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I should probably explain why I have this up.
Lately…with the elections and all the disappointments going on…I’ve been attracted to silly and stupid radio, hence; Jonathan Brandmeier–who never disappoints. He is always consistently funny, he just can’t seem to help himself. And he’s always bringing up stuff that makes me laugh so hard-and so unexpectedly while I’m driving with my coffee in the car in the morning, sometimes I spit it out all over myself laughing.
A couple of stories lately had me in stitches.
One was two kids from -I don’t remember where-who stuck their tongues on a flagpole. Their job every morning before school is to put the flag up. And I guess they do it after school, too. Well one cold winter morning, the one kid had a bright idea. He stuck his tongue out onto the frozen flag pole. And believe me, when it’s freezing out that is not funny. The one kid did it, and then, after he somehow ripped the tongue off the flagpole without the other kid noticing, he convinced the other kid to do it. It wasn’t until both their tongues were bleeding that the second kid realized the first kid had really hurt himself. The second kid didn’t believe the first kid when he said he’d done it. They both ended up being sent to the nurse later on that day, with bleeding tongues. Does your tongue bleed after doing that? I don’t remember. I did it on our front doorknob when I was about 6. Just to test the theory.
Another one was this morning, in fact. A guy who has a truck – I think it’s a chevy – that is going to hit 1,000,000 miles on Friday. And this guy was -like some obsessed people I know-totally obsessed with keeping this vehicle running. At any cost, apparently – just so he doesn’t have to make a car payment. But as a result he’s replaced engines, transmissions, and other parts. But within the last few weeks the dome light went out, the radio went out, and the heater went out. If I remember correctly, he is in the seafood business and drives from Wisconsin to Illinois a couple days a week. The number of miles he has on that thing is over 990,000 miles – which they said was almost like two trips to the moon!
Brandmeier does some pretty amazing prank phone calls, too.
Not too long ago, he was calling people in Hawaii to see if they were eating SPAM. I guess Hawaii is the biggest SPAM state in the country–everybody there eats SPAM. So he would ask a caller if it was a spam or no spam person, and then he just called someone in Hawaii to find out if they ate SPAM in the last week. And of course they were playing Monty Python’s SPAM song throughout the whole segment. And quite a few of the people he’d phoned up ATE SPAM IN THE LAST WEEK!
I don’t know where they get this stuff, but it goes like this all morning long on that show, one thing right after another.
Sometimes…a person just needs stupid and funny. There is definitely a place for it in life….where you can put the world on hold, and stop it for a moment- and get off.
I really like the way he talks with these kids he’s interviewing, too. Kids are cute, and he kind of brings it down to their level. And he’s always respectful to them, and sweet.
Brandmeier just strikes me as a big kid.
He also has some Italian guy-a regular caller-Guido -or Mario-or Luigi-or something. And Guido was calling in – and some chick came onto him on the radio, so they set them up on a date. Then they had the chick talk about the date afterward…and later asked him about the date. And both of them told slightly different stories. Then they got them both on the phone to talk about why the stories didn’t match up. That was pretty funny, too. The guy wasn’t as much of a pig as people made him out to be…which by itself was pretty funny. There was a part to the story where the girl somehow let on that she didn’t think much of Catholics which really turned the guy off, because he’s a practicing catholic, I guess.
I can’t even remember them all, but…the LOOP in the morning can be all right if you’re looking to unplug from reality and have a few laughs over stupid and silly stuff.
One thing about Kent Voss, though. They were saying he’s running for president and that his whole platform was that EVERYTHING IS FREE. They’ve got to explain to me how that’s different than the candidates that are running NOW. He had no explanation for why people who work should get paid, either. Jonathan was too fact-based and was talking too much reason when he was asking Voss about that. But unlike me when I was listening, he didn’t make any welfare jokes or cracks about New Orleans. He keeps it kid-like!
And that’s pretty hard to do…!
