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The Mikey Show - Rock 105.3 - 10/07/08

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Mikey and the crew prepared for their commercial-free 28-hour Children's Hospital fundraiser, arguing that keeping a live comedy show moving for that long would be genuinely punishing even as fans treated it like a major event. Sean's germaphobia supplied the biggest running bits: he objected to a shared microphone and Jake's messy peanut-butter snack, then described a six-hour attempt to sanitize a custom shower scrubby while everyone argued that his precautions had become obsessive. Boston Rob confessed that a Red Sox playoff game drove him into the bathroom, Eddie remembered freezing when Eddie Van Halen handed him a pick, and Ashley mangled both an idiom and John Wilkes Booth's identity. The show also turned serious when Mikey sought work for his laid-off friend Larry and helped Velvet publicize the disappearance of her sister Billie Coulter, while callers' stories about therapy, broken controllers, and near-fights showed how ugly casual competition could become.

What happened, in order

  1. Boston Rob's playoff panic

    Boston Rob admitted the Red Sox-Angels game stressed him so badly that he hid in the bathroom, questioned his fandom, and nearly cried when Boston won.

  2. The 28-hour countdown

    The crew counted down to a 28-hour broadcast with no music or commercials and argued that sustaining an entertaining show that long was like tap-dancing for 28 hours.

  3. Village Idiom

    The hosts revived the Village Idiom bit and defended Ashley's invented definition of “as the crow flies” as describing a boring but steadfast worker.

  4. Sean versus a messy toddler

    Sean criticized two-year-old Jake for spreading peanut butter on his face and preferred raisins because they would make the child's eating cleaner.

  5. Competition gone too far

    An email about a board-game blowup prompted stories about Skye and Eddie fighting over Scattergories, a caller entering therapy over losing, two pastors nearly brawling, and a man smashing a Madden controller after his g

  6. Frozen before Van Halen

    Eddie recalled rushing a Van Halen stage at 16 and becoming so starstruck that Eddie Van Halen had to pry open his hand to give him a guitar pick.

  7. The custom scrubby saga

    Sean described spending six hours repeatedly restarting an off-balance washing machine to sanitize one custom shower scrubby with hot water and double detergent before a trip.

  8. Who shot Lincoln?

    Asked who John Wilkes Booth was, Ashley guessed the assassins of John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Martin Luther King Jr. before finally reaching Abraham Lincoln.

  9. Finding Larry a job

    After discussing the financial crisis, Mikey put his recently laid-off friend Larry on the air and asked listeners for automotive finance or training opportunities.

  10. Search for Billie Coulter

    Velvet tearfully asked listeners to help find her missing 17-year-old sister Billie Coulter, while Mikey calmed her, repeated the description, and directed tips to police.

  11. Ayo's modeling dilemma

    Ayo revealed that his first Los Angeles fashion-show booking conflicted with the marathon, and the crew pressured him to abandon the opportunity and join their 28-hour broadcast.

People mentioned

MikeyEddieSkyeSeanBoston RobAshleyJakeRebeccaEddie Van HalenLarryVelvetBillie CoulterAyoJohn Wilkes Booth