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Thursday 7-20-00

Todd and Tyler started off their show discussing a variety of topics and taking some calls. A few of the regular callers checked in including a guy named Heath. He was the first caller of the morning and, as usual, had nothing to say about anything and spit out more “you know”s than a star struck, nervous teenager. I’ve just started putting the proverbial bullet in my head every time this guy checks in. Heath, please don’t call the show ever again if only for my benefit. I’m sorry, I just had to bitch about this caller. I’ve vented, I’m better now. TnT also asked for some “impossible calls” as they sometimes do. They wanted to hear from feltchers, shrimpers or people who’ve never been drunk or high. I can see the curiosity behind the feltching and shrimping calls but didn’t see what could possibly be interesting about social freaks who’ve never had a beer. As the show progressed, no feltchers or shrimpers checked in but a few people who’d never drank or been high did phone the show. As you can expect, they weren’t incredibly interesting people (through no fault of the hosts).

The guys kicked off the beginning of Running Character Survivor today. The two tribes of faked up Donnie entities were titled “Shlong” and “Piedong”. To start out, the guys played one clip from each of the tribes. Todd, I’m sure in an effort to help the audience understand what was going on, kept talking over the clips describing the scene and pointing out the names of the various Donnie entities as they appeared in each clip. It was as if Todd had forgotten that we listeners have heard Donnie’s Pope, Tubby, Corky, Crock Hunter, Irma, and other impersonations about a freaking million times in the last 2 years. In fact, any regular listener can probably spot a Donnie call around the same time as the faked up name appears on the call-screening monitor. Anyway, when they replayed the clips later on, Tyler kind of reminded Todd that he didn’t need to point out the painfully obvious. Towards the end of the show, the guys replayed all of the clips and explained each character to the comedian who was in studio. Todd, once again, talked over various parts of the audio clips. Short term memory, only when you’re high. From the sounds of it, more audio clips of the Running Character Survivor won’t be aired until next Thursday. Mark your calendars and get up early.

The guys got into wonderful and lengthy discussion about Arizona society and sports this morning. They’ve been doing this an awful lot lately because of Lisa’s upcoming Nebraska departure. TnT also called Lisa’s 80-year-old friend, Libby, and talked to her about being the new news chick for the show. Libby seemed very cool and knowledgeable about current events but when TnT asked her if she would consider the job, she basically tried to hang up on them. The guys may call Libby again in the future to get her liberal 80-year-old point of view.

TnT sent Big Pussy and Flave to Linden Estates this morning. Their mission was to track down a Democrat in the predominately Republican neighborhood. The pair checked in throughout the show with various people for TnT to speak with including one resident, a few workers and old walking ladies. I’ll give Flave credit for actually getting something done, unlike Pussy and his previous missions. Several times, we could hear Flave working feverishly to get ritzy, snobby people on the phone with Todd and Tyler. It reminded me much of the early days of Donnie and the entity of Redd Neckman. Maybe Flave’s calls, too, will evolve into an arsenal of dead guys, Colt players from the 60’s or genius catch phrases like “I like pudding” and “bucket full of wet monkey poop”. Anyway, Flave got a snobby woman on the phone that actually seemed to play along with TnT’s questions. Later, a few workers in the area talked to TnT but not even they would claim to be Democrats while standing in Linden Estates. At about 9am, snobs finally ran Flave and Big Pussy out of the neighborhood.

Brett Erickson from the Funny Bone came by the studio today. All morning long, Todd had prefaced Brett’s visit by saying, “Brett Erickson, lead singer for Poison, will be joining us later on”. Well, a few poor, stupid souls who must not have heard the comedian’s last name or didn’t seem to understand Todd’s play on words. A few ladies actually came to the station to meet Brett Michaels (the Poison singer). TnT had a great time poking fun at them saying that they must be UNO students.

TnT got into a long, drawn-out discussion over a sports-related trivia question this morning. They had to name the 3 sports in which the winner goes backwards. They said they spent 2 hours in their office yesterday trying to figure it out and another half-hour on the show today going over the possibilities. Luckily, a caller who’d heard the answers on a national radio show put them out of their misery and revealed the solution to the trivia question.

The fellas from Acoustic Groove came in today and played a few songs for TnT. They jokingly bitched about being accidentally left off the “thank you” list on TnT’s new CD, http://www.z92.com/Todd-N-Tyler.htm” target=blank>Greetings From Throckmorton, even though they were featured in the “Drop A Load Off Crosby” cut. You can catch them this weekend playing at Travado’s if you’re interested.

Well, that’s all for the update today. Check back tomorrow. Thanks for watching. Good night. –the Alien Guy-

P.S. I’ve had to add feltching, feltcher, shrimping and shrimpers to my spell checker.