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Monday, July 30, 2007
Show #2793
By Michael Z. McIntee Change Text Color:
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Andy Samberg; Catherine Bell; and The Bravery.
PLUS: Shark Week; Cheney’s New Heart; Alan Kalter with a Joke; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; a Top Ten List; and Bowling Tricks on 53rd Street.

Cold Open: Dave and Jude backstage. Dave is working on a puzzle in the newspaper. He asks, “What’s a nine letter word that begins with a 3?”
Jude glances over and says, “That’s a Sudoku puzzle, you moron.”

“ . . . and now, meat-eating vegetarian . . . . David Letterman!”

ACT 1
Dave is not in the best of spirits. Somehow he’s got himself a cold in July. He says he’s the only to get sick in July. He takes his temperature and gets a reading of . . . . nuttin’ . . . he can’t get the thing to work. We used to have one of those ear thermometers at home. Denise used it on Danielle when she was about a year old. The thermometer read 108. She called ambulance. I threw the thing away.

Sad news: legendary talk show host Tom Snyder died on Sunday at the age of 71. Tom is best known for his Tomorrow show which followed Carson from the early 70s to the early 80s. It was a very different talk show; one on one and the conversation could go in any direction. And then in the early 90s he hosted The Late Late Show.
Dave recalls one episode of the Tomorrow show where a guest came on and presented Tom with a cane made from a bull’s deal. It was an odd piece, something you would give your uncle with a giggle. During the interview, there was a commotion off camera. Tom eyeballed the culprit and continued on with the interview. The commotion happened three more times. After the third incident, Tom screamed “SHUT UP!” at the source and flung the cane made of bull in that direction. Dave was amused by his reaction.

Tonight out on 53rd Street: Bowling tricks! We take a look at the bowling alley constructed out on the street. But we only closed down one lane of traffic. Our PBA bowlers will be bowling while city commuters attempt to get home in record time. All night: Bowling tricks while being nudged by passing traffic.

Vice President Dick Cheney had heart surgery on Saturday to recharge his pacemaker, and while the doctors were in there, they decided to install something new. It’s Apple’s new iHeart. Dave holds up an enlarged heart still in the wrap. In the center is an iPod-type scroll wheel which gives you the option to listen to your favorite music. Dave presses the button on the heart and we hear Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” It’s amazing how far we’ve come in heart surgery in just the past decade.
Dave throws the heart through the window behind him. The glass breaks, and then we hear Jose Feliciano’s “Old Turkey Buzzard.” Dave quickly grows tired of the song and bemoans, “Do we have to listen to the entire 13 seconds?!”

It’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel and I must admit I have been stopping on it during my fly through the 120 channels. This year, there are many exciting programs scheduled. We take a look at what happened last night.
We see a guy in SCUBA underwater speaking through a filtered regulator. The audio is muffled as he welcomes the viewers to Shark Week. Sharks swim around him. “Hey, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. We have so many great . . .” Suddenly, a shark attacks, chomping the host right in half. The host screams in pain. Credits roll. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s installment.

Dave receives a note. He learns that we only blocked one lane of traffic on 53rd Street instead of the whole street because one lane is cheaper. Oooh, I hope the savings gets passed down to us!

Alan interrupts. While Dave was telling us about the lane closure, we can hear Alan Kalter attempting to get Dave’s attention. Alan finally catches Dave’s eye and ear and requests the opportunity to tell a joke. Dave always likes a good joke so he gives Alan the floor.
Alan: “The other day NASA revealed that on two different occasions, an astronaut had been drinking before their mission. Well, that’s not all. Today NASA announced that they hired a new astronaut.” Alan holds up a photo. “Lindsay Lohan!” It’s a photo of Lindsay in an astronaut suit holding a bottle of booze. The audience responds with a laugh. Alan is charged up by the positive reaction and directs this to Dave: “Eat that you old bag! I’m just as funny as you are!” Alan rips off his ear piece and exits, arms raised in triumph.
Dave doesn’t think it was much of a joke at all.

GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES: We see FDR. We see JFK. We see George W. Bush: “A lot of uhh . . . . . a lot of the . . . . uhhh . . . .” Yanks on the cord. He’s got nothing.

Dave tries taking his temperature again, but no dice. How does this thing work? Somebody please get Dave a thermometer with some mercury in it!

ACT 2
Dave takes his temperature one more time. What he finds will determine whether he continues with the show or not. He finally has the thing working. Dave’s temperature: 98.4, well enough to continue.

Bowling Tricks on 53rd Street.
First Up: Chris Barnes; 37, from Double Oak, Texas. Chris has bowled 34 perfect games on the PBA tour and is the fastest to earn $1 million.
His trick: the pool shot – 4 balls; 4 pins in the 7-8-9-10 position. Chris rolls his ball down the lane, hits two balls sitting in the middle, and they proceed to hit another ball to knock the four pins down . . . . or something like that. Nice shot, Chris.

#2. Norm Duke – 43; from Orlando, Florida. Norm has bowled 56 perfect games in his PBA career and is the youngest bowler to win a Denny’s PBA Tour title back when he was 18 years old.
His trick: He will slowly spin a ball down the lane. While that ball is spinning and nearing the pins, he will bowl another ball. Ball #2 will knock 8 balls down and the slower spinning ball, ball #1, will pick up the spare. Norm sets the balls in motion. The 2nd ball knocks down 8 . . . and the slower spinning ball . . . . just misses the 6 and 10 pins. No good.

We go to commercial while we reset the pins for Norm’s second attempt.

ACT 3
On Norm’s second attempt, the same result. Close, but not what we had in mind.

ANDY SAMBERG: Andy has been very busy this summer promoting the film, Hot Rod and he’s been watching a lot of movies on the flights. After a while, he discovered he ran out of movies available to him. And so he decided to try Love Story. His friends on the flight teased him for resorting to the tear-jerker but Andy knew he wouldn’t be taken in by the weeper. It was just a movie. But the strong Andy soon came under the spell of the Ali McGraw/Ryan O’Neal tear jerker. It’s the film where the famous line is heard, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” I always questioned that. I never believed it. Ask any guy who is married and he’ll tell you most of marriage consists of apologizing for something.
Andy is also nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Musical and Lyrics for something he did on Saturday Night Live. The video can be seen on YouTube and has been viewed 24 million times. It’s a mock R&B video which Andy performs with Justin Timberlake. It’s entitled, “D*** in a Box.” You can fill in the blanks. We see a clip. It was odd. And he nominated for an Emmy for it. You know, when I was his age . . . . .
Hot Rod – it opens this Friday. Andy plays a wannabe stuntman.

ACT 4
Bowling Tricks on 53rd Street.
3. Tom “TJ” Jones – originally, Tom was to throw a bowling ball over a chair in the middle of the lane and the ball would then continue its roll for a strike. But during practice, the tossed ball put a big hole in the alley. Yes, in New York City, even our bowling alleys have pot holes. So instead of the ball over the chair, TJ has set up 3 chairs on the lane. He will roll his bowl under the three chairs and pick up a strike. And that’s just what he did. Nice job, TJ.

ACT 5
Chris Barnes is back to do another trick shot. He will hit a pin up the lane just a bit and the ball will skim off to knock over another pin. The original pin will ricochet off the ball and into a garbage can being held by TJ Jones. It worked well, except the first pin didn’t quite make it into the garbage can. The official scorer charged TJ with the error.

ACT 6
Dave takes his temperature one more time. Uh oh. It’s 104. Dave says hallucinating. He thought he saw people bowling on 53rd St.

CATHERINE BELL
Due to Dave having a cold, he refrains from greeting Catherine with a kiss. I noticed he didn’t kiss Samberg either. Catherine is in the Lifetime series, Army Wives. The show premiered in June and it’s the highest rated series in Lifetime’s lifetime. Before Army Wives, Catherine was on JAG. On JAG, Catherine plated a badass. On “Army Wives” she’s the sensitive, emotional woman.
And before here television work, Catherine worked as a model. She did work in Japan where she had her breast and ass squeezed by men on the street. This was done without invitation. Who knew of such things? And she also worked as a massage therapist. One of her first clients: Peter Gabriel. Hey, isn’t that doctor/patient confidentiality?
Army Wives on the Lifetime.

ACT 7
THE BRAVERY: From their CD, “The Sun and the Moon,” The Bravery performed “Time Won’t Let Me Go.”

And that was our show for Monday July 30, 2007.




It’s August all ready? Yipes. I’m really getting old when July passes by as if it was a weekend. And for the past few days I’ve had a pain in my knee . . . my good knew . . . and I have no idea why. The pain comes and goes and right now it’s here. I can barely extend it straight. This “getting old” thing stinks. I don’t remember signing up for this.

This came to me on my drive in to work today. In high school hallways, at the mall, walking the stairs, walking on the sidewalk in New York City; each of these situations often involves a crowd. We’ve been taught to stay to the right to maximize the flow of pedestrian traffic. Staying to the right is an unwritten rule. It probably has something to do with driving on the right side of the road. But is this true in London where they drive on the other side of the street? Are pedestrians in crowded situations taught to stay to the right, or they instructed to stay to the left in England?

I went out with friends Saturday night. Drinks and live music. Back during the last century when I had more on my head and less around the middle, my friends and I discovered a band called “Finn and The Sharks” in Nyack, New York. They would play every Friday night in a small club called “The Office.” The place would be packed but somehow we always found room to dance. “Finn and The Sharks” were one of those bands that we found impossible to sit still for and we would be up on the dance floor from the first song to the last, which is saying a lot because none of us knew how to dance. I mean it, we really can’t dance. Really, we can’t. As I recall, we spent many many Friday’s at The Office and we still glow when talking about those days. But we got older, we moved on, and the band went off in their own separate directions as well. And then a few years back, Finn and The Sharks reappeared together again 20 years later. We jumped at the chance to see them again. And it was just the way we remembered it. They’ve since played at “The Turning Point” in Piermont, New York a number of times and I’ve tried to see them each time. And for the 2nd or 3rd time, they’ve traveled north to Chester in Orange County to perform at a club called Bodles Opera House. We all made the trip again this weekend to see them perform. This venue is bigger than The Turning Point and The Office, which offered more room to boogie and groove. And boogie and groove we did. (Yes, I said ‘boogie and groove.’ My mental thesaurus for “dancing” is very limited.) Dang it, they’re good and so much fun. They’ve just released their 2nd CD. The first CD is the music I remember them playing from way back when. The new one is their new stuff that I’m quickly becoming familiar. You can check out their music at the website:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/finnsharks/from/allrecordlabels

Buy the CD and get a taste of what I was doing in the early 80s. I don’t remember much from those days but I do remember it was a lot of fun. A whole lot of fun.

Next, I need to look into music by The Roues Brothers, Big Jim Wheeler and the Wheels of Fire, and Lucky 7. It’s been on my list of things to do for years but have never gotten around to it. It’s one of those things I tell myself I’ll do next week or next month, and then find it’s 20 years later and it’s still on my list. Check out the music here:
http://www.myspace.com/billyroues

And how was Bodles Opera House? It was my first time there and it was exactly what a club like that should be. And in September, they have a Patsy Cline tribute. I’ll be making my reservations soon. I’m told it’s sold out every year.

And now, even more useless information from “The Ultimate Book of Useless Information” by Neil Botham & The Useless Information Society.
- Lyndon Johnson has an aunt named Frank
- Gerald Ford was once a male model
- Theodore Roosevelt was the only president not to use the word “I” in his inaugural address
- Queen Anne’s bowlegs inspired a furniture style
- When asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”

And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world’s longest continuous-running blog on the internet . . . . oops, no it isn’t.

CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
From Staten Island, New York, it’s Nikki Onyedika
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
ACT 1
• Cold Open with Dave and Jude
• Show Open
• Dave's Monologue
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• Dave Remembers Tom Snyder
• Dick Cheney's "iHeart"
• Shark Week Promo
• Alan Kalter's Lindsay Lohan Joke
• Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
ACT 2
• Bowling Trick Shots out on 53rd Street
ACT 3
• More Bowling Trick Shots on 53rd Street
• Andy Samberg
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ACT 4
• More Bowling Trick Shots on 53rd Street
ACT 5
• More Bowling Trick Shots on 53rd Street
ACT 6
• Catherine Bell
ACT 7
• The Bravery performs "Time Won't Let Me Go"

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