Ashley and Brad Show - ABS 2022-2-14

<p>news<br /> birthdays/events<br /> valentine's day...men vs women<br /> should we move superbowl to saturday?<br /> news<br /> funny things people steal from hotels<br /> maybe we don't look people in the eyes anymore because zoom and facetime don't let us...until now!<br /> banned baby names around the world<br /> news<br /> game: quiz<br /> game: feud<br /> do women really take longer to pack than men?<br /> news<br /> what's your favorite "I'm bored" game on your phone<br /> safest exercise for your decade in life<br /> goodbye/fun facts....national ferris wheel day. The holiday honors the birth of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., the man who invented the Ferris Wheel.  Preparations for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition began in earnest in 1891. Director of works for the fair, Daniel H. Burnham, laid out the challenge: create a centerpiece to the show that will rival the Eiffel Tower in Paris which had been erected the year prior. Burnham balked at Ferris' idea, doubting it could safely carry people.  Ferris spent $25,000 of his own money, he paid for safety studies, obtained $600,000 more from investors, hired engineers,and  built the 250-foot diameter wheel.  It was a colossal success at 26 stories tall and making a whopping $726,805.50. In 1893, that was a hefty profit.  Despite the wheel’s success, Ferris struggled after the fair. Lawsuits over who owed who bankrupt him. His wife left him. In 1896, a few short years after the fair, he died at the age of 37 of typhoid fever.</p>