Saturday, May 12, 2007

TFATD 16: iPods, Bees, and Mother's Day

Episode 16 of The Falcon and the Dove: iPods, Bees, and Mother's Day. In this jam-packed episode, we discuss iPods that can affect pacemakers, the declination of honeybees (and possibly our food supply), Spidey 3 spinning of web of cash, and much more! It is truly amazing that we get to all of this in an hour! Enjoy!

- Overview
- According to a new study by a high school student, iPods can affect pacemakers.
- What is happening to the honey bees? They are disappearing. Cell phones responsible? The ramifications could be huge for the human food supply.
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Ty Pennington was arrested for drunk driving. What was he thinking?
- FOLLOWUP: The Chicago 7-year old boy, Ian Cahr, who we discussed last week, has now raised over $4,000 for New Leash On Life!!
- Mi Hyun Kim of the LPGA won last week in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; she donated $100,000 to Greensburg, Kansas tornado survivors.
- Spiderman 3 makes $59.3 million in one day, $151 million in three days in U.S., and $365 million in three days worldwide! Yikes!
- FOLLOWUP: The contaminated feed that infected thousands of dogs and cats was recently given to fish that humans consume.
- Farenheit 9/11 director, Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Dept. for taking ailing 9/11 workers to Cuba for treatment.
- OxyContin maker, Purdue Pharma, pays $634.5 million in fines for understating OxyContin's addictive properties.
- FOLLOWUP: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has at last been rated PG-13 for 'sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images'.
- May 13th is Mother's Day. How to honor your mom.
- The Quote of the Week: The Players Championship at Sawgrass.

Download Episode 16 Here! (Length: 1 hour, 17 minutes; Size: 71.1 MB)