6:00 AM: Sandy is realizing he isn’t comfortable giving other people advice, and lately he’s been asked for advice a lot. JB is staying in a hotel right now because his family is in between houses, and he’s realizing he could totally live in a hotel. Alex is the kind of guy who likes to wash his car himself, but it’s so hot outside that he is going to go get it detailed by someone else for the first time ever. Sara was out until midnight last night checking out bars and restaurants on the East side with an old friend. On the other end of the spectrum, Cassiday spent her night home alone in her undies watching TV and eating saltine crackers. The cast of dancing with the stars was announced last night and includes; Kyle Massey, Margaret Cho, Audrina Patridge, Jennifer Gray, Rick Fox, Kurt Warner, Michael Bolton, Brandy, Florence Henderson, The Situation, David Hasselhoff, and Bristol Palin.
6:15 AM: Fact or bull-fact. Big Bird is 1 foot 1 inch taller than Shaquille O’Neal. Bubble gum is pink because only pink food coloring was available when it was invented. Fingernails grow 4x faster than toenails do. The first pregnancy tests were in ancient Egypt and consisted of women urinating on seeds to see if they would grow.
6:30 AM: 4 things you need to know with Sara. Construction started on northbound Mopac last night and they’re adding a third lane to help the bottleneck between 5th and Enfield. Surprisingly this lane will be done by Thursday. Mac Brown was on TV yesterday still talking about how Vince Young should get the Heisman that Reggie Bush got. Local school districts are trying to create new policies to combat the problem of cyber bullying. Troy Polamalu hair has been insured for 1 million dollars by Head and Shoulders, since he is a spokes model for them.
6:45 AM: Happy Birthday to Sarah Ramirez, Chris Tucker, Debbie Gibson, Gina Shock, Edwin Moses, Richard Gere, and Van Morrison. Headlines of the day. A 20 year old Michigan girl was on the jury for a resisting arrest case, and she made a big mistake. The trial had not ended yet and she posted “gonna be fun to tell the defendant their guilty” as her Facebook status. The defense lawyer caught wind of it; she was removed from the jury, and could now be found in contempt of court. A 21 year old man in Florida pretended to be 14 years old do he could play in a pee wee football league. He got away with it, and played in one game. He was caught when he tried to enroll in school at a middle school on his own with no parents with him.
6:55 AM: JB and Sandy found a video on the internet of a little boy who they think could definitely be Alex when he was a child. It’s a little boy dressed in short shorts and a cut up halter top style shirt dancing to some pop music in front of a pink backdrop.
7:05 AM: We got an email from a listener whose teenage daughter is dating a boy who calls the listener by his first name. He told the kid this was ok when they first met, but he still thinks the kid is being rude by not calling him “Mr. _____”. Do you think the kid is being rude or is he just doing what he was told? JB said he probably wouldn’t care, but the rest agreed that it’s a sign of being taught good manners and respect.
7:25 AM: The brainiest cities in America; #1 is Boulder Colorado, #2 is Durham North Carolina, #3 is Washington DC, #4 is Boston, #5 is Trenton New Jersey. Austin was in the top 10 but not in the top 5. We’ll still take being in the top 10 anytime!
7:30 AM: 4 things you need to know with Sara. President Obama will address the nation tonight at 7 pm on all major TV and news channels. Shia LeBouf, Anne Hathaway, and Daniel Radcliffe top the list of actors who give studios the biggest return on their money. Justin Bieber wants to remake Grease with Miley Cyrus. Jesse James and Kat Von D are definitely dating even though they are denying that they are together. Snookie has a new boyfriend named Jeff Miranda and he proposed to her via a picture in a magazine.
7:45 AM: Yesterday JB and his wife were meeting with their Title Company and realtor to deal with some house stuff and someone quoted their grandfather. JB recognized the quote as being stolen from Hee Haw, and began to sing songs from Hee Haw for them. Then he was plagued with the songs being stuck in his head all day long.
8:00 AM: Headlines. When polled, 76% of Americans still want to see Mel Gibson in movies. That number surprised us as out of the 5 in the room, not a one of us would like to go see a Mel Gibson film.
8:15 AM: Why are you not on Facebook? These days it seems like everyone is a member of Facebook, and everyday we’re all getting friend requests from people we’d rather forget. We wanted to talk to people who have chosen not to join facebook and ask them why. The ones who weren’t on Facebook weren;t on it because it takes up too much time and because it seems impersonal. One woman was particularly bothered by how people share the big announcements in their life via a website rather than calling their good friends to tell them.
8:30 AM: 4 things you need to know with Sara. Local school districts are trying to create new policies to combat the problem of cyber bullying. Troy Polamalu hair has been insured for 1 million dollars by Head and Shoulders, since he is a spokes model for them. The cast of dancing with the stars was announced last night and includes; Kyle Massey, Margaret Cho, Audrina Patridge, Jennifer Gray, Rick Fox, Kurt Warner, Michael Bolton, Brandy, Florence Henderson, The Situation, David Hasselhoff, and Bristol Palin.
8:45 AM: What are you into right now? JB is listening to some good music lately. He loves the new Ray Lamontagne album and the new David Gray album. A new band he’s discovered is Civil Twilight, a South African band who recently came to play in his Airstream for his On Airstreaming Blog. Sara is really into improve comedy and she is excited about The Out of Bounds comedy festival this week, where an original member of Kids in the Hall will be performing.
8:55 AM: We replay the Steve Carrell prank soundboard call from yesterday.
9:20 AM: Sara wants to know why every day around 9 am Sandy is writing down things, cutting paper with scissors, and then retreating to the men’s restroom. It turns out Sandy takes news stories everyday and writes funny headlines and comments on them and posts them in the men’s restroom above the urinals. Sara wants to do something similar in the women’s room but the guys don’t want her to steal their idea.
9:30 AM: 4 things you need to know with Sara. President Obama will address the nation tonight at 7 pm on all major TV and news channels. Justin Bieber wants to remake Grease with Miley Cyrus. Jesse James and Kat Von D are definitely dating even though they are denying that they are together. Snookie has a new boyfriend named Jeff Miranda and he proposed to her via a picture in a magazine.
9:45 AM: Alex is pissed because Forbes has come out with the list of the top tailgating cities, and Austin didn’t make the list. He thinks that the cities that made the list are weak, and his tailgate is way better than any of them. Alex wants to tailgate someday in the south because he’s heard they throw the best tailgates in the country.