July 21, 2006

From Rochester: Dustin Diamond returns and more Gay Games

Filed under: The Show — Justin @ 3:37 pm

Saved by the Bell - Seasons 1 & 2
Dustin Diamond came back on the show this morning. He was on a couple months ago and after telling the crew about all the money and investments he had, he began to sell T-shirts or D-shirts as he calls them, to keep from losing his house. Rover had been wanting to ask him about this, so they finally got him back on this morning. Dustin said that although he does have a lot of investments, he did not want to liquidate them to pay for the house. He needed to come up with 250K in 30 days, so that is quite a bit of money to come up with that quickly. He also said he tried to get a loan to cover the amount but things fell through with that as well.

Dustin is performing in Rochester this weekend. He was actually on the phone at the airport and had to cut the call short to board his plane. He told Rover that his shows always sell out and that he get a standing ovation every show. Rover said he is going to attend the show this weekend to see if this is true or not.

Katie, a heterosexual Gay Games contestant, was on the show this morning. She said about 5% of all Gay Games contestants are straight, which really doesn’t make too much sense to me. It was really a pretty bad interview and Rover had a mini meltdown afterwards. He said Drewpolian and Dan F. are making him air a bunch of stuff for the Gay Games but he said this would be the last segment he does on it even if they last for another month. Fortunately, I think they are over this weekend, so Dieter can avoid another run in with Lennox.

Dieter plays King Kong

Filed under: Dare Dieter — Justin @ 3:31 pm

To keep with the theme of taking a suggestion from a listener in each city they visit, Rover took a suggetion from a Rochester man this morning. He said a couple years ago he and his brother were flying a toy helicopter and he accidently ran it into his brother’s face. This resulted in his brother losing his eye.

He dared Dieter to get up on a ladder and have toy helicopters and airplanes flown at him and try to knock him off the ladder, similar to the Empire State Building scene in King Kong. One of the station guys from Rochester brought in a helicopter and airplane. Both sounded pretty loud and dangerous and Rover said the blade on the thing was two feet long.

Dieter got up on the ladder. There were several missed attempts as no one was really very good at flying these things. They finally decided to sit them pretty much directly in front of him and ram him. The airplane hit Dieter in the leg and broke the propeller. It must have not been a very hard impact because Dieter was not complaining very much. They then took the helicopter and rammed it directly into his side. The helicopter operator did not ease up on the throttle after impact and Dieter and the helicopter both went tumbling to the ground. Dieter said his side was pretty torn up and that if the guy didn’t work for the radio station he would have hit him in the face. Dieter kept saying, “you don’t do that to a grown man”. I’m not sure what the hell he was talking about as this was the whole premise of the dare.

Peter Cook, Kevin Smith and Christopher Titus

Filed under: The Show — Justin @ 3:26 pm

Peter Cook, husband (for now) of supermodel Christie Brinkley is in some trouble. He has been caught sleeping with his 19 year old personal assistant. Cook, an architect is the fourth husband of 52 year old supermodel Christie Brinkley. Cook’s assistant, Diana Bianchi, came forward with allegations that Cook seduced her with under his employ. There are also other rumors that Cook was dating another 19 year old just months before his engagement to Brinkley. Bianchi is now bringing a sexual harrassment lawsuit against Cook. Duji thinks that the lawsuit is justifiable while Rover and Dieter both agreed that Cook is doing what any wealthy man would do in that position. Cook apparently buys all his mistresses lavish gifts.

Clerks (Collector\'s Edition)
Kevin Smith, the director of Clerks and Clerks 2, was on the show this morning. Kevin is on a tour promoting Clerks 2, which is being released tomorrow. The first Clerks movie cost $26,000 to make. Kevin said the budget for Clerks 2 was $5 million, which is still a really low amount for a hollywood movie. Kevin said he thought it would be one of the cheapest movies released this summer. In comparison, Jersey Girl, another Kevin Smith movie had a $35 million budget. Kevin said he much prefers a lower budget movie because the studio executives give you more freedom because the movie is pretty much guaranteed to make a nice profit.

Christopher Titus was also on the show this morning. He used to have his own TV show, “Titus” on Fox. He is performing at the Improv in Chicago this weekend. He went into his troubled childhood including his mother’s problems with drugs and alcohol. He also spoke about the divorce that he is currently going through. He met his wife before all his fame, so I’m sure that would take a toll on the relationship. He said he is currently dating a 29 year old model but he called in to the Thursday Hookup when he heard Rover and Dieter talking about how hot the girl was. It was pretty funny, I’ve never heard a guest do that before.