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.
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)
