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The Mikey Show - FM 94.9 - 03/31/11

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Padres opening dayFukushima radiationdrunk driving lawsJack the Ripperdiet temptationsinkhole rescueparentingdry ice scienceCharger Girls auditionssecret languagesmessage in a bottlepadres

Woods opened the show by treating Padres opening day as a fresh start, but his own fresh start lasted only hours when Jay tempted him into breaking his no-donut pledge. Sienna's Fukushima report and Alan Hale's defense of rural taverns led to serious arguments about whether official safety assurances can be trusted and whether economic hardship can excuse dangerous driving. Trevor Marriott challenged the accepted Jack the Ripper story with a mortuary-organ theory, while Jay supplied lighter investigation through a fog-filled dry-ice experiment. Mikey recounted toddler Luke's ferocious tantrum, Emma and Giselle unpacked the demanding Charger Girls audition, callers proved they could converse in gibberish, and Daniil's Baltic bottle discovery connected him with Frank 24 years after the note was written.

What happened, in order

  1. Opening Day Optimism

    Woods celebrated baseball's opening day, argued that every team begins with a chance, and previewed Tim Stauffer facing Chris Carpenter as the Padres opened against the Cardinals.

  2. Radiation in the Milk

    Sienna reported that the Fukushima evacuation area might expand and that trace radiation had appeared in milk from Spokane and San Luis Obispo, prompting the hosts to question assurances that it posed no public-health th

  3. Montana's DUI Debate

    Montana representative Alan Hale opposed tougher DUI laws because he said they threatened rural taverns, while the hosts debated isolation and scarce transportation before concluding that local business cannot justify dr

  4. Rethinking Jack the Ripper

    Retired detective Trevor Marriott argued that Jack the Ripper did not remove his victims' organs and that medical personnel probably took them later at mortuaries, undermining the standard theory that the killer was a su

  5. The Two-Hour Donut Pledge

    Hours after Woods swore off his daily donut, Jay arranged for a fresh box to appear and Woods immediately ate a glazed one, admitting he had no intention of resisting a warm donut placed in front of him.

  6. Calling 911 from a Sinkhole

    The hosts replayed a woman's muffled 911 call from inside a backyard sinkhole and, after stressing that she survived, riffed on the dispatcher's bewildered response while explaining how she tossed her phone onto the gras

  7. Luke's Epic Tantrum

    Mikey described trying to calm his toddler Luke through a relentless crying fit, only for Luke to swing at him, arch away, charge the door, and resist every attempt at soothing.

  8. Dry-Ice Bubble Science

    Jay combined dry ice, water, soap, and a soapy rag to grow a giant fog-filled bubble that burst across the table as the rest of the crew narrated the experiment in delighted alarm.

  9. Inside the Charger Girls Tryouts

    Charger Girls Giselle and Emma explained that hundreds of dancers compete through rapid choreography, interviews, and football-knowledge tests for a job that also requires media and community appearances.

  10. The Gibberish Language Test

    After Greg Kinnear's explanation failed to clarify the childhood code called gibberish, callers Camille, Lizzie, and Lynn demonstrated different versions and successfully understood one another on air.

  11. A Bottle Answers After 24 Years

    A Russian boy named Daniil found a 1987 message in a bottle on a Baltic beach and reached Frank, the now-adult German who had thrown it from a ship when he was five.

People mentioned

WoodsMikeySiennaJayAlan HaleTrevor MarriottLukeGiselleEmmaGreg KinnearCamilleLizzieLynnDaniil