The Day That Was On The Morning Mob – Aug 22nd

 

Among some of the topics discussed today, what I can and cannot do if LIVE 105 hits 10 000 likes on facebook & Floyd makes an interesting discovery about the offspring of one of pro wrestling’s biggest  stars!

 

 

 

 

The things you do to try and please people….

Floyd & I like to goof around on the LIVE 105 Morning Mob, but sometimes, it can be a little difficult here at Camp Happy Fun Land. Here’s an example of the lengths that I will go to to ensure my co-host’s happiness.

 

 

Any Rambo fans out there?

 

A chunk of cult movie history is being dismantled in Hope, BC. The bridge from the first Rambo movie, First Blood, has bitten the dust. This morning on the Mob, Floyd & I were lucky enough to have Sylvester Stallone on to talk about what this news meant to him.

 

When sports writers try to be funny…

 

 

I have a few friends in the print media, lots of them are genuinely funny, but they sprinkle in little shards of funny while writing their columns. It works in short doses, especially when it adds something to the story. This on the other hand? This could be the worst sports column I’ve ever read. Outside of Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick, Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole, sports figures, especially columnists should stick to sports, not comedy. I agree that Bettman is a jerk, but this column is filled with so many terrible punchlines and bad jokes that you kind of almost forget the Bettman parts. We get it, you’ve just discovered pop culture references. Well done…

http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/05/bettman-is-still-a-jerk

Aaaah Spring…..

It’s usually the time of year when men’s thoughts turn to those of fancy. But did you know that older women now make up a HUGE part of the dating scene these days? According to Time magazine, Scientists think they have an explanation for the “Cougar” phenomenon. According to University of Texas researchers, women’s ticking “biological clock” may impact their sexual behavior just as menopause approaches. They believe older women have increased urges to mate before it’s impossible to have children — which makes them think about sex more often. In fact, women 27 to 45 reported having more sexual fantasies than younger women — and had more sex than those in the 18-26 group. The women in their 30s and 40s were also more inclined to have casual sex that those in their 20s.

But what if it ISN’T just about casual sex, what if women are looking for more than that? May I suggest this site? It’s called www.mailorderhusbands.net. Tired of finding love at 3am right after last call? Try mailorderhusbands.net. Need someone to “scratch that itch” or, someone to run out to buy another carton of menthols at Midnight on a Tuesday? Try mailorderhusbands.net.  Maybe you can find love with Daryl from Wooster Falls, ILL, U.S.A. who writes:  My name is Daryl. I am 17, but will be turning 18 in September. I figure by the time we get to know each other I will be legal tender and we can marry. My parents are kicking me out after December and I’d like to meet a woman with a lot of money so we can have fun. I like women between 18-45, but would consider older if we don’t have to touch a lot.  Who can argue when Daryl looks like this:

WTF is THIS?????

It was a gorgeous spring day in Halifax yesterday. Mrs. Cubby and I are loving the fact that we can grab the dog, jump in the car and within 30 minuutes we’re walking in the sand along a stretch of one of the most beautiful coastlines you’ll ever seen. We discovered Rainbow Haven beach back in March and have been back quite a few times.  I mean, how can you NOT love a sight like this?

The thing is, Mother Nature can be a bit of a bugger. Folks out here will remember Hurricane Earl & Juan ripping shit up in the HRM. More so Juan, but then again, those latinos can be quite feisty can’t they?

So we’re walking along the beach and all of a sudden, we see what at first glance, kinda looks like some tangled up seaweed. Upon closer inspection, this “seaweed” as the locals call it, was actually a FISH! One of the ugliest fish I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived near the Ottawa river, where a majority of fish look like this:

I grabbed a piece of wood, flipped the bugger over and got a good look at him:

I know, shitty picture, but as a grown man who ISN’T a fisherman, I don’t own rubber boots, so DC skate shoes may not have been the best footwear choice for going all Steve Zissou on the beach. But WTF is this??? So far, people on twitter seem to think it’s either a Rock Bass or a Sculpin. I think it’s a demon myself.

Thoughts?

Dumbest thing on the interwebs this week.

 

Just in time for your breakfast, we present, THE BACON CANNON!!! God bless rednecks. You gotta have something to do in between nascar races. Imagine, you have an almost endless supply of bacon. Everywhere you look there’s bacon, bacon on the couch, bacon on the walls, bacon in drawers, bacon in places where bacon should never be placed. At least not uncooked bacon that is. So after assessing your bacon situation, an idea hits you right between the ears. BACON CANNON!! There’s this guy, you see, and he really likes bacon a whole lot. He also really likes rocket-propelled long-range artillery, so he built himself a bazooka made out of bacon. And what else would a bacon bazooka fire off but sausages? It’s a masterpiece in meat munitions which serves little purpose, unless of course you need to feed someone a kielbasa without having to get too close. Enjoy!

New Video: A day in the life of MOI

My PD “Chinese Jeans” asked all announcers to record and produce a Youtube video of a typical day in our lives….here’s mine for your viewing pleasure.

Full profile link: http://www.live105.ca/shows/show/details/id/2

Why modern rock kicks classic rock’s ass….

So we’ve been in a wee bit of a dog fight with the classic rock guys since we fired up this pig back in October. I’m cool with it, competition is good, the winners end up being the listeners because there’s more choice out there. I’m not a strictly “modern rock” snob, I do have some love for the classics, but the thing is about the classics is that they’ve been played over and over and over and over again. I love being at LIVE 105 because we’re constantly busting out the new shit, mixed in with some awesome essentials. I know some people have a preference, they’re either on the modern side of things, or on the classic side of things. But before you make that final choice, think about this. If you’re a fan of modern rock, chances are you’ll NEVER see something like this on youtube:

 

Hali-food!

Up until this past Sept, I had never been to Halifax before. Always wanted to visit, but up until I started to work at LIVE 105, I had never set foot in Canada’s Ocean Playground.

One thing I kept hearing about was how amazing the food was here in the Maritimes, BOY, THEY WEREN’T KIDDING!!! I’ve had the chance to hit quite a few of some of the best restaurants in Halifax and over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll review them right here on this blog. Right out of the gates, I’ve had no formal food training. I’m no fancy schmancy smarty pants when it comes to eating, I’m just a slightly overweight dude with a decent appetite.

 

Recently, Mrs. Cubby and I had the chance to try out one of Metro’s BEST places to eat, Chives Canadian Bistro. Consistently ranked as one of the top restaurants in Halifax, it’s easy to see why. It’s not a snobby, exclusive kind of restaurant, it’s got a more laid back feel to it. Outstanding service! You never feel like you’re being rushed, have you ever felt like that in certain restaurants? Not the case at Chives. I like a menu that has a variety of choices. I LOVE this part of the country, fresh seafood, terrific pork, chicken and beef. We decided to share an appetizer, Bourbon Barbequed Braised Bacon. How can you NOT love that? It’s basically bacon wrapped with bacon!!

One of the main reasons we moved out here was to dive into the world of seafood and I was happy to see that Chives offered a wide selection of seafood. I decided to go with the pan seared sea bass. The fish was tender packed with flavour and was served on a potato puree with winter leeks:

 

Mrs. Cubby opted for the P.E.I beef duo, beef tenderloin, braised beef short rib, handmade potato gnocchi with wild mushrooms:

Paired it up with a nice bottle of wine, a Jackson Triggs Reisling from Niagara Falls, and that’s it baby, no room for desert! But if we did go for it, I would’ve grabbed the warm caramel banana eclair. Can’t wait to try out the menu for this spring! OUTSTANDING!

 

I’m hooked….

 

Don’t know about your neck o’ the woods, but in the past three weeks around the Metro Halifax, we’ve had about 40-60 cm’s of snow. That’s at least the size of one young unicorn, easily.  That’s science, that’s a FACT. Normally, the site of all this snow would send more lower back into hibernation, but thanks to a fun night out @ Martock last Friday, all this snow has jump started something that I hadn’t done in a long time. Snowboarding.

I’ll admit it, I was a kid of the 80′s, waking up early Saturday mornings to watch GI. JOE:

He-man:

and from time to time, when the cable was out, the Littlest Hobo:

When we weren’t watching Michael J. Fox on Family Ties, or playing on a wacky invention called a “computer”, we were being bombarded by tons of television commercials. I know, it must be hard for kids today to imagine, but sadly, this part of human history is indeed true. One of these “commercials” was for a snowboard you could buy at Zellers, or Canadian tire. The earliest models didn’t even have metal edges, just hard plastic bindings that fit your Cougar boots! All my buds had one, this was well before you were allowed to ride on actual ski hills. This was thumb a lift out-of-town, back country, hop the fence semi-legal snowboarding.  Local ski hills banned snowboarding back then. Man, that changed!

A few years later, I tried it again. I don’t know why, maybe too many little snot nosed jerks ruined it, but it didn’t take the second time, a little older, a little stiffer than I was at 14, but the third time? Third time’s the charm, rode a Burton for the first time in a looooong time, fell in love again with the feeling of carving down a hill and this time, I’d say the boards outweighed the skis. It wasn’t pretty on Friday night, but for a guy who hasn’t been on a board in 5 years, I think I did pretty damn good! Even as I sit here with an ice pack on my left wrist (final run too that night go figure!), frig it,  I’m doing the very same thing tomorrow @ Martock! Hopefully without all the falling down and the pain and stuff..

 

We’ve got 10-20 cm’s of fresh powder and temps around zero, hookey anyone?

 

 

 

Snow day?? Movie marathon!!!

Floyd and I love watching movies on snow days. Just not together, she’s a bit off with her movie likes and dislikes. Can you believe she doesn’t like the Hangover? She be trippin’! I love watching the Star Wars trilogy, not the last three movies that George Lucas rammed down our throats, I’m talking A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi baby! Anyhoo, this morning on the Mob, we had some Star Wars fun with Masterbleep Theatre:

 

Most interesting thing I seen on the intranets this week…

Found this recently, any suggestions on a name? Cata-pot? Herblifter? Fetchez la hash? Or how about my personal favorite, Ricardo Montal-bong?

via canoe.ca

In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.

The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a sports utility vehicle and a metal-framed catapult just south of the Arizona border near the small town of Naco last Friday, following a tip-off from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Surveillance video taken by National Guard troops deployed to support the Border Patrol caught a group of men apparently attempting to pull down a metal beam and load or test the catapult, which was powered by powerful elastic and mounted on a trailer close to the metal border fence.

“It looks like a medieval catapult that was used back in the day,” Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.

Arizona straddles a furiously trafficked corridor for human and drug smugglers from Mexico.

The U.S. Border Patrol seize hundreds of tons of marijuana and other drugs each year, smuggled over or under the line using a variety of means, including trucks, clandestine tunnels, horseback and even micro-light aircraft — although the catapult was new, Jimarez said.

“I have not seen anything like that in my time before as a Border Patrol agent … although we are trained to handle any kind of a threat that comes over that border,” he added.

Fine Regis, GO! Wait a second….

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S0 you may have noticed a recent infatuation I’ve had with Regis Philbin. A man who I believe to be my real grandfather, or great grandfather if you’re sitting at home with a calculator splitting hairs…  He’s not retiring, which is awesome, cause I’d be sh*t out of luck with my Reege impersonation. I’m glad he’s sticking around, hopefully he won’t die on me and I eventually get a chance to meet him. I trucked out my Regis impression for my friends Jeff & Nikki @ Z103 in Halifax:

Sex & the City 2 rejected storyline…

After seeing the latest movie poster for Sex & The City 2, I can’t help but notice how much Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse:

Or, according to Peter Griffin, a foot:

I think horse trumps foot on this one. Anyhoo, internet rumors are swirling that this was a rejected storyline from Sex & The City 2.