Jonathon proposed to Cortney this morning. Cortney accepted and they are now engaged. Rover was trying his hardest to get Jonathon to call his mother and tell her the news, which I’m sure would have and will make for some great conversations. Jonathon refused though, even after Rover offered to pay for his bachelor party because he said things went too well and he said he has already taken too many years off his mother’s life.

DJ Jazzy Jim was two hours late today. He then lied to Rover and Duji about what time he called the taxi cab. This is about the 3000th time that he has been caught in a lie. Jim was kicked off the show for next week (Dumb has a funeral to attend) and he is also losing a week worth of pay, which he was very upset about.

Black Dave will be taking Jim’s place. He wrote to Rover and initially wanted Jonathon’s job. Jonathon did a great job opening up for Ralphie May over the weekend and Jim was late yesterday, so Rover offered him Jim’s job instead. Black Dave works in a sheet metal factory, has a child and said his girlfriends have had several abortions. He said his first one was when he was fifteen and he lost his virginity at age ten. He will be coming in all next week while Jim is gone.

A female listener from Memphis wrote in to say that she cried when Dieter broke the guitar that Jonathon’s dead father gave him. She actually went as far as to say that she hates Dieter. Her Dare Dieter was for Dieter to have a guitar smashed over his head. I thought it was kind of ironic that they had Jerry Lawler on the show and then guitar smashing.

Several listeners called in that had smashed guitars over people’s heads before. Most reported some pretty serious injuries. Dieter, not surprisingly, accepted the dare. They were trying to figure out ways for him to protect his head and teeth. So he kept his baseball cap on and also tore up a styrofoam cup and put it in his mouth as a mouthguard (not sure how effective that is).

Boston, the Memphis board-op, was giving the opportunity of smashing the guitar over his head. The girl should have specified Jonathon in her email but I doubt Rover wants any more bad blood between them. Dieter prepared himself by grunting and yelling and then the hit came. It sounded pretty darn loud and you could definitely tell that it broke. Rover immediately said he thought Dieter was hurt pretty bad. Dieter, as usual, told everyone to stay away from him and ended up leaving the studio a minute or so later. Rover said that Dieter’s head went through both the top and bottom of the guitar. He said he has been through so many Dare Dieter stunts that he can tell when Dieter is really hurt and this was one of those times.

The Memphis station’s program director came in and said the paramedics were on their way without anyone even calling (they had heard the dare on the radio). Several people brought up a possible concussion and I sent Rover an instant message to check to see if his pupils were dilated. I hope they don’t let him do too much drinking tonight or that could be bad news. I’m sure there will be some fun stories on Monday.

Huggie, the Chicago board-op, is always hard up for money. He kissed a gay man for $50 and put One Eyed Bri’s glass eye in his mouth for $40. Duji mentioned that he should donate sperm to make extra money. Rover did the math and he could make an extra $800/month donating sperm. He ran the idea past his wife and she was not happy with the idea. Instead of worrying about him having to degrade himself to make them extra money, she is worried about the illegitimate children that may result. Huggie went into his whole marriage history. He met his wife at a Jewish church function in high school. They dated all through high school and college and got married right after they graduated college. They have been married for five years. Huggie said it has been so long since they’ve had sex, he can not remember the last time. The crew pretty much all told Huggie that his marriage is only going to last as long as his wife wants it to.

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein was on the show this morning. Rabbi Goldstein, the founding rabbi of The New Shul in New York City’s Greenwich Village, talked quite a bit this morning about both the recent incident with Mel Gibson and also the state of Judaism as a whole. T.J., the sports guy, who is also Jewish, talked a lot with the rabbi about the anti-semitics. Rabbi Goldstein said he does think Mel Gibson is anti-semitic but is not concerned with him. He said he is a lot more concerned about how the Jewish community is not more pro-active and how they just react to everything that happens, just like the current Mel Gibson situation. The rabbi has just written a new book, “Gonzo Judaism”, which is inspired by the writings of Hunter S. Thompson. Should make for an interesting read.

Barry Shabaka Henley, who plays Lt. Martin Castillo in the new Miami Vice movie, was also on the show this morning. Henley has been in lots of movies and on several television shows, including playing a jazz club owner, Daniel, who is killed by Tom Cruise in the movie Collateral. Rover asked Henley about his Miami Vice co-star Colin Farrell, who supposed checked into rehab the day after they finished filming on the movie. Henley said he never saw Farrell drinking or using drugs but that he imagined that the stress of the shoot and also the very dangerous stunts Farrell was doing could cause someone to use drugs or alcohol. Miami Vice opened as the number one movie last weekend, so I’m sure Henley and the rest of the cast are in good spirits right now.

The crew got on a long discussion of video games after Rover brought up a Federal Judge who has thrown out a Minnesota Video game law which fined youths under 17 $25 for attempting to rent or buy a Mature (M) or Adult Only (AO) rated game. The law was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. Rover and Dieter both agreed that it is the parents responsibility to watch what their kid is doing/playing. Duji thought the law was a good idea although she did say parents need to watch out after a caller ripped into her. The show’s Memphis board operator IM’ed Rover and said his mom calls him for Grand Theft Auto tips and actually asked him how to get the hookers. Story

After a discussion of the De Beers group and their diamond cartel, Dieter brought up the point that he thinks there is a sulfur cartel forming. He claims that one of president George W. Bush’s best friends owns 90% of the world’s sulfur and in a clever ploy is going to sell it all back to different countries once global warming increases because sulfur cools the earth. Now sulfur is a rather adundant element, do I seriously doubt any one person could possibly own 90% of the world supply. Several science students also called in to say that sulfur’s cooling effect is really minimal and would not combat increased global warming anyway. I have no idea where Dieter comes up with these things.

Dave Navarro was on the show this morning. I think that means every single person on the show Rockstar: Supernova has now been on Rover’s Morning Glory. Rover asked Navarro about attitudes amongst the bandmates. Navarro claims that he didn’t notice any and that he has known all three guys for a long time. Rover also asked a few questions about Navarro’s pending divorce from Carmen Electra but he didn’t really get any solid responses. He then asked if Navarro was gay to which he responded, “You heard that about me?”. Dieter says if you search for “bisexual musicians” on Wikipedia that Navarro comes up. Jonathon then sang a new version of “Jane Says” by Jane’s Addition which revolved around Carmen Electra dumping Navarro and wanting to hook up with Jonathon. Dave called him out because Jonathon had the chords to the song backwards.

I thought it was kind of strange that there was not much said about the Dieter and Jonathon helmet incident from Friday. Jonathon came on the air this morning and began to play a song. Midway through the song you just hear a scuffle and then things getting smashed and a bunch of yelling and screaming. Dieter ripped the guitar out of Jonathon’s hands and smashed it into pieces in the studio. Rover and Duji were both freaking out. Rover got hit in the head with a pole in the ensuing melee and Duji began to cry afterwards. Jonathon was very upset as this particular guitar was given to him by his father, who passed away when Jonathon was 12 from Leukemia. I felt really bad for Jonathon, although I would have thought he would have seen some sort of payback coming knowing Dieter. Jonathon left the studio for some time and said he didn’t know if he would be returning, although Rover eventually talked him into coming back up.

Rover brought One Eyed Bri in to talk this morning after he received an email from a women with a transcript of a very strange instant messenger conversation between Bri and herself. She had talked about holding her cat and Bri asked if he could be held like that too plus a bunch of other random weirdness. He of course started the whole thing off with his patented, “I only have one eye but that is all I need to see you are smokin” line.

Today is the 25th Anniversary of the launch of MTV. Rover went through MTV’s 25 Greatest Moments. These included several Madonna and Michael Jackson videos, the launch of “Real World”, Eric Clapton Unplugged and several MTV Music Awards moments. Beavis and Butthead and Jackass were two shows that also made it into the top 25 moments.