Big prize this week! I have tickets to Ed Sheeran’s “+ – = ÷ x TOUR” coming to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA Saturday, July 1, 2023.
Every day at 4pm I will ask a trick trivia question. If you get it right first you win. Would you have know today’s?
Q: This is the top thing people are willing to pay extra for when going to a concert
A: VIP/better/close parking
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It’s pumpkin season and farmers all over have been trying to grow the heaviest pumpkin for months now.
On Monday a 2,560-pound pumpkin was entered into a contest at a fair in California. It won and was officially declared the heaviest pumpkin in U.S. The guy who grew it is from Minnesota and drove all the way out west just to submit it.
The largest pumpkin ever grown by a Connecticut resident was a 2,294 pound pumpkin last year grown by a guy named Alex Noel from Northeast part of the state
A lot of farmers say the drought this year has lead to pumpkins growing smaller than usual or cracking as they get bigger. So maybe next year we can get a Connecticut pumpkin to break that record.
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I realize this is something I should already know living less than twenty minutes from the PEZ HQ in Orange. What does PEZ mean?
The name PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint, “PfeffErminZ” which I’m not even going to attempt to pronounce.
They took the P from the first letter, E from the middle and Z from the last letter to form the word PEZ. Much easier to say. Then in 1952, PEZ came to the United States. By 1973 PEZ had arrived here in Connecticut to open their first candy manufacturing facility in Orange, CT!
Was the magical Mr. Predicto worth buying? Anna thinks so! It gives her a good reason to break out the witch laugh!
Producer Jon was tasked to make a new Halloween song since a good one hasn’t come around in years. Listen to it in the podcast and decide for yourself! Is it the next big Halloween hit!?
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How long is too long for an event? Anna went to a play over the weekend and she felt like it had no business being as long as it was! (:30)
Do you have any good memory hacks? Anna has been looking up life hacks on Tiktok and some of them might actually work! (3:43)
Long plane rides are uncomfortable, but if you’re taking your shoes off on a crowded flight, that’s all I need to know about you! (7:44)
Have you ever been booed? Anna was booed a few times as a standup comic, but the worst boo she ever got was at her sister’s wedding! (11:20)
Anna has tasked Producer Jon with writing the greatest Halloween song of all time! Yesterday he failed, but will his second attempt live up to her standards? (15:25)
Is Chivalry still a thing in 2022? Anna saw a man doing something particularly chivalrous when she was out to dinner and it kinda freaked her out! (19:01)
Have you ever wanted to know the future? Anna found something on Amazon that claims to have prophetic powers! (29:29)
Are you up to date on your teen slang? Anna gathered a bunch of slang terms that are popular with Gen Z and she is curious to see if Raven knows any of them… (33:28)
Blake and Nina are having their annual Halloween party and Blake wants to require guests to dress in “House of Dragon” theme. Nina says it’s enough to have a costume party where costumes are mandatory, it’s too much to ask the guests to have a specific theme… especially one as complicated as House of Dragon. What if people don’t know what that is? What do you think? (37:28)
Marta thinks she’s got what it takes to win $1000! All she has to do is beat Raven in pop culture trivia! (45:43)
Every Monday in The Feed Kevin talks to The Ump Vin Sarullo about everything going on in Connecticut High School Sports. This week we highlight a student athlete who is a star soccer and basketball player from West Haven while also being at the top of her class. There is also a discrepancy in the state about high school championships and which towns have a bigger advantage. We get into that story as well.
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Big prize this week! I have tickets to Ed Sheeran’s “+ – = ÷ x TOUR” coming to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA Saturday, July 1, 2023.
Every day at 4pm I will ask a trick trivia question. If you get it right first you win. Would you have know today’s?
Q: This is the top thing people are willing to pay extra for when going to a concert
A: VIP/better/close parking
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It always feels good to get a good grade on a test. But a PERFECT SCORE?! That’s very impressive. Even more so when you’re one of the few in the world to do it.
Ryan Williams is a senior at Ridgefield High School. He recently was one of 369 students in the world to get a perfect score on the Computer Science Advanced Placement Test. There were 77,434 kids who took it throughout the world. Pretty impressive stuff.
Ryan says after he graduates he plans to go to college for a Bachelor’s degree in computer science and software engineering. I’m pretty sure he will have his pick on what schools he wants to go to after this accomplishment.
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You’ve probably had this happen to you more than once. You get an Amazon package at the door for something small. Toothpaste, eyedrops, whatever, but it’s in a GIANT cardboard box. Why do they do this?!
The reason is actually pretty practical. When the warehouses are packing up items to be shipped out it’s like a game of Tetris with these trucks. They have a specific formula to make sure all the boxes fit in the various trucks. So it’s more about using a box that fits rather than how big or small the item that was ordered is.
Interesting!
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