Taking Back Sunday guitarist, Matt Fazzi joined us on the phone to chat about SONiC BOOM.

How Sharon Stone Pissed Off Everyone in France

Supersize Tragedy at a McDonalds

Catwoman Casting Rumors Put to Rest

Special Guest: Acres of Lions

 

 Layne Mitchell Show Podcast #30 [14:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a picture of me high-fiving SONiC Girl Heather at the SONiC 1K.  Is it just me, or are my hands a little on the large side?

Worst things about having big hands:

-I’ve resorted to hiring grade 3 kids to pick my nose.
-I think there’s a 5-dollar bill in my pants pocket… but I’ll never know for sure.
-Instead of a wedding band, I just wear a trim ring from an ‘87 Chevy half-ton

I read today that Edmonton Police handed out $15,000 in fines during a Friday night crackdown on illegal taxis in Edmonton. Illegal being unlicensed. They have drivers licenses, just not TAXI licenses. Some were licensed in other municipalities; others were drivers using their family cars to pick up passengers. On Friday night, police set up shop in two Edmonton hotels and started calling some of the so-called “bandit taxis” asking for a ride to the airport or the Fringe Festival.

I’m the first one to admit I know NOTHING about law enforcement. NOTHING. But I can take a walk down 118th Ave or Whyte any night of the week and score just about anything imaginable. So a sting operation to catch illegal taxis seems like waste of police resources. Doesn’t it? Drinking and driving continues to rise. I remember a couple of years ago I went to a Christmas party, I had drinks so I called a cab. I waited over 2 hours!!! 2 hours. Which indicates to me that we need MORE taxis on the road. Not less. A STING operation to catch unlicensed taxis.

What’s next? A sting operation where police officers disguise themselves as bedside tables to catch people tearing the tags off their mattresses?

Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Chad Smith says he’s continually mistaken for Will Ferrell. In fact on his last appearance on Saturday Night Live he wore a t-shirt that said “I Am Not Will Ferrell”.

Find out why Magician, David Copeprfield is getting SUED

Learn what a WALMARTIAN is?

Special Guest: Silversun Pickups in the Axe Music Listener Lounge.

PLUS, a Layne Mitchell Show Podcast Extra.

 

 Layne Mitchell Show Podcast #29 [25:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Perhaps you’ve heard Lady Ga-ga’s song Pokerface. In fact, if you have a shred of dignity, you’re probably trying to forget it.This oughta get it out of your head.

I was doing some shopping last night at the Wal-Mart in Windermere and I heard SONiC playing in the background over by the automotive department. I might have come over and said hello, except I was there… in my pajamas.

One thing you have to understand about me is that the very minute the work day ends, it is like a mad race for me to change out of my “big-people clothes” and into my pajamas. I start undoing my belt as I walk out the door at 7:00, by the time I hit the White Mudd, I’m in my underwear.

While I do generally wear clothes when I’m out, my wife and I don’t live all that far from the Walmart in Windermere. Plus, the stores just opened and they’re in the middle of nowhere, so there’s never anyone in there. If I hit the self check-out, I may complete an entire shopping trip without encountering another human being.

So I’ve begun to look at Wal-Mart as an extension of our home. You might take the garbage out in pajamas, right? Well the mailbox is only a few steps away, the park is just a few steps further, and next thing you know, you’re at Wal-Mart in your pajamas.

I read a neat article in this month’s edition of Popular Science about Mosquitoes. Every so often you encounter one of the blood-thirty little bugs that appears a little on the clumsy side… almost as though its had too much to drink. In some cases, it’s exactly that.

You might assume the mosquito unknowingly sucked the blood of somebody who was drunk. The truth is, you can drink like David Hasslehoff gearing up for another YouTube performance, rev your blood alcohol up to 0.2 and still the alcohol content a mosquito might ingest is less than a 25th of the alcohol in beer. For a creature that small you might think that’s adequate, but it’s actually no where near.

Although, mosquitoes are capable of getting schnockered, and frequently do. They also feed on fermenting fruit and plants, which are a MUCH higher proof. In fact, scientists have actually tested the bugs ability to hold their alcohol using puffs of 60 percent alcohol vapor. And still, it takes them more booze to get them drunk because mosquitoes metabolize alcohol FAR, FAR differently from you or I. The booze they consume, is diverted to a “holding pouch,” where enzymes break it down before it hits their little mosquito central nervous systems.

So next time you see a mosquito, flying kinda crooked, or trying to pick a fight with a preying mantis or something, before you swat it, take a minute to appreciate nature’s drinking heavyweights!

Special Guest Performance & Interviews with Silversun Pickups & Manchester Orchestra

Mysterious black smoke

The real life version of Nintendo’s “Duck Hunt”

Packman’s half brother

 

 Layne Mitchell Show Podcast #28 [23:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download