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Whad'Ya Know? For July 7, 2001

Listen in to the entire two-hour broadcast. Or review the show rundown below and select your favorite segment of the show. Note that Parts A & B refer to the first hour and Parts C & D refer to the second hour. Part A Part B Part C Part D Problem listening to Real Audio? Get Help!

Hour 1

:00 - Program opening, sponsors, and the man who thinks the family should go on a family vacation......

:01 - All The News That Isn't -- Jenna has to pay a $600. fine-there goes W's tax rebate! I guess he won't be stimulating his economy-although they're not so big he couldn't still stimulate theirs. In a related story, 84% of teens in a national poll say they support a drinking age of 21. The remaining 16% have been unable to get a fake ID. Elsewhere in the Emerald City, Cheney gets a heart, Colin has his courage, even Bob Dole is back in Kansas-can the wizard do nothing for W? A new Bush administration policy gives an unborn child medical coverage, but he loses it at birth. Plus he has to pay premiums at the end of each trimester-and that must be in person. Mr. Bush is currently debating in his mind whether to stem stem cells, and if they are entitled to insurance coverage as well. Preparation W shrinks lease 181 in the Gulf of Mexico 40%. President Junior allowed Jeb to save some face in Florida by letting the oil take an extra half day to wash up on Clearwater. Now they want to drill in the Great Lakes, but, under the treaty, the Chippewa can spear them! The good news is that it'll all wash up on Michigan. The Feds are looking to tap social security funds after prying Al Gore's cold dead hands off the lockbox. Milosevic don't need no stinkin' lawyer. Legislators and concerned citizens sue to stop the play "Corpus Christi" at Purdue, which features gay characters. The play that is; Purdue features Boilermakers. PETA-the animal rights people, not the pocket bread people-is picketing Wendy's now. Turns out the square burgers actually come from square cows. Easier that way, they just slice them like a loaf. Publishers Clearing House is forced to pay $34 million to people who mistakenly thought that "you are a winner" meant "you are a winner." Actually, if you look closely, it says "you are a wiener," and therefore only entitled to condiments. A study finds that vaginal births should be avoided after having had a C-section. Easy way to remember: V for B except after C, or when it sounds like "A" as in "neighbor" or 'weigh." And, here in Madison, the Jehovah's Witnesses are having a national confab-while it's nice not to have to go to the door, you can't get into a swimming pool for love or money. But, I tell you, gets any hotter, I'm going in, Baptism or not. That's all the news that isn't . . . .

:07 - Guest Interview with Steven Reiss, Author of "Who Am I?" -- Through his research Steven has found the 16 basic desires that make up human personality. No, Shoes isn't one of them. Maybe Michael can convince Steven to add a few to the list.

:24 - John Thulin only has four basic desires, a comfy chair, food, a tuned keyboard and a gig to go to. Did we say a really comfy chair? Here's a tune about desire, "Be My Love."

:32 - In the audience MIchael finds a family that is on a family vacation. And this vacation is better than the trip to Disney. Michael also meets Camille and Bigfoot who are here with an interesting Singapore connection; then over to two "senior" members of the Dave Matthews Band Fan Club.

:44 - Four Disclaimers and Whad'Ya Know? Quiz -- Brad and James are off to a not-so-smooth start with a question about Carson and Tara. Hold on for hour 2 and the rest of the Quiz.

Hour 2

:00 - Program opening, sponsors, and the man who is so dam quick he can bite the mosquitos.....

:01 - Whad'Ya Know? Quiz - Brad and James field questions on childhood hydration, roach eggs on Asia envelopes, how much for Monet hay, and the cheapest place to get married. Who knew Connecticut was so inexpensive?

:10 - The Place To Be - The Wisconsin Dells -- Piotr Koronkewiecz is from Warsaw, Poland, and is working at the Wisconsin Dells Fudge Shop this summer. The Wisconsin Dells is a tourist area known for water parks, miniature golf, go-carts and fudge. Every summer hundreds of European workers come over for the summer to live in the US, practice their English and earn some money. So, Piotr, what do you really think about folks in Wisconsin? That we're loose-pants wearing, fat, tattooed types who ignore babies when they cry? Thinking about starting a fudge shop when you get back to Warsaw?

:22 - John and Jeff aren't anything like the Wisconsinites visiting the Dells. But, they will play a tune titled "Smoking in the Back Yard."

:27 - In the audience MIchael meet a couple of very not-so-happy campers who had a very bad experience in Lodi on Friday night. The he meets the man who has the Illinois version of the WHAKNOW license plate.

:38 - Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Lyn and Mike - It's a test of wits with questions about whispering sweet nothings, nuthatch behaviour and playing Candyland on a desert island. It's not much but it is a quest for the mythical giant kielbasa of prizes....

:55 - Town of the Week - Pearl City, Hawaii -- This week's town began as a dream of one Benjamin Franklin Dillingham. He wanted to run a railroad throughout the island of Oahu. So, on New Year's Day, 1890, the line reached a new town site. That location is Pearl City, Hawaii. Named for the Pearl River and Pearl Harbor, the was sited at the edge of sugar cane fields. Those cane fields are now homes and yards, and the river disappeared years ago into concrete channels and pipes. If you've seen the film, "Pearl Harbor", you know the town as a Disney movie set. There were 140 people in town when the railroad first arrived, and the City has grown to some 30 thousand people, and is the second largest residential area on the island. During World War II, buses operated from Honolulu to Barber's Point Naval Station via Pearl City. Following the raid on the Harbor and the enlargement of the Pearl Harbor complex, 1,000 homes in Pearl City were confiscated for use as naval housing. The Pearl City High School Chargers Band is considered one of the best in Hawaii. The town is the home of Leeward Community College and West Oahu College. Other than the raid on our fleet, the biggest event in the town's history was the arrival and visit of then President Franklin Roosevelt. Other than that event, a resident says nothing whatever of historic significance has occurred since. Nonetheless, it remains our town of the week, Pearl City, Hawaii.