03/17/2008 @ 10:30am PST Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Monday, March 17th! QUICK RADIO UPDATE! Just got word, Joshua Escandon is out sick today, so you can hear me on KRTH 101 from 1 to 4 today. "BUZZ" Heather Mills gets her settlement, and Halle Berry delivers a baby daughter!!! "PHOTO GALLERY" American Idol Second Season Star Kimberly Locke in studio with me!
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! HERE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS OF THE DAY!
St. Patrick's Day Facts: According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 33.1 million Americans are of Irish descent -- almost 10 times the population of Ireland, 3.8 million. Here's bit more information on the Irish for St. Patrick's Day: " St. Patrick's Day is not party time but a solemn religious holiday in Ireland, which has only about 30 parades nationwide that day. " The world's first St. Patrick's Day parade stepped off in New York City on March 17, 1762. It was staged by Irish soldiers serving in the British army, to celebrate their heritage. " It's not true that St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, as popular legend claims. But he did convert most of the Irish from paganism to Christianity by the time he died in 461. " Watch who you're calling Paddy: Some Irish consider this an insult. The name sprang up in the mid-1800s, when the Irish were among America's most abused immigrants. It's where we get "paddy wagon," the police vehicle that hauled people to jail. " "Leprechaun" is based on an Old Irish word literally meaning "small body." They're a mischievous race of elves that are compelled to give up their hidden gold to anyone who catches them. According to one leprechaun story, an Irish gentleman caught a leprechaun, who took him to a bush under which his gold was buried. To mark the spot, the man tied a red handkerchief to the bush before running home to get a shovel. When he returned to the area, he found that the tricky leprechauns had tied red handkerchiefs to every bush in the field. " "May these who love us, love us. And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping." -- Irish toast.
According to the Irish Tourist Board: " St. Patrick used to use the shamrock to explain the trinity-the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit-when he persuaded the Irish to Christianity. Ireland's climate keeps shamrocks green year round. " There are 166 churches named after St. Patrick within the republic of Ireland. " A Leprechaun is no more than 24 inches tall, dresses in bright colors, is usually skilled as a shoemaker, and if surprised, might lead you to his Pot o' Gold. Your best chance of seeing one will come if you visit one too many pubs. (Ted Kennedy see 'em all the time) " Within the last 25 years, four of the six U.S. Presidents have claimed Irish ancestry: John F. Kennedy [County Wexford], Richard Nixon [County Kildare], Gerald Ford [County Longford], Ronald Reagan [County Tipperary]. " The official emblem of Ireland is a silver-and-gold Irish harp on a blue background. The oldest Irish harp in existence is the "Brian Boru Harp," dating from the 14th century and named after the most famous king in early Irish history. " The shillelagh was named for a village in County Wicklow where oak and blackthorn trees are plentiful. It was first displayed in battle in 1209. " The tri-colour Irish flag [green, white, and orange] first gained acceptance as the flag of Irish independence in 1848, and became the national flag when Ireland finally achieved its independence in 1921. " The potato did not originate in Ireland. The lowly spud was actually brought to the Emerald Isle in the 17th century from America by Sir Walter Raleigh, who had a large estate at Youghal [pronounced "Yawl"] in County Cork. " The original "Tara" is actually a mound 500 feet above sea level that was the religious and cultural capital of Ireland in ancient times. It is about 30 miles from Dublin, in county Meath. St Patrick is said to have preached there. " In the 6th century, an Irishman named St. Brendan the Navigator is said to have discovered America and returned to Ireland to tell the tale. To prove the legend, Tim Severin sailed successfully from Kerry to Boston in 1976 using a replica of St Brendan's 36-foot leather boat. " On Columbus's 1492 trip to the New World, he stopped at Galway to pick up Irishman Rice de Culvy as part of his crew
03/14/2008 @ 12:45pm PST Friday, March 14th/Weekend "NEWS"! A chance to kiss credit card gotchas goodbye! And check out my little Children's Hospital friend Edna at Disneyworld with Marie Osmond. "BUZZ" Spitzer's call girl is climbing the ladder of fame, & Heather Mills to get 50 million! "PHOTO GALLERY" Soap Star icon Andrea Evans in a 1984 flashback photo with me!
I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of talented and fun people over the years and one of those was Ray Bonassi, who was the Assistant Director on the 7 year game show run of "Scrabble" on NBC that I had a chance to be the Announcer and audience warm-up man for, that starred Chuck Woolery. Ray is now working as a director for KCBS televison in Studio City!
Ray and I recently re-connected via email and he's constantly forwarding me jokes, cartoons, pictures and info that I just love, but one today really hit home for me, and I'm sure it will for you too. Take a look at the letter Ray got from Consumer Reports.
THE BALL'S IN YOUR COURT, TIME TO LET CONGRESS KNOW WHAT WE WANT!!!
MEANWHILE, I GET AN EMAIL FROM LITTLE 12 YEAR OLD EDNA CERRITOS, ONE OF THE MIRACLE KIDS I'VE TALKED ABOUT FROM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN LOS ANGELES, WHO I'VE KNOWN FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS OF MY TUNATHON FUNDRAISING FOR THE HOSPITAL. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD HER ON THE AIR WITH ME LAST WEEK ON KRTH 101!
That phone call from Edna is in the "CLIPS" section of this website, posted on March 9th if you scroll down. She was selected as the California representative (there's one child from each state) that gets to go to Disneyworld and to the White House in Washington D.C., thanks to patrons of Children's Hospitals across Amercia, as a reward for helping bring attention to the needs and the miracles Children's Miracle Network produces every year.
Edna and I communicate quite often, we're bff (best friends forever), and I asked her when she left for Disneyworld this week to send me some pictures. Sure enough, she did, and here's one of her with Marie Osmond at Disneyworld where they'll both be at a big awards banquet this weekend. It really does my heart good to see Edna, who would have died from an undiagnosed brain tumor by 7 other physicians around the southland, but for the grace of God, the Doctors at Children's found it, operated on her, and saved her life.
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03/13/2008 @ 11:50am PST Thursday Morning, March 13! Reality check for you today, it's a link to the World Clock! It will make you really stop and think if you care about this planet Earth that we're on. "BUZZ" Idol Voters send David Hernandez home, Michael Jackson keeps his ranch. "PHOTO GALLERY" Singer/Actress Michelle Nicastro beating cancer and still going!
THINGS HAPPEN TO US EVERYDAY IN THIS WORLD, BUT HERE'S A REALITY CHECK!
LISTENER KATIE SHELL SENT ME "THE WORLD CLOCK", CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ACTIVATE THE ACTUAL TICKING CLOCK TO REAL TIME NUMBERS AND IMAGES!
ONE POST SCRIPT TO YESTERDAY, IF YOU REALLY THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY, LIKE I FELT I WAS YESTERDAY, LISTENER ROBERT LOMBARD FORWARDED THESE PICTURES OF THIS POOR PIT BULL WHO TANGLED WITH A PORCUPINE!
A VET SEDATED THE DOG, AND THEN REMOVED A TOTAL OF 1,347 QUILLS. THE DOG SURVIVED, AND HOPEFULLY LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON!
03/12/2008 @ 9:00pm PST Wednesday, March 12th! Whew! This was one of those computer days. All the Website postings since the weekend just disappeared, and I hadn't backed it up since Friday. So it took most of the day to redo everything from scratch! Lesson Learned! Daily Back-Ups! "BUZZ" Video highlights of American Idol & Mariah Carey covers for Janet Jackson. "PHOTO GALLERY" Mel Harris and Nancy Travis bookend Charlie in studio!
IT'S DAYS LIKE THIS WHEN YOU NEED TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR ABOUT COMPUTERS!
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge. They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over. He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, "I have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out." "Very well, then," says God, "let us see if Jesus fared any better." Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished. He stutters, "B-b-but how? I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact. How did he do it?" God smiled all-knowingly, "Jesus saves."
There is an OLD story about the data center of the future. This data center runs 24/7 with only a man and a dog. The man's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to make sure the man does not touch the computer.
There are three engineers in a car; an electrical engineer, a chemical engineer, and a Microsoft Software Engineer. Suddenly the car just stops by the side of the road, and the three engineers look at each other wondering what could be wrong. The electrical engineer suggests stripping down the electronics of the car and trying to trace where a fault might have occurred. The chemical engineer, not knowing much about cars, suggests that maybe the fuel is becoming emulsified and getting blocked somewhere.
Then the Microsoft engineer, not knowing much about anything, comes up with a suggestion. "Why don't we close all the windows, get out, get back in, open the windows again, and maybe it'll work!?"
03/11/2008 @ 9:00am PST Tuesday Morning, March 11th! Today, some more of those household hints emailed by another listener, and some of them are downright genius. If you have more, send them to me for the next list! "BUZZ" Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inducts five, including Madonna, and George Clooney is not engaged. "PHOTO GALLERY" Peaches and Herb shake their groove thing in studio.
EVERYONE LOVES HOUSEHOLD HINTS AND I BETCHA HAVEN'T HEARD SOME OF THESE!
THANKS TO LISTENER DAVID HATCHEL WHO EMAILED THESE TO SHARE WITH YOU!
1. Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.
2. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
3. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
4. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
5. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
6. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then bea them up.
7. For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
8. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
9. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yum
10. Reheat Pizza. Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
11. Easy Deviled Eggs. Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
12. Expanding Frosting. When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
13. Reheating refrigerated bread. To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
14. Newspaper weeds away. Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
15. Broken Glass. Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
16. No More Mosquitoes. Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
17. Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
18. Flexible vacuum. To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
19. Reducing Static Cling. Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- TA DA! -- static is gone.
20. Measuring Cups. Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
21. Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
22. Reopening envelope. If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
23. Conditioner. Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair...
24. Good-bye Fruit Flies. To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever! Make sure the you don't put it in a paper cup on top of a wood surface - the ingredients will eat through the cup and leave a ring!!
25. Get Rid of Ants. Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
26. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink, ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material - I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like. Well...the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over the at mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free -- that nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box, well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to catch fire & potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (& to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot soapy water & an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!
Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water & a nylon brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it -- the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn't any pooling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about!
03/10/2008 @ 9:00am PST Monday Morning, March 10th! Photo highlights of the Charlie Tuna "Behind The Scenes" KRTH Tour and Audio of the lucky listeners who were there on the Monday "CLIPS" link! "BUZZ" It was back to B.C. for movie fans this past weekend, a mammoth box-office for 10,000 B.C., plus Seinfeld rumors! "PHOTO GALLERY" Anita Ward in studio to "Ring My Bell" and 1979 all over again.
FRIDAY MORNING, 20 KRTH LISTENERS WERE MY SPECIAL GUESTS IN STUDIO AS PART OF THE KRTH ALL ACCESS CLUB'S CHANCE FOR A KRTH "BEHIND THE SCENES" TOUR AND BREAKFAST WITH ME.
YOU CAN HEAR THEIR LISTENER COMMENTS ON THE "CLIPS" PAGE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 10TH IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM ON MY KRTH SHOW THIS PAST SUNDAY. THEY'RE ALSO POSTED ON THE KRTH 101 WEBSITE UNDER "ON THE AIR" IN THE NEWLY CREATED "TUNA CLIPS" FILE. AND STARTING LATER THIS WEEK, TUNA TRIVIA FOR PRIZES ON THE KRTH WEBSITE WITH THOSE SAME "TUNA CLIPS".
03/07/2008 @ 9:00am PST Friday Morning, March 7th! Daylight Savings Time begins early again this year on Sunday, March 9th! Time to spring ahead again! We have some video explanations of the annual ritual!
FIRST, COMEDIAN ROBERT MAC EXPLAINS DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
WHY DID WE START THIS DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BUSINESS IN THE FIRST PLACE
IS THIS "SPRINGING FORWARD" REALLY GOOD FOR OUR TECHNICAL DEVICES?
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO GET UP EARLY TO SEE THE SUNRISE, HERE IT IS
03/06/2008 @ 9:00am PST Thursday Morning, March 6th! For years the joke has been that Al Gore invented the internet, but if you actually search back further in history, the internet has been around longer than you think, dating back to ancient times. Take a look!
03/06/2008 @ 12:00am PST Wednesday Morning, March 5th! It's another morning on the radio for vacationing Gary Bryan and the gang from 5 to 10 a.m. on K-Earth 101! Up for grabs again, I've got Moody Blues and Eagles/John Fogerty Tickets, plus 101 gallons of free gas playing "Beat The Pump!! "BUZZ" Patrick Swayze fighting pancreatic cancer, and "Idol" contestants sing the '80's! "PHOTO GALLERY" It's Disneyland's "Johnny Depp" with his "Pirates of the Caribbean" treasure!
GAS PRICES STILL RISING, ALMOST 20 CENTS A GALLON IN JUST OVER A WEEK!
03/03/2008 @ 10:40pm PST Tuesday Morning, March 4th! It's another morning on the radio for vacationing Gary Bryan and the gang from 5 to 10 a.m. on K-Earth 101! Up for grabs again, I've got Moody Blues and Eagles/John Fogerty Tickets, plus 101 gallons of free gas playing "Beat The Pump!! "BUZZ" Drew Barrymore has her own "Big Give" for Oprah, & lotsa celeb baby talk. "PHOTO GALLERY" Henry Winkler in studio during his "Fonzie" era on "Happy Days"!
DUE TO A HUGE RESPONSE ON THE KRTH MORNING SHOW TODAY AND EVERYONE WANTING IT, HERE'S A COPY OF WHAT I READ ABOUT 7:20 A.M. "THE COST OF KIDS"!
I have seen repeatedly the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice, really nice!
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition.
But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.24 a day! Just over a dollar an hour.
Still, you might think the best financial advice says don't have children if you want to be "rich." It is just the opposite.
What do your get for your $160,140?
Naming rights,--- First, middle, and last!
Glimpses of God everyday.
Giggles under the covers every night.
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
A hand to hold, usually covered with jam.
A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sand castles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140, you never have to grow up.
You get to fingerprint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney Land, and wishing on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck.
You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off the bike, removing a splinter, filling a wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
You get a front row seat to history to witness the first step, first word, first bra, first date, and first time behind the wheel You get to be immortal.
You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren.
You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice,communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with God.
You have all the power to heal a booboo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.
ENJOY YOUR KIDS AND GRAND KIDS!
Congratulations again to all you L.A. Marathon runners this past weekend who checked in with me on the air Monday morning on KRTH 101. Just the fact that you did complete one of the most grueling events in sports today says a lot about you! Take a look at yourselves.
"BUZZ" Drew Barrymore's million dollar charity check, Amy Yasbeck testifies in the wrongful death trial of her husband John Ritter, Kate Hudson pregnant???, Vanity Fair's very funny ladies on parade, Britney shopping for Jamie Lynn's baby boy, and American Idol giving back again, "CLIPS" features my salute to John Wooden, "GALLERY" Henry Winkler and a vintage photograph from his visit to my studio when he was the "Fonz", and "TALKBACK" with more of your very thoughtful emails.
Don't miss me all this week 5 to 10 a.m. on KRTH 101! To listen online, go to MYK-Earth 101.com
