We've got a national radio show caller here

"Let's go to uhh... let's go to Joy in Vancouver, Washington. Hi Joy, Dennis Prager."

Two days in a row she heard those words with her heart a poundin'. Her excitement and giddyness just talking about when she called in to The Dennis Prager Show cracks me up!

If you want to hear her, follow these hopefully simple steps. I've tried to find the URLs to the podcasts and post it here but Apple has these things pretty well hidden.

1. Fire up your iTunes
2. Search for the "Townhall.com: Dennis Prager" podcast (you don't need an iPod to hear this)
3. Subscribe to it.
4. Get (download) Monday's broadcast(3/9/08, yes the date is wrong) hour 3 (H3: No Men Allowed in Harvard Gym)
5. Press play and listen to the whole thing or skip ahead to about 15min 30sec.

She's also on air Tuesday (3/10, yes this one is off too) briefly hour 3 again (29:15), this time on the topic of "thoughts versus deeds."

I jokingly told her she should call him again before the week is out and say, "Hi Dennis. This is Joy again. I just thought that really we should just host this show together. So, I'll be calling in every day bringing you great ideas and comments for your listeners to ponder. What do you think?"

What I love about Monday's is how she really stumped him with her question and then she laughed at what he said which made him laugh. Needless to say we both had a lot of fun this week playing those clips over and over again cracking up about how silly this whole thing is.

It's still really cool though. She handled herself well. She was eloquent and to the point bringing intelligent insight into some very relevant current events... basically every host's dream caller to a call-in show. Oh, did I mention that this was a NATIONAL call-in show by the way?

P.S. He had Cesar Millan on his show within the last few months.

Dog Whisperer show taking submissions from Portland

I don't know if you know but my wife and I are... well you could say we are "Dog Whisperer" or Cesar Millan junkies. Actually, I take that back, my parents are; retired and with a DVR watching at least two episodes a day. They now claim to have seen all three seasons in just a matter of a few short months.

We have a little doggie named Buddy that needs some rehabilitation and his owners need some training. As Cesar often says, "I rehabilitate dogs and train people. I love what I do!" So, pre-Cesar we thought all along that we just had a problem child. But now we've come to realize that we're the problem parents so-to-speak. We're learning to become calm-assertive pack leaders. A good friend sent us a Craigslist ad that says Cesar was coming to town in February. Well that has come and gone but his website says otherwise.

So we hope to put together a 5 minute video submission to see if he can come help us with Buddy. I better say up front though that I cannot post the submission online due to copyright/legal issues, otherwise I would love to share with you what we sent in. However, if you stop by for a visit some time we would love to show you the video.

So stay tuned. You just may get to see "the Bud" (as we call him) on the small screen and us humiliated because of our poor pack leadership skills.

UPDATE 12/8/2008: We decided against submitting a video because trying to film Buddy at his worst was not only time-sensitive but also we had to borrow a camera to do it. People often wanted their camera back before we could catch him doing bad things.