Show Prep #28

Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the radio show that tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper, it’s Vertically Striped Radio. From the Vertically Striped Studios in beautiful Centennial, CO. I am your host Craig Dodge and we are ready to roll with yet another sterling episode of VSR. This show is brought to you by verticallystripedsocks.com, your home for NFL predictions, power rankings, and other assorted hooey and applesauce. I even talked a little soccer over there this week with the World Cup draw taking place on Saturday. Also over there this week was a fantastic video from a Chinese news agency which had a computer animated video of what possibly happened over Thanksgiving at the Tiger Woods house and even a video that was made by New England Patriots fans in January 1986 just days before they were slaughtered by the 85 Bears. Good stuff up over there on VSS.com…gotta check it out.

(Mention Bad Phone from last week.)

Also, I may be interrupted this week. My mother took my kiddos to go see Disney on Ice this morning, and she is supposed to be bringing the kids by, but as of yet, no sign of them. So, should she drop in while the show is going on, I may need to default to a clip I have of the French guy who is the Subject of Man on Wire appearing on the podcast “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” If it comes to that, don’t worry, it’s funny, but it also will be about ten minutes for me to get things in order before I continue with the show. I WILL come back, so hang in with me, and listen to Philippe Petit if that happens, as he is a pretty funny guy and that show is pretty good.

Today on Vertically Striped Radio, an update on the people in Peru who were allegedly killing people for their fat, It’s time to take a stand…let’s leave Tiger alone, some of the greatest (or at least funniest) hockey goal calls of all time, we’re a month and a half away from the NFL playoffs so we’ll take a look at the teams that are hovering in and around the playoffs and play a little game I like to call contender or pretender? (Get audio clips, I coulda been a contender! And I would walk 500 miles), Do famous people apologize too much? We’ll ask what was going through the mind of Florida Panther Keith Ballard when he violently attacked a teammate (okay, on accident, but still…)
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Let’s get to the news…

(Play News Music – Clip 03)
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Some Australians are up in arms over a new kangaroo and emu flavored chip, horrified that people are encouraged to eat the nation's coat of arms which depicts the iconic Australian animals.
Complaints to Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau said the "BBQ Coat of Arms" chips were degrading for native wildlife and sent the wrong message to Australian children, reported the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
"It implies that it is perfectly OK to kill kangaroos and emus just for fun!" said one complaint.
But the company manufacturing the chips rejected the charge, saying the kangaroo and emu flavored chips celebrated Australia's heritage.
The Advertising Standards Bureau investigated the complaints against the new chips but decided not to take any action.


PERU - A police chief has admitted he made up a story about a gang who killed people for their body fat and sold it to cosmetic companies.
Police unveiled what they said were bottles of body fat
The story sparked headlines around the world when officers in Peru held a press conference to unveil the gory details.
They said victims' bodies were held above candles while the melted fat dripped into tubs positioned below.
Officers claimed three men had been arrested in the remote jungle region of Huanuco, where officials found human remains and two bottles of fat.
The men had told police that just one litre of human fat could fetch $15,000 (more than £9,000).
But now the country's top crime investigator, Eusebio Felix, has been suspended after revealing he made up the whole thing.
General Miguel Hidalgo, the head of Peru's police, said he was deeply embarrassed.
"This affects the image and respectability of the police," he said.
Several men were arrested
And local politicians blamed the made-up investigation for scaring away tourists.
Doubts were raised when medical experts pointed out it would be pointless to kill people for their fat - when it could be collected from plastic surgery clinics that perform tummy tuck operations.
"We wouldn't throw out hundreds of litres of human fat if it were worth $15,000 a litre," Peru's board of medicine pointed out.
Huanuco police, who complained they were excluded from Felix's headline-grabbing inquiry, said there was only one murder victim, and he was linked to the cocaine trade.They believe his three alleged killers, who are still in custody, may have bottled his fat to intimidate rival drug gangs.
In the press conference last month, police claimed there could be up to 60 victims and exhibited evidence they claimed to have found.They showed what they said was human fat stored in a bottle of Inca Kola, and played a video of police pulling body parts from a shallow grave

VIENNA (Reuters Life!) – A 33-year-old furry photographer is winning fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of her daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo.
Orangutan Nonja's photos, taken with a camera that dispenses raisins as she snaps, have won over 500 fans on Facebook since the zoo launched an online photo album on Tuesday.
Although the slightly blurry images of Nonja's climbing rope, food and companion's shaggy red-brown fur have won lots of admiring comments from fans, the photographer herself is not so interested.
"Of course the apes don't care about the pictures, they are just an accidental side product," zoo spokesman Gerhard Kasbauer told Reuters. "They just know that when they press the button, a raisin pops out."
The Vienna Tiergarten set up the project to help keep Nonja and her three hairy ape friends entertained in their enclosure. The album is online at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nonja/190010092116
I’m Craig, and that’s the news
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MAIN TOPIC: Stop Apologizing!

Broncos coach Josh McDaniels apologized on Tuesday for his lewd sideline cursing that was broadcast by the NFL Network on Thursday night.
McDaniels was not aware that his words were being broadcast, but said Tuesday he recognizes that his words left a sour impression on many people.
McDaniels' comments, via the Denver Post:
"I want to make sure I apologize for anybody that was offended with the language that I used the other night on the sideline during the game. I certainly didn't intend for that to come across in that fashion. Hopefully that never happens again and I'll try my best to make sure that it doesn't from my end.
"I know that's not the kind of example that I want to set or we want to set here with the Broncos' organization and would ask people to accept that apology."

Tiger Woods apology – actually somewhat appropriate.

TIGER WOODS
-Tiger Woods – Leave Tiger alone
Chinese News story…go to VSS.com
LEAVE TIGER ALONE – (Leave Virginia Alone)

An Australian pastor and Tiger Woods fanatical fan has disbanded a church he set up in 1996 in praise of sports icon.
Fallen from grace
John Ziegler said the First Church of Tiger Woods is being dissolved because of the golfer’s recent transgressions and “personal sins,” ABC reports.
The church had its own “Prayer for Tiger” and “Ten Tiger Commandments.”
Ziegler announced his decision after “several days of evaluation” on the church’s Web site Tigerwoodsisgod.com and rechristened it “The Damnation of Tiger Woods.”
The pastor said Tiger is clearly no longer a role model and that he is “personally done” with the pro golfer despite the Tiger 10th Commandment:
“Thou shall pay no attention to Tiger’s apparent flaws.”
Guess he’s joining the ranks of the millions of sinners who do.





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Topics:

HOCKEY
-Florida Panthers Goal Calls (Clip 21) – From the Dan Lebotard Show in Miami

-Keith Ballard – Almost killed Thomas Vokoun

-Billy Zabka looks like Patrick Roy

-I’m opposed to the hat trick celebration. Under no circumstance am I throwing a 20 to 30 dollar item onto the ice.

FOOTBALL
-Contender or Pretender?

Chrissy Hynde

Saints - Contender
Eagles – Pretender
Broncos - Pretender
Vikings - Contender
Steelers - Pretender
Ravens - Pretender
Chargers - Contender
Patriots - Pretender
Bengals - Contender
Colts - Contender
Cardinals - Pretender
Cowboys - Pretender

- Mike Shanahan – To the Bills? Why would he do this?

-Scribblenauts – Interesting video game

SOCCER
World Cup Draw – United States gets a great draw: Slovenia, Algeria, and England
Group of Death: Group G: Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, and Portugal


-Columbine: Conspiracy? I dunno, but it kept me up til 1:30 on Thursday night. I’m getting worried for Mike Dell’s safety. I’m worried that he’s going to say to much and anger the wrong people…he’s probably okay as I doubt LCS has a wide enough audience for him to become a target of the new world order, but I still worry for him. Even though I appreciate the hours and hours of entertainment he has provided me with the LCS Hockey Show.

Two shows to check out if you’re the podcasting sort: 1. The Dan Lebotard Show, even though this isn’t really a podcast, it’s just them posting their full radio show sans the commercials, it’s good stuff, well worth checking out. 2. NPR’s Wait Wait…don’t tell me. Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell host it. It’s basically a game show, but they don’t take the game TOO seriously. Kind of PTI style games where they take items from current events and ask questions regarding them. The only prize that I’ve heard them mention thus far is getting Car Kasell to call and leave a message on someone’s answering machine. The thing that makes it enjoyable is the comedic takes that they have on everything, glorious to listen to, pretty amusing. I know when many people hear NPR they think stuffy no nonsense stuff and people who take the world way too seriously, but this is NOT the case with Wait Wait Don’t tell me. I’d recommend it.

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The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” by Phoenix (May 2009)

(Clip 22 – 1901 is the song)

This album is fun and upbeat, with a lot of music that is heavy on instrumentals. This is the most popular song and probably the best one, but the album opens with another song that I almost played because I like it almost as much called Listzomania, but I decided we had to play 1901, it’s just so good. If I have any complaints about this album, it’s that a lot of their music sounds pretty much the same, but it’s a very good sound, so I won’t complain about it too much. It’s a good album, but mostly this is just an amazing song, so we’ll go out with the biggest track from Wolfgang Amadeus phoenix, 1901.

Shaloam and Good Evening to you all!