Episode 6: Comparing Childhoods

This week, Chris and Megan debut a few new segments and argue over who had the better childhood based on parental sibling preference, creek proximity, and ice cream man frequency.




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Megan and Chris opened the show talking of an "author" telling her story Skin, one tattoo at a time. The Bollywood Strike is over. And "King of the Internet" Chris Berg explains the concept of being "Rick Rolled" to viral video novice Megan, after reporting that Rick Astley may be getting a pointless award from MTV.

In our segment "Cute, Tragic, and Disgusting Animal Stories" we announce that fish pedicures are now illegal in Washington state. In Austrailia, a snake attacks a sleeping girl. And Megan proves her superior internet skills to "King of the Internet" Chris Berg by quickly finding information about this snake perpetrator-slaty grey snake. In Taiwan, a mouse kills a snake. And finally British police taser a sheep for blocking traffic.

A new segment we called "Pallin' with Palin" contained discussion on roots of Sarah Palin's accent and her condemnation of women who don't support other women. Ahem, Sarah Palin

The "Crime" segment was fairly short this week, with an idiot who gets arrested in a jail parking lot, right after he posts bail from a previous crime. And a high school girl fed her teachers hash cakes.

"Science Time!": Why having affair could kill you. High fertility and high voices in women go hand in hand. And finally, one British jerk says that UFOs have been among us since the 1940s and is aiming to one-up us Americans.

Lastly, we had a new segment called "News Cruise for the People," basically human interest stories that didn't fit any where else. These included a grandmother lost in Italy was found. In Cambodia, a couple makes a quite literal divorce. And finally, we concluded with a story about American jerk Richard Fuld getting punched in the face.

Chris and Megan end the show with talking about hurting themselves.

Note: We decide that Europe cannot be a definite enemy of the show. We'll take it on a case by case basis. For example: "Fusion Man" (see episode 5)-friend. Cops who tasered sheep-enemy.


Things you should do:
1. Submit a theme song for the show or any segment on the show.
2. Send us stories about someone getting face-punched
3. Tell a friend about the News Cruise

Send any questions, comments, stories, and suggestions to thenewscruise@gmail.com

Episode 5: Inspiration and Unspiration

This week Megan and Chris make it to the booth without any stumbles or rain. We dedicate the first half of the show to inspirational tales, and the second half to ruining the good feelings from the first half.

We also opened up the hour with our new theme song--thanks goes out to Jessamyn Stanley, WUAG news director, for her vocals!




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The first hour was filled with inspiration of people "making it" by getting a new prosthetic leg over a pint. A girl deals with being blind 3 days of every six. "Fusion Man" makes it across the English channel flying "a little bit like a bird." What else made it? Falcon-1 made it. Where? TO SPACE! And finally Clay Aiken came out of the closet. Who knew?

After all the inspiring stories, crime befell the second hour of The News Cruise. A drunken man farted on police officers. "Grade" students making "super-meth?" You bet. A tragic animal crime story was brought to us from Brazil, where a man thought he could get away trafficking 200 birds. One of the best crime stories of them all: Guy uses Craigslist to make a successful armed robbery

To end the hour we discussed a Wall-Streeter turned monk. And finally, The News Cruise made a new enemy of the show: Australian 'Rangas (red heads). Who denies a free trip to the zoo?

To catch our listeners up, here is a reminder of our friends, allies, and enemies that we've made on The News Cruise:

Enemies:
Europe
Australian Redheads

Friends & Allies:
Australia
"Fusion Man"
Craigslist robber
And the bus driver/driving thief.

As always, if you have questions, comments, news stories, or would like to submit a theme song that you've created (for us, The News Cruise), you can email us at TheNewsCruise@gmail.com. Or tune in every Thursday from 11p-1a on WUAG 103.1 FM where we can be reached by phone (assuming we're not on the air) at 336-334-5450.


Thanks for listening!

Episode 4: Debunkin' it

This week, a rained-on Megan and Chris debunk the myths of science. Also, hot dog terrorism, the high cost of gas, and Chris' appearance on 24-hour local news.




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Articles from this week's show:
1. Smallest man meets woman with longest legs
2. Officials pave over musical asphalt
3. Drug dealer charges fuel surcharge
4. Bees worth $220 billion a year
5. Aboriginal cave art
6. LHC halted for two months
7. Stolen Chihuahua turns up in vet's office after ingesting meth
8. Hot dog bomb scare at Phillies game
9. Texas school considers rosary a "gang symbol"
10. Designer vagina trend "worrying"
11. Tall bridges are apparently scary for those afraid of heights

Things you should do:
1. Send us stories about injuring yourself
2. Send us a theme song you created.
3. Tell one to five friends about the News Cruise.

As always, email us any news stories, opinions, or anything else you think we'd be interested in at thenewscruise@gmail.com

The News Cruise Episode 3: Bleeding on the Radio

This week Chris is joined by WUAG news director and friend of the show Jessamyn Stanley. They discuss Sarah Palin, Japanese inventors, R. Kelly, Chris crashing his bike a few minutes before the show, and the subsequent bleeding. Later, Megan arrives and they all make fun of British people.




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Articles mentioned on tonight's show:
1. Sarah Palin's Japanese glasses
2. Goodbye to TRL
3. R. Kelly's first post-acquittal interview
4. Jailed for Pope-mockery
5. Church of England's apology to Charles Darwin
6. Chinese tourists accidentally buy depleted uranium
7. Lost middle-class tribe of west Wales
8. Inventor of web discusses lies on his creation
9. Iceland's kissing cousins have more kids

Things you should do:
1. Send us some stories about a time you crashed your bike
2. Send us a theme song you created.

As always, if you have a news story you think we should discuss, send it to us at thenewscruise@gmail.com

The News Cruise Episode 2: Water Bears, Future Toast, and 23,000 Big Macs

In this episode, we discuss things that can survive in space, physicist fights, and the future of breakfast. Plus: a horrible attempt at using the phone!




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Articles mentioned on tonight's show:
1. Water bears in Space
2. Battling of the Nobel Giants
3. Comical Curse Words
4. French Woman sues Scientology
5. Unicorn Found
6. Python hitch-hiker
7. Green Polar Bears
8. Found: Cat, 9 years later
9. Gun False Alarms
10. Wine Allergy
11. Big Mac Attack!
12. Toast Scanner
13. Women dream scarier
14. US personality geography

Thanks for listening!

The News Cruise Podcast Episode 1: The Half-a-show

This show, originally broadcast September 4th, 2008, was tragically cut short by a malfunctioning live stream. What's left is pretty good, though. Enjoy!

-Chris


PS Please allow the player a few moments to load. The podcast is hosted on ourmedia.org, and you get what you pay for (it's free).

PPS If you'd prefer, here's a direct link to the file.

Genesis

The purpose of this blog is for documenting news stories that are discussed on "The News Cruise" for our listeners to easily refer to and to avoid any criminal activity concerning plagerism.
"The News Cruise" is a specialty radio show on the one of Greensboro, NC's popular college radio stations, 103.1 FM WUAG, on Thurdays nights 11p-1a. If you don't live in the Greensboro area and would like to listen, you can always stream it live from the website previously linked.

The concept of "The News Cruise" is simple as 1, 2, 3:
1. We find recent interesting (not always important) news stories
2. Summarize them for our listening audience
3. Let our opinions fly (always in accordance with the FCC, of course)
Usually we try to fit the news stories into segments or categories such as "Cute, tragic, and disgusting animal stories," "Crime and Punishment," and "News from Space." The end of the world as we know it also seems to be a popular topic. This is just to name a few, but we don't like to limit ourselves.

"The News Cruise" is in its second season. It first began in the Summer of 2008 and was hosted Chris Berg, me (Megan Wallrichs), and our friend Bobby Williams. Over the course of the summer we acquired a steady repertoire of listeners (delivery drivers and clowns included), local and worldwide (Canada and Belgium) Chris and I will continue to host "The News Cruise" during the Fall semester of 2008.

Chris and I have been DJ's at WUAG for 7 semesters and have been co-hosts for 4 out of those 7. Not completely relying on the biased opinions of our friends, we have reason to believe that we have good radio chemistry and have been known on occasion to be quite funny.

In hopes of increasing "The News Cruise's" popularity we have some exciting future plans that we have or hope to implement soon:
-This blog
-Flyers promoting our show
-The ability for on-air phone guests
-In-studio guests
-Podcasting
-Contests (with prizes!)

If you want to contact us by email for submitting a news story, a contest entry, or just want to say "hi" send it to thenewscruise@gmail.com
And to talk to us directly, you can call us at the radio station during our show at 336-334-5450. We will answer, permitting we're not on air.

So stay tuned for updates and news stories, and tune in tonight from 11p-1a eastern to 103.1 FM WUAG or stream it live from WUAG's website (see link at beginning of post).

-Meg