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Maggie Gyllenhaal; Neil Young; and The Hold Steady. PLUS:John McCain Supporter of the Night; What's on Barack's iPod; those crazy milk prices; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; and Andy Kindler Hangs with The Hold Steady.
". . . and now, the number one name in pet food . . . . . . David Letterman!"
ACT 1:
First time: It's something we call "John McCain Supporter of the Night."
We see a clip from CNN's "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf: "Are there any significant economic differences between what the Bush Administration has put forward over these many years as opposed to now what John McCain supports?"
McCain supporter Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina responds: "Um . . . yeah . . . . I mean . . . for instance, take . . . you know . . . um, uh . . . .take for instance, the the issue of . . . uh . . . . oh, uh . . . . I'm drawing a blank . . ."
The guy's presidential material.
Every 4 years you hear how the young people will determine the direction of our nation, but usually the youth are more interested in getting to the next level on their video game. But this year with Barack Obama, it looks like he has the kids inspired. Recently, "Rolling Stone" magazine revealed what's on Barack's iPod. It's something the kids can really relate to. And "Rolling Stone" has something else in store. Announce: "In a recent issue of 'Rolling Stone' magazine, Barack Obama told readers what's on his iPod. And coming up in the next issue of 'Rolling Stone,' John McCain gives readers a look at his iPod."
We see a photo of John McCain holding a tiny gramophone with an Apple logo on it.
"John McCain: Can you believe how old he is?"
Not only is the price of gasoline going sky high, milk prices are going crazy, too. And the reaction from Washington has been fast. Announce: "Rising milk prices are hurting American consumers. To solve the problem, President Bush proposes a three part plan:
1. lower income taxes for cows.
2. More offshore drilling for milk
3. And if necessary, invading Wisconsin.
George W. Bush: BOOB."
GREAT MOMENT IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES:
We see our President proclaim, "Uh oh."
ACT 2: ANDY KINDLER: We sent Andy out to spend some time traveling with tonight's band, The Hold Steady. But before we watch the piece, we catch up on what's Andy's been up to and what's bothering him.
On his flight over, he sat near a very annoying guy who was trying to pal around with some military people. It's just what you want when you're flying the red-eye. At one point the guy says, "You know, I don't even fly for fun anymore." Andy wonders who flies commercially just for fun? Andy then recreates a scene of such a guy: "Hawaii? Forget Hawaii. I don't even remember Hawaii . . . but the flight over!!! That was great fun. I ordered a soda . . . I got the WHOLE can!"
Andy hung out with the guys from The Hold Steady. Was Andy ever in a band growing up? He says he dabbled in the guitar after years of forced-violin. He was a member of a few bands, each with terrible names.
The Visitors - "no, not the Home Team, we're the visitors."
Merging Traffic - "somehow we didn't realize there was a band called "Traffic."
Trans Fusion - "the idea being we were beyond fusion." He admits the band couldn't play fusion. A lot of people who came to see them thought they were heavy metal. One audience got so mad they started yelling at them. To try to win them back, Andy would tell jokes between songs. He soon got a note from the owner of the bar: "Cut the chatter."
We then take a look at Andy hanging with The Hold Steady and their lead sinter, Craig Finn. Craig Finn, lead singer of a rock band. Does he look like Jim Morrison? Does he look like Robert Plant? No. He looks like Andy Kindler.
Andy Kindler will be appearing this Friday and Saturday at the "Just For Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal, Canada.
ACT 3: MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL: The lovely Ms. Gyllenhaal and Dave pose together at the desk for a photo that isn't taken. Maggie says she suffered a bit of a calamity recently when she broke her toe. Her boyfriend was very impressed with the break since it was broken in half. It's not easy going on a promotional tour for the biggest movie of the summer with a broken toe. Dave is very interested in the details, and wonders if the toe swelled up and got ugly looking. Maggie laughs and pleads to talk about something else. She adds that the nurse on duty kept pushing Percoset on her but Maggie didn't want any. Instead, Maggie went with the Advil. Dave wonders if Maggie has any of the Percoset, since she's not using any. She doesn't.
When not promoting the film, Maggie spent some time in Martha's Vineyard. Maggie says Martha's Vineyard really tick haven. Oooh, ticks! That's right up Dave's alley. Maggie says she does a nightly tick-check with her boyfriend. At first, the examination is strictly to find possible embedded ticks, but then . . . . . it often turns into a lot of fun. Dave says he does a self-check for ticks and it's not quite as exciting, although he does try to create as much fun a guy can have while squatting over a mirror.
Maggie is a mom of an almost two-year-old. She says she was 8 months pregnant the last time she was here. Dave, a bit surprised, says "And there I thought it was a tick." And from that pregnancy came her becoming a print-ad model for Agent Provocateur, a lingerie company that makes exciting breast-feeding under garments. We see a photo of Maggie in some Agent Provocateur. Very nice. It got me sold.
Maggie stars in the incredibly big Batman blockbuster of the summer, The Dark Knight. It opens Friday.
ACT 5: Announce: "Tomorrow on the Late Show, Dave is joined by Ricky Gervais, and musician John Mellencamp. Wake up, people!
We'll be right back."
ACT 6: NEIL YOUNG: I was a bit disappointed that he wasn't here to sing. It's like Dave's old joke about having Neil Armstrong on the show except that he won't talk about the moon. Well, to my surprise Neil Young was a very interesting guest. He's got a whole life outside of his music. Yes, I know I'm naive to think that all musicians do is music and all athletes do is sport and all actors do is act. I sometimes forget they have a whole other life they live and they usually have the time and money to pursue whatever they wish.
Dave says he saw Neil Young on the CBS program "Sunday Morning" and learned a great deal about the singer/songwriter. The segment covered Neil's interest in finding an economic, fuel-efficient, enormous car. Neil wants to combine his wish to be environmentally friendly with his love of really big cars. We see a photo of Neil's 1959 Lincoln Continental Convertible. It's huge. He got a lot of his friends together, joined their knowledge and motivation, and worked on getting this 10 mpg monster up to 100 mpg. It's now equipped, or hoped to be soon, with an electric motor, a special generator, a heat recovery system to regenerate energy while it runs, and lots more. One guy is working on something for the car in Wichita and another guy someplace in Europe is working on something and Neil's got other guys across the country working on something for the car. While he was telling the story, I pictured Neil as the character played by Nick Nolte in "Lorenzo's Oil." Individually, getting a 1959 Continental to get 100 mpg would be near impossible. Pooling the great minds of friends and acquaintances make it a possibility, and it's a great hobby with a nice payoff if they find the secret. I may wear a NASCAR shirt now and then, but I couldn't be on this team of car and motor aficionados. I know nothing about cars. If Neil asked me to be on his team, I'd be in charge of snacks. But money isn't the goal of this venture. No. It's all about eliminating roadside refueling.
Neil also has a film coming out on July 25th entitled "CSNY: Deja Vu." He re-teamed with Crosby, Stills, and Nash and went out on a "Freedom of Speech Tour." He wanted to see what the reaction would be if CSNY hit the road every bit as outspoken as they were during the Vietnam era.
Dave wonders why the outcry today against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't as strong as it was 40 years ago against Vietnam. Neil says this administration is smart. Without the draft, today's kids are not threatened so the urgency is not there. If the administration brought back the draft, they would all be voted out. As everyone knows, a politician has two goals in life, and that is to be elected, and then to be re-elected. Everything else comes after that.
Neil Young . . . . bring him back for me. Good guest.
ACT 7: THE HOLD STEADY: From their new CD, "Stay Positive," The Hold Steady performed "Sequestered in Memphis."
And that was our show for July 16, 2008.
I went on a cruise with the family last week down to Florida and the Bahamas. Very nice time but one thing always bothers me. It's my bald head. I get great color, and then when it's time to return to work, my bald head starts to peel. It looks like I have awful dandruff. It's as if my head needs a lint brush. Those with a full head of hair don't have to put up with this.
Oh, and one more thing I learned on the cruise. Actually, I learned it on a cruise from many years ago. I don't like cigarettes. I never smoked. But cigarette smokers are a whole lot more fun than non-cigarette smokers. When looking for laughs, I'll take a butt-head over a non-smoker any day of the week.
I was re-boarding the cruise ship in the Bahamas last week but was faced with a long line. I told Denise that I needed to do something "over there." She pressed me so I told her I saw a bar on the way in that I wanted to check out. It appeared to have a local air about it and I wanted to have a beer in something other than the circus atmosphere of a cruise ship. She said the ship was leaving in 40 minutes. With that, I skipped over to Seaman's Bar. I pulled up a barstool and ordered the local beer. A guy eyes my Chicago Cubs hat and we begin to talk about the Cubs. We both share a story about the '84 Cubs and how the ball went through Bull Durham's legs. After a while he asks me where I'm from. I tell him and he says he's familiar with the area. Turns out he lives about 2 miles from me. We later discover we drank at the same holes growing up. His stories were my stories, and mine his. Somehow our paths never crossed at home, but I think I shared drinks with his brothers over the years. Anyway, a fine local friendship was seeded in the Bahamas many miles from home. What impressed me most about my new friend Robert is he had big plans for his day in Freeport in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, he never got any farther than Seaman's Bar, 100 feet from the ship.
I knew something was going on with Brett Favre when he was here back in April.
From the April 24, 2008 Wahoo Gazette, recapping the Brett Favre's appearance on the show:
"Brett announced his retirement a few months ago but there have been whispers that he could be coaxed back. Is the retirement official? Is everything signed, sealed, and delivered? No. HUH? Brett says he probably should sign the papers and get done with it but . . . . . being a typical guy, I guess, he'll get to it when he gets to it.
After playing football his whole life, what does he expect to feel when training camp rolls around? Brett says he is sure there will be feelings, then hints, 'Something is bound to happen.' Again, HUH? Like what? Brett says, 'I don't know.' I wonder if Brett is going to pull a Roger Clemens. . . . 'Any contenders out there need a quarterback for a couple months?'"
I knew I wasn't alone when my suspicion radar started to blip. There was more than just me who thought Brett wasn't quite done yet.
I'll always picture Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks as a first baseman, not a shortstop.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
From Nyack, New York, it's Robert Novotny.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Maggie Gyllenhaal; Neil Young; and The Hold Steady. PLUS:John McCain Supporter of the Night; What's on Barack's iPod; those crazy milk prices; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; and Andy Kindler Hangs with The Hold Steady.
". . . and now, the number one name in pet food . . . . . . David Letterman!"
ACT 1:
First time: It's something we call "John McCain Supporter of the Night."
We see a clip from CNN's "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf: "Are there any significant economic differences between what the Bush Administration has put forward over these many years as opposed to now what John McCain supports?"
McCain supporter Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina responds: "Um . . . yeah . . . . I mean . . . for instance, take . . . you know . . . um, uh . . . .take for instance, the the issue of . . . uh . . . . oh, uh . . . . I'm drawing a blank . . ."
The guy's presidential material.
Every 4 years you hear how the young people will determine the direction of our nation, but usually the youth are more interested in getting to the next level on their video game. But this year with Barack Obama, it looks like he has the kids inspired. Recently, "Rolling Stone" magazine revealed what's on Barack's iPod. It's something the kids can really relate to. And "Rolling Stone" has something else in store. Announce: "In a recent issue of 'Rolling Stone' magazine, Barack Obama told readers what's on his iPod. And coming up in the next issue of 'Rolling Stone,' John McCain gives readers a look at his iPod."
We see a photo of John McCain holding a tiny gramophone with an Apple logo on it.
"John McCain: Can you believe how old he is?"
Not only is the price of gasoline going sky high, milk prices are going crazy, too. And the reaction from Washington has been fast. Announce: "Rising milk prices are hurting American consumers. To solve the problem, President Bush proposes a three part plan:
1. lower income taxes for cows.
2. More offshore drilling for milk
3. And if necessary, invading Wisconsin.
George W. Bush: BOOB."
GREAT MOMENT IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES:
We see our President proclaim, "Uh oh."
ACT 2: ANDY KINDLER: We sent Andy out to spend some time traveling with tonight's band, The Hold Steady. But before we watch the piece, we catch up on what's Andy's been up to and what's bothering him.
On his flight over, he sat near a very annoying guy who was trying to pal around with some military people. It's just what you want when you're flying the red-eye. At one point the guy says, "You know, I don't even fly for fun anymore." Andy wonders who flies commercially just for fun? Andy then recreates a scene of such a guy: "Hawaii? Forget Hawaii. I don't even remember Hawaii . . . but the flight over!!! That was great fun. I ordered a soda . . . I got the WHOLE can!"
Andy hung out with the guys from The Hold Steady. Was Andy ever in a band growing up? He says he dabbled in the guitar after years of forced-violin. He was a member of a few bands, each with terrible names.
The Visitors - "no, not the Home Team, we're the visitors."
Merging Traffic - "somehow we didn't realize there was a band called "Traffic."
Trans Fusion - "the idea being we were beyond fusion." He admits the band couldn't play fusion. A lot of people who came to see them thought they were heavy metal. One audience got so mad they started yelling at them. To try to win them back, Andy would tell jokes between songs. He soon got a note from the owner of the bar: "Cut the chatter."
We then take a look at Andy hanging with The Hold Steady and their lead sinter, Craig Finn. Craig Finn, lead singer of a rock band. Does he look like Jim Morrison? Does he look like Robert Plant? No. He looks like Andy Kindler.
Andy Kindler will be appearing this Friday and Saturday at the "Just For Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal, Canada.
ACT 3: MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL: The lovely Ms. Gyllenhaal and Dave pose together at the desk for a photo that isn't taken. Maggie says she suffered a bit of a calamity recently when she broke her toe. Her boyfriend was very impressed with the break since it was broken in half. It's not easy going on a promotional tour for the biggest movie of the summer with a broken toe. Dave is very interested in the details, and wonders if the toe swelled up and got ugly looking. Maggie laughs and pleads to talk about something else. She adds that the nurse on duty kept pushing Percoset on her but Maggie didn't want any. Instead, Maggie went with the Advil. Dave wonders if Maggie has any of the Percoset, since she's not using any. She doesn't.
When not promoting the film, Maggie spent some time in Martha's Vineyard. Maggie says Martha's Vineyard really tick haven. Oooh, ticks! That's right up Dave's alley. Maggie says she does a nightly tick-check with her boyfriend. At first, the examination is strictly to find possible embedded ticks, but then . . . . . it often turns into a lot of fun. Dave says he does a self-check for ticks and it's not quite as exciting, although he does try to create as much fun a guy can have while squatting over a mirror.
Maggie is a mom of an almost two-year-old. She says she was 8 months pregnant the last time she was here. Dave, a bit surprised, says "And there I thought it was a tick." And from that pregnancy came her becoming a print-ad model for Agent Provocateur, a lingerie company that makes exciting breast-feeding under garments. We see a photo of Maggie in some Agent Provocateur. Very nice. It got me sold.
Maggie stars in the incredibly big Batman blockbuster of the summer, The Dark Knight. It opens Friday.
ACT 5: Announce: "Tomorrow on the Late Show, Dave is joined by Ricky Gervais, and musician John Mellencamp. Wake up, people!
We'll be right back."
ACT 6: NEIL YOUNG: I was a bit disappointed that he wasn't here to sing. It's like Dave's old joke about having Neil Armstrong on the show except that he won't talk about the moon. Well, to my surprise Neil Young was a very interesting guest. He's got a whole life outside of his music. Yes, I know I'm naive to think that all musicians do is music and all athletes do is sport and all actors do is act. I sometimes forget they have a whole other life they live and they usually have the time and money to pursue whatever they wish.
Dave says he saw Neil Young on the CBS program "Sunday Morning" and learned a great deal about the singer/songwriter. The segment covered Neil's interest in finding an economic, fuel-efficient, enormous car. Neil wants to combine his wish to be environmentally friendly with his love of really big cars. We see a photo of Neil's 1959 Lincoln Continental Convertible. It's huge. He got a lot of his friends together, joined their knowledge and motivation, and worked on getting this 10 mpg monster up to 100 mpg. It's now equipped, or hoped to be soon, with an electric motor, a special generator, a heat recovery system to regenerate energy while it runs, and lots more. One guy is working on something for the car in Wichita and another guy someplace in Europe is working on something and Neil's got other guys across the country working on something for the car. While he was telling the story, I pictured Neil as the character played by Nick Nolte in "Lorenzo's Oil." Individually, getting a 1959 Continental to get 100 mpg would be near impossible. Pooling the great minds of friends and acquaintances make it a possibility, and it's a great hobby with a nice payoff if they find the secret. I may wear a NASCAR shirt now and then, but I couldn't be on this team of car and motor aficionados. I know nothing about cars. If Neil asked me to be on his team, I'd be in charge of snacks. But money isn't the goal of this venture. No. It's all about eliminating roadside refueling.
Neil also has a film coming out on July 25th entitled "CSNY: Deja Vu." He re-teamed with Crosby, Stills, and Nash and went out on a "Freedom of Speech Tour." He wanted to see what the reaction would be if CSNY hit the road every bit as outspoken as they were during the Vietnam era.
Dave wonders why the outcry today against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't as strong as it was 40 years ago against Vietnam. Neil says this administration is smart. Without the draft, today's kids are not threatened so the urgency is not there. If the administration brought back the draft, they would all be voted out. As everyone knows, a politician has two goals in life, and that is to be elected, and then to be re-elected. Everything else comes after that.
Neil Young . . . . bring him back for me. Good guest.
ACT 7: THE HOLD STEADY: From their new CD, "Stay Positive," The Hold Steady performed "Sequestered in Memphis."
And that was our show for July 16, 2008.
I went on a cruise with the family last week down to Florida and the Bahamas. Very nice time but one thing always bothers me. It's my bald head. I get great color, and then when it's time to return to work, my bald head starts to peel. It looks like I have awful dandruff. It's as if my head needs a lint brush. Those with a full head of hair don't have to put up with this.
Oh, and one more thing I learned on the cruise. Actually, I learned it on a cruise from many years ago. I don't like cigarettes. I never smoked. But cigarette smokers are a whole lot more fun than non-cigarette smokers. When looking for laughs, I'll take a butt-head over a non-smoker any day of the week.
I was re-boarding the cruise ship in the Bahamas last week but was faced with a long line. I told Denise that I needed to do something "over there." She pressed me so I told her I saw a bar on the way in that I wanted to check out. It appeared to have a local air about it and I wanted to have a beer in something other than the circus atmosphere of a cruise ship. She said the ship was leaving in 40 minutes. With that, I skipped over to Seaman's Bar. I pulled up a barstool and ordered the local beer. A guy eyes my Chicago Cubs hat and we begin to talk about the Cubs. We both share a story about the '84 Cubs and how the ball went through Bull Durham's legs. After a while he asks me where I'm from. I tell him and he says he's familiar with the area. Turns out he lives about 2 miles from me. We later discover we drank at the same holes growing up. His stories were my stories, and mine his. Somehow our paths never crossed at home, but I think I shared drinks with his brothers over the years. Anyway, a fine local friendship was seeded in the Bahamas many miles from home. What impressed me most about my new friend Robert is he had big plans for his day in Freeport in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, he never got any farther than Seaman's Bar, 100 feet from the ship.
I knew something was going on with Brett Favre when he was here back in April.
From the April 24, 2008 Wahoo Gazette, recapping the Brett Favre's appearance on the show:
"Brett announced his retirement a few months ago but there have been whispers that he could be coaxed back. Is the retirement official? Is everything signed, sealed, and delivered? No. HUH? Brett says he probably should sign the papers and get done with it but . . . . . being a typical guy, I guess, he'll get to it when he gets to it.
After playing football his whole life, what does he expect to feel when training camp rolls around? Brett says he is sure there will be feelings, then hints, 'Something is bound to happen.' Again, HUH? Like what? Brett says, 'I don't know.' I wonder if Brett is going to pull a Roger Clemens. . . . 'Any contenders out there need a quarterback for a couple months?'"
I knew I wasn't alone when my suspicion radar started to blip. There was more than just me who thought Brett wasn't quite done yet.
I'll always picture Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks as a first baseman, not a shortstop.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
From Nyack, New York, it's Robert Novotny.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
ACT 1 • Show Open • Dave's Monologue • McCain Supporter of the Night • Obama Reveals What's on His iPod • Milk Is Expenseve -- Bush to Invade Wisconsin • Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
ACT 2 • Andy Kindler Hangs with The Hold Steady Watch now
