Radio Recap (Wednesday 08/07/19)

Bible Trivia Question:Who cut his hair only once a year?
A. Samson
B. Esau
C. Samuel
D. Absalom



In The News:
- 1782: George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. #Purple Heart Day

- Lighthouse Day

- New research has found that as many as one in 300 of us may have a natural preference for going to bed extremely early and waking up fresh and revitalized in the small hours of the morning.

- Scientists (University College London) have used a mathematical equation to accurately predict the happiness of more than 18,000 people around the world. The formula for happiness, according to the equation, depends on whether things are better than expected, and not just on how well things are going. People felt happiest when they performed better than expected on a risk-reward task. THE KEY TO HAPPINESS?.... REALLY LOW EXPECTATIONS

- A woman in China crashed into a roadside guardrail after choosing to take her hands off the steering wheel so she wouldn’t develop a tan. The woman, who wasn’t injured, voluntarily gave up control of her vehicle because she feared that the August sun would darken her skin pigment a shade.

- Here’s a tip to stay awake while driving... Put a $100 bill in your left hand and hold it out the window.

- If you’re a bull and about to get slaughtered, during your great escape… where would you attempt to find refuge. Well, in Bangladesh… A bull escaped the butcher’s knife, ran down a street, and charged up a ramp into a hospital emergency room… interrupting medical procedures for nearly 45 minutes!

- Prisoners will do strange things to keep with their love! A prisoner in Madrid, Spain, glued himself to his girlfriend during a jail visit. The couple was taken to a hospital so the could be separated. My thought… how’d it get the glue?

- How hot is it? In Phoenix, a postal worker decided to demonstrate the insane heat in which some United States Postal Service employees work on a daily basis by cooking steak on the dashboard of the mail truck!. In a series of photos posted to social media, the mail deliverer showed a steak in several stages of the cooking process, with a meat thermometer ultimately rising to 142 degrees Fahrenheit. An Arizona politician is suggesting adjusting morning start times to allow postal workers in Arizona to deliver later during the cooler parts of the day, avoiding the blazing afternoon temps.

- “If you don’t know how to cook, stay out of the kitchen,” Wise words from a neighbor of a man who started a fire while he was heating oil to cook french fries and the grease ignited and exploded. The man evacuated his apartment, but firefighters had to rescue his dog from another apartment.





Fun Fact:We claim we hate heat, but the average shower is 101 Degrees. #funfact




Matt's Musing: If you see me smiling in public it means I’m laughing at the jokes I tell myself in my head...#musing




Matt's Pick Song:“Marriage supper of the lamb” by the Hoppers




Bible Trivia Answer:D. Absalom (2 Samuel 14: 25-26)