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Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:00 am-10:00 am A Wednesday comment on CNN by Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney\'s senior campaign adviser, provided top rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich with new ammunition to attack the former Massachusetts governor. Nation sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on the cable network, Wednesday, to hyperventilate over the announcement that Tim Tebow has been traded to the New York Jets. A man tries on dresses at a department store and in the process exposes himself to women. A transgender student files a complaint after being banned from an all-male dorm. Firefighters in a Minnesota St. Patrick\'s Day parade were wearing dresses in support of a local beauty pageant were called to put out a fire, what a sight to see! Listen | Download 10:00 am-11:00 am Yesterday the police office, Garth Haynes was found not guilty of 4th degree assault. Rich O\'Neill, the head of the Seattle Police Guild speaks with Ross and Burbank about this verdict. News of Ross Colored Glasses - Ross provides commentary about what\'s happening in New Orleans, football fans aren\'t happy about turning a blind eye to violence in football. Los Angeles radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI AM 640 have been suspended for calling Whitney Houston a \"Crack Ho\" during their show yesterday. Tom Douglas joins us with a trivia question, it\'s a tough one... Listen | Download 11:00 am-12:00 pm At least three national supermarket chains have decided to stop buying ground beef that contains filler popularly known as \"pink slime\". Is this the end of \"pink slime?\" Law enforcement against prohibition endorses I-502 in Washington.Yesterday the police office, Garth Haynes was found not guilty of 4th degree assault. Rich O\'Neill, the head of the Seattle Police Guild speaks with Ross and Burbank about this verdict. Ross and Burbank share their Magic Messages. Listen | Download Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:00 am-10:00 am Both prosecutors and defense attorneys are going to face tough, tough challenges in the case of the US soldier accused of massacring the Afghan town. Defense attorney John Henry Brown says the prosecutor won't have good forensic evidence. Retired Army Major Mike Lyons was on Seattle's Morning News this morning. He says defense attorney John Henry Brown may be in over his head on this case. Dave compares the deadly rampage by a US soldier in Afghanistan to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. // Mitt Romney won the important Illinois primary yesterday with a wide margin. He turned his rhetorical guns on President Obama in his victory speech. . But the dude can't seem to tell a joke without flubbing it. We take a listen to several political candidates who seem to be botching jokes. // GETTIN' SPORTSY WITH SWARTZY: The Huskies showed the Ducks what's what on the court yesterday with a sweet revenge win in the NIT playoffs. ESPN's Bill Swartz joins us to discuss that and the big moves happening in the NFL. // Nokia has filed a patent for a special tattoo that would vibrate when you get a text message or email on your phone. Dave and Luke don't think they'll be getting inked. Listen | Download 10:00 am-11:00 am The freak-out by the guy behind the KONY video was apparently caused by \"reactive psychosis\", according to his family and doctors. Luke is very, very skeptical of this diagnosis. // Robert De Niro joked at an Obama fundraiser that "America isn't ready for a White first lady." Then Newt Gingrich said it was a racist joke, and everyone freaked out, and everyone's mad at De Niro. OH MY GOD, ARE YOU KIDDING? Producer Andrew who tweeted a similar joke in January explains why this is not offensive and nobody should have apologized. // News Through Ross-Colored Glasses : A traffic expert on David Boze's show says love them or hate them, toll roads work. Dave loves this. // Trayvon Martin's parents spoke out on the Today show this morning. They want their son's killer arrested. We take a listen. // We have two tickets to "Taste of Washington" to give away. Chef Tom Douglas joins us with a food-related trivia question. First caller with the right answer wins. // Wendy's is now the #2 fast food chain in the U.S., beating Burger King for the first time ever. Luke discusses the hierarchy of fast food chains. Listen | Download 11:00 am-12:00 pm A man got arrested for patting Dick Cheney's soldier and making a comment about his foreign policy. He tried to sue, and now the US Supreme Court must decide whether you can actually sue the Secret Service. // Comedian Jimmy Kimmel unveils "Santorum-approved Porn". We take a listen. // Disney's "John Carter" is the biggest Hollywood flop of all time. It's set to lose $200 million dollars. This comes as no surprise to Luke, who predicted this. // Filmmaker James Cameron has been building a secret submarine in Australia that will plunge him to the deepest recess on Earth. // The New Orleans Saints got hit with some very heavy penalties for their pay-for-hits bounty system. Their head coach has been suspended for the entire season. // Dave and Luke share your Magic Messages. Listen | Download Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:00 am-10:00 am As Dave continues to dig into the case of Travyvon Martin, the black teenager killed by a vigilante in Florida, he\'s discovering some shocking things about that state\'s self-defense laws. Turns out, it\'s pretty easy to kill someone there and say it was in self-defense. // Bristol Palin wants President Obama to call her and apologize for the things Bill Maher has said about her, the same way the president called Sandra Fluke during the Rush Limbaugh nastiness. Dave and Luke explain why this is ridiculous. // SKYJINX! Ross & Burbank political analyst Carl Jeffers had something very surprising happen to him at the airport recently. Turns out, he\'s a special traveler in the eyes of the government. He joins us to explain. Also, rules may change to make it easier for passengers to use their electronic devices during takeoffs and landings. // Is the YouTube video of a young husband asking his wife a math question the cruelest thing ever? Yup, pretty much. Listen | Download 10:00 am-11:00 am Rick Santorum says he doesn\'t care about unemployment. Dave and Luke don\'t think this is a gaffe - this is him appealing to social, religious conservatives. // News Through Ross-Colored Glasses: Congressman Jay Inslee gives up his $174,000-a-year job in Congress today to run for governor, but still get his $44,000 in pension benefits starting next year. Dave and Luke are not outraged by this. The kid who smoked K2 and stabbed a girl to death said he just wanted to hurt someone. That makes it seem like we shouldn\'t blame this one on the drugs he was taking. The man who shot and killed his wife to end her pain and terminal illness has been released from prison without bail. Dori Monson talked to Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, who\'s trying to figure out whether or not to prosecute this man. // The U.S. soldier who went on a killing rampage in Afghanistan says he doesn\'t remember it. Do you believe him? Luke thinks the $1.5 million settlement against him 11 years ago played into his state of mind at the time of the crime. // We have two tickets to \"Taste of Washington\" to give away. Chef Tom Douglas joins us with a food-related trivia question. First caller with the right answer wins. Tom Douglas cohosts \"Seattle Kitchen\" on KIRO Radio. He\'s also a finalist for Outstanding Restaurateur in this year\'s James Beard awards -- considered \"The Oscars of Food.\" Listen | Download 11:00 am-12:00 pm A man offered a ride to a couple of 13-year-old girls, supposedly during a snowstorm. The girls turned him down. Three days later, police came to his door because the girls wrote down his license plate. Was this a case of miscommunication, or could this guy have been creepy? Will this make you think twice about offering help to people? // Dave can't believe the Florida vigilante who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin isn't charged with murder yet. // Nine black employees of the Tuckwila school district are suing their black superintendent because of her racist remarks. Dave and Luke wonder if anyone confronted her about this and asked her to stop before suing. // Dave and Luke share your Magic Messages. Listen | Download Monday, March 19, 2012 9:00 am-10:00 am The Seahawks have a new quarterback. They signed Matt Flynn to a three year deal. Could he be our Jeremy Lin of the gridiron? ESPN 710's Bill Swartz joins us with the details. // We now know the name of the soldier who went on a killing rampage in an Afghan town last week. And we're getting a picture of who Sgt. Robert Bales is and was. Dave says this deadly rampage may not just have happened out of the blue after all. // Monologist Mike Daisey is caught in a web of lies in his story about dangerous working conditions in Chinese Apple factories. The problem isn't that he played with the facts on stage it's that he gave misinformation on news shows, too. When Daisey was on Ross & Burbank back in May, we asked him why we should trust his stories. We'll hear what he had to say. // Luke dug through his mail this weekend and found his bills for driving on 520. He is not happy with the bill's packaging: You would never be able to tell it's a bill from the envelope. Listen | Download 10:00 am-11:00 am We have 911 tapes from the night a Florida vigilante shot a black teenager who was coming home after buying Skittles at the store. The shooter has not been arrested. We hear him on the tapes. // News Through Ross-Colored Glasses: Danny Westneat's column points out that poker players get higher returns on investment than Wall Street bankers. This has changed the way Dave perceives Luke's gambling proclivity. Dave has developed his own card obsession a form of solitaire called 40 Thieves. // Dave is amused by Democratic robocalls that are trying to link GOP candidates to Rush Limbaugh. // Dave has more to say about the rude cheers coming from college basketball fans who chanted "where's your green card" at a Hispanic player. He wonders if rude cheering is just part of basketball culture. // The public face of the "KONY 2012" campaign was detained by police after allegedly running around in public in various states of undress. Some reports say he was masturbating publically. What happened!? Luke draws comparisons between this story and the Mike Daisey story we discussed earlier today. // What food represented a bad omen in The Godfather movies? The first listener to answer that trivia question wins a pair of tickets to Taste of Washington. (Hint: The answer isn't fish.) // Dave and Luke discuss the guy who was so high on K2 that he didn't remember stabbing a girl to death. Listen | Download 11:00 am-12:00 pm The State Department of Transportation is sending out bills to people who drive on 520 without a "Good to Go" pass. But the bills come in unmarked envelopes that are easy to dismiss as junk mail. We talk to the State Department of Transportation to find out if they're considering changing that policy. Craig Stone is Director of the Toll Division at the State Department of Transportation. // SKYJINX! American Airlines has fired a flight attendant who made parody videos that mocked the company's financial situation. Dave and Luke discuss their strategies for getting through the airport quickly. // The Seahawks have a new quarterback. They signed Matt Flynn to a three year deal. Could he be our Jeremy Lin of the gridiron? ESPN 710's Bill Swartz joins us with the details. // One of Gaddafi's sons apparently ordered a special ship to be built for him, complete with shark tanks. // Dave and Luke share your Magic Messages. Listen | Download Friday, March 16, 2012 9:00 am-10:00 am We just got the verdict in the case involving a gay Rutgers student who committed suicide after his roommate harassed him and taped his intimate moments with another man. // The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan citizens could be back in the U.S. as early as today. His lawyer has described how his client has seen the atrocities of war up close and personal before he went on his rampage. Dave talked to the soldier's lawyer, John Henry Browne. // A second woman is claiming she had a liaison with Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon. And based on what they were writing to each other on Facebook -- whoo-boy it was quite a night. (Allegedly.) // Dave and Luke discuss the guilty verdicts against the Rutgers student who harassed his gay roommate, who eventually killed himself. Luke doesn't think the student deserves too much blame in this case. // President Barack Obama wants companies such as Google and Facebook to reform their privacy practices. But that's not stopping his re-election campaign from tapping the rich data Internet companies hold on millions of potential voters. // Dave has found more evidence that cloud computing is unstable and we shouldn't trust it. Why won't anyone listen to him?! Listen | Download 10:00 am-11:00 am If you haven't been paying your 520 toll bills, get cracking: The state is about to start leveling high fees. Oh, and by the way, you might have been throwing away the bills, since they come in unmarked envelopes. // Members of the school band at Southern Miss chanted "where\'s your green card" at a Hispanic player during a NCAA basketball tournament game yesterday. // News Through Ross-Colored Glasses: With all this fighting over whether employers need to provide birth control coverage for their workers, Dave has found the perfect solution: Just start hiring gay people exclusively. // KIRO film critic and Seattle Morning News co-host Tom Tangney joins us to talk about the new film \"21 Jump Street.\" // Ross & Burbank Knowledge-Off: Tom Tangney sticks around and joins Dave and Luke for their weekly trivia challenge. This week, Andrew quizzes the guys about TV shows that became movies. Listen | Download 11:00 am-12:00 pm George Clooney was arrested today. NO, it wasn't for being too handsome. It was during a planned protest at the Sudanese embassy. // The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan citizens could be back in the U.S. as early as today. His lawyer has described how his client has seen the atrocities of war up close and personal before he went on his rampage. Dave talked to the soldier's lawyer, John Henry Browne. // Rick Santorum wants to outlaw porn. Luke doesn't think this is a good idea. Dave tries to defend it. // The family of a teenager shot and killed by a vigilante in Sanford spoke about the case in a news conference on Friday morning. Can we blame the rise of \"self-defense\" laws? // Dave and Luke share your Magic Messages. Listen | Download |
