{"id":7056,"date":"2019-06-18T09:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2019-06-18T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T09:22:13","slug":"on-todays-show-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/06\/on-todays-show-180\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Toronto Raptors<\/strong>\u00a0held their NBA championship celebration\u00a0in Toronto\u00a0yesterday, and it was WILD.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, an estimated 1.5 MILLION fans\u00a0showed up in\u00a0downtown Toronto for the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The parade\u00a0was interrupted by some gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0say\u00a0four people were\u00a0shot, and while their injuries are serious, they&#8217;re not believed to be life-threatening.\u00a0 Three people have been arrested . . . but there&#8217;s still no word on the motive.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Golden State Warriors<\/strong>\u00a0took out a full page ad\u00a0in Monday&#8217;s edition of the\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Toronto Star&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to congratulate the Raptors on . . . beating them<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi closed his speech at the parade by\u00a0mocking\u00a0his own goofy laugh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group of idiots in Australia went\u00a0through a drive-thru the other day, and sprayed an employee in the face with a fire extinguisher.\u00a0 And they filmed it.\u00a0 She inhaled some of it, but says she&#8217;s lucky, because it could have blinded her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Beach Bum\u201d (R-Rated, Comedy): \u00a0Moondog is a stoner who has a penchant for living life by his own rules. (Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnder the Silver Lake\u201d (R-Rated, Comedy\/Drama): \u00a0A young man finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment\u2019s pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Hesets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace)<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no escaping Baby Shark. Nickelodeon is developing an animated series based on the viral kids\u2019 video and song. No other details are available yet about the project, which will be aimed at preschoolers. Nickelodeon\u2019s executive vice-president of animation Ramsey Naito said: \u201cBaby Shark has captured the imagination of millions of fans around the world, so it\u2019s no surprise it\u2019s one of the top 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAutistic Pride Day\u201d, an annual celebration of people on the autism spectrum that\u2019s designed to shift views of autism from \u2018disease\u2019 to \u2018difference\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cGo Fishing Day\u201d which, if you can pull it off, would allow you to post a sign on your door saying \u2018Gone Fishing\u2019. Work, after all, is for people who don\u2019t know how to fish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cInternational Sushi Day\u201d, the annual observance conceived originally as a Facebook page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1905 The wooden chair that\u2019s become a symbol of Summer, the \u2018Adirondack Chair\u2019, is patented by Harry Bunnell of Westport NY (in Canada, it\u2019s known as the \u2018Muskoka Chair\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1969\u00a0 Glen Campbell was at #1 country album chart with\u00a0Galveston.\u00a0The singer\u2019s thirteenth studio album spent 11 weeks at #1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0_______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There&#8217;s a phenomenon called &#8220;latchkey incontinence&#8221; . . . which describes the feeling when you feel like you have to pee worse and worse the closer you get to a toilet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The switch to Daylight Saving Time COULD be even worse . . . one of the original plans was to set the clocks forward 20 minutes every Sunday in April.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Only 3,715 copies of\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Moby-Dick&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>were sold between when it was published in 1851, and when author\u00a0<strong>Herman Melville <\/strong>died 40 years later.\u00a0 Tens of millions of copies have been sold since then.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Sriracha sauce is named after a city in Thailand called Si Racha, where it was probably first used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cop near\u00a0Phoenix\u00a0named\u00a0Ron Little\u00a0recently showed up when a\u00a026-year-old guy was about to jump off an overpass.\u00a0\u00a0The guy had already climbed over a fence, and would have fallen onto a busy highway if he&#8217;d let go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Ron managed to talk him down and save his life . . . just by offering him a HUG.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It happened back on\u00a0March 29th.\u00a0 But the chest-cam footage was just posted online.<\/p>\n<p>First, Ron radioed in and told everyone else to stay off the bridge.\u00a0 Because he didn&#8217;t want to scare the guy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then he told him his name . . . offered to give him a hug if he climbed back over the fence . . . and KEPT talking about the hug for another five minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The guy eventually climbed back over . . . got a big hug, as promised . . . and cried on Ron&#8217;s shoulder a little.\u00a0 Then the video ends with them walking off the bridge together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Chandler, Arizona\u00a0police department\u00a0posted the footage on their Facebook page this week.\u00a0 And they thanked Ron for the level of compassion he showed the guy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><u> <\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[77] Paul McCartney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[43] Blake Shelton<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>YOU CAN\u2019T MAKE THIS UP\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a 49-year-old guy from Detroit whose real name is HENRY FORD.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not related to THE\u00a0<strong>Henry Ford<\/strong>\u00a0though. And . . . he&#8217;s wanted right now for car theft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been in and out of prison for stealing things cars and stuff inside them for decades.<\/p>\n<p>He was locked up recently for stealing GPS units out of cars, but was released.\u00a0 And then he cut off his ankle monitor, mailed it back to the Michigan Department of Corrections, and stole the tires off a car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The police are trying to track him down.<\/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;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a 55-year-old guy whose real name is Kevin Bacon from Wells River, Vermont.\u00a0 And he was driving last Thursday afternoon when he accidentally sideswiped a parked COP CAR.<\/p>\n<p>Why did he hit the cop?\u00a0 Kevin Bacon was looking at his phone searching for . . . an episode of\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Saved by the Bell&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0he wanted to watch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us, he even told the cops WHICH episode he wanted and they included it in their police report.\u00a0 It was the episode called &#8220;Screech&#8217;s Spaghetti Sauce,&#8221; where the gang bottles and sells a spaghetti sauce Screech makes in a cooking class.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear WHY Kevin Bacon wanted to watch that episode . . . or why it was so important that he had to do it while he was driving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with gross negligent operation of a vehicle, leaving the scene of a crash, and texting while driving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RED CROSS SAYS ONLY 3 PERCENT OF US POPULATION DONATE BLOOD<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross in the U.S. launched its Missing Type campaign (June 11th) in an effort to get more people to donate blood in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross says just three percent of Americans donate blood, which leaves many in dire need of help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not much better in Canada as according to Canadian Blood Services only 4% of eligible donors in Canada give blood.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THIS IS HOW OFTEN YOU SHOULD RESTART YOUR PHONE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your phone is likely your most constant companion, but are you taking good care of it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might not think about ever shutting it off, but experts say you should completely turn it off, let it rest at least one minute, and then turn it back on once a week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Restarting your phone clears open apps and memory leaks, prevents crashes, and gets rid of anything draining your battery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another tip: sometimes you should let your phone&#8217;s battery drain down to 0 percent, and then fully recharge it to 100 percent&#8211; this &#8220;teaches&#8221; the battery to recharge fully.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TUESDAY JUNE 18<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<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[77] Paul McCartney<\/p>\n<p>[43] Blake Shelton<\/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<p>The\u00a0<strong>Toronto Raptors<\/strong>\u00a0held their NBA championship celebration\u00a0in Toronto\u00a0yesterday, and it was WILD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, an estimated 1.5 MILLION fans\u00a0showed up in\u00a0downtown Toronto for the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The parade\u00a0was interrupted by some gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0say\u00a0four people were\u00a0shot, and while their injuries are serious, they&#8217;re not believed to be life-threatening.\u00a0 Three people have been arrested . . . but there&#8217;s still no word on the motive.<\/p>\n<p>When the shots rang out, droves of fans ran in a stampede from the City Hall square, which was packed with tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Golden State Warriors<\/strong>\u00a0took out a full page ad\u00a0in Monday&#8217;s edition of the\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Toronto Star&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to congratulate the Raptors on . . . beating them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several fans were seen carrying signs begging\u00a0<strong>Kawhi Leonard<\/strong>\u00a0to re-sign with the Raptors. \u00a0He&#8217;ll be a free agent this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was also a fake Kawhi\u00a0look a like\u00a0at the parade . . . and he got a lot of love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi closed his speech at the parade by\u00a0mocking\u00a0his own goofy laugh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>A woman in England named Siobhan recently asked her coworkers for a birthday cake with\u00a0<strong>Mariah Carey<\/strong>on it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But apparently the bakery misheard the request . . . and made a cake with a picture of\u00a0famous scientist <strong>Marie Curie<\/strong>\u00a0on it instead.<\/p>\n<p>Now a picture\u00a0of the cake is going viral . . . and it&#8217;s gotten so big Mariah Carey even tweeted\u00a0about it <strong><em>This could&#8217;ve been me if only I hadn&#8217;t failed remedial math happy birthday Siobhan!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A woman in Florida recently went to the grand opening of a hot dog stand called Willy-Yums.\u00a0 And since they\u00a0had\u00a0no social media presence, she offered to do it for them.\u00a0 But they didn&#8217;t have the money to pay her, so she&#8217;s been working for hot dogs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>OJ Simpson on Twitter, and the Ragu pasta sauce recall.\u00a0 (From Fallon, Kimmel, and Seth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SHANIA TWAIN ANNOUNCES RETURN TO VEGAS FOR &#8216;LET&#8217;S GO!&#8217; RESIDENCY <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shania Twain<\/strong>\u00a0appeared on ABC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Good Morning America\u00a0<\/em>yesterday (Monday, June 17th) to announce her return to the Las Vegas Strip with Shania Twain &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; The Vegas Residency, opening at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort &amp; Casino on Friday, December 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Shania credits her two-year residency at Caesar&#8217;s Palace beginning back in 2012 with forging a special connection with her fans.\u00a0[&#8220;I didn&#8217;t really appreciate the fans the way I do now. Now when I&#8217;m in concert I see them as a lifeline and as people that I understand and the people that I write the music for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; dates so far:<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 2019: 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18<br \/>\nMarch 2020: 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28<br \/>\nMay 2020: 20, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30<br \/>\nJune 2020: 3, 5, 6<\/p>\n<p>FAST FACTS<\/p>\n<p>Shania will serve as creative director for her new Las Vegas show.<\/p>\n<p>One dollar of every ticket purchased to Shania Twain &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; The Vegas Residency at Planet Hollywood Resort &amp; Casino will be donated to Shania Kids Can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BRETT YOUNG ADMIRES HIS DAD&#8217;S &#8216;GENUINE EXCITEMENT&#8217; <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brett Young\u00a0is hoping to inherit one of his dad&#8217;s best traits when it comes to raising his baby girl. [&#8220;I think the one thing about my dad aside from being supportive of everything that I&#8217;ve ever done no matter what it was is his genuine excitement. There are people you&#8217;re going to meet in your lives where they&#8217;re excited and pleasant all the time and it feels really fake and kind of contrived, and my dad borders on that. He&#8217;s so excited and pleasant all the time but it&#8217;s genuine every single time. He&#8217;s uplifting and encouraging and so that trait in him is what always made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do because he always told me I could and it seemed like he believed it so it made me believe it, so I hope that that&#8217;s something that I have for her.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Brett and his wife,\u00a0Taylor, will welcome their new daughter this fall. She will be the couple&#8217;s first child.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Brett is climbing the charts with his new single, &#8216;Catch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FAST FACTS<\/p>\n<p>Brett recently celebrated his fifth consecutive Number One hit, &#8220;Here Tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dozens of Buffett Fans Got Sick During a Group Trip to the Dominican Republic<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something is definitely up with the Dominican Republic and foreign tourists . . . because even\u00a0<strong>JIMMY BUFFETT<\/strong>\u00a0fans are being affected.\u00a0\u00a0A travel agent is now saying that about HALF of a Jimmy Buffett fan club from Oklahoma got sick in the Dominican Republic back in April. 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