Radio Recap (Wednesday 02/05/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
Who was living in Sodom before it was destroyed?
A. Daniel
B. Jonah
C. Abraham
D. Lot



In The News:

- Weatherperson’s Day

- Employers should notify parents? A grieving Ohio mother has started an online petition to require employers of teenagers to notify a parent if their child fails to show up for work. Last November, 17-year-old Damian Henning died in what police believe was a suicide. The Sandusky teenager had failed to show up for a shift at his job at a water park, and his body was later found underneath a bridge in Toledo, about 60 miles away. His mother believes that his death could have been prevented had the lad’s employer contacted him when he didn’t show up for work… Bonnilee Jackson is trying to convince the Ohio legislature to pass a law that would require employers of teenagers to notify a parent, guardian, or family member if a teen fails to show up for work. The law would apply only to teens who need a work permit for their jobs.

- Texting pedestrians. New research (University of Calgary) confirms that smartphone users who text while they walk are more prone to accidents than pedestrians who just listen to music or talk on their phones... The study showed texting was also associated with higher odds that pedestrians would bump into other people or things in their paths or experience near-misses.

- Springfield School Busses. While Springfield has the largest school district in the state, a recent report found it's also the most restrictive when it comes to which kids it will allow to ride the bus. So yesterday Springfield Board of Education is now considering adjusting transportation policy for the busses.

- Frozen Yogurt Day

- Charging phone via traffic light. A guy in China desperate to charge his phone ended up disrupting traffic after he plugged his mobile into a traffic light. Officers found the man had opened the light’s switch box and unplugged the controller in order to charge his phone.

- Student loan letters. Dan Cain said he was suspicious when a postal worker in Twinsburg, Ohio, told him recently that his mail wouldn’t fit through the front door of the post office. When Cain drove his truck around to the back of the building, he found a postal worker wheeling out two large bins of letters. It turned out that there were a total of 79 bins of the letters, and it took Cain two trips to deliver them to the garage of his family’s home. The letters were sent to Cain by College Ave Student Loans. Each envelope had the exact same college loan statement inside. The statements were for Cain’s daughter’s college loan. The company has apologized for the error in its mailing system… Funny thing is all of the 55,000 statements were wrong. College Ave Student Loans says it’s correcting the statement and sending one new one.

- Chocolate Fondue Day

- Sleep texting. A guy in Germany discovered that he sends text messages in his sleep. He sent his first message to his mother at 2 AM last year. A few months later he sent a text message to a friend saying, “I’m in trouble, someone’s chasing me.” The friend immediately called back and spoke to the guy who revealed he had been dreaming.

- Google shared private videos. Google has emailed some users of Google Photos to inform them that some of their private videos were accidentally sent to strangers. The “technical issue” is said to have affected people who used the Google Takeout service to download their data between November 21 and November 25 last year. The problem resulted in a small number of users receiving videos in their archive that weren’t theirs… Google said that only 0.01 percent of Google ‌Photos‌ users attempting Takeouts were affected. But given that it has previously boasted of having over 1 billion Photos users, that number is still significant.

- Bag Full of Drugs. Two people were arrested in the Florida Panhandle after troopers found a bag filled with illegal drugs. The bag was labeled as, “Bag Full of Drugs.”




Fun Fact:
Each year, the average American drinks 24 gallons of coffee.#funfact




Matt's Musing:
Whenever I lock my car, I always press the button twice in a row to let all nearby thieves know that I mean business.... #musing



Matt's Pick Song:
“It's About The Cross” by the Ball Brothers




Bible Trivia Answer:
D. Lot (Genesis 19:1-2)