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Thursday 10-9-03

The show began this morning with Tyler giving Todd a bit of a hard time because Todd overslept. Although he wasn’t that late, only about 10 minutes or so, Tyler always finds it amusing to give late arrivals crap because he has never been late himself. Todd’s excuse for being late was that he was put to sleep by last night’s boring baseball game before he got the chance to set his alarm. The gang talked a bit about the game and railed some more on new Cub fans that they’re running into everywhere.

TnT then discussed an article from the paper about how the sound system at the new arena sucks. Having not attended an event there yet, the guys held off their thoughts on the sound system. Tyler is going to attend tonight’s Fleetwood Mac show and mentioned this morning that the local media has “scared” him a bit with reports on the parking situation for the new arena. Provided he doesn’t freak out on Cummings Street, we’ll get the full sound system and parking report from Tyler tomorrow.

Also early, the guys discussed the recent local TV media ratings that have come out. To their surprise, Channel 6’s newscast was ranked #1. This surprised them because both Todd and Tyler find 6’s news rather slow. Channel 3 was ranked 3^rd again for the 97024^th consecutive ratings period but this time it was reported that they lost 3000 viewers from a year ago. The guys tried to figure out why 3 lost 3k viewers and all they could come up with was that their transition from a normal newscast to a non-sports-including newscast within the last year might have had something to do with it.

Before diving into the news, Tyler spent a bit of time discussing his trip to Ralston Costume yesterday to pick out his outfit for this year’s Freaker’s Ball. The Ball will be announced on Monday so make sure to tune in. Anyway, he discussed trying on a couple of hats for various costumes and looking rather ridiculous because he’s got a bucket head. He referred to the Robin Hood hat he tried on as looking as though he was wearing a canoe on his melon. He eventually landed on a fur trader (quite fitting) costume and his wife, Becky, will go as an Indian squaw. Todd then discussed past female outfit costumes he’s worn, BW tried to determine what superhero he’d be this year, and everyone gleefully recalled Jeremy’s “Woody from Toy Story” outfit last year.

Snowball Huston came in with this morning’s newscast. He began, though, with some talk about how he was able to get out of being dragged to see “Under The Tuscan Sun” by his wife. She went with a friend of hers. The gang then spent no less than 10 minutes discussing the movie that none of them seem to want to see, which I found rather funny.

The news then began with discussions of a variety of subjects including hooker’s punishments, funding being cut for 1200 Omaha area homeless teens, more on the Carter Lake racists shutting down the new Mexican club proposal, and details of a dangerous new pine tree killing plague. There was also a lengthy discussion and calls about the requirements to become the US’s president, spawned by Tuesday’s election of the Governator, Arnold.

Before wrapping up the news, TnT revisited the story from earlier about a local organization called Y.E.S. that helps get Omaha area homeless teens back on track. As it turns out, Jeremy’s sister, Erin, works for the organization and appeared on TV last night discussing the federal budget cuts to her group. She spoke to TnT on the phone this morning about how they work with homeless teens, why the government cut their funding, and how they could really use $200,000 in donations this year to help out more than 500 LOCAL homeless kids. If you’d like to help out, you can get in touch with Jeremy’s sister by calling 345-4187, as if you didn’t already have her number memorized like the rest of us. By the way, Jeremy’s sister is so into helping out the homeless that she’s even taken in Jeremy, who from the sounds of it was recently sent out on his ass by whatever woman he was dating not too long ago.

Travis came in with this morning’s sports report. There was, of course, lots of baseball talk this morning as well as a little talk about football. The gang also briefly touched on recent FWIW topics before Trav scooted out to a 9am meeting over at KM3. With bigwigs in town and bad news from the ratings, I can only guess that Attaboy might have been sweating bullets under the shell of his rugged, svelte exterior.

Featured act Melissa McQueen from the Funny Bone joined TnT in studio this morning. She talked with the guys about rooming with MC hottie Andy Smith and discussed how infrequently Colleen from the Funny Bone has two straight, non-Shrew female comics on stage for the same show. She then went on to talk to the guys about growing up in Wichita, KS and her recent move out to L.A. She discussed man troubles she’s had meeting quality guys in California and made several references to guys she’s dated randomly kissing other women right in front of her. Melissa was very cool with the guys this morning and seemed to enjoy her time on the show. Make sure to get out and see her and Andy Smith as well as headliner Jimmy Dore this weekend by phoning 493-8036.

Todd and Tyler spoke to Chad from Ticket Express today. He’s hooking Tyler up with some good seats for tonight’s Fleetwood Mac concert so TnT spoke to him on the air this morning about how business is going. There was some talk about the Blue Man Group coming to the Orpheum Theater soon as well as other sporting events. Chad also discussed the difficulty in getting tickets to anything in Vegas due to the Vegas hotel’s vicious grip on their own shows. That subject was spawned by Siegfried and Roy talk. You can find Ticket Express on the Internet at TicketExpress.com or you can get in touch with Chad by phoning 398-1999.

TnT mentioned early this morning that they have selected all twelve calendar girls for the 2004 calendar. James the Giant Peach has gotten in touch with all 12 finalists already and from what I understood, the guys were going to announce the winners on this morning’s show. The must have run out of time, though, because they didn’t announce any winners yet. Well, one winner was mentioned. An ebony hottie named Fiesha (? Cheese and crackers, people, I can’t even spell words I can look up!) phoned in this morning and thanked TnT for her spot on the calendar. I’m sure the other winners will be announced quite soon.

Todd and Tyler spoke to Jim Lampley of HBO this morning. He’s the guy who’s been covering boxing for the cable network for more than 20 years. He talked with TnT briefly about his history at HBO and the state of boxing over the years. He then switched gears to talk about the Iron Man Triathlon and a special he’s helping out with that will air on NBC this Saturday at 2pm. One of the triathlon athletes that is going to be featured in that special, Andrew Block, was also on the line with Jim. Todd and Tyler spent time discussing Andrew’s training for the event, covering such topics as the shape one must be in to compete and the mental preparation you’d have to do in order to talk yourself into finishing. They then discussed the history of the triathlon and how the various distances for each event were originally determined.

As the interview continued, TnT had to bring up the old classic clip of the woman that fell down and pooped herself towards the end of the event. Tyler referenced the occurrence taking place “5 or 6 years ago” but was corrected by Jim who stated that it happened more than 20 years ago. After having a laugh at how things have begun to run together in their old minds, the gang actually had a lengthy and informative conversation on the dynamics of the body and the breakdown process that might lead one to crap their pants. Jim referenced the pooping incident as a turning point in the Triathlon history, which helped to bring the sport closer to the hearts of Americans. It was an interesting interview today that you may end up hearing on a Best Of in the near future. In the mean time, tune in to NBC on Saturday at 2pm for the Triathlon special.


Todd and Tyler spoke to the GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Kevin Mchale this morning. He used to play for the Boston Celtics years ago so he talked briefly with the guys about that before moving on to discuss the upcoming exhibition match against the Hawks at the new Arena on Oct. 13^th. The guys discussed at length the changes in the NBA over the years. Mchale seemed a bit leery on slamming some of the changes but he did express his thoughts on some of the good and bad changes in the game over the years. He later went on to say that due to some of the more recent changes to the game, he expects a better form of 5 on 5 basketball now. Kevin also talked with TnT about some of the players on his team this year. Kevin was pretty cool and seemed to enjoy talking with TnT. If you don’t plan to join TnT at next week’s MNF party, stop on out to the new arena and catch Kevin Mchale and his Timberwolves for their NBA exhibition game against Atlanta on Monday night.

BW delivered this morning’s e-news late in the show. During this time, the gang discussed things such as Cheryl Crow’s snorkeling stalker, a fake NJ Russian Roulette stunt pulled by a magician, a musical adaptation of “The Color Purple”, a new game called “Getto-opoly”, and the gang had another conversation about Siegfried and Roy. Evidentially, Siegfried’s completely lost his friggin head and has been telling the media that the tiger that nearly ripped off Roy’s head was only trying to help him when Roy stumbled on stage. Siegfried, you’re whacked!

That does it for the lengthy Thursday update. Tune in tonight at 10pm for the 3^rd Shift Replay and make sure to rejoin the guys tomorrow at 5:30am for the Friday program. Thanks for watching. Good night. -Corby-

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