Our guest was Mr. Tom Green, a Canadian comedian who has been active in the industry for over 25 years. Tom will be performing at Rumors Comedy Club in Winnipeg on May 26, 27th and 28th 2011
Tom started with stand up comedy in 1986 with a stand up routine, performing at various clubs around his home town of Pembroke and Toronto Ontario, including a few shows at Canada's famous Yuk Yuk's comedy club.
While attending college in Ottawa, Tom hosted a radio show on from CHUO FM 89.1 FM from the University of Ottawa entitled "The Rap Show" until he eventually met up with friend and later co-host Glen Humplik to form "The Midnight Caller Show".
In the early 90's Green was part of a Canadian hip hop group called Organized Rhyme and he rapped under the alias "MC Bones". In 1992, Organized Ryme released a single entitled "Check The O.R." which was nominated for the 1993 Juno's for Best Rap Recording, and had also won the Much Vibe Best Rap Video award in 1992.
He later moved on to Rogers Television 22 in Ottawa as part of a public-access tv station where he formed the now famous "Tom Green Show" from 1994-1996.
In January of 1999, be was picked up by MTV bringing his low-budget Canadian series to a new audience of viewers in the United States and around the world.
In 1999 Tom wrote and produced "The Lonely Swedish (Bum Bum Song)" which quickly made it to the top of MTV's "Total Request Live" (TRL), and after five days of being number 1 Tom retired the song as he felt it was unfair to 98 degrees.
Tom continued on MTV networks until late 2003, during which time he produced a one hour MTV Special on his Testicular Cancer treatment.
Green continued to rise to fame after the cancellation of The Tom Green Show making cameo appearances on various films like Freddy Got Fingered and Charlies Angels, and even hosted The David Letterman Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and appeared in several commercials for the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel.
In 2006, Tom Green announced he would be hosting Tom Green's House Tonight, a live talk show that would broadcast from his home in Hollywood Hills. On June 15th, 2006 the show aired with a partnership with ManiaTV.com.
The show continued with Maniatv until January 2008 where tom launched TomGreen.com. The show continues to this day, and is credited as "the highest rated, longest running, and only talk show on the Internet". The show still airs on occasion at TomGreen.com.
In 2009 Tom started doing stand-up comedy again with several shows in Los Angeles and a secret MySpace event in New York City.
On November 10, 2009 Tom announced his first ever world stand-up comedy tour which started in 2010.
On this weeks episode, we talked to Tom Green in anticipation of his Winnipeg stop over at Rumors Comedy Club from May the 26th, 27th and 28th. Though there are a few tickets still available for this show, Rumors comedy club is anticipating a sell out.
During our exclusive conversation, Tom elaborated on being the first member of media to report on the death of Osama bin Laden by means of Twitter.
He explained that he felt the main stream media was embarrassed that they had been scooped by The Tom Green show and posed the question to our audience as to why his tweet did not receive any coverage.
Tom ended the show by announcing what fans could expect at his Winnipeg stop-over and expressed his honest appreciation and excitement about visiting Winnipeg for the first time.
You can look forward to our review of Tom Green's show at Rumors Comedy Club in two weeks time on http://wakeupwinnipeg.com.
Meanwhile, we ended the show with the Organized Rhyme single "Check The O.R'.
For more information about this episode, be sure to download it in full in the iTunes music store, and visit our website at http://wakeupwinnipeg.com.
Also be sure to tune in to City Scape UMFM on Saturday May the 21st as host Chris Reid follows up with Tom Green for more on his Winnipeg tour.
We started this weeks episode delivering the latest developments in the 2011 spring flooding situation that is occurring across the province.
The Provence of Manitoba officially declared a provincial wide state of emergency on Monday in an effort to help make us of resources available to them during the 2011 Flood Season.
Shortly after 4:00 pm on Monday evening Manitoba Premier Greg Sellenger and provincial officials declared the state of emergency to deal with the imminent threat of flooding along the Assiniboine River in the cities of Brandon and Portage la Prairie and the rural municipalities of Woodlands, Rosser, St. Francois Xavier, Headingley, Cartier, Macdonald and Grey.
Fred Greenslade - Reuters
This comes as the Assiniboine river water levels on at the First Street bridge in Brandon climbed to 1,182.5 ft while continuing to flow down street at a rate of 42,500 cfs.
Flows on the Assiniboine River will continue to increase with recent and forecast rain, as much as 20 to 40 millimeters was expected to fallen in Southern Manitoba as of yesterday and today, with some areas of Western Manitoba seeing as much as 70 mm of rain.
Manitoba government has called in Canadian Forces from Joint Task Force West, under Canada Command, are arriving to assist the government in its operation to manage flood-fighting efforts along the Assiniboine River.
Bruce Bumstead - Brandon Sun
On Sunday evening through Monday Morning the City of Brandon requested a precautionary evacuation of 900 house holds in the lower lying areas surrounding the city, while closing down First Street due to buckling pavement.
Earlier this week residents were working to raise flood dikes by an additional two feet to accommodate high flows on the Assiniboine River.
The additional water levels were caused by recent rain storms and inaccurate water level estimates caused by at least one broken gauge that had been underestimating the flow of water by about 2,500 cubic feet per second.
In the early hours of Tuesday, Some 150 residences in the RM's were awaken by RCMP and Police officials who had told the residents It was time to go.
On Tuesday, the province announced that a controlled release of 2,000 to 6,000 cfs is necessary.
In a recent interview with CBC News, Premier Greg Sellenger said he was working closely with the local municipalities and the emergency operation committee to we that they get as much protection as possible by any additional water.
Rod Nickel - Reuters
Some 150 homes are expected to be affected by a controlled flood release occurring near the Hoop and Holler Bend which was planned by the province and is expected to occur on Thursday morning before noon.
Prime Minster Stephen Harper toured the affected areas with Premier Sellenger on Wednesday morning before meeting with officials to be briefed on the situation.
The controlled release will be preformed to reduce the risk and severity of an uncontrolled breach of the dikes. This controlled release could potentially save 850 homes that would have otherwise been affected by a uncontrolled breach.
Premier Greg Sellenger has stated that in the event of additional damage, there will be a special compensation program.
AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John Woods
Efforts to protect properties that would be affected by the controlled release and the potential spillover from the Portage Diversion are continuing and progressing well with the assistance of Canadian Forces soldiers and reservists.
Areas that have a significant risk of flooding from a possible uncontrolled break are identified on maps prepared by Manitoba Water Stewardship and can be found at gov.mb.ca
For more information about the 2011 Flood situation, and the provincial state of emergency, listeners are encouraged to visit www.manitoba.ca/flooding.
After filling our listeners in to the latest in flood news, we moved on to the lighter side of things as Natty brought us her weekly concert announcements. We'd like to point out that the Farewell to Freeway show that we had mentioned on this weeks episode actually falls on Sunday and not the Monday as we mistakenly announced on air.
We went back into the news room to discuss some local news happenings. Some of the stories we discussed this weeks seem to have revolved about transportation. . .
City of Winnipeg
Winnipeg commuters woke up to a surprise this week while crossing the Osborne Bridge which is currently under construction.
Some Winnipeg Cyclists were issued fines for $110.00 by members of the Winnipeg Police Service for riding their bikes across the sidewalk along Osborne Street North.
City of Winnipeg Website
Presently a pedestrian path runs underneath the bridges north side to connect to the legislature grounds or the Assiniboine Avenue Bikeway, but due to high water levels along the flooding Assiniboine River, that path has been made virtually inaccessible by pedestrians and cyclists leaving them to find their own alternatives.
Director Mike Cohoe of the non profit group "Bike to the Future" estimates about 1,500 cyclists travel through the bridge area on a daily basis.
He advises that the best way to not get ticketed is for cyclists is to walk their bikes across the bridge.
The non-profit group "Bike to the Future" is expecting to publicize alternative routes for cyclists during the construction period soon.
Winnipeg Police service have said that officers want to make sure roadways and paved sidewalks are safe during this time of year where there is an increase of pedestrians are out and about.
CAA Manitoba announced it's expanding it's services this week to help cover cyclists in the event that their bikes break down.
The CAA Program called Bike Assist will allow any CAA member to use any of their four annual roadside service calls for assistance in the event that their bikes break down. The program will allow members to be transported home, or be taken to a bike repair shop of their choice.
More information about this program is available on the CAA Manitoba website.
MPI Customers received good news this week as the crown insurance company announced that rebate cheques for the 2009-2010 Autopac season have been sent out by mail on Tuesday morning.
The Public Utilities Board earlier this year ordered Manitoba Public Insurance to rebate of 45 percent of their premiums to over 5,000 Autopac ratepayers.
The rebates are for basic Autopac on every vehicle that was registered during the 2009-2010 year. Brian Smiley, MPI Spokesperson said the average rebate will be around $420.00.
He also noted that the smallest cheque was for $2.00 while the largest check issued totaled $1.7 million dollars for a fleet customer.
MPI Is advising those drivers who do not receive their cheques by June 7 to contact MPI's call centre at 985-7000.
Moving on in this weeks show, Natty and I re-introduced you to The Lonely Island's new track "Jack Sparrow" which features an appearance by the legendary Michael Bolton. The video was released as a SNL Digital Short last weekend.
We decided to play the new song with it's club worthy beats, and bizarre moments with Michael Bolton on this weeks show:
We also opened our listener lines by means of twitter and facebook to get your opinions on the song.
And finally on this weeks show, we left with the news that NHL Fans in Winnipeg had been discussing since December of last year.
In what turned out to be a historic moment for sports fans in the City of Glendale, members of Council voted 5-2 in favor of keeping the Phoenix Coyotes in Glendale for a period of one year as they continue to support what Mayor Elaine Scruggs called "A city assist".
Though the City (and presumably their tax payers) has already spent $25m dollars in management and resource fee's for last years NHL Season, last nights vote is a extension and guarantee that the Phoenix Coyotes will remain in Glendale for at least another year.
Unknown is what will happen to the purchase off that True North Sports and Entertainment had placed on the team in late 2010, or if there is any interest into putting their funding into another NHL Team.
Last nights news has some NHL Winnipeg fans upset, wondering what comes out of the wood works next.
Stay tuned to Wake Up Winnipeg as we continue to watch this story closely.
We will see you next week with another fun episode, but in the mean time, you can always visit us at http://wakeupwinnipeg.com for past episodes and interviews, and more.
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After missing last weeks show due to special coverage of the 2011 Canadian Election Campaign, Natty and I returned to the studio to discuss world news matters.
We filled you in on local concert and event announcements including the recently announced Kings of Leon tour. We touched briefly on The royal wedding, a bizarre spring snow storm that touched down in Winnipeg, tornado's that devastated the southern United States and of course the results of the 2011 Canadian Federal Election.
White House Handout
Also on this weeks episode We talked to our US foreign correspondent Wendy to get a first hand look at the US Reaction to the death of Al-Qaeda Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
We reached her on Monday night, one day after the announcement of his death was made public.
During our interview, we asked Wendy what the overall feeling was in the United States:
"They are very very proud to be American tonight. We took down somebody that has the tract record that is the same as Hitler.
Killing all these people, and killing his own people just to help him self and being responsible for killing 3,000 Americans. September 11th effected pretty much everybody in the United States and had everybody sitting in front of their TV's for a whole week.
To this day we still morn this loss, we still feel the after effects of it with security, with family, we still feel it so it's a good thing."
Ending off this weeks show, Natty introduced us to a Winnipeg musician by the name of Jamie Rumley and released the exclusive new track entitled Behind Closed Doors.
We premiered it live for the first time on UMFM 101.5 as a world beat special premier.
More information about Jamie may be found at http://jamierumley.com
We look forward to speaking with you next week on Episode 76 of Wake Up Winnipeg.
