8/9/07 - "Aks a Black", Loquecia, Flea From RHCP, and Electronics Gadgets

7:45 - Loquecia Recaps The Pickup Artist
Loquecia's back, and she has found another spectacular reality show she wanted to tell us about.  It's called The Pickup Artist (VH1), and it features a huge tool of a guy named 'Mystery', who claims to be the greatest pickup artist that ever lived. 8 socially awkward guys learn from this pompous asshat and compete against each other as try become smooth.  Loquecia played clips as she mocked Mystery's pickup line ("Pick a number between 1 and 4" - and that's it), his bad dress, and his even worse wingmen, also lamely named 'Matador', and 'J-Dog'. Someone noted that he even makes Criss Angel look like George Clooney.

8:10 - Flea and Melissa Ryder
The Red Hot Chili Pepper bassist came in-studio along with Kevin's wife Melissa to promote a Back to School drive for her charity for abused women and children, Friends & Helpers. You can help by donating money or school supplies at their website, or by dropping stuff off with Kevin himself this Sunday from 1-3pm at Galpin Auto Sports at the 405 and Roscoe.

Flea also talked about playing Live Earth and Al Gore, touring, and writing his Laker Blog.

8:47 - Electronics Gadgets
Jim Barry, spokesperson for the Consumer Electronics Assosciation, talked about the latest cool devices, like a thumbdrive in the form of a Gibson Guitar, glasses that display video on them (simulating a 40 inch bigscreen), the Sanyo Exacti waterproof video camera, and a Panasonic HD digital video camera.
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9:18 - Listener Call-In: 'Aks a Black'
Ask a Mexican was a huge success, so thought why not do the blacks? Black K&B listner Annelle (aka, "Token") answered questions like: why they say 'aks' instead of 'ask' (a cultural thing - even Jesse Jackson has said it); why can't blacks swim ("Have you seen how many jewelry we wear? Seriously, probably bad flashbacks from the Middle Passage. Plus women don't want to mess up the hair."); why they talk so loud (big families); why they like Tyler Perry (his stage stuff is hilarious, but it doesn't seem to translate to the big screen well); why they say 'you know what I mean' all the time (it's said more like, "Naw' mean?"); and why they talk to the movie screen (it's in their culture - it also happens at home watching TV).


Tomorrow: Darrell Hammond, Les Stroud (host of Survivorman on Discovery), Movie Beat, and Jason Chambers (from History Channel's Human Weapon).