Todd and Tyler Unauthorized Forums

Thursday 5-15-03

Todd and Tyler started off their show this morning by talking about Trav’s FWIW last night. He discussed a recent law suit involving the trans-fatty acids in Oreo cookies, pointing out that it is yet another in a series of frivolous and unnecessary law suits. During the commentary, he posted a picture of the old food group pyramid, which TnT got a kick out of. They also were quite amused at Trav’s reference to himself eating ‘’a well balanced diet with the occasional indulgence’’. As many of you recall, Travis danced with a trans-fatty acid (it had an Adam’s apple) a few years ago on a trip to Texas. Perhaps that dance falls into the ‘’occasional indulgence’’ category for Trav. Who knows?

TnT then moved on to discuss people standing in line to see the new ‘’Matrix’’ movie sneak preview and pondered whether or not any of them had gotten laid after seeing the flick. Their doubts were cast aside when a listener checked in and informed them that her son, 20-years-old and still living at home, most likely bumped uglies in a freeze-in-mid-air-and-spin-the-camera-around-Matrix-sort-of-way with his girlfriend when they returned form the film.

The gang also spent some time talking about yesterday’s afternoon tornado reports. Tyler was on the couch napping and practically slept through the storm, only flipping on the TV long enough to see it wasn’t going to blow his house away before returning back to sleep. Todd, though, was stuck at the DMV when the storm rolled in. BW said he was at the Sam’s Club and when the storm was announced, the employees wrangled up all of the customers and stuck them in a break room along an exterior wall. BW was pissed because had a tornado actually come down, they would have had no protection. On top of that, the room was so crowded with ‘’smelly Sam’s people’’ that it was to hot for BW to enter. Furthermore, BW went into confused puppy mode and tilted his head sideways when he noticed the Sam’s employees were corralled up on balcony 30-feet off the ground, which Brian considered even less safe than where the customers had been placed.

BW then got into today’s newscast, where the guys discussed the storms some more, the naming rights of the new Arena being battled for by two un-named companies, fake car insurance cards, crazy pumas on the loose in Iowa, last night’s ‘’beautiful’’ moon, a front yard flag pole placer that electrocuted himself, the cost of having an affair, and there was a hilarious Vess soda tangent spawned by BW. Brian also solved the world’s hunger problems in one genius moment by suggesting that we can ‘’just send them (the starving) down truckloads of croutons and water.’’

Trav came in a bit later in the show so the guys continued discussing last night’s FWIW commentary about trans-fatty acids in Oreo. The gang each shared their favorite way to saturate the cookies and they also discussed in detail the recent evolution of the food pyramid from 4 food groups to 6. The guys also got off on a tangent about job offers they’ve each had in the past and turned down and the associated reasons they did so. It was pretty interesting stuff. Trav could have been working in a doublewide TV studio on Texas!

Larry the Cable Guy joined Todd and Tyler in studio this morning and spent the remainder of the show hanging out with the guys. When he first arrived, he gave Trav a hard time for not having enough ‘’queer’’ and ‘’more frustrated than’’ references in his FWIW commentaries. He then got into a lengthy conversation with TnT about why they can’t drop the s-bomb on radio but it’s okay for rock groups to sing it. Larry also discussed the differences in country and rock radio stations and explained how rock radio let him get away with more things.

Todd and Tyler spoke to Ricky Medlock of Lynard Skynard, formerly of Black Foot. He told TnT about the band’s summer tour with Sammy Hagar, which will be kicked off at an Air Force base full of soldiers that just returned from Iraq. He went on to talk about the events surrounding the September 11th terrorist attacks and how Skynard finished their last 5 shows when everyone else pussed out and called it quits. Ricky also talked about his admiration for Aerosmith for being able to put out great music year after year for as long as they have and mentioned that he hopes Skynard will fall in the same category. That led to a conversation about recent Skynard projects.

Ricky also talked with the guys a little bit about his time in Black Foot and what led to the band’s breakup as well as covering how he was brought into the Skynard group. There was a little elaboration on the partying the Skynard boys have done over the years, which included a tale of watermelons full of moonshine and Ricky eluded to the fact that he still occasionally parties, yet wouldn’t share much details. Towards the end of the conversation, Ricky mentioned fishing. I swear I heard Todd and Cable Guy ejaculate hit the microphones at about the same time I heard Tyler’s brain shut off. The interview with the super energetic and excited Ricky Medlock of Lynard Skynard was great! I’m sure it will be appearing on a Best Of show in the near future so stay tuned.

Towards the end of the show, TnT mentioned Larry’s buddy Luis Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who Larry has said he would put TnT in contact with for more than a year now. The gang figured that Luis was probably already at Veteran’s stadium in Philadelphia for today’s game. On a whim, Cable Guy picked up his cell phone and called Luis to see if he was in the dugout yet. He wasn’t but was actually on his way to the stadium in a cab. Seconds later, TnT phoned Luis’s cell phone and finally got him on the air after all this time. They had a very nice conversation about Luis’s career, baseball in general, the recent freaky things fans have done (like rush the field and throw cell phones at players). It was pretty cool. Perhaps now that Luis is familiar with Todd and Tyler, he’ll keep in touch.

BW returned towards the end of the show with today’s e-news segment. The gang talked about Tom Sizemore getting busted for beating up his woman, Heidi Fliess. Todd then sang a little Jennifer Lopez, which was creepy. That led the guys into playing the audio clip of the Fox news anchor dropping the bj-bomb on TV and Tom Brokaw saying the c-word a few weeks ago. The gang also spent some time during the e-news arguing over whether or not the brother who played the sheriff in ‘’Blazing Saddles’’ was dead or alive. As you might imagine, ‘’Blazing Saddles’’ movie quotes followed.

Well, that does it for today’s update. Tune in tonight at 10pm for the 3rd Shift Replay of this morning’s show and make sure to rejoin Todd and Tyler tomorrow for the Friday edition of their program. Thanks for watching. Good night. -Corby-