Radio Recap (Friday 07/24/20)

Bible Trivia Question:

Who had twin sons named Jacob and Esau?
A. Abraham
B. Moses
C. Isaac 
D. Joseph


In The News:


 - Drive-Thru Day. The first drive-thru is believed to have been at Red’s Giant Hamburg on Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri, in 1947.

 - Springfield School options. One month from Thursday, Springfield schools will be back in session. Students will primarily learn online, even if they choose to go back to the classroom. If students choose to come back to school, they will only be in the building two days a week, with online learning the other three. Or, they can choose to go all online. Springfield Public Schools said this school year will require a foundation of flexibility from the district and from its families. Masks will be required for all students and staff in school buildings, except for those with medical conditions. Families will have to choose what they want for their students, for the entire semester, by next Friday, July 31. Any students needing to ride the bus will also have to register by then.

 - 2020 time capsule. It has been a tough year for seniors at Lebanon High School, and all over the country. Lebanon HS seniors put together time capsule hoping to explain 2020. Classmates have been documenting the school year in a time capsule, a project that started before their school year got turned upside down. While Lebanon Junior High School was being torn down, several time capsules were found which sparked the idea in the group. They always knew they wanted to do something special because their class was the last class to go through that junior high. And while the pandemic slowed down their efforts and changed their original timeline of burying it in May after graduation, it didn’t stop them. They continued to gather items that they thought were important to share and felt some responsibility to tell the tale of the times they were living through. So while the capsule is full of fun items like photos, books, and club shirts, it also has essays about what it’s like in this moment from their perspective. A prospective they think won’t be covered in textbooks, because this is from teens who don’t know the future.

 - Exercise your brain! According to a study conducted at Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, older people who exercise their brains are less likely to lose their memory. When is it too late to start…? I’d hate to forget!

 - The FDA is warning consumers the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products that are labeled to contain ethanol but have tested positive for methanol contamination. The Food and Drug Administration has expanded the list of hand sanitizers — some sold at Walmart, Costco and other national chains — being recalled to at least 75 recently, saying toxic levels of wood alcohol in them can cause injury or death. For the complete list, you can visit the FDA hand sanitizer updates on their website.

 - Fun Fact: Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport sells more than 2 million of these a year. (Hot dogs) #funfact

 - National Cousins Day on July 24th recognizes the lifelong relationships that grow among cousins. Our first friendships often form with cousins as young as infants and endure a lifetime.

 - Eating a worm. A woman in China demanded compensation from a restaurant after her daughter accidentally ate half a worm in her meal. But to prove the worm was harmless the restaurant manager ate the rest of the creature.

 - Social media distracts us. Why do we multitask, and how bad is it? It’s really bad, as scientists discovered when they outfitted computers of a study room of a university with a task tracker. This gave them an unfiltered image of what students were doing with their time. Students estimate that they can concentrate on their work for about five minutes at a time. If a five minute attention span seems awfully short, the experiment with a task tracker on a computer showed that in reality students on average concentrate on a task for about 31 seconds… A big culprit is, of course, social media.

 - Boa constrictors. A study found that boa constrictors and anacondas don’t kill their victims by squeezing the air out of them as we thought, but by cutting off their blood flow. So is this news supposed to be comforting?

 - Quit smoking, make more money. Are you a smoker? Here’s another reason to quit: you could make more money. Some economists have found (using data from the Tobacco Use Supplement to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey) that people who had quit smoking for at least a year earned higher wages than smokers and people who had never smoked. According to the data, smokers earned about 80 percent of nonsmokers’ wages. Even one cigarette a day triggers a wage gap between smokers and nonsmokers.

 - World Series will still count. A new poll found that the 44 percent of baseball fans believe that winning the 2020 World Series will be less meaningful than winning a World Series in a typical season.

 - Washington Football Team. Washington’s NFL franchise officially retired their controversial Redskins name Thursday with the announcement that — for now — they will be referred to as the Washington Football Team. The name change is temporary — it’s just the one the teams plans to use until finding a final name… The team’s @Redskins Twitter account shifted to @WashingtonNFL. And if you visit Redskins.com you’ll see the old name and logo gone and the name Washington Football Team prominently displayed.




Matt's Musing:

I like confusing kids by telling them I'm older than the internet... #musing #musing


Matt's Pick Song:

“On The Banks Of The Promised Land” by Karen Peck & New River


Bible Trivia Answer:

C. Isaac (Genesis 25:24-26)