{"id":3714,"date":"2019-01-31T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:34:21","slug":"on-todays-show-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/01\/on-todays-show-92\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems like a pretty solid reason to avoid using toilets in Australia. Last week a woman in Brisbane was using the bathroom at a relative&#8217;s home when she was bitten by a five-foot carpet python. Helen Richards, age 59, said she felt a &#8220;sharp tap&#8221; on her &#8220;bottom&#8221; and then &#8220;jumped up with my pants down and turned around to see what looked like a longneck turtle receding back into the bowl.&#8221; A snake handler was able to safely remove the animal from the toilet. She said it&#8217;s common to find the reptiles in the toilet when the weather is hot. Richards&#8217; bites were treated with antiseptic and have mostly healed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to two new studies out of Switzerland, you&#8217;d LOVE IT if someone rocked you to sleep like your parents did when you were a baby.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that adults slept better when they were in a bed that had a motor gently rocking it back and forth.\u00a0 And those people had DEEPER sleep than people in regular beds.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 The researchers say when we rock, our brains catch on to the rhythm, and it helps us prepare for a deeper sleep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Leblanc says he nabbed two things from the set of &#8220;Friends&#8221;:\u00a0 The ball from the foosball table and the Magna Doodle from Joey and Chandler&#8217;s apartment door.\u00a0 He took the Magna Doodle for the crew member who used to write stuff on it for the show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Washington\u2019s Broadway play \u201cAmerican Son\u201d is coming to Netflix. The streaming television service is planning on adapting Christopher Demos-Brown\u2019s critically acclaimed stage production with the original director and cast, and a few changes to fit the platform. The story follows interracial parents, who reunite in a Florida police station to search for answers about their missing teenage son.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHell is Freezing Over Day\u201d, a day to make a list of things you have said or thought in the past that you would never, ever do. Think about each one to see if you still feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHot Chocolate Day\u201d, saluting the warm and creamy beverage we love to drink on a cold Winter\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2014 [05] With 755 million active users, Facebook increases its ad revenue by 76% year-over-year (As of this month, they counted active users at 2.27 billion)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2011 [08] A massive Winter storm hits North America for the 2nd time in the month, killing 24 people and causing $1.8 billion in damage across the US and Canada<\/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 31<sup>ST<\/sup>, 1997\u00a0 <\/strong>Tim McGraw receives a quintuple-platinum album for<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not A Moment Too Soon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Moosehead Breweries\u2019 donation to make Saskatchewan\u2019s Mac the Moose <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New Brunswick brewery has donated $25,000 to the cause of making a Saskatchewan moose statue the tallest in the world once again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Grant, with Moosehead Breweries, says it felt like a no-brainer for the company to help get Moose Jaw\u2019s Mac the Moose back on top.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mac held the title of world\u2019s tallest moose statue for decades at almost 10 metres high.<\/p>\n<p>But Norway recently erected a silver moose that edges out Mac by 30 centimetres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grant says a moose has been has been a part of the brewery\u2019s brand since 1933.<\/p>\n<p>A $50,000 GoFundMe campaign has been launched to fund Mac\u2019s renovation and $12,000 had been raised before the Moosehead donation Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giving Mac bigger antlers is the most likely solution to make him taller. Adding an RCMP Stetson or stilettos are other potential modifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mac weighs 9,000 kilograms and has been welcoming visitors from his perch along the Trans-Canada Highway since 1984. He won an award in 2013 for being Moose Jaw\u2019s best celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has more bridges than any other city in the world, with 446.\u00a0 Venice, Italy is second.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The first seven flavors of Life Savers were peppermint, wintergreen, clove, licorice, cinnamon, violet, and chocolate.\u00a0 But only peppermint and wintergreen are still around.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>All the sweaters\u00a0<strong>Fred Rogers<\/strong>wore on\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0were knitted by his mother.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Japan is the only country left in the world with a monarchy that uses &#8220;emperor&#8221; instead of &#8220;king&#8221; or &#8220;queen.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a famous scene\u00a0from\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Office&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0where Michael Scott takes a CPR lesson, and the instructor tells him to perform chest compressions to the beat of\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>The Bee Gees<\/strong>.\u00a0 And, of course, it devolves into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well . . . that scene literally just saved a life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a 21-year-old guy named Cross Scott . . . no relation to Michael Scott . . . in Tucson, Arizona.\u00a0 And he was driving earlier this month when he saw a woman who was unconscious in her car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He broke the window with a rock and found the woman didn&#8217;t have much of a pulse, so he knew he needed to try CPR.\u00a0 And . . . that scene from\u00a0<em>&#8220;The Office&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0popped into his head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So he started performing chest compressions on the woman to the tune of\u00a0<em>&#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0. . . and after about a minute, the woman took a breath and threw up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The paramedics arrived a few minutes later, and they told Cross if he hadn&#8217;t jumped in, things could&#8217;ve gone VERY differently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(72) <strong>Nolan Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Baseball Hall Of Fame pitcher, the all-time strikeout leader)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[72] <strong>Jonathan Banks<\/strong>, actor (\u2018Mike Ehrmantraut\u2019 on \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d 2009-2012, same character on \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d since 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[46] Portia DeRossi,\u00a0 actress\/Ellen DeGeneres\u2019 partner since 2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[42] Kerry Washington, actress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[38] <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[32] <strong>Tyler Hubbard,<\/strong> (Florida Georgia Line)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>_______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WHAT\u2019S YOUR TAKE?&#8230;&#8230;.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Bride Draws the Line with Her Wedding: &#8216;No Murderers&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Australian bride&#8217;s line when it came to wedding invitations\u0097&#8221;No murderers&#8221;\u0097apparently didn&#8217;t go over well on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Australia&#8217;s News Network, the unidentified vegan banned meat-eating family members from her wedding and got slammed for it: &#8220;When your &#8216;family&#8217; tries to guilt trip you into letting them come to your fully vegan wedding, even though they&#8217;re omnivores,&#8221; the Aussie wrote along with two laughing emojis on a vegan Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just for some context, some family members were told they are not invited to my wedding because we don&#8217;t want to host murderers. Our wedding is supposed to be one of the happiest days of our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the responses: &#8220;As a vegan, this is messed up \u0085 you can&#8217;t go around calling your family murderers!&#8221; one user apparently wrote. &#8220;She is out of her mind. I&#8217;d be happy to cut her off of my life if I were the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Others called her &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; or criticized her for missing an opportunity to &#8220;prove that vegan food can be just as delicious as omnivore food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her defense, the bride says she didn&#8217;t want &#8220;the weight of having people that still kill animals&#8221; on her conscience: &#8220;&#8230;I am not compromising the ethics that I share with everyone here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ARE WE GETTING SOFT? <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Kentucky says the U.S. is &#8220;getting soft,&#8221; because we&#8217;re canceling school over cold weather.\u00a0 Several school districts in the Louisville area were closed yesterday.\u00a0 The temperature was 5f \/ -15c \u00a0and some kids have to wait outside 30 minutes for their bus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Kentucky said America was &#8220;soft&#8221; for not sending kids to school in sub-zero weather.\u00a0 Al Roker called him a nitwit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Weird Things Your Body Does in Freezing Cold Weather<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of the country is an ice box right now because of the polar vortex.\u00a0 Here are seven weird things your body does in freezing cold weather . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It immediately\u00a0<strong>redirects blood<\/strong>away from your extremities, and toward your vital organs.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why your hands and feet tend to feel cold first.\u00a0 It&#8217;s your body&#8217;s way of keeping your core temperature up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>You get\u00a0<strong>goosebumps<\/strong>.\u00a0 All mammals fluff up their body hair when they&#8217;re cold, including us.\u00a0 But since we&#8217;ve evolved and don&#8217;t have much body hair, you just see the tiny muscles around your follicles contracting.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what goosebumps are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>You start to\u00a0<strong>shiver<\/strong>, which actually warms you up a little bit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like a self-defense mechanism for your body. \u00a0When your muscles shake, they generate heat.\u00a0 And that keeps your core temperature from falling too fast.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>You start feeling\u00a0<strong>confused<\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sign of hypothermia, and it starts happening when your body temperature gets down to about 95 degrees.\u00a0 A lot of people have trouble focusing and start slurring their words at that point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>You eventually\u00a0<strong>stop shivering<\/strong>, and that&#8217;s when you know you have SEVERE hypothermia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also when people feel the need to lie down, which is dangerous.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Your skin and the tissue under it literally start to freeze.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what\u00a0<strong>frostbite<\/strong>is.\u00a0 And it can happen in as little as five minutes in sub-zero temperatures.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not wearing a hat, your EARS are one of the first things to go.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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>YOUR GENES:<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>The elusive secret to staying slim has been found.\u00a0 And you aren\u2019t going to like it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a good diet and a lot of exercise will certainly help.\u00a0 But a new study says really, it\u2019s all in your genes. Researchers at Cambridge University went through DNA samples of healthy thin adults, and compared them with DNA samples of obese people and people of average weight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?\u00a0 They found that overweight participants were more likely to have genes linked to obesity, while slim people had fewer of the genes connected with being overweight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the professors pointed out that \u201cIt\u2019s easy to rush to judgement and criticize people for their weight, but science shows that things are far more complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next goal for researchers is to find the exact genes that are linked to thinness \u2014 with the long-term goal of helping people manage weight-loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THURSDAY JANUARY 31<sup>ST<\/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<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(72) <strong>Nolan Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Baseball Hall Of Fame pitcher, the all-time strikeout leader)<\/p>\n<p>[72] <strong>Jonathan Banks<\/strong>, actor (\u2018Mike Ehrmantraut\u2019 on \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d 2009-2012, same character on \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d since 2015)<\/p>\n<p>[46] Portia DeRossi,\u00a0 actress\/Ellen DeGeneres\u2019 partner since 2004<\/p>\n<p>[42] Kerry Washington, actress<\/p>\n<p>[38] <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[32] <strong>Tyler Hubbard,<\/strong> (Florida Georgia Line)<\/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>NHL<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Dallas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buffalo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Bay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>It&#8217;s so cold that Pennsylvania is having FROST QUAKES, which are like earthquakes that happen with freezing ground.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so cold that crews in Chicago had to set train tracks ON FIRE to clear all the snow and ice.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s so cold people are throwing boiling water in the air and watching it turn instantly into snow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The police in McLean, Illinois said they arrested ELSA from\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Frozen&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately they stole the photos from when a police department in South Carolina did that stunt\u00a04 years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too cold to be original, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>According to a new survey, we&#8217;ll spend an extra 24 HOURS in bed in the winter.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right:\u00a0 An entire day out of the year will go toward you hiding under the blanket.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s based on spending an extra 16 minutes a day in bed for 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that the average person is late to work seven times during the winter . . . and one in five have taken a sick day at some point rather than go outside into the cold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>A guy in South Carolina has been arrested and fined for catching a 10-foot alligator and moving it without a permit.\u00a0 His name is Logan Cambron, and everybody in the area knows him because he dresses up in a\u00a0chicken suit\u00a0and stands on the road to slow down traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>KANE BROWN&#8217;S TOUR DATES WITH JIMMIE ALLEN WILL &#8216;MAKE HISTORY&#8217; &#8211; <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kane Brown<\/strong>\u00a0kicks off his\u00a0<em>Live Forever Tour<\/em>\u00a0tonight (Thursday, January 31st) in Roanoke, VA, and it runs through March. Along the way, Kane will be joined by special guest\u00a0<strong>Granger Smith<\/strong>\u00a0as well as\u00a0<strong>Jimmie Allen, RaeLynn\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Danielle Bradbery\u00a0<\/strong>on select dates.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmie informed Kane the dates that he will be opening will be history-making. Kane tells us:\u00a0<strong>[<\/strong>&#8220;Yeah, he texted me. He was like, &#8216;We&#8217;re gonna make history.&#8217; I said, &#8216;What are you talking about?&#8217; He&#8217;s like, &#8216;It&#8217;ll be the first time two black guys ever toured together in country music,&#8217; and I don&#8217;t know if I texted back actually but in my head I was like, &#8216;That&#8217;s awesome.&#8217; For me, I was just really excited to have him out on tour because my fans love me and he&#8217;s killing it right now and I&#8217;m so proud of him and I know that my fans are gonna love him when he comes out as well, cause we&#8217;ve got all kinds of different fans out there, like fans that don&#8217;t think that they belong, fans that just want to be there to have fun and listen to everything, like they would listen to Post Malone and listen to Travis Tritt, you know? Whatever they want to listen to, and I&#8217;m just excited to have Jimmie out there. It&#8217;s gonna be fun with me, Granger and Jimmie.&#8221;<strong>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LAUREN ALAINA&#8217;S IDEAL SUPER BOWL PARTY IS A CHEESE FEST &#8211; (01\/31\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Alaina<\/strong>\u00a0is a big football fan and also enjoys the things that go along with watching football like the snacks. Lauren has worked hard to maintain her figure by watching what she eats and exercising, but she says if she could indulge in all her favorites on\u00a0<em>Super Bowl<\/em>\u00a0Sunday (February 3rd) it would pretty much be a big cheese party.\u00a0<strong>[<\/strong>\u201cGosh, let\u2019s see cheese dip. I would really like some cheese dip in my life again. Um, I\u2019m a big fan of wings and hot dogs and pizza and cheesecake and poppers and cheese sticks and cheese, anything that has to do with cheese. Did you realize everything I named besides the wings, which you dip in blue cheese, had to do with cheese\u00a0(laughs)?&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The Super Bowl is set to air live on CBS beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren is climbing the charts with &#8220;Ladies In The 90s,&#8221; the lead single from her upcoming studio album.<\/p>\n<p>FAST FACTS<\/p>\n<p>Lauren hits the road on the\u00a0<em>Friends &amp; Heroes<\/em>\u00a0<em>Tour<\/em>\u00a0with headliner Blake Shelton beginning on February 14th in Oklahoma City, OK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________<strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Midland Singer Mark Wystrach Used to Be a Bouncer<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We know\u00a0<strong>Midland<\/strong>\u00a0singer\u00a0<strong>MARK WYSTRACH<\/strong>\u00a0used to be a Calvin Klein underwear\u00a0model\u00a0. . . but he has another &#8220;used to be&#8221; that&#8217;s just as interesting.\u00a0 Before he was in Midland, he was a bouncer in a honky-tonk.<\/p>\n<p>QUOTE, &#8220;My family owns a restaurant, live honky-tonk bar and saloon, and when I got bigger up to about 200 pounds my brother and I would come home and we would bounce the bar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After like nine o&#8217;clock, the restaurant shut down and turned into a honky-tonk, and let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve seen my fair share of like roadhouse-esque brawls in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 31st ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 12:32:18","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-92\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}