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Monday 6-9-03

Todd and Tyler started off their show this morning with a little talk about their weekends. Both of the guys went to see Dave Attell at the Funny Bone and had a great time. Todd also checked out a little college baseball over the weekend, bummed about the fact that his Arizona State team lost. Tyler checked out the Taste of Omaha event and saw Mark Farner of Grand Funk wondering around unrecognized my most who attended. At one point, Mark saw Tyler and his long hair, figuring Tyler would most likely recognize the old rocker, and said hello. Actually, Tyler was holding a baby bottle and Mark said something to the effect of, ‘’I thought you weren’t on that stuff anymore?’’

Also early in the show, the gang got into a lengthy discussion about the movie ‘’About Schmidt’’. Todd saw it a while back in the theater but Tyler hadn’t seen it until it’s recent DVD release. The guys both agreed that the gloomy atmosphere the movie portrays Omaha in isn’t far off from the truth at all. This town can be rather gray, especially in the winter months (when most of the movie was filmed). They continued their discussion later in the show with Travis, who is the only person they know that didn’t like the movie.

BW came in with the news a bit later in the show. After reporting on Nebraska having 6 or 7 of the countries poorest counties, and 3 of which are the top three for the nation, the gang spent some time trying to figure out exactly why that might be. BW then did a story on an apartment building that blew up in Fremont and followed it up with one of the worst news story deliveries I’ve heard since ‘’The only constant is you!’’ The story was about a local teenager who was chatting on the Internet with someone. There was a verbal confrontation and eventually the police were called to the home of the local teen based on a 911 call stating that the father had killed his wife and was suicidal. The police arrived, mass confusion for all, and eventually it was determined that even though the 911 reports say the prank call came from within the house, somehow the person the teen had upset on the other end of the computer chat room had placed the phony phone call. The story, admittedly confusing all the way around, must have shut off some of BW’s synapses. Brian recovered nicely, though, and followed up that story with a gripping report about a fire alarm going off for 7 hours straight at the Timber Ridge apartments here in town.

Also during the news, the guys spent some time talking about the crazy monkey pox virus that’s popping up due to people’s contact with sick, pet prairie dogs. TnT then discussed Rainbow’s recent article about an old woman that freeze dried her dead dog to preserve the memory of her pet. The guys spent quite a bit of time discussing freeze-drying dogs. Brian then wrapped up the newscast with a story about a fat woman that sat on her boyfriend and beat him to death with her size 12 shoe. They assumed she was fat because the man was found not only beat to death, but also crushed. Wondering how rare it is for a female to have size 12 feet, they opened up the phone lines. Much to their surprise, they got quite a few calls from big-footed females that admitted to wielding size 12 kickers. BW referred to one of them as a ‘’beastly bitch’’, which was flat out hilarious.

Following the news, Brian read over what Todd and Tyler referred to as the new best worst wedding announcement in Omaha World Herald history. The story was of yet another pretentious couple recently wed in town. She’s a lawyer and from Tyler’s account, the guy is ‘’a gypsy’’ with no job. The story said the couple met while in 5^th grade and she was immediately attracted to her future husband because of the bologna sandwich costume he wore. Eventually the guy proposed to the girl under a bridge in France, to which she answered ‘’maybe’’. The report went on to detail everyone who was in the wedding and where they were all from. At that point, TnT had some fun with the news that one of the bridesmaids was actually a guy. The article then concluded with details about how the couple is going to move to Manhattan and live in an apartment with their ‘’two apartment sized Chihuahuas named Spike and The Chicken’’. TnT spent quite a bit of time discussing the details of the couple’s wedding announcement throughout the remainder of the show, reminding all of their listeners that this was a prime example of what not to do when announcing an engagement/wedding.

During BW’s reading of the wedding announcement, there was some speculation that Brian might have accidentally dropped the f-bomb on the air. The guys had to go to the tape and isolate BW’s statement in order to figure out if he had or had not. In the mean time, countless callers checked in to offer their opinions about whether or not Brian said the f-word. Many of the women agreed that he had while most of the men said that he didn’t. It was a rather interesting social experiment in the way that men and women process profanity. Anyway, once the guys had the clip, they played it over and over again. Unfortunately, by playing it, it really didn’t clear anything up. Those who first thought BW did drop the f-bomb were now convinced he didn’t after hearing the tape. The reverse effect happened for those who originally thought he didn’t, who then became convinced he did. It was hilarious. The guys eventually moved on, leaving Brian’s f-bomb to the imagination of the listeners.

Trav joined the guys with this morning’s sports report following the wedding announcement. He didn’t have a FWIW for TnT today because he took Friday off but he did tell TnT that he’d be airing the Dr. John feedback this evening. Trav also talked with the guys about hosting the Buddy at the Rose concert last night, disputing Todd and Tyler’s opinion that the average age of the crowd was over 70. Trav eventually got into today’s sports report, which included quite a bit of college baseball talk.

And while on the subject of college baseball, Todd and Tyler spoke to Chad from Ticket Express today. He talked with the guys about how different things are this year compared to the last two years now that the Huskers aren’t in the CWS. He said he’s going to be pretty busy this week but hopes to be able to get down to the Johnny and catch some of the action. You can get your CWS tickets, or tickets to any other event (such as the upcoming Pearl Jam show) by calling 398-1999 for visiting Ticket Express online at ticketexpress.com College World Series Nebraska Football Omaha Concert.

Donnie Dodge stopped by this morning and hung out with TnT for a bit. He joined in on the CWS talk and at one point he asked TnT if he could still drive the Chub this year, looking to make an extra buck by shuttling people to and from the games. He also joined in on the other topics of the morning, seemingly fitting right back into his roll as the guy who says funny yet stupid stuff. It was nice to hear Donnie back on the air with TnT today. You can catch him weekdays at the 144^th & Maple Home Depot. Look for the neck in an orange vest.

Brett Erickson from the Funny Bone came in today and hung out with TnT for a bit. Sean Gnandt was also supposed to swing by and say goodbye, too, because he’s headed out to California to sleep on whatever couch he can find, but Sean headed out a bit earlier than expected and couldn’t make the show. TnT felt he ‘’pussed out’’. Anyway, Brett talked with the guys about working with Dave Attell, everyone shared their thoughts on the Attell shows, and Brett talked with TnT about some of the great material he performed as well.

BW returned later in the show with today’s e-news segment. The gang spent some time talking about how Tom Sizemore pled guilty for beating up his Hollywood whore girlfriend. From there, BW reported that the guy who started up ‘’GQ’’ magazine has had a stroke. Consequently, the magazine is being renamed ‘’Awaarrawaarraawwwg’’. Following that, there was a little talk about the unwatchable Tony awards and Brian reported that Stallone is going to write and star in a movie about the East Cost – West Coast rapper wars that ended the lives of a few famous people in that industry.

Before wrapping up today’s show, Brian re-read the wedding announcement from earlier in the show. Brett Erickson from the Bone joined in on the discussion, seemingly as amazed as Todd and Tyler at the pretentiousness of the couple. I’m sure today won’t be the last time we hear ‘’Spike and The Chicken’’ references so if you happened to miss today’s classic wedding announcement, stay tuned. It’s bound to come up again.

Well, that does it for the Monday update. Tune in tonight at 10pm for the 3^rd Shift Replay of this morning’s show and make sure to rejoin Todd and Tyler tomorrow at 5:30am for the Tuesday edition. Thanks for watching. Good night. -Corby-