Show Prep #61

Greetings and Salutations, people! This is Vertically Striped Radio where I’m not wondering if I’ll get interrupted by children, merely how many times. I’m setting the over-under at 5.5…you can place your bets now on the chat room over at DAMNRADIO.blogspot.com. It’s a dark day, and despite the fact that I’m bummed that the USA has gone out at the World Cup, We’re going to press on and try to make lemonade out of the lemons of this day.

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Today on VSR – We’ve got a great edition of The Duel (Soccer calls), The Shadenfrude File (French Soccer), Ron Artest and Vuvuzelas (Both are growing on me), 70-68 Tennis Match, Red Sox-Rockies on Wednesday night…ESPN may need to make a documentary called June 23, 2010. Plus, we’ll hear some highlight’s Face Ventura’s epic call to Wanda and The Word.



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

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Stressed-out city executives looking to get away from it all have the chance to buy their own rural village in New Zealand, complete with a pub and population of 40.
Otira, a hamlet on the rainy west coast of New Zealand's South Island, is on the market for $NZ1 million ($715,000).
Current owners Bill and Christine Hennah bought the rundown village in 1998 after passing through and "feeling sorry for it," Christchurch-based newspaper The Press reported on Friday.
They paid $NZ80,000 ($56,000) for the hotel or pub, school, railway station, town hall and 18 houses making up the village near the Arthur's Pass National Park that dates back to 1923.
The village developed when the Otira railway tunnel was opened, and during its heyday was home to about 600 workers and their families.
But the couple, now aged in their 60s, say they no longer have the energy to run the hotel. They are asking $NZ350,000 for the hotel or $NZ1 million for the whole lot.
"We need someone to build it up again. There is a lot of potential and opportunity," Christine Hennah told The Press.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Looking for a surefire way to pick world cup games? How about an Octopus? An octopus born in England and living in a German aquarium that has correctly picked the winner of Germany's three World Cup results so far has picked the German side to beat England in Sunday's match.
The eight-legged octopus named Paul, a denizen of Sea Life in Oberhausen, has become a celebrity oracle in Germany after accurately predicting Germany would beat Australia in the opening Group D match, would lose to Serbia and then beat Ghana.
On Friday, Paul once again was given the choice of picking food from two different plastic containers lowered into his tank -- one with an England flag on it and one with a German flag.
The container Paul opens first is seen as his pick.
Paul moved quickly and opened the box with the Germany flag, a selection that soon made it into national news broadcasts across Germany. Paul was born in Weymouth, England.
"Paul went rather quickly for the Germany flag," said Sea Life spokeswoman Tanja Munzig. "He's got a 100-percent average in the World Cup so far. At the Euro in 2008 he got it right for four out of Germany's five matches."


ROUEN, France (Reuters) – I’ve heard that prison food is bad, and you’d do almost anything to get an alternate food source, but this is taking it a bit far…

French prisoners Nicolas Cocaign (Cocahn) and Thierry Baudry had a fight when Cocaign (Cocahn) asked Baudry to wash his hands after he had used the toilet during the night. Baudry refused so Cocaign (Cocahn) strangled Baudry and cut open his chest with a razor blade.
Thinking it was the heart, Cocaign (Cocahn) then ripped out a piece of Baudry's lung and ate part of it raw before cooking the rest.
"What I did, I liked doing," said Cocaign (Cocahn), 37, who has a shaved head and whose face is covered in tattoos.

Cocaign (Cocahn) was sentenced to 30 years, and he will have to serve at least 20 years of his sentence.


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


The Duel – English versus Spanish World Cup Call.


Ron Artest –

I used to hate Ron Artest…I thought he was dumb when he asked for a month off in the beginning of the 2006 NBA season so he could work on his music career. Then I thought he was just a punk after he started the brawl in Detroit later that season.

I found it disgusting (and I guess I still do) that he admitted to drinking Hennessey at Halftime when he played for the Bulls.

I thought he was ridiculous with his yelling out his neighborhood “Queensbridge” and I thought it was hilarious when he took a dive collapsing to the floor when barely getting tapped by Rajon Rondo and Jeff Van Gundy mocked him by saying “Queensbridge”. (Clip 80) It’s hard to take anyone seriously when Jeff Van Gundy effectively mocks them.

I had written him off…until the past two weeks. I am now on board with Ron Artest, in fact, he is quickly becoming my favorite person in the NBA, and I’ll try to explain why that is. Now, it’s important to note that I still dislike the Lakers, and I’m not happy they won the NBA Title, but I am happy that it gave Ron Ron this chance to win me over.

Mostly it was one press conference, the one he gave after Game 7 against the Celtics last week. In fact, I have a bunch of clips from it.

The first clip is just him coming to the mic and loving the fact that he is already on a Wheaties Box and getting a little worried that not everyone is as excited as he is. (Clip 84)

Next Ron-Ron starts yelling at the press who are in the back of the room writing their stories and trying to meet their deadline and not paying attention to his press conference. Ron wants some attention, so he gets it. (Clip 85)

Yeah, his entire family joins him onstage, there are like 10 or 12 people on the stage with him now at this point as he calls them all up. Then he introduces them all…and not only does he introduce them, listen for the end for the best part of this clip…(Clip 86) Yup… “And I’m Ron.”

I think he was excited. He starts talking, and then when he realizes that he’s not answering the question he was asked…he makes mention of it and laughs at himself. (Clip 87)

Then probably my favorite clip, as he talks about Kobe passing him the ball and him making a 3 that pretty much iced the game for the Lakers. (Clip 88)

So that press conference cracked me up so much, that I pretty much became a Ron Artest fan right there.

Then of course, the story of the night AFTER his

After having the game of his life -- and winning the NBA Championship -- Los Ron Artest was asked if he was going to Disneyland. He said wasn't in the mood to celebrate with Mickey Mouse saying, "I'd rather go to Compton."

Then of course, Ron went out to Dinner and then out to the Club in his full uniform that he had played in that night. He didn’t take off the full uniform for two and a half days. Although he did take off the jersey to give it to Chris Brown in the wee hours of the night he won the championship because Brown asked him for it.

My favorite thing I’ve read on the internet about Artest’s night came from a blog that said,

Somehow I'm not shocked in the slighest, just delighted that Artest is quickly becoming a tall tale. 25 years from now, we'll recall that Ron was really ten feet tall with arms the size of tree trunks, one of L.A.'s premier cupcake chefs, and moonlighted in drag as the prima donna of the L.A. Opera. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Then, he was on the Dan Lebatard Show this week and they asked him about smoking weed…and he had a great response. (Clip 89)

Finally, Artest recorded a song last June right after signing with the Lakers called, “Champion.” He recorded it with the idea that he would release it after he won the championship…in 12 months. That’s confidence.

I was going to make fun of it for being terrible, and while I’m no hip hop expert by any means…This actually seems like it’s pretty good. To finish up the Artest segment…here is “Champion” (Clip 90)


Shadenfrude File – Zinedine Zidane said the team only has two problems: 1. The Coach 2. The Players.

After the Tierry Henry handball which got them into the World Cup against the Irish…Karma has gotten them, and I don’t think anyone is sad about it.

Before the World Cup began, there was an underage sex scandal, On April 17 three French footballers, including star Franck Ribery, were accused of having paid sex with the enticing mademoiselle Zahia Dehar. Not only is Ribery married and a father of two young children, but his dangerous liaison with Dehar was said to have taken place when she was 17; under French law it is illegal to pay a prostitute for sex if she is under 18. Ribery was offered a candy bar and asked for a comment about it this week, and this is what he said (Clip 73)

Then of course, there is the scandal involving French striker Nicolas Anelka's alleged abusive comments to coach Raymond Domenech. Different sources have reported different versions of Anelka's rant, which came at halftime of France's match with Mexico. According to L'Equipe, Anelka said, "Go get yourself fucked in the ass, you dirty son of a whore." Le Parisien's version: "You and your system can go get fucked in the ass." And according to other sources: "Go fuck your mother."


Deaths:
John Wooden
Gary Coleman
Dennis Hopper
Rue McClannahan

Puritans – Not so nice to the dead all the time. (Talk about the burial ground)

Who’s death would cause the biggest world wide sadness?


Pooping in public: No shame, or hide your feet? (Clip 81 – MM’s rap)


Craig’s Embarrassing Confessions:

-Late this Tuesday morning because my alarm didn’t go off…Flew to work, and went to the 2nd floor instead of the 3rd, and made it all the way to where my desk should be before I realized what I had done. I noticed the different paintings, and was surprised they had redecorated overnight.

-I have fallen in love with eating kids meals (Wacky Packs) at Sonic for lunch. This Tuesday, I ordered it, and after I was done, was treated to “Would you like anything for yourself?” from the lady working the drive in box.


Face and Wanda and the Word: Listen to highlights.



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Shalom and Good Evening to you all!