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Friday 9-6-02

Todd and Tyler started off their show this morning by mentioning that Brian had overslept. TnT hammered on him for a bit, pointing out that even in their days of staying up drinking and drugging until just a few hours prior to their show’s start, they always made it into work. To further harp on BW, Todd mentioned that he didn’t get to bed until 11:30pm last night and he made it in to work this morning bright-eyed and puffy-tailed. Tyler said that he had a dentist appointment yesterday and took 4 Valium, one just before bed, and even though he’d ingested a ton of that mind-altering drug, he still made it into work on time.

Knowing that the news would be postponed while their sleepy lawn boy news chick drove in from Moscow, TnT took it upon themselves to discuss some news items from today’s paper. They shared with us the details surrounding the murder of the young lady who’s body was found near the Ft. Calhoun power plant recently. As it turns out, the woman was having an affair with a married man. He wanted to keep it a secret from his wife but the deceased woman may not have wanted it that way. Allegedly, to keep her from spilling the beans to his wife, the man got some help from his neighbor buddy and lured the lady to a basement, killed her, and then dumped her body.

Even though the story was absolutely horrible, Todd and Tyler were able to find some humor in it by pointing out how idiotic the man and his neighbor friend were. They pondered why the neighbor agreed to get involved in the plot to murder the woman and came to the conclusion that the man having an affair must have given him some Playstation games and therefore felt compelled to help him out. In what could only be described as a stroke of genius, a caller checked in and said, ‘’The guy wanted to keep the affair a secret from his wife, right? Well do you think she knows about it now?’’ TnT had a great laugh at not only the delivery of the statement but also at how simple-minded the murderers are in thinking that they wouldn’t get caught.

With all the recent talk about Fox’s ‘’American Idols’’ TV show, Todd and Tyler took a slightly different angle on the idea and morphed it into ‘’American Assholes.’’ Because Brian was so late for work this morning and Donnie is notorious for saying somewhat stupid things on the microphone, TnT immediately narrowed the field of possible ‘’American Asshole’’ contenders down to just those two. Throughout the remainder of the show, TnT awarded points to Brian and Donnie, and later to pretty much anyone in the studio who happened to say something stupid. Brian seemed to mellow out a bit, not wanting to accumulate a high asshole score. Donnie, on the other hand, pushed the limits of assholedom every chance he got for the remainder of the day, totally running away with the points and winning Todd and Tyler’s ‘’American Asshole’’ contest. At one point, even Black Tony got an asshole point or two but as Donnie pointed out, because Tony’s black, he can only take part in the ‘’African American Asshole’’ contest.

When Brian finally arrived this is a little out of sequence but I had no choice), TnT were quite pleased by his news story selections. It seemed odd to them that when Brian’s got lots of time to prepare his newscasts, they suck. But when he’s overslept, shows up late, and has little time to peruse that day’s news (like today) the newscast turns out swell. Anyway, Brian went on to deliver his newscast and as he went over each story, TnT talked about each. It was during this time that we were introduced to Washy the Emphysema Dog. I don’t remember what the details of the story were because I was laughing too hard. Following that, Brian shared a CSI-like story about a man who killed a guy and his cockatoo and the police were able to find the murderer by using DNA from blood found on the beak of the dead bird.

Also, as TnT further discussed the woman who was murdered (mentioned earlier in the show), cheating in general became a topic. Tyler mentioned how he feels like he’s out on ‘’cheating patrol’’ as he rides his bike around Lake Ed in the afternoons, always seeing a car parked next to a truck with both occupants in one vehicle snuggling. They must be cheating because no one meets their spouse at a park and snuggles up the way those people are especially if they’re going to see each other at home in just a few hours. Tyler detailed a recent encounter with some obvious cheaters and mentioned that he often wonders if the people he spots cheating at the park ever recognize him and worry that Tyler will bring’em up on the air.

On a related note, TnT received a phone call from a listener named Heather this morning who said she received an angry phone call from a woman very early this morning. The lady had found Heather’s phone number in her husband’s wallet and phoned the number, suspecting her husband of cheating. The woman wouldn’t tell Heather her name so she couldn’t determine how the angry caller’s husband got her phone number. Well Heather had Caller ID and after a few minutes, she phoned the angry woman back and bitched her out for false accusations. Heather also gave TnT the lady’s phone number and when Donnie phoned to get her on the air, the lady hung up on him. TnT speculated that either the woman had misdialed the number she found in her man’s wallet and accidentally got Heather or Heather’s husband somehow knows the angry woman’s man and innocently gave him their phone number.

The cheating phone call from Heather led TnT into a discussion about new telephone technologies and some of the problems they bring. Both Todd and Tyler have experienced accidentally calling the wrong number and getting a phone call from the #’s owner wondering why they had phoned. Many listeners checked in to comment on the Caller ID callback phenomenon as well. One of the funnier stories of the morning came from a guy who owns some form of auto interior repair business called ‘’The Recovery Room.’’ He told TnT about several occasions where he’s phoned clients at home to tell them that their car is ready to be picked up. After leaving messages because no one was home, he later receives frantic calls from people who read ‘’Recovery Room’’ on their Caller ID boxes and think someone from a hospital has phoned.

Travis came in with a sports report this morning. Before going into it, he told TnT about some of his Caller ID problems. As he did so, he had a little bit of a brain fart and rattled off all but the last digit of his home phone number over the air. It was quite funny and only escalated when several callers checked in claiming that they’d figured out Trav’s home phone number. Attaboy came across as though he was pretty embarrassed about the temporary mental lapse of logic but for his sake, TnT tried to help him out immediately following the brain fart by spouting out a lengthy sequence of false numbers to confuse any malicious people out there who would use the knowledge of a majority of Trav’s home number for ill intentions.

After reading over the daily sports report, Travis told TnT that he has selected Iowa on the road –4 ½ as his Lock of the Week. His Saint of the week, partially chosen because of his pitiful Lock selection last Friday, is Saint Jude, the patron Saint of lost and desperate causes.

Vilmoshe returned to the TnT studio this morning, as did Tony Lewellen (or Tony Tone, as he’s known on stage). Both are appearing at the Funny Bone this weekend. During their visit, they joined in on the topics of the day and took part in some of the conversation about cheating. The gang also discussed Jewish rock stars and got a little help from a listener who used to host a Jewish rock star radio show on his college station years ago. Vilmoshe also talked with the guys about how he knows a guy in Colorado who’s cheating love story was turned into a made-for-TV movie.

BW came in with the e-news later in the show. During this time, TnT continued talking about cheating, Jewish rock stars, and there was even a little baby talk, as both Tyler and Tony are about to be new dads. To conclude the e-news, Brian treated us all to another edition of the Nebraska Sex Offender registry.

Well, that’s the Friday update. Keep in mind that Monday Night Football starts on Monday at Brewsky’s. Make plans to join the guys for the event. Also, you can catch the 3^rd Shift Replay of this morning’s show on Sunday night at 10pm and make sure to rejoin TnT Monday morning at 5:30am for a new week of shows. Thanks for watching. Good night. -Corby-