Radio Recap (Wednesday 02/19/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
Where did Jesus’ crucifixion take place?
A. Golgotha
B. Mount of Olives
C. Garden of Gethsemane
D. The Temple




In The News:

- National Lash Day on February 19th each year promotes the love and need for true and false eyelashes. The day offers an opportunity to explore the benefits and fashion of lashes.

- Oreos with Mustard. There are certain food pairings that people come up with that outsiders just can’t understand, like peanut butter and pickle sandwiches or Cheetos and milk, to name a few. But one weird combo made the final cut into a popular crossword puzzle and it’s sparking what can only be classified as outrage in the general public… It all started with a crossword puzzle that appeared in last Wednesday’s edition of USA Today. One clue said, “Cookie that some people eat with mustard” — and “Oreo” was the only thing that fit… A guy on Twitter thought he’d give it a shot and wrote: “I tried it. … [it] is wretched.” Is this a thing? Let me know your thoughts on Facebook.

- Snacking is good… for the economy. The food industry has long known that three daily meals are out, and a procession of snacks from midday to midnight is in. The typical American snacks at least four times a day. Snacking for Americans is a $1.2 trillion business.

- Driving Testers. A study says drivers who pass their driving test the second time round are the safest on the road. Researchers found those who pass on their second attempt have fewer points on their license, are less likely to suffer road rage or be stopped by police. However, the research found that those who took more than two attempts to pass have more bad driving habits.

- Goof off at those staff meetings! Next time some office wiseacre punctuates your presentation with a well-timed one-liner, don’t get annoyed. He might have made it more effective. A study (University of Amsterdam and University of Nebraska at Omaha) finds humorous meetings lead to better communication and new ideas… Researchers observed 54 videotaped meetings of employees at two German companies. In most cases when someone told a joke, others felt free to chime in with more jokes until the laughter finally died down. And once that happened, communication lines were opened and teams were more likely to propose new ideas and ask constructive questions.

- Calling cops about Fake ID: A teenager in Ontario, Canada (Norfolk County) called police to report he had been scammed. He told cops he paid for an item online, which didn’t arrive, and he wanted to file charges against the seller. While the police did in fact open a fraud investigation, they weren’t exactly sympathetic to the teen: the item he bought was fake identification.

- Chocolate Mint Day. This holiday has been set aside for all the chocolate mint lovers to eat their favorite treats all day long.

- Family Gender is Random. Scientists say the tendency to have boys or girls does not run in the family and the chances of having a child of either gender is genuinely random. Researchers studied the gender of people born in Sweden over the last 90 years to determine whether or not people are more likely to have children of a given gender. Their findings shake up key theories over gender ratios used by biologists, who often assumed that the ratio of boys to girls in one’s offspring was a heritable trait.

- Apartment Bonfire. A guy in St. Petersburg, Florida, was cold, so he built a bonfire. Inside his apartment, which didn’t have a fireplace. That, of course, set off smoke detectors and triggered a fire department response, causing evacuations from the 30-unit building at 3AM. Nobody was injured, but police say the 66-year-old man had several options to stay warm without setting a fire.

- Is Your Calendar Full. If your calendar runneth over, it could mean one of two things: either you are enviably popular, or you make the same faulty assumptions about the future as everyone else. Psychological research points to the latter… Research by two business school professors reveals that people over-commit because we expect to have more time in the future than we have in the present. The study (Journal of Experimental Psychology) showed that the nature of time fools us and we “forget” about how things fill our days. Participants in their study believed that time would be more available in “a month” than “today.”





Fun Fact:
The average American Opens the refrigerator 22 times a day. #funfact




Matt's Musing:
I don’t just act crazy, I’ll drive you there too... #musing




Matt's Pick Song:
“Adam’s Fall” by 11th Hour




Bible Trivia Answer:

A. Golgotha (Matthew 27:32-37)