Radio Recap (Wednesday 09/23/20)

Bible Trivia Question:

Philip ran up to a chariot and heard a man reading out of what book of the Bible?
A. Jonah
B. Isaiah (Acts 8:30-33, Isaiah 53:7-8)
C. Jeremiah
D. Matthew


In The News:

 - National Snack Stick Day encourages you to pack your pockets, backpacks, and desk drawers with yummy snack sticks so you can celebrate! Primarily made with beef or pork, snack sticks harken back to the days when families preserved quantities of beef, pork, and game. Full of family tradition, they made sausage through smoking and aging. Developed generation after generation, the recipes use premium ingredients and an abundance of love.

 - In an announcement on the first day of fall, Kraft Heinz Canada says it is adding the flavor of a popular seasonal spice mix to one of its iconic comfort foods. The company said Tuesday that it will be launching Pumpkin Spice Kraft Dinner (PSKD) in October, to "please KD lovers and the cult following of pumpkin spice latte aficionados." While Kraft Heinz Canada is just the latest company to jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon, it said its unusual new product "ain't no basic batch."

 - Drivers prefer candy bars. A survey of drivers has revealed the best foods to eat while driving: candy bars, french fries, potato chips and chicken nuggets.

 - Verse of the Day: “The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” 2 Thessalonians 3:3 NIV

 - Kids and veggies. Your kids not eating their fruits and veggies? One way seems to be to simply jazz up what they’re called. For example, instead of carrots how about offering “X-ray vision carrots”? When researchers tried that in five New York elementary schools, kids ate twice as many. A second experiment at two more schools dealt with broccoli and green beans. But when renamed to “Tiny Tasty Tree Tops” and “Silly Dilly Green Beans,” veggie consumption again doubled.

 - Fun Fact: Eight in ten adults have it but never use it. (Home exercise/gym equipment) #funfact

 - Grocery Stores. We have way too many choices at the grocery store. Even though the typical person has the same 20 or 30 items in their fridge or pantry, the size of grocery stores has gone to 45,000 square feet. Around 50 years ago the average size was 24,000 square feet.

 - Seeing yourself as overweight. In the past, it was assumed that if people considered themselves to be overweight, they would have greater motivation to change their diet or level of exercise. But according to recent studies (International Journal of Obesity) people who perceived themselves to be overweight were at greater risk of gaining weight. This was true whether or not their perceptions were correct. They also were more likely to overeat in response to stress, which explained a large part of the weight gain.

 - Each year the average adult consumes 24 gallons of what? (Bottled water)

 - Thief robs mom. An Italian who turned to snatching handbags to finance his drug addiction came unglued when he robbed his own mother by mistake. The man didn't realize until after he yanked the purse off her shoulder that his latest victim was mom. When he was arrested and shown video of his heist he called out, “That’s my mother!” After a full confession of recent crimes the man is now in jail and in drug recovery.

 - McDonald's Pumpkin & Creme Pies. Move out of the way pumpkin spice lattes - there's a new fall treat in town. For a short time, McDonald's is bringing back its Pumpkin & Creme Pies. They are actually more like turnovers: stuffed with pumpkin pie filling on one side, and creme filling on the other. No word on how long the sweet treat will stay on Mickey D's menu.

 - Old tv. Engineers investigating why an entire Welsh village lost broadband signal at the same time every day for 18 months said they finally identified the source: an elderly resident's old TV set. engineers visited the village of Aberhosan after nearly all of the settlement's 400 residents reported losing their broadband signal for 18 months every day at 7 a.m. He said the investigators set out to determine whether electrical interference was to blame. Jones said the team traced the interference to a home, where they discovered its surprising origin: an elderly resident's old TV set. The broadband outages coincided with the resident's daily routine of switching on the TV set at 7 a.m. The residents were mortified that their old secondhand TV was the cause of an entire village's broadband problems, and they immediately agreed to switch it off and not use it again




Matt's Musing:

What would happen if I used illegal-sized paper in the printer...? #musing


Matt's Pick Song:

“He Didn’t Just Carry The Cross, He carried Me” by the Hoppers


Bible Trivia Answer:

B. Isaiah (Acts 8:30-33, Isaiah 53:7-8)