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Tease: Coming up in ___________ minutes, history is made at the Masters
Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters yesterday, becoming the first Japanese man to win one of golf’s major titles. The 29-year-old shot a final round 73 to finish 10 under par, one shot ahead of the American runner-up. Hideki is now the first Japanese player to don the famous green jacket. Roughly twenty five years after Happy Gilmore became the first hockey player to win golf’s coveted gold jacket. (Additional out) One of the highest honors in the sport we all fall asleep watching.
Tease: In ______ minutes, how much someone wants to pay you to binge watch true crime
Three people will get paid as much as $2,400 to binge watch 24 hours of crime documentaries. MagellanTV, who paid one truce crime fanatic $1,000 to do the same last year has upped their game this year, looking for three bingers. If interested, you have until May 5th to apply. Finally, a job that puts the binge-watching skills I masted during the pandemic to good use. (Additional Out) Quick word of advice for husbands, it’s never a good sign if your wife takes notes while watching true crime documentaries.
Tease: Coming up at _____, how a woman reacted to having $1.2 million accidentally deposited in her account
A Louisiana woman has been arrested after refusing to return $1.2 million mistakenly deposited in her account. Kelyn Spadoni, a 33 year old dispatcher was booked for theft, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds. Spadoni is accused of immediately moving the money to another account and using it to buy a new car and a house. Apparently ‘finders keepers’ isn’t a real law. (Additional out) When what she should’ve bought was a plane ticket to the Caymans.
Tease: In _____ minutes, the recipe the Food Network shared that’s dividing the internet
A recipe for popcorn salad is being roasted on the internet after it was shared by the Food Network. Chef Molly Yeh has taken popcorn to the next level, or a new low, by adding the popular snack to vegetables and a dressing. The cookbook author calls it an ‘iconic midwestern dish’. I call it a crime against humanity. (Additional out) Which is code for ‘thing I made up because I forgot to go to the store today’.
Phone Topic/Web Poll: Several hundred of the nation’s 13,000 school districts have established virtual schools this academic year, with an eye toward operating them for years to come. Unlike makeshift pandemic school programs, these stand-alone virtual schools have their own teachers who work only with remote students and use a curriculum designed specifically for online learning. But what do you think, does remote learning work?
Contest Tease: Contest Tease: Coming up at _____________, how many of us have one of these in our house? The correct answer wins ________.
[Contest setup] The overall percentage of households that owned pets rose in 2020. According to market research firm Packaged Facts, what percentage of US households own dogs?
A: 34%
B: 44%
C: 54%
Answer: B, 44% of households now own dogs compared to 25% that own cats. But, to be fair, nobody really owns a cat.
[DIY Feature] Name that Movie Monday: I’ll give you a clue and play a short clip, the first person to call in and correctly identify the movie wins ________. If no one gets it I’ll move on to another clue and a slightly longer clip.
Clue #1: Follows the adventures of a 17 year old
Clue #2: Highest grossing film of 1985
Clue #3: Marty McFly
Answer: Back to the Future
5 Things You Need to Know
1) Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters yesterday, becoming the first Japanese man to win one of golf’s major titles. The 29-year-old shot a final round 73 to finish 10 under par, one shot ahead of the American runner-up. Hideki is now the first Japanese player to don the famous green jacket. Roughly twenty-five years after Happy Gilmore became the first hockey player to win golf’s coveted gold jacket.
2) Three people will get paid as much as $2,400 to binge watch 24 hours of crime documentaries. MagellanTV, who paid one truce crime fanatic $1,000 to do the same last year has upped their game this year, looking for three bingers. If interested, you have until May 5th to apply. Quick word of advice for husbands, it’s never a good sign if your wife takes notes while watching true crime documentaries.
3) A Louisiana woman has been arrested after refusing to return $1.2 million mistakenly deposited in her account. Kelyn Spadoni, a 33 year old dispatcher was booked for theft, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds. Spadoni is accused of immediately moving the money to another account and using it to buy a new car and a house. Apparently ‘finders keepers’ isn’t a real law.
4) A recipe for popcorn salad is being roasted on the internet after it was shared by the Food Network. Chef Molly Yeh has taken popcorn to the next level, or a new low, by adding the popular snack to vegetables and a dressing. The cookbook author calls it an ‘iconic midwestern dish’. I call it a crime against humanity.
5) The overall percentage of households that owned pets rose in 2020. According to market research firm Packaged Facts, 44% of households now own dogs compared to 25% that own cats. But, to be fair, nobody really owns a cat.
Does Remote Learning Work?
Several hundred of the nation’s 13,000 school districts have established virtual schools this academic year, with an eye toward operating them for years to come. Unlike makeshift pandemic school programs, these stand-alone virtual schools have their own teachers who work only with remote students and use a curriculum designed specifically for online learning. But what do you think, does remote learning work? We posed that question to our _________ listeners, click below to hear their responses, take the web poll below to weigh in, then listen tomorrow at _______ to hear the results.
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(Web polls)
Does remote learning work?
Yes
No