Welcome to Simple Joe. I’m glad you’re here.

In today’s episode of Simple Joe, I share a quirky little nugget about a Swiss inventor who built a fully functional clock made entirely out of cheese. Then we look at Thanksgiving week weather in Lansing, Michigan and here at home in Cincinnati. I celebrate a few big birthdays, including Charles M. Schulz, Tina Turner, Dale Jarrett, and Peter Facinelli, and we have some fun with National Cake Day, National Jukebox Day, and the wonderfully conflicting Anti Obesity Day as I ask you to choose your winner between cake, pie, and cookies.

From there, I tell a personal story from a long flight between Manchester, England and Orlando, Florida, where I made an unusual decision in our always connected world: I turned off every screen, put both of my phones away, refused Wi Fi, and let myself be completely, intentionally bored. Out of that came some honest reflections about doom scrolling, the way the algorithm mirrors our behavior, and what happens to your mind when you finally stop feeding it constant stimulation. If you have ever felt glued to your phone or forgotten what it feels like to simply sit and think, this one might speak to you.

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Welcome to Simple Joe. I’m glad you’re here.

In this episode of Simple Joe, I kick things off with the fascinating fact that the very first website ever created, Tim Berners-Lee’s text-only page at info.cern.ch, is still online today just the way it looked in 1991, and I geek out a bit by “visiting” it in real time. I share the weather for my friends in Moscow, Russia and back home in Cincinnati, then we celebrate some big birthdays like Joe DiMaggio, Ricardo Montalbán, Annie Lennox, Ben Stein, John F. Kennedy Jr., Amy Grant, Billy Burke, and Christina Applegate, touch on Alfred Nobel patenting dynamite, and mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Blasé Day, and National Parfait Day.

It’s Tuesday, which means Random Questions, and today’s lineup will make you think. Here are the ones I pulled:

Random Questions:

1. If you could erase one everyday inconvenience from the world, what would it be?
2. What’s something you’ve never tried but secretly think you’d be really good at?
3. If your life had a theme song for today, what would it be and why?
4. What is one ordinary object you think will be obsolete in 20 years?
5. If you could instantly learn the entire history of any one country, which country would you pick?

I share my off-the-cuff answers — some surprising, some personal, some a little philosophical — and invite listeners to think through their own. I wrap up with reminders about Wildcard Wednesday, how to share your thoughts, and of course, a nudge to make today epic, because memories are better than stuff.

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Welcome to Simple Joe. I’m glad you’re here.

Today I talked about a lake in Australia that is naturally bright pink and still a mystery to scientists, and I had fun imagining what it would be like to actually jump into a bright pink lake. I shared the three day weather for Brooklyn, Wisconsin, and Cincinnati, and then dug into Monday’s Interesting Headlines where I peruse the news for fun, odd stories worth talking about. Today’s headlines included a smart keyboard helping Parkinson’s patients, a new way to defrost cars using electricity instead of heat, a teacher who created a compliment hotline, a self healing phone case that fixes scratches in minutes, and a tiny robot that can fold laundry the size of a postage stamp. I closed the show with today’s birthdays, historic events, and National Sardines Day, plus a reminder to make great memories because memories are better than stuff.

Email me at joe@thesimplejoe.com or send me a text at 513.399.6468. Just say hi, I would love to hear from you.

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