Season 2, Episode 04 - Australia's national airline, Names of cows, Wheel of Fortune mispronunciation, Vitamins D & E, Traffic violence, France's social security, and more!

26/01/2023 36 min Temporada 2 Episodio 4

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Episode Synopsis

In this week's podcast, we lighten things up a bit.

Our quote of the day is from George Washington about the company you keep.
We ask if you know how to spell the name of Australia's national airline and the derivation of  that name (Hint:  You probably don't)
We mention a woman upset that a yogurt company that listed the names of the cows that gave the milk used to make the yogurt all had girls' names.
We discuss (and play audio) how not doing his reading assignments cost a senior college contestant on the Wheel of Fortune game show a million dollars.
In our science minute, we'll describe how a school in Massachusetts hasn't been able to turn off any of the school's 7,000 lights for almost two years because they turned over total control of all the systems in the school to a building automation system that failed.
In our health minute, we'll discuss the benefits of vitamins  D & E, why most Americans aren't getting enough of them, and the dangers associated with those deficiencies.
Public transportation advocates are using the new emotionally charged term "Traffic violence" to attack private car ownership.
Massive corruption in the New York City construction industry. "Shocked, I tell you, just shocked" (Can you name the movie that quote came from)?
This a cautionary tale about why people in France are rioting in cities all across that country over proposed changes to that country's pension system and why the US could be next if minor changes to our own Social Security system aren't made soon.
Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Indianapolis, where a homeowner confronts a man armed with a knife in his home at 4 a.m.

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