Show Prep 202

Greetings and Salutations, People: I’m Craig Dodge and my mother just gave me a coconut.

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Tweet of the Week:  

@JermHimselfish
Just once, I'd like to open up my refrigerator and find cartoon versions of my favorite foods arguing over which one of them is healthier.

Things I liked this week:

Minor League Hockey

The fact that The Walking Dead returned from its mid-season break. (Although, the actual show wasn’t all that great.)

Driving past the Blue Demon Horse Statue out at DIA a few times. (Apparently it’s been 5 years, so people are petitioning for it to come down.)

Today on VSR – It’s the Valentine’s Show, so I have a Valentine story from The Truth along with my favorite song I could think of that included the word Valentine…other than that, I pretty much despise Valentine’s Day, so we’re trying to keep it to a dull roar. Although, we’ll take a look at which holidays Americans spend the most money. We’ll the Magnificent Seven: Top Seven Things ALMOST everyone likes, and a brand new segment debuts today.

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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) 

Pont-de-Metz, FRANCE - A French driver was forced to drive at 125mph for more than 150 miles after his accelerator jammed during a supermarket trip.

Frank Lecerf called police when his modified Renault Laguna malfunctioned in Pont-de-Metz, near Amiens, in northern France.

The car's speed first jammed at 60mph, and then it accelerated instead of slowing down each time he tried to brake.

"My life flashed before me," he told Le Courrier picard. "I just wanted it to stop."

The 36-year-old managed to call the emergency services to report the problem as he hurtled along the French motorway past Calais and Dunkirk, and across the Belgian border.

In scenes reminiscent of the movie 'Speed', police cars were sent to safely escort the disabled motorist past other vehicles.

At the same time toll stations were ordered to raise their barriers and let the cars through

Emergency services also put the driver through to a Renault engineer, who vainly attempted to help him stop the car.

The car finally ran out of fuel after speeding across the border and careered into a ditch in Alveringem.

Mr Lecerf was said to be unhurt but reportedly suffered two epileptic seizures.

He claims to have suffered problems with his acceleration getting stuck before.

His lawyer said he would file a legal complaint against Renault over "endangerment of a person's life".

Great Falls, MONTANA – A Montana TV station's regular programming was interrupted this week…by news of the zombie apocalypse.

KRTV of Montana has confirmed that hackers broke into their Emergency Alert System on Monday.

The hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.

"This message did not originate from KRTV, and there is no emergency," the channel announced via its website.

The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous".

The Great Falls Tribune reported that the hoax alert did not generate any calls to the police.

Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA - A boy and a girl have had several fingers torn off during a game of tug-of-war at their high school in Southern California.

The two South El Monte High School students were rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors were preparing to reattach the digits.

"They are both stable and the parents were by their bedside," hospital spokeswoman Rosa Sacca told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

"They were getting ready to be taken to the operating room to try to reattach the fingers."

School officials declined to identify the students, but it has been reported that the girl was on the school's soccer team and the boy was a football player.

The teenagers were participating in a lunchtime activity celebrating homecoming with current and former students on Monday.

Authorities did not say how many fingers were lost or explain how the tug-of-war caused the injuries.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian public television plans to broadcast a burning fireplace for 12 straight hours from Friday evening, with firewood specialists providing color commentary, expert advice and a bit of cultural tutoring.

"We'll talk about the very nerdy subjects like burning, slicing and stacking the wood, but we'll also have cultural segments with music and poems," Rune Moeklebust, a producer for state broadcaster NRK.

"It will be very slow but noble television."

Moeklebust got the idea for the show from the wild success of a firewood book by Lars Mytting, Norway's biggest firewood celebrity. His book "Hel Ved", which means Strong Character in English, is a play on words because ved also means "firewood".

Mytting, a guest on tonight's broadcast, has sold close to 130,000 copies of the book since last year, a huge number in a country of 5 million people, with his publisher claiming that only "Fifty Shades of Grey" sold more copies during the recent holiday season.

NRK is not new to quirky programming.

In 2011, it broadcast 134 hours non-stop of a cruise ship going up the Norwegian coast to the Arctic, bagging the world record for the longest continuous TV program along the way.

At one point 600,000 people tuned in to watch that program with 3.2 million people, or over 60 percent of the population, glued to the screen at one point.

And an earlier broadcast of an eight hour train journey from Oslo to Bergen was so popular, NRK had to repeat it.

"People in Norway have a spiritual relationship with fire," Moeklebust said. "Fire is the reason we're here, if there was no firewood, we couldn't live in Norway, we'd freeze."

How will the fireplace do in the ratings?

"More people will tune in than on a normal Friday night," Moeklebust said.

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

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

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

Noble Norweigian Television

Top 7 Holidays for American Spending: (Source IBISWorld)

7. Halloween – 6 Billion Dollars (Roughly 50-60 Bucks per American that celebrates the holiday.)

6. Father’s Day – 10 Billion

5. Easter – 14 Billion

(On Eggs, Food, Candy, and the biggest Easter expenditure: New Clothes)

4. Mother’s Day – 15 Billion

3. Valentine’s Day – 18 Billion

2. Thanksgiving – 31 Billion

1. Christmas – 135 Billion

Eat Cake – The Truth – Clip 79

Face vs the News: (Clip 15)

-Pope retiring

-Carnival Cruise Ship

-Chris Dorner – Psycho ex-cop who killed other cops

-Meteor hits Russia

Magnificent Seven: (Clip 07)

Top Seven Things ALMOST everyone likes:

Honorable Mentions:

Bacon

Playing Ping Pong

7. The movie Groundhog Day

6. Scratching a dog and making its leg twitch

5. Jennifer Lawrence

4. Smelling Coffee

3. Pizza

2. Super Bowl

1. Playing Super Mario Bros.

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Show Prep 201

Greetings and Salutations, People:

Weird moment when something completely random happens twice right in a row -Two different people complained that you can’t play “Jew” in Words With Friends on the same day.

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Tweet of the Week:  

@briangaar
The guy in the next urinal peed so hard that a little got on me and I thought “damn this dude is good at peeing”

Things I liked this week:

-I asked my son the biggest number he could think of, the answer? One Million Hundred and Ten.

-Car drove up behind me yesterday on I-70. It was a Toyota Carolla with all sorts of Nascar-esque racing stickers all over it and a sign at the top of the windshield with the words written in reverse like an ambulance that said, “Slower Traffic Stay Right” with an arrow to the right lane.

-Nuggets laying wood to the Chicago Bulls…currently on an 8 game win streak and have won 14 of their last 16 games.

Today on VSR – Shorter show today, as I’m taking my kids to the Cutthroats game, but we will be doing our Magnificent Seven – Seven Favorite Weird Things that happened during Super Bowl 47 and we also have a new edition of Something to think about!

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(Bring on Face) –

Following up on Face’s food challenge…have you eaten five different foods in the past two weeks that AREN’T tortillas and beer?

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

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

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Tennessee man who quit his job after receiving a W-2 tax form stamped with the number 666 said he was trying to save his soul.

Walter Slonopas, 52, resigned as a maintenance worker at Contech Casting in Clarksville, Tennessee last week because he believes that accepting his W-2 form which was stamped with the number 666 would be a one-way ticket to hell. "If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil," he said.

Slonopas said he was initially given the number 666 to clock in when he was hired in April 2011 but his complaints led to it being changed to 668. He told the newspaper he resigned after the number reverted to 666 when the company changed time clock systems three months later but he returned to work a few days later when the company apologized.

Bob LaCourciere, a vice-president at Contech Casting, said he was shocked the mistake was repeated with a stamp on Slonopas' form.

"I am completely at a loss for words," he said.

LaCourciere said Slonopas will be issued a replacement form and he hopes the worker can be convinced to return to the company.

However, Slonopas said he will not return to Contech.

"God is worth more than money," he told The Tennessean.

SABADELL, Spain, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Spanish police said they arrested a suspected wallet thief who allegedly called his victim to ask for his credit card personal identification number.

Investigators said the suspect, identified as Joan Carles M.M., 28, of Sabadell, tried to guess the number too many times after stealing the Solsona man's wallet in December and ended up with a block on the card, ThinkSpain reported Thursday.

The man then used the information from the victim's wallet to call the card's owner and posed as a Visa customer service representative. He asked for the man's PIN and was given the correct code, but the card would no longer work due to his previous attempts.

PENN YAN, N.Y. (AP) — You know your mother loves you when she is willing to smuggle Oxycodone into the jail where you are incarcerated. Especially when she passes you the pills via an open-mouthed kiss.

That is what investigators allege transpired last Tuesday when Kimberly Margeson, 54, visited her offspring in an upstate New York lockup. Margeson’s son, William Partridge, 30, was being held following a weapons arrest.

According to a Yates County Sheriff’s Department report, Margeson put the Oxycodone pills “into her mouth and brought them into the jail when she visited her son.” She then passed two pills “from her mouth to her sons mouth when she kissed him.”

Deputies did not indicate whether tongue was involved in the transfer of the two painkiller pills, which were apparently intended for Partridge’s personal use and not resale.

Margeson was arrested and charged with a felony drug count. She and Partridge were also each hit with a misdemeanor count of promoting prison contraband.

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

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

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

One Million Hundred and Ten.

Confetti Snow Angel

Dr. Funke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution

Magnificent Seven: (Clip 07)

Top 7 Favorite Weird Things about Super Bowl 47:

7. Confetti Snow Angels – Morgan Cox

6. People getting excited over a Destiny’s Child reunion…followed by everyone trying to remember the names of the other two girls.

5. Jello Pudding given to 49ers fans – (Clip 51)

4. Reaction in the room to Bar Rafaeli kissing a troll

3. Joe Flacco tells teammates to tackle Ted Ginn from the sidelines if necessary (Clip 52)

2. Power Outage - Twitter during the Power Outage – Bane jokes

Joe Randazzo ‏@Randazzoj

-Guys I'm AT the #SuperBowl and this power outage is no joke. Most of us have broken into small but loyal factions. I am a now a doctor.

Nick Toplass ‏@TitaniumToplass

-In hindsight, maybe installing The Clapper was a bad idea.

Jon Sukarangsan ‏@JSuk

-Next time my girlfriend is winning an argument, I'll just throw the circuit breaker and give it 35 minutes #superbowl47

Superdome Light Crew ‏@superbowlights

-What people don't talk about is how the lights were on for the entire first half.. #smh #SuperBowl

1. Joe Theisman’s Tweet

Beyonce shit the house down

— Joe Theismann (@Theismann7) February 4, 2013

Something to Think About: (Clip 05)

1. I feel the desire to make a shoebox diorama.

2. A tomato is NOT a fruit.

3. Sugar should be spelled “Shugar”

4. Would carrying around a “Get out of Jail Free” card help you get out of a ticket?

5. Rambo would be a tough last name to live with. Came across a guy named Brent Rambo this week.

6. I want a PGA event where the course is made up like a gigantic mini-golf course. Windmills, Loops, Giant caves, fake mountains, water hazards with blue colored water.

7. A coffin might make a really cool toy.

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Show Prep 200

Greetings and Salutations, People: There is officially too much going on. It’s Groundhogs Day, tomorrow is the Super Bowl, this is the 200^th episode of VSR…and the Avs are on.

Ray Lewis’ first career sack: Jim Harbaugh

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Tweet of the Week:  

@InsidiousYoink
"I rapidly kidnapped a happily napping kid" is not only a fun tongue twister, but also a Felony! ...or so my lawyer tells me.

Things I liked this week:

Nuggets game with the family last night.

The Week in Wankery:

Red Card: The NFL – Super Bowl logo not changing anymore since Super Bowl 45.

Today on VSR – Breaking down the Super Bowl scientifically and the He-Man Movie Watchers Club will be discussing The People vs. George Lucas

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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) 

Morecambe (More-Come), ENGLAND - A man whose dog found a lump of rare and valuable whale sick on a beach is expecting to be able to sell it for more than $150,000.

Ken Wilman, 50, was out walking on Morecambe beach when his dog Madge started sniffing a lump of rock.

At first I thought it was a football but as I got closer I realized it was a big stone.

Quoting Wilman: "She wouldn't leave it alone. I picked it up and it smelt horrible so I knocked it with my walking stick and a small lump came off.

I put both pieces back on the beach but something in the back of my mind told me it might be something unusual. I came back home and searched online. I had an inkling it was whale vomit and when I saw pictures I realized it was. When I read how valuable it was I got Madge straight back in the car and drove back to the beach to bring it home."

Whale vomit is also known as ambergris and is used to make perfume. It is formed in the digestive system of sperm whales and has a very strong and unpleasant aroma.

The find could leave Ken more than $150,000 better off

Whales excrete it through the mouth when it is too large to pass through the digestive system. Perfume makers use it as it has a smell similar to musk.

A company in France has offered Wilman $6800 per 300g which would make his piece worth $68,000 but he has been told that companies in Switzerland offer four times that amount.

Mr Wilman, who is a single parent and has been unemployed since a motorbike accident in 2007, said when he does sell it he will spend the money taking his 15-year-old son on a trip to Machu Picchu, in Peru.

He added: "Madge will also be getting a treat for her find by being fed her favourite sausages every day from now on!"

A man from Pennsylvania who enjoyed a life-long passion for fast food has been given a whopper of a send-off before reaching his final resting place.

The family of David Kime arranged for his hearse - and the funeral procession - to take one last spin through his favorite Burger King drive-thru before reaching the cemetery.

After reaching the drive-thru each mourner picked up a Whopper Jr for the road.

The burger was among Mr Kime's favourites and he got one last Whopper Jr too, the York Daily Record reported. It was placed on top of his flag-draped coffin at the cemetery.

Daughter Linda Phiel said the stop-off was a happy way of honouring her father and the things that brought him joy.

"He lived a wonderful life and on his own terms," she said.

Mr Kime, a World War Two veteran, died on January 20 at the age of 88.

Ms Phiel said her father had done what he wanted and eaten what he wanted since her mother, Grace, died about 25 years ago.

David Kime takes a Whopper Jr with him to the grave

"My mother kind of kept him in check," Ms Phiel told the York Daily Record.

"When she died, for a while, he would eat with us. But he considered us health freaks because we ate things that were green, like broccoli."

For many years, Mr Kime was borderline diabetic and had a pacemaker. Ms Phiel told him a healthy diet would help him live longer.

"He would say, 'I won't live longer, it will just seem like it because I'll be more miserable faster'," she said.

"He was not prejudiced. He would go to any fast food place anyone invited him to."

She said he liked tacos, pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches and hot dogs.

Margaret Hess, the manager of the Burger King branch who organized 40 burgers for the funeral procession, said she was pleased to know Mr Kime was a loyal customer until "the very end".

Miami, FLORIDA – A southwest Florida man was arrested after he jumped off the roof of a couple’s North Ft. Myers home, knocked one person over and then went on a rampage inside the residence.

Oh, he was naked at the time.

The homeowners heard noises on their roof and went outside to see what was going on. That’s when they spotted a nude Gregory Bruni, 21, from Venice on the roof. Bruni jumped off the roof and knocked over one of the victims. He then reportedly ran inside the house and tore a 72 inch flat screen TV off a living room wall.

As the man yelled to his wife to get his gun, Bruni continued to trash the house. The sheriff’s office said the man’s wife managed to fire three shots at Bruni, but missed.

As the man went to get another gun, Bruni allegedly fell to the floor in the living room and started masturbating. He then ran into the couple’s son’s room and rubbed the boy’s clothing over his face.

When deputies arrived, the sheriff’s office said Bruni fell to the ground, flailed around and spoke – but was not making any sense.

Bruni tried to get away from the deputies several times. In the end, they had to use a Taser on him to take him into custody.

Investigators later discovered that Bruni defecated near the front door and in a hallway inside the residence.

Bruni was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital and put under observation while doctors tried to figure out what he was on.

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

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

Circle gets the Square

Super Bowl Breakdown:

San Francisco 49ers vs. Baltimore Ravens

1. Primary Team color: Red or Purple – As someone who attended K-State, I’m going purple here. Point for Baltimore.

2. More likable Harbaugh: Jim or John?

John seems pretty even keel…not exciting, but not obnoxious either. Jim seems like a maniac with the added benefit of appearing to be a crazy person. While that can be fun to watch…I think I’d prefer to be friends with the non-insane person. (Clip 70 – Jim Harbaugh – Shook his hand too hard)

Point for Baltimore.

3. Which city has more urban chickens?

Urbanchickens.com

San Francisco has significantly more urban chickens than Baltimore per the website urbanchickens.com. Point for Baltimore. Who wants to live next to someone with chickens in their apartment?

4. Historical Significance:

First time two franchises in Super Bowl history that two teams with Undefeated Super Bowl history have faced each other.

5-0 in Super Bowl History vs. 1-0 in Super Bowl History. 49ers clearly have the longer and better history. Point for San Francisco.

5. Better TV show most associated with the city:

San Francisco: Full House

Baltimore: The Wire

Although I’ve never seen The Wire, I’m awarding this one to Baltimore no questions asked…Point for Baltimore.

6. Which team has the most despicable player?

San Francisco: Randy Moss

Baltimore: Ray Lewis

Point for Baltimore.

7. Which city has the strongest selection of good movies associated with it?

Baltimore: Blair Witch Project, 12 Monkeys, Half of Sleepless in Seattle, Tin Men and Diner, Avalon, True Lies, Wedding Crashers, The Accidental Tourist.

San Francisco: So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Rock, Milk, Fearless, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Graduate (Set partially in SF), The Joy Luck Club, The Birds, Guess who’s coming to dinner, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, Harold and Maude, Sneakers, The Maltese Falcon, Zodiac, The Game, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Vertigo.

Point for San Francisco

8. Which city has the crappiest movies associated with it?

Baltimore: Baltimore: Bad: Home for the Holidays, Hairspray (both versions), He’s just not that into you, The Replacements, Serial Mom, Runaway Bride

San Francisco: Bad ones: Cats and Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, The

Fan

Point for San Francisco

9. Which is the more preferable vacation destination?

San Francisco in a landslide over Baltimore.

Point for San Francisco.

10. More ridiculous former logo story:

-49ers in February 1991 changed their logo for 24 hours

-For the first 3 years of their existence the Ravens used a logo that they stole.

Point for Too close to call.

11. Which team will have the more insufferable fans if they win?

Too close to call.

He-Man Movie Watchers Club:

The People vs. George Lucas

Face included some links that I wanted to watch, but I got distracted by my parents and their garage door dilemma.

-Opening scene: John Stewart mocking George Lucas by acting like a fanboy. (Clip 01)

-Star Wars montage with nerds.

-Something about Star Wars that makes people want to make it themselves and add to the universe. It’s a participatory nerd culture. (Clip 02)

-Does George Lucas even LIKE Star Wars anymore?

-He was a terrible student in school.

-Large amounts of resentment for people with money getting to make aesthetic and story decisions. Kind of a rebel.

-Why do people connect SO strongly with Star Wars?

-Is Star Wars a good thing? Created a Hollywood merchandising machine. (Clip 3)

Best thing about this movie: The creative elements that are part of each scene:

(Clip 4)

It starts to go wrong: 1997 – The New Editions (Clip 5)

Han Solo fires first! (Clip 6)

Does it matter if Han shoots first? (Clip 7)

Who does art belong to? (Clip 8)

George Lucas – like a holocaust denier, but rather a Star Wars denier. (Clip 9)

In 1988, Lucas testified in Congress against the colorization of old black and white movies. “In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural heritage must not be allowed to be rewritten”

The Star Wars Holiday Special

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