Show Prep #40

Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that is slowly turning me into a vampire…or at the very least nocturnal, this is VSR. I am your host Craig Dodge, and I’m a little nervous. Redsox33 is back! Sorry to bum anyone out who that means something to, but it’s true.


Today on Vertically Striped Radio:
-The Best calls in sports announcer history will be announced in the Magnificent 7.
-Doug on Demand
-Potentially a little sports polygamy talk.
-We’ll bid adieu to the Olympics
-Gold medal hockey game tomorrow is set up nicely
-We’ll welcome your calls in to the show as well…

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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)


BERLIN (Reuters) – A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail -- for the same crime.
A police spokesman said on Friday the 50-year-old man went into a savings bank in the center of the northern port city and flashed a pistol, saying: "I was here yesterday, and I want money again today!"
The repeat offender made off with 450 euros ($600) but with the help of video surveillance cameras, police were able to detain him three hours later. They said he had been in jail for robbing banks in Hamburg in 2002 and 2004.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cinema until the closing credits.
Ram Gopal Varma's "Phoonk 2," a sequel to his 2008 film of the same name, is about an evil spirit that traumatizes a family. "Anyone who says the movie cannot scare him is going to be put in a theater by himself," Varma told reporters in Mumbai at an event to promote the movie.
Varma said the film fan who steps up to the challenge will be wired up to a heart monitoring machine as well as a camera that ensures they keep their eyes open during the whole movie.
Readings from the machines will be shown live on a screen outside the cinema, Varma said, and if the contestant succeeds, they will win 500,000 rupees (approximately $10,850).
Varma issued a similar challenge ahead of the release of the original "Phoonk" but the promotional contest was withdrawn after allegations the selection process was rigged.
Varma said the contest winner ran out 30 minutes after the film started, but newspaper reports said a film fan in the southern Indian city of Bangalore booked an entire cinema to prove the director wrong and watched the film alone with a doctor on call and security personnel stationed outside.


Onion Radio News – New Syntax Rules (Clip 19) – Throw it to Doyle Redland
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a local paper reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.
It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 500 miles east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.


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


MAIN TOPICS:

Doug on Demand: (Clip 21)


Magnificent 7: (Play Magnificent 7 Music – Clip 7)

Top Sports calls of all time:
7. Russ Hodges - Bobby Thompson HR – The shot heard round the world. 1951 NL Playoff 3 game series
The tiebreaker was not a playoff in the current postseason sense, but an extension of the regular season – game statistics counted in the season records (several one-game tiebreakers have been played under the same circumstances). It had to be played because both the Giants and the crosstown rival Dodgers finished the regular season with identical 96-58 records.
On August 11, Brooklyn had held a 13½-game lead on the Giants, but the Giants turned around and won their next 16 games. While Brooklyn finished the season on a 26–22 clip, the Giants put together a streak almost unequalled in baseball history, winning 37 of the last 44 games, including the last seven in a row. Only a 14-inning victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, the previous year's league champions, on the last day of the regular season enabled the Dodgers to force the best-of-three-games showdown.
Brooklyn won the coin toss to decide home-field advantage in the series. Controversially, manager Charlie Dressen opted to play only the first game at home, rather than the last two; he reasoned that if the Dodgers won their only home game, they would need to win only one out of two on the road.
6. Dave Logan – Broncos winning Super Bowl 32
5. Howard Cosell – Frazier vs. Foreman 1973 – The Sunshine Showdown “Down Goes Frazier”
4. Marv Albert – 1991 NBA Finals Game 1 – A Spectacular move by Michael Jordan
3. Al Michaels – 1980 USA Hockey defeats USSR – Do you believe in miracles?
2. Jack Buck – 1988 World Series Game 1 – Gibson Home Run – “I don’t believe what I just saw!”
1. Joe Starkey - Stanford-Cal 1982 – The Band is on the field!




Olympics:
Hockey Tournament – Gold Medal Game tomorrow – We got what we wanted! USA-Canada!!!
Curling – Why has this year’s Olympics curling gained so much attention? I was into curling before curling was cool. Anyway to assist your curling knowledge (Curling song – Clip 20)
Olympic burnout – Hardly watched any of it this week
NHL coming back soon. Yay!

Sports Bigamy – “The Dude” on Dameshek.com says that he is an Eagles AND Jaguars fan.


NHL ’94 Tournament – Tourney Check in - Finals
-Standings on DAMNradio.blogspot.com


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


The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Trampolines – “The Trampolines” (2005)
1963



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?

2011- Apocalypse is coming? NFL and NBA may both have work stoppages.


Imelda Marcos:

Who says pot ah to? I’d call the whole thing off too, but just because I wouldn’t want to marry a moron.

Pants on the Ground



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.


Magnificent 7: NFL Rules to change:

1. You can’t advance a muff.
2. The Tuck Rule
3. You can’t return a blocked extra point for two points
4. You need 2 feet in bounds for it to be a catch.
5. Overtime – First score wins. (Don’t go to college style. Either make it a full 10 or 15 minutes, make it where you have to score 6, or both teams get a possession.)
6. You only get 2 challenges unless you get them both right
7. Pass interference is a spot foul