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MATT AND ERIC’S YULE RULES
Shopping – can start anytime during year, but no one is allowed to brag about being done early.

Purchasing of Danish Butter Cookies/After Eight/Turtles/Pot of Gold – Nov. 23

Baking of shortbread cookies – anytime. (Note: green/red sprinkles can only be added after Dec. 1)

Put up lights – anytime (but can’t be turned on until Dec. 1)

Drinking of egg nog – anytime after the first major snowfall

Christmas tree purchase/decoration – Dec. 1 (coloured trees not allowed)

Wearing of Christmas earrings and socks – Dec. 10

Saying “Merry Christmas” – Dec. 15

Wearing of Christmas sweaters – Dec. 18 (They get one week to embarrass themselves)

Wearing of Christmas ties – never (who wears ties anyways?)

The wreath continues to be a source of great concern. Please note, it’s at the discretion of the lady of the house, who likely keeps it up all year while sprucing it up with various accoutrements of the season. PLEASE NOTE: Use of the word accoutrements is not acceptable any time of the year.

matt

Your turn

Guys, I urge you to watch to vid below before you buy your gal’s Christmas gift!

Gals, Direct your guy to vid before he buys you something stupid

All, this may be the funniest video I’ve ever seen.

The needs in our community continue to grow. If anyone can point Cathy in the right direction for help, please get back.

Thanks

matt

First Name: Cathy
Last Name: Laycraft

Message: I know you guys probably get a hundred of these kind of e-mails per day, but this is something I am very passionate about. At the end of last week, Friday the 14th, my Granddaughter’s Daycare went out of commission due to a furnace malfunction, the furnace blew up and sent furnace dust throughout the entire daycare, they evacuated all the children to the school next door and everyone was fine, but they had to close the daycare for approximately 2 weeks, to get all the dust out and to make sure that the air quality was good and that there would be no harm to the children that went back in. My concern is that when this all happened, all the plush toys and clothes and blankets, etc were ruined and had to be destroyed, this is a non-profit daycare in a community that has a lot of single parents and low income families and what I would like to know, is if anyone could donate toys, clothes and blankets to this well deserving facility?

Thanks for your time

Cathy

Hey, It’s a Bonus Code: DOUBLE

I love mornings like this! The ones that remind us what a great city we live in because of its caring and generous people.

Just when we think everything is falling apart and we become cynical about the world and all in it….something happens that makes us pause and think it ain’t that bad after all.

I’ll explain this in chronological order.

Yesterday, I received this email:

First Name: Cindy
Last Name: Thomas

I’m sending you this email cause we need some help, I know that there is nothing you can do to help us, but at times you read out the emails & maybe a listener can give some good advice, here is our problem my daughters boyfriend decided 2 weeks ago that being single is a lot more fun then living with a girlfriend & her 2 kids, he dropped my daughter off at our house with the kids & all their clothes, the problem we are having is getting the rest of their stuff out of the house, he had the landlord take her name off the lease right away, so we can’t go in the house if he is not there or we would be charged with break & entering, we have set up many dates with him to go in & get the stuff & right before he calls & says he’s not home got to change the plans, the police said we can get an escort from them but we have 20 minutes to get everything out. How do you get 3 bedroom, a kitchen & living room out the door in 20 minutes. My grandchildren are sleeping on the floor, have no toys to play with, & their clothes are in garbage bags because we have no dressers. If anyone has any suggestion’s, or knowledge on how we can just handle this situation it would be very appreciated.

I read this on the show hoping that someone with a far bigger brain than I may have a helpful idea.
Although it hurts me to admit it, lawyers by and charge are brighter than me and that was proved by Chris Moser.

Hi Matt – I am a lawyer and I heard on the radio this morning about the mother of 2 kids with the ex-boyfriend who won’t give her back her furniture. If he won’t cooperate (which is always the best solution for all involved), then this falls into the family law area of “common law” relationships – which is often more complicated than going through a divorce! The way it works in a common law situation is that each person gets to keep what is theirs (if they can prove it). However, going through something like this with the courts etc. can take a long time, and I don’t think it’s great to have kids sleep on floors, so I think instead it makes more sense if your listeners just chip in to help buy them some new furniture. If you think it’s a good idea, I would be happy to get the ball rolling with a $500 gift to the family so that the kids can have beds to sleep in. I’m sure other listeners have already contacted you about this as well. In any case, good on you for reading this on the radio this morning, these kind of situations are always disheartening, especially at this time of year when the weather gets colder.

All the best,
Chris Moser

Turns out Chris was right in his optimism of our listeners potential response. After reading his email, Soren Nielsen from ‘Home Solutions’ called with 500 bucks. Followed by Scott McRae of ‘Wheatland Petroleum’ in Strathmore and another 500. Thanks to Wendy for offering 200 and Rick of ‘Anytime Installations’ with 250.

Then came the emails;

First Name: GRANT
Last Name: BINDER

Message: Hi Matt,

I caught the story about the woman with two young kids. I’d love to give her cash but I’m just wondering, I have a 5 year old metal bunk bed, in great condition in storage. it’s all metal, forest green. I’ve tried to donate it for free to agencies in town and they only take new furniture. Could she possible use this? I’d set it up for her. I have the mattress’s that had the protector covers, sheets and all. Plus I’ll donate $100.

Hi Matt,
My name is Holly, I called you this morning about the girls age for clothing. I also have a dresser set I am looking to get rid of, toys and books. Please let me know what size the girl is. And if she wants the other stuff let me know. I am also a single Mom, so I cannot donate any cash.
Thanks, Holly J
Thomas Insulation Inc.

I called Jodie and shared the news. Understandably she was overwhelmed and through a choked up throat thanked all who are helping and how sad she is that her kids are going through this. Her 8 and 2 year old will be in beds this weekend and that makes our city better.

Matt

Your turn

It seems that every day on the calendar has been given a special title or status. Most them are silly, but today’s is wonderful. In fact I’m inclined to think it’s the greatest day of the year. Ok, maybe just behind Christmas.

Welcome to November 19th…HAVE A BAD DAY DAY!

This cheery day was labeled and so allocated for those who are filled with revulsion at being told endlessly to “have a nice day,” this day is a brief respite.

So please, go ahead and celebrate with me be wishing people you see today to…HAVE A BAD DAY!

This morning on the show callers began citing those that they would you like to wish a bad to….from the boss, to politicians, fellow Deerfoot drivers and that irritating close talking co-worker.

As you can imagine, being a lover of all, it took me awhile to come up with even one person that I’d want to wish a bad day to. But eventually Kelly dragged it out of me.

- Pays for one coffee in Horton’s drive through with a debit card guy

- Traps you in the lunch room to tell you he got 8 points last night in his hockey pool guy

- At Macs, dumps out a grocery bag full of lotto tickets onto counter and mumbles “Check these” guy. Of course I’m always behind him waiting to by gum

- Anybody who phones me instead of texting or emailing

- The lady in front of me in the grocery check out that seems surprised she has to pay. You know the one. The cashier says “56 dollars”. Then the customer has this confused look for a couple of seconds then as if just coming to, says “Oh of course!” with a giggle and starts fishing through her purse

Those are just a couple of the top of my head. Feel free to add your own and by all means….HAVE A BAD DAY!

matt

your turn

Shaw Cable has had its wrist slapped or bottom spank by the CRTC. The broadcasting governing body ruled that Shaw has not been marketing it’s gay-lesbian TV service as well as do other cable systems. OUTtv is the channel in question by the way, but obviously that goes without saying.

We decided that if Shaw isn’t going to promote OUT, we will!

I’d like to introduce you to a new game show called ‘OUTtv or Sounds Like OUTtv’. Gather the whole family and play along!

‘Bad Girls’

‘Mole Sisters’

‘Hot and Wet’

‘The Gavin Show’

‘Naked Lunch’

‘Bump’

‘Rhona’

”The Insider’

‘C-PAC’

‘What’s for dinner?’

‘Hardball’

Take you your best shot! ‘OUTtv or Sounds Like OUTtv’

Second only to maybe Oprah, Eric is the happiest person in the world today following Obama’s win last night. You see, the delusional Mr.Francis signed up to be a ‘Friend of Barack’ some time ago. Since then he gets those ‘mass emails’ than millions of others get, yet will take to his grave that he’s the only one.

eric –

I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it’s time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I’ll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing…

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

This morning I tried breaking the truth to him. Although crestfallen, first he seemed to accept the fact he was not alone in the president elect’s admiration, but then ‘Patrick from Canmore’ screwed it up by sending him this!

The bonus code is SHOCKING. You know what to do.