The Weekly Dose

It is Wednesday June 24th. Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1497: The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place when explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada. He claimed the piece of land for England, which is now Newfoundland.

• 1892: Robert Ford was gunned down in a Creede, Colorado, saloon. Ten years earlier, as a new recruit in the Jesse James gang, he had killed Jesse for a $10,000 reward.

• 1997: The Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.

• 2010: John Isner of the United States defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history: 11 hours, 5 minutes.

• 2014: The original lyrics to Like a Rolling Stone, handwritten by Bob Dylan on hotel stationery, sold for $2 million at auction.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Fairy Day

• World UFO Day

• Pralines Day

• Swim a Lap Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

15,600: Nursing homes in the United States.

NEWS ATTACK!

- Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that a coronavirus vaccine might take some time.

- A source says baseball finally has a plan to play. 

- A survey finds that 30% of Americans have zero savings.

- JCPenney is closing more stores.

- The Segway self-balancing scooter will no longer be built. Since the original Segway’s debut 20 years ago, the market has become saturated with electric-powered two-wheelers of many varieties. Segway said the iconic and oft-ridiculed scooter only accounted for 1½ percent of the company’s revenue.

- State and county health directors are getting death threats for trying to keep their people safe from COVID-19. What do you mean by their people?

- According to a survey by the National Kidney Foundation, one in four Americans say they would consider donating a kidney to a stranger while still alive.

- Police in San Jose, California, are searching for a woman accused of deliberately coughing in a baby’s face after arguing with the 1-year-old’s mother about social distancing.

- In a normal year this coming weekend would give us the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest, part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Thanks to the coronavirus, this year’s WUG Contest has been canceled.

- If you’ve been able to work from home during the pandemic, here’s one bit of good news: you saved hundreds of dollars. Putting a price tag on it, Americans spend $2,600 each year — and 200 hours annually — getting to and from work.

- It’s expected that the world’s population will hit 8 billion by 2024. If there were just 100 people in the world, 61 would live in Asia, 14 in Africa, 11 in Europe, nine in Latin America, five in North America and less than one in Oceania (a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia).

- In Denmark, a guy was rushed to the hospital after eating half a stick of dynamite. His drinking buddy gave him the “food” outside a bar and told him it was a new kind of candy bar.

- A tip for would-be thieves: If you’re going to a job interview, don’t swipe someone’s wallet and expect to be hired. Two job seekers learned that lesson the hard way after British police snagged them with a simple sting: getting the applicants’ would-be new boss to tell them, “You’re hired!” Excited, the two alleged thieves rushed back to the office where they found detectives and an unhappy employer waiting for them.

Water Cooler Question

Two million dads in the U.S. have this in common. (They’re single)

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It is Tuesday 23rd. Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”.

• 1888: Frederick Douglass becomes the first African-American nominated for US president.

• 1993: Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.

• 2005: In Suffolk, Virginia, three guys walked into a McDonald’s with the intention of robbing it. The place was rather busy so they ordered several burgers and enjoyed their meals while waiting for the crowd to thin out. They then robbed the place and made their getaway. Unfortunately, they left behind an important piece of evidence: their DNA on the leftover portions of the burgers.

• 2012: 76 monks were hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Widows’ Day

• Let It Go Day

• Eat At A Food Truck Day

• Runner’s Selfie Day

• Pecan Sandy Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

5,800: Pounds of raisins eaten each week in the U.S.

NEWS ATTACK!

- A new study shows that prolonged sitting can lead to anxiety disorders.

A study finds that kids who lie well also have superior verbal memories.

- Obesity experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say children should get an hour of exercise every day.

- Coronavirus case trends are on the rise in half of the U.S.

- An update to the Apple Watch will remind you if you’ve not washed your hands for a full 20 seconds.

- The Hubble space telescope has spotted a galaxy about 50 million light-years from Earth.

- The 2021 Golden Globes will be delayed a couple of months due to COVID-19.

- A new survey finds the average person has six home repairs or updates on their to-do list — and to complete just the top three would require an average of $680 combined. Those with home improvement experience reveal the average repair has three things go wrong. More than six in ten homeowners turn to search engines, YouTube or helpful apps to get their repairs and updates done

- After weathering 20 years together, it is safe to assume you’d feel safe in a relationship with someone. However, one husband harshly learned that his wife might not have been as happy as he thought she had been after he overheard a conversation she was having with a friend. Now the husband and father of two adult children wants a divorce, but people are thinking he’s seriously taking it too far. The man shared on reddit: “I genuinely thought we were in love … until I overheard her on the phone recently remarking to a friend that she feels she settled for me and thinks about her ex every day. Her exact words: ‘I feel like I settled for him… I love him but he doesn’t excite me the way Tom did. Sometimes I wish Tom had been serious with me.’” The husband wrote on reddit: “Tom is her ex who she dated on and off before she met me. I always thought she was done with him because she told me that he ‘meant nothing to her’ because he refused to seriously commit but hearing this all these years later broke my heart.” In that moment, the husband knew in his heart that it was over. The man says, “I told her I overheard her and that it’s over. She broke down in hysterics saying it wasn’t what it looked like.” Reddit users were a little divided over how the husband should handle it.

- Two people caught joyriding through Italy in the buff were arrested by police. They say a woman was eating a slice of pizza while driving naked. Her passenger was also naked, holding a bottle of wine between his feet.

- In Germany, police are looking for a man who robbed a bank, then left his dufflebag full of money lying on the sidewalk just outside the bank’s doors. Witnesses say the man stopped after the robbery to tie his shoe then, forgetting about the bag, walked away.

Water Cooler Question

Thirteen percent of people who get this are men. (Botox)

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It is Monday June 22nd. Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1882: The Air-Conditioned Rocking Chair was patented. It had a propeller fan mounted overhead that was turned by the chair’s motion. The faster you rocked, the faster the fan turned.

• 1847: The doughnut was invented.

• 1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

• 1981: Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon.

• 1984: The movie The Karate Kid opened in American theaters.

• 2003: The mayor of Torredonjimeno, Spain, declared Thursdays “Ladies Night” and threatened to fine any man found strolling about town in the evening, in an attempt to encourage them to stay at home and do the chores. Ladies in the town of 14,000 were thrilled, men were not.

• 2009: Jon and Kate Gosselin, stars of the reality TV series Jon & Kate Plus 8, announced plans to divorce.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week

• Lightning Safety Awareness Week

• Universal Father’s Week

• Old Time Fiddlers Week

• HVAC Technicians Day

• World Rainforest Day

• VW Beetle Day

• Chocolate Eclair Day

• Onion Ring Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

50,000: Cargo ships operating around the world.

NEWS ATTACK!

- A study concludes that fermented foods ease social anxiety.

- In Germany a man undergoing a divorce from a cheating wife used a chainsaw to cut all his marital possessions in half.

- A tractor-trailer carrying 500 toilets overturned on a highway in Russia.

- For Father’s Day my kids served me breakfast in bed.

- They found a mountain lion roaming around San Francisco.

- People in San Francisco were a bit freaked out by a mountain lion roaming the city.

- Hot weather has arrived.

- A company is offering text you dad jokes once a day. The service is free.

- Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally filled only about a third of the venue where it was held.

- A young mountain lion that had been spotted sleeping in a planter box along a normally busy street in downtown San Francisco was safely captured and released into the wild. The disoriented cougar roamed the streets for two days until he was spotted by a police officer near Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants.

- A survey found clothing topped the list of least favorable Father’s Day presents, followed by books/CDs, and then greeting cards.

- A Siberian town with the world’s widest temperature range has recorded a new high. The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit 100.4 on Saturday. The town is located above the Arctic Circle about 2,900 miles northeast of Moscow. The town of about 1,300 residents is recognized by the Guinness World Records for the most extreme temperature range, with a low of minus-90 F and a previous high of 98.96 F. Much of Siberia this year has had unseasonably high temperatures, leading to sizable wildfires

- A recent study has found that the average American spends only 19 minutes a day reading. Those 34 and under are reading less than ten minutes a day.

- In Nevada, someone called 911 to report that a woman had thrown all of her food out of her home and was now driving around using a “finger gun” on people.

- A tractor-trailer carrying 500 toilets overturned on a highway in Russia.

- In Serbia, a groom spent the night in jail after he injured 15 guests while trying to shoot an apple with a shotgun. Shooting the apple is a traditional part of a Serbian wedding and is supposed to bring good luck to the newlyweds.

- A groom in Romania found himself a new bride within 24 hours after his fiancé got cold feet and took off. The groom called up his old girlfriends, convinced one to marry him and didn’t tell anyone until she walked down the aisle.

Water Cooler Question

The average person encounters from 3,500 to 5,000 of these each day. (Marketing messages. That’s up from 500 to 2,000 in the 1970s.)

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It is Friday June 19th. Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1846: The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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

• 1941: General Mills in Minneapolis created a new dry breakfast cereal called Cheerie Oats. The name was later shortened to Cheerios.

• 1978: The Garfield comic strip debuted.

• 1993: Toronto police reported that a business burglar had left a thumb print in the owner’s Silly Putty.

• 2015: Hawaii raised the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, the highest smoking age among all the states.

• 2016: Actor Anton Yelchin was killed when he was pinned by his Jeep Grand Cherokee against an entrance post at his home.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Juneteenth

• Flip Flop Day

• Ugliest Dog Day

• Martini Day

DATEBOOK WEEKEND

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

35 million: Americans who have never left the state where they were born.

NEWS ATTACK!

- After being locked down, consumers are doing some “revenge shopping” — buying things they felt they were denied over 2½ months.

- One in three British men say they wear their underwear more than one day in a row. One in 100 say they wear their underwear up to a full week.

- According to a poll, more than two-thirds of Americans are concerned about the threat of hackers.

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

- White House adviser Kellyanne Conway apparently had some work done on her face.

- The reason we had a flour shortage during the pandemic is because there aren’t enough manufacturing plants set up to bag flour for grocery stores.

- Here’s a new crisis the coronavirus pandemic is responsible for: a nationwide shortage of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.

- An Alaska father and son fishing on a river found a message in a bottle that apparently traveled about 50 miles in 13 years. he message inside was written by two young girls named Amy and Angela. The note detailed the girls’ current crushes and celebrated their friendship.

- 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.

- A game warden saw a strange sight walking down a Vermont road. The Tegu “Red Dragon” had apparently wandered off its owner’s property but is now safe. They were able to reunite the lizard with its owner.

- 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.”

Water Cooler Question

58% of women say they’d do this for a million dollars. (Sleep with a total stranger)

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It is Thursday June 18th. Let’s start the podcast!

T HAPPENED TODAY

• 1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

• 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon was mechanic.

• 1948: Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York. It played at 33 and 1/3 revolutions per minute.

• 1983: Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

• 1992: Italian police arrested a man for stealing 17-thousand little bars of hotel soap.

• 2018: Donald Trump announced he would set up a sixth branch of the military: a “space force.”

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Autistic Pride Day

• Bartender Day

• Sushi Day

• Recess At Work Day

• Picnic Day

• Cheesemakers Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

215: Most pairs of underwear worn at the same time. The record was set by a then-10-year-old in Alabama.

NEWS ATTACK!

- According to a survey the most dreaded day for adults is the day we go to the dentist.

- Head injuries from riding motorized scooters are on the rise.

- A study says domesticated dogs developed the ability to make that sad-eye look as a way to evoke human sympathy. Their ancestors, wolves, don’t make that face at humans.

- Target is raising its minimum wage to $15 starting July 5. Walmart’s minimum wage is still $11. The United States’ minimum wage is just $7.25 an hour. I made $7.50 20 years ago as my starting pay at Lowe’s. 

- Researchers are studying the lint in our belly buttons.

- The United Nations estimates that by 2050 the world will have almost 10 billion people.

- Researchers (North Carolina State University) dug into the microbial contents of 60 volunteers’ belly buttons. From 60 belly buttons, the team found 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new to science.

- It’s estimated that the average casual user (58 minutes per day on Facebook) who has been active on the site for 10 years has wasted upwards of 140 entire days of their life scrolling and liking and commenting on pictures and posts.

- If you skip your lunch break out of guilt, you are not alone — 82 percent of workers are also opting out of the downtime. A survey (Staffordshire University) reveals that people are choosing to complete their work over the time they give themselves for breaks.

- A South Carolina man said his wife’s urgent need for a bathroom break led to his winning big money from a scratch-off lottery ticket. The man and his wife made a stop at the Aynor Food Mart in Aynor, South Carolina, because she urgently needed to use the restroom. The man decided to fill up the gas tank while he was waiting, and he spotted another person at the pumps scratching off a lottery ticket. The man told his wife he was going inside to buy the same type ticket. She says she told him no at first, but her husband insisted and he won the ticket’s stop prize of $500,000.

- A man in the Ukraine told police he thinks his ex-girlfriend used a key he had given her to enter his apartment, steal his TV remote, and slash his clothes with a knife.

- In the UK a guy broke into an empty apartment. The owners were away for a few days. The guy stayed one night, replaced the beer he drank with a better brand of beer, and cleaned the place — even the rooms he never entered. Police have no leads and the apartment owners, while grateful for the cleaning, have changed their locks and installed security cameras.

Water Cooler Question

The longest one of these ever found was 19 feet, 2 inches. (Alligator)

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It is Wednesday June 17th. Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1870: George Cormack was born in Scotland. In 1924, working in the U.S., he invented Wheaties.

• 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.

• 1976: What remained of the American Basketball Association, the Nets, Pacers, Nuggets, and Spurs, merged into the NBA.

• 1994: Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

• 2004: An Alabama hen named Matilda was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living chicken. She was 14 at the time, almost double the normal lifespan of a chicken. Matilda worked in a magic act. She died February 11, 2006.

• 2008: An Orlando, Florida, man was taken into custody after the pickup he was driving was found to have a hidden 800-gallon tank custom-welded into the back to steal fuel. Investigators said a gas station attendant called police and said the driver of a white Ford pickup looked suspicious and lingered too long at the pump. When officers checked the man’s vehicle, they found a fuel tank professionally welded and hidden inside. The man also had a key that disabled pump meters.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Garbage Man Day

• Apple Strudel Day

• Cherry Tart Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

110: Most bridesmaids at a wedding. The record was set in 2015 by a bride from Ohio.

NEWS ATTACK!

- Another study has concluded that chocolate is good for the heart.

- Airlines are planning to restrict alcohol sales during flights.

- Summer begins Saturday.

- An investigation by USA Today found Americans were never at risk of a severe meat shortage.

- A super-wealthy family in China was kidnapped in their home, but the kidnappers were arrested after a member of the family escaped, ran away, and swam across a river to get help.

- A new study finds the discounting of cigarettes by the tobacco industry is linked to higher cigarette consumption.

- A New Zealand (Auckland) couple are happy to be reunited with their pet six months after she was stolen. On social media, police said officers found the dog when they arrested a man for dishonesty offenses and breaching his release conditions.

- A study that says flushing a toilet can generate a cloud of aerosol droplets that rises nearly three feet. Those droplets may linger in the air long enough to be inhaled by a shared toilet’s next user, or land on surfaces in the bathroom.

- 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.

- 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.

- A Brazilian bank was ordered to pay a former secretary $9,000 after her boss told her to keep a plastic turtle on her desk. The manager told his secretary to keep the toy turtle on her desk to remind her of how slow she worked.

- 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.

Water Cooler Question

The average man will wait 12 months before replacing one of these. (A dead pet. Women don’t wait quite as long.)

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It is Tuesday June 16th, Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1891: The George A. Hormel & Company was founded in Austin, Minnesota. In 1937 it introduced Spam, now the world’s biggest selling canned meat product.

• 1903: A U.S. patent was issued for a soft drink formula called Pepsi-Cola. On the same day a U.S. patent was issued for Chicken Goggles, designed to protect chickens from being pecked in the eyes.

• 1967: The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival — which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom — opened in northern California.

• 1987: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar signed a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for $5 million, making him the highest paid player in any sport.

• 1998: A 40-year-old Florida woman gave birth to a son in the first-ever live birth on the Internet before an audience estimated by a cable health network at two million people.

• 2013: Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders in Vatican Square; the riders were celebrating the company’s 110th anniversary with a parade.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Fudge Day

• Fresh Veggies Day

• World Sea Turtle Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

6 billion: Number of ATM transactions each year in the U.S.

NEWS ATTACK!

- If you have laryngitis, whispering doesn’t help. A study revealed that whispering strains your vocal cords as much as yelling.

- According to a study, a dog knows if someone is mistreating his owner, and will react by refusing food offered by that person.

- Airlines will soon make passengers wears masks during flight.

- The FDA has revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, the drug the president likes and even took himself.

- The coast of Oregon has a new park: Exploding Whale Memorial Park. The new park is named after the state’s decision to blow up a 45-foot, 8-ton whale that washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, in November of 1970.

- A group of scientists at the University of Nottingham think they’ve come up with a new calculation that says that there are likely to be at least 36 ongoing intelligent civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.

- 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.

- A man arrested on suspicion of burglary took two items from a Nebraska home. Police said the man was found passed out on the front lawn of the home with a package of bacon in his pocket.

- At a hair salon in the United Arab Emirates, a woman was attacked by a python while she was getting her hair done. She was rescued by another woman who unwrapped the snake from around her leg.

Water Cooler Question

This animal kills about 88 people each year. (Horses. Most are deaths from being thrown.)

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It is Monday June 15th, Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1884: The world’s first roller coaster opened at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. It was called the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway. The cars traveled at 6 miles per hour.

• 1920: The United States Postal Service ruled that children may not be sent via parcel post.

• 1966: The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

• 1996: Bomb disposal experts swung into action when a bomb was reported bobbing around in Hong Kong harbor. The “bomb” turned out to be a giant sausage.

• 1997: Michael Jordan scored 39 points as the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz 90-86 to win their fifth NBA championship in seven years.

• 2005: In Olathe, Kansas, a 17-year-old student was charged with battery after he threw up on his Spanish teacher. Witnesses told police the boy did it on purpose. A month later the juvenile was convicted and sentenced to four months cleaning up vomit from police cars.

• 2014: A water-embedded rock layer was found deep inside the earth; the layer stores three times the water found in all the earth’s oceans.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Nature Photography Day

• National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers

• Lobster Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

4 billion: Trees planted in Ethiopia in 2019. The country is planning to plant a total of 20 billion seedlings by 2024, in an attempt to build climate resilience in the nation.

NEWS ATTACK!

- After recovering from COVID-19 a guy in Seattle got a hospital bill for $1.1 million.

- A woman in Spain who just turned 105 gives credit for her longevity to drinking a can of beer every day.

- Medical research finds that the majority of American kids are dehydrated.

- A Florida woman called 911 because she was cheated in a marijuana deal. [

- One out of every four drivers say they’ve fallen asleep at the wheel.

- Sunday is Father’s Day.

- A woman has hatched three ducklings from eggs she bought in a British supermarket (Waitrose). Charli Lello put the eggs in an incubator as an experiment to pass the time after being furloughed.

- 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.

- In New Mexico, someone called police to report her house may have been burglarized because someone stepped in her dog’s poop in the yard.

- A bus on a day-long route across Germany had to pull over when the driver smelled smoke. The passengers quickly evacuated. Firefighters traced the problem to the luggage compartment under the bus: a stowaway had climbed in, and apparently got bored and lit a tobacco pipe.

Water Cooler Question

The restaurant Sobrino de Botín in Spain holds what world record? (First and oldest restaurant in the world. When it first opened in 1725 it was called Casa Botin. It’s still open today under the name Sobrino de Botín.)

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IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1952: A 17-year-old Bonham, Texas, housecat named Dusty set a Guinness record by giving birth to her 420th kitten.

• 1965: Queen Elizabeth honored the Beatles by making them members of the Order of the British Empire. Several British Army officers were so outraged, they returned their medals.

• 1981: Little-known comedian David Letterman hosted “Looking for Fun” on HBO.

• 1987: President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.

• 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but was held liable in a civil suit.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Jerky Day

• Peanut Butter Cookie Day

• Superman Day

• Red Rose Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

6,709: Spontaneous decisions made every year.

NEWS ATTACK!

- Speaking of spontaneous, A new survey finds the average person will act spontaneously about 18 times per day. And the study (by OnePoll) found those who considered themselves a “spontaneous person” were 40 percent more likely to consider themselves a happy person.

- Twitter may be adding emoji reactions

- In Romania, judges shut down a court room because three-quarters of the people in it were chewing gum and blowing bubbles.

- 82% of men rate their health as good to excellent. 

- The stock market plunged 7% Thursday.

- We’ll see new movies in theaters beginning July 1.

- Kelly Clarkson is getting a divorce. Kelly and Brandon had been having problems for several months and were making a conscious effort to work things out. They both hoped quarantining away from L.A. in Montana would help them work things out in their marriage, but instead the change in environment was actually detrimental.

- A guy on Twitter is catching heck for feeding his cat ice cream. The 11-second clip has received nearly 400,000 views since Monday when it was posted

- A couple of restaurant owners in Thailand have been given 723 years in prison for a seafood scam. The pair sold vouchers to customers that entitled them to use their seafood buffet at an extremely low price. But they later reneged on the promotions… And they get 723 years for it?

- 52% of single men and 39% of single women say they’ll have the traditional phrase “to honor and obey” in their wedding ceremony.

- A South Carolina couple made a surprising discovery while exploring the Stono River outside of Charleston: they found a prehistoric megalodon shark tooth larger than a human hand. The couple said the tooth is 5.75 inches from the tip to the root, weighs just under a pound and is three to five millions years old.

- Two British brothers were nabbed for burglary when one of the robbers got stuck trying to break into a department store. UK police arrested the men after the older brother got himself stuck trying to fit his 238-pound frame through a 2-foot hole in the side of the department store.

- A guy in England was sent to hospital with serious injuries after his second-floor balcony collapsed, sending him and a portable swimming pool plummeting about 12 feet to the ground. The man was on his townhouse balcony with the pool when the structure crashed to the ground. The man landed on the ground and was soaked by water from the swimming pool.

Water Cooler Question

Twenty percent of you will not go on vacation for this reason. (You have no place to leave your pets)

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It is Thursday June 11th, Let’s start the podcast!

IT HAPPENED TODAY

• 1962: Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin became the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.

• 1982: Director Steven Spielberg introduced his classic science-fiction film, E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial.

• 1993: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park premiered.

• 1998: Amazon.com expanded its product line from books only to add compact discs.

• 2002: American Idol premiered on the Fox Network. The talent show was based on a similar British program.

• 2004: Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s funeral was held at Washington National Cathedral.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Corn on the Cob Day

• Nursing Assistants Day

• Cotton Candy Day

• German Chocolate Cake Day

NUMBER FOR THE DAY

6,000: Hours the average person will spend reading over a lifetime.

NEWS ATTACK!

- 35 million people are still waiting on stimulus checks.

- The US intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets off the coast of Alaska.

- Scientists found a pair of leather shoes over 5,500 years old.

- Scientists say that being short raises heart risks.

- Starbucks will close 400 locations.

- Coachella and Stagecoach won’t take place this year.

- People know about food waste, and say they care about the problem, but they underestimate their role in the accumulating waste. The reality is around 40 percent of the U.S. food supply is thrown out.

- Don’t put soda in that sippy cup. A study (Penn State University) found that girls who drank soda by age 5 weren’t as well nourished over the next decade as girls who hadn’t touched the stuff by 5.

- According to a survey, many dogs and cats are now living well into their teens, But the study, which covered 2,500 pet owners and 100 vets, found this new longevity comes at a price. Conditions such as arthritis are likely to cost owners about $900 dollars a year to treat on average, while dealing with heart problems could cost almost double that.

- In a survey, 90 percent of women say they’re happy with how they look. Specifically, 36 percent thought their looks were above average and 54 percent thought their looks were “exactly average.” The study found that 75 percent of those surveyed agreed that “beauty comes from a woman’s spirit and love of life, not from her looks.”

- An elderly guy in Italy got a talking to by police after his landlady, age 58, complained he kept writing love letters to her even though she had rejected him.

- In Japan, a nursing care worker who was arrested for making about 4,000 calls to a bank said he did it because he wanted to hear women’s voices to relieve stress. The man says he made up to 30 calls a day to the bank during the past year.

Water Cooler Question

When packing for a trip, men forget this more than any other item. (A belt)

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