Radio Recap (Monday 04/27/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
Who killed his brother when God refused to accept his sacrifice?
A. Jacob
B. Cane
C. Essua
D. Joseph



In The News:

- National Tell a Story Day on April 27th each year in the United States encourages people of all ages to share all kinds of stories. Whether it’s read from a book, one from your imagination, or an actual story from a childhood memory, the day supports gathering with friends and family to share those stories. Storytelling is an ancient practice used to hand down knowledge from one generation to the next. It’s a wonderful way to pass on family traditions, histories, and long told tales and can be entertaining as well as educational. Some of the very best stories come from real-life experience.

- Filtered coffee. A new study suggests that filtered coffee is the healthiest way to brew coffee. Researchers tracked participants for an average of 20 years. One of the results of the long-term study shows that drinking filtered coffee is safer than drinking no coffee at all. Filtered coffee was associated with a 15 percent lower risk of death from any cause, when compared to drinking no coffee. Further analysis of cardiovascular disease deaths shows that going filtered is linked to a 12 percent lower risk in men and 20 percent lower risk in women.… Drinking unfiltered coffee does not raise the risk of death when compared with drinking no coffee, but it is worse than going filtered. Overall, those that drink up to four cups of coffee a day were found to have the lowest mortality.

- Depressed eat more chocolate. Researchers (University of California) say people who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not. They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not. And people who had major depression based on results of a screening test ate even more — 11.8 servings per month. A serving was considered to be one small bar, or 1 ounce. What the study could not say was why people who are depressed eat more chocolate.

- Play it cool when a child falls. It’s hard not to wince when you see someone fall, hit their head, or run into someone. When a child does it, they’ll usually look to an adult to see how they should react. For this reason, it’s best to keep it cool. Often, when a child falls there’s a delay and they look at you — waiting for your reaction. You freak out, making them think something terrible has happened, so they start crying… Instead, wait and see what they do. If they seem OK, help them up if they are still down. Let them go back to playing. After all, falling down is part of being a kid, and usually not an event. Don’t make it into one. If they are hurt, it’s even more important not to freak out. What a scared kid needs is someone who is in control and taking care of things. Give them first aid or take them to the emergency room, calmly.

- National Prime Rib Day annually recognizes this special meal favorite on April 27th each year. Sometimes known as the “King of Meats,” Prime Rib is a choice cut from one of the eight prime cuts of beef.

- Rock Paper Scissors ruled invalid. A Superior Court in Canada (Quebec) has ruled a $500,000 debt incurred from three games of rock paper scissors is invalid. The loser of the RPS game was Edmund Mark Hooper. To pay for his losses he took out a mortgage on his house. But the Superior Court cancelled that mortgage. Quebec law stipulates that for a wagering contract to be valid, it must be related to activities “requiring only skill or bodily exertion on the part of the parties,” rather than to chance. Furthermore, the amount wagered must not be excessive… After the Superior Court cancelled the mortgage in 2017, it was appealed by Michel Primeau, who beat Hooper in the game of rock paper scissors. The appeals court reached a slightly different conclusion. While it found the game may call up a certain measure of skill, “it seems evident … that the game also involves a large part of chance, so that it does not take ‘only skill or bodily exertion on the part of the parties.'” The appeals court also upheld the lower court’s conclusion that the $500,000 wager was excessive… The best-of-three game took place in January 2011.

- Spanish man Busted for taking his fish on a walk. In Spain, a man was trying to take advantage of a rule allowing pet owners to leave their homes so that the pets can relieve themselves. The man was busted for taking his pet fish on a walk in its bowl. Police tweeted a picture of the suspect sitting on a bench with his finned friend. Last month, police in Spain caught a man in a T-rex costume roaming the city streets.

- On this day in 1981: The computer mouse was introduced. The average one of these is 8.75 inches by 7.5 inches. (Mouse pad)

- 4 habits can age you. A study which tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years found these four common bad habits combined can age you by 12 years: smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet.

- Miami goes murder free. For the first time since 1957, Miami, Florida has gone seven weeks without a reported homicide. While the lockdown orders are surely contributing to the crime curb, Miami Police said the trend began before the lockdown.

Miami went murder-free from February 17th through April 12th. Miami PD also says other crimes have decreased, too.

- Midlife Crisis Age. Music streaming service Spotify has pin-pointed the average age of midlife crises as 42. Staff analyzed data and found that users around 42 drop their usual playlists — which usually contain hits from their youth — in favor of today’s hits.

- National Babe Ruth Day. George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr., born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland was nicknamed “the Bambino” and “the Sultan of Swat.” Spending 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), he played for three teams from 1914 to 1935. Being one of the league’s most prolific hitters, he helped the Yankees win seven pennants and four World Series titles. Ruth set career records, in his time, for home runs, slugging percentage, runs batted in, and on-base plus slugging. In 1927, he was the very first player to hit 60 home runs in one season. At the age of 53, on August 16, 1948, at 8:01 pm, Babe Ruth died in his sleep.

- Parks and Recreation Reunion. Five years after its finale, NBC’s Parks and Recreation is returning for a scripted special to raise funds for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund. The half-hour special will feature all of the original cast members: Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Heir, and Retta… The episode was shot from the cast members’ respective homes. Addressing our current situation, the special will center on Leslie Knope’s determination to stay connected to her friends while social distancing… You can catch the special on Thursday (April 30) on NBC.





Fun Fact:
Around the world each year roughly 9,200 people are injured by garage doors. #funfact



Bonus News (not mentioned on-air):
- Tater-Tot eating Burglar. A hungry California burglar broke into a home on a thieving mission, but got distracted when he found tater tots in the freezer. He made a snack, fell asleep and got busted when the homeowner found him napping on the couch.




Matt's Musing:
This pandemic is causing me to lose my thought of train.... #musing




Matt's Pick Song:
“I Wanna Know How It Feels” by Karen Peck & New River




Bible Trivia Answer:
B. Cane (Genesis 4:1-8)