On Today’s Show
LIFESTYLE
Canada became the first North American country to experience Facebook’s new dating feature when it rolled out on Friday. “Facebook Dating” has users create a profile which is separate from their regular Facebook profile, and it is kept out of sight of their friends. It recommends matches that users aren’t already friends with, but who share dating preferences, interests and if they’d like, mutual friends or groups and events. Facebook Dating supports text-only conversations between matches in an effort to minimize “casual encounters” and to build long-term relationships.
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Just in case you needed it, here’s another reason not to pick your nose: According to research, picking your nose could easily spread a dangerous pneumonia-causing bacteria. Volunteers were split into four groups and were exposed to the bacteria using different hands-to-nose methods. Researchers found that not only can pneumonia-causing bacteria spread through picking and rubbing the nose, but that the bacteria is spread at the same rate whether people pick their nose or simply rub their nose with the back of their hand. This is the first study showing transmission can occur from contact between the nose and hands after exposure to the bacteria, rather than just through breathing it in.
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ENTERTAINMENT
The set location regularly used for HBO’s “Westworld,” and other iconic Western TV shows is no more after it was destroyed by the fast-moving wildfires in California. “Western Town” was originally built by Paramount Pictures in the 1950’s, and served as the set for classics like “The Cisco Kid.” In the 90s, it was used for Jane Seymour’s, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” which chronicled the post-Civil War frontier town of Colorado Springs.
Ashton Kutcher is reportedly in line to turn his MTV prank show “Punk’d” into a movie. Kutcher created the hidden camera series with Jason Goldberg, and from 2003 to 2007, he tormented numerous unwitting celebrities with “Candid Camera” style pranks. According to a source, ”Paramount is hungry for a new prank-based film franchise now that the ‘Jackass’ movies have run their course, and the buzz is that they’re trying to woo Ashton into participating. He’s on the verge of saying yes.”
TODAY IS……………….
“Bundt Day”, celebrating the cake of that name that’s baked in a special mold. It was first popularized in the 1950s and ’60s
“Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day”. Who wins the prize for the worst refrigerator surprises? Most often, it’s workplace refrigerators.
1492, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS wrote in his diary that the Indians were drying and smoking a plant called “tobaga”. It is believed to be the first reference to TOBACCO.
2002 “Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets” opens in movie theaters ($879 million in worldwide box office)
2018 [01] Country singer Blake Shelton wins People Magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ award
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
2004 [14] Shania Twain’s album ‘Come On Over’ is certified double diamond by the RIAA, with over 20 million copies sold in the US. It’s just the seventh album to do so, and the only one by a female artist.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
There’s a guy named Miguel Camacho, and he’s a college student in Tampa. On Thursday, he was at a park, studying for a test he had that night . . . and while he was taking a break, he hopped on Facebook and saw a post about a missing dog.
The dog was named Zeus . . . it knows how to KITEBOARD . . . and apparently he was stolen by a guy in his 60s or 70s driving a gray sedan.
And just as Miguel was reading the post . . . a guy in his 60s or 70s pulled up to the park in a gray sedan, and he hopped out with the dog.
So Miguel confronted him, and after they argued, Miguel yelled “Zeus” . . . and the dog ran right to him.
The guy who stole Zeus took off, but Miguel was able to reunite the dog with his family that night. And he missed his test . . . but when his professor heard the story, he said he could retake it later.
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BIRTHDAYS
Shailene Woodley is 27. “Divergent”, “The Fault in Our Stars”, and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”.
Beverly D’Angelo is 67. Best known for her stellar work with Chevy Chase in those fabulous “Vacation” movies.
Ed Asner is 89. Then: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant”. Now: Carl Fredricksen, the old man in “Up”. He was also Santa in Will Ferrell’s “Elf”.
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52nd CMA AWARDS
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the event, held at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, for the 11th year in a row. The party got started live on ABC at 8 p.m. EST, with the pregnant Underwood doing triple duty as host and performer …
Going into the evening, Chris Stapleton led the field with five nominations, and he landed three (Single, Vocalist, Song). The other big winners of the evening included Underwood for Female Vocalist, Old Dominion for Vocal Group and Keith Urban for Entertainer of the Year.
Sadly, before the show got started, news spread that Entertainer of the Year nominee Kenny Chesney was unable to attend the CMA Awards due to a death in his family
The news comes just hours after Chesney and David Lee Murphy were announced as early winners. The old friends took home Musical Event of the Year for their collaboration on “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” the first single from Murphy’s No Zip Code album. That award was announced during Good Morning America Wednesday morning.
WINNERS
Song of the Year: “Broken Halos,” Chris Stapleton
New Artist of the Year: Luke Combs
Single of the Year: “Broken Halos,” Chris Stapleton
Vocal Group of the Year: Old Dominion
Album of the Year: Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves
Musician of the Year: Matt McAnally
Vocal Duo of the Year: Brothers Osborne
Musical Event of the Year: “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” Kenny Chesney and David Lee Murphy
Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Stapleton
Female Vocalist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Entertainer of the Year: Keith Urban
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93% of Companies Are Doing Some Kind of Holiday Party This
According to a new survey, 93% of companies are going to be doing some kind of holiday party this year. And it’s split evenly between a party offsite, or a party or lunch in the office.
Also, 41% of companies are going to spend more on their holiday party than they did last year . . . only 7% will spend less.
And since they’re putting in the effort . . . you’d better show up.
Two-thirds of managers say there’s an unwritten rule that you’re EXPECTED to participate in the company party.
RANDOM REPORT
- If you hold your key fob up to your chin, it increases the range to lock or unlock your car. Why? Because the fluids in your head act as a conductor that make it more powerful.
- There are four states where billboards are banned: Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine.
- The Chinese invented fireworks, but the Italians were the first to give them colors.
- Despite what cartoons led you to believe, coyotes are actually twice as fast as roadrunners. Coyotes top out at 43 miles-an-hour . . . roadrunners can only hit 20.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Shailene Woodley is 27. “Divergent”, “
Beverly D’Angelo is 67. Best known for her stellar work with Chevy Chase in those fabulous “Vacation” movies.
Ed Asner is 89. Then: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant”. Now: Carl Fredricksen, the old man in “Up”. He was also Santa in Will Ferrell’s “Elf”.
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- 52nd annualCountry Music Awards
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the event, held at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, for the 11th year in a row. The party got started live on ABC at 8 p.m. EST, with the pregnant Underwood doing triple duty as host and performer …
Going into the evening, Chris Stapleton led the field with five nominations, and he landed three (Single, Vocalist, Song). The other big winners of the evening included Underwood for Female Vocalist, Old Dominion for Vocal Group and Keith Urban for Entertainer of the Year.
Sadly, before the show got started, news spread that Entertainer of the Year nominee Kenny Chesney was unable to attend the CMA Awards due to a death in his family
The news comes just hours after Chesney and David Lee Murphy were announced as early winners. The old friends took home Musical Event of the Year for their collaboration on “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” the first single from Murphy’s No Zip Code album. That award was announced during Good Morning America Wednesday morning.
- LeBron Jamesscored 44 points for the L.A. Lakers in their 126-117 win over the Portland Trail Blazers last night (November 14th), moving him past NBA great Wilt Chamberlain into fifth place on the career scoring list. James finished the night with 31,425 career points, six ahead of Chamberlain’s 31,419.
- Today is National Clean Out Your Fridge Day. And some people are sharing the oldest thing they have in their fridge, including a wet soggy cucumber . . . a packet of Taco Bell salsa from 2010 . . . and commemorative Bud Light cans from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
- Comedian Ryan O’Flanagan is so broke, he had to take a zip-lock bag of coins to the Coin Star machine at the grocery store. What he believed was more than a hundred bucks was sadly much less.
LOCALLY…..
The LaSalle Vipers doubled the Chatham Maroons 4-2 last night
The two teams will now travel to Chatham to face off again on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban Were the Big Winners at Last Night’s CMAs
Last night’s “52nd Annual CMA Awards” opened with GARTH BROOKS doing a moment of silence for the Thousand Oaks victims. It was the second year in a row the show opened with a memorial. Let’s hope it’s the last.
Things picked up with LUKE BRYAN performing “What Makes You Country”. He was joined by some of country’s newer acts: Luke Combs, Lindsey Ell, Cole Swindell, Ashley McBryde, Chris Janson, and Jon Pardi.
It was a good lead-in for BRAD PAISLEY and a very pregnant CARRIE UNDERWOOD to start the monologue. As promised, they stayed away from politics, which may have taken the bite out of the humor, but that’s okay.
They did “break the news” that Carrie’s having a baby boy, and had fun with it by bringing out her first-born. But it wasn’t little Isaiah. It was Walmart kid MASON RAMSEY.
KELSEA BALLERINI got theatrical for her performance of “Miss Me More”. There were dancers balancing on chairs, jumping around, and doing gymnastics. It was visually interesting, and it worked.
I swear Carrie Underwood could be singing WHILE giving birth and she’d still knock it out of the park. Her performance of “Love Wins” brought the crowd to its feet. She also won Female Vocalist of the Year and no one’s going to argue that call.
OLD DOMINION picked up their first CMA award. They won Vocal Group of the Year. It’s fun to watch artists have their first big moment. You could tell it meant a lot to them.
Things got as country as country could get when RICKY SKAGGS and his incredible players performed the bluegrass classic “Black Eyed Susie”. Then Ricky switched stages to join KEITH URBAN for “Highway 40 Blues”. There was more.
Ricky went back to the first stage and did “Country Boy” with Brad Paisley and MARTY STUART.
MIDLAND made their CMA debut and did a cover of Jerry Reed’s “East Bound and Down” from “Smokey and the Bandit”. They also showed clips of Burt Reynolds from the movie. Props.
KACEY MUSGRAVES won Album of the Year for “Golden Hour”. The whole place was happy for her. Talk about timing, she said it was 10 years to the day that she moved to Nashville.
A few other highlights included BROTHERS OSBORNE winning Duo of the Year and joking that if it was Florida there’d be a recount.
Here’s your complete list of winners . . .
Entertainer of the Year: Keith Urban
Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Stapleton
Female Vocalist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo of the Year: Brothers Osborne
Vocal Group of the Year: Old Dominion
New Artist of the Year: Luke Combs
Album of the Year: “Golden Hour”, Kacey Musgraves
Song of the Year: “Broken Halos”, Chris Stapleton. It’s a songwriter’s award so he shares it with a guy named Mike Henderson.
Single of the Year: “Broken Halos”, Chris Stapleton
Musical Event of the Year: “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”, David Lee Murphy with Kenny Chesney
Music Video of the Year: “Marry Me”,Thomas Rhett
