July 2006

How many albums did Bat Out of Hell I & II by Meatloaf sell?  According to Robin Quivers, 100 million or something. 

Close, but you are way off Robin.  The number is closer to 40 million.  (7-31)
 

Howard started off the show this morning talking about the new Robin Williams movie, The Night Listener.  Stern said it deals with the disease where people want everyone to feel bad for them.  Robin then interrupted and said, Van Munchen By Proxy (sic).

We aren't sure if Robin is trying to take credit for discovering a new disease or was just wrong again.  The ailment she meant to say was Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy or FII (fabricated and induced illness).  (7-31)

Thanks to Fumunda for this one.  And congrats for FINALLY getting Sirius.


**The King of All Vacations took Friday off, so there are no updates for July 28th.

Robin the "news woman" gets it wrong again.  She covered the ongoing story about Barry Bonds this morning and said she finds it hysterical because it's only about whether he did steroids or not.

Someone might want to clue Robin into the fact that Bonds is also under investigation for tax-evasion and perjury.  (7-27)
 

Robin:  The majority of people that file bankruptcy do so because of medical bills.

Fact:  66% file because of job loss.  (7-27)
 

Robin unleashed some of her "wisdom" this morning when she said that all the Jews in America live in New York and L.A.
 
What she doesn't know was that there are almost more Jews living in other cities then the combined total that are in New York and  L.A.  (7-25)

Thanks to The Amazed Listener.
 

During the news today Robin talked about the upcoming confirmation battle over John Bolton.  It was surprising when Robin said they will be trying to confirm him to the Supreme Court since Bolton is the interim US Ambassador to the United Nations.  (7-24)

Thanks to Greg for this one.
 

During the news today Robin stated that Hezbollah had very sophisticated weapons: bombs with video cameras and night vision.

This is incorrect.  Katyusha rockets, Iranian-made Fajr-3 rockets, Raad-2 and Raad-3 rockets, as well as Zelzal-2 ballistic missiles, are not optically guided.  They are pretty much "dumb" missiles.....a lot like Robin.  (7-24)

Thanks to Jay D. for this information.
 

According to Robin, Tiger Woods real first name is Tiger.  She further expounded this idiotic statement by saying that Tiger wasn't even a nickname.

Wikipedia says differently:

Woods's actual given name is 'Eldrick'. He was given the nickname 'Tiger' at birth, after Vuong Dang Phong, a Vietnamese war comrade of his father's, and became generally known by that name. By the time he achieved national prominence in junior and amateur golf, he was simply known as "Tiger Woods".

Fred pointed out that Tiger's first name was Eldrick and then Robin couldn't even pronounce the name saying something more like, "Eldereck".  (7-24)

Thanks to The Amazed Listener.

**The King of All Vacations took Friday off, so there are no updates for July 21st.
 

The rant...or maybe the vent.  We haven't decided what to call  it yet, but we are getting a lot of email ranting/venting about Robin and we are going to be posting it soon!

Four weeks in a row now!  Great job Robin.  She did ask Mike Walker if they could try and guess the true story which would have increased her odds of getting it correct.  Probably wouldn't have helped her anyways.  (7-20)

Today Robin was talking about how President Bush has no clue because he had rubbed the shoulders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

She followed that up by saying, I saw him (Bush) over when I was in Europe on TV doing a press conference with the Prime Minister of Canadia [sic] or the whatever they call their President over there....

Robin saying someone else has no clue:  Pot meet kettle.  (7-20)

Thanks to The Amazed Listener.

During Robin's news this morning...

Robin:  Meanwhile, the President is cursing like a sailor, what kind of religious guy is he?

Howard:  Did he curse again?

Robin:  Well, no...  (7-18)

Could someone please help Robin out with the correct pronunciation of Senator Carl Levin's last name?  (7-18)

Robin & Howard were discussing the affair Christie Brinkley's husband, Peter Cook, had with Diana Bianchi.  The discussion evolved into whether Cook could be sued for sexual harassment by Bianchi since she worked for him. 

Howard said it wasn't illegal for an old guy to date a younger girl.  Robin agreed there was nothing illegal, but you couldn't give her a job and then fire her after having sex.  Bababooey asked if it was illegal to fire someone because she wasn't doing the job anymore, even if they previously had sex. 

Robin then blurted out, that's called sexual harassment...you hired her without qualification now you can't fire her for qualifications!  (7-18)  Thanks to The Amazed Listener for this one.

This morning Howard played a phony phone call Richard made to a preacher.  Richard told the preacher he was raised to believe in evolution and that when you die you go to Bababooeyland.  The crew then discussed how religious people are anti-science.  Robin said, it was the history of the church to be against science...they tortured Galileo for saying there was gravity. 

A couple minutes later, someone obviously tipped off Robin in her headphones about her imbecilic statement and she said, Galileo was tortured for saying the Earth revolves around the Sun.  Again Robin was wrong, as it isn't even a fact that Galileo was tortured.  (7-18) Thanks to The Amazed Listener for this one.

Howard took a call today from someone claiming to have information about a recent boating trip that Robin took.  Apparently, she smashed into a number of other boats, but Robin claims none of them were damaged.  Then she blamed what happened on the wind.  We received this picture, but have been unable to confirm if it is Robin's boat after her demolition derby.  (7-17)

This morning when Howard asked about the Pink Floyd ad he was going to read, Robin said, oh they have a new album.  Fred then corrected her and said it was a new DVD.  (7-17)  Thanks to Robin's Dad for this one.

Cheers to the Donkey from Shrek, Tattoo and Chewbacca who all rated higher then Robin Quivers in the Entertainment Weekly poll of best sidekicks.  (7-17)