I have two midterms on Thursday morning, so I decided rather than slave away on a show while studying complex statistical graphs, I would just throw together a Best of, Worst of, Berst of Show! These are the my favourite clips and segments from the last 6 months.

There are some phone calls, interviews, games, good music...a little something for everyone. Load up this mp3 podcast and listen to the Berst of Moon Down Radio!

Segments:

• Text-2-Speech Cliche Cafe Poetry - November 12th, 2009
• Dr Phil Phones In - September 17th, 2009
• Gravitational Pull: A Love Story - October 22nd, 2009
• Video Game Preview: Tractor Simulator - September 24th, 2009
• Star Wars Game - October 1st, 2009
• What Kind of Shoes Are You Wearing? - January 14th, 2010
• Question/Answer f/ Sebastien - November 26th, 2009
• Name That Firearm - December 3rd, 2009
• Elise's Diary - February 4th, 2010
• Canned Funk Interview - November 5th, 2009
• Late Nite Chum Talk w/ Adolphe Inn - November 19th, 2009
• SuperEX Night Air Show - September 3rd, 2009

Artist	Album	Track
10cc	Greatest Hits ... And More	The Worst Band In The World
Brad McInnis	Solid Gold	Wrong
Pete Rock & CL Smooth	Good Life: The Best of Pete Rock & CL Smooth	One in a Million
Jurassic 5	Quality Control	Great Expectations
Kearney Lake Road	Kearney Lake Rd.	New Day
Problem Children	On The Air EP	On The Air
Noel Ellis	Noel Ellis LP	Memories
TK Dallman	The Fool Saint	Should the Lights Go Out
Cool Blue Halo	Come With Me If You Wanna Live	3 A M
Canadian content

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I started off the show by revealing we had a brand new theme song. The song's composer, TK Dallman, was on the phone from Toronto for the world premiere. We talked about his inspiration for the theme song, played some Question/Answer, and even let Simon Cowell add in his two cents.

Then it was on to the main event, The Fire Show. I referenced a couple articles in the Ottawa Citizen about recent blazes in the city, and talked about fire safety and fire prevention, before testing our in-studio smoke detector. As always we checked out some of my poetry from the Cliche Cafe.

I went on to cover the history of the Yule Log on TV, the annual Viking Festival in the Shetland Islands, last year's Burning Man, my favourite episode of Celebrity Apprentice. and the dangers of having a computer firewall.

I had time to play some Crazy Crazy Craigslist, talk about my ongoing Hair Loss, and reveal some more of my little sister's diary entries.

Featured in the How-To segment:

• How To Stop, Drop, and Roll

Artist	Album	Track
Wayne McGhie	Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy	Fire (She Need Water)
TK Dallman	The Fool Saint	Take Cover
The Trammps	Disco Inferno	Disco Inferno
Men WIthout Hats	Rhythm of Youth	The Safety Dance
The Rupert Baily Band	Rupert Bailey and the Swingers	Mississauga Evacuation
J Dilla	Donuts	Light My Fire
James Brown	Bodyheat	Bodyheat
Organized Rhyme	Huh? Stiffenin' Against The Wall	Warm and Easy
De La Soul	Stakes Is High	Itzsoweezee (Hot)
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity	Streetnoise	Light My Fire
Norm Macdonald	Ridiculous	Burning Bed
Japandroids	Post-Nothing	Young Hearts Spark Fire
Canadian content

Big thanks goes out to show sponsor Ted's Mattress and Futon Emporium!

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This was The Flight Show!

I kicked things off with my poetry set from last night at the Cliche Cafe, located in the heart of the Byward Market.

I was fortunate enough to get a hold of Dan Quinn on the line, and we discussed:

• Stevia
• Pure H2O as Spaceship Fuel
• The Violin
• The "Play"
• Beating up 5 people at fficial&hs=9N4&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Encinitas+california+juanita%27s&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=juanita%27s&hnear=Encinitas+california&cid=7276323751732793808">Juanita's in Encinitas
• and much more!!!

Actually, Dan Quinn hung up the phone a few minutes into the interview after I mentioned him making telemarketer calls. Dan Quinn thought I was trying to "clown" on him. Long live Maitreya.

I played a few old Dan Quinn phony phone calls, my lame Dan Quinn parody song and some new Gary Calls.

In the second hour, I recalled some Great Moments in Air Traffic Control. I also reported on my hair loss, revealed a few more of my sister's diary entries, and promoted As-Seen-On-TV product, the 'Bird Blender'.

Featured in my How-To segment:

• How To Fly A Kite
  
• How To Kill A Fly

Artist	Album	Track
Sloan	Pretty Together	Never Seeing The Ground For The Sky
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly by Night
Sloan	Navy Blues	Seems So Heavy
Truths and Rights	Q107 Homegrown Album Vol. 2	Acid Rain
Jackie Mitoo	Wishbone	Soul Bird
J Dilla	Donuts	Airworks
The Roots	Do You Want More?!!!??!	You Ain't Fly
Reality Advisors	Who are these people and what are they thinking	Air Control Commander
Rex Chainbelt	Q107 Homegrown Album Vol. 2	Fighter Plane

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Cold Opening: No Answer.

This was The Shoe Show! Two solid hours of pure feet, socks, sandals, boots and galoshes talk.

We kicked things off with my poetry set from last night at the Cliche Cafe, located in the heart of the Byward Market. We then revisited The Little Foot Fetish Shop of Horrors.

All night long we kept our eyes on the street and our ears to the ground during our very own Gout Watch.

Featured in our How-To segent:

• How To Tie Your Shoelaces
• How To Remove Shoe Odour
• How To Shine Your Shoes

We revealed our Fop Five Foot Problems:

1. Foot Funk
2. Ingrown Toenails
3. Achilles Tendinitis
4. Sprained Ankle
5. Blisters

We also revisited the holiday festivities surrounding Pantsigiving, and dug in the archives to find another old family classic: 'These Legs Of Mine'. Speaking of family, we played another segment featuring my little sister: Elise's Diary. At around 1AM we took some time out to track my ongoing Hair Loss. We even found some time to play some Crazy Crazy Craiglist, and tried to figure out the meaning of the ad titled 2 Frenchies.

Finally, we revealed a brand new call-in game What Kind of Shoes Are You Wearing?

A fellow by the name of Bourque won himself a Moon Down Radio T-Shirt!!!

A big thanks goes out to our sponsor A-Shoooe!

Artist	Album	Track
The Don Carrington Trio	Makin' It Happen	Dingus
DL Incognito	A Captured Moment In Time	Air Play
Robert Parker	Barefootin'	Barefootin'
Reality Advisors	League of Leagues	Big Toes
Vic Flick	Songs From Sesame Street And All Time Kindergarten Nursery Hits	One Two, Buckle My Shoe
Spaguita	Nanza	Dancin' With Cement Shoes
Don Gillis	Radio Canada Compilation	Keepin' Up With The Jones'
Old 97's	Wreck Your Life	The Other Shoe
James Brown	Get on the Good Foot	Get on the Good Foot
Elvis Costello	My Aim Is True	(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
KC and the Sunshine Band	KC and the Sunshine Band	Boogie Shoes
Busy Bee Starski	Running Thangs	Converse
Raekwon	Immobilarity	Sneakers
The Witch	Lazy Bones	Off Ma Boots
Sloan	Navy Blues	On The Horizon
Canadian content

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Cold Opening: Stevie Wonder

This was The Baby Show!

We kicked things off with my poetry set from last night at the Cliche Cafe, located in the heart of the Byward Market.

Andrew from Smiths Falls called in to request a baby, and later on we played a song from his band Chillnote.

We revealed our Fop Five Least Used Baby Names:

1. Turdy the Baby
2. Michael
3. Shambert
4. Broomhilda
5. Gurmanthamum

A lady called in to say that Shambert was actually a commonly used name.
Finally, Turdy the Baby himself called in to the show, explaining the Polish origins of the name.

We explained How 2:

• Deliver a Baby in an Emergency
• Change a Diaper

And we also took some time to: Crack Some Children's Yolks (read lame jokes out of a book); replay my sister's first entries in Elise's Diary; recap the sport of Baby Punt; and finally, we read an English and a French Bed Time Story.


Playlist:

• Stevie Wonder - I Want My Baby Back
• Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Creator
• Cock'd Gunns - Baby Labia
• Maynard Ferguson - How Ya Doin' Baby
• Chillnote - New To who
• Dale Clark and His Hot Nuts - Baby Let Me Bang Your Box
• Steely Dan - Baby Come Back
• Pleaseeasaur - You Are Correct
• Spaguita - Red Child
• People Under The Stairs  -Tales of Kidd Drunkadellic
• Buddy Guy - Baby (Baby, Baby, Baby)
• Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
• Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (Remix)
• The UMC's - Swing it to the Area
• Jerry Lee Lewis - Baby Baby Bye Bye

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My good friend, Dirty Deuce, hosted his world famous Big Wig Disco Dancin' Party on the eve of 2010 from The International Show Lounge.

He took some time to look back at 2009, year of the goose, look forward to 2010, year of the monkey, saying hello daddy, would you like another? Ya damn right, can I get a hell yeah? That’s wassup…and gino partying like it’s 1999.

A few people called in to sing some Karaoke, to both 'What a Fool Believes' and 'Ra-Ra-Rasputin'.

A fellow from Germany (read: Quebec) called to say he loved Dirty Deuce, and then sang about how the station sucked.

Playlist:

• George Benson - Breezin'
• Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
• Robbie Dupree –Steal Away 
• Cock’d Gunns – Party Eyes
• Aretha Franklin – What A Fool Believes
• The Stupid Alien f/ The Doobie Brothers & MF Doom - Mandrake
• Neri Per Caso – What A Fool Believes
• Por Wagner Costa – What A Fool Believes
• Matt Bianco – What A Fool Believes
• Boney M - Rasputin
• Tro - Gino Party (7x times)
• Self - What A Fool Believes

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Cold Opening: Happy New Year, Stranger!

Hey, it's the Best of '09 show. Never heard Moon Down Radio before? This might be a good place to start, as we recap the most memorable moments of 2009 from our first twenty episodes.

Clips:

• Southern Hemispheric Christmas Memories + Presents - August 20th, 2009.
• How Much 4 Your Gas? - September 17th, 2009
• Pin the Tail on the Donkey - October 8th, 2009
• Julien Guesses Your Weight f/ Sean Cooley - August 27th, 2009

Many thanks to everyone that helped make the show a success, your calls, emails, and support were very well appreciated.

Playlist:

• Whitey - Leave Them All Behind

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Cold Opening: Credit card? You got it.

It's a Northern Hemispheric Christmas Holiday Celebration, ya'll! We had a 12-piece Canadian Brass Orchestra live in my bedroom in Etobicoke.

We kicked things off with my little sister Elise and her Fop Five Favourite Things about XMAS. We then played our first installment from Elise's Diary.

We then went to our live feed from Vatican City of Pope John Paul II's live sermon, and made excuses about my ongoing hair loss.

Then I got interrupted by some Christmas carolers in my very own house. Merry effin' Christmas.

Clod Closing: KEVIN!

Playlist:

• James Brown - Soulful Christmas
• Nuclear Rabbit - Santa Claus is Selling Crack
• Creons Avec Edouard & Micha - Le bonhomme caraval
• The Platters - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Ariel's Christmas Under the Sea - Deck the Halls (Sung by Sebastian)
• Rick Washbrook  - Frosty the Snowman 
• Brett Domino + RATM - Killing in the Name Of (Remix)
• Cock'd Gunns - Jingle Bells
• JFA - Charlie Brown
• Brett Domino Trio - Christmas (This Year)
• Sloan - On the Horizon

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Cold Opening: Mom?

Tonight's topic was all in the family, ya'll.

My sisters Elise and Celine kicked things off by calling in. We began by playing Celine's dating ad, The Adventures of Jiminy Crocket, and singing Snow from White Christmas. We reminisced over old Maple Leaf highlight tapes, Russel Oliver's cousin Oliver Russel, and Celine's Great Expectation book report.

Elise stayed on the line to play Better Know A Sokol and said she would pull the plug on her sister.

At around 1AM, we checked in once again with my ongoing hair loss. We then played the entire Canary Training Record from the Hartz Mountain Master Radio Canaries. We wrapped things up by reading the first couple pages from Molly and Mr. Maloney.

Digory and D. Brendan McKee called in to say they were at McDonald's, and then someone called to say they didn't want the Kenny Vs Spenny Season 5 DVD and hung up the phone.

We'd like to take a moment thank our sponsors Glasses 4 You and The Jerry Springer Show.

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