Show Prep #36

Greetings and Salutations, people. Direct from beautiful Centennial, Colorado. It’s the radio show that’s better than getting your eye poked with a sharp stick, this is Vertically Striped Radio…and we’re only guessing about being better than the sharp stick to the eye bit, it hasn’t been scientifically proven that this show is better than that… we’re just going with the anecdotal evidence, your results may vary. My name is Craig Dodge, and we are ready to roll with another edition of Vertically Striped Radio.


Today on Vertically Striped Radio: We will talk some NFL football as we move into the Final week of the season with the Super Bowl fast approaching. We will have the initial edition of the Schadenfreude File, a new feature here on VSR. We may talk a little bit of movies and definitely talk about the upcoming NHL 94 tournament taking place over at Dameshek.com

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Let’s get to the news…
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.
"He burned the vehicle out completely," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Hildesheim. Police said the man left the heater on next to the frozen windshield washer tank and returned indoors. Shortly afterwards he heard two explosions and returned to find the car ablaze.
He alerted fire services, who arrived in time to prevent the flames from destroying his house. Including charring of the building, total damages were estimated at 40,000 euros ($56,240).

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.
"I've just been told something I didn't know; that eating pork improves your sex life ... I'd say it's a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra," President Cristina Fernandez said to leaders of the pig farming industry.
She said she recently ate pork and "things went very well that weekend, so it could well be true."
Argentines are the world's biggest per capita consumers of beef, but the government has sought to promote pork as an alternative in recent years due to rising steak prices and as a way to diversify the meat industry.
"Trying it doesn't cost anything, so let's give it a go," Fernandez said in the televised speech.


ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic," a newspaper reported Wednesday.
A spokesman for the president told the Dawn newspaper the goats were slaughtered as an act of Sadaqah -- meaning "voluntary charity" in Islam whereby one gives out money or the meat of a slaughtered animal to the poor to win Allah's blessing and stave off misfortune.
"It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadaqah. He has been doing this for a long time," the spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, told the paper.
Pakistan is a predominantly Muslim country where many of the well-off offer Sadaqah. Though Muslim, many people also follow certain superstitious practices.
Hundreds of goats had been sacrificed at Zardari's house since he was sworn in September 2008, the Dawn newspaper reported.
It said Zardari's detractors would see in his "new-found religiosity" a sign of nervousness in the face of growing woes.
Zardari, who rose to power after the assassination of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in late 2007, has become increasingly unpopular and faces a range of problems from Islamist militancy to a stagnant economy and political rivalry.
A Supreme Court ruling last month throwing out an amnesty for Zardari, several top aides and thousands of political activists and government figures triggered a political storm and expectation that Zardari was on his way out.


ROME (Reuters) – An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.
The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009.
Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old storekeeper offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son's behavior.
Fetching a knife from the kitchen, Mario stabbed his father in the neck before returning to clean the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother and leaving it to dry on the draining-board. Forty-six year-old housewife Monica B,. told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera that she had no idea what had happened until her husband stumbled into the room, clutching his throat.
"I saw Mario come back into the room, he seemed calm, he went to the sink and I noticed him washing a knife," Monica told the newspaper. "Then my husband came into the room with a hand round his neck, dripping blood."
The teenager shut himself in his bedroom after the attack and made no attempt to resist arrest, police said.
The game had been given to Mario a few days earlier, as a birthday present.
"Mario is obsessed. He's forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn't want him playing violent games," his mother told Il Corriere.



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



MAIN TOPIC:

NFL Talk:
Schadenfreude Files: (Clip 16) Debut edition with Brett Favre. (Clip of Minnesota Radio Broadcast and then One Shining Moment. – Clip 20)

Super Bowl: Saints and Colts
-Colts going to wear blue. (Teams wearing white have won five straight.)
43 – Steelers 27 Cardinals 23
42 – Giants 17 Patriots 14
41 – Colts 29 Bears 17
40 – Steelers 21 Seahawks 10
39 – Patriots 24 Eagles 21
38 – Patriots 32 Panthers 29 (Last time non-white team won the Super Bowl)

Media Day: Is this still fun, or has it outlived it’s usefulness?

Look back at NFL Playoffs:

Jets-Colts: Colts 30 Jets 17 (My guess Colts 33 Jets 13)
Vikings-Saints: Saints 31 Vikings 28 (My guess was exactly right)

Pro-Bowl: This game is weak. (List players who should be all-stars playing in Pro Bowl.

Other football news:

Broncos to play 49ers in London next year: All around London folks were saying, (Play Clip 19)

Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks. Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?

Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?



NHL ’94 Tournament – Talk about how it’s going to work, and what needs to be done.

Joe – Canucks
StreetDreamer83 – Sabres
face ventura – Nordiques
socnorb777 – Bruins
#1 Sploser – Mighty Ducks
Amiezin – Rangers
PhillyBillyRules – Penguins
#19 – Whalers
Richie – Kings
Fourthand26 – Canadiens
Mjmartin78 – Red Wings
Microserf – Stars



Coming up soon on the DAMN Radio Network:
-Larry vs. Beer
-The Major Minority Report



Movie reviews: “Avatar”, “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog”
-Avatar
-The Road
-The Princess and the Frog
Defend Movies:
-Almost Famous
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Fight Club



Magnificent 7: Seven things people driving around me need to stop doing.

1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous turn lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.




The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
MGMT – Kids (Clip 18)

Thanks to: (Whoever called)


Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Extra or future stuff:
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.

Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?

Imelda Marcos:

Pants on the Ground

Great Moments in Blog Talk History: (Find Clip of Mike Dell and Jerry Fairish reenacting Ed moments on the Sports Contraption.)