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Whad'Ya Know? For April 8, 2006

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 - A live broadcast from Monona Terrace in Madison with the man, " who women fear and men admire...."

:01 - But first! The city of Madison is celebrating her 150th birthday, and Michael wants to win the city song contest. Here is Michael's ode to Madison -- sung to the tune of Edelweiss:
Madison, Madison
One-way streets leading nowhere
Sun Prairie, Middleton
In between somewhere, Madison

Jewel set in four lakes green
Monona, Mendota, Kegonsa's not so clean
I forget the other one, Madison, Madison

Madison, Madison
Straight, gay or transgendered
Brown and gray, Lesbian
Say this must be Madison.

Have I stayed a bit too long?
Forty years since graduation
And that's not the record in
The War at Homeland, Mad-i-son!

:05 - All The News That Isn't

-Must be spring—the neighbor’s running his snow blower dry.
-Scooter Libby’s deposition reveals that Bush leaked on Cheney who leaked on Libby, who in turn drizzled over several reporters. The trickle down theory. Redux.
-The White House says when the President leaks, his water automatically turns to wine.
-The Republican immigration alternative—to let Mexicans work in Tijuana and send the money to San Diego—stalls in the senate. But the Democrat’s “Nikes, maps, and a bottle of Evian” is going nowhere, either.
-High federal official discovers 14 year old girls are totally not interested in seeing his Homeland Security pin.
-Saddam accused of spending as little time reviewing death sentences as George Bush did while governor of Texas.
-Tom De Lay to leave andale.
-John McCain born again; Jerry Falwell the proud papa.
-Palestinian Hamas administration so broke many seen with signs “will blow self up for food.”
-It will be the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric—what she lacks in gravitas, she makes up in perkitas. On slow news day she can crack out the colon tapes.
-Now just a matter of clubbing Bob Schieffer to death while the pelt is still worth something.
-In solidarity with anti-seal hunting protestors in Canada, Pamela Anderson has agreed to release her two pups into the wild.
-Madison votes to pull its troops out of Iraq; Middleton’s staying in.
-Playboy names the University of Wisconsin number one in “books, babes and beer,” not necessarily in that order. With the Princeton Review title already in hand, Madison now needs just the National Review for the party trifecta.
-Notre Dame approves a production of the “Down There Monologues.” OK’d by a labia majora of the trustees. Of course, the Cardinal Newman Club issued an Apologia pro Vita Vagina.
-A newly revealed Gnostic manuscript says Judas really was a nice guy once you got to know him. The controversial 2nd century document says Jesus confided in Judas it was all a joke that got out of hand.
-Bladder grown in lab; beer still rented.
-60’s singer dies; now “Town without Pitney.”
-Macs to run Windows; Pope to study at ashram.
-And what’s thought to be the missing fish link discovered—the first fish to come out of the water to dig its own worms . . .

:11 - Guest interview with John Grogan, author of Marley and Me, a story of a great guy and a terrible dog -- who was one of the greatest dogs, ever! Marley was a yellow Lab who was 90+ pounds of unbridled energy, which meant he'll dig through the drywall and jump through the screen.

:33 - John and Jeff get jazz with this tune, "Flanagan."

:47 - Four Disclaimers and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Larry and Stephen who which Representative you don't want to touch, where to drink pantyhose tea, and the record-setting HOT.

Hour 2

:00 - Back for the second hour of this live broadcast with the man, "who is thinking of a hybrid, but not necessarily a car..."

:01 - Let's finish up the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.

:12 - John and Jeff get jazzed with "Young and Foolish."

:18 - Only $5 to take Michael's picture and he'll wash your windshield, too. Make a movie of Whad'Ya Know?? Maybe Antonio Banderas would be the obvious choice....how about Alan Alda for Jim and Vin Diesel on piano, maybe Steve Buscemi on bass.

:41 - Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with James and Betsy pool their knowledge of sleeping with dogs, the Gay Games, and adverbs. These folks are a couple of big winners.

:52 - Town of the Week - Medford, Oklahoma. This week’s Oklahoma town was established September 16th, 1893, with the run of the Cherokee Strip. Railroad surveyors from Medford, Massachusetts named the town, which became the seat of Grant County. Within four weeks of the land run, there were 20 buildings, and Medford could accommodate 50 thousand people. Medford is a farming community, centered around growing wheat and feeding cattle. Besides other crops, such as alfalfa and sorghum, farming ventures include ostriches and emus. There are two gas processing plants here, one run by Conoco, and the other by Koch industries. Koch’s plant is the second largest such facility in the world. Tourists to Red Carpet Country are drawn to the Chisholm Trail marker, two miles from town; Sewell’s Stockade, which provided protection for settlers from Indian raiding parties; and the homesteaders monument which carries the names of homesteaders participating in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run. You’d also want to visit the Grant County Historical Society Museum, and the County Courthouse. Medford is located at the junction of Highways 11 and 81, 22 miles west of Interstate 35, just south of the Kansas state line. Medford is the home of the high school Cardinals. Students love to visit an unusual ghost town 7 miles to the south, Jefferson. Medford calls itself the Best Little City in the Strip, and it’s our Town of the Week, Medford, Oklahoma.