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Whad'Ya Know? For April 12, 2003

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 - From Pittsburgh to Jackson, it’s a live broadcast from Monona Terrace in Madison. It’s program opening, sponsors, and the man, “who be going to the hip hop…..”

:02 - All The News That Isn't

-Iraq seems pretty well secured-now, on to France and Germany!
- If it's really about oil, we should be invading the Arctic next. Club the baby seals and drill.
- Some mixed feelings for Americans – at least Madisonians with lawn signs. "War is Not the Answer" --and then you win. That's some kind of answer – now we need to figure out the question.
- This time, they conquer the entire country and they still don't get Saddam. The President must not have read history, repeating it like that.
- This could be one of those bad comic caper endings with Saddam and Osama – backs to the camera reclining in deck chairs – drinking mai tais on the beach at Abu Dhabi (I know, despite the restrictions). While, in the background, a young boy flies his Predator on the dunes.
- The looting continues: from Shock and Awe to Smash and Grab.
- Iraq's fledgling democracy votes with its feet.
- A forty foot slighty battered statue of a man with hand outstretched turns up on E-bay.
- People stealing hospital beds with patients still in them. Carrying off Saddam's half naked women on velvet, one of them looking surprisingly like Barbara Walters.
- A Great Day for the Iraqi People: gold plumbing fixtures for the taking. No food or water, "let them eat marble crappers!"
- They made a really big deal about the gold plumbing and the marble fixtures – let's hope they never invade Shoji Tabuchi's place in Branson, MO. He has the mother of all ladies rooms.
- All I can say is I hope the army's that nice to us when we riot.
- No word yet on Uday, Saddam's pig-Latin named son-or Itshay or Uckshmay.
- In other news, Northwest Airlines goes ahead with its plane to use a small case "nwa" on its planes despite the rap group with the same abbreviation for a considerably different meaning. Could be a PR disaster in their hub, Detroit.
- At the Masters at Augusta National, all said and done and still no comment from Hootie of the Blowfish.
- Issue seems to be women taking up the tee times, you know they get up early, and their cramping their husbands styles on the 19th hole. Maybe just one member per family.
- Not a lot of Jews, either, at Augusta. Groucho still doesn't belong. They let in Rodney Dangerfield, but they regret it now.
- That's All the News That Isn't . . . .

:08 - Guest interview with Stanley Coren, author of “The Pawprints of History.” Napoleon, Nixon, Trudeau, and Freud, among millions of others, have gone to the dogs at some point. The Einstein of dogs could count to five and had a vocabulary of about 350 words, but they were in German. The Dog is always good for sympathy when the back is hurting, too.

:32 - John and Jeff get things moving with a bosa nova tune with more of a samba feel.

:40 - In the audience Michael ponders the emancipation of the snail from its shell – would that be a slug? The tax collector wonders which bank has Michael’s money. How do we get a jump on the earwigs? Pepper spray?

:48 - The Four Disclaimers and the Whad’Ya Know? Quiz

Hour 2

:00 - Back for more of a live show from Monona Terrace in Madison, it’s the “harbinger of spring….”

:01 - The Whad’Ya Know? Quiz with Rebecca and Peggy who aren’t in the know about the Baseball Hall of Fame and who isn’t welcome there, lost Boy Scouts and their saint, but know more about houses and renewing your vows in Haiti, and rioting at the Vatican (with a lot of help…)

:12 - The Place To Be is Empire Records who just produced Michael’s song! Empire set Michael’s lyrics to music. He was looking was for an upbeat rock tune, and this is what he got…..

:18 - Thanks for the Memos – a few corrections about a triangle and the only Akron in the world. Then, a Memo regarding breast feeding in the workplace.

:26 - John and Jeff jazz things up with this tune.

:30 - In the audience there’s a foot outside of the shoe and Michael is looking for the folks in the audience on anti-depressants. A non-professional music critic likes country music, but maybe Michael should stick to his show. When your work commute takes you to Shanghai regularly, you really add up the miles. Is it rude for the lady in the purple shirt to take that cell phone call? Then meet this lady with a great Australian accident.

:34 - Whad’Ya Know? Quiz with Zach and Ron are fielding questions about the restaurant capital, a couple people called Hootie, Martha Stewart’s bonus, and the weight of a black hole.

:53 - Town of the Week, San Rafael, California. This beautiful California town attracts visitors from around the world. The city’s roots are in the mission San Rafael Archangel, founded in 1817. San Rafael is the oldest, largest and most culturally diverse city in Marin County. The original mission bells are found in front of a replica of the original mission. The mission and museum serve as a backdrop for the annual “youth in arts”, Italian street painting festival. One block away, downtown Fourth Street is forever remembered as the site of the George Lucas film, “American Graffitti”. San Rafael’s history is present in many buildings, including the Marin history museum, the Falkirk Cultural Center, Dominican University and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed, Marin County Civic Center. This complex includes Marin Center, the County’s largest performing arts and convention center. On the cultural side, locals enjoy the work of the Marin Shakespeare Company and Marin Symphony. One of the more fascinating historic sites in San Rafael Ischina Camp State Park, which acquired it’s name from a Chinese fishing village that once flourished there. The town has this to bark about. San Rafael is also the home of guide dogs for the blind, an unusual tourist destination, but a popular one. Located halfway between San Francisco, and the wine country, it’s our town of the week, San Rafael, California.