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It is Tuesday July 14th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1881: The outlaw known as Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. • 1913: Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother's second husband later adopted and renamed him. • 1969: The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills were officially withdrawn from circulation. • 2003: The United States Government admitted to the existence of Area 51. • 2015: NASA's New Horizons probe reestablished contact to transmit the first close photos of Pluto and its moons. The probe launched in 2006 and had traveled over 3 billion miles. SPECIAL EVENTS • Cow Appreciation Day • International Nude Day • Shark Awareness Day • Mac & Cheese Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 12,200: Commercial parking facilities in the U.S., which take in around $9.8 billion a year in fees. NEWS ATTACK! - Doctors in Italy did remote surgery over a 5G network while nine miles away from a patient. - As COVID-19 cases climb, California is closing dine-in restaurants, bars, movie theaters, museums and other indoor businesses. - According to a study, human attention span has supposedly dropped from 12 seconds in 2002 to only eight seconds today, which is a second shorter than a goldfish. - A guy in China posted a note for help on social media after he was locked inside a convenience store overnight. - A review of major studies found that one-third of the things the studies said were good for you turned out to actually be bad for you. - A new streaming service, Peacock, debuts Wednesday. It will include a free version with commercials. - According to a survey (by AVG Technologies), many kids notice their parents' screen addictions and it can profoundly affect their views on the subject. • 54% of children felt parents checked their devices too often • 32% of kids feel unimportant when parents get distracted by their phones • 52% of parents agreed that they check their devices too frequently • 25% of parents want their child to use their device less - According to a new survey, six in 10 Americans say their sleep routine during quarantine has them feeling more exhausted than they've ever felt in their life. The poll finds nearly 70 percent agree their sleeping habits have become inconsistent. Another 63 percent think their sleep schedules might be permanently ruined by the pandemic. - PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO WEAR A MASK HAVE LOWER COGNITIVE ABILITY. Following a survey of 850 Americans, a team discovered that those with more working memory capacity were more likely to comply with recommendations during the early stage of the outbreak. Those with a low capacity are unable to make effortful decisions. This memory also determines your intelligence and decision-making. - CORONAVIRUS IMMUNITY CAN START TO FADE AWAY WITHIN WEEKS. Researched found that the presence of antibodies peaked three weeks after symptoms appeared, before fading away. In some cases, the antibodies were undetectable three months afterward. - A STUDY SHOWS HUMANS ARE OPTIMISTS FOR MOST OF LIFE. The research found that even people with fairly bad circumstances, who have had tough things happen in their lives, look to their futures and life ahead and felt optimistic.” The optimism decline into older adulthood. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: DUMPSTER DIVING _ A drunk Ukrainian man ended up in the hospital after he tried to prove his bar boasting by climbing to the roof of the bar to do a belly flop into the dumpster. He made it but needed a few stitches. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MYSTERY SURROUNDS CAR WITH COVID 19 NUMBER PLATE _ A car with the number plate “COVID 19” has perplexed staff at an airport in Australia, who say it has been parked there for months. The grey BMW sedan has been left in the staff parking area at Adelaide Airport since before Australia's coronavirus lockdowns began. Staff are...

It is Monday July 13th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1923: The Hollywood sign was dedicated. • 1985: Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people. • 1994: Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Oregon, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Harding's skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan. • 2008: Anheuser-Busch accepted a $52 billion cash offer from No. 2 brewer InBev. The new company would be called Anheuser-Busch-InBev. SPECIAL EVENTS • Embrace Your Geekness Day • Gruntled Workers Day • French Fries Day • World Cup Soccer Day • Barbershop Music Appreciation Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 25,000: Bacteria on the average telephone. NEWS ATTACK! A restaurant in Upstate New York is telling customers to stop hitting on the staff. Saratoga, New York's Broadway Deli wrote on Facebook: “This is a PSA for you thirsty bros out there: Stop asking out my staff while they're trying to work. Owner Daniel Chessare said that customers flirting with employees has been an occasional issue since the Jewish-style deli opened two years ago, but says it has intensified in recent weeks — though he's not sure why. Chessare said, “Staff come and go, so I'm not sure if it's because my staff now are particularly attractive or if it's because people aren't traveling, so these thirsty bros aren't on vacation somewhere else.” • https://www.facebook.com/SaratogaBD/photos/a.1790884924326376/3102523416495847/?type=3 (LINK) The Facebook post includes this advice: “If you are going to ask a girl out at least tip. How're you gonna look her in the eye, tap ‘no tip' on the tablet, then follow it up with ‘Hey baby, let's go out.' Cuz nothing says attractive like treating service people poorly.” - Researchers in northern Botswana have come up with a unique way to protect farmers' crops from elephants: disco lights. Lines of flashing multi-colored lights set up around farmers' fields near Chobe National park have been shown to be highly effective at scaring off elephants. The park is home to 7,500 elephants. It's the site of a floodplain whose nutrient-rich soils are a draw to farmers. - A Toronto woman spotted a cleaner at a grocery store spitting on a towel and then wiping down grocery baskets with it. She got video of the incident at a FreshCo location. In the video, the employee is seen using a small white towel to wipe down baskets. At one point, he appears to spit into the towel and continues wiping down the baskets. After the customer reached out to the company's corporate office it said the employee works for a third-party service provider and that he is no longer working at the store. - A hair stylist in Virginia, who went above and beyond, was touched to receive a heartwarming letter from a widower. Sara Verkuilen received a personal note from the widower who said his wife, who had dementia, was delighted with her haircut. The letter writer, who didn't leave his name, wrote: “This is a little bit awkward. But I've waited a really long time to pass this on to you. My wife and I came in for haircuts shortly before Christmas of last year. My wife was suffering from dementia, and you treated her as if you'd been working with dementia patients all your life. You let us sit next to each other, and when it came time for her cut you turned her chair towards me so I could watch her expression as you cut her hair. Sadly, she died in March. And that haircut was one of the last, best moments of her life. She felt so pretty. She visited the mirror in her bathroom several times during the day and would come out beaming. To see her so happy was priceless. … I hope you always realize the power of your profession.” … Sara was moved by the letter and shared it on her Facebook, saying “This is why I love what I do.” - UK-based newspaper The Guardian says the government will launch an...

It is Thursday July 9th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1892: The first concrete road in America was completed in Bellefontaine, Ohio. The first asphalt road was laid down in July 1870 in Newark, New Jersey. • 1910: The first airplane to fly a mile in the air did so this day with W.R. Brookins of Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the controls. • 1985: Football great Joe Namath signed a five-year pact with ABC-TV to provide commentary for Monday Night Football. The former New York Jets quarterback reportedly earned one million dollars a year for the job. • 1997: Boxer Mike Tyson was banned from the ring and fined $3 million for biting opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. • 2008: Prosecutors cleared JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen in Boulder, Colorado. SPECIAL EVENTS • No Bra Day • World Body Painting Day • Sugar Cookie Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 1804: Year the world's population is thought to have reached one billion. NEWS ATTACK! PANDEMIC DELIVERS ROADKILL REPRIEVE _ A new report finds the pandemic has apparently spared one form of life — the animal kind, in the form of less roadkill. The report comes from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California at Davis. Data was taken from the departments of transportation in California, Idaho, and Maine dating to 2015 to determine that road traffic sagged by roughly 70 percent in those states from early March to mid-April due to pandemic-related shutdowns. Using roadkill data in those states, researchers reported that in the same period, Maine saw a 44% decrease in roadkill and Idaho saw a 38% drop. California saw a 21% drop, with a much bigger decrease — 58% — for mountain lions specifically.  - A 6-year-old girl fishing in a Maryland river reeled in a cellphone that was dropped into the water nearly a year ago — and it still works. Reagan Votaw's mother, Emily, said they took the phone home and let it rest for a while in rice to absorb any moisture. They then plugged the phone in and were surprised to see it still functioned perfectly. The phone belonged to Preston Shapiro, an eighth-grader who said he dropped the phone into the water while kayaking nearly a year earlier. Luckily Preston had the phone in a waterproof case. - A Canadian man who won a lottery jackpot of nearly $75,000 said the winning ticket sat forgotten for months in the pocket of a jacket he had loaned to a friend. Jose Lima told Ontario Lottery officials he got his jacket back after loaning it out to a friend and discovered the pocket contained a forgotten ticket for the September 28, 2019, drawing. Lima took the ticket to a store and found he won $74,045.50 - A new survey finds women are spending the equivalent of almost an entire month of the year worrying. The survey found women spend an average of almost two hours a day feeling worried or stressed, with two thirds of this time spent feeling anxious about other people rather than themselves. In comparison, men spend about one-and-half hours worrying each day. Almost two thirds of women have periods where they feel constantly worried, with their biggest concerns being the pandemic, protests, and fears about the economy. The health of loved ones, their family's safety, and needing to care for older parents is also causing women to feel stressed. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN DRUGS GIRLFRIEND TO KEEP PLAYING VIDEO GAMES _ A court fined a man in Germany after he admitted to giving his girlfriend a sedative so that he could keep playing video games with a friend. After ten hours at work, the girlfriend had been planning on a quiet evening rather than one interrupted by video game noises. After drinking some drugged tea the woman slept until midday the following day. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: LAWYER CENSURED AFTER SHOWING UP DRUNK TO REPRESENT DUI SUSPECT _ Tennessee has taken action against a lawyer accused of showing up to court drunk to represent a DUI suspect. The...

It is Wednesday July 8th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1680: The first confirmed tornado in America killed one person in Cambridge, Massachusetts. • 1776: The Declaration of Independence was read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • 1831: John Stith Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia. Pemberton was a pharmacist addicted to morphine after using it to treat a wound he received as a Confederate officer in the Civil War. His search for a cure for the addiction, which he never found, led him to create a beverage. His syrup debuted in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. Soon called Coca-Cola, it went on to make his partners and investors quite wealthy. But not Pemberton, as the inventor sold his interest in 1888. • 1881: The first ice cream sundae was served for the first time by druggist Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. • 1947: Reports were broadcast that a UFO had crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. • 2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. SPECIAL EVENTS • Coca Cola Day • Freezer Pop Day • Video Game Day • Chocolate with Almonds Day • Body Painting Day • Blueberry Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 2.8 million: Miles of paved roads (concrete or asphalt) in the U.S. Another 1.3 million miles are unpaved. NEWS ATTACK! -In recent weeks, the Senate Intelligence Committee included language in an authorization bill that if passed, would require US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to put together a detailed unclassified analysis of all the data they have collected on “unidentified aerial phenomenon.” But Americans aren't necessarily convinced the government will share any evidence of UFOs with the public. A poll of more than 8,000 US adults finds most (56%) Americans believe that if the government had evidence of UFOs, this information would be hidden from the public. - A cyclist who left from Vancouver, British Columbia, biked across Canada and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 20 days later. Bianca Hayes said her 3,666-mile ride across Canada set a new record for female cyclists, although her 20-day ride fell short of her original goal of finishing in under 15 days to beat the male record. Hayes' ride raised more than $22,000 for ovarian cancer research. She said the cause is personal to her, after her sister, Katrina, died after a battle with the disease in 2018. - While calorie information is available for most of the food we eat, that data doesn't really do the eater any good if you don't know how many calories you should be consuming each day. Unfortunately, a survey shows that an overwhelming number of Americans are either mistaken or clueless when it comes to that information. According to the survey (funded by the International Food Information Council Foundation) 63 percent of those surveyed couldn't accurately estimate the number of calories they should consume and 25 percent couldn't even venture a guess, leaving a slim 12 percent who were properly informed. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: CAR THIEF LOCKS HIMSELF INSIDE VEHICLE _ A car thief in China was found nearly dehydrated after he accidentally became trapped in the BMW he was trying to steal. The car's owner alerted local police after he received a phone call from the thief pleading to get him out of the sweltering vehicle. The suspect was so weakened by the oven-like interior that police had to take him away in a wheelchair. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN BREAKS INTO RESTAURANT, DRINKS SAUCE _ A guy in Germany stole a bicycle, tossed it through a restaurant window, then went inside the restaurant and drank half a bottle of hot sauce. He told police he did it because he was thirsty. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BURGLAR GIVES POLICE THE FINGER _ In Spain a burglar was trying to steal carpentry equipment from an industrial complex when he accidentally severed a finger. Unable to stop the bleeding, he went to the city's hospital. The officials notified police who went to the site and found the...

It is Tuesday July 7th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1863: The United States began its first military draft; exemptions cost $100. • 1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged. • 1928: Sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It was described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”. • 1954: Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played That's All Right. • 2017: Tesla Motors produced its first mass-market car, the Model 3. The first 30 were delivered to customers later in the month. • 2019: The U.S. beat the Netherlands 2-0 to win its fourth Women's World Cup. SPECIAL EVENTS • Chocolate Day • Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day • Global Forgiveness Day • Strawberry Sundae Day • Macaroni Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 80: Percentage of air in a marshmallow. NEWS ATTACK! - Americans have lost all hope of getting a summer body this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey of 2,000 Americans found that 63 percent are giving up on a summer body and are now focusing their efforts on achieving a post-quarantine body. 76 percent of 2,000 respondents shared they've gained up to 16 pounds during their time in isolation. - When most nurses finish their long shifts caring for the sick, there is little else on their minds but seeing their families, eating and sleeping. Not so Damaris Silva who twice a week, when she finishes her shift at a Chilean hospital, picks up her violin and returns to the ward. Silva spends several hours walking the corridors of the hospital (in Santiago). She plays a mix of popular Latin songs, bringing a moment of levity for both patients — some of whom have spent weeks in COVID-19 critical care — and exhausted colleagues. Silva's goal is to “give a little bit of love, of faith, of hope with my violin. Every time I do it, I do it from my heart.” - Firefighters in Britain came to the rescue of small fox with its hind leg stuck in a wooden picnic table. The firefighters extracted the fox's hind leg from the table, but the animal appeared to be injured so they waited with the animal until rescuers arrived to care for it. - Illinois is one of the few states that's coming out of COVID-19 pretty well. The state locked down in late March and its governor told residents to wear masks early on. Despite Illinois' better-than-average situation, some residents aren't happy and are planning — ready for this? — a Millions Unmasked March on July 25. - Men who dance well are more likely to attract women. Scientists discovered that being able to pull off dance floor moves with the ease indicates strength and ability to produce healthy offspring. Researchers found that the men who women said looked attractive on the dance floor are actually physically stronger than those who are considered to have two left feet. This in turn indicates an ability to have strong children. injuries. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: SEWAGE TRUCK OVERTURNS IN NORTH CAROLINA _ A truck carrying sewage waste overturned in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday, blocking traffic. More than a dozen firefighters and EMS workers were at the scene using shovels to clean up the road. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: FOUR TONS OF GARBAGE REMOVED FROM APARTMENT _ More than four tons of garbage were removed from an elderly couple's home in China. It took 12 hours for 20 workers to remove the piles of what they described as “trash” collected by the couple. Workers were forced to toss the garbage from the apartment's fourth-story window to be collected below. When asked why he stored the trash instead of selling it, the husband said current recycling prices are too low and he was waiting out the market. Water Cooler Question 75 percent of employers provide this free of charge to employees. (Coffee) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com)...

It is Monday July 6th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1785: The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. • 1933: Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League beat the National League 4-2. • 1955: America's first seat belt law was signed, in Illinois. • 1957: Teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen. • 2010: Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.) • 2014: The state of Washington legalized recreational marijuana, becoming the second U.S. state to do so after Colorado. SPECIAL EVENTS • International Kissing Day • Fried Chicken Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 44: Percentage of drivers who've forgotten where they parked. NEWS ATTACK! - Falling from 14,000 feet up is hair-raising enough, but doing it at 103? Al Blaschke made a Guinness World Records-breaking leap with two grandsons Thursday in the skies over Texas. Blaschke, who tied the record back in 2017 at age 100, took the leap again to celebrate his 22-year-old twin grandsons' graduations. - A California special education teacher was fired from her school district after a video went viral of her allegedly intentionally coughing on a 1-year-old at a yogurt shop. School officials in San Jose said they would not tolerate conduct from any employee that may compromise the safety of a child. The suspect was standing in line at Yogurtland in front of a mother and her child, who was in a stroller. Police say the woman was upset that the mother was not maintaining proper social distancing, so she removed her face mask, got close to the baby's face, and coughed 2 to 3 times. - On June 27 Tracie Stanley-Wills and her partner Craig were meant to getting married with a ceremony in front of 50 friends and family. Sadly, when coronavirus struck back in March, they decided to postpone until next year. But Tracie still wore a wedding dress last Saturday on the day that she'd planned to get married, instead running a 5K to raise money for two charities close to her heart. Having not been much of a runner before as she lives with fibromyalgia, osteoporosis and a false hip, she chose to complete the couch to 5K program. - A former Russian policeman has been living a normal life with a bullet lodged in his brain for past ten years. The policeman, 36-year-old Vladimir Krutov, got the bullet in his head during an encounter with gang ten years ago. At the time, surgeons refused to remove the bullet saying the procedure would almost certainly cause death. The bullet had entered the base of the skull and passed through his entire brain. At the time, doctors gave Krutov a one in a million chance of survival. A year-and-a-half ago he married and is now the proud father of a five-month-old daughter. - A Tennessee (Franklin) dog played a role in alerting her owner Saturday night to the neighbor's house being on fire — a blaze started by fireworks. Roux, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois, was barking frantically at Jeff LeCates' front door just before 10:45PM Saturday. When LeCates opened the door to investigate, Roux burst out. LeCates then saw that his neighbor's house was on fire, prompting him to pound on their door and wake the family of three and their pets. All escaped without injuries. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: DEER ENTERS STORE, GETS FED COOKIES, RETURNS WITH FAMILY _ A deer entered a Colorado store. The store owner gave him some chocolate chip cookies. The deer left the store and returned after half an hour with all his family members. • https://twitter.com/akkitwts/status/1279430901093371905 (IMAGES) WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BRITISH WOMAN SLEEPWALKS INTO THE SEA _ A British...

It is Friday July 3rd. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1819: The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opened. • 1852: Congress established the United States' second mint, in San Francisco, California. • 1884: Dow Jones published its first stock average. • 1922: Fruit Garden and Home magazine published its first issue. Two years later, the publication became Better Homes and Gardens. • 1970: Some 200,000 heard Jimi Hendrix play “The Star Spangled Banner” as the 3-day Atlanta Pop Festival opened in Byron, Georgia. Two days later Governor Lester Maddox said he would seek legislation to ban rock festivals in Georgia. • 1986: President Ronald Reagan presided over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. • 2008: Because of a banking error a 16-year-old boy in England went to an ATM and found he had $4 million in his account. He withdrew $600 to spend but after the error was corrected he found he was $600 overdrawn. • 2009: Sarah Palin announced she would resign as Alaska governor with 16 months left in her term. SPECIAL EVENTS • Compliment Your Mirror Day • Plastic Bag Free Day • Stay Out Of The Sun Day • Eat Beans Day • Superman Day • Chocolate Wafer Day • Air Conditioning Appreciation Day • American Redneck Day • Comic Sans Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 9,412: Members in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which votes in the various Academy Awards categories each year. NEWS ATTACK! - The new research showed a dogs DNA develop more quickly when they're young and more slowly when they're old. One dog year does not equal seven human years. Aging in puppies is far more rapid than that.” For example, a 1-year-old dog is the equivalent of a 30-year-old human. A 4-year-old dog is like a 52-year-old human. After age 7, dog aging slows down. - Officials in San Francisco are working to figure out a way to quiet a low hum coming from the famed Golden Gate Bridge that has become annoying to some residents. The noise was first reported on June 5. The culprit is reportedly the northwest winds hitting the bridge's sidewalk railings that have recently been installed in a retrofitting. Some residents say the noise that is produced sounds like torture and causes them physiological distress. The chief engineer for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District said engineers were unaware that the sound would be produced and consultants have been asked to help solve the issue. - A little more than half of the country keeps an American flag in their home. That's according to the results of a recent (YouGov) poll. Those 65 and older are the most likely to have the flag in their home (69%). Young adults are the least likely age demographic to have an American flag at home. - From his kitchen window, Ben Ramirez is handing out free coffee and a smile to people in his San Francisco neighborhood. On average, Ramirez makes about 10 to 15 cups a day. His “regulars” are essential workers. In compliance with the six-feet social distancing guideline, he hands out the coffee with a toy gorilla arm, an idea given to him by his five-year-old son, Luca. Ramirez starts his day early — around 6:30AM. After making breakfast for his sons, he's at his kitchen window from 8AM to noon, serving his community, seven days a week. - A Chinese villager was disappointed to find the bear that had been terrorizing his chickens could also hold its liquor. The poultry farmer had plotted to trap the black bear by baiting it with honey mixed with two liters of strong alcohol. The next morning he found the spiked honey gone and two dead chickens. - A German thief effectively signed his own arrest warrant after photographing himself at the scene of a crime and accidentally leaving the pictures for police to discover. Police said the teen stole a digital camera during a break-in and took the photos before discarding the device nearby. Water Cooler Question

It is Thursday June 25th. Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1947: The Diary of Anne Frank was published. • 1951: The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities. • 1991: Francis Johnson's world record 8.7-ton ball of twine, which he had been building since 1950, was moved to a prominent place in downtown Darwin, Minnesota, where more people could see it. • 2002: A five-year-old Sicilian boy tore up $1,525 in cash, his father's monthly salary, the day after his grandfather told him money was trash and couldn't buy happiness. • 2009: Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. SPECIAL EVENTS • It's six months till Christmas!  • Color TV Day • Global Beatles Day • Global Smurfs Day • Bomb Pop Day • Catfish Day • Hand Shake Day • Strawberry Parfait Day • Goat Cheese Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 66: Players who suited up for just one NBA game. NEWS ATTACK! - A study finds that if processed foods are labeled as healthy, people tend to overindulge in them. - Masks are big sellers on Etsy and the website sold around 12 million in April alone. - Users of Windows 10 will soon see a better Start menu. [You'll see a list of your apps, a ‘sleep' switch, and a link for ordering a Macbook.] - The latest poll shows if the election were held today, Joe Biden would win. [And then take a nap.] - The latest poll shows if the election were held today, Donald Trump would lose. [But not on Twitter.] - Baseball fans are happy there will be 60 games and not a canceled season. - Thanks to COVID-19 and drive-in theaters, Jurassic Park is No. 1 at the box office again. - The 2021 summer vacation planning period began earlier than ever, with many people who had planned bigger trips for summer 2020 simply pushing back those reservations to 2021. One travel company says 89 percent of clients with trips cancelled by pandemic shut-downs rebooked the very same itinerary for 2021. - A dog in Tennessee has become the oldest known living golden retriever in history after celebrating her 20th birthday in April. Most golden retrievers live between 10 and 12 years. - Google announced Wednesday it will start to automatically delete users' location history and web activity after 18 months. Previously, users had to turn this setting on if they didn't want Google to store their data for an indefinite amount of time. - Men are almost twice as likely to speed on the road as women, according to analysis of more than five billion miles of driving data. On average, men speed 94 per cent more than women, but women in their forties are found to speed 2 percent more than their male counterparts. - A study says delivering bad news is easier — and the information gets delivered more accurately — when done by email rather than face-to-face or by phone. A co-author of the study thinks its because “People don't sugarcoat” the news — “they just tell it like it is” through email. - Could our favorite morning drink also help fight one of its biggest health issues, obesity? That's the suggestion from a British study (University of Nottingham) that finds coffee stimulates the human body's “brown fat,” a heat-generating form of fat that literally burns calories in a process called thermogenesis. - In wacky news - A first date went from locking lips to angry words for a couple in China over a dispute involving dentures damaged during a passionate kiss. Police were called after a 30-year-old man got upset with his significant over the dental disaster. He told officers he had lost four false teeth while making out with his date, which he blamed on her “aggressive kissing style.” After two hours of police mediation, the man was compensated $483. Water Cooler Question You might think this is acceptable to do at work, but 84% of your...

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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com...

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.) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose...

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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

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.) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose)

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.) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

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.) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

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 https://www.etonline.com/kelly-clarkson-and-brandon-blackstocks-marriage-hasnt-been-working-for-a-while-source-says-147964 (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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose)

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) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose)

It is Wednesday June 10th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1682: The first tornado recorded by settlers in North America was sighted near New Haven, Connecticut. • 1793: Philadelphia ceased to be the capital of the United States when all federal government offices moved to Washington DC. • 1943: The Ball Point Pen was patented by Lasalo Biro of Budapest, Hungary. • 1965: Subway owner Fred DeLuca opened his first sandwich shop. • 2007: The final episode of The Sopranos aired on HBO. SPECIAL EVENTS • Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) Day • Egg Roll Day • Iced Tea Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 19,375: People who report being injured by a golf cart each year in the U.S. NEWS ATTACK! - According to a study, fish can actually recognize you. - The latest statistics say that here in the U.S, the obesity rate for women and teens continues to rise. - In Germany a man who stole a bike from beside a police station was arrested while trying to sell it to two plainclothes officers. The cops got suspicious when hey noticed the man had bolt cutters sticking out of his jacket. - A new study shows drivers are significantly more likely to die in a small car than a large one. - There's a trailer for the next Bill & Ted movie. - The TV show Cops has been canceled for good. - Turns out robbing a bank may not be worth it. In addition to the likelihood that you'll get caught, you'll only make around $4,000 for the federal crime. - The average person will consume nearly 70,000 snacks in their lifetime. The average person will enjoy 21 nibbles between meals every week — a total of 1,095 a year. - Food industry experts say consumers should be prepared for restaurant prices to go up and menus to change as businesses grapple with higher prices from suppliers and other expenses due to the coronavirus - Police in Poland responding to a call for a slumper in a car came across a man who turned out to be very much alive. He was, however, very drunk. When police woke him up the man didn't beat around the bush when asked if he had been drinking. The man said, “Yes. A lot.” - Police in the UK said a crook stole over $200,000 from a bank's ATM and then broke in again seven days later and returned most of the money. They think the robber had a front door key because there was no sign of a forced entry. Water Cooler Question When packing for a trip, men forget this more than any other item. (A belt) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1909: Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California. • 1915: Les Paul was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In the 1940s and '50s he transformed popular music by inventing the modern solid-body electric guitar. • 1980: Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of “free-base” cocaine exploded. • 1986: The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts. • 1994: In North Yorkshire, England, car thieves stole British Home Secretary Michael Howard's bulletproof car while he was a attending a meeting of police chiefs. The car was found later minus all four wheels. • 2011: In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot. SPECIAL EVENTS • Call Your Doctor Day • Donald Duck Day • Pet Memorial Day • Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 6.8: Miles down to the lowest point on Earth, Challenger Deep at the bottom of the western Pacific Ocean. NEWS ATTACK! - Health researchers say an average cinnamon pastry can have as much fat as two pork chops with mashed potatoes. - A woman in California stole an ambulance and then totaled it. - A treasure chest full of gold, jewelry and other valuables worth $1 million was found in the Rocky Mountains, according to the man who hid it there more than a decade ago. Art dealer and author Forrest Fenn confirmed that “the search is over” in an announcement on his website. - A monkey in Kenya fell onto a transformer at the main electrical plant and knocked out power for nearly four hours. Fortunately, the monkey survived. - Father's Day is a couple of weeks away.] - Hotels are trying to lure back customers by emphasizing how clean they are, offering gift cards and other freebies. - A worker at an Amazon warehouse in Wales is asking customers to check their packages for the engagement ring that fell off her finger at work. - While the whole world is following the social distancing norms New Zealand has lifted all restrictions. Border controls will still remain and people coming from other countries will be tested. - Dunkin' locations are still serving their loyal customers and are now getting ready for re-opening in certain areas. In response, Dunkin' franchises are looking to hire 25,000 new employees to fulfill entry-level positions as well as managerial spots. - According to an online study, women have fashion on the brain 91 times in a given day — that's more than four times the amount that men think about sex. - Police in Holland confiscated the car and driver's license of a man caught speeding who said he was just trying to dry his car after he had washed it. Water Cooler Question The average American eats 50 of these a year. (Bananas) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Monday June 8th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1953: The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks. • 1968: James Earl Ray was arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. • 1969: The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during “Mickey Mantle Day” at Yankee Stadium. • 1984: The movie Ghostbusters hit theaters. • 2004: In London, England, Andrew Bellwood broke into a home, stealing $10,000 in jewelry, cash and CDs, plus a baseball cap. He wore that cap at his next burglary but lost it when the residents returned home and chased him away. He was arrested after DNA experts identified him from the dandruff found inside the cap. (Gotta get that head and shoulders bro.)  • 2008: The U.S. average price for a gallon of regular gasoline topped $4 for the first time ever. • 2016: A town northwest of Madrid, Spain lost its poop. The town had recently launched a campaign to get people to pick up after their dogs. To remind dog owners of their civic duty the local council erected a giant inflatable poop about 10 feet wide and over six feet tall in the town square. It was stolen. SPECIAL EVENTS • Bed Bug Awareness Week • Black Single Parents Week • Automotive Service Professionals Week • Business Etiquette Week • Pet Appreciation Week • World Oceans Day • Ghostbusters Day. • Jelly-Filled Donut Day NEWS ATTACK! - Friday's jobs report wasn't accurate. Instead of 13.3% unemployment its 16.3%. - China, which was caught meddling in the past two US elections, says it's “not interested” in 2020's election. - A study finds that people's choice of whom to date is unknowingly influenced by others. - In China it's time for high school seniors to take college entrance exams. Many of them arrive in taxis but refuse to take any taxi whose number plates include certain unlucky Chinese numbers. - In a Serbian village it rained frogs. Literally. Small frogs from a pond or lake elsewhere had been picked up in a whirlwind and transported over the village where they fell from a cloud. - A report says the U.S. prison population increases by about 1,100 each week. A study claims six minutes of intense exercise is just as good as six hours. An 18-year-old took to the streets of Buffalo at 2 in the morning with a broom in hand to clean up any trash left from the protests. And after 10 straight hours of sweeping up the debris, Antonio Gwynn's neighborhood was back to tip top shape. - Doctors who removed 420 kidney stones from a man in China blamed the condition on his love of local tofu. He later told doctors his daily diet included lots of gypsum tofu, a local food with a high concentration of calcium sulfate. Water Cooler Question Since 1990 the average length of one of these has grown from 11 months to 16 months. (Engagement) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Friday June 5th, Let's start the podcast! This day in history • 1783: The first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon flight took place at Annonay, France, where brothers Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier succeeded in launching their 33-foot-diameter balloon. The unmanned balloon rose an estimated 1,500 feet and traveled about 7,500 feet before landing after a 10-minute flight. • 1956: Elvis Presley introduced his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. • 1981: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS. • 2001: A burglar fell asleep after taking sleeping tablets to calm his nerves during a raid on a hospital pharmacy in Amman, Jordan. The raider took three tablets from the haul of medication he had stolen. He then fell asleep and was later awakened by police. • 2004: Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93. Reasons to party • Baby Boomers Recognition Day • Donut Day • Hot Air Balloon Day • Moonshine Day • Veggie Burger Day • Ketchup Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 236: Number of extra calories we consume on Saturdays. NEWS ATTACK! - The NBA will return July 31 with a 22 team format. - The AMC theater chain says it may not survive the shutdown. - As it files for bankruptcy, JC Penney is out with a list of stores it will close. - Experts say one we will unlock our computers by simply thinking of our password. No typing. - Las Vegas has reopened hotels and casinos. - A study found that Red Delicious apples contain a high level of antioxidants — as long as you eat the skin. - A survey has found more boys than girls — like unhealthy, fatty and sugary foods, meat, processed meat, and eggs. The girls questioned in the survey were more likely to enjoy fruit and vegetables. - A Nashville woman was charged with strangling her roommate after he complained she didn't clean his room for him. The roommate says that Suzanne Crotty came at him and started strangling him. He told officers he never lost consciousness, and he had never feared for his life while being strangled. Officers noted that he did have scratch marks on his neck. - A guy in Canada flew into a violent rage at a Wendy's (in Colwood, B.C.) after staff forgot to put mustard on his burger. Staff called police after the man exited his car and began striking a plexiglass barrier that separates the restaurant takeout window. Water Cooler Question The average person keeps one of these seven years. (Mattress) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Thursday June 4th, Let's start the podcast! This Day in History • 1937: Grocery chain owner Sylvan Goldman introduced the shopping cart at his Humpty Dumpty store in Oklahoma City. Goldman's first cart was wheels and a basket on a folding chair. • 1973: The patent for the ATM was granted. • 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests were violently ended in Chinese capital city Beijing with People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks. • 2002: A young Swedish girl who suffered for seven months with breathing problems finally got relief when a surgeon removed a peanut from her nose. • 2003: Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying to investigators. • 2008: Residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Florida suffering a two-year drought went public with their dissatisfaction with singer Celine Dion. They claimed her home was using almost 18,000 gallons of water per day. SPECIAL EVENTS • Hug Your Cat Day • Cheese Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 900,000: The number of rolls of toilet paper used annually by Iowa's prisoners. NEWS ATTACK! - Comcast had a major outage Wednesday. - Researchers found that 10 to 15 minutes of laughter can burn off the number of calories found in a medium-sized piece of chocolate. - SpaceX put 60 more internet satellites into space last night - Apple is watching the looters who have pillaged its stores during the protests. Thieves who made off with iPhones from Apple stores quickly learned that the gadgets were loaded with special security software.  - Though many athletes eat before training, some scientists say that if you really want to get rid of more fat, you should skip the pre-workout snack. - researchers have found that 10-15 minutes of laughter can burn off the number of calories found in a medium square of chocolate. - Want to ignite your bedroom life with your spouse? A survey says 66 percent of runners have more good times in the bedroom when they run with their partner - Research shows different odors affect the way motorists drive, with fast food scents likely to increase road rage potential and other smells — like peppermint — deemed to improve concentration - A study found that the average person walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that we drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, we get about 41 miles per gallon. Not bad. - A naked man was taken down by numerous bystanders in New York City. A brief video clip shows the naked man fighting people. It's believed that the man was on drugs. He wasn't totally naked — the man was wearing socks and shoes. Water Cooler Question The average American homeowner will spend 40 hours a year doing what? (Mowing the lawn) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Wednesday June 3rd, Let's start the podcast! This Day in History • 1888: The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner. • 1964: The Rolling Stones debuted on U.S. television on Hollywood Palace. Dean Martin hosted the show. • 1980: The NBA Board of Governors voted to make the 3-point goal a permanent part of pro basketball. • 1981: Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life. • 1982: Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, Graceland, opened as a tourist attraction. • 1989: China's government sent troops to force protesters out of Tienanmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. • 1997: Residents of the Dickinson, North Dakota, school district voted 2,035 to 569 to continue to call the high school sports teams the Dickinson Midgets. The name, chosen in the 1920s to honor a short basketball team, had been challenged by residents who felt it was inappropriate. • 2005: An 8-inch french fry found by an Iowa bartender sold for nearly $200 on eBay. Mindy Marland said she was working at the Checkered Flag Bar & Grill when she spotted the unusually long french fry. Marland said she decided to sell it on eBay. Bids started at $1. By the time bidding ended, it had sold for $197.50. She also contacted the Guinness Book of Records after reading the record for the longest french fry was 6 3/4 inches. Reasons to party • Global Running Day • Wonder Woman Day • World Bicycle Day • Chocolate Macaroon Day • National Egg Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 5.8 trillion: Miles in a light year. NEWS ATTACK! - Amazon is planning a summer sale for June 22. - The stomach contents of a 110-year-old dinosaur have been revealed. - There will be a lunar eclipse Friday. - Congo is battling coronavirus, measles, and Ebola. - An Army researcher says a coronavirus vaccine may be available by the end of the year. - A new documentary looks into the 2009 death of actress Brittany Murphy. - A poll about America's driving habits says only 49 percent of drivers obey the speed limit. - A 24-year-old man was killed Tuesday after trying to blow up an ATM in Philadelphia. - In Austria, a woman was standing on a chair on a balcony when she lost her balance and toppled over the edge. Luckily, instead of hitting the ground 30 feet below, she landed in an extra-large window box on a lower floor. Water Cooler Question 65% of Americans say they would support this as their national food. (Bacon) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Tuesday June 2nd, Let's start the podcast! This Day in History • 1835: P.T. Barnum and his circus began their first tour of the United States. • 1886: Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. • 1896: Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for his newest invention: the radio. • 1928: Employees at Kraft created a processed specialty cheese product they would call Velveeta. • 1964: The Rolling Stones kicked off their first American tour at a high school football stadium in Lynn, Massachusetts. • 1988: Singer James Brown's wife Adrienne claimed “diplomatic immunity” in traffic court because she was the wife of the “official ambassador of soul.” • 1997: In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. • 2004: Ken Jennings began his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy. • 2005: Georgia “runaway bride” Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own abduction and was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine. • 2015: Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigned five days after his re-election to a fifth term. Reasons to Party • Leave The Office Early Day • Bubba Day • Gun Violence Awareness Day • Rotisserie Chicken Day • Rocky Road Ice Cream Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 36: The number of inches a bamboo plant can grow in a day. NEWS ATTACK! - At the Washington, DC, protest on Sunday, demonstrators tackled a white man who was destroying a sidewalk with a hammer and turned him over to police. - The Florida Keys have reopened to visitors. - Donald Trump told America's governor's they should crack down on protesters or they will look like jerks. - Researchers say it wouldn't be a bad idea to wear your face mask in the home. Results of the study concluded that wearing a face mask inside the home was 79 percent effective in preventing transmission of COVID-19 between an infected person and other family members, but only before symptoms of the virus were present. - A study shows that the bread-winning spouse is the one most likely to cheat. - In a survey, half of dads said they'd like a new grill or grilling accessory for Father's Day. - Health experts say if you use an Uber or Lyft you decrease your chances of getting coronavirus by sitting in the back seat. - A mom in the UK has put an end to her kids raiding the sweets drawer by installing a vending machine. Sarah Balsdon found the machine on Facebook Marketplace. If the kids want sweets they can earn money by doing chores or doing homework. - If you're still looking for the perfect bikini to prevent men from hitting on you at the beach, anything high waisted might be the perfect solution. Apparently eight out of 10 men said “no” when polled on whether they're a fan of high-waisted bikinis. - Research shows men are worse than women at remembering to do things in the future. Rather than simply not listening when asked to do something, it seems that they forget what they were told. - Police in Venezuela raided a secret warehouse and seized 2,500 rolls of toilet paper, 400 diapers and 7,000 liters of fruit juice. Water Cooler Question Researchers have actually measured the distance one of these travels, and it's about 16 feet. (A fart) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Monday June 1st, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1925: Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he pinch hit for shortstop Pee Wee Wanniger. • 1926: Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles. • 1944: The British Broadcasting Corp. aired a coded message intended to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent. • 1967: The album “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles was released. • 1980: CNN made its debut. • 2007: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian walked out of a Michigan prison, where he'd spent eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. • 2008: Presidential candidate Barack Obama announced he had resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. • 2009: General Motors filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It was the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. • 2013: Russia enacted a country-wide smoking ban, affecting most public places. SPECIAL EVENTS • Baby Boomers Recognition Day • Global Day of Parents • Heimlich Maneuver Day • Go Barefoot Day • Olive Day • Say Something Nice Day • World Reef Awareness Day • Hazelnut Cake Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 55 million: Meeting a day in the U.S. NEWS ATTACK! - The CDC says if you think you had coronavirus back in December, January or even early February you didn't. - A rocket ship built by SpaceX took two Americans to the space station. - Because of rioting, Target https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2020/05/an-update-on-temporary-target-store-closures-due-t (put a list on its website) of stores that were closing “until further notice.” - A survey shows that more people than expected experience notable skin reactions from their tattoos. - A study says that 10 minutes of vigorous exercise has proven to boost your metabolic rate for a good hour. - June is here. It's the month that gives us Father's Day and Donut Day. - Costco plans to start bringing back its legendary free samples this month with some changes. Costco execs say they are targeting a mid-June return of the freebies. - Wives, keep an eye on your man as he tackled home improvement projects. Each year… • 1,304 men puncture fingers with nail guns. • 4,535 men cut fingers on portable power saws. • 1,686 men who bruised (severe enough to go to the ER) hands using hammers. • 1,467 men punctured hands with screwdrivers. - An Idaho man drank a liter of lemon juice through a straw in under 17 seconds for a Guinness World Record. David Rush, who has broken more than 100 Guinness records to promote STEM education, emptied the glass in 16.53 seconds. - According to a survey (Vancouver, Washington's Banfield Pet Hospital) 45 percent of pet owners say their household's happiness has increased while spending more time with their pets during self-isolation. - A man in Germany who was mugged got mugged two more times while waiting for police to arrive. Water Cooler Question The average person eats these just once per year. (Waffles) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Friday MAY 29th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1856: During a speech in Bloomington, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.” • 1886: Chemist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola. The ad appeared in the Atlanta Journal. • 1912: The Ladies Home Journal fired 15 women employees for doing the “Turkey Trot” during their lunch hour. • 1919: Charles Strite patented the pop-up toaster. • 2001: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to participate in tournaments. • 2004: A memorial to America's World War II veterans was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. • 2006: In Australia, Norman Parker went to a department store and found a sweater he liked. He took it into one of the changing rooms, removed the security tag, stuffed the sweater underneath his jacket and headed for the door. He didn't make it outside, however, as the security alarm went off just as he reached the exit. How could this have happened? He removed the security tag. That he did, but instead of throwing it away, he stuffed it into his pants pocket. • 2013: Smithfield Foods of Virginia, the world's largest meat processing company, was purchased by a Chinese meat processing company for $4.72 billion. SPECIAL EVENTS • Learn About Composting Day • Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day. It's supposed to bring good luck. • Biscuit Day • Paper Clip Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 146: Hours the average American spends in front of the TV each month. NEWS ATTACK! - The Boston Marathon has been cancelled. - Researchers say the ideal bedroom temperature for sleeping is 67 degrees. - On Saturday ESPN will feature pro athletes competing on Peloton stationary bicycles. - HBO Max still can't be used by people with Roku or Amazon Fire devices. - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry contacted the LAPD after drones flew over their California home. - North Dakota has the most bars per person. - Conspiracy theorists believe the latest wireless spectrum, known as 5G, can do harm to human health and is the cause of COVID-19. Some people are so convinced they've set 5G towers on fire. - A new study (published in Lance) says regular physical activity lasting 45 minutes three to five times a week can reduce poor mental health. A total of 1.2 million people reported their activity levels for a month and rated their mental well being. People who exercised had 1½ fewer “bad days” a month than non-exercisers. - Researchers say your bedroom temperature should be around 67 degrees for optimal sleep at night. This temperature is not too hot or too cold and is comfortable to fall asleep. - A burglar in China broke into a restaurant, carrying off more than 33 pounds of pig ears and pig tails and about 75 pounds of cooking oil. - If you've been working from home or furloughed, it's possible your car hasn't moved from its parking spot in weeks — or months. Auto experts say before you hit the road again, check your tire pressure. Water Cooler Question The world uses $800 million worth of these each year. (Shoelaces) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Thursday MAY 28th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1896: The first recorded automobile accident involving two vehicles occurred on this date in New York City. Henry Wells of Springfield, Massachusetts was driving a new Duryea Motor Wagon, the first automobile model to be made and sold in the U.S. Unfortunately, he collided with Evelyn Thomas of New York, riding a bicycle. Thomas went to the hospital with a broken leg, and Wells spent the night in jail. • 1928: Dodge Brothers Incorporated merged with Chrysler Corporation. • 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, was officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushed a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span. • 1954: President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law that added the words “under God” to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. • 1985: Seattle retiree Gay Mullins founded The Old Cola Drinkers of America, a group determined to bring back the original Coca-Cola. Within two months Coke announced Classic Coke, to be sold in addition to it's New Coke. • 1987: 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evaded Soviet Union air defenses and landed a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He was immediately detained and was not released until August 3, 1988. • 1999: In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece “The Last Supper” was put back on display. SPECIAL EVENTS • Hamburger Day, aka International Burger Day • Brisket Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 32 million: Americans affected by food allergies. NEWS ATTACK! - Bad weather pushed the SpaceX rocket launch to Saturday. - A 103-year-old who beat coronavirus celebrated with a Bud Light. - GE announced it will sell its 129-year-old light-bulb division. - Disney says it will reopening Disney World in mid-July. - Donald Trump is unhappy with Twitter and Facebook and is threatening to shut them down. - For his upcoming movie Tenet, Christopher Nolan bought and crashed an old 747. - According to a report, the skinniest state is Hawaii. - Don't put your fire pit on a wood deck, and keep it away from your house. A home went up in flames in a Pittsburgh suburb early Thursday morning. Fire officials say the fire started from a fire pit on the deck. The fire then spread up the side of the house into the attic. - In South Korea, two men were arrested after stealing what they thought was a pile of scrap iron in front of a women's college. The iron turned out to be pieces of “modern art” valued at $45,000. - In the Ukraine, a woman was visiting her local post office when she was told she needed to put on a mask before she would be helped. The woman forgot her mask so she went under her skirt, pulled down her undies and placed them over her head, covering her nose and mouth. - Police in Holland caught two burglars getting busy in the house they had just broken into. The couple told police they broke into the empty house only because they were desperate to make love. - A study (University of Cambridge) shows a woman's intelligence is considered far more attractive to a man than her breast size. Water Cooler Question When the Titanic sunk there were 7,500 pounds of what onboard? (Ham) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Wednesday MAY 27th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1647: Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Connecticut. • 1930: The 1,046 feet tall Chrysler Building in New York — the tallest man-made structure at the time — opened to the public. • 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, opened. • 1939: DC Comics published its second superhero in Detective Comics #27 — Batman. • 1995: In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. • 2009: An absent-minded Japanese doctor forgot about a patient and went home for lunch. The doctor had anesthetized an elderly patient so he could carry out a check up and left her to recover while he went home to his nearby apartment for a quick bite to eat. But the old woman woke up in an empty and locked doctor's office and had to call police for help. • 2013: The largest flag ever made — at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread — was unveiled in Romania. SPECIAL EVENTS • Senior Health & Fitness Day • Sunscreen Day • World Otter Day • Italian Beef Day • Grape Popsicle Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 25,000: Women who cancel their wedding each year in the U.S. NEWS ATTACK! - A survey of teachers finds at least 20 percent are worried about their health when schools reopen this fall. - Walt Disney World is presenting its plans today for reopening. - Researchers have come up with a list of the top fifty songs that will put you in a good mood. I don't have that list so suck it! - In 2021 a new automaker will release a new all-electric pickup called The Endurance. - Google recently had a problem with short outages after a fiber cable fell to the ground and was occasionally stepped on by a cow. - Harry Potter author JK Rowling has written a new children's book she says is a “stand-alone fairy tale.” - A new survey finds more Americans prefer their burgers well done. The most popular topping is cheese. Ketchup is the most popular condiment. - A Florida woman was arrested for “spitting on groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to police who say the suspect also threatened to beat up customers at a supermarket. - Jack Rico is only 13, but he now has four associate's degrees from Fullerton College in California and will be continuing his education at the University of Nevada on a full scholarship. - Denmark will start allowing people from neighboring nations to cross the border to visit their boyfriends or girlfriends. What's the weirdest thing your family does that you've always thought was normal? A friend's family eats corn on the cob for dessert. Put ice in milk. In my family, we finished the chicken to the bone. No meat, no gristle, nothing left. If you did not finish it, someone, usually my mom, would finish it for you. Growing up we would always eat dinner super late. Like 8 or 9 at night. Water Cooler Question In a typical year around 450,000 Americans finish one of these. (A marathon) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Tuesday MAY 26th, Let's start the podcast! • 1896: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94 • 1969: Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing. • 1977: George H. Willig scaled the outside of the south tower of New York's World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building. • 1978: The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. • 1994: Singer Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. They were divorced 19 months later. • 1998: The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island — historic gateway for millions of immigrants — is mainly in New Jersey, not New York. • 2004: Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. He later received 161 consecutive life sentences. • 2009: President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. • 2015: Hackers stole personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns. SPECIAL EVENTS • Chardonnay Day • Blueberry Cheesecake Day • Cherry Dessert Day • Dracula Day • Paper Airplane Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 8: Seconds it took to bring down the bombed-out federal building in Oklahoma City on May 23, 1995. NEWS - Elon Musk and Grimes have slightly altered their new baby's name. It now includes roman numerals. The new streaming service HBO Max debuts Wednesday. - New Zealand's prime minister was in the middle of a TV interview when her country experienced a minor earthquake. - The tallest man in the country is 7-foot-eight-inches. - Like presidents before him, Donald Trump attended a Memorial Day ceremony and relaxed with some golf. - In a survey, 70% of us would rather watch movies at home than in the theater after the pandemic. - A survey finds a third of husbands check with their wives before touching the thermostat. Three in 10 adults have been ‘food shamed' due to their dietary requirements or preferences. And of those 30 percent of adults, about a third have been accused of lying about their special dietary needs. The cold storage stockpile of American and total natural cheeses rose 8 percent in April, the biggest single monthly gain since 2012. There are now 1.5 billion pounds of cheese in cold storage, the highest level on record since the USDA first decided to start asking around about cheese in 1917. Consumers have said they're fatigued — actually, plain sick and tired — of doom and gloom forecasts and negative pandemic-related news. What they want to hear now, particularly from advertisers, are “hopeful, comforting and supportive” messages. Water Cooler Question Before making it in show business, Sandra Bullock, Russell Crowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart and Bruce Willis all worked as what? (Bartenders) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Thursday MAY 21th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1819: The first bicycles, imported from England, appeared on the streets of New York City. Within a month, the city banned the new-fangled machines as being hazardous to public safety. • 1881: The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton. • 1927: Charles Lindbergh touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. • 1932: Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, landed in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. • 1945: Screen legend Humphrey Bogart married actress Lauren Bacall. • 1956: The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. • 1998: A Fullerton, California, man finally paid off his 1958 divorce with a check for $180 to his attorney. The 70-year-old client said he always intended to pay the bill, but with six kids and health problems, it took him 40 years to get caught up. • 1999: Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera All My Children, won her first Daytime Emmy Award for best actress in the 19th straight year she was nominated. SPECIAL EVENTS • Eat More Fruits & Vegetables Day • Waitstaff Day • Strawberries and Cream Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 330 million: M&Ms consumed by Americans each day. NEWS ATTACK! - The government says all pharmacists can now administer COVID-19 tests. - Nichole Kidman went for a run and suffered a small break in her ankle. - There are now over 100 weather-related satellites orbiting Earth. - Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will serve the rest of his prison term at home. - The NBA homes to return in July. - Thanks to the pandemic sales of bikes, roller skates and skateboards are way up. - You're not alone if you've packed on the pounds during the quarantine. A survey found that the average American has gained five pounds while on lockdown. Out of 2,000 people polled, most have gained weight due to alcohol and bread. Back during the Great Recession 32 percent of Americans said they had gained weight due to stress WACKY-BUT-TRUE: ROBBERS CHOOSE COP HANGOUT _ In South Africa a gang made a fatal mistake when they held up a restaurant and failed to notice the five police officers — in uniform — that were enjoying a meal. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: FISH TANK DIVER POSTS PROFANITY-LACED CONFESSION TO FACEBOOK _ A Florida man who jumped into a Bass Pro store fish tank (in Fort Myers) taunted deputies on Facebook. Daniel Armendariz admits to diving into the tank, delivering a profanity-laced confession in a video posted on Facebook. He told authorities in his confession that he would turn himself in when he was ready. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER COVERS HIGHWAY IN MAC AND CHEESE _ A stretch of highway in Tennessee was covered in an orange mess that spilled from a tractor trailer. The truck overturned Wednesday morning, dumping 40,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese. WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN WHO DID PUSH-UPS ON TOP OF MOVING CAR SOUGHT BY POLICE _ The Milwaukee Police Department is asking for the public's help to track down a man who was caught on video doing push-ups on top of a moving vehicle. In the video, you can see the man climb out of the rear passenger-side window, and onto the roof of the moving car. The shirtless man then does about two push-ups before the video ends. Water Cooler Question One in three men say they are “very good” at this. (Cooking) https://www.lowtreestudios.com (https://www.lowtreestudios.com) https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose (https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose) 

It is Wednesday MAY 20th IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1845: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men under John Franklin, sailed from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All perished. • 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. • 1916: The small town of Codell, Kansas, was struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date. • 1927: Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris the next day. • 1932: Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot. She landed in Ireland the next day. • 1993: To celebrate the final episode of TV's Cheers, Jay Leno did The Tonight Show live from the Bull & Finch bar. Most of the Cheers cast seemed to be drunk. • 2001: Burglars entered a warehouse near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, disconnected the video security system, and made off with $526,000 worth of extra-strength throat lozenges. • 2007: In England Christopher Carlton broke into a Rolls Royce dealership and grabbed several of the company's computers. And since he was in a Rolls dealership, he took one of their expensive cars for his getaway, right? Wrong. For reasons known only to Chris, he chose as his getaway vehicle a large forklift. Not surprisingly that attracted the attention of the police and he was quickly apprehended. SPECIAL EVENTS • Employee Health & Fitness Day • Rescue Dog Day • World Bee Day • Quiche Lorraine Day • Pick Strawberries Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 70,000: Health-related searches on Google every minute. NEWS ATTACK! The 2021 Oscars could be delayed. [If they wait long enough they could combine them with the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.] If you have a gift card to Pier 1 Imports, use it after they reopen because they're going to close all their stores. [Also, dump the friend who gave you the gift card to Pier 1 Imports.] Pier 1 Imports will close all 540 stores. [Keanu Reeves will star in the story of how Pier 1 was founded. It'll be titled John Wicker.] In Houston a woman was struck in the ankle with a dart as part of a gender reveal stunt. [It's not coronavirus we have to worry about, it's gender reveals.] Breaking a 40-year tradition Donald Trump won't be unveiling former President Barack Obama's portrait at the White House. [However, he agreed to stay within the lines while coloring in Obama's picture in the official Presidents of the U.S. Coloring Book.] A story this week says some Americans are driving to other states to get haircuts because their home state still isn't allowing them. One guy drove 600 miles to visit a barber. [Because you need to look your best as they hook you up to the respirator.] Memorial Day is Monday. [Here's a barbecuing tip for Memorial Day: If the crew of the International Space Station calls your house to see if everybody's OK, you've got too much charcoal in the grill.] Pringles has a new chip that tastes like corn on the cob. [A potato chip that tastes like corn? This is the worst food invention since carrot sticks.] WACKY-BUT-TRUE: A bull named Ron was the cause of a power outage in a town in Scotland. The owner of the bull wrote on a local Facebook group: “Our bull Ron would like to apologize to everyone … for causing last night's power cut. He had [an] itchy bum so [he] scratched it on the electricity pole and knocked the transformer box off.” WACKY-BUT-TRUE: A concerned Florida citizen called police to let them know about a man who was wrestling with an alligator in a ditch along the side of a road. When an officer arrived he spoke to a shirtless white male in a dried canal bank. The officer didn't see an alligator in the area. The shirtless man said that there was an alligator in

It is Tuesday MAY 19th, Let's start the podcast! IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1310: Shoes were designed specifically for the right and left foot for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire. • 1962: A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight was Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. • 1972: Dan Gorske's Big Mac odyssey began. The Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, man consumed eight Big Macs to begin his streak of eating the McDonald's hamburger sandwich every day.He eats two a day. • 1991: A 31-year-old Cleveland skydiver survived a two-mile fall after her parachute failed to open. Jill Shields suffered spine and pelvic injuries when she landed in a swamp. • 1999: Beckley, West Virginia, police arrested a 32-year-old man for stealing the same tools he had been convicted of stealing two years before. The tools had not been claimed, so the police planted them in a vehicle stake-out, and the suspect stole them again. • 2007: Donald Trump, whose low-rated reality show The Apprentice was left off the new prime-time schedule unveiled by NBC, said the network couldn't fire him because he was quitting. • 2011: Katie Couric, the first regular solo anchorwoman of a network evening newscast, signed off the CBS Evening News for the last time after five years. SPECIAL EVENTS • Scooter Day • Devil's Food Cake Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 820,000: Golf balls sold worldwide every day. NEWS ATTACK! To make up for lost sales car manufacturers are offering some of the best deals in years. [A friend bought a new car last week and loaded it up: sunroof, driver assist, windows that automatically tint when you put your finger in your nose…] J.C. Penney plans to close more than a quarter of its stores. [See, I keep telling everyone the penny isn't popular.] The newest reason to hate 2020: A deadly virus is threatening to wipe out entire populations of North American rabbits. [Great, Easter 2021 is already ruined.] Donald Trump says he is taking a drug that science says is not effective against coronavirus and may be harmful. [We'll never know its effect since the first sign of trouble is orange skin.] A study shows that rats will make personal sacrifices to rescue a fellow rat, even giving up the opportunity to eat chocolate. [Give up chocolate? I'd really have to know that guy pretty well.] Engineers are redesigning door handles so we don't have to touch them. [This is why wear shirts with mittens buttoned to the sleeves.] A study reveals that happiness comes with age. [I'd have to agree with that — I'm getting older and have happiness growths all over my body.] A South African woman won damages of $13,000 after a toilet collapsed beneath her at a hospital. The woman was visiting her husband in the hospital when she needed to use the toilet. She told the court she still suffered pain as the result of injuries sustained in the incident. In her testimony, the woman said that seconds after she sat down, the toilet bowl shattered beneath her. She landed on broken pieces of the toilet bowl, and her right knee was twisted and trapped under rubble. Water Cooler Question Early in its existence FedEx was able to stay afloat because its founder raised $27,000 how? https://www.lowtreestudios.com https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose

It is Monday MAY 18th, Let's start the podcast! Let's start your day with - IT HAPPENED TODAY • 1876: Wyatt Earp started work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger. • 1897: Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, was published. • 1910: The Earth passed through the tail of Comet Halley.  • 1953: Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier. She flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour at Rogers Dry Lake, California. • 1980: Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. • 2009: Australian researchers said that tall workers earn more than their shorter colleagues, especially among men. • 2012: Retired American psychiatrist Robert Spitzer said his 2001 study was “fatally flawed”. The study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be “cured”. • 2013: A rare 19th century torpedo was discovered off the coast of California. Todays Reasons to Party • EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week • Unicycle Week • Tire Safety Week • Buy A Musical Instrument Day • International Museum Day • Visit Your Relatives Day • Cheese Souffle Day NUMBER FOR THE DAY 132: That is the Number of islands that make up Hawaii. another number is zero, which the number of those Islands I've visited.  NEWS ATTACK! - A woman in Kentucky gave birth in a hospital parking lot. - NASCAR returned over the weekend, but there were no fans in the stands. - A California church that defied an order not to gather now has 180 members in 14-day self-quarantine after a coronavirus-infected person attended service on Mother's Day. What did you think would happen?  - A Wyoming strip club has reopened. All the dancers are wearing masks. - sexy - The new Space Force flag was unveiled in a White House ceremony. - In a typical year, parents will spend an average of $2,256 on their family vacation or vacations. - The State Department inspector general who was fired was investigating a report that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog. Billionaire Mark Cuban has an economic stimulus idea: Everyone gets a $1,000 check every two weeks for the next two months. The catch is each check must be spent within ten days or it expires - I cold spend it in a hour - Police in Germany say a man used so much bug killer in his house that it blew up when a spark from his computer ignited the aerosol spray. The explosion caused almost $200,000 in damages and the man managed to escape with just minor injuries. - A middle-aged woman in Brazil is suing the police for mistaking two bags of flour she was carrying for cocaine. The woman spent two days in jail after a cop arrested her on the way home from the supermarket where she bought the flour. Water Cooler Question 64 percent of Americans believe this is the most important quality for a successful relationship. (Sense of humor) https://www.lowtreestudios.com https://www.patreon.com/theweeklydose

It is Saturday May 15th: Let's start your weekend! - As the coronavirus death toll ticks up and some states ease their restrictions, a new study suggests that men might be more likely to leave their face coverings at home. Men in the US report less intention than women to wear face coverings, especially in counties that don't mandate wearing them, according to a study (Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, California). This, the authors say, suggests that making face coverings mandatory “has a larger effect on men than on women.” - A survey shows 88% of workers have lied for a boss or supervisor. - A South Carolina restaurant partially reopening for dine-in customers is keeping the tables compliant with social distancing guidelines by filling the dining room with blow-up dolls. The Open Hearth restaurant (in Taylors) closed its dining room due to the COVID-19 pandemic March 17 and was allowed to reopen this week with a reduced capacity and a requirement that customers are seated 6 feet apart. The owners of the eatery said they didn't want the restaurant to look empty when customers came in to eat. - A British charity is seeking volunteers willing to walk barefoot over Lego bricks to raise money for children with disabilities. Caudwell Children, a charity providing practical and emotional support to children with disabilities and their families, said it is seeking volunteers to participate from their own homes in the May 31 Lego Walk. The charity create pre-recorded instructional videos to show the volunteers how to safely walk across a pile of Lego bricks. - Creepy! Wichita, Kansas, police arrested a 14-year-old boy who allegedly entered a home and was caught on camera standing directly over a sleeping girl. The teen faces charges of aggravated burglary and theft. - For those of us who suffer from seasonal allergies, the spring and summer can be miserable. A few tweaks to your daily routine can keep the outdoors from invading your home. The blog Apartment Therapy gives some great ideas, but here's one we've never heard: change your clothes and shoes as soon as you enter your home. Leaving the clothes by the door prevents the transfer of allergens into other rooms. Don't bring these clothes into the bedroom and put them in the hamper, either — that brings allergens into the bedroom and defeats the purpose. - If you bite your tongue or stub your toe, your first instinct is probably to yell “Ow!” But have you ever wondered why that is? According to a study, being vocal could actually help you tolerate the pain. Researchers tested how long subjects could keep their hands immersed in very cold water before they couldn't take it anymore. They found that saying “ow” during the experiment increased the subjects' tolerance for pain. - A new study examining people's cleaning frequencies and their personality traits revealed Americans who are “super clean” are twice as happy with their overall lives than those who believe themselves to be “messy.” The study surveyed 2,000 Americans and divided them into three self-identifying groups: super clean, moderately clean and messy. The super cleans were found to be more content in family matters, have a better sex life, get better sleep, have more career satisfaction, and felt less stressed. WHAT IS A FACT THAT CAN POSSIBLY SAVE YOUR LIFE? Some tips from the reddit community. • This is a New Zealand specific one, but all emergency numbers work here. The official number is 111. But 999, 000, 911, etc. will all work. This is so that tourists can still reach emergency services easily. • When having a heart attack, you don't swallow asprin, you chew it. • If your vomit look like coffee grounds you are bleeding internally and you need to go to the hospital. • There are no rules if a stranger puts their hands on you. Yell, scream, kick, bite, make the biggest scene you possibly can and run away as fast as you can. And share this info with your children. •...

- A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered a black hole lying just 1,000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system that can be seen with the naked eye. They say this system could just be the tip of the iceberg, as many more similar black holes could be found in the future. - Although dog owners believe a smiling dog is a happy one, researchers (Bristol University) say the idea is a myth. Researchers say while it is common for dogs to grin, when a dog grins it is more likely that it is a confused gesture because it is unsure what is expected of it. - Many may already see France as a nation of grumblers, and a survey shows the French agree. The poll found that 93 percent of French people think their compatriots grumble often, although only 37 percent admit they tend to complain. Men were the grumpier of the two sexes, said 43 percent of respondents, with around one in five men saying they moaned to get what they wanted compared with 16 percent of women. One in four said carping was a way of relaxing. -A South Carolina man had trouble convincing his wife that his $250,000 lottery win was legitimate. The man and his wife told South Carolina lottery officials they don't normally play the lottery, but they won $10 on a ticket they received as a Christmas gift and used the money to buy another ticket, which was also a winner. The couple kept their winning streak going until the man stopped for take-out and bought a scratch-off that turned out to be a $250,000 winner. The man had a difficult time convincing his wife the win was real, and for good reason — he had previously pranked her with a fake winning ticket. CAMPING TIPS When the pandemic subsides, get out of the house and get back to nature. For maximum enjoyment and minimum mishaps, observe these camping tips: • When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant. • Unwrap and leave a few chocolate bars out in the hot sun. When the evening comes, you can have chocolate covered ants. • Lint from your navel makes a handy fire starter. Remove lint from navel before applying the match. • Take this simple test to see if you qualify for solo camping. Shine a flashlight into one ear. If the beam shines out the other ear, do not go into the woods alone. • Bear bells provide an element of safety for hikers in grizzly country. Wait until the bears are resting before applying the bells. THINGS YOU'LL NEVER WANT IN YOUR HOME AFTER COVID-19? The website BestLifeOnline.com says we'll never want these things in our homes again after COVID-19. Do you agree? USED TOYS – While you may have grabbed a used swing set from a friend or brought home a secondhand puzzle from a discount store, that's unlikely to remain true going forward. CASH – A recent study (published in The Lancet) found that coronavirus could be detected on banknotes for up to four days. And that's not even accounting for other germs like MRSA bacteria and E.coli. SECONDHAND CLOTHING – While shopping secondhand may save you money, your thrift store habit may be put on the back burner after the pandemic passes. GIFT BASKETS – Getting a gift basket from a friend or family member may have once been a happy occasion, but after the pandemic subsides, you may be second-guessing those presents. Why? According to the website: “People will have to be especially careful with these as they could have been in multiple homes and areas, thus having more chance of holding virus particles on their surfaces and promoting further spread of infection.” HOMEMADE MEALS – Restaurants are held to relatively high standards when it comes to their cleanliness. Your friend's kitchen? Not so much — and that's why accepting a homemade lasagna or batch of brownies from a pal may never be as appealing again. THE THINGS WHICH MAKE A HOUSE A HOME

On This Weeks Show: - The maker of Durex condoms has said sales have fallen as the coronavirus lockdown is “having a toll on the number of intimate occasions” across the world. And once the lockdowns are east, there are concerns of a global condom shortage because strict lockdown rules in Malaysia, one of world's top rubber producers and a major source of condoms, had made it difficult for condom factories to operate. Karex, the world's largest condom producer which makes one in five of all condoms, has warned of a global condom shortage after closing three of its factories. - A survey says men and women aren't in sync in the bedroom when it comes to the optimum time. Men feel most frisky between 6AM and 9AM, while women are feeling the love way into the night — between 11PM and 2AM. And the percentages of those who enjoy getting it on during the other gender's preferred window are similarly low, with just 16 percent of men wanting sex before falling asleep for the night, and a mere 11 percent of women wanting to take care of business as soon as the alarm goes off. - Want to live to 100? Well a study suggests you get 10 hours of sleep a night. In the study, researchers found that people who reach 100 are three times more likely to spend at least 10 hours a night in bed. The study involved analysis of data from a 2005 Chinese survey. - A study (Purdue University/University of Virginia) suggests that there may be a perfect salary for achieving personal fulfillment. The idea was to figure out at which salary range adults were best able to happily manage their work/life balance. Putting a number on that sort of thing is difficult, but the researchers managed the trick nonetheless. The study concluded that happiness will cost about $95,000 annually. Researchers were careful to note that this figure applies only to individuals and attempts to measure happiness over the course of a person's entire life. Day-to-day happiness seems to cost less. Still, the findings are a bit concerning given that the average American household only takes in about $65,000 annually. - Did you receive your stimulus check yet? A bunch of dead people did. The Treasury Department says it is working on a plan to “retrieve” $1,200 economic impact payments that were accidentally sent to dead people. Currently tens of millions of people who are very much alive are still waiting for their payments. There have been dozens if not hundreds of reports of people receiving money meant for their deceased relatives. One deceased woman in Connecticut's check was even labeled “DECD” for deceased. - The US marriage rate fell to its lowest level on record in 2018, federal stats released Wednesday show. New figures from the National Center for Health Statistics reveal the nationwide marriage rate fell 6 percent from 2017 to 2018. It's the lowest rate since the US government started tracking such data in 1867. Researchers say there's no clear reason for the decline and it's expected the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to further drive down the number of Americans getting hitched. THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YESTERDAY • No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.” • There are 1 million ants for every person in the world. • More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby. • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. • The human brain is 80 percent water. • Walt Disney was afraid of mice. • Men get hiccups more often than women. • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. • There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world. • A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. GO MOTHER'S DAY SHOPPING AT THE HARDWARE STORE • Eighty-five percent of women surveyed have been or expect to be solely responsible for a home at some point in their lives. • Fifty-three percent surveyed say they are responsible for basic household maintenance and repair either on their...

On This Weeks Show: A New Report Says Gum And Mint Sales Are Down Around 40 Percent Since The Start Of The Pandemic. - The Post-It Note Is Marking Its 35Th Anniversary This Month. - More Than 50 Percent Of People In A Survey Have Said They Prefer A Kiss And Cuddle To Sex In A Relationship. - Research Shows That If We Hold A Hug For At Least Six Seconds, We Optimize The Flow Of Mood-Boosting Chemicals. Also - What Do You Wish Your Spouse Would Get Rid Of? - Top Board Games People Are Buying On Amazon - Things You Didn't Know About Swear Words News - Dog Drives Tractor Onto Road - Turbans Used In Prison Escape - Rowboat Getaway Fails - Topless Woman Goes On Rampage At Denny's - Man Got In A Fight With The Terminator Water Cooler Question Question: This Happens 100,000 Each Day In The U.S. What Is It? Lowtree Studios www.lowtreestudios.com

TWD - The Unnamed Man ON THIS WEEKS SHOW: - A study finds most people lie on first dates.. - Just 25 minutes of vigorous daily exercise can do wonders for you, and could help beat depression. - Women were asked, “What's the worst question any can ask you?” - A study has found that men with beards carry more germs than dogs — including deadly bacteria — in their facial fuzz. - Get up and start walking. The more you do it, the longer you may live. TOMATO FACTS • Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio. • There are at least 10,000 varieties of tomatoes, from the small marble-sized cherry one to the Ponderosa, which can weigh over three pounds. • The jelly-like substance around the seeds contains the highest concentration of vitamin C. • Botanically, tomatoes are actually a fruit. This is because, generally, a fruit is the edible part of the seed containing the seeds, while a vegetable is the edible stems, leaves, and plant roots. But in 1863 the Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes were to be considered vegetables. • The massive “tomato tree” growing inside the Walt Disney World Resort's experimental greenhouses in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, may be the largest single tomato plant in the world. The plant has been recognized as a Guinness World Record Holder. The first recipe for tomato ketchup was created in 1801 by Sandy Addison and was later printed in an American cookbook titled the Sugar House Book. BEST-NAMED TOILET COMPANIES Real porta-toilet companies with real funny names. • Happy Can Portable Toilets, Atlanta, GA • Drop Zone Portable Service Inc., Frankfort, Ill. • Plop Jon Inc., Port Saint Lucie, Fla. • Royal Throne, Allentown, PA • Tanks Alot, Tomball, Tex. • Tee Pee Inc., Roseville, Mich. • Wizards of Ooze Ltd., Anacortes, Wash. • Gotta Go Potties, Stroudsburg, Pa. • Doodie Calls, New Orleans THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YESTERDAY • The brain chemicals that create romantic bliss fade in about 18 months. • Kentucky citizens have to bathe at least once a year. It's the law. • Franklin D. Roosevelt wore dresses until he was 5, then he was clad in kilts. • You can have a stroke if you blow your nose too hard. • The Romans used toothpaste and mouthwash made out of urine. • Between the ages of 30 and 70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as half an inch. • President Gerald Ford once got locked out of the White House while walking his dog. • There are at least 10,000 varieties of tomatoes, from the small marble-sized cherry one to the Ponderosa, which can weigh over three pounds. NEWS - MAN ACCIDENTALLY EJECTS HIMSELF FROM JET  - TRAIN PASSENGER CAUGHT WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN FAKE ID  - TOILET PAPER THIEF IN INDIA  - COP LOSES HANDCUFF KEYS  - CANNABIS-COOKING GRANNY WATER COOLER QUESTION Question: According to a study, 41 is the average age Americans start doing this on a daily basis. WHAT IS IT? DEEP THOUGHT: Each day, even if it feels like you are loosing, act like you are in the game, act like you are on the wining side and hold yourself in that way. Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

ON THIS WEEKS SHOW: - Police in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, rescued of a family of ducklings that fell down a drain. The babies were reunited with their mother and escorted by the officers to a nearby pond. - A quirky new piece of research has listed the top baby names for the future financial advisor of the family. - Stanford researchers are working on a smart toilet that can identify the user's butt to help determine their health. - Someone has uploaded video revealing several objects apparently flying close to its surface, casting convincing shadows as they move from sunlight into darkness. - A survey suggests the amount of time a woman spends shopping during her lifetime adds up to more than eight years. - In a study, married people (43% very happy) are happier than unmarrieds (24%). - A 30-something New Yorker seeking a “germ free” girlfriend during the coronavirus pandemic has hung dating flyers along city running paths. - Institute of Medicine researchers say there is no proof that mega-doses of antioxidants like Vitamins C and A help the body and in fact they may do more harm than good. - Hard work really does pay off, say scientists (Academy of Finland) who found that perseverance leads to better grades and higher achievement in school. -A woman sprayed a Walmart cashier in eyes with Lysol after being told that there was a limit on the number of cans she could buy. - A passenger claims an Aer Lingus staff member pulled her from the toilet with her pants still down and threw her in her seat as the flight was about to take off. - Some Blaze Pizza locations in the US are selling ‘2 for $2' toilet paper rolls right at the register. BODY PARTS WE DON'T NEED • Pinkie toe: • Wisdom teeth: • Vomeronasal organ: • Most body hair: • Female vas deferens:. • Male Uterus: • Appendix. WEIRD NEWS - A man coughed on produce - A man coughed on a store employee - A Naked burglar tells cops he has coronavirus - A man punched his mother for hiding toilet paper - Drivers busted for covering license plate to avoid toll WATER COOLER QUESTION Question: 93% of us say we buy THIS every month. What is it? DEEP THOUGHT: What you enjoy is much more important then what you have. Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com)

On the weeks show: we are being tracked during this pandemic, Miller Lite is donating $1 million to bartenders, social distancing sends the wrong message, Airbnb is giving back to healthcare workers, Target is no longer accept returns on high-demand items, a fifth of spouses admit checking their partner's emails or text messages, Cops in the UK intentionally dropping black dye into a picturesque Blue Lagoon, Cards Against Humanity has been made available to play online, don't touch each others balls and In the U.S., the most expensive one of these will cost you just over $58,660. What is it?  Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com)   

On the weeks show: when is the coronavirus most contagious, COVID-19 can remain in the air for up to three hours, Starbucks isn't closing yet, your sleeputation could get you dumped, your brain gets bigger the more you use it, office pools improve morale, email attachments are 28 years old, a guys buys a girl new boobs and gets dumped for it and The average one of these is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane and 4% oxygen. What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On the weeks show: technology and money may make humans infinite, the reason women live longer then men, third hand smoke, the best way for a man to get lucky, the beer diet, the largest speeding ticket fine ever, youth hockey pot prize, a pecan kills a woodpecker, a joyride and a thing in a Jeep Liberty, William Shatner gets to keep the semen, a listener Dear Diary story and from the 1940s to the mid-1970s these were banned in many major American cities, on the grounds that they were considered a form of illegal gambling. What are they? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On the weeks show: Medicare for All could save money, seniors are smoking marijuana, snack foods are crispy, being too clean could cause allergies, the Zamboni guy plays goalie, Kirk Douglas gives to charity, worst Best Picture Oscar movies ranked, Helen Keller finds a teacher and In London, in the middle of the 19th century, the average life span of one of these was just 25 years. What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: two time testers driver better, having a boy is not in the jeans, Staples' has podcast booths, the great lean back debate, a waste of time license plate, a planking older gentleman, Ryan Newman walks and These beasts can have as many as 3,000 teeth at one time. What are they? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: breaking up is harder now, your dog may help snag a date and so will a good job if you are shorter, don't respond to texts from your bank, a man hides a package and another one has a package explode, Taylor Swift's dad gets robbed and In the year 2000, 49% of consumers were comfortable with this. Today 91% are. What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: the dog cussing collar, grandparents make for fat kids, the same house code, an abandoned ghost ship, and another abandoned soon-to-be-ghost ship, Adela the wedding singer, Pluto is discovered and 50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with what on them? What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: earthquake detection app, guys poop naked, a 98 year old girls scout, a spatula-like surgical instrument in a ladies abdomen,Jim Carey tells a dirty joke, Survivor snubs Hatch and Each year in the U.S. 4,500 people are injured by this? What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program, identity tracking device for workers, men still want their wive's raising the babies, and expensive piano is broken, standing to pee ban in Germany, Natalie Portman gets backlash, Valentine gets executed and six percent Americans said they'd dump a potential partner if the person owned what? What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: Salami bouquet, Competitive Winter Picnicking, what dreams are made of, the man with the White Claw, Turner & Hooch returns, musicians get paid and it's estimated that 3-1/2 million birds a year die how? What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com) 

On todays show: coffee is like crack, love in the workplace, Valentines day with the dog, bad thieves, Keith Richards goes cold turkey and The average person will spend three weeks of their life doing what? What is it? Lowtree Studios http://lowtreestudios.com (lowtreestudios.com)