Radio Recap (Wednesday 06/17/20)

Bible Trivia Question:

What king captured Daniel and other Hebrews and took them to Babylon?
A. Nebuchadnezzar 
B. Darius
C. Ahab
D. Pharaoh



In The News:


- National Eat Your Vegetables Day

- Facebook Plan To Boost Voter Registration. Facebook is rolling out a plan aimed at boosting voter registration ahead of the 2020 election. On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed for USA Today outlining plans for a 'Voting Information Center' he says will reach 160 million people and help register over 4 million new voters. Zuckerberg called it "the largest voting campaign in American history" ahead of an election "unlike any other".

- Eat dinner late. Losing weight can be hard, there’s no doubt about it. While poor diet and lack of exercise are often the primary culprits in weight gain, recent research shows that eating a late dinner may also be to blame. The study (in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism) finds that people who eat a late dinner burn less fat overnight. They also have higher blood sugar levels than those who eat dinner earlier… Results show that fat burning is reduced by 10 percent and peak blood sugar levels are almost 20 percent higher in late dinner eaters compared to early dinner eaters. They also found that these effects are most pronounced in people who regularly go to bed earlier.

- Fun Fact: The average man will wait 12 months before replacing a dead pet. (apparently, women don’t wait quite as long) #funfact

- Global Garbage Man Day, the world takes time to recognize the dedicated efforts of the men and women who keep our communities clean.

- Rude Jaywalking signs. A little rudeness can go a long way in the fight to curb jaywalkers. Experiments conducted by students at a university in China showed that warning signs written with insulting messages had greater impact than those with nicer messages. A sign reading “Jaywalkers are ugly” placed at an intersection proved to be the most effective, reducing cases of jaywalking by about 40 percent.

- Sleepwalking danger. In Germany, a sleepwalking man climbed out of a first-floor window, shimmied up a drainpipe and walked across the roof before falling 20 feet to the ground. The man suffered only a few bruises from the fall and says he lost his balance when he woke up.

- National Apple Strudel Day .Get whirled up in pastry dough, apples and spices by celebrating National Apple Strudel Day. In German, the word strudel means whirlpool or eddy. This tasty dessert is perfectly described by its German language as the sweet mixture of fruit, sugar, spices, and layers of thin dough that are rolled together and baked. The result is a bubbling, flaky treat.

- Bitten by alligator. A man was attacked by an alligator early Monday morning in Largo, Florida. Police said the man was waist-deep in water at a disc golf course when he was bitten in the face. The 40-year-old man used his left hand to pry the gator off, but he received severe lacerations to his hand and face. He is expected to survive the bite. The attack happened during alligator mating season when alligators have been known to be more aggressive.

- 65-pound Turtle. A 65-pound alligator snapping turtle has found a new home at a Virginia zoo after freaking out residents in a northern Virginia suburb. The turtle, named Lord Fairfax, was repeatedly crossing a residential road in the Alexandria area. Not native to the area, the alligator snapping turtle is generally found in the wild farther south. Animal control officers initially took Lord Fairfax to the county animal shelter, and then to the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The fisheries folks say the turtle is just a juvenile and could eventually grow as big as 200 pounds. They say the northern Virginia climate would have been too cold for him to live in the wild. He will live instead at The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. -

- Cat calls 911. Police in New Zealand broke down the door to a home after receiving an emergency call from the building, only to find that the call had apparently been made by the cat. It seems the cat had dialed the emergency number while taking a stroll across a telephone attached to a fax/copy machine in the house. The family was out at the time.

- Target Raises Minimum Wage. Target will raise the minimum wage for workers nationwide to $15 an hour starting on July 5th. The increase goes to full and part-time hourly Target team members in stores, warehouses, and at the company headquarters. Target had planned to reach the $15 an hour minimum wage by the end of 2020. The retailer is also giving frontline store and distribution workers a one-time $200 bonus for their efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.

- Gym Individual Workout Pods. Gyms and social distancing are concepts that didn't seem to go together but as facilities re-open, workouts will have to take on a new normal. A gym in California is making sure its customers have space and protection from each other. South Bay Fitness has set up individual workout pods that include free weights and a bench. The pods are made out of shower curtains and pipes. Nine people will be allowed inside at a time for personal training as the instructor leads the workout outside of the pod while wearing a face shield.

- Gold on a train. Swiss police are looking for a forgetful individual who left something rather important on a train — a package full of gold bars, worth more than $190,000. The parcel containing the gold bars was found in October last year. Despite “extensive investigations” the owner of the high-value package had not been tracked down, so now authorities have decided to publicize their quest to find the mysterious owner of the gold bars.

- WEE Covid testing. A WWE developmental wrestler who was at the wrestling company’s training center in Orlando last week has tested positive for coronavirus. As a result, WWE canceled its Tuesday television tapings and will test all talent and on-site employees for COVID-19… WWE has been running weekly shows from its training center for roughly three months amid the pandemic. The company was running the shows without fans, but recently had some of its developmental wrestlers situated around the ring behind hockey-style glass.




Bonus News (not mentioned on-air):

- Now if forgetting to sanitize wasn't enough, now you may have to worry about possibly catching coronavirus when you flush the toilet. That's right a new study has found that merely flushing the toilet could produce a plume of droplets that could rise up three feet high in the air and possibly give you coronavirus. Scientists aren't sure whether or not a public or private restroom can spread the virus, but it seems that in the future common spaces may have to be done over. Researchers suggest that if you use a public restroom the best thing to do is close the seat cover to reduce the risk of droplets making you ill.

- A man in Vienna, Austria, has been fined $565 for breaking wind loudly in front of police. Police said the man had behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers that preceded the farting incident. Cops say he got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent. And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”


Matt's Pick Song:

“I Wanna Know How It Feels” by Karen Peck & New River


Bible Trivia Answer:

A. Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 1:1-6)