Radio Recap (Friday 06/19/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
Who solved the problem of two women fighting over a baby?
A. Saul
B. Solomon
C. Samuel
D. David


In The News:


- Each year Juneteenth (June 19th) commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The celebration takes place each year on June 19th, recognizing an event that took place in Texas in 1865. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day

The story of Juneteenth begins in Texas when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, with an announcement. As the community listened to the reading of General Orders, Number 3, the people of Galveston learned for the first time that the Civil War was over. After more than a century of slavery and years of war, it was official. All slaves were now freedmen. News traveled slowly, even stubbornly during and after the War between the States. Over two years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Only two months before Major General Granger arrived in Galveston, General Lee surrendered at Appomattox. And the country was already mourning the assassination of President Lincoln. Just weeks before Granger arrived, the official final surrender took place. And yet, this community in the west remained the last to know of their freedom. They required word, official word, to feel the effects of what was already happening in the rest of the country.


- Coin shortage. Here’s a new crisis the coronavirus pandemic is responsible for: a nationwide shortage of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. The economic shutdowns to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus have had the unintended consequence of halting the flow of coins through households, businesses and banks. The government says it has been working with the U.S. Mint and reserve banks to fix the temporary issue. … Basically the places where we go to unload our coins and get cash — folding money — those have been closed. The whole system had come to a stop, though as the economy reopens coins and cash are moving around again.

- Bear selfies. After a couple of black bear spottings in Winslow Township, New Jersey, the police posted a warning on Facebook: “Please do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt to take selfies with the bear.”

- Baseball approaching! The Major League Baseball Players Association has finalized a proposal to the league for a 70-game season. The regular season would run July 19 to September 30. It’s not a done deal, however, as MLB owners have to approve the full deal. The two sides have been locked in a battle as they try to start the 2020 season that was initially delayed in March because of the coronavirus. … MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said last week there was “unequivocally” going to be a season, saying it was “100 percent” likely to happen. Then on Monday he told ESPN he was “not confident.”

- Fun Fact: 35 million americans have never left the state where they were born. #funfact

- Today 1910: The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

- Grapefruit rub. A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem about six years younger to men. However, grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them. In the study (Smell and Taste Institute in Chicago) a researcher smeared several middle-aged woman with broccoli, banana, spearmint leaves, and lavender but none of those scents made a difference to the men. But the scent of grapefruit changed men’s perceptions. When male volunteers were asked to write down how old the woman with grapefruit odor was, the age was considerably less than reality.

- bad breath _ According to a survey, bad breath apparently is the most embarrassing thing that can happen on a first-date.

- Nickelodeon will premiere in 2021 an all-new original CG-animated Smurfs series. The Smurfs, a Belgian comic franchise, has spawned three feature films and a 1981-89 NBC TV series.

- Each year (in the U.S.) roughly 1,900 bicyclists are injured in what way? (They crash into open car doors)




Sunday (Father’s Day)

- Father’s Day History. The idea of Father’s Day was conceived more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington, while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration — June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month of Smart’s birth. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.


FUNNY TRUTHS ABOUT FATHERHOOD

Just in time for Father’s Day, tweets by dads.

• “82% of parenting is making sure your kids don’t do something fatal today.”

• “Never thought fatherhood would place me on the top of a ladder getting a diaper that has gotten caught in the ceiling fan.”

• “What’s the difference between a zombie and a father of a newborn? Not much at this point.”

• “Fatherhood is 80% trying not to get kicked, elbowed, kneed, or punched in the balls by your own kids.”


- Where do I keep all my dad jokes? In a Database.

- What do you call a famous dad? Popstar

- When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent.


- Becoming your father. You start becoming your father at age 37, according to a new survey. Not only that, but 68 percent of those studied say they feel more like their father with every passing year. Thirty-seven percent said they take grilling very seriously because of their dad, while over one in three (35%) said they get their handy skills from them… Twenty-two percent mute commercials on TV because of their father, one in four grunt when getting off the couch now, and another one in four say they fall asleep on the couch with the game on, just like dad did.


- Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees? Because they're so good at it.

- What type of bagel can fly? a plane bagel

- How many apples grow on an apple tree? All of them.


- Flying reminder: As the world begins to open, more people are getting on planes. The TSA would like to remind you that you can’t bring these on a plane in your carry-on: Axes and hatchets; bowling pins; canoe/kayak paddles; fireworks; gasoline; liquid bleach; rocket launcher; slingshot; strike-anywhere matches; throwing stars; walking stick.


FUNNY TRUTHS ABOUT FATHERHOOD

Just in time for Father’s Day, tweets by dads.

• “At this stage, parenting is mostly a long string of accidentally saving your child’s life.”

• “Teaching my kids to eat healthy is basically me saying, ‘It’s too late for me, save yourself!'”

• “If you want to see a fathers true rage ask him to find some matching kid socks in a dryer full of clean laundry.”

• “One of the biggest lies we tell our kids is, ‘Wow, you’re a really good artist.'”


- I'm so good at sleeping, I can do it with my eyes closed!"

- "It takes guts to be an organ donor."

- Shout out to my fingers. I can count on all of them.


- Attempted theft. In Spain a guy tried to rob a small grocery store with his mom’s cane — after taking it from her. The guy was at the counter asking for money. He used the old finger-in-the-jacket trick to make it look like he had a gun. But the clerk wasn’t buying it. Just then the man’s grandmother walked up to check out so the robber grabbed his granny’s cane and threatened the clerk with it. The clerk thought the situation was so funny she laughed until both the grandmother and her grandson walked out.

- I was given a pencil with two erasers. It was pointless.

- Which is faster, hot or cold? Hot, because you can catch a cold.

- "Why can't a nose be 12 inches long? Because then it would be a foot."



Matt's Pick Song:

“O Come Along” by the Cathedrals


Bible Trivia Answer:

B. Solomon (1 Kings 3:24-28)