Show Prep #51

Greetings and Salutations, people!

Today on VSR – With this being our 51st show, in honor of Area 51, we will be honoring little green men with the Magnificent 7 Alien movies list.

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


SICHUAN, CHINA
A chef has died after an eel was put up his bum.
Shocked doctors in Sichuan, China, found the sea creature in the 59-year-old man's rectum after his death, it has been reported.
The 50cm long Asian swamp eel was allegedly inserted into the unnamed man's bottom, after he passed out drunk, by pals playing a prank on him.
Medics said the eel had devoured his bowels.


Pork test to bust cheats
KAZAKHSTAN (Reuters) - Scientists in mainly Muslim Kazakhstan have come up with an instant test for the presence of pork in food, a popular newspaper reported on Monday.
The plastic-stick test detects food molecules that are found only in pork, which is forbidden by Islam but is easily found in the Central Asian state, Megapolis weekly said.
"It's no secret that some chefs cheat and add pork to beef to make the dish cheaper," the newspaper wrote on Monday, saying the practice was widespread in Kazakhstan.
"When you get your beef patty, cut off a couple of small pieces and drop them in a glass of water. Stir, shake, put the test stick in ... In a minute or two you will see the result."
Megapolis said it was unclear when the test, in which the stick changes color as in a pregnancy test, would become widely available.


SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean woman who earned a driver's license after 960 tries is ready to buy a car and get behind the wheel. 69-year-old Cha Sa-soon passed the driving part of the test last month on her 10th try. South Korea requires a written test first, and Cha took it nearly daily since April 2005 before passing last year.
Yonhap quoted her as saying she wanted to buy a small secondhand car to visit her son and daughter and for her business selling vegetables.


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


The Dual:

Last Week:
My Little Buttercup
Blue Shadows on the Trail

This week:
Happy Friendly Aliens
Vs.
Nasty Killer Evil Aliens
(Which do you prefer?)
 

(Do an add for Dan Lebatard Show – Clip 33)


Magnificent 7: Best 7 Alien Movies

7. Predator – (Clip 47) Got in on it’s trailer alone. Perhaps the cheesiest trailer of all time.

6. Men in Black – I make this look good. (Clip 46)

5. Coneheads (Clip 45) – We are from France – It is as though you have seized me from the base of my snardleys.

4. District 9 (Clip 44) – Peter Jackson

3. Mars Attacks – (Clip 43) Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Jim Brown, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenn Close, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Jack Black, Natalie Portman, Tom Jones, and Danny DeVito.

2. Contact – (Clip 42) James Woods, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey. Written by Carl Sagan

1. Star Wars – (Clip 41)

Transformers
The 5th Element
Alien
Aliens
Cocoon
Contact
E.T.
Flight of the Navigator
Independence Day
Monsters vs. Aliens
My Step-Mother is an Alien
Signs
Starman
Starship Troopers
Superman 2
The Abyss
The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Muppets in Space
Plan 9




The Week in Wankery:

Yellow cards:
1. KFC – I got the following email in my inbox yesterday: “Celebrate Mother’s Day with KFC” I’m trying to picture how mothers across the country would respond to that…



2. Teen Girls at Casa Bonita (Clip 34 - Casa Bonita Cartman Clip) – Big sign that says, “These rides are for children 10 and under.” (Big fat girl, too)

3. Me – Reheating Calamari in the break room.

4. Neighbor two doors down – Moving Sale…ALL FREAKING MONTH

5. Guy who decided Kool-Aid needs to be brightly colored.

Red Card:
Wanker of the Week:
Florists – Mothers day is here…Let’s jack up prices 400 percent.









Sports Topics:
-NHL Playoffs
-NBA Playoffs
-Miguel Olivo passes a kidney stone during a game and goes back in
-Jamarcus Russell released
-Lawrence Taylor – Yikes
-Philly Fan gets tasered


Pooping in public: No shame, or hide your feet? (Clip 23 – MM’s rap)



Movie talk:

-Where the Wild Things Are
-Alice in Wonderland
-How to Train Your Dragon
-Zombieland
-Avatar
-The Road
-The Princess and the Frog
-Julie and Julia
-District 9
-Whip It

Defend Movies:
-Almost Famous
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Fight Club





The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Squirrel Nut Zippers –
Album – Hot (1996)
Song – Hell (Clip 26)

Thanks to: (Whoever called)


Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

 

Fleet Foxes
Elliot Smith
Don Chaffer – The Worst is my being alone
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Tremolo
Iron and Wine


(Reuters) - An under-16 Australian Rules football team has come under fire for entering a sponsorship deal with a local Hooters franchise, with critics saying the move could give adolescent boys the wrong message.
The Broadbeach Cats team in Australia's Gold Coast were cheered on by two skimpily-dressed staff from the Mermaid Beach franchise of the American restaurant chain during their home game against local side Labrador on the weekend.
"The message these boys are getting -- and bear in mind we're talking 15 and 16-year-old boys -- is that ... as a young footballer you have an entitlement to large-breasted women in skimpy outfits bouncing around at your games," women's advocate Melinda Tankard Reist said on an Australian morning television show.
Restaurant owner Morney Schledusch described the criticism as "ridiculous."
"Our waitresses represent the all-American cheerleader," he told local media. "And no, they don't all have big boobs.
"We are all about sport. We had a great opportunity here to show Australia what we are really about."
The staff members would not be back to cheer on more matches and their presence had not affected the Broadbeach players, who romped to a big win over Labrador, the team's coach Neil Boston said.
"They are here to play football -- that's all," he said.

Show Prep #49

Clip 28 – (Three Amigos Music)

Greetings and Salutations, people! It’s the radio show that killed the invisible swordsman. This is Vertically Striped Radio. Faster on the draw than Ned Nederlander himself, I am your host, Craig Dodge, a man so beloved that for my birthday my henchmen knit me a sweater. Anyway, It’s a very special day on Vertically Striped Radio, it’s Three Amigos day! You may not know what that means, but trust me, it’s special. Why Three Amigos day? Well, Wherever there is injustice, you will find them. Wherever there is suffering, they'll be there. Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find... The Three Amigos!

Today on VSR – We’ll have a Three Amigos style musical dual, I’m stealing a page out of the LCS playbook, as I have a conspiracy segment of my own, and we’ll also be doing our Magnificent Seven TV Theme Songs WITHOUT lyrics, and perhaps a plethora of other things (Play Plethora Clip 30)


Seis Quatro Seis, Siete Uno Seis, Seis Ocho Tres Uno!
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Lets get to the news…
 



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

CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian council is rueing a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they painted over a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy.
Melbourne Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley last week sent a clean-up team into Hosier Lane, renowned internationally for its colorful street art, to clean up garbage in the graffiti-lined passage after local residents complained.
But the request went awry when the cleaners painted over a Banksy stencil of a rat hanging underneath a parachute and adorning the wall of an old council building. "Unfortunately the contractors were not made aware by us that that was an important piece. It is the nature of graffiti art. It's very vulnerable to other people's work," Council chief executive Kathy Alexander told local radio.
The reclusive Banksy, who is regarded as one of the world's top street artists, painted several stencils in Melbourne during a 2003 visit. His satirical and distinctive art is often directed at anti-war, cultural and anti-capitalist themes.
Banksy in 2005 painted nine images on Israel's West Bank barrier, including a ladder going over the wall and an image of children breaking through to a tropical island.

In 2008, a London wall bearing one of his stencils was said to have sold on eBay for almost $500,000.
It is not the first time Banksy's art has been fouled in Melbourne. Vandals created another outcry in 2008 when they poured paint over the artist's stencil of a diver in an old-fashioned helmet and wearing a trenchcoat.
That work was afterwards protected by a sheet of clear perspex, although vandals struck again and poured silver paint behind the barrier, tagging it with the words "Banksy woz ere."
Alexander said the city council would rush through retrospective permits to protect other famous or significant artworks in Australia's second-largest city.
"In hindsight, we should have acted sooner to formally approve and protect all known Banksy works," she said.

 


NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Police in New Bedford, Mass., say a substitute teacher who was taken to a hospital after drinking tainted iced coffee has admitted lacing the drink himself.
The teacher, 27-year-old Chad Wunschel, became sick after taking a sip of the drink and spitting it out. That happened Wednesday during a welding class at Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical Regional High School.
Police had been investigating whether a student might have spiked the coffee.
Police Chief Ronald Teachman said Friday that Wunschel told a detective he was depressed over a recent breakup and was looking for attention. Teachman said Wunschel will likely be charged with filing a false report.
Police haven't specified what the chemical was.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A 67-year-old Oklahoma man had quite a fright after backing his car at high speed through a seventh-floor exterior wall of a parking garage.
Ralph Hudson says his foot got stuck between his Mercedes' brake and gas pedal as he was backing up in a towering parking garage in downtown Tulsa on Wednesday.
The car burst through the building's exterior wall and sprayed debris on a parking lot below before stopping just in time. The car's trunk and part of its back wheels were left hanging precariously out of the building but officials were able to safely drive it back inside.
No injuries were reported. Police officer Jason Willingham says Hudson was not ticketed over the incident.


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

 

The Dual:

Last Week:
Marlins – “Marlins will Soar” by Scott Stapp of Creed - 8
Cubs – “Someday We’ll go all the Way” by Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) - 10

This week:
Which Three Amigos Song is better?:

My Little Buttercup (Clip 26)

Or

Blue Shadows on the Trail (Clip 25)


Magnificent 7: Greatest TV Theme Songs (Without Lyrics):

7. Magnum P.I.
6. Mission Impossible
5. Hawaii Five-0
4. Night Court
3. Sanford and Son
2. M*A*S*H
1. Andy Griffith Show

 

Conspiracy Segment: (Clip 24 – LCS Conspiracy Music)

What do you think of when you hear the name El Guapo? I never thought that there could be a conspiracy surrounding El Guapo. Never even entered my head. I’ve always just bought into the official story that we’ve been told about he was a murderous bad guy, but as is so often the case with the “official story” there is a lot that hasn’t been told.

Did you realize that he was actually an in-famous actor? Even the Three Amigos knew this. (Clip 29 – The In-Famous El Guapo)

Much of the negative press and lies that have been spread about El Guapo were from the Amigos themselves. (Clip 28 – Anti El Guapo Propaganda)

El Guapo was actually quite the humanitarian. He was responsible for keeping the town of Santa Poco alive during the Great Depression by providing the funds to keep many important services and infrastructures in place with his own money. But rather than appreciating him for it, the people of Santa Poco were split. His faithful friends who realized the work El Guapo was doing left Santa Poco to live with him in a Spanish Mission doing good works. These men loved him so much that for his birthday they pulled together to get him a special gift. (Clip 39 – It’s a sweater)

What is another way we can find out that El Guapo isn’t who he has been painted to be by the main stream media? Follow the money…Turns out El Guapo had made a lot of enemies as he sought to do good in Santa Poco. He had brought in some German Agents who helped fight the mafia who previously had been running Santa Poco, and the mafia had been running a pretty good Tequila business bringing in millions annually in the tequila trade, and El Guapos policies put them out of business. The mafia doesn’t take too kindly to people horning in on their business interests.

In addition, the CIA were upset at El Guapo because he thought that just because Santa Poco wasn’t technically inside the borders of the United States that the CIA had no business being in Santa Poco. He had declared that he was going to be pushing the agency out of their Santa Poco headquarters which was of course not sitting too well with the CIA who don’t like to be told by anyone what they can or cannot do.

In addition, Prescott Bush had built a winter home in Santa Poco, but had exploited some workers in building his palace, and he refused to pay the city taxes to Santa Poco. El Guapo thought that since Bush was living in Santa Poco at that time, that he should be helping contribute tax revenue to the city as El Guapo had been doing by practically financing the entire city budget. Prescott Bush was none to happy about this attempted strong arming, so he raised up a coalition of women, children and old folks…the so called “Liberation Army” which were actually puppets of the Bush family. They were the ones who hired the Three Amigos who were puppets of the Bush family and this coalition. The Amigos were actually fighting on the wrong side of justice, but because the “Liberation Army” was made up entirely of women, children and old people, they thought that they were fighting for truth. The Amigos were misled, but because they lent their power to fight for this group of people who hardly knew how to do anything but sow, the wrong side won the victory. As we know, the people who win wars get to write the history of what happened, which is how the story of the Evil El Guapo was allowed to proliferate.

However, there are a lot of inconsistencies with the official story. Somehow this group of women, children and infirm people were able to sew together a ton of 3 Amigo costumes in a matter of minutes and then they were supplied with a heavy array of guns and ammunition sufficient to turn away El Guapo’s righteous army? Doesn’t that sound just a little fishy?

Here’s what many people think actually happened. The Bush family, upset at how they had been treated aligned themselves with the CIA who were tired of being pushed around by the El Guapo administration. El Guapo had threatened to shut down the CIA, and he had already run the mafia out of town, so a coalition of the mafia and the CIA banded together, financed by Prescott Bush, and they had a whole army of CIA agents hiding in Santa Poco under the guise of “people wearing Three Amigo uniforms.” The battle broke out, and the CIA agents interspersed with the regular citizens and with this exceptional fighting force, they were able to ambush and assassinate El Guapo.

It’s not exactly the story they want you to hear, but it does make a lot of sense. Doesn’t it?
 


The Shadenfrude File:
Washington Capitals lose to Montreal Canadiens in 7 games
-Alexander Ovechkin, after shoving female fans and snowing little kids, losing in the first round of the playoffs just felt right.

Despite winning the Presidents Trophy, they are done after only 7 postseason games, having lost to Jaro Halak and the Montreal Canadiens.


Soccer Saturday. – Chris Kamera – I have no idea what’s happening. (Clip 16)


Sports Topics:
-NHL Playoffs
-NBA Playoffs
-Miguel Olivo passes a kidney stone during a game and goes back in
-Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland asks Dez Bryant if his mom is a prostitute




Pooping in public: No shame, or hide your feet? (Clip 30 – MM’s rap)

 


Movie talk:

-Where the Wild Things Are
-Alice in Wonderland
-How to Train Your Dragon
-Zombieland
-Avatar
-The Road
-The Princess and the Frog
-Julie and Julia
-District 9
-Whip It

Defend Movies:
-Almost Famous
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Fight Club





The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Africa” – Toto (Clip 38)

Thanks to: (Whoever called)


Shalom and Good Evening to you all!