Show Prep #29

Greetings and Salutations, people. From the icebox that is Denver, Colorado, This is Vertically Striped Radio. It is a dark day for the Shek Republic, some hooligans have been intruding on the Ed’s territory

Today on Vertically Striped Radio,


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Let’s get to the news…

(Play News Music – Clip 03)

BOUTTE, La. – A 44-year-old woman was booked with second-degree battery after allegedly pouring a pot of boiling grits onto her sleeping boyfriend. St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies said Carolyn Brown caused second-degree burns on the man's face and arms. The man told deputies that he came home from work on Nov. 7, got into an argument with Brown, told her that he was breaking up with her, then went to bed.
The Times-Picayune reported Brown was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Nelson Coleman Correctional Facility.


BERLIN (Reuters) – German police arrested a man who claimed to be a "secret agent" after a high speed chase in pursuit of a car with a blue flashing light on its roof.
Police in the southern city of Fuerth caught up with the man after he raced past them, ignored signals to pull over, and ran a red light as they gave chase.
Smelling strongly of alcohol, the 44-year-old whispered only that he was "one of them," on a secret mission and belonged to the Federal Crime Office -- a body similar to the FBI -- local police said. A check revealed he had no such credentials.
"After matters were taken care of, the would-be 'Mr. Bond' was again released," police said in a statement on Thursday.
A local police spokesman said the man in reality had "a normal job" and declined to explain his nighttime sortie. He faces charges for a variety of driving offences.


The October "Miss Asia" beauty pageant in Hong Kong mostly followed a traditional script, but special bonus competitions were added, according to a report in The Straits Times. Contestants appeared behind boards with only certain body parts exposed so that judges could comment without knowing which woman they were observing. Breast-judging turned out well for each of the three finalists, as did waist-judging. However, the judges had harsh words for two contestants' hair. Wang Zhi Fei was criticized for "lots of dandruff and oily scalp," and Wang Chen learned the hard way that she had significant "signs of hair loss." [The New Paper-The Straits Times (Singapore), 11-12-09]









AMSTERDAM – A man who said he spent two decades collecting Ecstasy pills of all colors and shapes as a hobby has turned to police for help after they were stolen — because he said some of them are poisonous.
Police say the 46-year-old man, who was not identified, decided to report the theft despite the illegal nature of the collection because he was worried about the possible consequences if anybody were to swallow one of the poisoned pills.
It was not immediately clear why about 40 red-and-white pills out of the 2,400-pill-strong collection would be poisoned, but the police said they fear the drugs could be lethal if swallowed.
"That's really the main reason he came to the police," said police spokeswoman Esther Naber, adding the man "knows he's not going to get his collection back."
A report in De Volkskrant daily Thursday said the man claimed he was not a drug dealer or user.
"I've tried it before but didn't like it," the report quoted him saying. "My passion for collecting comes from the varied collection of colors, shapes and logos that are printed on the pills."
According to a police statement, the man gathered the pills over a 20 year period and carefully stored them in coin collecting folders.
The folders were allegedly taken during a break-in Wednesday at the man's home in Eerbeek, 56 miles (90 kilometers) east of Amsterdam.
Police spokesman Naber said investigators tended to believe the man's story.
"Why would you make something like this up?" she said.
Prosecutors and drug enforcement officials are still weighing whether to charge him with a crime.
"Given that the pills have disappeared, for the moment there's no evidence to support a possession charge," Naber said.
The pills' street value is estimated at euro11,000 ($16,200).

LOS ANGELES - [Los Angeles Times, 11-11-09] California's Death Row: Bigger cells, better privacy, more stuff, and almost no chance of being executed!
LEAD STORY: California's Death Row: Bigger cells, better privacy, more stuff, and almost no chance of being executed!
In October in Orange County, Calif., Billy Joe Johnson, who had just been convicted of murder as a hit man for a white supremacist gang, begged the judge and jury, in all sincerity, to sentence him to death. Johnson knew that those on California's death row get individual cells and better telephone access, nicer contact-visit arrangements, and more personal-property privileges than ordinary inmates. The Los Angeles Times reported that the state's spending per death-row inmate is almost three times that for other inmates. The current death-row census totals 685, but because of legal issues, only 13 have been executed since 1977 (compared to 71 death-row fatalities from other causes). In fact, Johnson was so eager to be put on death row that he tried to confess to two murders that no one yet knew about.

I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)


MAIN TOPIC: Appropriate Workplace behavior training


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Press Hop: the press conference rap. This was sent to me by Steve from Alabama, but it was a little cut off, so I found it on the internet, it relates pretty well to what we did two weeks ago with football coach press conference flip outs, so I thought I’d play. (Clip 22)



Magnificent Seven: 7 signs of the downfall of society as observed from a single night at a hockey game.

At the Avalanche game:
-Smashes and Crashes – but rather than show hockey hits, they showed car crashes
-Cotton Eyed Joe
-Woman behind me, “Why are they playing the ‘Here we go Rockies, here we go” song?
-Man in bathroom using elbow to dispense paper towels, then saying, “I like trees, that’s why I use them!” and getting hailed as a comedic genius.
-The snuggie toss
-Jumbotron flashing, “If you came to scream your head off, you may proceed!”
-“She thinks my tractor’s sexy” song

Steelers falling apart:

Topics: Nestle – 1-800-295-0051 – Don’t press any buttons right away, and just listen to the automated menu goodness…or rather let me do it for you. (Clip 20)

Getting a Christmas Tree – (Get the Jim Gaffigan clip)

Jury Duty – My mom has it, I’d rather be dipped in a vat of acid.

Man, it was cold this week! Story of Wednesday.

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

-Scribblenauts – Interesting video game

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


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The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” by Phoenix – Song: “1901” (Clip 19)

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!