Today we visit with Jay Stratton. For over thirty-two years, he served the U.S. on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence Community. He specialized in emerging and disruptive aerospace technologies, including the most classified U.S. capabilities, making him uniquely qualified to identify anything in air and space. But when presented with a video of a mysterious advanced aerospace vehicle over a sensitive nuclear weapon site, Stratton quickly found himself investigating the most significant national security threat he had ever faced.
His new book is out now: Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life - https://link.amazon/B083emNQ4
TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
Pickle Day
https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/the-7-best-pickle-cocktails
SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
Voting may help you live longer! A first-of-its-kind study found that people who voted in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections had a 26% and 32% lower risk of premature death, respectively, by 2023. Researchers tracked about 4,200 older adults and found that voting may offer benefits beyond simply fulfilling your civic duty. Apparently, democracy can be good for your health!
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
Kim Kardashian had a terrifying experience while filming “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” that involved her ex-husband, according to a new book. In “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future”, showrunner Jonathan Van Meter writes that during a 2018 trip to Uganda while filming an episode, a policeman had a gun to Kim’s head, after Kim’s then-husband West had cops raid everybody’s rooms, claiming someone was trying to drug him. Kardashian released a statement about West’s diagnosis with bipolar disorder in 2020 on Instagram.
After nearly a year of speculation, Jennifer Lawrence has confirmed that she will appear in the upcoming “Hunger Games” movie “Sunrise on the Reaping”. She’ll reprise her role as ‘Katniss Everdeen’ in the latest installment of the franchise, set for release in theaters next month, and will appear alongside two other Hunger Games original cast members: Josh Hutcherson as ‘Peeta Mellark’ and Woody Harrelson as an older ‘Haymitch Abernathy’.
DID YA KNOW!?
Did You Know... 🏔️Mount Everest continues to grow a little taller every year. The slow movement of Earth's tectonic plates pushes the Himalayas upward by a few millimeters annually.
JOKE OF THE DAY
(FROM
HEIDI)
SCOOP
OF THE DAY
That
old tale about cheese giving you wild dreams or nightmares might
actually have some truth to it. A study published in Frontiers in
Psychology surveyed over 1,000 university students about their diets
and sleep. Dairy and sweets were commonly blamed for disturbing
dreams, particularly among people with lactose intolerance or food
allergies. Researchers believe digestive discomfort could disrupt
sleep and contribute to more vivid or unpleasant dreams. So, if
you’re waking up from nightmares, that late-night cheese platter
might be partly to blame — especially if dairy doesn’t agree with
you!
Move
over, Gen Z! Grandmas are taking over social media – and making
serious money doing it. 96-year-old Lillian Droniak, known as
“Grandma Droniak”, has 15 million TikTok followers and earns
enough to cover her nursing home fees of $12,000 a month. Her content
even includes sponsored deals, although her retirement home in
Connecticut has banned her from supplying alcohol at her parties.
Droniak explains that her grandson began helping her post videos in
2020, saying: “I always knew I had it in me to be famous, I just
didn’t think it would happen in my 90s.” She’s part of a
growing trend featuring older women sharing everything from fashion
and cooking to dating and homemaking. One 82-year-old fashion
influencer has more than 800,000 followers, while an 83-year-old
Italian grandma has become an internet sensation with her family
recipes. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/57n9sjnc
THE MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY
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“You’re killing me, Smalls.”
The Sandlot Ham Porter 1993
NEWS TO ME
(FROM HEIDI)
FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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this with your friends... they'll think you're really smart!
✓ The word “mascot” comes from the French “mascotte”, which means “lucky charm”.
✓ Barbie’s parents are named George and Margaret.
✓ Mustaches are hotbeds for bacteria because of the moist air leaving the body through the nose and mouth.
✓ A study found that the more common bearded men are, the less attractive beards become to women.
WEIRD NEWS
Now, you can get paid to walk a dog…that doesn’t even need to pee. A San Francisco tech startup called Dimensional posted a job offering $20 an hour for people willing to walk robot dogs for 4-6 hours through public areas. The catch? These mechanical mutts weigh about 33 pounds (15kg), and if one breaks down, you’re expected to carry it back to the company. The experiment is designed to help researchers improve AI-controlled robots. Apparently, even artificial intelligence still needs a human to take its dog for a walk!
QUESTION OF THE DAY
About 1/3 of Americans say they do THIS while driving. What is it?
Answer: Think/reflect.
SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH HEIDI SMALL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM WOMEN:
⇒ If you wanna impress me with your vehicle it better be a food truck — american.wonders
⇒ adding geologist to my resume after hitting rock bottom — soysabil
⇒ someone asked me what my favorite bird is and i panicked and said rotisserie chicken — b.
⇒ why do grandmas always insist on being called something cutesy like “gigi” or “bunny” when they
could instead instill fear with a name like “blade” or “night fury” or “The Reaper” — chase
⇒ I do an insane amount of laundry for someone who wears the same 4 things. — Kelly U
⇒ Hey babe, are you adobe acrobat because you are not responding — meghan
GOOD NEWS
When
911 Couldn't Reach This Family, Two Teenagers Stepped Up to Save Them
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news