On Blue Shotgun Radio #18 Brian talks about:

• President’s Day
• Friday the 13th / My Bloody Valentine Double Feature
• Valentine’s Day
  • Corpse Bride on Blu-Ray
  • Omaha Steaks
  • Naptown Roller Girls: Warning Belles
  • Dollhouse & Terminator: TSCC poor ratings
• Daytona 500
• The Shack Nasties
• Indy Based Web Communities
• Fireballs in Texas
• No Wall Street today
• Peanut company files chapter 7 after poising people
• Sam Donaldson retiring
• David Beckham staying in LA?
• NBA All-Star Game…boring
• Indiana Pacers to leave Indy?

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #15 Brian talks about:

• The Plague & The Weekend From HELL!!!
  • McDonald’s drive thru puking
• Indy flooding
• Obama Prime Time Special … The blame & defer show … this instead of Chuck?  Come on!
• The stimulus … I just don’t get it … doing nothing would probably be a better choice
• Layoffs: Nissan (20,000) & GM (10,000).  Caterpillar offers 2,000 retirements.
• Stocks are still sinking
• Sirius/XM Radio may go bankrupt
• Alex Rodriguez is enhanced
• Brett Favre really retiring this time?

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #12 Brian talks about:

• Obama “Screwed Up”
• Bailout exec’s pay cap
• No terrorists in Indiana!
• Layoffs: Panasonic (15,000), PNC Financial (5,800), Huntington Bank (500), Pier 1 (125 stores & ~600 employees), Corning (3,500) & Time Warner Cable (1,250)
• Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger talks
• Baskin-Robbins to open 50 Indianapolis area stores
• Purdue loses to Ohio State in overtime
• Ohio State lineman, Alex Boone, Tazed in “drunken tirade”
• Lame Wednesday TV
• Followup: I-69 wreck
• Followup: Bus stop robberies
• Drive Thru Nightmares: credit card rung up as cash at McDonald’s
• Racial bias lawsuits are flying at the Indy Police Department (or whatever they are calling themselves these days)
• Naptown Roller Girls
• Voicemail: Judi Grove from Breast Impressions
• Finga Zinga Giveaway

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #11 Brian talks about:

• “I’m feeling much better”
• Pop-up snow storm in Indy
• I-69: The Interstate of Death
• Bobby Knight to Georgia?
• Michael Phelps and his bong
• Chuck in 3D
• Taken
• Macy’s lays off 7,000 employees
• Tom Daschle withdraws nomination for Secretary of Health & Human Services

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #7 Brian talks about:

• Snow in Indy: Jude Redfield was right this time! 12.5″ of snow in Indianapolis overnight.
• Trash Day
• Snail mail delivery
• My neighbors’ snow blower
• Indianapolis Capital Improvements Board to be $43M in the hole next year?
• Indianapolis bus stop robberies
• New stimulus proposal: no money for zoos, aquariums, golf courses, swimming pools & casinos
• Starbucks & other coffee shops losing business during the recession
• Circuit City gift cards can be used at hhgregg until April 1st, 2009
• Microsoft release Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
• The Pope’s YouTube Channel
• Kim Manners of X-Files & Supernatural fame dead at 59 from lung cancer
• “Thriller” on Broadway?
• Purdue beats Wisconsin
• Big 10 gymnastics in HD!  Thank you Comcast!

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #6 Brian talks about:

• Snow in Indy: Is Jude Redfield nuts?
• French Toast Kit
• Indiana Unemployment Rate is 8.2%
• Corning cuts 4,900
• Navistar closes Indianapolis plant
• Obama’s Microsoft email server went down
• Obama’s new buddy Hugo Chavez
• Obama gives 1st interview with foreign press
• Rob Blagojevich skips his impeachment hearing
• Digital TV (DTV) delayed until June?
• MP3 player with military data
• California octuplets

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #5 Brian talks about:

• Caterpillar (19,500), Sprint (8,000), Home Depot (7,000) and General Motors (2,000) job cuts
• Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT)…To Kill a Mockingbird
• Ruth’s Chris & cell phones
• Monster Truck Rally … sold out and $50 a ticket from scalpers?
• Lazy Sunday: Church, Steak ‘n Shake & Movies
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• Measurable snow in Indy?  I’m not holding my breath.
• Miss Indiana is Miss America
• $100k found in tire in Mount Comfort, Indiana
• Australian Open Streaker
• NHL All Star suspensions
• Tom Hanks, Mormons & Prop 8
• Airplane passengers get $5k each, but not their belonging (for a while)

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #4 Brian talks about:

• Obama supports abortions
• The BarackBerry … which is not a BlackBerry
• Obama’s 2nd swearing in
• Harley Davidson cuts 1,100 jobs
• NHL 2009 All Star Game this weekend
• Australian Open fighting in the stands
• Winter X-Games
• Matt Cassel, Drew Bledsoe, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots
• Cloverfield…I don’t “get” it
• Devour Downtown Indy Winterfest…$30 meals
• Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT)…To Kill a Mockingbird
• A Lexus with a custom license plate “TOILETS”

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On Blue Shotgun Radio #3 Brian talks about:

• My Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
• No more funerals in 2009!
• 1st caller…Latisha Simmons
• Stocks continue to tank
• Microsoft & Intel cutting 5,000 jobs each.  Is Dell next?
• Buy an AMD 64 bit based HP computer!
• Jacques Chirac mauled by his depressed & insane pet poodle
• Aretha Franklin not happy with her performance
• Larry Coyer to the Indianapolis Colts?
• Pacers in the Playoffs? Are you kidding me? Don’t talk about playoffs.
• Australian Open early rounds
• Batman: The Dark Knight back at IMAX
• Indianapolis Zoo: Where animals go to die?

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:47 — 9.9MB)