Friday, March 13, 2015

Update And Trivia

Hello Anyone. I'm going to try posting more regularly, but, we all know that such hopes often don't work as planned. That said, here's the current installment.

Radio

As many of you already know we've returned to Internet radio and we have several relatively new shows in the can. If you'd like to go to the site for the purpose of listening to the shows in podcast form, here it is. www.blogtalkradio.com/jeff-bushman

We're only doing a 30 minute show once a week, right now, but the plan is to add a 2nd half hour. Currently, the program consists of me talking about something of interest (with any luck) which could include politics, though in the last two weeks, we talked about how you could write for money.

The show is live at Sundays at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. Last week we talked about Daylight Saving Time and its tradition as well as the reason for "standard" retirement age being 65. This was in addition to talking about writing. But I digress (big surprise, right?). This show's always been at 6:30 Eastern, but with Arizona (where we are) not changing to Daylight Saving Time, it meant we had to move our start time back an hour in our location.

That said if you're anywhere else, the time of the show's start remains constant.

When we do add the 2nd half-hour that will be interviews.

If you listen to our older podcasts at the above site, you'll hear an hour show with the 2nd half being the interviews.

This coming Sunday, we'll be talking about GMO foods. Do you know what GMO stands for? Sometimes, I'm not even sure what I stand for, but GMO is Genetically Modified Organisms. There are tests which seem to indicate that there's nothing wrong with GMO foods, but I'm going to suggest that those who are doing the tests are looking at the wrong question. So tune-in at 6:30 Eastern on Sunday or listen afterwards, after the program is posted.

Of course if you listen when we're live, you can call-in.

Trivia

OK, let's do some trivia questions. Answers are optional.

1. Who was the first president of the U.S. to be born in the 20th century?

2. Who was the first president of the U.S. to serve in the 20th century (this is kind of a trick)?

3. Prior to JFK being on the half-dollar coin, who was on the coin of that denomination? Also, what was on the back of that coin?

4. How many U.S. bills between $1 and $100 have a person on the front who WASN'T a U.S. president? Name the bills and who's on there.

5.This one's not a trick, but it's quite surprising. Who was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?

The answers follow our next section.

Other Places To Find Us

If you're interested in the subject of process serving, please feel free to take a look at our blog posts at: www.ProcessServingAZ.blogspot.com. The capital letters aren't necessary but I just put them in there,here, to make the words clearer. Also, if you're interested in that subject, you can look us up at www.LighthouseAttorneyService.blogspot.com.

You can clearly find us at Blogtalk Radio, as indicated above. Also, some of our writing has appeared at Medium.com (look up Bushman), and you can follow us on Twitter, though I seldom tweet anymore (@jeffbushman1). You can also check out our books at Amazon.com (again, look up Bushman).

You can also find our magazine columns (if you're over 18) at www.allyouneedfor happiness.com since that's the site of Scottsdale Health Magazine.

Trivia Answers

1. The first president to have been born in the 20th century, was John Kennedy. He was born in 1917 and his immediate predecessor Dwight Eisenhower was born late in the 19th century. Though JFK's successor was older than Kennedy, he was still of the 20th century. Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

2. The first president to serve in the 20th century? I warned this was a trick. If you said McKinley, you were smart enough to know when he was the president, but you sort of fell into the trap. McKinley was killed in 1900 and Teddy Roosevelt became president. But centuries don't begin in the year ending in zero. They start in the year ending in "01." In part, that's because the first year of the first century (AD or Common Era) wasn't "the year zero." It was 1. In any event, TR served in 1901 and beyond, so the right answer is Teddy Roosevelt.

3. This question is easier if you were ever a collector of American coins or you're old enough to remember that half-dollar. On the front of the coin was Benjamin Franklin, and on the back was the Liberty Bell.

4. The bills from $1.00 to $100.00 that don't have a president? There are two. The $100 bill has Benjamin Franklin and the $10.00 bill has Alexander Hamilton. The highest offices they held were Postmaster General and Treasury Secretary, respectively. I don't know about you, but I'm frequently surprised at how many people think Hamilton was a president.

5. The first American president to have been born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter. The ones prior to him were all born at home. Some of our presidents grew up poor, so were born at home when wealthy people used hospitals. Others (JFK, for example) was born into a family that was very wealthy, but in those days, the very wealthy gave birth at home with midwives in attendance.

Wrap

Next time, I'll try to write something more meaningful, but I'm falling asleep at the keyboard, so that's a wrap. I'll see you on the radio.