D&D - Sept 10, 2009

The video games are put away and the guys are back to doing real work. Well, as real as you can get on a radio morning show. Big news out of today's show is the departure of Jason Carr; due to a promotion at FOX 2, tomorrow will be his last day as a regular member of the D&D crew. Good for him...and as for the hourly sports reports, nothing against Jason, but I've always felt they were a waste of time. I don't know if the WCSX management added them to the show because they heard Beaver doing them over at 97.1, but they should be made aware that D&D only did hourly sports updates for three months out of nine years at WKRK/WXYT (and then only because it was a sports station). D&D can do the interviews with Rod Allen, Ken Daniels, and a Red Wing-to-be-named-later -- that's enough sports for me.

Today's show had a plethora of call-in segments, as has been par for the course lately. The one I wish they would have podcasted was a segment about Jumping the Shark (my vote would have been for The West Wing after Aaron Sorkin left). There were a number of short local stories mentioned midway through the show; Oakland University classes are back in session, an armed purse snatcher was twarted at a Warren Kroger, a Birmigham mom tried to drive her kid to school while drunk shitfaced smashed harder than Rhianna's face, another car got hit by a train in Metro Detroit, and audio was played of FOX 2's coverage of yesterday's in-studio Beatles Rockband jam-fest. Also, in a pseduo-local story out of Ohio, a noise ordinance brought out the cutural stereotypes in everyone. Other topics covered included a "great moments in public speaking" segment, an anti-climax from Steve Jobs, a couple of airliner stories, another round of Play the Numbers, a discussion about non-manly dogs and neuticles, two "Idiot Republican of the Day" nominees, and tips about improving your memory from that cranky guy. Podcast-worthy topics were, after the votes were tallied up by the Diebold Fraud-o-Matic 3000 at WCSX.com:

1. JOHN NIYO (podcast) - Detroit News Beat writer for the Detroit Lions, John Niyo called in to discuss the Lions and what they're doing to prepare for the regular season.
2. THE INFLUENCE OF POT (podcast) - A new study says that driving while under the influence of pot doesn't impair your judgment. So should you get a DUI if you're driving while high?
3. THE BEST MOVIES (podcast) - Think of movie categories like action, horror, comedy, sci-fi, etc. Now try to pick what you think is the best movie in each category.
4. BILL AND THE MOUSE (podcast) - Bill Doyle woke up this morning to find a MOUSE in his home. Now he is taking suggestions from listeners on how to kill mice. He prefers the less humane methods.

Here's the show:

Deminski & Doyle - 2009-09-10 Hour 1
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Deminski & Doyle - 2009-09-10 Hour 2
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Deminski & Doyle - 2009-09-10 Hour 3
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Three new sponsors to list today:

Anderson Music Company (WCSX Workforce Business of the Day)
AAA
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (traffic sponsor)