" . . . and now, vice presidential hopeful . . . . . David Letterman!"

ACT 1:
I'm a feeling a little feverish so if this Wahoo seems a bit flush and sluggish, at least today you know there is a reason.

Tonight on our show, Mark Odgers will attempt something never tried before. Out on 53rd Street, he will attempt to jump over 7 interns. Back in October he was here and leapt 5, and then 6. He's had 8 months to improve and is back tonight to jump 7.
In October, the weather was cool and mild, primo for jumping interns. Today in New York City, we set a record high for June 9th at 99 degrees. Is the heat a problem for Mark? He admits that it is. And how is that? Mark says the heat makes him fell really bad. What a showman this Mark Odgers! It's always good to put some doubt in the viewer before attempting a death-defying stunt. We'll check back in with him later after he warms up.

It was a real scorcher today, with temperatures hitting a record high. We take a look at the temperature clock up the block atop a building. We see it's reached a current 99 degrees! That's 37C. And then we see the clock melt right before our eyes. What luck! It we went to the temperature clock 10 seconds later we would have missed it!

With the average price for a gallon of gas now at $4, the folks at Exxon have produced a series of public service announcements intended to help people pull through the crisis. We take a look.
Announce:

"Did you know that gasoline can be used not only to fuel vehicles but also to help burn down your failing business so you can collect the insurance money?
This has been 'Gasoline: Did You Know?' from your friends at Exxon."

"After 498 days of crisscrossing the country, Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign has ended. Senator Clinton says she will now go to Chappaqua to take a long break. What will she do next? Here's a thought . . . . how about showing up for work at the Senate? You know, the job you've been blowing off for a year-and-a-half.
A message from the people of New York."

On hot days such as this, we like to cool off New York City pedestrians with the Late Show Hose Cam. We go to our familiar shot from a lightpost at the northwest corner of 53rd and Broadway. Dave flips the switch to power the hose onto the unsuspecting tourists. Once they realized it wasn't some guy taking a leak on them from the 2nd floor apartment, they got a big kick out of it.

GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES
From the graduation ceremony at Air Force Academy, a graduate slips the President a special coin. The President drops it and can't quite seem to pick it up. And then when he does, he stumbles across the stage. Looked like me in college at 3:45 AM when I was looking for a lost quarter to buy one last glass of beer for the night.

ACT 2:
It's more HOSE CAM fun. And later on the show, To Brokaw will be here. Dave lets us in on a little secret he knows about Tom. Every night, Mr. Brokaw reads a make believe newscast to his wife. He really misses the ol' gig.

LET'S TALK TO THE CANDIDATES We like to know what the peoples are thinking so every now and then we go into the audience to ask what they think about the world around them. Tonight we feature, "Let's Talk To The Candidates." Dave instructs Biff to pick out an audience member. He finds a lovely young miss to participate. Following some simple chit-chat, Dave reminds her, "Of course, the big news in the election is that Hillary Clinton has ended her presidential campaign and endorsed Barack Obama."
From a few rows back, we hear the wail of a distraught audience member.
Guy: "Wait! Hold on! What are you talking about?"
DAVE: "Senator Hillary Clinton gave a big speech on Saturday saying she was dropping out."
Guy: "No! This can't be happening! She said she'd never give up! NO! NOOOOO!"
CBS Pages step in to calm down the irate audience member. We get this a lot, but it's usually due to the quality of the show. The guy will not be stopped by some simple CBS Pages. The guy gives a two-finger stab to the throat of one Page, and then head butts and slugs another. A third CBS Page comes running in but the guy easily ducks him. The guy, still screaming, then exits.
Though he was very disruptive, Dave is glad to see young people interested in politics.

ACT 3:
Coming back from commercial, we see the irate audience member getting sprayed by the hose-cam out on 53rd and Broadway.

TOP TEN: Answers to the question, "How hot is it?"
9. It's so hot, President Bush fanned himself with unread intelligence memos.

TOM BROKAW: So, how long has it been since Tom Brokaw left the NBC Nightly News? Two years tops, right? Nope. It's been more than 3-and-a-half years. DOH! Why does time move so fast? You would think that once he retired from his nightly employ, he'd have lots of free time on his hands. Nope. Tom says he is busier than ever. His problem is he says "Yes" to everyone and everything.
(I guess that explains why he is here. Hey-OHHHHH!)
He does lots of traveling, mixing the business end of it with leisure. He was in Italy recently and got off by himself for a 50-mile bike ride. During the ride a big gray cloud found him and pelted him with hailstones. Tom unstrapped a plastic poncho off the back of the bike and made his way back. He thought that age must finally be catching up to him because the ride was brutally difficult. Not till he got all the way back did he learn that one of the straps on the back of the bike became entangled around the sprocket, making him work doubly hard.
Tom recently received a very nice honor from the University of Iowa. This surprised Tom since he only spent one year at the University. He was taken to a local pub, one in which they honored fake I.D., and was shown a plague in a booth way in the back. The plaque proclaimed that Tom Brokaw spent more time here then he ever spent in class.
(Holy cow! You can get a plaque for that?! Then where's mine?)
Dave asks Tom what he thinks about the upcoming November election. Is there any chance a Republican can win? Dave admits to being just an ordinary guy when it comes to politics and doesn't know a lot, but feels "everything has gone down horribly in the past 8 years." Dave says all he needs is wrestling and TV dinners and he's fine, but even he knows something is wrong. He feels President Bush has been an obvious mistake. Brokaw says things in America are indeed on the downslide but we've been there before. Pointing to his book, "Boom: Voices of the Sixties," Tom recalls 1968, 40 years ago, and how that period in America history was very much in upheaval and we survived that. Tom says we all need to vote in November and put the best man in, and then WE have to re-enlist as citizens of the United States. I took this to mean no matter who wins, we all have to work together to get back on the right track. I hope he also meant for the politicians to do that as well, you know, like, America before Party.
Tom Brokaw - you can probably find him next flying, biking, or kayaking somewhere.

ACT 4:
MARK ODGERS - it's time for Mark to jump the 7 interns. Who do we have lined up:
1. David Hinojosa - Boston University
2. Zach Smilovitz - University of Michigan
3. Claudia Kiss - James Madison University
4. Eliot Rahal - DePaul University
5. Pamela Ahn - Cornell University
6. Sean Hallarman - Emory University
7. Emma Coleman - Harvard University
Dave, impressed with the college lineup, proudly says he went to Ball State. I wasn't sure if Dave would speak to the interns before the jump but the only bit of advice I gave them was, "Make sure you know your school mascot."

Mark is still complaining about the weather conditions and Dave tells him we can call it off anytime he wants if he thinks he's not up to it. I sense Mark is still playing the showman. Evel Kneivel was good at that.
We're ready. Mark runs west on 53rd, jumps on a mini-trampoline, and does a flip over the fleet of interns. Spectacular. The thrill of victory . . . .
Nice job, Mark Odgers.

ACT 5:
Announce: "Tomorrow on the Late Show, Dave is joined by Mark Wahlberg; UFO Expert Jeff Peckman; and musician Alanis Morissette. The Late Show! We're your comedy and termite control superstore! We'll be right back."

ACT 6:
ELETTRA WIEDEMANN: She's the spokesmodel for Lancome cosmetics. And her mom is Isabella Rossellini and her grandmother is Ingrid Bergmann. Elettra says she only first saw "Casablanca" a few years ago even though she's been told about it and heard quotes from the film for years. Dave says her grandmother was one of the few actresses where he would stand up and say, "WOW!" whenever she made an entrance. He says of Ms. Bergmann when she's on camera: "She captures and holds the screen hostage."

I remember watching "The Bells of St. Mary" and thinking, "Gee, I don't remember the nuns at St. Augustine's looking like that."

Elettra says she wasn't aware that she was a part of such stardom and celebrity when growing up. She remembers being asked in kindergarten what she would do if lost in the city. Elettra responded that she would stand under her mother's Lancome poster until someone came and got her. It seemed so obvious to her and thought everyone's mom had their picture hanging around the city.
Elettra majored in International Relations in college and in the fall will be attending the London School of Economics to get a Masters of Science degree in Biomedicine. That's quite lofty considering she had a math tutor in kindergarten. She admits to having trouble with the subject, especially when given a problem such as 1 + 1, as in, if you had one pile of sand and added another pile of sand, how many piles of sand would you have? The kindergarten Elettra would answer, "one pile of sand." And she would be right. You would have one pile of sand, though it would now be bigger.
Her end goal? To work for Barack Obama as his energy advisor.

As the spokesmodel for Lancome, Elettra is asked to describe one of their products. I don't know what it was but women use it to powder their nose. Dave takes the pad out and eats it. Odd. Must be the heat.

ACT 7:
GNARLS BARKLEY: From their CD, "The Odd Couple," Gnarls Barkley performed "Going On." I always like them more than I expect. Gnarls Barkley, always worth another listen.

And that was our show for Monday, June 9, 2008.



You know the about the dad who is about to give birth? He was big in the news a few weeks aback when it was announced. Well, the due date is fast approaching and I can only think one thing: I pray to God it's Caesarian.

The other day I added a few bits of trivia in the Wahoo Gazette commemorating D-Day on June 6th. It's one of the most important dates in world history of the 20th Century but you rarely hear anything about it on the news. Wahoo Reader Dave Sikula informed me that L.A. Dodger baseball announcer Vin Scully, the finest of them all, voiced his displeasure during a game about the lack of acknowledgement. Said Mr. Scully:

"Normally on the telecast we talk about 'This Day in Baseball.' I don't mean to sound grumpy or grouchy, but I can't believe what I didn't hear. I listened to the news on the radio for about an hour and fifteen minutes today--did not hear one word about what this day really means. June the 6th, 1944. Do the names Omaha, or Utah, Gold, Juno, Sword, do they mean anything? They're the beaches at Normandy. Sure, today was D-Day, the invasion of Europe, when thousands of soldiers gave their lives so that we could be free. I'll be darned if I saw any real publicity about it at all. Please don't let that happen again next year. Please? Yeah, this day."

"Kung Fun Panda" was the #1 movie in America last weekend, earning a surprising $60 million. And I think a lot of that has to do with the intense heat we've been having the past few days. What else can you do with the kids but throw them in an air-conditioned movie theater for a few hours. It was too hot for any outdoor fun.
But maybe the reason it did so well is because it was done so well. Good reviews on a good story well told..

I'm no political buff and I try to put everything that happens in the world in a baseball perspective, just so I can better understand. But this I do know: If George W. Bush were a baseball manager, he'd have been fired a long time ago. And a lot of times baseball managers are fired due to no fault of their own, but as the old saying goes, you can't fire the whole team.

I'm not reading Bandicoot's recaps until he starts reading the Wahoo Gazette.

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