{"id":8538,"date":"2019-07-25T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2019-07-25T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:08:08","slug":"on-todays-show-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/07\/on-todays-show-201\/","title":{"rendered":"On Today&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40,000 people are now saying they plan to storm the Bermuda triangle. A Facebook user created an event titled &#8220;Storm the Bermuda Triangle, It Can&#8217;t Swallow Us All,&#8221; and it&#8217;s quickly gone viral. It comes following the &#8220;Storm Area 51&#8221; event, which more than 1.6 million Facebook users have expressed interest in attending. But while plans for the Area 51 event have been revealed to be a joke, the creator of the Bermuda triangle event says he&#8217;s serious. A GoFundMe has been set up to help fund the event, which is scheduled for October 1st.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A guy in a white van sideswiped two cop cars in Sydney, Australia on Monday.\u00a0 Then he\u00a0got arrested for drugs when it turned out he was hauling $140 million worth of meth.\u00a0 Police say it&#8217;s one of the biggest and easiest busts they&#8217;ve ever made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Foxworthy was on &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; last night and told a story about the first time he was on Johnny Carson, who invited him to sit down after his act.\u00a0 During the commercial break, Ed McMahon asked why he was never on &#8220;Star Search&#8221; and he said it&#8217;s because they rejected him six times.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d star Kaley Cuoco has a new gig. She\u2019ll be starring in a 1-hour drama series titled \u201cThe Flight Attendant\u201d, which will air on WarnerMedia\u2019s forthcoming streaming service. At this point, there is no announced premiere date for the show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMerry-Go-Round Day\u201d (or \u201cCarousel Day\u201d), the anniversary of the mechanical carousel\u2019s first patent in 1871 by William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa. He did not invent it, however, as carousel rides may go back as far as 500 AD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWine and Cheese Day\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1978 [41] World\u2019s first \u2018Test Tube Baby\u2019 is born (Louise Brown of Oldham UK, who had been conceived outside her mother\u2019s body using the new technique of \u2018in-vitro fertilization\u2019)<\/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>2003 Referring to Dixie Chick Natalie Maines comment about United States President George W. Bush and the situation in Iraq: Merle Haggard, who had released a song critical of US media coverage of the Iraq War, issued a press statement saying: <strong><em>\u201cI don&#8217;t even know the Dixie Chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for voicing an opinion. It was like a verbal witch-hunt and lynching\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/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><em><strong>&#8220;Tron&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>was not nominated for a special effects Oscar in 1983 . . . because the Academy thought using computers to make effects was &#8220;cheating.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The trend of men leaving the bottom button of their suit unbuttoned started in the early 1900s, when\u00a0<strong>King Edward the Seventh<\/strong>of England was too chubby to button the bottom of his jacket . . . which started a fashion trend.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>On men&#8217;s dress shirts, the buttons are on the right and the holes are on the left.\u00a0 But on women&#8217;s shirts, it&#8217;s the opposite.\u00a0 Supposedly it was to help chambermaids who dressed rich people, so they knew which shirts were for which person.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>The highest-rated TV movie ever was\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The Day After&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>on ABC in 1983.\u00a0 It was about a nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Steve Guttenberg<\/strong>\u00a0was in it, and more than 100 million people watched.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Minnesota toddler has been found after he took a joyride on his battery-powered John Deere tractor to the county fair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2.5-year old wanted to go back to the county fair, and drove from his home to the fair without telling his parents, Chisago County Sheriff Sgt. Jason Foster said. Dispatchers got a call that the toddler was missing and found him safe minutes later in the middle of the fairground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The boy&#8217;s family said their home was about a block and a half from the fairgrounds and he had seen the rides being set up during the previous days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Foster said the child drove the tractor down the sidewalk, through a back gate and navigated through a heavy crowd there for motocross races before he arrived at the Tilt-a-Whirl, which he wanted to ride. However, before he got on the ride, State Rep. Brian Johnson, a former Islanti County deputy, saw him and determined the boy was alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson flagged down a deputy, who helped reunite the boy with his father. The father suspended his son&#8217;s driving privileges by pulling out the tractor&#8217;s battery.<\/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>[52] Matt LeBlanc, TV personality (BBC\u2019s \u201cTop Gear\u201d 2012, 2016-18)\/TV actor<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cMan With a Plan\u201d since 2016, \u201cFriends\u201d 1994-2004)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>How Gross Are You Compared to Everyone Else?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you think you&#8217;re cleaner or dirtier than the average person?\u00a0 Well now you can find out.\u00a0 Almost 500,000 people recently took an online poll on hygiene and cleanliness.\u00a0 Here are seven questions and how people answered them . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How often do you change your sheets?\u00a0 50% of us usually go more than a month, including 6% who said they &#8220;pretty much never&#8221; change them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>How often do you brush your teeth?\u00a0 Only 48% said they ALWAYS brush twice a day.\u00a0 Another 38% said once or twice &#8220;depending on the situation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>How often do you clean your bathroom?\u00a0 71% said at least once a month . . . 22% said a few times a year . . . and 7% said never.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>How often do you shower?\u00a0 57% said once a day . . . 7% said twice a day . . . 35% DON&#8217;T shower every day . . . and 1% said they don&#8217;t even shower every WEEK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Do you ever wear a shirt twice without washing it?\u00a0 87% said yes.\u00a0 And 27% would also wear UNDERWEAR a second time.\u00a0 That includes 4% who do it &#8220;ALL the time.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Do you always wash your hands after using the bathroom?\u00a0 56% said yes, always . . . 41% said they sometimes skip it . . . and 3% RARELY wash their hands.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Morning Routines Required for a Good Day<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2,000\u00a0people were recently asked to name the top morning routines that help them have a good day.\u00a0 Here are the top five . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A cup of coffee.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the #1 thing we need to get our day off to a good start.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Waking up after getting enough sleep.\u00a0 The fact that\u00a0this is\u00a0#2 is a testament to how much we love coffee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A morning shower.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Listening to music while you&#8217;re getting ready, or in your car.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Eating a light breakfast, but nothing too heavy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HAVE LOVE, WILL TRAVEL?<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u>How far would you be willing to go for love? The moving company \u201cHire a Helper\u201d polled 1,000 Americans and found that about two-thirds of online daters would travel no more than 30 miles to meet a potential partner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among millennials, 49 per cent set their limit at just 20 miles or less. 35% of respondents said they wouldn\u2019t be willing to go outside their city in their search for love, and about 29% set their limit to within their home state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the more adventurous, just 9 per cent said that distance wasn\u2019t a consideration at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps surprisingly, men were more likely than women to say they would only consider matches within the general vicinity of where they live, by a margin of 43 to 37%.<\/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>THURSDAY JULY 25<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>[52] Matt LeBlanc, TV personality (BBC\u2019s \u201cTop Gear\u201d 2012, 2016-18)\/TV actor<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cMan With a Plan\u201d since 2016, \u201cFriends\u201d 1994-2004)<\/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>MLB<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Cleveland\u00a0\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 0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Thieves\u00a0stole\u00a0a trailer belonging to the Cincinnati Circus Company that had about $10,000 worth of performance items in it, including a bed of nails, a coffin and an electric chair.\u00a0 The Ringmaster, Dave Willacker, shared a\u00a0photo\u00a0on social media and is hoping the thieves will just dump the trailer somewhere and call in an anonymous tip.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>A carjacker in Orlando tried\u00a0to steal an elderly guy&#8217;s car last Tuesday, but kept stalling it because he didn&#8217;t know how to drive a stick.\u00a0 He ran off on foot, and cops arrested him nearby.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Jim Gaffigan says people always give him donuts as a gift after his shows.\u00a0 Once he put a box of donuts in his carry-on and it was weird with the TSA agent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RASCAL FLATTS CONSIDER EXTENDING VEGAS RESIDENCY <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rascal Flatts<\/strong>\u00a0already have two Las Vegas residencies under their belt and they&#8217;re considering a third. The group would likely be up for a longer stay in Sin City, too, as\u00a0<strong>Gary LeVox\u00a0<\/strong>tells us:\u00a0[\u201cYeah, we\u2019ve actually talked about it, and it\u2019s tough because the people that have residencies out there, like our residency, they don\u2019t tour the West Coast, so you can only see them in Vegas. So with us, we just so live for live performance and being in front of our fans and stuff, so we always tour the West coast.\u00a0 So it\u2019s kind of difficult for us, but we love it and that\u2019s definitely something in the future that we\u2019re \u2026 we\u2019re talking about going back in February.\u00a0 The Venetian\u2019s been great and we love it there, and it\u2019s nice to set up and just play.\u00a0 And hopefully we\u2019ll lengthen that out later on down the road.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>For now, fans can see Rascal Flatts performing their latest single, \u201cBack to Life,\u201d as well as their other hits, all over the country on their\u00a0<em>Summer Playlist Tour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>DAN + SHAY&#8217;S LATEST HIT STARTED OUT SOUNDING NOTHING LIKE IT DOES TODAY <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan + Shay<\/strong>&#8216;s latest hit, &#8220;All To Myself,&#8221; is a far cry from the song the duo co-wrote with\u00a0<strong>Jordan Reynolds<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Nicolle Galyon<\/strong>, the same two with whom they co-wrote their crossover hit &#8220;Tequila.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Shay Mooney\u00a0<\/strong>tells us that the version on the album and on radio is quite different thanks to\u00a0<strong>Dan Smyers<\/strong>&#8216; production.\u00a0[&#8220;The version that we demoed out was actually much different than the record version. I remember being in Mexico and Dan was talking to me about the production of &#8216;All To Myself&#8217; and how he was imagining this new production on it and he was playing it on acoustic and saying, &#8216;I kind of want this to be how it is.&#8217; If you heard the demo it was just so different. I was like, &#8216;Man, I hope that&#8217;s cool. I don&#8217;t know. You&#8217;re the one that has such a great imagination on that stuff,&#8217; so he put that together and just crushed it and really completely changed the song for me. It just completely changed everything.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PATSY CLINE &amp; LORETTA LYNN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official trailer for the upcoming Lifetime movie,\u00a0<em>Patsy &amp; Loretta<\/em>, has been released. The movie focuses on the close friendship between\u00a0Patsy Cline\u00a0and\u00a0Loretta Lynn\u00a0up until Patsy&#8217;s untimely death in 1963 in a plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Hilty\u00a0(<em>Smash<\/em>) plays Patsy, and Broadway star\u00a0Jessie Mueller\u00a0takes on the role of Loretta.<\/p>\n<p><em>Patsy &amp; Loretta<\/em>\u00a0is set to air on the Lifetime network this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 25th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 21:56:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/07\/on-todays-show-201\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}