Saturday, April 28, 2012

Show Prep 160


Greetings and Salutations, People:

Tweet of the Week:  
anshul90
There is no "i" in "team." But there's an "i" in "Tim," and my friend Carlos pronounces it "team." So there we go.

Today on VSR – A new edition of The Week in Wankery, We’ll count down our seven favorite NES games in the Magnificent Seven and a bit of Walking Dead talk with Elevation.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
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(Bring on Face) –


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



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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An Albuquerque hot dog vendor faces a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after police say he rammed his food cart into a competitor.
Police say Eric Kilmer used his hot dog cart to run over the legs and feet of rival Vincent Montoya. Other vendors told KOB-TV that Montoya is seeking a restraining order against Kilmer.
It was not immediately known why the two were fighting.
If Kilmer is convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.


BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- When is an "Eternal Flame" not eternal? In Kyrgyzstan, when you don't pay the gas bill.
A utilities company in the economically struggling former Soviet nation has turned off the gas supply to a major war memorial in the capital, Bishkek, after city authorities failed to clear a $9,400 debt.
The episode reflects the dismal financial state of the Central Asian nation, which has been wracked for years by political unrest and a sluggish economy.
Kyrgyzgas, the gas supply services company for Kyrgyzstan said Wednesday that the bill has been outstanding for 3 years.
Despite confusion over who exactly is meant to foot the bill, Kyrgyzgas say it hopes the flame can be reignited by May 9, when most ex-Soviet republics celebrate victory in World War II.


SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho man has been charged with assault after authorities say he ordered another man to perform the "moonwalk" at gunpoint.
30-year-old John Ernest Cross was charged with the felony Tuesday in 1st District Court and appointed a public defender.
Police say they were called Monday to Cross' home in Clark Fork, Idaho after getting a report that he pointed a rifle at another man and demanded that the man perform the dance move popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
Investigators accuse Cross of using a semiautomatic rifle during the episode, but Cross claimed during his initial court appearance this week that the firearm was simply a pellet gun.


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







Week in Wankery:
-I have a new nemesis! (New cleaning girl at work)
-Celiac’s Disease – Wheat-Free Gluten-Free food is now a part of my life
-Nose Hair
-Take your kid to work day
-Super Speeding Woman – Tailgated and then cut me off while flying around me.
-Cop who pulled her over
-NFL – New Era given exclusive contract to make NFL hats.


Magnificent Seven – Top 7 NES Games:

Blaster Master
Rygar
Karnov
Rampage
Double Dribble
RC Pro Am
Contra
Super Mario Bros 2
Ninja Gaiden
Metroid
Mega Man 2
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Kage
Kung Fu
Mario Bros
Pro Wrestling

7. Ice Hockey
6. Duck Tales
5. Kid Icarus
4. RBI Baseball
3. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Mike Tyson’s Punchout
1. Super Mario Bros




Sports:

I don’t understand people making definitive statements about the NFL draft:

Proof that no one knows anything: Peyton Manning or Ryan Leaf was a legitimate debate. Hard to believe as Manning is now a surefire Hall of Famer and Leaf is potentially facing decades in prison for stealing oxycodone.

NHL Playoffs:

East:
Rangers-Capitals
Flyers-Devils

West:

Coyotes-Predators
Blues-Kings

NBA Playoffs:

East:
Bulls-76ers
Heat-Knicks
Pacers-Heat
Celtics-Hawks

West:
Spurs-Jazz
Thunder-Mavericks
Lakers-Nuggets
Clippers-Grizzlies

They’re Made Out of Meat – Excerpt from “The Truth” Podcast – Movies for your ears.

Elevation calls in to discuss The Walking Dead

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Show Prep 159

Greetings and Salutations, People:

Tweet of the Week:  
Coastiefish
If you've never tried to use "the force" to get an out-of-reach remote control, you're probably not as lazy as me.

Today on VSR – Face and I will go head to head on a Magnificent Seven list of Top 7 Bald Guys, Elevation is planning on joining us at 4:30 Mountain time to discuss Mad Men and The Walking Dead, and we’ve got some other stuff as well.


If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
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Email address:
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Voice Mail – 720-CUB-1-ACE (720-282-1223)
Twitter: @socnorb777

(Bring on Face) –


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



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

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina county's deputies say a McDonald's employee spit in two customers' cups of iced tea after the drinks were returned because they weren't sweet enough.

Authorities say 19-year-old Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious tampering with food.

Greenville County investigators say surveillance video caught Washington leaning over the cups before he filled them Saturday at the Simpsonville restaurant. Authorities say the customers discovered phlegm when they removed the lids of the drinks to add more sugar because the iced tea still was not sweet enough.

The owner of the McDonald's says he follows stringent food safety procedures and asked people not to reach conclusions until all the facts come out.


BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Dozens of students at Berkeley High School are facing suspension or expulsion after school officials say they got into a computer system and changed their attendance records.

Principal Pasquale Scuderi said Wednesday that 50 students will be suspended and two or three expelled. The scam apparently occurred after some students were able to obtain an administrative password to the system, which was then sold to other students.

The changes to students' attendance records occurred between October and January and meant students could skip classes or school altogether without their parents knowing.

Scuderi said administrators discovered the scam just before spring break on April 2nd. They then went through the school's 3,200 students to determine who was involved.

Clip 51 – The students have vowed to fight the suspensions. They have selected a leader who held a press conference stating the suspensions were wrong. We have exclusive audio of that press conference, and I have to admit, he makes a valid point.






JENKINS, Ky. (AP) -- There it was on Facebook for all to see - Michael Baker with a gas can, a siphon hose stuck into a police cruiser in eastern Kentucky and a middle finger raised.

Among those who saw it were Jenkins police, who arrested 20-year-old Baker on Monday and charged him with theft by unlawful taking.

Baker told WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/HUTwfV ) in Hazard there wasn't much fuel in the car to siphon and the stunt on Friday was intended as a joke. Baker's girlfriend took the photo and posted it.

Police didn't laugh. Chief Allen Bormes says that if Baker would steal from police, he'd steal from "just about anybody."

Authorities say they plan to buy lockable gas caps.

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

Bring in the Whale:
Band name of the week: Attentive Torso

Sports:

Red Wings are done



Magnificent Seven
Top 7 Bald Dudes:

Lex Luthor
Howie Mandel
Michael Stipe
Vin Diesel
Curly Howard (Stooges)
Charlie Brown
Larry David
Terry Bradshaw
Sam Cassell
Albert Pujols
Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dr. Evil
Chauncey Billups
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Charles Barkley
Ghandi
Bald Bull
Sean Connery
Bruce Willis

1. George Costanza
2. Michael Jordan
3. Larry Fairish
4. Homer Simpson
5. Bald Bull
6. Adam Rank
7. Patrick Stewart – Specifically as Captain Picard

Discuss Mad Men and Walking Dead with Elevation


Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Barenaked Ladies – Same Thing

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Show Prep 158

Greetings and Salutations, People: It’s the radio show where the host can cause a controversy by saying he DOESN’T love Fidel Castro. This is Vertically Striped Radio and I am your host and alleged Communist sympathizer Craig Dodge.

Reds were changed to Redlegs during the 1950’s due to fear of Communism. They kept the Redlegs name from 1953.

If you’re wondering where the term “Redlegs” came from, this was once a derogatory term used to refer to a specific group of poor white people living on various islands in the Caribbean (generally originally from Ireland and Scotland).  They were also commonly known as “white slaves”.  Some were in fact actual white slaves, having been taken by press gangs and transported to Barbados to be sold.  Others were simply indentured servants, agreeing to work more or less as slaves for a time in exchange for transportation.  It’s estimated around 50,000 of these Redlegs were transported from Ireland alone during the mid-17th century.

So, apparently, the Reds preferred to associate themselves with slavery, rather than communism. 

Tweet of the Week:  
Do they make "Get well slower" cards? You know, for sick people you hate but don't want to die.


Today on VSR – We’ll handicap the Death Pool. The NHL playoffs are underway and have been spectacular thus far, we’ll discuss. A follically challenged Magnificent Seven, and whatever else we feel like gabbing on about…


If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
To contact VSR via email:
Email address:
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Twitter: @socnorb777

(Bring on Face) –
Take Face to task for his tape delay nonsense
TMNT Truck


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



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


JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) -- Police say a naked burglar has been arrested while taking a shower after he sipped champagne and ate a meal in a Southern California family's home.
San Bernardino County Police arrested 25-year-old Michael Calvert at gunpoint on Thursday while he lathered up in the shower of the home he had broken into earlier that night.
After helping himself to a bottle of champagne and a meal, Calvert decided to take a shower in the Joshua Tree home.
The homeowners called 911 after returning home at 8:10 p.m. and hearing someone in the shower.
Calvert was booked for investigation of residential burglary.


MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- A California weightlifter says he accidentally shot himself in one of the weirdest ways you’ve ever heard.
He told Modesto police officers he was lifting dumbbells in his home Wednesday night when he dropped one on a stray .22 caliber bullet that was randomly lying on the floor of his basement. The pressure caused by the dumbbell dropping on the bullet caused the bulled to fire wounding the man in the shoulder.
 The man's name hasn't been released.
Modesto police investigators say the man's story is suspicious, but not impossible.
Police say that it is possible that the impact on the rim of the bullet could have caused it to fire. Making the story seem more plausible, officers searched the property and found a shell casing, but not a gun and none of the neighbors saw anyone leaving the man's home.


PARIS, France (AP) -- Paris police say they've seized some rather unusual contraband: around 13 tons of mini Eiffel Towers. (26,000 pounds of mini Eiffel Towers)
French Police have arrested a Paris souvenir shop owner, her husband and her son massive trinket-seizure Friday.
The three are accused of selling the mini towers at tourist spots including the Louvre and the actual Eiffel Tower without a permit.
The police operation followed several months of surveillance of the souvenir shop.


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



Death Pool:
BigDMcGee - Kirk Douglas (95)
Richie – Zsa Zsa Gabor (95)
cardwiz – Muhammad Ali (70)
Major Minority – Dick Clark (82)
Elevation - Billy Graham (93)
18nalax – Nelson Mandela (93)
Mario Speedwagon - Fidel Castro (85)
Elijah Price - Chuck Berry (85)
porkcarrot - Margaret Thatcher (86)
Pey Pey 23 - Betty White (90)
Face Ventura – Gordie Howe (84)
The Ryan – Larry King (78)
#1 Sploser - Joan Rivers (78)
PhillyBillyRules - Bill Cosby (74)
socnorb777 – Charlie Sheen (46)
tom - Hugo Chavez (57)
cjmack - The Ultimate Warrior (52)
amiezin - Lindsey Lohan (25)
NSMaster56 - Larry Miller (58)
notverygood - Russell Brand (36)
Bonaduce Sux - Tiger Woods (36)

Sports:

NHL Playoffs:
-Who is in more trouble? Pens or Canucks? Both down 0-2 and hitting the road
-I do NOT miss Jose Theodore. Watched 1st period of Game 1 Devils-Panthers
-I’m cheering for the Predators

Darts in England? Arenas of people watching dudes play darts. The UK ain’t right in the head.

Kelly Shoppach steals the first base of his career and does it with the worst slide ever.


TV
Mad Men
Walking Dead

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Shins – No Way Down – Port of Morrow

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

Friday, April 13, 2012

Show Prep 157

Greetings and Salutations, People: In case you thought I’d never open a show with an entire Johnny Cash song…Now you know better. And after two dark Saturdays in a row…(Clip 55 – They’re baaack) This is Vertically Striped Radio. We didn’t Invent the Podcast, just the Podcast Sandwich. (I don’t know what that means, either.) I am your host Craig Dodge, back in the saddle after too long of a break, and ready to roll with an all new show.


Tweet of the Week:  
Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5)
I'm not proud of this, but I pretend to have conversations on my iPhone to get out of talking to annoying people. Okay, I'm a lil proud.

Today on VSR –

We’ll unveil our latest NFL mock draft, We’ll preview tonight’s Ferris State vs. Boston College NCAA Hockey Championship Game, Manny Pacquiao…Hero or Villain? We’ll discuss. And of course, with baseball season underway, it’s time to talk 30 team league fantasy baseball…and if you actually believe we’re doing any of that, you have fallen for a 6 day belated April Fools joke. Come on, you didn’t REALLY believe I was going to do all that, did you?

We will however kick around the idea of a dead pool, we’ll talk Nike Uniforms, I have a Magnificent 7 list of memorable moments from Road Trip 2012, and we have a whole new edition of “Something to think about” in the holster as well, should we need it.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
To contact VSR via email:
Email address:
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Twitter: @socnorb777

(Bring on Face) –

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



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

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) – Small tip for criminals, If you’re going to give the cops a fake last name, be sure that your real last name isn’t tattooed on your arm. A 19-year-old Idaho man with his last name tattooed on his forearm was arrested after he tried unsuccessfully tried to give police a fake name, but was foiled by his tats.

19-year-old Dylan Edward Contreras was arrested early Saturday on outstanding warrants because his tattoos gave him away. The arresting officer reports that he told three men who were walking on the street with a dog to move to the sidewalk. One of them men appeared like he was getting ready to run away, so the officer asked for identification.

Contreras identified himself as Emiliano Velesco, but gave the cop his actual birth date. A police database search found no matches for a Velesco. However, the officer had a dispatcher run a check with the birthday he was given and the last name tattooed on Contreras’s forearm.

Bam! Contreras was arrested as the search quickly revealed that Contreras had three warrants for “failure to appear” charges and now he has added a new charge of providing false information to police.


CANBERRA, Australia – Australian Pilot Braden Blennerhassett saw a snake's head pop out from under the dashboard of his twin-engine plane shortly after takeoff from Darwin airport on Tuesday.

Blennerhassett’s heart raced as he tried to keep his hands still while maneuvering the plane back to the northern city of Darwin. The snake popped its head out from behind the instrument panel several times, and then the ordeal worsened when the animal crawled across his leg during the approach to the airport.

He was told to return to Darwin and a snake handler was organised to meet Mr Blennerhassett, but the reptile was never found.

The snake is suspected to have been a golden tree snake, a non-venomous species that can grow up to 5 feet in length.

Vertically Striped Radio has been able to obtain exclusive audio taken from the flight during the harrowing return to the airport. (Clip 20) We want to caution you, however, as the language used in this clip may be too strong for immature audiences.



WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An information technology worker in Iowa has surrendered to police on a very unusual charge.

59-year-old Raymond Foley turned himself in Saturday to face a charge of second-degree criminal mischief. His crime? Urinating on the chairs of his co-workers.

Police say co-workers had complained about unusual stains appearing on their chairs. A security system was installed, and police say it caught Foley in the act.

Police documents say Foley looked up employee photos in the agency database and then would go into the office during off hours and relieve himself on their chairs.

Foley declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday, other than to acknowledge that he, in fact, no longer works at the Farm Bureau office in West Des Moines.

The chair damage was estimated at $4,500.

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

Bring in the Whale:
Band name of the week: The Armchair of the Damned


I had a dream I had an iPad, the screen cracked, and it started running Windows 95.

Death Pool:
Charlie Sheen (Will he be alive in a year?)

My nemesis is a charity case.

Too much Ed?
What is wrong with the message board?


The LA Dodgers are worth 2 Billion dollars??

The Champion Dog – A 26 Dollar Hot Dog at Arlington Stadium

Team president Nolan Ryan did not mince words with ESPN Radio in Dallas regarding the Texas Rangers' most recent acquisition — a two-foot-long, one-pound gourmet hot dog that feeds three or four fans and costs $26:
"It has to be a tremendous wiener. And then we're getting some kind of exotic bread flown in from France. And I don't know what kind of condiments you put on that. But I do want to look at it.
"That's a wild dog."
Holy StrasBurgers! Everything really is bigger in Texas. A result of the work of Rangers Ballpark chef Cristobal Vasquez, the dog is a Coney Island-style wiener that will be topped with shredded cheese, chili and sauteed onions. Not to mention the bun, apparently made of "exotic bread flown in from France" — which might be the most Nolan Ryan thing that Nolan Ryan has ever said.

Nike NFL Uniforms:
Much ado about nothing. Almost every team looks exactly the same.
Broncos uniforms do look slightly different, and ORANGE!
Seahawks are a disaster


Magnificent Seven
Seven Memorable Things from Road Trip 2012:

7. Arkansas Highway Repair
6. Gator Bites
5. Graceland – WAY too expensive –
Basic Package: 32 dollars, kids 14 bucks.
            VIP Package: 70 bucks each, regardless of age
4. Nashville:
-Visited a plantation – Awkward.
-Grand Ole Opry Hotel (Casino without a casino)
            -24 MPH Speed Limit Signs
            -World’s most ridiculous Swing Set
-People of Nashville, Didn’t care about Manning, concerned about Tebow
-Downtown Nashville – SO MANY MUSIC VENUES!!!
-Nashville Zoo – Dino Trek
-Tremendous run of beer selections:
Bluegrass Brewing Company’s Bourbon Stout
Yuengling Lager
Sierra Nevada Porter
3. St. Louis Arch / Modot Cares
2. Entering the Manhattan, Kansas time machine.
1. Colby Kansas doesn’t like it when you drive 88 in a 75. 161 dollars later.
How Dare You?
Larry hates “The Muppets” movie
Dell hates the Broncos logo

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Fleet Foxes - Montezuma

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!