More in the Morning: March 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Whale Meat, Hot Dogs & Prostate Cancer

It was certainly nice having a week off, and amazing how when you come back, it's like you never left. My thanks to Brian Strobel for filling in. Did you ever notice that radio and TV is the only industry in which employees feel compelled to tell you that they're filling in for somebody? I'll bet, never once, have you gone into The Giant and the cashier says, "Good Afternoon, I'm Butch Shagnasty. I'll be your cashier. Bob Johnson has the day off."

We started off the week with a bang. OH-bamacare is now the law of the land. On the bright side, now that they passed the bill, maybe we'll actually get to see whats in it. I guess the days of politicians going to Washington and representing US are over. Now, apparently, these people we've voted in go to D.C. and do whatever THEY want. A CNN poll (CNN, mind you) finds that 59% of Americans oppose OH-bamacare, and most expect it will give the government too much power, INcrease the deficit and RAISE their insurance costs. According to a CBS poll (CBS, mind you), Speaker Nancy "Bela Lugosi" Pelosi's approval rating is 11. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's approval rating is 8. At this point, athlete's foot has a higher rating than these two. Meanwhile, President OH-bama says he will head out on a major public relations tour to convince Americans that they will LOVE OH-bamacare once they see what's in it. Again, shouldn't we have known what was in the bill BEFORE they passed it?

Good luck to The President on this. It's going to have to be one heck of a public relations blitz to sell this one to most Americans. My suggestion to him is that he go out and hire the same public relations firm that convinced millions of Americans to go out and buy Snuggies.

When you can convince millions of people to go out and buy a blanket with a hole in it for $19.99, that's one heck of a PR firm.

I have a couple of live appearances coming up and would love to have you come out and join me for them. Tomorrow, from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., I'll be broadcasting live from Radley Chevrolet on Route One, and yes, I'll have FREE Martinsville-style hot dogs for you, plus chances for you to win tickets to the Martinsville Cup Race. Come on by for some fun!

Also, coming up on Friday, April 16, I'm coming back to The Riverboat On The Potomac with my live comedy show. This is not a Thunder remote. It will NOT be broadcast. The only way to be a part of it is at The Riverboat. I rarely get a chance to do my live club act locally, so I hope you'll come out. Also, I'll be giving tickets away all this week as prizes in More's Mystery. Speaking of which, tomorrow morning, we'll be looking for a TV character. This TV character appeared in a popular TV sitcom which ran for 9 years, and he appeared in every episode except for two. More clues tomorrow morning.

Speaking of eating..............if you like sushi, be careful where you go for it when visiting Los Angeles. Owners of the trendy sushi joint called The Hump (yes, that's the name of it) were exposed last week of serving illegal whale meat. They are facing a possible fine of $200,000.00, and the chef alone could be fined $100,000.00. On their website at http://www.thehump.biz/ , they say they are closing their doors forever and they apologize for the whole whale meat thing. As I understand it, in Japan, whale meat IS served to restaurant customers and, in fact, it is considered a delicacy. So, I guess you can say in their defense, that these guys just didn't know that in this country, we don't eat whales. Some of us just look like we do.

Finally, good medical news for bald men this morning from Professor Jonathan Wright of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. According to the professor, men who start balding by the age of 30 have a 45% lower chance of getting prostate cancer.

That's the good news. The bad news is they also have a 77% lower chance of getting a date.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Vacation, Peter Graves & Trouble In Iowa

Yes, I'm on vacation this week, but still wanted to get at least one quick blog entry in. Tomorrow is the highlight of my week off...............getting my car inspected. Who says I don't know how to party?

Speaking of partying, I do have a live remote broadcast coming up this Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day. I will be out hosting a live St. Patty's Day party at the all-new Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille located at the Spotsylvania Towne Center. Rae & I had dinner out there in January and loved it. The party starts a 6 and I look forward to seeing you out there.

A sad day yesterday........actor Peter Graves died of a heart attack at the age of 83.

It's funny...........here's Peter Graves, who was known in many circles as an actor's actor.........a great serious actor. Whoever would have thought that his most memorable on-screen moments would be with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar??

...and of course, it was Peter Graves, who gave us that great line:

"Joey, do you like gladiator movies?"

Finally, I love this story out of Ames, Iowa. Police there arrested a man for breaking into The First Christian Church and apparently spending the night in the basement. Some staff members called police when they came in the following morning to find this guy trying to haul away a garbage can full of food, utensils, clothes, electronics, and a 26-inch flat-screen TV, all church property. But here's the best part: they don't go into detail, but there was also evidence that the man used the church's video equipment to watch porn movies he had on him.

In my opinion, this is how you could tell for sure that the burglar was a man. He didn't have food, utensils, clothing or shelter, BUT he DID have a porn collection.

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Open Mic Night, A Tough More's Mystery & A Posh Prison

Rae & I popped into Cheeseburger In Paradise in Central Park last night for the Thunder Open Mic Night. The place was packed!! This thing is going so well, they've decided to extend it. So, if you have any musical talent, we'd love to see you at Cheeseburger any Thursday night.

Kristin Nash is off on vacation next week. Filling in for her for the Walk Down Music Row will be The Wack, Penny Wack.

We've been doing More's Mystery for almost 2 years now. For those of you who might not know, it's a little trivia-type game we play every morning shortly after the 7 o'clock news. I throw out a few clues and you see if you can determine who or what it is we're looking for. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes a place, or maybe even an event or whatever. Without a doubt, the More's Mystery we had this past Wednesday was the most difficult and the most talked about. It took over 90 minutes before a listener finally came up with the right answer. Here it is days later, and people are still asking me about it. We were looking for a city. In the late 1800's, a devastating fire destroyed more than 30 blocks in this city. The first name of the founder of this city is William. This city is known as "the divorce capitol of the country" because they have the most lenient divorce laws in the Unites States. The answer, in case you missed it, was Fargo, North Dakota. On Monday morning, once again, we'll be looking for a city.

If you're planning on committing a crime, I have the perfect location: Oslo, Norway. They recently announced that they'll soon be opening what they're billing as "the world's most luxurious maximum security prison". Each cell is a suite with it's own bedroom and a hi-def, flat screen TV. There's a climbing wall for exercise, a recording studio and $1.5 million worth of modern art throughout. The entire facility cost over $240 million to build. The Governor of Norway, Arne Hoidal, says, "We are very proud of what we have achieved. None of the windows have bars. Instead, they are made of unbreakable glass so that people do not feel too claustrophobic".

Yeah, because you would hate for prison inmates to feel confined.

I have to laugh at this guy, Hoidal, bragging about the fact that they don't have bars on the windows. Of course they don't. With a facility like this, why would they NEED to put bars on the windows? Who's going to want to leave?

If anything, they would need bars on the windows to keep people from breaking IN.

Finally, in the "the doctor is nuttier than the patient" department: We go to Kenton County, Kentucky, where Dr. Douglas Rank, a psychiatrist, has been charged with first-degree assault for stabbing a female patient with a sword. Here's a picture of the good doctor......

I think when he's not practicing psychiatry, he works as a Kenny Rogers impersonator.

Witnesses say they caught Rank looming over this female patient moments after he stabbed her. They were able to wrestle the sword away.

This guy's either nuts or here's another theory: This could've all been part of this woman's therapy. Perhaps she's under the delusion that she's a cocktail olive.