{"id":3338,"date":"2019-01-10T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:34:50","slug":"on-todays-show-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/01\/on-todays-show-78\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>THURSDAY JANUARY 10<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 WHAT\u2019S HAPPENING<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bringing a tree into your home means you could also deal with some creepy crawlies if you&#8217;re not careful. Molly Kreuze of Springfield, Virginia said more than 100 praying mantises hatched inside of her home after they hitched a ride inside on her Christmas tree. She posted a video showing her issue online, and said the insects emerged from a brown egg-shaped case that was located under the tree&#8217;s branches. Kreuze, who is a veterinarian, said she&#8217;s trying to find new homes for the bugs as it seems &#8220;people really like [them].&#8221; She added that she plans to buy a fake Christmas tree next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say a giant &#8220;fatberg&#8221; &#8212; a mass of hardened fat, oil and baby wipes measuring 64 metres long &#8212; has been found blocking a sewer in a southwestern English town.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Sidmouth say it will take a sewer team around eight weeks to dissect the monstrosity under such exceptionally challenging work conditions.<\/p>\n<p>They continue to urge the public not to pour grease down the drain, or flush baby wipes down the toilet, adding &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;Don&#8217;t feed the fatberg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kaley Cuoco has opened up about the upcoming filming of the last episode of \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d, and like the rest of us, she expects a lot of tears. She said that \u201cGoing into Season 12, we were like, \u2018We\u2019ve got a whole season and a lot of episodes. Now we\u2019re on the second half and it\u2019s starting to get a little heavy.\u201d And she hopes they preshoot the whole last episode, because she likely won\u2019t be able to hold it together.\u00a0 The Big Bang Theory will end its run in May, but Cuoco doesn\u2019t rule out the idea of reviving the show at some point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0_______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHouseplant Appreciation Day\u201d, a day to salute their therapeutic value in lifting your mood and outlook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1949,\u00a0<strong>RCA<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Columbia\u00a0<\/strong>introduced 45 and 33 rpm\u00a0<strong>VINYL RECORDS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1982\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Fraggle Rock&#8221; premiered on HBO 35 years ago today.\u00a0 It was created by Jim Henson, it was HBO&#8217;s first original series, and it was the first American TV show to be broadcast in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1999 [20]\u00a0\u201cThe Sopranos\u201d, starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO<\/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>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 10<sup>TH<\/sup>, 1998\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Martina McBride hits #1 with &#8220;A Broken Wing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>There&#8217;s a New Record for the Most Retweeted Tweet Ever . . . <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new record for the most retweeted tweet ever.\u00a0 And I guess that kind of makes sense, because it might be the most LUCRATIVE tweet to retweet ever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a billionaire in Japan named Yusaku Maezawa.\u00a0 He got rich by founding an online fashion company called Zozotown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, he\u00a0tweeted\u00a0that he was going to give away 100 million Japanese yen to 100 random people who retweeted him.\u00a0 That works out to about $924,000, or a very solid $9,240 per person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the retweets FLOODED in.\u00a0 As of the last time we checked, it was up over 5.5 MILLION.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, if you&#8217;re looking to get in on this, it&#8217;s too late.\u00a0 The deadline for retweets was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old record for retweets was held by that dude a\u00a0few years ago\u00a0who asked Wendy&#8217;s for free nuggets.\u00a0 They told him it&#8217;d take 18 million retweets . . . but they caved when he managed to get 3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 72-year-old woman named Barbara Cotton recently got on the website Classmates.com, and found an ex-boyfriend named Curtis Brewer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They dated all through high school . . . went to two different proms together . . . but had to split up when he went off to college.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She says they technically never broke up.\u00a0 They just lost touch for over 50 years, and lived in different states.\u00a0 But when she sent him a message online, he responded immediately.\u00a0 And it turned out they were both single.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So they started talking again.\u00a0 Then in August, Curtis couldn&#8217;t take being away from her anymore and PROPOSED over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They got married in Milwaukee this past Saturday, more than 50 years after they originally dated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For their honeymoon, they&#8217;re planning to travel the country in an RV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u> <\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[70] George Forman,<\/strong> (Two-time heavyweight boxing champion\/Olympic gold medalist\/cooking grill spokesperson\/father of five sons\u2026.all named George Foreman<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<\/strong><strong>58]<\/strong> Janet Jones, actress (\u201cA League of Their Own\u201d, \u201cPolice Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach\u201d, wife of Wayne Gretzky since 1988)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>_________________________________________________________________________________________\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WHAT\u2019S YOUR TAKE? <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A popular French author, who just so happens to be 50 years old, recently told a magazine he would never get romantically involved with anyone his age or older. &#8220;That\u2019s not possible \u2026 too, too old,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yann Moix said that such women are &#8220;invisible&#8221; to him and he would be &#8220;incapable&#8221; of loving one. &#8220;I prefer younger women\u2019s bodies, that\u2019s all. End of,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moix, who is also the host of a popular TV talk show, has won several literary prizes and directed three films. His comments, not surprisingly, sparked quite an uproar, with many calling him out on social media for both ageism and sexism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He seemed to be taking the controversy in stride saying &#8220;50-year-old women do not see me either! They have something else to do than to get around a neurotic who writes and reads all day long. It&#8217;s not easy to be with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>You Should Stop Showering So Much<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you should stop showering so much.\u00a0 Sure, it&#8217;s not going to make you popular with your coworkers, family, and friends, but at least you&#8217;ll have better skin or something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pretty strong consensus among dermatologists that you don&#8217;t need to shower every day . . . and in fact, it&#8217;s better for your skin if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 But . . . three-quarters of us do it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a new survey, 49% of people shower once a day . . . 20% take one almost every day . . . and 6% take MORE than one a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re all worse off than the 18% of people who shower two or three times a week . . . the 3% who only take one shower a week . . . and the very self-confident 1% of people who only take one a MONTH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong> <u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>France was the first country to start using the metric system, in 1795.\u00a0 St. Lucia was the most recent, in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The lead role in\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Die Hard&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>was originally offered to\u00a0<strong>Frank<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Sinatra<\/strong>\u00a0. . . since it was technically the sequel to a movie, he&#8217;d starred in called\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Detective&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 But he was 73 at the time, and turned it down.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The tallest mountain in the solar system is on Mars.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 16 miles high, or about three times higher than the tallest mountain on Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>The longest marriage ever was just under 91 years.\u00a0 It was a couple in England, and they were married from 1925 until the husband died in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THURSDAY JANUARY 10<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><strong>[70] George Forman,<\/strong> (Two-time heavyweight boxing champion\/Olympic gold medalist\/cooking grill spokesperson\/father of five sons\u2026.all named George Foreman<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<\/strong><strong>58]<\/strong> Janet Jones, actress (\u201cA League of Their Own\u201d, \u201cPolice Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach\u201d, wife of Wayne Gretzky since 1988)<\/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>Amazon CEO\u00a0<strong>JEFF BEZOS<\/strong>and his wife MacKenzie are getting divorced after 25 years of marriage, and to say a lot of money is at stake is a MASSIVE understatement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Jeff is by far the richest man in the world, worth over $136 BILLION.\u00a0 Most of that is tied up in Amazon stock, so that&#8217;s probably how MacKenzie will be paid whatever settlement she&#8217;s getting.<\/p>\n<p>If she gets even HALF her husband&#8217;s fortune, she&#8217;ll be the 5th richest person in the world, and by far the richest WOMAN in the world.\u00a0 She&#8217;ll also be worth more than Facebook founder\u00a0<strong>MARK ZUCKERBERG<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If Jeff and MacKenzie settle amicably and without the aid of the courts, we&#8217;ll probably never know the terms.\u00a0 And it sounds like that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><u>NHL<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Calgary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colorado \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anaheim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n<p>Nashville\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 (ot)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Michael Strahan spent a full segment trying to talk to Kevin Hart about his past homophobic comments but Kevin wasn&#8217;t having it.\u00a0 Kevin just kept saying he was &#8216;over&#8217; talking about it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>A guy in northern California recently\u00a0told\u00a0his roommate he hit the lottery for $10,000.\u00a0 So the roommate\u00a0stole\u00a0the ticket, and swapped in a phony one he altered to look like the real one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So when the guy went to cash it, lottery officials told him it was fake.\u00a0 Then the roommate showed up to cash the real ticket on Monday, and got arrested.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the craziest part.\u00a0 They both thought the ticket was for $10,000 . . . but it was actually for $10 MILLION.\u00a0 So now the guy&#8217;s a millionaire, and the roommate is facing charges for grand theft.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a cop, and a lottery official.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0_______________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CARRIE UNDERWOOD, KEITH URBAN, PART OF ALL-STAR ELVIS TRIBUTE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Elvis All-Star Tribute<\/em>\u00a0will air February 17th on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>The show was taped in October, and features <strong>Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Pistol Annies, Darius Rucker, <\/strong>and stars from other genres such as<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Sheeran, John Legend, Shawn Mendes, Josh Groban, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Lambert<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Post Malone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis\u2019 widow\u00a0<strong>Priscilla Presley\u00a0<\/strong>will appear on the special, as will his daughter,\u00a0<strong>Lisa Marie Presley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The special, hosted by Shelton, will create the look and feel of The King\u2019s legendary \u201868\u00a0<em>Comeback Special<\/em>, where he performed both stand-up, rocking numbers and a more intimate, stripped-down set wearing black leather.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the special, an album called\u00a0<em>The Best of the \u201868 Comeback Special<\/em>\u00a0will be released on February 15th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>How Does Florida Georgia Line Decide Who Will Sing Lead on Each Song?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a\u00a0<strong>FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE<\/strong>\u00a0song comes through the speakers, you&#8217;re almost always hearing\u00a0<strong>TYLER HUBBARD<\/strong>\u00a0singing lead, and\u00a0<strong>BRIAN KELLEY<\/strong>\u00a0doing harmony.\u00a0 It works for them.<\/p>\n<p>But that arrangement&#8217;s not set in stone.\u00a0 Brian says it&#8217;s a team decision about who takes the lead . . . and it&#8217;s driven by what&#8217;s best for the song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUOTE <\/strong>&#8220;Tyler and I have always been big on what makes that specific song the best and we just kind of chase that down and whether that&#8217;s me singing a little bit lead here and there or Tyler singing the whole thing and me doing all the harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever&#8217;s the best for the song, we&#8217;ve always just chased that down and it gives us just a little bit different sound. \u00a0It keeps it fresh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But since Tyler is the top dog on their biggest songs, when Brian does handle lead vocals it almost sounds like an entirely different band.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida Georgia Line\u00a0<\/strong>will support their upcoming 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