0Carson Daly\u00a0and\u00a0Chrissy Teigen tonight from 10-11pm ET\/PT.<\/p>\n

                      Lauren Alaina\u00a0will perform during the West Coast celebration of\u00a0Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve with Ryan Seacrest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

                      She joins\u00a0Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, and others.\u00a0The televised celebration takes place tonight beginning at 8pm ET on\u00a0ABC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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                      1. Police west of Toronto are investigating after a defibrillator was stolen from a bus terminal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        The incident happened Friday afternoon at the City Centre Transit Terminal in Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n

                        Peel regional police say a male suspect approached the ticket booth and reported that someone in the parking lot was in cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

                        Police say the man then removed the defibrillator from its cabinet and fled the scene.<\/p>\n

                        Police are asking anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n

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