Big announcement coming

Listen this afternoon for huge news about another BOB FM Road Trip. Here's a couple of hints:

- They're from the southern US
- They've been on Sesame Street
- Their music videos from the early 90's = awesome
- Dan Wylie pretty much spilt the beans that we'd be giving away tickets to see these guys next week.

For more, listen to the BOB's Breakfast Promo which debuts this evening. If only because it's hilarious.

- Chris

Who needs Hockey when you have fiddlesticks!

It’s striking a nerve across the city, should we or shouldn’t we be allowed to play road hockey in Kingston? The city has constructed a Code of Conduct and is giving Kinstonians the opportunity to have their say on some of the details at http://www.cityofkingston.ca/ Here are the basics to what is being proposed...


Location to play: only on locally classed streets – according to the Code of Conduct
Hours of play: 9am – 8pm
Length of play: 1 hour per 4 hour period
Game space: 1 game per space (the area occupied by the game plus 2 houses on either side of the game)
Number of players: no more than 8
Adult supervision: for children under 12
Safety equipment: CSA approved helmet
Permit Required: yes

This a little ridiculous. Am I alone in this? Rules to let kids play? What’s next, no running on sidewalks in certain subdivision, hide and seek must be played in an open field with no obstructions. Now I’m being ridiculous, but that’s what it feels like. Kids have been playing road hockey in Canada for years and years and years. Think if Sydney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky didn’t play street hockey with their friends, it may not be the reason they became the superstars that they are today, but it’s something that Canadian Kids do and love. I played it growing up, and by “played” I mean my brother use to practice slap shots on me – and it made me stronger damnit.

As long as the kids have a decent grasp of “common sense” and know not to aim at picture windows or dogs and know well enough to move out of the way of a moving car (hence the Canadian term “CAR!!”), there shouldn’t be an issue…in my humble opinion. Again, am I alone in this thinking? The proceeding is the opinion of Ali MacLean and not necessarily that of CHUM Radio.

Was the first game of Hockey not played here in Kingston? Why are we so against it now?!

Good and Hot

This morning we tested what remedy works best when your mouth is on fire and burning from hot spicy foods. I personally enjoyed it I go through a Costco size bottle of hot sauce in about a month, Lock on the other hand didn’t like it so much, he started sweating and felt faint but is a bit better now. The results came out as follows:

On a scale of 1-5 how well they worked to fend off the burning:
1 Water
1 Hot Sauce (fighting fire with fire)
2 Vinegar
2 Toothpaste
3 Bread
3 Bread & Butter
4 Milk
4 Chocolate

The tie breaker between milk and chocolate landed chocolate a little bit ahead. Any other suggestions that you would like to know if they work? Or do you have a special secret weapon that you'd share with us that really works for you.

In conclusion, try some sort of dairy product to relieve the burn of hot stuff and add hot sauce to anything Lock is eating for a good laugh.
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While we’re on the topic of Myth Stoppers, a few weeks back Lock tried to stop the Coke & Pop Rocks myth…if you eat pop rocks and drink a coke your stomach will explode. We sent him to the Emergency room to attempt this on…check out the video to see how it went.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory

By now, most people have probably seen the new Indiana Jones, but we wait till after the opening weekend, so that we are not surrounded by kids. We made the mistake a few years back and went to the opening weekend of Shrek the Third and only saw about a third of the movie. The child behind me kept kicking the seat and was having a full on conversation with his buddy about cats and all that is green, trust me it didn’t add to the movie going experience or to my desire to have children.
As for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I thought it was OK. My husband was floored when he suggested we watch the first three movies and I told him that I hadn’t seen them since the 80’s. Over the course of the past week we brushed up on all things Dr. Jones, and by “we”, I mean “I”, as Mike was able to act out the movie as it played out on the TV, that’s good times.
The story line in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a little “out there” (if you’ve seen the movie you’ll get my vague reference), Don’t get me wrong, the action was great.
The thing that caught my attention the most in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was that Harrison Ford is 66 years old! Damn. He looks great! I was not a fan of his “Get off my plane” movie, and I guess he was decent in other movies he’s done, but watching all the Indiana Jones movies back to back gave me a new respect for the old guy.
Do you remember a year or two ago Calista Flockhart was shooting a show and a security guard had noticed a homeless guy in the backseat of her car, so he called for back up and they kicked him out…only to find it was Harrison Ford. Dude is looking old, scratch that, dude was looking old. Being Dr. Jones suits him…he should continue those till he can’t stand any more, then do them with him in a nursing home searching for the lost hearing aid battery ™ by Ali MacLean.

A Good, Bad or Whatever Weekend?

Every Monday morning Lock, Chris & I give the Good, Bad and Whatever from the weekend, be it stuff from our personal lives, or from the world around us. Here were our GB Whatev’s from this past weekend:

Chris:
Good: All this Rock Band playing has paid off… went to a party Friday, where I discovered I can sorta play real drums. It was awesome.
Bad: Knowing I could never get a drumset in my apartment without having the neighbours want to kill me.
Whatever: There’s a great picture of me playing cowbell now.

Lock:
Good: Wiped out half the bug population driving back and forth to Ottawa... they are now hanging out on the windshield and all over the front of my truck
Bad: Idiot!!! I locked my keys in my truck (but trust me it worked out GREAT!) The story ended there – no more info allowed
Whatever: Stanley cup playoffs...remember those yeah they are still on...

Ali:
Good: Ladies for Life Golf Tournament in Athens on Saturday, they had 138 golfers and a lot of fun….last year they donated over nine thousand dollars to Breast Cancer Research. I don’t golf, so I got to ride around with the Beer Cart and meet the golfers and give them beer, they loved me!
Bad: Going to bed when the sun is still up sucks, we go to bed around 8 and little kids are up later than us playing hockey, but we’re trying to sleep. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy that the sun stays up so late.
Whatev: Weather – at least there was sun, but where is the warmer weather?! My husband has a bad feeling that this summer, like last summer won’t be a hot summer. So we may take down our pool (just an above ground)

Do you have any Good, Bad and/or Whatever’s from your weekend you’d like to share?

We also attempted “soap opera acting” with The Days of Bob’s Breakfast. With today being a holiday in the States some of the Soaps will be off today or in repeats, so we acted out scenes from Days of Our Lives. If you missed it, we may attempt to do it again, I’ve had lots of people comment on how fun it was. Is there a soap you’d like us to re-enact?

~Ali

Ali Told Me to Write This...

For years...and I know I'm not alone...I've heard "...Well you cant teach an old dog new tricks." We grow to accept these statements and this is the purpose of Mythstoppers, stopping the oldest most unexpected of Myths...Is it impossible to teach an old dog new tricks?

We learned this morning...No, it is totally possible.

Ali definately not alone in trying everything under the sun to get her pooch Baxter to stop jumping up on people especially when the doorbell rings. In come the Bark Busters (I am sooo excited I just learned how to insert that link) with their unique method of training. I believe the wording was, treating them like they are in the wild... letting them know who is boss in the house.

After about 5 mins Baxter learned not to be jumping and this is done by simply saying " BAH!" whenever he jumps up, not BAAA like a sheep though, it is supposed to Mimic what the leader of the pack would do if one of the members was stepping out of line "BAH!"

To our amazement something so simple worked!! and the similar theory can be applied to many different problems pet owners face with their pooches. There is definately a little more to it but the Bark Busters works.

The Conclusion for Myth Stoppers today...

You CAN teach an old dog new tricks its just a matter of finding the right teacher...

Submit any further Myth Stopper ideas to us bobsbreakfast@bob.fm

Another Huge Announcement this morning...BOB fm Road Trip 73 to see R and R Hall o Famer Tom Petty!!!!!

Hope your not afraid of heights!! The fun begins Monday Morning.

TVA Tomorrow and your Chance at winning passes to the exclusive BOBfm opening night Screening Spectacular of the new Indiana Jones movie at the Galaxy Cinemas in Brockville.

Til Tomorrow

Laters!!!

~The Lock~

The Lock's First Time

On May 1st we were talking about our firsts...first love, first concert, first cigarette etc... well tack this one on to the list for me...First Blog.

When the idea for this blog came about I was totally excited about the new edition to Bobs Breakfast. But as my time to prepare one approached I found myself struggling to figure out what I was gonna put here. Not for lack of material but because there is so much I wanna get out there, its the editing down part I struggle with.

Under the circumstances where better place to begin than with the recent May 1 - 9 looooong weekend. Mine began In Sydneham at a buddies cottage where people come in from all over Eastern Ontario for the Annual Cottage Opening Party. There is nothing like turning off the cellphone and not even looking at a clock...what time is it? Day time or Night Time thats all you need to know at the cottage.

Arrived Friday Night Time... and within the first half hour Tent was up and the fire was licking 4 ft in the air nothing too crazy to start, the weekend is still very young.

Didn't sleep until Daytime Saturday and as the Sun rose on Saturday Morning the lake was like a sheet of glass just begging for a line to be thrown in sending a rippling effect across the lake. By this point only 4 people remained awake and after an hour of debating WHO was going to get the rods a decision was reached. When they finally got there one of the hooks was caught in the pocket of a friends pants and while trying to get it out...the hook soooo rusted broke in half, we are now down to one rod. Thats OK we can share the one. The first cast goes out and it wasnt the greatest especially finding itself... SNAGGED ON A ROCK!!! We were forced to break the line and that was it bed time.

Slept just enough to keep going for at least another Day/Night plus it was tough to keep warm despite the several layers i had to sleep in. More people began arriving Saturday and with that the tent city began to grow considerably. The Day was filled with ridiculous shenanigans but the weather was great, far better than expected or that had been reported. Until what felt like midafternoon then out of nowhere the sky opened up and down came the rain and it quickly turned into an episode of survivor everyone began constructing a tarp city to accompany our tent city. The tarps even withstood a pretty impressive thunderstorm that hit Saturday but no matter what, you look around all the people and everyone still smiling!!!

Saturday Night time was as to be expected, most of us have to been to wild cottage parties before so I will leave the details to your imagination...

Sunday Daytime was interesting because after two days in the bush 4 carloads headed into Kingston for Breakfast at a fairly reputable and busy breakfast establishment. We walked in and were quickly escorted to the backroom of the restaurant...can you blame them really... Breakfast was amazing and just what the doctor ordered.

Once we got back to the Cottage time to pack up and make the trip home which is both a downer because it will be another year before many of us cross paths again but welcomed because i'm dying for a shower and a bed.

I have now been in Ottawa for a couple days and as you may have noticed I was not around today, figured I need that extra day off just to make sure I am fighting form for tomorrow morning.

But I assume this morning there was a Good, Bad, Whatever... and there was ALOT to Choose from this weekend but here we go...

GOOD: Going into the bush for the Annual Cottage Opening Party

BAD: (Tough One) Trying to cook hotdogs on a stick over the fire and dropping 5 in a row!! Devastating

Whatever: The Cold, didn't really notice it too much just soooo happy to be at the cottage. OR Canada Losing to Russia at the IIHF.

Well I will be taking off from Ottawa momentarily looking foward to Wednesday... We have a HUGE show including Mythstoppers and a HUGE CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT.

Laters!!!

~The Lock~

Chris List # 1

In honour of Ali's 16th, 32nd or 40th birthday, here is a list of things that rhyme with "Ali."

1. Valley.

2. Rally

3. Sally

4. Dally

5. O'Mally

6. Galley (as in former NHL defenseman Gary Galley)

7. Halle

8. Pally (As in, "Hey, Pally!")

9. Tally

10. Exuberate

- Chris

Episode 23: Chris Gets Hit By A Car

This morning on Mythstoppers we debunked the long-standing phrase that "the grass is always greener on the other side." I had to cross Highway 29 traffic to get the job done, and was lucky enough not to get hit by a car during its peak hours.

Afterwards, I got an e-mail from my Mom (you may remember her from such Bob's Breakfast shows as... last Friday's!) who was pleased I didn't get hit. But that e-mail reminded me that, if I had been pasted by the grill of a sedan this morning, it wouldn't have been the first time.

I had just turned seven years old in the summer of 1989 when it happened. I was walking across the rarely busy street in front of my very family's very own home, and made the stupid mistake of not looking both ways before hand. Before I could say "roadkill" I was sent flying four feet in the air, slid across Water Street in Oxford Mills and was knocked unconscious by the curb.

The next few moments were a blur. There are a few things I remember, like being assured that I wasn't dreaming - what was happening was real. I also recall the ambulance trip, but not being loaded onto it.

In the end, I was very lucky. I ended up with a small bump on the head, a long scrape down the middle of my back (which looked absolutely nasty), and a sore knee that bugged me now-and-then for the next few years. The biggest casualty was what at the time was my favourite shirt - it was cut off when I got to the hospital.

Of course, if anyone listens to Bob's Breakfast, they probably wonder if I was hit in the head as a young boy. Hey, you know something...

Bonus BOB

Didn't get a chance to touch on this today, but FOX moving House to Monday nights to accommodate American Idol is a little irritating.

I always have a difficult time getting to sleep Sunday nights as the weekend throws my inner clock a little out of whack. But usually by Tuesday morning I'm fine.

Not so now. Because House is on until ten (I get up really early, folks) on Monday's I've been getting a combined 13 hours of sleep over the course of two nights. What that does is make Tuesday feel like a Monday. It doesn't affect me much when I'm on the air, but by 9:30 AM when I'm busy working in the newsroom and the next day's show I start to hit the wall.

Now, I know the smart thing to do is tape House and watch it the next day but, well... I guess I wouldn't be able to listen to myself the next morning, then. SPOILERS OH NO!!

(For anyone who didn't listen to this morning's Crazy Phone Call, tune in tomorrow for the Bob's Breakfast Mailbag to find out what I'm talking about.)

Rock Band and Desperate Housewives

In case you missed the "Good, Bad and Whatever" this morning, the "Whatever" story was about how I crafted The Lock as a drummer in Rock Band on my X-Box 360. The results were freakish, as in "freakishly accurate." There are about six faces to choose from when creating your avatar, and I've used them to put together pretty good models of The Beatles, The Who, Eric Clapton, Alice Cooper, Freddie Mercury and Lindsey Buckingham. They're not perfect, but they're very close. Not so with The Lock - his face is practically in the game, and we managed to craft an exact replica. Well, except he has no toque. Hopefully I can post a picture here for you to see for yourself, along with the one I made months ago for ME, which was the best I could do and isn't even remotely close. Though the custom Patrick Roy guitar I crafted looks awesome.

Lock and I are planning to wear suits tomorrow to avoid fashion scorns from the United Way's Desperate Housewives as they visit the Brockville studio. That event is coming up one week from Thursday. Ali's safe in Kingston, so she can dress in her usual attire tomorrow - track pants, a Poison sweatshirt and a mullet wig.

- Chris

Mother's Day

Hey! It's Chris here, taking the blog reigns for the next week to keep you up to speed on what's been going on and what will be going on during BOB's Breakfast. If only I had something resembling a short-term memory. I'll do my best!

All of our Moms were on the show today (including Lock's, whose back is still doing fine as it didn't break when Lock stepped on a crack. "The Mythstoppers! DUNDUNK!" Every Wednesday!) and were fantastic. I think the highlight had to be Ali getting completely flustered by her Mom's three "truths." Lock and I picked out the false one for our Moms easily. Ali discombobulated = pure comedy.

Next week we're qualifying people for BOB's May 2-4 Road Trip. Be listening from six to six Monday-to-Friday next week, and to 103.7 BOB FM all weekend for the little hype piece BOB's Breakfast put together. Have a good one!

- Chris

Chicken or the egg?

This morning Bob's Breakfast actually went on a mission to find out once and for all which came first, the chicken or the egg. The answer…well keep reading to find out. I went to Smitty’s in Kingston because they serve Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner all day long, I explained to them what I was doing and ordered a chicken breast and an egg (done the most common way according to Smitty’s wich was over easy). I asked them to start them both at the exact same time and bring whichever was done first as soon as it is done. We placed our bets, Chris and I said the egg, Lock said the chicken. The outcome of this study…they both were finished at the same time. What are the chances!!??!! I guess this is why the question still exists!

Thank you Guy Wales for his weekly cartoon from the Recorder & Times...relates perfectly!!

Thank you to Smitty’s for allowing us to attempt this Myth Stoppers and for being precise in starting the chicken and egg at the same time.

Any other myths you’d like us to tackle?

~ Ali

A coffee maker and a Party

Today we tested the theory that “Canada is the loft above the party”, this was said by Craig Ferguson of the Late Late Show. So we called a bunch of different Americans to see if they were partying. The weren’t. Some in fact were the opposite to partying, they were working! Poor things. So that theory has been blown to bits.
Another thing we did this morning on Late Night Tuesday Morning was throw a coffee maker off the roof. Why you ask…well Letterman has done it on Late Night television, so we tried it. It was fun nothing more than that. Lock will post the video here, you’ll be able to see how fun it was!
Tomorrow with Myth Stoppers I'm going test another theory…not really a theory, more a confusing statement that has never been proven, Aristotle concluded it was inconclusive…we will try to "conclude" tomorrow morning!!

~Ali

Psiders

Ok, I’m a little dyslexic but when I wrote it like that it didn’t scare me as much (I couldn't even put a picture of a spider, hence spidy man). I have a ridiculous fear of spiders. I know it is ridiculous because I am pretty sure they can’t kill me, but they just freak me out to no end. As soon as I see one I get the feeling that they are crawling all over…now I feel nauseous. I must stop giving you the gory details of them. This morning I had a huge problem. There was one hibernating on the phone in the studio. So all morning I had to look at this freaky white spider and for all I know, he could have been staring back at me planning my demise, you don’t know. It was kind of comforting to know that he was there and hadn’t move to my hair. But it was also killing me to have to stare at him all morning to make sure he didn’t flee.
How do I get over this wicked fear for creepy crawly insects? As proved this morning, I tried to confront my fear by sitting 3 feet from one all morning, but that didn’t help and I’m not getting any closer till I’m over this fear. So what else ya got? I am tempted to do hypnotherapy. Would that help?
Anything help would be appreciated, please!

Thank you in advance!

~ Ali

Welcome!

Welcome to Bob's Breakfast's Blog.

This is where you'll get to delve deep inside the minds of Bob's Breakfast...don't worry, it won't take long, we are pretty simple. In the immortal words of the Rolling Stones (I had to make one change) "Please allow me to introduce ourselves, we are a team of wealth and taste". Well, taste at least, we are Ali, Chris and The Lock.
Ali (that's me) works out of our studio in Kingston while Chris and The Lock work out the studio in Brockville. Yep we don't have to see each other, which is good (I don't have to put my contacts in till others in the office come in around 9am), but it's hard to carry on conversations all morning and not see who you're talking too!
We basically all have the same sense of humour, we all like to see Lock get hurt. Kidding. But we are very sarcastic.

Basically what you'll find here is information on our show (past and future), we will take turns blogging about our random thoughts. Some more random than others.

Once we become technically savvy, we will post pictures and videos from our morning show. For now, thanks for checking us out and in the infamous words of The Terminator, " Nice night for a walk".

~Ali