The Sandbox Recap 6.30.09 by Intern Erin
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6 a.m.
Info Burrito in 101.7 seconds
John Henry and Linda Pizzuti bobble heads will probably be popping up on eBay. A few of the wedding gifts were left behind around the Fenway area. Def Leppard, Cheap trick and Poison are playing tonight at the Comcast Center in Mansfield. The Red Sox blew by the Orioles with Lester and Drew coming out on top for a 4-0 win. Boston's 6 day 4th of July festival kicks off today at Faneuil Hall. Deval Patrick hiked sales tax by 25% yesterday.
Bubbles the Chimp, still alive and kicking at 26, is quite beat up about MJ. Happy 30th birthday to reggae's main man, Matisyahu. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience is out on DVD today. New albums from Moby and Wilco are also out today. The Williams sisters will be battling it out with Russia's duo, Dinara and Elena at Wimbledon today.
Fletcher takes out the Pop Trash
If you bought tickets to one of the Michael Jackson concerts for the This Is It tour that was scheduled for September, you can get your money back or get the ticket sent to you, which has original MJ artwork. After an entire week of celebrity deaths, it was bound that the 911 calls would leak. Billy Mays' wife's 911 call has popped up online, like the MJ one. Apparently it was heart disease that caused the death, not a blow to the head. So folks, lay off the butter.
Has no one learned to respect the god damn president? Obama was giving a gay rights speech when someone phone started to ring, with a "quack, quack" ringtone. We would never keep our phone on when a band comes to perform, so why wouldn't they turn it off for the god damn pres? On another note, John Edwards and his mistress' sex tape was found by a friend! A man found the tape when he was helping her move out. Like the phones, don't you know to keep your sex tapes safe ('06)? Or better yet, erase them? In thinking of watching an Edwards sex tape, Ed fake vomits all over the place. It has also been confirmed that Edwards is indeed the father of his mistress's baby! I guess his cancer survivor wife and old family is truly out of the picture now! (The new chick isn't even young and hott! What's the bother?)
7 a.m.
Henry Santoro's 180: Covering Half of Everything
Santoro claims 29 disabled Boston firefighters are going to "financially rape" us, and do to us what Bernie Madoff did to his clients. If a firefighter filled in for someone superior to him and got injured while filling in for a boss man, they can be compensated for much, much more than they would otherwise. So it just so happens that this is the case for 25 of the 29 that are looking to retire and cash in.
The FBI is now looking into this case. The head of the force says this is absolutely ridiculous. It is a perk and loophole that can cost us taxpayers millions, and add thousands to their pension. "Just because you can work the system, doesn't mean you should," says Ed himself.
A Boston firefighter called to fire back at Santoro, "You cannot cite Boston.com for anything because they're so incredibly biased. We have 1400 total on the force, so don't blame the entire system." Although we're totally against them trying to take our money just for the fun of it, we can't be very angry at the firefighters (Santoro being the exception) because if something happens to us while playing with matches, we actually want to be saved.
SFA and MC Mr Napkins are mortified!
SFA, one of the Phoenix and Stuff Magazine's most attractive employees comes by with local comedian MC Mr. Napkins to promote a comedy show called Mortified at the Motley's comedy club where people read from awkward journals from their teenage years and relive very uncomfortable moments, like their first make out sessions. In MC Mr. Napkins' case, it was teenage rap lyrics. Before funny raps, they were serious, hardcore, thugged out raps, circa age 14 in Missouri, written with his buddy Yardie K. He and Yardie K performed at the black awareness program in high school. No, neither of them are black but they were aware of blacks. Yardie K changed his name to Butta Flexx and became the Missouri based Eminem of Reggae. Two Mortified: Best Of shows coming up in July and August.
8 a.m.
Qdoba Mega Robo Thunder Phone Query
Ed was saying just last week after hanging out with a flamboyant crowd for Boston's Gay Pride weekend that he ought to go gay because he's sick of his poor luck with women. But this nice, cute, intelligent, single girl called in saying she'd save him from homosexuality.
After making indefinite plans with Ed via Facebook, this caller went to the Taking Back Sunday show on Saturday and met up with them afterwards. Fletcher and Ed admit the bits they do in radio they do in real life, just because they're that into themselves.
After walking to the T with her, all of them waiting for the green line, the guys subtlely mentioned where they were going next but never actually extended an invitation to the girl. The B line showed up, the boys made a dash for it and waved as she stood on the platform, figuring all she could do now was go home. Well if you're looking to break a potential girlfriends, heart, that's the way to do it!
Were Ed and Fletcher rude? They left her stranded. They made it clear they had plans, but never actually invited her. Charlie said she was probably expecting him to ask her out, she hadn't just come to the show to talk to him for five minutes on the way to the T. If she's a nice girl, she's not just going to say, ‘gee could I come too?' She proved by not just showing up there and bumping into the boys that she's not a creepy girl. Charlie was disappointed in Fletcher because as the wingman and the nice guy of the duo, he should have helped his guarded best friend.
One caller did note that it would be ruder to invite her if he was not interested. Ed answered to that by saying he would've preferred to take her on a one-on-one first date with a follow-up to the bar with a big social circle. Big Jim then called in to get the real story. "If she was attractive, you would've invited her, got wasted and hooked up with her. Obviously there's something wrong with this story it didn't go any further. Plus, why wouldn't you want her to see you drunk? That's when you're most charming. If not you'll just go on and on about Transformers. So what the hell is the hold up?
Final Consensus: They're a bunch of dicks. End of story. They're going to be alone well into their 70's and have to pull the plug on each other in their lonely, old age.
Gus from Leavethesepeoplealone.org tells us why we should leave people alone!
Fletcher wanted to get someone from TMZ, especially Max Hodges, on the show, and instead ended up with a man that makes a living of hating Max Hodges. Who is Hodges, you might ask? He is a rep from TMZ, reports non-news and is the surfer looking one. Gus keeps blogs of how many stories the TMZ fellas report on, keeping a tally for each TMZ reporter and congratulating them on the altitude of the gossip. Fletcher says between Billy Bush and Ryan Seacrest, isn't that enough? There's a difference between saying what movie Mel Gibson's making, but you don't need cameras in his and his family's face all day is utter nonsense. Why did they single out Max Hodges? They just don't like him. So what's the answer? Stop paying attention to these shows and they'll stop paying attention to those people.
9 a.m.
Game of the Day: Special Ed does Terrible Impressions
Congrats to Matt from Weymouth, for guessing one of Ed's more comprehensible impressions! He'll be going to see the Offspring and he also got on the guest list for the 2-Year Anniversary Party with Stellastarr*
Taking Back Sunday comes by the studio!
TBS came in over the weekend to perform live (you can find the video on wfnx.com's video section) in the WFNX Green Room! They also talked to the guys on air for a bit about being punched in the face (if rock stars like them take a couple knocks to the face, you'd think Fletcher would hop on the bandwagon too) and finishing up their tour with Anberlin and Envy.
"The Sandbox Gives You the Gifts"
The Kraken bombarded the sports report! Costa was the tenth caller and made the great choice of choosing the tenth prize, which was two tickets to Lollapalooza as well as roundtrip airfare and hotel stay! But don't worry, we still have great prizes left over, six in fact! So stay tuned with the Sandbox! It's not over until the hipster boy sings!
WTF Line
More votes that Ed and Fletcher are in fact huge jerks (see MRTPQ)! And BJD, Big Jim's Dad called in to say that he despises Boston firefighters, but what else would we expect from BJD!
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