Wrap: Rad Girls – play ukelele, drink beer, play trivia and eat crickets!

Could any threesome in this world get cruder, more scatological and scarily funny than Stu, John and Jessie? Oh my, yes. Exhibit A, B and C: the Rad Girls.

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It’s unusual to find a young woman willing to pull outrageous pranks and nasty stunts involving foul bodily fluids. It’s unusual-er to happen upon three of them. Our guests for the night were the trilogy of unholy terror called the Rad Girls. The ladies – individually Ramona Ca$h, Darling Clementine and Munchie - have been described as a female version of Jackass, and have been prankstering for half a decade now.

John, Jessie and Stu, after learning how to pose from the Sears photo center.

We interviewed the girls in semi-alphabetical order, because we’re smart like that. Ramona obligingly went through the history of the troupe, filling us in on their most recent exploits. This included fun stuff like stage diving during Warped tour sets… with a fake pregnancy belly pillow. Apparently the girls really freaked out the tender 15-year olds in attendance. Hey Ramona, that’s nothing – Stu’s been doing that unintentionally for over a decade now.

She may have spelled R-A-D on her lip, but wait 'til you see where she put "GIRLS". No, not there. And not there... yes... yes, right there.

We wrapped Ramona’s segment with a tidy little blast of our “Useless Skills With…” bit. In her case, it was playing the ukulele. Somehow, we begged, borrowed or stole (probably #3) a genuine ukulele, with which she played a Hawaiian serenade. Useless? Says who? Hell, she made the Fulron jealous with her skill. That seems pretty useful to us.

Ramona orders Stu off his own show. Not the first time it's happened.

Next for a grilling was Darling Clementine. In addition to scaring the living Bejesus out of impressionable teenagers at touring punk rock concerts, Darling’s kept herself busy by nearly getting busted for impersonating a waitress. See, the girls were doing a prank at a Sonic’s restaurant, delivering odd items instead of the honest greasy hamburgers ordered by the patrons. An over-zealous cop happened to pull over and discover this horrendous crime, and he dutifully slapped the cuffs on our friend. Boy, it’s great that our tax dollars are going towards good, diligent crime fighting. This incident, to no one’s surprise (especially Stu’s), naturally occurred in the great state of Florida. Sigh.

Ramona and Clementine write notes on their "Upsetting the Public for Fun and Profit" DVD sets.

We ran Clem through our “59 Second Gauntlet”, and really, we should have added an hour or so onto it because she was painfully, painfully sluggish answering the questions. Maybe she was slow to recover from the “special” Warped tour lemonade; whatever the reason, we only got several queries deep before time ran out.

Munchie gets acquainted with her dessert, after eating a live cricket on the show. Really. No calls from PETA yet.

Last on the individual interview slab was Munchie. Can you guess how she got her nickname? It’s not because she likes crackers, kids. Munchie is an outrageously brave and determined consumer of inedible objects and substances, including but certainly nowhere near limited to her own urine and liquefied sushi cocktails. So it was probably just another day in the park for her when we requested that she eat a specially harvested Live! From the Future crawly critter. We even let her choose between a cricket and a worm. The former was her choice, and she chewed and swallowed it like a pro. Would you like some sushi juice to wash that down, Munchie?

During a tense round of "Easy, Medium or Drunk", Ramona asks for a lifeline - in the form of a beer bong.

With the individual interviews thus concluded, we gathered all three for a game show finale – “Easy, Medium or Drunk”? All three took the stage along with bottles of beer; we asked questions of them one at a time, and the other two had to chug their beer until the questionee answered. The three had mixed success with the queries (yes, Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union, but Tokyo the most populous country in the world? Really?). Mixed success was the point, as it forced the Raddesses to drink a lot, spilling their beer and forcing them to belch repeatedly.

Lest you doubt the Rad Girls can fart like no others... here's proof.

Well, that wasn’t exactly the finale.Not content with simply eating live creatures or burping loudly on-camera, the ladies decided to attack our unsuspecting director Brian. They sprayed him with whipped cream and very undelicately licked it off his face. Ah, the glamor of show business. Is this what they teach in film and TV school, Brian?

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Wrap: Catherine Black and T’Shaun Barrett

Our guests for the evening were actress and Canadian person Catherine Black and actor/comedian/Magic Castle insider T’Shaun Barrett.

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For the first time in, oh, several shows, our core commando team of Stu, John and Jessie were in the house and working an episode together. To commemorate this increasingly special occasion, the three sang a commemorative song to open the show and greet the audience – “Hello”, in which they all, uh, sang “hello” both solo and in harmony. We have a sneaking suspicion that whoever wrote the lyrics didn’t spend a lot of time on their work. Following that, a brief recap of our three leads’ respective Valentine’s Days revealed that Stu spent the night alone thinking disturbingly sub-sexual thoughts about John’s hair.  Keep the pomade far away from that man, we beg you.

John, working hard and earning his pay on another set of lyrics... ummm, maybe not.

Fabulous hair was on full display with our first guest, Canadian actress Catherine Black. True to her name and hair color, Catherine has appeared in several movies/TV shows of a dark nature. Her most recent filmic effort, the fact-based The Donner Party, concerns a group of California settlers falling prey to cannibalism in a desperate bid for survival. Since she often appears in grim material, we felt it appropriate to throw the quiz “I Goth It Right” her way. Catherine had to guess which nearby word or name was replaceable by “Goth” (e.g., “Lead singer of Van Halen – David Lee Goth”). Would anyone like a bowl of chicken goth while you read this, by the way? Ha ha. We’re such wordsmiths.

Catherine looking bright and perky, at least before we forced her to take the Goth quiz.

There was nothing Goth-y about our next guest, actor and funny guy T’Shaun Barrett. T’Shaun’s been acting and comedian-ing since his very early teens, when he scored a part in a play being performed at his dad’s church. He’s since made it into film, TV and commercials, perhaps the most known of which is the current McDonald’s spot where he plays a penny-pinching, jack-hammering husband desperate to save money.

T'Shaun challenges Stu to a ninja fight in the parking lot. Good thing Our Host stashed a pair of nunchucks in his crutches.

T’Shaun confessed to us his childhood dream of becoming a ninja, which made him a perfect candidate for our quiz game requiring deadly stealth and nerves of iron, “Power, Fame or Fatty”. T’Shaun had to identify whether a named person was a current Olympic medalist, a president of a country, or a champion competitive eater. He somehow guessed that guy who holds the record for eating the most ears of corn at one sitting, but only broke even on the overall quiz. Obviously, he isn’t ninja material after all.

Stu falls for T'Shaun's old "I just made your paycheck disappear" trick.

It’s good that he has other talents, then. We provided a deck of cards for this aspiring magician (and Magic Castle apprentice – get us in, T’Shaun!) in our segment “Useful Skills With T’Shaun Barrett”, and he correctly guessed the card Stu picked. Rumors that our Houdini for the evening put small mirrors on the suspiciously placed set of crutches used by Stu for his “foot injury” have been strenuously denied by T’Shaun’s representatives and lawyers.

John can't hide his seething, rivalrous hatred for Stu. Good thing our guests are saner.

We wrapped the episode with one of our (okay, one of Jessie’s) favorite bits, “Strictly Platonic”. This edition of our old chestnut included lovelorn posts from one man with “all sorts of crazy fantasies about being a gay slut” and another who’s offering women to “meet for coffee i could rub your feet their or out in public”. This gentleman is particularly generous – “YES IT FREE” he writes.

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LIVE! From the future… Sizzle Reel, February 2010!

Wrap: Taryn Southern and Jonathan London

We nerded it up with web TV stars Taryn Southern of “Wrong Hole” fame and Geekscape’s Jonathan London.

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For this show, we welcomed two stars from the internet world (like us! Bwahahahaaaa). First, of course, we had to get in our usual round of Florida-bashing with an appearance by the one and thankfully only Stan Vereen, North Florida’s #1 Above-Ground Pool Salesman. Stan made another concentrated effort to burst through his monthly sales quota, and quite nearly half-succeeded in hawking a few kiddie pools to some of our chat room audience.

Watch out: Jonathan "Python" London - will bring you into a world of hurt - with his personality!

In a rare moment of fair play following this, Stu gave voice to a letter from a disgruntled fan from his least favorite state. Our new friend Mr. Anonymous vented by saying that Stu’s regular Florida criticisms were… by and large correct. But, he warned, he was still annoyed and would take appropriate measures should the diatribes continue. Hmmm. Perhaps we could placate you with a nice above-ground pool at cost, sir? We’d even throw in a floating air mattress and a live bootleg of John Fulton and The Fresh at no extra charge.

Guest #1 skipped on the kiddie pools, but thankfully consented to hang out in the chair and be interviewed. Taryn is an accomplished young actress/writer/director  fully active in the web sphere, conceiving and starring in the video of her heart-rending power ballad about anal sex, “The Wrong Hole”, among other activities.

Taryn Southern - a guest who followed the rules - she brought cupcakes!

Proof that you can bribe writers and publicists with "Sprinkles" cupcakes.

Unfortunately, these activities do occasionally lead to Taryn falling victim to scams; she told us a story about getting ripped off by “moonlighting car repair” guys offering her a discount to “fix” her car’s dents; not surprisingly, they took her money and left the car in worse shape than before.

Taryn, reacting to the ice-cold comedy stylings of Paap.

Since Taryn wrote and conceived a show based around international travel, we felt it appropriate to subject her to our quiz on the subject, “Travel Freak”. She had to name which international city was described in each question. Out of the five queires, however, she only succeeded in nailing one – which American “party” destination had to pass a law banning the molestation of trash cans? You read that right – molesting trash cans. The answer could only be a city in Florida, in this case Daytona Beach.

See?! She DID have fun on the show.

Taryn closed her segment with a little sage and useful advice – how to make a web video for under $5. And her method? We won’t get into the details here; let’s just say it’s very effective and involves frosting, cake mix and red food coloring.

Next up was Jonathan, who was kind enough to bring Stu a genuine get-well card. Our Fearless Host, it turns out, snapped a foot bone or several while “auditioning for a part” – although witnesses swear that he was actually dancing drunk, naked and high on half a case of Robitussin cough syrup outside a Van Nuys liquor store when the incident occurred. The card had a cute picture of a kitten on it, which is perhaps what lured official LFTF dog mascot Bucky to the host’s desk to inspect the proceedings while we were on-air.

Every February 9th, these three "Friends" rejects reunite to commemorate the show we could've been on. Oh well, off to Denny's.

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Wrap: Jon Foster, Nicolas Wright and Claudia Lonow from Accidentally on Purpose

Life is like a sitcom… at least it was on our latest episode, when we welcomed three very humorous guests from the CBS show Accidentally On Purpose – actors Jon Foster and Nic Wright, and creator/producer/writer Claudia Lonow.

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Quick, what do you get when you mix two funny actors and an ex-actress and current producer/writer with lots of good war stories from her years in Hollywood? Uh, well, the latest episode of our show, that’s what.

Would you sell any of these people an above-ground pool? We didn't - but we would!

Stu, slipping a little too easily into his new persona of Tallahassee’s #1 above-ground pool salesman Stan Vereen, made a valiant attempt to sell our musical director John Fulron a Diamond Star 52″ with “little or no” money down.

Stan Vereen, Tallahasse's #1 above-ground pool salesman gets dressed for work... as a douche bag. *belt courtesy of 2006.

John Fulton got the news he was hoping for from the clinic. Disease free - for 24 more hours!

On camera, John turned down the offer, but his surreptitious passing of several large-denomination bills Stu’s way after the show suggests he might have subsequently changed his mind. Pool-less Jessie, meanwhile, was re-christened Tits Johnson for no good reason at all by Stan/Stu.

Claudia Lonow, creator of "Accidentally on Purpose" shares all - and we mean ALL her secrets. Just go to 22:00 minutes in to the show and you'll get it.

We have a sneaking suspicion that Claudia lacks easy access to a nice vinyl-lined backyard swimming facility or has ever spent quality time in Tallahassee. Despite these glaring character flaws, we were open-minded enough to welcome her as our first guest of the night. She talked about the genesis of Accidentally On Purpose, and its very long journey from book adaptation to story pitch to TV series.  She also talked about her early years as an actress in Hollywood, when she played a role in the night-time soap Knots Landing, and at one point even made an appearance on The Tonight Show… tripping to the ground on her way to the guest chairs.

Once again, Stu tries his "I had a cameo on Dallas" pickup line on a guest. Once again, it fails.

In her actress days, Claudia also dated actors from CHiPS and Little House on the Prairie. Which was enough reason for us to grill her in the quiz segment of her appearance, “Bad Boyz“. Non-sympathetic characters from TV of that era were named and described, and she had to guess which show they appeared in. Facing slightly less pressure than she probably did after that stumble on The Tonight Show, Claudia nailed three out of the four questions (okay, there was a gimme – one Bad Boy was the man her character was married to on Knots Landing). Not content with grilling her about characters on 30-year old TV shows, we also put Claudia through our (not exactly) patented “59-Second Gauntlet“. She didn’t quite get all the questions, but managed to spill some very revealing tidbits about her past. We won’t get into it here, let’s just say we’re definitely buying this woman’s memoirs once they’re published.

Bucky, our newest P.A. is already sleeping on the job while Stu downloads a "make it funny" app for the show.

Given Claudia’s sterling performance in her quiz, we thought her colleagues Jon and Nic would nail the questionnaires we set up for them. BZZZT, wrong! With a strong handicap in favor of Canadian Nic, we pitted the two actors against each other in our contest “French Rock Band or Montreal Sex Shop?” But it was Jon who pulled off the major upset, taking the victory, or as they say in Quebec and in certain strange neighborhoods in Tallahassee, La Victoire.

Nic Wright with the "spoils" of his win on the show - pure, uncut Quebec Maple Syrup. *Made in Mexico. Jon Foster considers where he left his pomade. Oh yeah, Stu stole it.

Despite his painful loss, Nic didn’t slide into dejection, bitterness and eventual painkiller addiction. Instead he and Jon regaled Stan – I mean, Stu – with a tasty anecdote regarding Nic losing his twelve-gauge shotgun virginity (and nearly his shoulder) at an L.A. gun range with Jon. This activity was probably a little less challenging than Jon’s old pastime of noodling. For those many of you unfamiliar with noodling, it has something to do with looking for a good time in Iowa, catfish punching, river wading, and several days of fish leftovers for lunch.

Jon Foster quickly became our favorite person in the world by endorsing our show. Turns out, he was just covering a mustard stain. Great hair though.

We quizzed the boys a little more, raising the stakes substantially in our next test, “Ca-Nuck Buddy“, with a bottle of what Stu claimed was genuine 100% Canadian maple syrup. With much to play for, Nic took this one, guessing the identity of enough Canadian celebrities from a series of clues to claim the prize.

Finally, we ran our gentlemen guests through the “59 Second Gauntlet”. Despite enjoying a huge competitive advantage given that they had heard the very same questions only minutes earlier, Jon and Nic couldn’t quite make it to the end. Which was tragic, however at least Nic has that nice bottle of maple syrup to comfort and console him.

Are you suffering from anxiety and depression? So are we, but we're hiding our pain. That's ACTING!

Jon and Nic, by the way, have their own online talk show, and it’s remarkably free of Florida pool salesmen, pancake condiments or Canadian sex toys. Lunch with Nic and Jon comes to you every week or so on the AoP web site. And don’t forget to feast your eyes on Accidentally on Purpose itself, currently airing Monday nights at 8:30 on CBS.

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