Show Prep #10

Greetings and Salutations, people. This is Vertically Striped Radio brought to you by VerticallyStripedSocks.com. Once again we are packed with stuff to talk about! We are ready to rock with another great show today, my daughter hopefully won’t be joining us, but I promise nothing. My son is sound asleep in his crib, and should continue sleeping, so we’re about as ready to rock as is possible for me! I’m trying to get used to modern parenting, my son Luke is two months away from turning 2, so he’s not quite savvy to societal expectations of what type of toys he should want. He has fallen in love with a pink toy stroller, and I’m trying my best to be okay with this. He was constantly trying to steal his sister’s toy stroller to play with, and it was very obvious that he wanted one of his own. Well, he now has it as his mother bought him one at a kids consignment store. Oh, and it’s pink. Very pink. It has very quickly become his prize possession, and it’s pretty funny to see him and his sister pushing their strollers down the street.

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Today on Vertically Striped Radio: Snakes on a Senate Floor, Naked Farming, a closer look at the movie “Network”, We’ll do our first ever round of Subjective Trivia with our new pal MJ, we’ll talk about an underestimated factor in whether or not you enjoy your trip to the ballpark, we’ll break down all the NFC Over/Unders and give you our best bets, we’ll discuss whether or not Big Ben’s legal battles will hurt the Steelers, plus we’ll have the Vertically Striped Music Recommendation of the week, and if you are bold enough to call to contribute, we’ll have your calls.

But, before we get the big show rolling, I’d like to welcome the newest member of Vertically Striped Radio, MJ. Welcome to the Big Show, sir. How are you today?
The debut of Subjective Trivia with MJ- (Sorry, MJ. You don’t get to see these questions beforehand! I want to keep your answers organic!)













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PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.
"They (villagers) believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains," said a village council official.
"This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily."
India this year suffered its worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some states.

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – A stray snake brought parliament to a standstill for several hours on Thursday in India's Orissa state, officials said.
A cleaner spotted the intruder, believed to be a king cobra, while sweeping in the morning and called the assembly's watchman.
The speaker of the assembly in the state capital adjourned the house as security personnel, wildlife officials and a member of a local snake helpline searched unsuccessfully for the creature with the help of a sniffer dog.
Snakes are straying more frequently into built-up areas because construction has driven the reptiles out of their habitat.


BERLIN (Reuters) – German police uncovered over 1,000 pairs of underpants and more than 100 pairs of swimming trunks after catching a thief nabbing another three pairs for his collection.
The 46-year-old man was caught Sunday pinching three pairs of pants from a sports hall in the western town of Gelnhausen. Police then came across the enormous collection of underwear while searching his flat.
"They were all evidently in use, but had been washed and neatly stacked away," a police spokesman said Monday.
Police are now investigating where all the underwear came from. The suspect claims to have acquired then from car-boot sales and over the Internet.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…
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NFL Over-Unders from sportsbook.com – Whatcha like? - We’ll make our preseason predictions and I’ll post them on the website. We’ll pick the NFC this week, and then the AFC next. We’ll pick all of them, and then try to pick three each that we like and would consider betting if we were in Vegas.


NFC

49ers – 7
Cardinals – 8.5
Seahawks – 7.5
Rams – 5.5

Buccaneers – 6.5
Saints – 8.5
Falcons – 8.5
Panthers – 8.5

Giants – 10
Redskins – 8
Eagles – 9.5
Cowboys – 9

Lions – 5
Vikings – 9
Packers – 9
Bears – 8.5







Ushers: The unnoticed critical element in enjoying or not enjoying your trip to the ballpark

Broncos – “Do you want to make a statement?” – Story of me getting hit in the head at
the Broncos-Raiders game
Nuggets – Taking away my empty can of soda after I finished it off.
Rockies – The Seat Nazi
Avalanche – Make you wait for the play to stop, which is actually pretty cool.
Rapids – They are pretty much just happy you’re there. Sit wherever you want.

Movie Discussion: Network (1976) – (Play “Mad as Hell” Clip)

(One of only two movies to win three Acadamy awards for acting, the other is “A Streetcar named Desire”)

Just saw this movie for the first time last weekend on YouTube, and I was impressed. It has a very strong 1970’s feel to it, and is quite dated, but it still has some great performances, and an interesting story.

-Best Actress - Faye Dunaway – Remarkably attractive and also intimidating in this film, a very interesting character.
-Best Actor - Peter Finch – Awesome in this flick as Howard Beale “The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves” – He won the best actor award posthumously and became the first actor to win the award after passing away. (Only two actors have ever done this, Finch and Heath Ledger last year for Dark Knight)
-Best Supporting Actress – Beatrice Straight for playing the role of Louise Schumacher (She won despite being on screen for only five minutes and forty seconds. Briefest performance ever to win an Oscar)

Director Sidney Lumet said that he shot the film using a specific lighting scheme. He said in the film's opening scenes, he shot with as little light as possible, almost shooting the film like a documentary. As the film progressed, he added more light and more camera moves and by the end of the film, it was as brightly lit and "slick" as he could make it.












More discussion items:

-Ben Roethlisberger – Should the media report these stories, what will be the effect on the Steelers?

-Xavier’s Jordan Crawford and his dunk on LeBron – The video has been released and meh. It’s really not that exciting, the video is not that high quality and LeBron only sorta got dunked on. This story was definitely made worse for Bron-Bron because of the strong arm tactics of Nike officials.

-Brett Favre – So he’s definitely coming back, right? Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the Vikings? (I say bad.)

-The Onion – Going Chinese: Allegedly purchased by the Yu Wan Mei Company, a fictitious - Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Group. The Website now sports communist-ish logos and stories about things such as the absolute greatness of Yao Ming, the internet adding it’s 12th website, a child in America being unduly praised for learning the “simplistic American alphabet”, and a story about a grandfather being disrespected in his own home. It’s actually pretty hilarious stuff.

-Tim Hawkins – The Chick-Fil-A Song

-The Message Board Fantasy League: Discuss who is planning to do it and GETTING IT ON!

Showing interest:
socnorb777, MJA, PhillyBillyRules, MarioSpeedwagon, cah05, Fourthand26, Joe, The Ryan, plus maybe #19 and The Ed too!



(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Vertically Striped Radio Music recommendation of the week…
“Cassadga” by Bright Eyes
I won’t blame you if you don’t like Conor Oberst. His voice is without a doubt odd, and let’s face it, he’s whiny, and I can understand how one could hate him and his perpetually depressed persona, but if you can get past that stuff, I have to say that he makes some awesome music. He is at his absolute best as the front man for Bright Eyes, their music is very sophisticated and I find it to be awesome. This album has some great songs on it such as “Hot Knives”, “Soul Singer in a Session Band”, “If the Brakeman Turns my Way”, “Four Winds”, “If the Brakeman Turns My Way”, and “I must Belong Somewhere.” This music is so good, I strongly recommend it, but skip the first track until you hear the rest of it, it’s weird.



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Shalom and Good evening to you all!
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(For next week)
AFC Over/Unders:
Broncos – 7
Chiefs – 6
Chargers – 9.5
Raiders – 5.5

Steelers – 10.5
Ravens – 8.5
Bengals – 6.5
Browns – 6.5

Jets – 7
Patriots – 11.5
Dolphins – 7
Bills – 7.5

Jaguars – 8
Colts – 10
Titans – 9
Texans – 8.5