Ashley and Brad Show - ABS 2024-7-17

Ashley and Brad Show

news birthdays/events Listener Judy from Pennsylvania! do you use emojis when you text? word of the day news would you like to sit in the "quietest room in the world"? weird rules that olympic athletes must follow game: identify 4 songs in the mashup news would you give up your first class plane ticket due to a "booking error"? ashley's mistaken identity story game: who wants to be a fake millionaire news actual studies that were conducted...(what a waste of money!) game: movie descriptions in 3 words goodbye/fun facts....World Emoji Day...Before the emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons (emotion + icon) was developed as an expression of emotions. the word Emoji, is a Japanese expression, roughly means "picture word" created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1990. While working for the Japanese telecom company and he designed these picture words as a feature on their pagers to make them more appealing to teens. The release of the first iPhone by Apple in 2007 had an emoji keyboard embedded into the phone for the Japanese market. While not intended for U.S. users to find, they did and quickly figured out how to use it. today there are over 1800 emojis!