How Viewers Catch Up With a Missed Episode of a Favorite Broadcast Series
By Jon Lafayette

Young viewers are using technology to catch up on episodes of programs they've missed. In a survey conducted by the Nielsen Co. at CBS' research facility in Las Vegas, 37% of viewers 18 to 34 said they use a digital video recorder to watch a show they weren't at home for. Another 16% said they go to the Internet to find a show they want to see. Not surprisingly, those numbers are much higher than for older viewers, who are more prone to wait for the episode to show up in reruns.

"Since technology adoption is increasing within all age groups, this study gives us a glimpse into a future when all viewers will take more initiative to catch up on shows they have missed," said Steve McGowan, Nielsen's senior VP for client research initiatives. "This will have tremendous implications on how networks schedule and distribute their programming."

“Wahoo is the original version of the popular board game which swept the United States over 40 years ago, and eventually became the trademarked games of Parcheesi, Aggravation, and Sorry. Wahoo was played on homemade boards with 16 marbles and 1 die.
Because of its popularity and generic nature, the large game companys all changed Wahoo’s appearance and rules before giving it their own trademarked names. To many of us who played Wahoo back then, the original game is still the best.”

I was in a different spot for tonight’s show. I was able to hear the workings in the control room but couldn’t pick up a lot of what was said by Dave. It was a one-night thing.

Harry had a cupcake party for his 3rd birthday . . . or maybe it was a Halloween party. Parties with 2 and 3 year olds are not always what you would expect.

The big game: This weekend, the Ball State Fighting Cardinals (3-6) take on the #2 ranked University of Michigan Wolverines (9-0). The Wolverines are a 34-point favorite. We take a look at the prediction Dave made Wednesday night on the game . . . . and the promise.
Dave predicts a Ball State win: 6-0. And if he is wrong, he promises a shiny new nickel to every person who was at the game in Michigan Stadium. The Stadium sits 107,501. This would put Dave over $5,000 in the hole. He talked to his buddy down at the Treasury Department . . . his pal said there are not that many shiny new nickels in circulation. Dave takes back what he said about the nickels. The nickel deal is done.
But Dave’s prediction holds: Ball State 6, Michigan 0.
Ball State’s 6 points will not come on two field goals. Ball State will score a late touchdown on a long, 90-yard drive . . . and then miss the extra point.
Dave compares the mascot of each.
Ball State – the cardinal. We see a pretty photo of a cardinal and hear the sweet tweets from our flying friend, billed as the fiercest robin-sized bird in the world.
Michigan – the wolverine. We see a photo of the wolverine and hear its snarl and growl. And yet Dave is still sticking with the Cardinals.

Michigan Stadium – holds 107,501. Ball State’s home field? Before each game, the head coach has to go a neighbor and knock on the door; “Mrs. Swenson, can we play in your backyard?”

Tonight in Coney Island, Biff Henderson is with a giant pumpkin. We are going to explode it. This year’s pumpkin is just a wee bit bigger than last year’s.
Pumpkin:
1,390 pounds
42 inches high
60 inches wide
161 inches around
Detonating the pumpkin will be Drew Jiritano
The pumpkin was grown by Steve Connolly of Sharon, Massachusetts.
And if you were to make pies from this pumpkin, Dave says you could make up to 15 pumpkin pies. Paul questions the number, and Dave rethinks his statement and believes “15” to be a typo on the blue card. That’s right, blame the blue card.
The scene in Coney Island looks absolutely lovely with the sun just below the horizon. We see the pumpkin just behind Biff. The way it lays there, it looks comfortable enough to lounge on. Dave suggests for Biff to take a seat on the hot-wired pumpkin. Biff looks at the pumpkin with fearful suspicion but inches his way toward the great gourd. Against his better judgment, Biff is willing to sit on it. As he nears the pumpkin, Biff catches sight of the explosive expert off-camera who is feverishly signaling, “no no no no no!” Biff quickly distances himself from the pumpkin and tells Dave he’s been advised against sitting on the great pumpkin.
We’ll come back later for the explosion. We could have done it now, but we want you to sit through a lot of the show first.

“JOHN KERRY WHO’S THE UNEDUCATED DUMBASS?”? – Senator Kerry made an ill-advised attempt at a joke the other day which backfired in his face. Democrats and Republicans are mad at him. The way his comment was taken made it sound as if he was saying that the military is filled with uneducated dolts. And that was the inspiration for this segment, “John Kerry Who’s The Uneducated Dumbass?” We see Senator Kerry in front of a bunch of microphones. He adjusts one microphone, which then falls. He spends the next minute trying to re-set the microphone. He can’t do it. Typical politician . . . . he can’t do anything. He needs others to do it for him. That’s why they go in to politics.

And following Senator Kerry, we have GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES.
We see FDR. We see JFK. We see Bush: “I put country and western music on my I-POD.

ANDY KINDLER: We recently sent him to the Playboy Club in Las Vegas. But first, Andy sits with Dave and talks a bit about Mel Gibson meeting up with a Jewish cop; and what Saddam Hussein is now not doing in Iraq.
We see a clip of Andy at the Playboy Club. He’s spends some time with Hugh Hefner. He asks the Hef, “Are we gonna party tonight?!” Hefner looks at Kindler and says, “Probably not.”
Andy poses some Playboy poses on a bed. We see Andy posing while pointing to the “goods.”
Andy asks a pretty gal by the pool: “What would make me more sexier?” The lady says, “How about taking off your glasses.” Andy takes off his glasses. She then says, “No, put them back on.”
The Red Carpet: Robin Leach; Tony Curtis; Warren Moon. “Oh, the stars are out tonight!”
We see a guy dancing on the dance floor. Says Andy, “Finally someone more out of place than me.”

ROSIE O’DONNELL: She’s the new host of The View. From what I’ve heard, The View is now better than ever. The two glow over Barbara Walters, the top in the business at what she does, and her creation of The View is another huge success. On Friday’s The View program, the topic of discussion will be “Ten Things You Don’t Know About Your Penis.” What? Dave asks, “Is there really 10 things?” Rosie says, “For me, there’s about 10 million things.” And then I think, “Wow, what a great Top Ten topic.” Dave says, “And Barbara Walters . . . my God, when it comes to penis, she wrote the book.”

Rosie is a big big fan of Barbra Streisand and explains how that all came about. Growing up, she and her mom would sing to Barbra Streisand records. Her mom died when Rosie was ten, and those records and songs had a lot to do with keeping the memory of her mom alive. Barbra Streisand and her music have become very dear to Rosie. She’s a big fan. Rosie admits it’s closer to being a stalker than a fan. Rosie goes to every Streisand concert she can and recently saw her confront a heckler. Barbra was slowly getting into her “People Who Need People” song, softly telling the audience, “You know, people. It’s all about compassion . . . and loving one another . . . and . . .. (turning to the heckler) . . . SHUT THE ‘GIVL’ UP!’” And then proceeds to sing, “People . . . People who love people . . .”
Two more Barbra Streisand highlights: Barbra mentioned Rosie’s name during a concert. Barbra actually spoke to Rosie during the performance, inviting her backstage after the show. Rosie was in heaven. “Barbra Streisand said my name while on stage!!”
And then Barbra needed a place to stay while performing in Miami. The hotel she in which she was booked had construction going on right outside. Rosie quickly offered up her show-business-Florida-home.
Rosie has been with her partner for quite a few years now. She and Kelli got married in San Francisco. Rosie tells a funny story about meeting her in-laws. Kelli is from a very Southern, Christian family. When they learned of Kelli’s homosexuality, they immediately sent her to Homosexual Anonymous which preached, “Pray the Gay Away!” Didn’t work. When Rosie met her future in-laws, at a dinner party in a restaurant Rosie professed her love for Kelli and their plans to live the rest of their lives together. Kelli’s mom responded, “You know, the Caesar salad at this restaurant is fantastic.” Rosie, stunned, continued. Kelli’s mom continued to rave about the restaurant. The in-laws have come a long way since then. Mom has suggested that Kelli and Rosie marry nice men, live next door to each other, and go on vacations together.

And Rosie is hard at work with a very admirable venture to help those who suffered through Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. Last week was the grand opening of a Child & Family Services Center in Baker, Louisiana to provide services to a trailer park of 1,600 evacuees from Katrina. Check out the Rosie website to learn more about this and her “Rosie’s For All Kids Foundation.”

Rosie O’: It’s good to see her back.

Back to Coney Island: Biff and Drew are ready to ‘splode the pumpkin. Before doing so, Dave instructs Biff to yell at the top of his lungs to anyone who is within earshot: “Run for your lives!”
Dave asks Drew how much explosives we have loaded into the pumpkin. Drew, keeping his secret, will only say, “We got a lot of stuff in there, Dave.”

With a short countdown, the button is pushed to explode the pumpkin. The pumpkin shatters to smithereens . . . and a piece HITS THE CAMERA. A direct hit, knocking the camera over. KUDOS for the great placement. Wow! We see it again and again. Nice job by all.

ACT 5: It’s a multiple of slow-mo shots of the pumpkin exploding.

LADY SOVEREIGN: From her CD, “Public Warning”, Lady Sovereign performed “Love Me or Hate Me.” I found it entertaining. I watched . . . and continued to watch. It was fun.

And that was our show for Thursday, November 2, 2006.



Two years ago today on November 2nd, Bush was elected for the 2nd time . . . or some would say for the first time.

Tonight, Dave said the 1,390 pumpkin could make 15 pies. Last night, we said it could make 30.
From a Wahoo reader named Adam:

“I was reading the Wahoo Gazette as is my custom and when i got the part about the giant pumpkin (November 1 2006 Wahoo Gazette) and how many pies it would yield, I, like Dave, think there's something wrong. I'm not sure who did the calculating or if the number 30 was just a joke but given my research, that size pumpkin should yield considerably more pie.
Consider this:
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/pumpkin/pumpkin.html
In the link above the guy uses a 166 pound pumpkin to see how much pie it would yield. After exhaustive pumpkin preparation, he figured 100 pies. That's 1.66 Pumpkin pounds per pie (say that three times fast!)
Using that number (which agrees with the roughly average 2 cups of Pumpkin Puree per pie) the 1390 pound pumpkin would yield 837 pumpkin pies.
That sounds more like it. All this talk of Pumpkin pie has made me hungry, so I'm off to polish off some pumpkin pie.”

I almost forgot . . . November 2nd, Ramapo Gryphons High School Football, 1975. I was a senior in high school that year . . . the high school quarterback. We were the best football team the school had had in years. And as always, there was a big battle the prior spring and summer to get the school budget passed. The budget always failed. The revote sometimes failed. But by the 3rd time around, the budget always passed. Many voted “NO” the first time, knowing the budget would be reduced and then would vote “YES” the next time. But of course, this didn’t happen in 1975, or else I wouldn’t be writing this. The first budget vote was defeated. The second budget vote was defeated. The third budget vote was defeated. Uh oh. Uncharted territory. What next? The school would operate on an austerity budget. What did that mean? That meant, among a lot of other things, no sports. What? The football team operated as if this would be fixed up eventually. We had our double-sessions in August. We sweated through the hot summer sun. We practiced after school when September rolled around. Still, nothing was “fixed.” We were still without sports on the schedule. We missed out first game. And then our second game. Each Monday we would show up for school with the promise that something was in the offering. We prepared all week for the game against North Rockland. But by Friday, we knew there would be no game. We practiced the next week for the game against Clarkstown North . . . but by Friday, that game was canceled, too. And on and on and on it went. We never missed a practice. We never played a game. Finally, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Something was finally worked out. And we had our first game of the season . . . . on November 2, 1975. Or it was probably November 1st, since the newspaper clippings read November 2nd.
We won the first game 22-2.
We lost the second game to the county champs, 20-16. We won our third and final game, 8-0, to a state-ranked team. So when you read about your high school football team in the Sectional playoffs this weekend, think about the 1975 Ramapo High School Football team who played their first game in November.
The school budget has always passed since. The savings to the average taxpayer at the time of the defeated budget: $10. I wonder if those who voted “NO” remember what they did with that ten bucks.

Remember when my daughter Danielle went to a cheerleading competition a few weeks ago and their squad won, advancing to the next round? She came running up to me with great glee, exclaiming “We’re going to Utica! We’re going to Utica!” Never before were such words said with such happiness. Well, they went to Utica and won. They’re advancing to the next round. Danielle came running up to me with great joy in her heart and cried out, “We’re going to Trenton! We’re going to Trenton!”
And I need to ask, “Who books these competitions?” What’s next, Kankakee?