Show Prep #62

Greetings and Salutations, people! I am your patriotic host, Craig Dodge, and this is Vertically Striped Radio. It’s the weekend where we Americans celebrate the independence of our country by blowing little pieces of it up. It’s the 4th of July, and I’m feeling quite festive! I just got an iPod touch, I’m getting ready to spend the night up in the mountains tomorrow in Glenwood Springs, I have Monday off, and I’m going to see fireworks tonight and probably tomorrow too!



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Today on VSR – The Vertically Striped Academy of Arts, Sciences, and other Neato Stuff will award the 2010 Vertically Striped Awards for Excellence in the Field of Excellence. (Also known as the Sockie Awards.)



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

BERLIN (Reuters) – An alligator was found roaming the streets of a small German town in the middle of the night, authorities said on Friday.
Police in the small town of Gross-Rohrheim got a 2 a.m. phone call on Thursday from a bystander who said he had just seen an alligator walking in front of a motorcycle shop in the center of town.
"At first they just broke out laughing..," said police spokesman Ferdinand Derigs. "But here in the state of Hesse we're ready for anything that comes our way."
Two officers dispatched to investigate were able to capture the 3.3-foot long alligator with equipment ordinarily used to capture dogs.
"The alligator was taken into custody," police said in a statement. Authorities soon found it had escaped from a small circus being staged at a nearby school. The alligator was later handed over to school officials.











NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) – I’ve heard of people on parole trying anything to avoid going back to prison, but this may be the first time in history that the method has involved large quantities of dry ice. Federal officials have deported a New Zealand drug dealer who kept his dead girlfriend's body on dry ice in a swanky Newport Beach hotel after she died of an overdose.

The 49-year-old Stephen David Royds was paroled after serving about 1 1/2 years of a four-year prison sentence on felony drug charges.

Recently when investigators searched his room at the Fairmont Hotel found the body of 33-year-old Monique Trepp in a plastic box filled with dry ice. Acquaintances said she died of an accidental drug overdose nearly a year earlier.


MOSCOW (Reuters) – Eight percent of Russians believe their national team will win the World Cup, despite the fact that it never qualified for the tournament, an independent poll has showed.
Russian was denied a place at the world's most-watched sporting event, when they were defeated by Slovenia in the qualifying stage. This fact has not dampened the hopes of nearly 1 in 10 Russians, just proving that Russians will never say surrender…even when the odds are quite technically COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE.

The poll, conducted by Russia's Levada Center between the 18th and the 22nd of June, surveyed 1,600 Russian adults across 130 cities across the country.

Not all Russians are delusional, however, as Brazil was tabbed by 33 percent of Russians. (Brazil had not yet been eliminated)

Perhaps the issue isn’t so much delusion as ignorance. (The problem is that many countries don’t HAVE maps!) Two percent of those polled said prime Russian tourist spot Turkey, also absent from the Cup, would win. A Russian official was asked asked why so many Russians in her country have such a hard time naming countries on the map that were actually IN the World Cup, and she responded by saying, (Clip 74)



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

Bring on the boys…

The Duel – Wet Pets vs McDonalds from the 1970’s


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 the week after the Lakers won the championship 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)



 

The Vertically Striped Academy of Arts, Sciences, and other Neato Stuff present the 2nd annual Sockie awards!

The Sockie Nominations:
2010 Vertically Striped Awards for Excellence in the Field of Excellence.


Best Color:
• Orange - Winner
• Mauve
• Brown
• Red
• Navy Blue

Sports Team of the Year:
• Kansas State Wildcats (Basketball Team)
• Chicago Blackhawks - Winner
• Boston Red Sox
• Colorado Rockies
• Butler Bulldogs (Basketball Team)
Best Message Board Kid not named Ed:
• 4th and 26
• Face Ventura - Winner
• Elevation
• Wisconsin Alcoholic
• Amiezin
Best Ed Storyline of the Year:
• Ed’s Girlfriend ends up in prison for Prostitution.
• Ed plans to go to the Swap Meet for Male Enhancement Surgery. - Winner
• Ed gets subpoenaed for questioning regarding the Super Deluxe Baby Fites.
• Ed loses his valet job for pooping in a car.
• Ed eats 10,000 Oreos in 2009
Sports Idiot of the Year:
• Albert Haynesworth
• Ben Roethlisberger – Winner (The haircut put him over the top)
• Tiger Woods
• Diego Maradona
• Rasheed Wallace
The People's Choice Sockie - Best Dameshek Amalgamated Messageboard Network Show: (Voting taking place on Dameshek.com through July 2nd)
• The No Name Show
• The Ed Show – 11 Votes
• Vertically Striped Radio
• Elevation Radio
• The LCS Hockey Show – 11 Votes
• The Barnstable Broadcast
• YFF Radio
• The Southeast Sports Beat
• Major Minority Report
• Slammed!
 
Magnificent Seven: Top 7 World Cup Uniforms:

Worst in the World Cup:
Greece: Snoresville
North Korea: Red and White and really long loose sleeves. Terrible, just terrible.
Ghana: Yellow and Red unevenly spaced stripes, UGLY

Honorable Mentions:
Algeria – (Away kit) Green with thin Red and White Stripes and Green Shorts
Slovenia – Dark Green with a Yellow Mountain pattern running across the chest. (Looks a little like Charlie Brown)
United States – (Away) Navy Blue with the diagonal white stripe, Navy shorts, navy socks.
Serbia – (Home) Red shirt with a white horizontal stripe across the chest, and and a vertical stripe on the left side of the shirt that intersect at the Serbian crest, with a fantastic bit of blue of the sleeves, really good.
Netherlands – Clockwork Orange, Baby! Orange jerseys with the black lion crest, and black shorts, and just a tiny strip of black on the sleeves. So good! (Of course, I love orange)

7. Argentina – Classic Baby Blue and White Vertically Striped shirt with black shorts and white socks. A true classic, and exceptionally iconic.
6. Cameroon – Green Shirts, Red Shorts, and Yellow Socks…Just really really cool.
5. Paraguay – Red and White Vertical stripes with royal blue shorts and the thing that puts them over the top…Their white and red striped socks. They are SO glorious.
4. Brazil – Yellow shirt with green accents to go with Blue Shorts. One of the most iconic uniforms in sports. Very good, but I think that their success has over-rated this one. It’s top five for sure, but not as high on my list as many would have it.
3. Germany – Tie between their blacks and their whites…EXCEPTIONAL, the black one looks like Liverpools alternates, which works in their favor with me. And the Adidas stripes on the shoulders with the red piping…so glorious.
2. Ivory Coast – (Home) Orange with Green accents, very good. (Away) Green with horizontal white stripes that are lined with gold, an elephant patch.
1. Spain – Red shirt with yellow accents and Royal blue shorts. (Awesome)

 

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.




The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Decemberists – July, July! (Castaways and Cutouts)
(Clip 82)

Thanks to: (Whoever called)


Shalom and Good Evening to you all!