Radio Recap (Thursday 04/16/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
What did Jacob name the place where he saw the ladder of angels?
A. Bethel
B. Jericho
C. Canaan
D. Babylon




In The News:

- National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day allows us a reprieve after meeting a late-night deadline shuffling receipts and adding columns to file our taxes.

- Driving Blind. In the UK a blind man was busted after police spotted his car on the wrong side of the road. He was being guided by someone who was in the passenger seat that had lost their license.

- Money and Happiness. According to findings of a psychological study (San Francisco State University), your happiness depends on how you spend your hard-earned cash, not how much you have. The study’s authors tracked college students and asked them to rate how happy they felt after making experience purchases — concert tickets, drinks with the girls — versus stuff — big-screen TVs, another must-have handbag. Turns out those who shelled out for experiences were more likely to say the purchase boosted their endorphins, and that it was money well spent — regardless of how much or little the outing cost.

- CEO gives personal cell#. The CEO of the video game company Activision Blizzard is using the coronavirus pandemic to (safely) get closer to his employees. Bobby Kotick says that he gave out his personal phone number to 10,000 workers and said he “encouraged every single employee that has a concern that relates to their health care” to contact him. So far, a “few hundred” have reached out… Kotick said that luckily only a “small number” of the video game-maker employees have contracted COVID-19. He’s using the pandemic to bolster the company’s health care options, including making private doctors available, paying for some employee drug co-pays, and offering telehealth options. The company is also letting employees work from home.

- Each year on the third Thursday in April, we observe National High Five Day. This is a fun day where you can “High Five” everyone that you see.

- Streaming 8 Hours per day. A new survey finds the average American is currently streaming eight hours of content per day and finishing three TV series per week. We all have some extra free time on our hands right now, but at this rate many people may exhaust the entire Netflix library by summer.

- FL Man arrested for threat. A Florida man was arrested after deputies say he threatened a mass shooting at a grocery store because “not enough people” were wearing masks outside during the COVID-19 pandemic. Robert Kovner, age 62, was arrested and booked for the threat he wrote on Facebook.

- New iPhone. Apple on Wednesday announced the new iPhone SE, a lower-cost iPhone that starts at $399. It has the same basic shape and look as the iPhone 8, which means it has a 4.7-inch screen. It is available for preorder this Friday and it will ship on April 24.



Fun Fact:
The average HUG lasts three seconds. #funfact




Matt's Musing:
I knew parenting would be mentally taxing, but I didn't realize most of that would be pretending to listen to so much talk about video games and movies… #musing



Matt's Pick Song:
“I Get Down” by Gold City



Bible Trivia Answer:
Bethel (Genesis 28:10-19)