{"id":3260,"date":"2019-01-04T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:34:51","slug":"on-todays-show-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/01\/on-todays-show-74\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>FRIDAY JANUARY 4<sup>TH<\/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&#8211;\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 WHAT\u2019S HAPPENING<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hospital emergency rooms in Montreal are over capacity and wait times are reportedly up in Winnipeg as the flu spreads in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In Quebec, emergency room doctors are urging people to stay home if they can.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen emergency rooms were over 100 per cent capacity at the start of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0latest weekly Flu Watch report, the Public Health Agency of Canada said that instances of influenza across Canada &#8220;continued to increase&#8221; just before the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The report showed that in Quebec as in the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick, the flu was considered &#8220;localized,&#8221; the second most severe category before the illness becomes &#8220;widespread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next round of Public Health Agency of Canada reporting on cases of the flu across the country will be released today (Jan 4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A wildlife park in Australia has issued a New Year\u2019s warning after a big increase in the number of the potentially-deadly funnel-web spider.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Reptile Park, which is located outside Sydney, Aus., issued a warning to the public saying they\u2019ve \u201cbeen inundated\u201d with funnel-web spiders, some of which are bigger than ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Funnel-web spiders are a family of 35 arachnid species native to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the spiders in the family produce venom potentially fatal to humans, although there haven\u2019t been any deaths since the invention of antivenom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEscape Room\u201d (PG-13, Action\/Horror): \u00a0Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive. (Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Vanishing\u201d (R-Rated, Mystery\/Suspense): \u00a0Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. (Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAmerican Hangman\u201d (Not Rated, Drama): \u00a0An unidentified man posts a live feed on social media showing that he has kidnapped two strangers and intends to kill one before the day is out. His intention is to hold a capital \u201ctrial\u201d online. (Donald Sutherland, Vincent Kartheiser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaghetti Day\u201d, celebrating the Italian pasta dish that seemingly everyone loves. Marco Polo brought the recipe for pasta back to Europe with him after his famous trip to China in the 13th century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorld Braille Day\u201d, observed on the anniversary of the 1809 birth of Louis Braille of France. In 1829, he published \u201cMethod of Writing Words, Music &amp; Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use By the Blind\u201d. Today, the \u2018Braille method\u2019 is used in virtually every language as the standard form of reading and writing by those with vision-loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 4<sup>TH<\/sup>, 1966 <\/strong>Deana Carter is born in Nashville. The daughter of guitarist Fred Carter, her 1996 hit &#8220;Strawberry Wine&#8221; nets the Country Music Association&#8217;s Song and Single of the Year. She also co-writes the Kenny Chesney\/Grace Potter duet &#8220;You And Tequila&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The last time a volcano erupted in Canada was Mount Meager in British Columbia . . . 2,400 years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Watching a horror movie can burn up to 200 calories \u2013 the same as walking for 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>The world&#8217;s largest Dairy Queen is in Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>During your lifetime, you\u2019ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.\u00a0 That\u2019s the weight of about 6 elephants.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman in Washington State found a Walmart shopper\u2019s engagement ring in her new Instant Pot box on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shiloah Avery told Q13 Fox that after ripping open the package and removing the pressure cooker, she immediately spotted the ring \u2014 which was comprised of a wedding band and an engagement ring\u2014 sitting at the bottom of the box.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, not far from where Avery lived, Joann Johnson had been searching for the lost ring, which she misplaced a few months back at a local Walmart while opening and inspecting an Instant Pot she was thinking of buying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who had lost the ring shortly before her 20th anniversary, took to the town\u2019s Facebook page to see if anyone had stumbled upon it, but didn\u2019t have any luck until Christmas Day, when she saw Avery had posted a picture of the Instant Pot box to the exact same Facebook page, captioning it with, \u201cI found a ring.\u201d Johnson soon connected with Avery \u2500 whom she called her \u0093Christmas angel\u0094 \u2500 and retrieved the ring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[89] Don Shula, NFL player\/coach (2-time Super Bowl winner as a player, most regular season wins as head coach (328)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[53] Deana Carter, country singer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[30] Kevin Pillar, MLB baseball player (center fielder for the \u201cToronto Blue Jays\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PASSING: THE FUTURE:<\/u><\/strong><strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Some people just do NOT want to do things the normal way.\u00a0 Even when it comes to dealing with their remains after they\u2019ve passed.\u00a0 With that in mind, here are some recently-developed \u2018offbeat\u2019 methods of post-mortem planning:<\/p>\n<p>\u261e Get shot into space:\u00a0 Mesoloft \u2014 a company that specializes in launching human remains to an altitude of about 24,084 meters (80,000 ft), using balloons \u2014 is one of many businesses trying to convince you to slingshot your ashes high up into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u261e Turn you into diamonds: \u00a0Your cremated remains can be pressed into diamond form using a 13,000-pound industrial machine. Once cut and polished, the diamond can be laser etched with a \u201cunique identifier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u261e Live on as a coral reef:\u00a0 If you\u2019d like your remains to serve a useful purpose \u2014 like protecting fragile underwater ecosystems \u2014 consider having them strapped to a \u201cReef Ball.\u201d The ball mimics reef material and allows sea life to attach to it.\u00a0 Eternal Reefs uses a special blend of concrete and combines it with your cremated remains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u261e Be digitally resurrected:\u00a0 Sweden-based funeral agency Fenix Begravning and others are using sophisticated AI algorithms to create an interactive digital identity based on a deceased person.\u00a0 This digital self can mimic how a person speaks through text only, but they hope to expand to verbal communication in the future. The technology behind it is an algorithm that\u2019s fed the deceased person\u2019s social media, chatlogs, and even emails.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HEALTH NEWS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE KEY TO A LONG LIFE?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who drink moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee and are overweight in their 70s live longer lives, according to researchers at UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers started a study in 2003 to look at what makes people live past 90.<\/p>\n<p>They say participants in their study who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer than those who abstained from either drink.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, people who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than people who were normal or underweight in their 70s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FRIDAY DECEMBER 4<sup>TH<\/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<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[89] Don Shula, NFL player\/coach (2-time Super Bowl winner as a player, most regular season wins as head coach (328)<\/p>\n<p>[53] Deana Carter, country singer<\/p>\n<p>[30] Kevin Pillar, MLB baseball player (center fielder for the \u201cToronto Blue Jays\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><u>NBA<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>San Antonio\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 125\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto 107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Demar Derzan first career triple double in his first game against the Raptors spoiling Kwai Leonard\u2019s return to San Antonio. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NHL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnesota \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Calgary 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Montreal \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vancouver 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHATHAM MAROONS HOCKEY ON CFCO TONIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEAFS TOMORROW NIGHT at 6:30 playing host to Vancouver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>2<strong>. <\/strong>Washington Capitals announced that\u00a0<strong>Alex Ovechkin<\/strong>, who&#8217;s the NHL&#8217;s leading goal-scorer, will skip the league&#8217;s All-Star Weekend later this month to get some extra rest. The NHL recently instituted an automatic one-game suspension for uninjured players who choose not to take part in All-Star Weekend, so Ovechkin must sit out either the game before or after the All-Star break. Fans had voted Ovechkin to be captain of the Metropolitan Division All-Star team. The NHL&#8217;s All-Star Game will be played on January 26th.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>\u2022 \u201cEscape Room\u201d<\/strong> (PG-13, Action\/Horror): \u00a0Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive. (Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> \u201cThe Vanishing\u201d<\/strong> (R-Rated, Mystery\/Suspense): \u00a0Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. (Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>At least one &#8216;tragedy&#8217; has a happy ending. Krispy Kreme stepped in to comfort Kentucky police officers mourning the loss of a doughnut truck that caught fire on New Year&#8217;s eve (December 31st.) The Lexington Police Department shared photo of them &#8216;mourning&#8217; the loss of the doughnuts, and in response Krispy Kreme sent them a huge delivery of their doughnuts yesterday (January 3rd.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE&#8217;S DUET WITH JASON ALDEAN IS A &#8216;BIG OLE ANTHEM&#8217; <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida Georgia Line&#8217;s new album,\u00a0<em>Can&#8217;t Say I Ain&#8217;t Country<\/em>, will feature a few duets, among them one with their buddy\u00a0Jason Aldean, called &#8220;Can&#8217;t Hide Red.&#8221; While Jason has recorded some songs co-written by FGL members\u00a0Tyler Hubbard\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Kelley\u00a0in the past, this is their first vocal collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Brian says that while the song was good to begin with, Jason&#8217;s contribution took it to another level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can&#8217;t Say I Ain&#8217;t Country<\/em>\u00a0also features a collaboration with\u00a0Jason Derulo. The album will be released on February 15th.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK IT OUT<\/p>\n<p>FGL recently earned their first Grammy nomination for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance for their collaboration with\u00a0BeBe Rexha\u00a0on \u201cMeant to Be.\u201d\u00a0<em>The 61st Grammy Awards<\/em>\u00a0will air live on CBS\u00a0on February 10th.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>KIP MOORE \u2013 FIVE QUESTIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a game of &#8220;FIVE QUESTIONS&#8221;\u00a0<strong>KIP MOORE<\/strong>\u00a0said he&#8217;d spend &#8220;bonus waking hours&#8221; surfing in Costa Rica . . . the advice he&#8217;d give his 13-year-old self is to &#8220;Chill out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thing he must have on the road is a booklet that writes his lyrics in.<\/p>\n<p>If he had to choose between pizza or burgers, he&#8217;d go with pizza.\u00a0 And his most memorable fan encounter was getting tackled by a woman who wanted to tell him that she loved him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WILLIE NELSON TRIBUTE BRINGS OUT MORE STARS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong>\u00a0tribute concert is schedule for this month and most everybody wants to be there. Artists added to the lineup include\u00a0<strong>Chris Stapleton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Emmylou Harris<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eric Church<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Buffett, <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Steve Earle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>All-Star Concert Celebration<\/em>\u00a0previously announced\u00a0<strong>Vince Gill<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>John Mellencamp<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Kris Kristofferson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong>, and several others.<\/p>\n<p>The concert takes place next Saturday January 12 in Nashville and it\u2019s being filmed for a future\u00a0<em>A&amp;E Special<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>85-year-old Willie Nelson recently released his 67th studio album and he will be performing as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 4th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 20:53:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/01\/on-todays-show-74\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}