More in the Morning: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Memorial Day Weekend, Unhealthy Food & THE CORONA BABES!!

A VERY HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TO ALL OF YOU FROM MYSELF, KRISTIN NASH, PAUL HAYDEN & SHEILA QUINN

Thanks to all of you who came out to be a part of our first Flip-Flop Friday this weekend in Colonial Beach. Despite the threatening skies, we had a great turnout, a great time, and best of all, THE CORONA BABES WERE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rae's son, Kyle, is staying with us for a bit, so I brought him along with me to Flip-Flop. On the way home, he said, "I can't believe they actually pay you to do this.....walking around......drinking Corona and hanging out with the Corona Girls".

Come to think of it, it is good work if you can get it. Our next Flip-Flop Friday on tap is this week in Fairview Beach. Kristin Nash will be at the controls of this one. For more details, keep listening to Thunder 104.5.

The food cops are at it again. The Center For Science In The Public Interest has issued their list of the least healthy restaurant foods. Let's take a look at the top six:

6.) Outback's New Zealand Rack of Lamb

5.) Cheesecake Factory's Chicken Pasta Carbonara (2500 calories)

4.) Cheesecake Factory's Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake (it weight 3 quarters of a

pound, has over 1,600 calories, and is the equivalent of eating 14 Hostess Ho-

Ho's)

3.) P.F. Chang's Double-Fried Noodle Combo (1,820 calories and five days worth

of salt - apparently the P.F in P.F. Chang's stands for "pure fat")

2.) California Pizza Kitchen's Tostada Pizza (the calorie and fat equivalent of

eating a pepperoni pizza with 6 beef tacos on top - Wow - How did I not think

of that?!)

1.) Five Guy's Bacon Cheeseburger (loaded up with calories, fat and salt)

Maybe it's supposed to be consumed by.........................five guys.

Finally, with the holiday weekend upon us, a reminder to be safe out there. If you're drinking, don't drive. You could wind up like 25-year old Matthew Van McDaniel of Los Alamitos, California. Mr. Van McDaniel is behind bars and could be there for some time. He was driving his Mercedes S550 with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit, when he crashed the car.....................through the gates.................of a California jail...........hitting a deputy in the process.

This guy was so bombed, he probably thought the deputy was the valet parking attendant.

Mr. Van McDaniel was sentenced to nine years in state prison for recklessly driving while under the influence of alcohol and assaulting an officer.

The good news is the officer was not seriously injured.

Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said it was "the first time somebody tried to break INTO the jail".

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Famous Dave's, On Top Of Mount Everest & Big News About Fish

Unfortunately, we got rained out this past Saturday night at Old Dominion Speedway, so I was not able to experience the "ride-along". If you won tickets last week, I understand Old Dominion will honor those tickets on any night, and as far as the ride-along is concerned, we are going to try to re-schedule, although that might be easier said than done. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks to all of you who came out to enjoy our King of Wings Festival on Saturday. The weather held out for most of it, and congratulations to the Undisputed King of Wings: Famous Dave's.

Wow! What a tough More's Mystery this morning!! If you missed the answer, it was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Tomorrow morning, we'll be looking for a famous person with an equally famous spouse.

Happy Birthday to Roseanne Cash. She is 55 today. Priscilla Presley is 65 today, and Tommy Chong is 72 today. Yes, 72!! How did that happen!?

Ironically, Tommy now qualifies to get free medical marijuana from the government.

On More In The Morning, we have often talked about people wasting incredible amounts of time and money studying stupid things. This one might be one of the all-time classics. Dr. Julie Desjardins, a researcher and biologist at Stanford University has been studying fish. The doctor now tells us that after years and years of research, she has determined that fish fear their own reflection, and therefore, will NOT look at their own reflection. How much time and money was spent to find this out? And when you get right now to it, who really knows what's on the mind of a fish? Obviously they're not too bright or they wouldn't keep winding up on the dinner table. But the really big question here is: WHO CARES ABOUT ANY OF THIS??

But let's say she's right about this. So what? Where are you going with this revelation..........this newly-found information? What are you going to do with it? Personally, I never knew fish don't look at their own reflection, but then again, I never really sat around pondering it.

But now that I know this important bit of information, I have been thinking about it. Maybe, just maybe, the reason a fish doesn't want to look at it's own reflection is because he's self-conscious about his looks. I mean he might be self-conscious about the fact that he has big lips...........eyes that are popping out of his head.......and scaly skin. When he looks in the mirror, he probably says, "Oh my God, I look like Larry King!!!!!"

Finally, hats off to 12 year-old Jordan Romero of California, who is now officially the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. Now, I am not making this up, and if you doubt this, then I urge you to put in a search for "Jordan Romero" and read it for yourself: While climbing the highest peak in the world, Romero carried a pair of kangaroo testicles on him for good luck.

I might be wrong, but I would think that after removing the testicles from a kangaroo, climbing Mount Everest would seem easy.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Arlen Spector, The Kennedys & H & R Block

People are still buzzing over Tuesday's primary elections. The big news is Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector losing in the Democratic primary to Representative Joe Sestak.

Spector had been in the Senate for five terms (30 years), but like most politicians, his views change from time to time depending on who he's talking to. His flip-flopping alienated Republicans so much so that he jumped over to the Democrats. Apparently, they were not too thrilled with him either. I know this guy has had some medical problems over the years, and maybe it's not his fault that he's nuts, but the voters definitely sent a few messages. A.) They don't like incumbents, B.) They don't like flip-floppers, and C.) They don't like people named "Arlen".

My thanks to Mike Southard for coming on the show this morning. Mike will be my driver at Old Dominion Raceway this Saturday night. Your final chance to win a 4-pack of tickets to the event and to qualify for the ride along experience when I hop into a race car and go head to head with a lucky listener on the track is during tomorrow morning's show. Good Luck!!!

Earlier that day, we'll all be out at the King of Wings Festival at the Fredericksburg Fairgrounds. Kristin Nash will be out there with me, as will Braden Smith, and we hope YOU will be out there as well. Make sure you come up to say, "Hi" to us!

The Kennedys are at it again. The wife of Robert Kennedy Jr has been arrested and charged with DUI, two days after a "domestic incident" at the couple's home in Bedford, Massachusetts.

According to Bedford Police Lt. Jeff Dickan, Mary F. Kennedy had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11 at the time of arrest. The legal limit is 0.08. She was pulled over because police witnessed her drive over a curb in the driveway at a local school. Dickan says she slurred her speech, the vehicle smelled of alcohol, and she failed field sobriety tests, including a one-legged stand and a walk-and-turn test.

I don't want to make a big deal out of this because on the Kennedy's Scandal's Scale, this is basically a "2".................and hey.................at least this time, nobody drowned.

Finally, I was astounded to read this today. H & R Block is closing up 400 offices because business is off. You would thing that with this current administration, if there's any business that would prosper, it would be tax preparation.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

ODS, Skin Cancer & An Unusual Request From An Animal Shelter

Congratulations to Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih, the new Miss U.S.A., and the first Muslin American to win that title. Although my money was on Miss Oklahoma (I picked her from the beginning of the pageant and just thought she had the best shot at winning), I will admit Fakih is a very pretty girl.

In fact, she's is so hot, she could've won the swimsuit competition wearing a burqa.

Every morning this week, I'm going to give you the chance to call in and win a family four-pack of tickets to this Saturday night's races at Old Dominion Speedway. Then, at the end of the week, we'll draw a grand prize winner. That person will get a ride-along experience on the track Saturday night against me. Our winner will be drawn from those who won a family four-pack this week. If you win a four-pack, you're eligible for the drawing for the ride-along experience. So, do the math: If you win one one the prize packs this week, your chances of winning the grand prize are one-in-five. Tomorrow morning, your chance to win the four-pack will come in the eight o'clock hour.

Speaking of winning, I will also have a chance for you to win a family four-pack of tickets to The Thunder Concerts In The Park Series at Patriot Park for next Saturday Night when we play More's Mystery in the morning. Here's a little headstart for you: The subject of More's Mystery tomorrow morning was in detox at the age of eight.

It's very hard to get people to alter their behavior. To illustrate this, lets look at some poll numbers from a survey conducted by HealthDay.com concerning tanning and skin cancer. Of the 7,000 Americans surveyed, 80% say they want to avoid skin cancer. However 72% said they believe a tan looks good, and over 60% said they think a tan makes a person look healthier. But I want to go back to the first figure for a moment: 80% said they want to avoid skin cancer. I want to know more about the 20% who DON'T want to avoid skin cancer. Wouldn't you love to sit down and talk to these balloon-heads for a few minutes just to see what makes them tick.

I actually had little skin cancer scare about four years ago. Talk about a sun-worshiper, that was me! In fact, I didn't just hang and tan in the sun, but went to a tanning salon on top of it, and I did this for years. As I got a little older, I was smart enough to start going in for regular skin screenings. It was during one of these, the doctor discovered a squamous cell carcinoma, a very common form of skin cancer and fortunatley, very easy to remove. People ask me if I think I got it from the sun or the tanning salon. I'm pretty sure I got it from the tanning salon because of WHERE it was located on my body. I'll let your imagination take it from there.

But it defintely caused me to cut down on my tanning.

Finally, in keeping with the medical theme (in a way), there's a dog at My Little Shelter & Adoption Center in Huntington, Long Island, New York who needs Viagra. I'm not making this up. Ingrid is a six-year-old Pit Bull with a heart condition, and needs two of these little blue pills a day, or she will risk heart failure. Most people forget, or just never knew, that originally, Viagra was developed as a heart medication. Of course, these days, it's used by human males for......................well.....................other reasons. The pills cost about ten to twelve dollars a piece, and the shelter is asking men to pitch in and donate their unused pills. Most of the men I know who use this stuff don't have any UNUSED pills. Anyway, if you're interested in helping out, their website address is http://www.littleshelter.com/ .

A Pit Bull on Viagra..........................I don't think I'd want to be anywhere near that scenario.

The good news is if this dog can hang in there, soon every dog in the United States will be entitled to FREE Viagra under the OH-bama healthcare plan.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Trouble At The WWE, A Big Beaver Dam & Larry King

Thanks to all of you who came out for our Cinco De Mayo party at The Greene Turtle this week. It was great meeting all of you.

Here are the clues for Monday's More's Mystery: We'll be looking for a game. There is absolutely no physical activity involved in this game. A general, all-around knowledge of people, places, dates, etc. is helpful when playing this game. Finally, a prize is always awarded to the winner.

Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment has a problem. WWE fan Zavr Peygumbari was arrested this week for making more than twenty calls to the WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut threatening to blow up the building. He was apparently upset over the fact that the WWE fired former women's champ, Mickie James.

The phone calls began April 24th and continued through April 27th. Peygumbari was charged with four counts of fourth-degree threatening, one count of harassment and two counts second-degree threatening. In the phone calls, he said he would visit the building with a machete and a machine gun. He also threatened to blow the building up. What somebody should tell this guy is if he really wanted to get Vince McMahon's attention, he should have threatened to come over and whack somebody with a folding chair.

Somebody should also tell him that professional wrestling is not real.

Canadian ecologist (every time I hear the word "ecologist", I start to get a little nervous) Jean Thie claims to have discovered the world's largest beaver dam on a remote lake in northern Alberta. He estimates that the beavers have been building it since the late 70's. It is so big, it shows up on satellite photos. Apparently, it's the biggest dam thing in Alberta.

The really great news is that this will soon become even bigger and better now that President OH-bama has given the beavers $5 billion in stimulus money.

Finally, Larry King has announced that he's putting his divorce plans on hold in hopes of a reconciliation with his wife Shawn. In fact, just a few nights ago, Shawn met Larry at the door in a slinky night gown.

Unfortunately, she was coming home at the time.

I made that last part up.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Colorado, Traficant & What NOT To Do During Your Driving Test

Happy Birthday today to Randy Travis. He is 51 today. And Stella Parton is 61 today. Stella is the younger sister of Dolly Parton. It must've been a little tough on Stella. She basically grew up in Dolly's shadow.

Dolly does have a way of casting a big shadow.

A couple of quick political notes:

Former Ohio Democratic Congressman and now, ex-con, James Traficant, fresh off a seven-year prison term for a bribery and racketeering conviction, says he is ready to run for Congress again, and he has filed papers to make it official.

Traficant, who DEFINITELY has the best hair in politics, registered this week to run as an independent in his home district in northeast Ohio, which is currently represented by Democrat and former Traficant aide, Tim Ryan. Traficant served nine terms, nearly twenty years, representing Ohio's 17th Congressional District, before his conviction in 2002. He was later expelled from the House of Representatives. His arrogance is amazing to me in announcing that he will run again. Legally, he can do this. What he can't do is vote. In Ohio, as in most states, an ex-con CAN run for office, but as an ex-con, they've lost their right to vote. Tell me we're not completely upside down as a country. He can run for office, but he can't vote for himself. Hopefully, the good people of the 17th district of Ohio will not entertain the thought of voting for this lunatic even for a moment. He says he is running on the platform of having experience. You can't argue with that. He DOES have experience. He served ten terms. nine in Congress - one in prison.

Speaking of running independently for office, what is Florida Governor Charlie Crist thinking? He announced this week that he is leaving the Republican Party. He says he's not getting the proper support from the party. He's also drowning in the polls, with his opponent Marco Rubio far ahead of him in the upcoming primaries. Although Crist is popular with the more liberal fringe of the Republican Party, Rubio is wowing the more traditional conservatives in the party. The majority of registered Republicans believe Crist is more likely to "side" with President OH-bama, and believe Rubio would not. So as of this week, Crist is officially out as a Republican.

From here on in, Crist will be running for the Senate as an independent candidate in his newly-formed Tanning Bed Party.

I have not one, but two great reason why you should be at The Greene Turtle behind the Spotsylvania Towne Center this week. Tomorrow night, I'll be there broadcasting live starting at 6 P.M., hosting the big Cinco de Mayo party. We'll have it all for you......big screens TVs, great food, great beverages, WAAAY too much fun, and a chance for you to win big with our Cinco Bingo Game!!!!

On Friday night, it's Penny Wack live at The Greene Turtle, also starting at 6 P.M. You're invited to go out and join The Wackster as she hosts the "Cold, Colder, Coldest" game, which YOU can play (must be 21), and win a 3-day/2-night ski trip to Breckenridge, Colorado. Somebody is going to win this trip before the night is over. It might as well be you. The trip includes airfare from Southwest Airlines (in my opinion, one of the best airlines in the country), hotel accommodations and lift tickets.

The "Cold, Colder, Coldest" game is brought to you by Coors Light, served in cans, bottles and glasses that tell you when its cold. Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado. Great Beer, great responsibility.

If you're getting ready to take your driving test, don't do what 18 year-old Lucas Holliday did this week in Whittier, California. While taking his test with the examiner seated in the passenger's seat, Holliday went to step on the brakes, but stepped on the gas instead. The result: He crashed.............................INTO THE DMV BUILDING!!!

The airbags deployed. Holliday wasn't hurt, but the examiner hit his head and was taken to a local hospital for observation and released. The doctors probably figured anybody who would take a job as a driving test examiner is probably brain-damaged already.

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