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On todays show:
- If you think that Early Earth, without industrial pollutants from humankind whatsoever, smelled fresh and natural, you’d be in for a rude and stinky surprise. Scientists say billions of years ago Earth smelled like rotten eggs.
- Hipsters take note: Your much-loved facial hair may contain more feces than a toilet. And the research (Aston University) has confirmed beards can spread bacteria. The study looked at whether surgical masks caught bacteria falling from surgeons faces, and whether having a beard affected how many bacteria fell. What they found was that men with beards do harbor a significant number of bacteria, more than non-bearded men and women.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN BURIED $280,000, NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT _ Five years ago, a farmer in China buried the equivalent of $280,000 on his property. Unfortunately when he recently dug up the cash, the bills were completely falling part. Apparently, employees at the Agricultural Bank of China did the best they could to separate the mess of deteriorated paper bundles but he still lost about 25 percent of his savings.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: 5-YEAR-OLD DRIVING CAR ON UTAH FREEWAY _ A member of the Utah Highway Patrol stopped what he thought was an impaired driver. Turns out it was a 5-year-old who somehow made his way onto the freeway in his parents’ car.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: WOMAN ARRESTED FOR LICKING SPREE _ A woman who allegedly licked her hands and touched food items and several surfaces at a South Carolina grocery store and sandwich shop was arrested. Shenir Gibson Holliday was taken into custody Saturday after police (in Sumter) responded to reports of a suspicious person at an IGA grocery store. Police said surveillance footage from the store showed Holliday licking her hands and coughing before touching food items and freezer doors. The incident came after the manager of a sandwich shop said a woman was seen licking coins and putting them back in the shop’s tip jar the previous week. The shop’s manager said the woman also licked her hands before handing money over to the clerk and touched the shop’s debit card machine.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BACKHOE JOYRIDER CAUSED $13K IN DAMAGE _ Police have arrested a man accused of jumping on a backhoe and trashing a construction site in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Damien Long is accused of entering the site, firing up the backhoe and joyriding around the property. He allegedly smashed an electric utility pole, breaker box, an office trailer and the backhoe, causing around $13,500 in damage.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: OLD GUY DRIVES ONTO RUNWAY _ In Norway an 80-year-old driver was on his way home when he got a little confused. He took a wrong turn and drove through a locked gate, past an airplane hangar and right onto the runway of the local airport.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN WEARS KKK HOOD AT GROCERY STORE _ May is mask month in many states and a guy decided the best way to keep his germs from getting all over everyone else was to wear a KKK hood while grocery shopping. Photos of the covidiot were taken at a store in Santee, California. Staff at the grocery store asked the customer to remove the hood, and all requests were ignored until the customer was in the checkout area. • IMAGE
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: COVIDIOT CUTS HOLE IN MASK TO MAKE IT ‘EASIER TO BREATHE’ _ A Kentucky woman was captured on video shopping with a hole cut in her face mask, claiming that it made it “easier to breathe.” A gas station clerk is heard asking the the woman entering his convenience store why she has a hole in her mask. She tells him, “Well, since we have to wear them and it makes it hard to breathe, this makes it a lot easier to breathe.”
Entertainment News
Question of the Podcast - What is something that everyone should be trained to be able to do?
13 little etiquette rules to follow when dinning at a restaurant
Fun Facts
✓ A normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts.
✓ Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a liquid that flows very slowly.
I’ve said this one before, but it’s a good reminder. We all know the advice for healthy teeth — brush twice daily and don’t eat too much sugar. So why do those of us following these instructions find we sometimes need a filling when we visit the dentist? One thing you may be doing wrong: rinsing after brushing. Don’t do it. Once you’ve brushed, don’t rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash — you’re washing away the fluoride. This can be a difficult habit to break, but can reduce tooth decay by up to 25%.
WORDS AND PHRASES INSPIRED BY THE CORONAVIRUS
COVIDIOT – Anyone not following lockdown rules, mask-wearing guidelines, etc.
ZUMPED – Zumped is the COVID-inspired phrase for breaking up with someone over Zoom or other video chat.
QUARANTINI – Drinking while you’re sitting at home.
SPENDEMIC – The increase in online shopping during the pandemic.
CORONIALS – The term being used for the babies who will be born after lockdown.
Four months into 2020 and if your goal was to lose weight and you’re still at it, good for you! You’re doing better than about 95% all resolutions makers.
And in the fifth month of the year, if you’re finding it tough to stay on that healthy-eating plan, start by dumping these supposedly healthy foods. Nutritionists say they’re deceiving.
• Granola – People think of granola as healthy because they think whole grain, but the problem with granola is that it tends to also have a lot of sugar and its often cooked with oil or butter and some kind of fat.
• Smoothies or juice – When you juice fruit, you strip out the fiber, causing a more rapid spike in blood sugars and insulin levels. Juicing multiple fruits at once is definitely too much sugar from the fructose. Bottom line: don’t drink your calories.
• Skinny Cow Ice Cream – On top of the hard-to-pronounce ingredients (Propylene Glycol Monostearate?!), artificial sweeteners could lead consumers to crave more sweet things, which basically undoes the whole point of a low-cal dessert.
• Flavored yogurt – The culprit is the added sugar. Some have nearly as much sugar as ice cream. Buy plain yogurt (check the label for sugar!) and sweeten it up with fresh fruit.
• Energy/snack bars – They often have a chocolate or yogurt coating (think Special K) and contain a ton of chemicals and artificial sweeteners. Instead, the best snack options are fresh fruits, raw nuts and natural nut butters.
• Vitamin Water – Most Vitamin Water flavors have upwards of 31 grams of sugar, which is almost eight teaspoons of sugar.
• Reduced-fat peanut butter – Natural full-fat peanut butter is your best bet, since reduced fat actually has added sugar to make up for taste.
• Agave syrup – Replacing actual sugar with a product like agave nectar might satisfy your sweet tooth but not your health. These natural sweeteners are still sugars with the same concerning amount of calories as normal sugar and honey (60 calories per tablespoon).
• Multi-grain – Multi-grain just means that there are two or more grains present in the pasta or bread. It has nothing to do with how refined the flour base used is, and if it’s white, that means it has been stripped of most of its nutrients. Instead, look for 100% whole wheat, which means that all of the grain kernel has been used so you’re getting as much fiber and nutrients as possible.
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On todays show:
- If you think that Early Earth, without industrial pollutants from humankind whatsoever, smelled fresh and natural, you’d be in for a rude and stinky surprise. Scientists say billions of years ago Earth smelled like rotten eggs.
- Hipsters take note: Your much-loved facial hair may contain more feces than a toilet. And the research (Aston University) has confirmed beards can spread bacteria. The study looked at whether surgical masks caught bacteria falling from surgeons faces, and whether having a beard affected how many bacteria fell. What they found was that men with beards do harbor a significant number of bacteria, more than non-bearded men and women.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN BURIED $280,000, NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT _ Five years ago, a farmer in China buried the equivalent of $280,000 on his property. Unfortunately when he recently dug up the cash, the bills were completely falling part. Apparently, employees at the Agricultural Bank of China did the best they could to separate the mess of deteriorated paper bundles but he still lost about 25 percent of his savings.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: 5-YEAR-OLD DRIVING CAR ON UTAH FREEWAY _ A member of the Utah Highway Patrol stopped what he thought was an impaired driver. Turns out it was a 5-year-old who somehow made his way onto the freeway in his parents’ car.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: WOMAN ARRESTED FOR LICKING SPREE _ A woman who allegedly licked her hands and touched food items and several surfaces at a South Carolina grocery store and sandwich shop was arrested. Shenir Gibson Holliday was taken into custody Saturday after police (in Sumter) responded to reports of a suspicious person at an IGA grocery store. Police said surveillance footage from the store showed Holliday licking her hands and coughing before touching food items and freezer doors. The incident came after the manager of a sandwich shop said a woman was seen licking coins and putting them back in the shop’s tip jar the previous week. The shop’s manager said the woman also licked her hands before handing money over to the clerk and touched the shop’s debit card machine.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BACKHOE JOYRIDER CAUSED $13K IN DAMAGE _ Police have arrested a man accused of jumping on a backhoe and trashing a construction site in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Damien Long is accused of entering the site, firing up the backhoe and joyriding around the property. He allegedly smashed an electric utility pole, breaker box, an office trailer and the backhoe, causing around $13,500 in damage.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: OLD GUY DRIVES ONTO RUNWAY _ In Norway an 80-year-old driver was on his way home when he got a little confused. He took a wrong turn and drove through a locked gate, past an airplane hangar and right onto the runway of the local airport.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN WEARS KKK HOOD AT GROCERY STORE _ May is mask month in many states and a guy decided the best way to keep his germs from getting all over everyone else was to wear a KKK hood while grocery shopping. Photos of the covidiot were taken at a store in Santee, California. Staff at the grocery store asked the customer to remove the hood, and all requests were ignored until the customer was in the checkout area. • IMAGE
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: COVIDIOT CUTS HOLE IN MASK TO MAKE IT ‘EASIER TO BREATHE’ _ A Kentucky woman was captured on video shopping with a hole cut in her face mask, claiming that it made it “easier to breathe.” A gas station clerk is heard asking the the woman entering his convenience store why she has a hole in her mask. She tells him, “Well, since we have to wear them and it makes it hard to breathe, this makes it a lot easier to breathe.”
Entertainment News
Question of the Podcast - What is something that everyone should be trained to be able to do?
13 little etiquette rules to follow when dinning at a restaurant
Fun Facts
✓ A normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts.
✓ Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a liquid that flows very slowly.
I’ve said this one before, but it’s a good reminder. We all know the advice for healthy teeth — brush twice daily and don’t eat too much sugar. So why do those of us following these instructions find we sometimes need a filling when we visit the dentist? One thing you may be doing wrong: rinsing after brushing. Don’t do it. Once you’ve brushed, don’t rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash — you’re washing away the fluoride. This can be a difficult habit to break, but can reduce tooth decay by up to 25%.
WORDS AND PHRASES INSPIRED BY THE CORONAVIRUS
COVIDIOT – Anyone not following lockdown rules, mask-wearing guidelines, etc.
ZUMPED – Zumped is the COVID-inspired phrase for breaking up with someone over Zoom or other video chat.
QUARANTINI – Drinking while you’re sitting at home.
SPENDEMIC – The increase in online shopping during the pandemic.
CORONIALS – The term being used for the babies who will be born after lockdown.
Four months into 2020 and if your goal was to lose weight and you’re still at it, good for you! You’re doing better than about 95% all resolutions makers.
And in the fifth month of the year, if you’re finding it tough to stay on that healthy-eating plan, start by dumping these supposedly healthy foods. Nutritionists say they’re deceiving.
• Granola – People think of granola as healthy because they think whole grain, but the problem with granola is that it tends to also have a lot of sugar and its often cooked with oil or butter and some kind of fat.
• Smoothies or juice – When you juice fruit, you strip out the fiber, causing a more rapid spike in blood sugars and insulin levels. Juicing multiple fruits at once is definitely too much sugar from the fructose. Bottom line: don’t drink your calories.
• Skinny Cow Ice Cream – On top of the hard-to-pronounce ingredients (Propylene Glycol Monostearate?!), artificial sweeteners could lead consumers to crave more sweet things, which basically undoes the whole point of a low-cal dessert.
• Flavored yogurt – The culprit is the added sugar. Some have nearly as much sugar as ice cream. Buy plain yogurt (check the label for sugar!) and sweeten it up with fresh fruit.
• Energy/snack bars – They often have a chocolate or yogurt coating (think Special K) and contain a ton of chemicals and artificial sweeteners. Instead, the best snack options are fresh fruits, raw nuts and natural nut butters.
• Vitamin Water – Most Vitamin Water flavors have upwards of 31 grams of sugar, which is almost eight teaspoons of sugar.
• Reduced-fat peanut butter – Natural full-fat peanut butter is your best bet, since reduced fat actually has added sugar to make up for taste.
• Agave syrup – Replacing actual sugar with a product like agave nectar might satisfy your sweet tooth but not your health. These natural sweeteners are still sugars with the same concerning amount of calories as normal sugar and honey (60 calories per tablespoon).
• Multi-grain – Multi-grain just means that there are two or more grains present in the pasta or bread. It has nothing to do with how refined the flour base used is, and if it’s white, that means it has been stripped of most of its nutrients. Instead, look for 100% whole wheat, which means that all of the grain kernel has been used so you’re getting as much fiber and nutrients as possible.
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/lowtreestudios
Lowtree Studios Podcasts
www.lowtreestudios.com
Social
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JasonMindyPod/