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Whad'Ya Know? For January 16, 2010

Listen in to the entire two-hour broadcast. Or review the show rundown below and select your favorite segment of the show. Note that Parts A & B refer to the first hour and Parts C & D refer to the second hour. Part A Part B Part C Part D Problem listening to Real Audio? Get Help!

Hour 1

:00 - A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison.

:03 - All The News That Isn't
-Conan left with his pants on the ground.
-In buyout, NBC offers Conan a Tiger Woods prenup with none of the duties.
-Too bad, a half hour of Leno would be just about right.
-Whatever you say about Leno, he can take it on the chin.
-In other news, Pat Robertson confesses having made a deal with a bag of hammers.
-Robertson confusing Haiti with Hades, his next post.
-Bill and W to make "Road to Port au Prince."
-President Obama asks the banks to tip on every billion they extort. An 18% gratuity will be included on all new financial instruments. Meanwhile, we’ll try not to spend the .1% savings interest all in one place.
-Bank CEO's were hauled before Congress; well, hauled. Cosmopolitans on the 19th hole at the club.
-They said that due to Bush administration oversight, they misunderestimated the 2008 financial crisis.
-While their colleagues were visiting their offshore accounts in the Caymans.
-GOP national leader says with racial attitudes like that, Harry Reid should join the Republicans. Michael Steele calling the kettle black.
-Harry Reid is a light-skinned Caucasian with no Mormon dialect unless he wants to have one.
-Upside of this whole thing is Harry and Rush are going' fishin'.
-Pretty much the same thing Joe Biden said, and now he works for one!
-President Obama takes it with a grain of pepper.
-President's popularity sinks to Barrack W Obama.
-But people still like his dialect.
-Google may quit China, and Jewish people may stop eating Chinese, but neither are likely.
-The Chinese are going with Chairman Mao's Little Red Search Engine.
-Bings's pretty upset China's not messing with it.
-No happy ending for Mr. Gay China Pageant as authorities pull the plug.
-The Pentagon has aged Osama bin Laden's photo so he will stay young forever. The Picture of Dorian bin Laden.
-He doesn't write, he doesn't call. When Bush said he'd get bin Laden dead or alive, he meant by natural causes.
-Guantanamo prisoners are not going to Yemen -- the villas aren't ready yet.
-Officials of Yemen called yesmen. They have yanked Al Qaeda's property tax exemption, and are trying to get them to incorporate as a social club.
-Yemen says it killed a senior Al Qaeda leader, but it was heart. Was a senior leader. Terror's a young man's game.
-Mark "Michelin Man" McGuire admits using steroids. That "swallowing tires" never did make any sense. So hard finding someone for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Uecker got in again.
-Following the Reagan career path, Sarah Palin will host Death Valley Days for 20 Dog Team Borax.
-She's a good fit for Fox, being fairly unbalanced.
-Fox may team Conan up with Sarah for the Conan/Palin Report.
-Pope not only forgives woman who bowled him over, asks if maybe they could do it again some time.
-Vatican 2 thumbs down on Avatar because everybody's bluish.
-The White House says the stimulus either created, saved or cost two million jobs, the President's being among them. 50% of Americans now say they would vote for someone else if their dialect's good.
-North Korea hopes to be more of a tourist destination since no man is a Kim Jong Il-land.
-Not to be confused, BTW, with Kim Jong Hwa, a tailor in Niles.
-Google responds to Chinese cyber attack by scanning five thousand years of scrolls for Google books.
-Poland bars swine flu vaccine due to a large and influential swine lobby.
-Turkey demands apology for Israel gobble-gobbling their ambassador.
-Vermont wants to pull itself out of the union -- a little spackle should fix that.
-In Massachusetts, they're still diving for the Teddy Kennedy legacy.
-New York cabbie says he returned purse with thousands in cash and jewels because his mother always told him to be honest. And I bet she said "you'll never find a girl like your mother, too."
-Mate eats Spider Man 4.
-So much video produced by the drones in Afghanistan they will fill the Leno spot on NBC.
-New Jersey approves medical marijuana -- look for Jersey Shore, MD.
-Researchers say pear shape is ideal -- for pears. They found that junk in the trunk includes fatty acids.....
-and new Y chromosome evidence that men are evolving faster than women because they have farther to go.....
.....That's All The News That Isn't......

:11 - Guest interview with Thomas Mallon, author of Yours Ever: People and Their Letters. In the book Thomas natters on about people and their letters. F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters to his daughter...poignant. Pages 107-111, if you check the index, you'll find Roosevelt's letter to his children. He just killed a bear.

:33 - John and Jeff play The Music That Makes Me Dance.

:40 - Caroline (that is lIne) gets that a lot. She thought Avatar IMAX 3D was awesome. Tom is polite and will step out of the way so Michael can get through to CarolIne.

:45 - Four Disclaimers and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Phil and David know how close people are to their ideal weight.

Hour 2

:00 - Back for the second hour of this live broadcast with the man who thinks the Packers should have a do-over.

:01 - Thanks for the Memos and Thanks for the Mail. This counts as a letter, it is a postcard inside an envelope. The mailbox was stuffed with more ideas for the name of the decade...the Oh Ohs. Of course there is one condescending missive. The Blunder Years. The Look At Me Decade. Generation TMI.

:10 - Town of the Week, Winchester, Virginia.Northern Virginia’s largest city sits amid lots of apple orchards not far from the Appalachian Trail. Winchester is the hometown of Patsy Cline, who lived there until age 16. She dropped out of high school to make milkshakes at Gaunt’s Drug Store, before hitting it rich. Patsy is buried in the town’s Shenandoah Memorial Park. Winchester and the top of Virginia region played a big part in the early beginnings of where the nation originated, where it prospered and where many of our country’s conflicts were resolved. While supervising the construction of Fort Loudon, George Washington maintained an office in Winchester back in the 1750s. His office is maintained as a library where you can see his surveying equipment and even his hair. The Frederick County Courthouse was built in 1840 and was a visible landmark during many of the bloody battles of the Civil War. That courthouse served both as a prison and a hospital to both Northern and Southern troops. Today, the courthouse is a Civil War Museum. The Winchester National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 44 hundred Union soldiers. A good way to see Winchester is to walk the Old Town area of Loudon Street, between Picadilly and Cork. The Kuntz Cultural Center in Old Town has a fine collection of local and Civil War history and culture. The Handley Regional Library is often described as the best example of beaux-arts architecture in all of Virginia. Opened just five years ago in Winchester is the Museum of the Shenendoah Valley the complex includes the Glen Burnie Historic House and six acres of spectacular gardens. Not to be missed are the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum; and the POW/MIA Jim Barnett Park in our Town of the Week, Winchester, Virginia.

:22 - John and Jeff swing.

:28 - Michael chats with audience members and finds it more relaxing when he takes a seat and joins the audience.

:46 - Talking trash during the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz. 50 billion pieces? More? Less?