FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009Thanks for listening to The Brian Smith News and Variety Show… weekday afternoons from 4pm til 7pm… broadcasting live from Connecticut’s largest city… on WICC 600 AM, and WICC600.com…
WEATHER… today: clouds and flurries, 35F, tonight: clouds 23F, tomorrow: sun 32F, Sunday: some sun 38F, Monday: sun and clouds 45F, Tuesday: light snow 35F… for more information, news updated continuously on the front page, and to listen to us online, click on WICC600.com
THE VOICE was up early this morning at The Prognosticator Cafe… working on his once-a-year “Super Bowl Beef Stew”… and daring the NFL to make him change the name to “Big Game Gumbo” (as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suggested last year when he stopped by)… we all just hope THE VOICE keeps his tears out of the recipe… he always gets emotional getting ready for the last football game of the year… check 
out his Super Bowl pick to win… the final score… and his quarter-by-quarter predictions of the play-by-play… along with his updates on Major League Baseball, the NBA, the Australian Open Tennis Tournament… and of course, more cheerleaders… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…
NEVER MIND… GAME OVER… SUPER BOWL ALREADY PLAYED…! … what happened when the Steelers and the Cardinals played each other in a match-up by EA Sports (the computer game company) on Madden NFL 09?… see who won and how… click (here)…
LOVE YOUR VEGETABLES… but maybe not that much… Peta, the animal rights group, would prefer you not eat animals… their message was banned from the Super Bowl this week for exceeding NBC’s standards for sex in a commercial… see the banned commercial on YouTube, click (here)…
GORILLA I MISSED YOU… a mechanical gorilla in front of a vacuum store in Tampa…dressed in a Arizona Cardinal’s jersey… was stolen this week… but now it has come back… whew… oh, those college kids… click (here)… and more (here)… and the owner of the store asks the University of Tampa not to punish the girls, click (here)…
... meanwhile… ANCHORAGE, ALASKA RESIDENTS BUY GOGGLES AND DUST MASKS… waiting for a volcano to blow… it’s Redoubt Volcano… (the picture here is of its 1990 eruption)… I wonder if they cancel school for this kind of thing… click (here)…
FROST-BITTEN AND ABANDONED IN NEW JERSEY… angry young women… invite their 19 year old friend to a fake party… pushed her out of a car into the 8 degree temperatures with nothing on but a dress and one shoe… here’s the latest on the 19 year old who was left in a pile of snow in a desolate and dark woods by her friends… something tells me there is more to this… click (here)…
DOPE IN THE BATHROOM STALL… a man in Washington state was arrested for selling drugs… in the men’s room… of a police station… click (here)…
88 YEAR OLD MAN DRIVES WRONG WAY ON HIGHWAY FOR 40 MILES… on I-80 in Nebraska… he gave a friendly wave back to cops who were trying to get him to pull over… click (here)…
BROKEN HEARTED… FOR MATURE VIEWERS ONLY: 15 GIFTS THAT (PROBABLY) WON’T MAKE YOUR VALENTINE HAPPY… like jewelery made from your own bone tissue… or roses made from elephant dung… oh, there’s more… uh… seriously… click at your own risk (here)….
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choice. This morning he poured a Budweiser into the coffee machine. No one complained. We all feel his pain. Nevertheless, he still put the Golden Turban on his head (it looks kind of like Aretha Franklin’s hat)… and made some predictions for this week... and we transcribed them as well as we could… so… for a first look at his SuperBowl analysis… for more World Series odds… tennis from Australia… the weekend boxing match… and more CHEERLEADERS… from THE VOICE… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right side of the page, or just click (
VIOLATION OF THE LOBSTER CLAUSE... a man in upstate New York… returned a lobster to a supermarket and demanded his money back… but he had eaten it and glued the shell pieces back together… maybe when he gets out of jail he can be a taxidermist… for the story, click (
SPEAKING OF CRUSTACEANS… LOBSTER COSTUMES ARE THE NEW DOG LOOK FOR 2009… this is why dogs bite… and just remember.. boil the lobster, pet the dog… boil the lobster, pet the dog… for a dog in a lobster costume… click (
AND… A SCANDALOUS INAUGURATION STORY… THE QUARTET WAS STRING-SYNCING… they performed behind the president… they played their instruments but what we heard was pre-recorded music… good thing the show was free… for the story, click (
AND… a counting error in the Inaugural Address… President Obama said 44 people had taken the Oath… but.. although he is the 44th president, Mr. Obama is only the 43rd person to take the Oath of Office… Grover Cleveland was the asterisk on the presidency when he served two nonconsecutive terms… click (
THE VOICE has been cracking eggs and pouring coffee all morning at The Prognosticator Cafe, but that hasn’t stopped him from filling out three placemats full of predictions for the upcoming week… and for Steeler’s fans, he has a special offer for this weekend… free iced coffee and outdoor seating (last week the Steeler’s beat The Voice’s team)… this week, check out his picks on the NFL Conference Championships… for baseball fans, read the odds on who will win this year’s World Series… also the NBA, tennis, and this week’s representatives from the world of CHEERLEADERS… for all of that and more, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right side of this page, or just click (
JET LANDING IN THE HUDSON RIVER… finally, some good news… call it either a miracle or skill or both…for the story of yesterday’s splash down, and the hero-pilot of USAirways Flight 1549 in New York, click (
TODAY’S FINANCIAL INSIGHT… Professor John Gerlach from Sacred Heart University gave some advice this week on where to put our investments during this down economy… here is the article outlining his suggestion… click (
BREAKING NEWS… THE BIG BOPPER’S CASKET TO BE AUCTIONED OFF… WAIT… NOT SO FAST… we’ve been following the story of the Big (Chantilly Lace) Bopper’s casket and his family’s attempt to sell it on eBay… well… today it appears it isn’t such an open and shut case… from Beaumont, Texas, here’s the latest, click (
BERNIE (MADOFF) IN HELL HOT SAUCE… New York artist and hot sauce afficiando Alex Gardega has been overwhelmed by orders for bottles of his condiment dedicated to America’s biggest scam artist… order a bottle of your own, or check out his website, click (
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION BLOG… read about the daily events and adventures behind those helping to put together the inauguration pomp, circumstance and ceremony… click (
PARKING LOT INSANITY… GIANTS FAN TAKES ANGER OUT ON HIS OWN CAR… warning: coarse freakin’ language alert… someone took a video of a fan who “bet on the Giants to win” taking out his frustration on his own SUV… I wonder if he is also responsible for the trashing of the Porsche parked next to it… from a blog called “Awful Announcing”… click (
MERRITT PARKWAY DOCUMENTARY… Lisa Seidenberg has done a great job with her documentary about Connecticut’s favorite road… with a thirty-five minute film called “The Road Taken, The Merritt Parkway”… to see a bit of it, click (
JOHN LENNON… digitally reborn to be a spokesperson for One Laptop Per Child… here is the video re-creation of John Lennon… I wonder if they can now create John Lennon spinning in his grave… click (
THE METS NEW SLEEVE PATCH… it celebrates the first season in their new stadium… but some say it looks more like a Domino’s Pizza box… click (
Chubby Ninja… a ninja who seems more familiar with pork chops than karate chops has been trying to steal ATM machines in Florida… for the story, click (
THE VOICE… has been seeing more hungry customers than usual today at the Prognosticator Cafe… most of them are coming in for one of the First Down specials and the bottomless cup of Kick-Off Coffee… he’s been spending most of the morning collecting handshakes after his perfect prediction of the Ravens-Dolphins score last weekend… (the Ravens won 27 - 9… and The Voice predicted that exact score three days before, here on BrianSmithRadio.com…)… and yesterday… on the radio… he also correctly predicted the winner in last nights BCS game… it was Florida over Oklahoma… read his picks for this weekend… it’s the NFL Divisional Playoffs… also… pictures from last nights BCS game… The NBA… and of course, the cheerleaders… to become instantly more informed… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right side of this page… or just click (
WHAT TO DO IN A SUBMERGED CAR… besides panic… Jenna Wolfe, a reporter on NBC’s The Today Show… went into a simulator to find out for herself… some tips, for example: if you go into the water, you won’t be able to open your car doors until your car interior fills up with water… most power windows will work underwater… and keep your hand on your driver’s door so you know where the door is if the car turns upside down… the video is about five and a half minutes long (after you view a 30 second commercial)… to watch it, click (
WINDOW BREAKING DEVICE… at about five minutes into the video above, Jenna Wolfe demonstrates a spring loaded, small-but-powerful device used to break out the driver’s side window of a car… it’s called the “Rescue Me“… on our show, Brian also talked about an emergency car window hammer with a seat-belt cutter built in.. thanks to Leslie, a listener to the Brian Smith News and Variety Show, she tells us her brother’s store, Norwalk Luggage, sells the device called the Auto Escape Hammer (
POT HEADS… Nigerian motorcycle riders are wearing kitchen pots and pans on their heads… paint buckets… pumpkin shells… and other innovative head coverings… to comply with the new motorcycle helmet laws in their country… the cost of helmets is too much for some of them… for the story, click (
SKIER LOSES PANTS… hanging upside down on a ski-lift… not the most flattering conditions for a guy to be naked… if you haven’t seen this story yet… now is the time to catch up… click (