Mute Button & A Mountain Lion
Description
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.)
United States
