A 24-year-old guy in Wisconsin\u00a0won\u00a0the third-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.\u00a0 He hit the Powerball last month for $768 million, and took the lump sum of $477 million.\u00a0 \u00a0He says he felt weirdly lucky when he bought the ticket, and screamed for five to ten minutes when he won.\u00a0 He says he wants to travel the world, and doesn’t care about fancy stuff . . . but now he’s gonna buy some fancy stuff.<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Researchers at the University of Iowa say there’s scientific evidence to back up the old adage “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”<\/p>\n A study found those who skip breakfast have an 87 per cent higher risk of dying by heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n Scientists say not eating in the morning can increase your appetite and cause you to overeat later in the day.<\/p>\n They also found breakfast skippers are more likely to have other unhealthy habits, like heavy drinking, smoking, or lack of exercise.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Calling all \u201cSpongeBob SquarePants\u201d super fans: It\u2019s game time. Viacom Digital Studios is creating a game show based on the popular animated series. The \u201cSpongeBob Smarty Pants Game Show\u201d will debut later this year on Facebook and the SpongeBob-branded YouTube channel. (And because you need to know, the \u201cSpongeBob SquarePants\u201d TV show debuted 20 years ago today!)<\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2009 [10] \u201cX-Men\u201d prequel \u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d, starring Hugh Jackman, opens in movie theaters (grosses over $87 million in its first 3 days at the North American box office)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1939 [80] Batman, the creation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appears in Detective Comics #27. He would star in his own comic book beginning in 1940<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n MAY 1ST<\/sup>,\u00a0 1982\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Alabama hit #1 with \u201cMountain Music\u201d<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n There’s a church in\u00a0Wichita\u00a0that usually spends a good chunk of money promoting its Easter services each year to bring more people in.\u00a0 But this year they did something different.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They took all that money . . . along with other funds they’d set aside . . . and used it to pay off medical debt for\u00a01,600\u00a0random families in Kansas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They bought up $2.2 MILLION\u00a0worth of debt for pennies on the dollar.\u00a0 Then they sent out letters to all 1,600 families.\u00a0 And they let them know they didn’t have to worry about paying it back anymore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The letter said, quote, “We’re Pathway Church. \u00a0We may never meet you.\u00a0 But as an act of kindness . . . your debt has been forgiven.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s not clear how much they spent to buy up all that debt.\u00a0 But\u00a0John Oliver <\/strong>did<\/strong>\u00a0the same thing on his HBO show a few years ago, and bought $15\u00a0million worth of medical debt for\u00a060\u00a0grand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So the church probably spent around $10,000 to pay off $2.2 million.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [52] Tim McGraw, country<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [37] Jamie Dornan, actor (\u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d trilogy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [28] Marcus Stroman, MLB starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n \u00a0__________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Four Security Mistakes You Might Be Making<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A new survey\u00a0found\u00a062% of IT workers think YOU are your #1 security threat . . . because you probably do things like use weak passwords, and open dangerous emails.\u00a0 Here are four more common mistakes you might be making . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But also be careful about people looking over your shoulder to steal your password.\u00a0 Ideally, your phone should have a six-digit code, not four.\u00a0 And don’t do a “pattern unlock” where you connect dots on a grid.\u00a0 A study found they’re much easier to\u00a0guess just by imitating your movements.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0_____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ROLLER COASTER:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n The \u201cYukon Striker\u201d is the new star attraction at Canada\u2019s Wonderland. The Yukon Striker features a 90-degree drop into an underwater tunnel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The roller coaster is 75m tall, 1,105m long and reaches 130km\/h (81mph). It also has a 360-degree loop, just in case you live through that 90-degree drop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The coaster is the central attraction at the park\u2019s new \u201cFrontier Canada\u201d area, which features a gold-rush theme.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n Ancestry.com Is Fixing Its Results . . . <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n If you sent in your DNA to Ancestry.com and immediately reshaped your entire identity around the results . . . well, I hope you’re ready to reboot yourself AGAIN.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ancestry just announced that with all the data they have now, they’ve been able to really refine their results.\u00a0 And that means they can narrow down your DNA even better than before, and they’ll be sending you those results soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But it also means the results you originally got might change.\u00a0 Like, you might’ve thought you were part Viking because they estimated you were 9% Scandinavian.\u00a0 Well now, maybe they figured out that DNA was actually from England.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A spokesperson from Ancestry says they gave people warnings this could happen . . . they say that their results are an ESTIMATE that can change as more data comes in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But people still aren’t very happy with it.\u00a0 One woman told reporters that the update dropped her son from 31% Spanish to just 11% . . . and, quote, “It’s quite upsetting.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “His ethnicity is massively different now.\u00a0 I haven’t accepted it as I don’t agree with the results.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0____________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY MAY 1ST<\/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 \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [52] Tim McGraw, country<\/p>\n [37] Jamie Dornan, actor (\u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d trilogy<\/p>\n [28] Marcus Stroman, MLB starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Columbus Blue Jackets 2, Boston Bruins 1 — Columbus leads 2 games to 1<\/p>\n San Jose Sharks 4, Colorado Avalanche 2 — San Jose leads 2 games to 1<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n MLB<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n LA Angels \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3<\/p>\n Detroit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Philadelphia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New York Yankees’\u00a0CC Sabathia<\/strong>\u00a0became the 17th MLB player to reach 3,000 career strikeouts last night (April 30th). The 38-year-old entered the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with 2,997 strikeouts, and reached the mark by striking out three in the second inning. Sabathia, who is now in his 19th and what he’s said will be his last MLB season, is only the third left-hander to get 3,000 strikeouts, along with\u00a0Randy Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Steve Carlton<\/strong>. He’s the first pitcher to get to 3,000 since\u00a0John Smoltz\u00a0<\/strong>in 2008.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (From Seth, Kimmel, and Colbert on Tuesday, April 30, 2019)<\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CARRIE UNDERWOOD SAYS HER OPENING ACTS BEING FEMALE IS ‘ADDED BONUS’ <\/u><\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n Tonight’s (Wednesday, May 1st) the night!\u00a0Carrie Underwood<\/strong>\u00a0kicks off her first tour in almost three years, the\u00a0Cry Pretty 360 Tour<\/em>, in Greensboro, NC. Her coveted opening slots went to two other female acts —\u00a0Maddie & Tae\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Runaway June<\/strong>\u00a0— and while Carrie is always happy to support women, she tells us these ladies in particular were what the tour needed.\u00a0[“I wanted talented people on stage that I respected musically, that I thought sound like they’re supposed to sound\u00a0(laughs), that the audience would enjoy, that would be pleasant to be around. I mean, that’s just kind of how it worked out. I chose some ladies to go out with us, but it’s because they’re super talented. It was mainly about just putting together a great show. It’s an added bonus that they’re all women, but I believe in these women and hopefully they’ll just continue to have more and more doors open for them cause they deserve it.”]<\/p>\n Fans can expect all three acts to collaborate at least once during the show.<\/p>\n The<\/em>\u00a0Cry Pretty 360 Tour\u00a0<\/em>continues on through opening weekend in Birmingham, AL and North Little Rock, AR.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MIDLAND’S BUS IS TOO PACKED FOR TOYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Tour toys are something that a lot of artists treasure while out on the road, like motorcycles, workout equipment and other ways to pass the time while parked at a venue. ForMidland<\/strong>, the luxury of toting such so-called “toys” is still a ways off as\u00a0Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jess Carson\u00a0<\/strong>tell us:\u00a0[\u201cWe don\u2019t have the room. We\u2019re still a young band, like, we got a tour bus, a proper tour bus, just like a little over a year ago and we\u2019re packed in there. We\u2019ve got eight guys in the bus.\u00a0(Cameron)\u00a0We always do include baseball mitts and baseballs.\u00a0(Mark)\u00a0Yeah, we\u2019ve got that for the summertime.\u00a0(Jess)\u00a0Footballs, baseballs.\u00a0(Mark)\u00a0But we\u2019re always fantasizing about the things that we\u2019d like to bring out on the road. I would like to have just a wave park that I could travel with.\u00a0(Cam)\u00a0Yeah, that would be cool.\u00a0(Mark)\u00a0Or a helicopter on top of the tour bus.\u00a0(Jess)\u00a0Until we can afford that, we\u2019re gonna continue . . . Mark just stands on a surfboard in the parking lot and I just throw bottles of water at him.\u00a0(Mark)\u00a0He doesn\u2019t even take the water out of the bottles. He just throws plastic bottles at me.\u00a0 And he knows I hate plastic bottles, too.\u201d]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JAKE OWEN AND GIRLFRIEND WELCOME NEW DAUGHTER – (05\/01\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Congratulations to\u00a0Jake Owen\u00a0and his girlfriend,\u00a0Erica Hartlein, who welcomed daughter\u00a0Paris Hartley Owen\u00a0on Monday (April 29th) in Nashville.<\/p>\n Paris joins Jake’s six-year-old daughter,\u00a0Pearl, from his previous marriage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 1st ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 13:06:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/05\/on-todays-show-149\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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