Episode 17: Gettin' Weird

This week, Megan and Chris get weirder and weirder. Seriously. Also: pink iguanas, internews, and old lawyers.




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It's true, Megan and Chris do just keep getting weirder and weirder. Megan is so weird and forgetful that she forgot what order the news stories were in; so she's just going to list them:

-stinky foot student
-YouTube is still sensational
-Missing dog found after cold winter
-The CIA is thinking with their heads finally, or are they?
-Ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse
-Americains cain't spel
-Python eats kitty
-A science project blows up and this isn't any volcano
-An old man pretends to be a parking lot attendant
-A thief with good taste.
-Another old man, gets his law degree

Whew, that was a lot of stories.

In other EXCITING NEWS, next week Chris and Megan will be interviewing Carlos Urreta and Joe Philipson of www.realgeeksride.com to learn more about their adventure. In the following week, a phone interview with Hope for Agoldensummer!

So, stay tuned and as always any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, etc, etc should be directed towards thenewscruise@gmail.com and specifically as hate mail towards Chris.

Have a great week!

Episode 16: Socialist Reefs

This week, Megan and Chris discuss...not too much, unfortunately. Because of a recording malfunction, most of this episode has been lost to the ages. Still, what's left is pretty good.




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Taking a look at the economy Chris and Megan discuss a proposed "salary cap" on Wall Streeters that leads into a huge digression of incompetent Starbucks employees and wealthy battles between Tim McGraw and the Obamas. Cars and banks are not the only ones wanting help, the adult film industry is also looking for a pick me up. And finally, a glimmer of hope for Zimbabwe's currency?

Cute, tragic, and disgusting animal stories: A newly discovered sea squirt is carnivorous. An orangutan ruins t-shirts for his cage mates by using one to escape and un-escape. And finally, a crowd-pleasing walrus plays the sax.

American Idol judges misunderstand a colloquial expression. And a mystery 'stuntman' suffers injuries on the pre-production set of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.

Japanese students bring a piece of history that hits a little too close to home (this sentence is just awful, and i apologize). Lastly-the iPhone now does everything.

Thanks for listening. Have a good night.

Episode 15: Be Confident

In the first episode of the spring semester, Chris and Megan get back into the swing of things with an inauguration recap, goth kittens, and lots of twitter-talk.




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Chris and Megan discuss memories of the recent inauguration of President Barack Obama. Two Dutch youths use texting to get to Obama. Finger-synching of Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman much better performance than Ashlee Simpson.

In a special Cute, Tragic & Disgusting Animal Stories X Crime, we discuss shark thieves and gothic kittens.

In "News Cruise for the People:"Two blondes, too blonde? Also, a father-son duo make it across the South Pole

PLUS: Old toys! Angwy Whoopers are not the worst food, the Baskin' Robbins' large chocolate oreo shake is. Chris and Megan are going to split one, one day. Then maybe go running with Matthew Mcconaughey. Or not.
Keeping up with the times, the new Ritalin fad could be replaced by a "memory-pill" and the Pope goes Youtube!
Why we procrastinate.
Outlawedprofanity and finally something about bull castration.

New Semester, New Night!

A new semester begins here at UNCG tomorrow and that means that The News Cruise is back in business!
Slight change, however; instead of our usual Thursday night slot at 11p, we have been moved to Monday nights at 11p-1a. The first show will be next week, NOT TODAY. Happy MLK, by the way However, if you still can't tune in at that time during the semester, either via the actual radio or live stream, we are continuing to podcast the show (so you can listen anytime!). Also we are working towards making our podcasts available through iTunes; it has just been a matter of us being lazy.

So here's to an exciting new semester full of new(s) stories, new theme songs, and new segments! Please vote in the poll to the right, so that we know what YOU want to hear! Stay tuned and thanks for listening!

As always, questions, comments, suggestions, or News Cruise theme song submissions are welcome at thenewscruise@gmail.com or call us when we're not on air, Monday 11p-1a at (336) 334-5450.

-Meg

P.S.-I made it my new year resolution to update this blog regularly. Recently, it has come to our attention that if I had been updating like I should have been, then a certain poop-conversation-mystery could have easily been solved.

The News Cruise: Mentioned in Mainstream Underground Meta-Press

Today I noticed that Colin Marshall, fellow radio host and official "podthinker" of the Maximumfun.org blog, had given us this very nice write-up in his column. So here's the offical News Cruise THANKS to Colin, for helping us spread the word about our little endeavor, and the official News Cruise HELLO to anyone who has found their way here thanks to the review.

Updates

Hello Readers/Listeners:

I made a few slight changes to the blog, all good:

• I changed the template ever so slightly. It is the same color scheme and, essentially, is the same as before
• I changed the poll. (Results from last poll: 100% of people just love the News Cruise (n=9) and can barely wait one week between shows)
• I added a link to the top in the right column (look to your right) that directly links you to WUAG live stream.

Chris and I find out this week when our show for the Spring semester (if we got it, that is) and so, of course, we'll keep you updated on that news. I think if for some reason we do not get the show this semester, we will do the show anyways broadcasting from Chris' room. I haven't talked to him about this yet.

Stay tuned folks!

Happy Belated Birthdays: Jesus, 2009

Hello!!!!

Sorry it has been so long since the last update.  Megan and I have been out of town, alternately having surgery for mouth thingies, celebrating Christmas, celebrating New Years (during which time we were in the same town which was out of both of our towns that we were in when we were out of our initial town), and having surgery for throat thingies.

I just wanted to provide a brief update to anyone who may visit this blog that:  It is not dead!  

HIATUS.

Anyway, keep checking, or add it to your feeds or readers or whatever, because soon we will be back with more episodes and commentary, and maybe some other new things as well.

For now, look at these things:

Eye on Springfield
Megan's Twitter
My Twitter
?uestlove's Twitter
The Daily Puppy
Also, keep looking at this thing.

Enjoy!