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Wildcard Saturday, and Craig was slightly distracted as the Bengals and Texans were doing postseason battle in Houston. We fought through the distractions, and after an eventful newscast that brought on a discussion of the glorious comedic stylings of Mitch Hedberg, we broke down the Dameshek.com Message Board Big Brother contest, which has already invoked a great deal of contraversy in the week it has been running.
The Ed called in to fight with Face Ventura, as those two have been the chief reasons the Big Brother game has been so contentious. After about an hour of Ed shennanigans (If you were sad that you missed the Ed Show this week, this should take care of your Ed cravings) we said goodbye to The Ed.
We set a world record for ease of getting Ed off the phone, and finished the show up with Craig, The Whale and Face doing a Magnificent Seven list of Craig's Top Seven most annoying sounds. We finished up with a music recommendation of "Dig a Little Deeper" by Peter Bjorn and John.
Enough is enough. Tim Tebow was fun for a moment, but the league has this gimmick figured out. 3 points against the Chiefs? THREE!!! And that measly Field Goal only occurred thanks to a muffed punt. The Broncos are the textbook definition of "Backing into the playoffs" and with a date next Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, I fear it's going to be a remarkably short and painful postseason.
Tim Tebow is not an NFL quarterback. He's had some terrific moments for the Broncos this year. And this season has been more fun than what we've seen in Denver in some time, but the long term plan for the Broncos cannot include Timmy. He's a good kid, a tremendous leader, and fun to cheer for, however there is one small problem...He's not a quarterback. That's a problem when trying to play quarterback in the NFL.
John Elway finds himself in a weird position as the head man for the Broncos. He's got a liability at quarterback and yet the entire city of Denver will lose it's mind when he does the right thing and tries to replace him. It's a scenario that could set the Broncos back a few years in their development, and I don't know that there is an easy fix. In theory, after improbably leading the Broncos to a division championship, Tim probably deserves a chance to keep the job going into next year. However, with as terrible as he has looked even when winning, not sure if the Broncos can afford to keep him back there. At the very least, there needs to be some serious competition from a credible veteran.
It sounds like I'm throwing dirt on the Broncos before they even play their playoff game, and while I think the odds of a victory are incredibly low, maybe they can pull it out. Maybe. A victory against the Steelers feels impossible, but there's always the "Any given Sunday" cliche, that cliche exists for a reason. So I will hope for the best, while expecting the worst. I'm still rooting for my boys, but I'm not expecting much. Go Broncos.
Vertically Striped Radio makes it's first appearance on a new feed, and Craig was ready with the perfect song to celebrate the joining of VSR with the LCS vibe. We also made a policy determination for the show in that VSR is semi-pro nudity.
Craig shared his story of haircutting troubles, then was joined by Face and The Whale as they recapped 2011 with a Magnificent Seven list of the Top Seven Notable Deaths of 2011 and followed that up with a recap of the big stories in the news and sports for the year. Face did not disappoint with his tendency to live life in a news vacuum, so many of these stories were discovered for the very first time.
Craig also debuted his new song "Can't Find the Beer Man" and shared his prediction of gloom and doom for both his Broncos and Face's Cowboys in their regular season finales on Sunday. The Vertically Striped Music recommendation was "Shake it Out" by Florence + The Machine.
Vertically Striped Radio gets you in the mood for Christmas, so long as you don't mind learning the truth about Santa. Craig explains his pro-Christmas, anti-Santa stance as well as plays a bunch of great holiday clips to get your Christmas off with a bang!
The power went out in San Francisco for the Niners-Steelers game, and it got Craig thinking that the power would soon go out on the Fake Radio Network feed. May as well do a farewell to the feed show and play the sound clips one last time!
Face called in and he and Craig started to reminisce about the past two and a half years of Vertically Striped Fake Radio mediocrity. The callers started coming out of the woodwork, as despite not advertising that we were doing this impromptu show. Major Minority, Nalax, and GoBraves all called in to help us say goodbye both to the feed and to Kim Jong Il.
We even finished things up with a Vertically Striped Music Recommendation from Freelance Whales of "Generator > 2nd Floor".
Craig and Face go head to head in a Magnificent Seven where we lay out our Top 7 "Don't be THAT guy" Guys. In a topic that was custom made for Face and his ongoing war against humanity, we laid out all sorts of behaviors one should do their best to avoid.
After that, it was time for the obligitory Tim Tebow segment as The Whale joined us as and we expressed our continued bewilderment at Timmy's success despite appearing to be incompetent.
We were even joined briefly by The Whale's Dad who popped in to say hello.
The VSR music recommendation was "Hunted by Ghosts" by Seattle band "The Local Strangers".
A sunny day had Craig in an upbeat mood. Face and Craig settled a simmering issue of Face unhappiness and then we were joined by Security Guy Irv for a discussion of the relative merits of mixed martial arts.
Irv hung with us for the news, and then bid us a good day as we worked our way through a new edition of "Something to Think About" and checked in with Craig's favorite German the great and powerful Flula.
The Whale popped in briefly to say hello and was followed by The Ed who called in and discussed sports and other random Ed like thoughts with the gang for the final half hour of the show.
We wrapped things up with a music recommendation from John Lennon of "Nobody Told Me" on the week of the 31st anniversary of his death.
We are venturing dangerously close to VSR Tebow overload. Face, the Whale, and Craig talked yet again about Denver's subpar quarterback sensation, Craig played a clip from the Fake Kyle Orton bemoaning losing his job and self respect to Tebow, we then talked with Chris, a guy in Denver who is trying to organize a Tebow flash mob in Denver, and even the Ed wanted to discuss the pride of the Gators.
It wasn't all Tebow talk today, as we played a round of "Would you rather?", Craig discussed a Welch cat named Puss Puss, Craig played a voice mail message from an Austrailian School followed by Face and Whale flailing for a few minutes, Craig practiced his Beavis and Butthead impersonations, and we even had a very awkward edition of the Magnificent Seven (Top 7 Awkward words or phrases.)
The Ed called in and did Ed type things for about 20 minutes at the end before we called it a day with a music recommendation of "You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds.
