Take That! Radio

Our new mid-day radio program airs at 10:45 am this morning. Lojac will be spinning the tunes.
Brass Balls Radio – Show 45 with Connie Fournier airs at noon.
Block Party LIVE – The 50th Episode airs at 2:00pm.

Please send your song requests to request (at) takethatradio (dot) com.
If we can add it, we will and we’ll send you a message to let you know when we’ll play it for you.

Chicago write up is here.

Q: Do you still plan on rolling out the streaming audio channel and breaking stuff along the way?
A: Absolutely. Here at Take That! Productions USA Radio Network we strive to break as much as we can on a weekly basis. Daily as well as long as we can produce the bail money.
Keep those questions rolling!

This is truly a sad story. In December, this girl was feeling ill. By the end of January, she has no hands, no feet, and she is dead.
From the BBC…
The hospital in Brazil’s Espirito Santo state said she died from complications related to a generalised infection.
Mariana Bridi was said to have first sought medical help [...]

She will be missed.

From the BNO Newsroom.
Andrew Freedman, Eartha Kitt’s spokesman, has told BNO News that the singer and actress passed away earlier this Christmas Day.
Kitt was best known for her role as Catwoman in the 1960s TV series Batman and for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby”.
Kitt passed away at around 2.35 pm Eastern [...]

From ALL of us to ALL of you…

Two of our shows have been nominated for the 4th Annual Podcast Awards.
Block Party LIVE has been nominated in the COMEDY category.
Brass Balls Radio has been nominated in the POLITICAL category.
Congratulations to both shows!
Click on the link in the sidebar and please vote for our shows!

via The Chicago Tribune…
Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.
Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Hospital, according to his spokeswoman. A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in [...]

from The New York Times…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s ”The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.
Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday [...]

According to FoxNews, it REALLY has all been done…
FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. — The singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York.
Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in the Syracuse area.
Authorities say the arrest occurred at [...]

Please help me in congratulating Cali for accepting additional responsibilities here at Take That! Productions USA.
Cali’s new role is Director of Music and as such, she will be responsible for the music that you hear inside our podcasts. She will also be co-producing Radio Monkeys as well.
I also thought this would be a good opportunity [...]

…not sure about the song.

Link: sevenload.com

Hat Tip: Podfather

Apparently, you can’t drive a wheelchair when you are over the legal alcohol limit. Who knew?
from Reuters…
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Police in Australia have charged a man for drink driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday.
Police in the tropical northern [...]

When it directly or adversely effects our ability to defend our shores, environmentalism has gone TOO far.
from the NY Times (free subscription may be required to read the full text)…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a long-running environmental dispute over the impact on whales and other marine mammals of Navy training exercises [...]

I’m pretty sure the first comedy cassette tape I ever bought was a George Carlin tape. He’ll be missed.
from The New York Times…
George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and language, and groundbreaking routines like “Seven Words [...]

from FoxNews…
A Los Angeles woman claims she was injured by her Victoria’s Secret thong, prompting her to sue the underwear manufacturer.
The plaintiff in the case, Macrida Patterson, 52, attributed the May 2007 injury to a Victoria’s Secret “low-rise v-string,” according to a court document posted on The Smoking Gun.
Patterson’s lawyer told The Smoking Gun that [...]