Hal Anderson

00:00 - Your best worst excuses! An Idaho woman crashed into a deer, and says she was distracted by a sasquatch. 19:04 - Global News reporter Matt Carty from the flood scene in Carman 24:26 - Greg calls a pop spelling quiz with me (Brett), Keith McCullough, Julie Buckingham and Kyle Milroy to see if we can spell at the level of a 4th grader. BUT, this spelling bee comes with a bit of a twist... 38:03 - Winnipeg Police Constable Tammy Skrabek -- Why are high-risk sex offenders in Canada released from prison? Winston George Thomas was released on Friday March 24th, six days later police were looking for him because he broke the conditions of his release. He was back in police custody by Saturday, April 1st. 56:30 - Matt Carty with an update from Carman 59:54 - Robert J. Chernomas, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba, wrote an op-ed piece in the Winnipeg Free Press titled "Tuition increases sideline lower-income students" 76:12 - Seth Sklar-Heyn, associate director

00:00 - A hodgepodge kind of hour. - We begin with congratulations to Norma Pauls, who won the CJOB Flyaway to U2 contest this morning -- after qualifying on Mackling & Megarry on March 23rd! Huzzah for Norma!- Then, Tristan Field-Jones tells us we can play Ms. Pac-Man on Google Maps, which is super neat. - Then, we talk about pranks -- with April Fool's Day looming. I (Brett) explain how I recently pranked Tristan by encasing his desk and workspace in a barrier of paper. - ALSO, we discuss how now that the snow is almost gone, we're seeing the results of all that snow we got over the winter - many damaged lawns from plows. It is to be expected, we're not complaining about the works plows are doing, it's just an observation. - I think that covers everything. - Brett 37:44 - Jeremy Diamond, executive director of The Vimy Foundation -- 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge is coming up on April 9th 52:28 - The Phantom of the Opera pre-sale is on! Also, remember that Phantom video Muchmusic used to pl

00:00 - Jill's House: When inconsiderate people make you feel like an inconvenience -- Jill Officer, Canadian Olympic gold medallist curler, blogger for Global News 17:42 - Global News reporter Christian Aumell reporting on the flood situation in Selkirk, where the ice has once again jammed and caused the closure of the bridge 25:21 - How do you tell someone "thanks but no thanks" without being rude? Brett was at the Golf Dome on Sunday and was having some problems hitting the ball straight, was frustrated, and a couple of guys offered him help that he didn't want because he was too angry with himself to deal with anyone else. He's also a crappy golfer. 36:07 - Global News reporter Keith McCullough with more on the continuing 680 CJOB / Global News series "Seeking Asylum", on those who are crossing into Canada from the U.S. 53:00 - Carolyn Klassen, therapist with Conexus Counselling, www.conexuscounselling.ca -- Continuing our conversation from last week on her blog post "Scammed", specifically this week

00:00 - What do you do if you've forgotten your wallet? Or you go to pay for something and learn you can only pay with cash? Are we too reliant on plastic? 36:08 - 680 CJOB and Global News are looking at the journey being made by asylum-seekers illegally crossing the border into our province through our new series "Seeking Asylum". Our guest is Abdirizak Bihi, known as the "Mayor of Little Mogadishu" in Minneapolis, where Global News reporters Keith McCullough and Sean Leslie recently spent some time. 52:03 - Melissa Maker, founder of www.cleanmyspace.com, star of the YouTube channel Clean My Space (which has nearly 670,000 subscribers!), and author of the new Penguin Canada book "Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster -- and Loving Your Home Every Day" 69:20 - Misc chatter -- Hoping a Mackling & Megarry wins the CJOB Flyaway to U2; remembering something funny BJ & Hal used to do; There is still trust in The North! 73:48 - Age of Electric ticket giveaway, with some Winnipeg trivia about the

00:00 - Do we love our health care? A report from the Canadian Institute of Health Information has revealed that Manitoba continues to linge rbelow the national average on several fronts for what some consider essential, and some call elective surgeries. 37:53 - "Future-proof: Preparing young Canadians for the future of work" is a report from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation & Entrepeneurship -- our guest is Sarah Doyle, Brookfield's director of policy & research. 54:14 - Millenials are the top target for fraudsters! That's what Equifax says -- our guest is Tara Zecevic, Equifax Canada's vice president of fraud prevention & identity management. 65:14 - Dad's punishment for his son's bad grades was very public and hilarious. 73:05 - Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba is celebrating its 20th birthday this week -- our guest is CSCM general manager Jeff Powell. CSCM was formed in 1997 to be part of the legacy of the 1999 Pan Am Games. 84:03 - Greg has an embarassing & frustrating story about checking his

Zach Wolff is the one of the founders, and CEO of Exigence Technologies -- a Winnipeg-based company with groundbreaking technology: An anti-microbial surface coating. Wolff will be in Germany next month to speak at the European Coating Show, then in June he will be at the Future Food-Tech Conference in New York.

00:00 - Vacation / Relationship disasters -- Our guest is Tim Dyckert, who hails from our affiliate station in Vancouver, CKNW. He's part of a podcast called "Coffee Never Means Coffee", and in Episode 18, he tells his story of when he took a bus to Winnipeg to see his girlfriend, and the whole thing fell apart. 36:47 - Some movie theatres in Mexico and the U.S. are going entirely-kid friendly, complete with jungle gyms! Good idea? Bad idea? Do we need more kid-friendly places like this, or less? 53:47 - Matthew Lawrence with SOSRI -- The South Osborne Syrian Refugee Initiative has announced a benefit concert to be held Thursday, April 6th at the Park Theatre featuring Winnipeg musicans JD Edwards, Scott Nolan and Katie Murphy. 63:24 - More on kid-friendly places, and bringing your kids to places that others might find odd. 72:26 - Hockey Canada is putting age-appropriate programming at the forefront for the 2017-18 season, with a new policy that mandates cross-ice and half-ice hockey for initiation-aged

00:00 - The Pop-In / Drop-In Visit! Are you a fan? Does anybody just drop by anymore? Greg stumbled upon a video of comedian Sebastian Maniscalco talking about how it used to be a big deal when people would show up unannounced. 37:54 - National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month -- Barry Stein, president of Colorectal Cancer Association Canada; Susana Scott, her husband died from colorectal cancer. 55:02 - Dr. Syras Derksen, psychologist with Dr. Syras Derksen & Associates, www.drsyras.com -- Five Exercises That Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success (we didn't make it to the 5th one) 73:36 - Hollywood director/producer Brett Ratner says Rotten Tomatoes is killing the movies. Seriously? 85:25 - BIG HAL! Hal Anderson tees up his weekend show, which will include Catherine Bach, aka Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard. She's in town for World of Wheels. 94:27 - Richard Cloutier and Julie Buckingham tee up THE NEWS.

00:00 - Greg reads a hilarious letter from a listener concerned for my health because I'm always here 06:50 - UConn basketball coach's advice to young athletes goes viral -- The University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team has won 109 games in a row, and coach Geno Auriemma has some strong words for today's youth. 18:33 - Topic continued... Tom Kendall, former coach of the University of Winnipeg women's basketball team, which won 88 games in a row from October 1992 to November 1994, and also won three CIS championships from 1993 to 1995. 33:06 - In February we got an email from a listener in Norway. Now, we got one from Sweden! 37:02 - JP Gladu, president & CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business -- Winnipeg Hot Topic Series, Aboriginal Power & Renewable Energy, starts tonight at 5:30 at Fort Garry Hotel 55:49 - Carolyn Klassen, therapist with Conexus Counselling, website www.ConexusCounselling.ca -- More on sport and the lessons we learn from being a part of a team 65:56 - More

00:00 - Global National reporter Mike Drolet on the UK terror attack, in which a man drove into a crowd of pedestrians, then stabbed a police officer before other officers shot him. As of 4:30pm Wednesday, four people are dead, including the attacker and a police officer, and 20 people are hurt. 11:19 - Do you go to the movies anymore? Would you pay $30-50 to have access to new movies at home? Some of the major Hollywood studios are considering making new movies available just a few weeks after they are released. For someone who is single, 50 bucks might be too much, but for a family, it's a steal compared to a night out at the movies. 64:12 - Bryan Freese, Winnipegger who was just named the Professional Disc Golf Association's Rookie of the Year -- He's only the second Canadian to win the award since 1986. 73:51 - Chat about federal budget, which is set to come down any moment, as well as chat about the "Mainstream Media" vs Social Media on reporting the suspect in the UK Parliament attack. 84:17 - The f

00:00 - What are your thoughts on post-secondary tuition? Now that the Province has introduced a bill to eliminate the current rule that caps tuition increases at the rate of inflation, are you concerned about the cost of getting an education, and what it could mean for student debt? 37:05 - Ron Koslowsky, Vice President, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Manitoba -- Manufacturing Week celebrates the future of manufacturing in Manitoba 51:46 - Pamela Zaslow qualifies for the CJOB Flyaway to U2! 54:05 - Sesame Street is introducing a new Muppet named Julia, who is autistic -- Dr. Kristen Wirth, psychologist with Wirth Behavioural Health Services 73:24 - Brittany Semenchuk, Master's candidate at the U of M's Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management -- Looking for participants in an online study about exercise setbacks & failures 84:39 - Crappy 80s Movie Trivia giveaway, then listener texts on Monday's chat about marijuana and driving 95:14 - Richard Cloutier & Julie Buckingham tee up THE NEWS

00:00 - "The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn't smoking or obesity. It's loneliness." -- That's the headline from Billy Baker with The Boston Globe. It's an incredible article, and it launched an important conversation about men's health. Read it here: http://bit.ly/2m81KGl 53:50 - Global News reporter Christian Aumell highlights a number of bills rolled out in the Manitoba Legislature today 58:48 - Marijuana and driving -- research shows road fatalities in the US that involve marijuana happen the most between 4-8pm, whereas with alcohol, it's 12-4am. GUESTS: Pamela McColl, with Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada, and Dr. Phil Drum, one of the researchers who compiled the data for the Fatality Analysis Reporting System across the U.S. 71:40 - Crappy 80s TV Trivia, and more discussion about loneliness, and marijuana 81:12 - Richard Cloutier & Julie Buckingham tee up THE NEWS

Tara Maslowsky, daughter of the late Jerry Maslowsky, tells us about a pair of events coming up in support of Variety - The Children's Charity. The first is "Concert for Jerry - A Musical Tribute to Jerry Maslowsky", on April 13th & 14th at Berney Theatre. The second is "Mother's Day Brunch", Sunday May 14th at Saddlery on Market.

00:00 - A father in Jasper, Alberta has been charged with assault for confronting some kids who were bullying his daughter and telling her to kill herself 37:23 - Becky Quinn, mother whose first child arrived 10 weeks early, and spent six of those weeks in the NICU at St. Boniface Hospital 55:16 - Winnipeg Blue Bomber defensive tackle Jake Thomas on the 'Break the Silence on Violence Against Women' presentations he and the Bombers are doing at various high schools throughout Manitoba 65:32 - Brett & Greg "out" one of our listeners for being a keyboard bully 74:19 - Mitch Rosset, Global News sports reporter -- A grade 10 student in Russell, MB started a petition to include Darren's picture on the town's welcome sign alongside Theo Fleury and Jon Montgomery. Darren is a Special Olympian with an extraordinary 57 medals! 81:15 - Texts on bullying 84:46 - World of Wheels ticket giveaway with more trivia on crappy shows from the 1980s, then, Global News reporter Keith McCullough on the escalating battle betwe

00:00 - Classrooms in Manitoba elementary schools will no longer be capped at 20 students. The Province is scrapping a limit on class sizes put in place by the old NDP government. -- Global News reporter Keith McCullough, & your thoughts. 24:50 - Charles Adler reads an essay entitled "You May Want to Marry My Husband", written by children's book author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who has died at the age of 51 of ovarian cancer. 37:27 - Reese Precourt, 16-year-old founder of "Reese's Pieces Project 3.0", a bake sale now in its third year in support of Lighthouse Mission, happening Saturday March 18th 9am-4pm at Sherwin Williams on Pembina Hwy. 55:12 - Allison Price & Marty Adams, comedians with the Second City Guide to the Symphony, being performed this weekend at the Centennial Concert Hall with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. 74:18 - Andre Lewis, executive artistic director with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet -- 78th season announced today 85:43 - Bonus attempt at adding a U2 qualifer to the big draw for March 31

00:00 - Connecting the dots between Daylight Saving Time, Brett zapping his alarm clock with static electricity, an alarm clock that uses a wearable to wake you up with an electric shock, and Kevin O'Leary! 19:05 - The Province has cut a $1M grant to the Dakota Collegiate Community Sports and Recreation Field, and has cut funding for a new gym at Kelvin High School. What do you think of this? 38:51 - Doug Putman, president of Sunrise Records -- They're taking over 70 of HMV's locations, including two confirmed locations in Winnipeg (Polo Park & Kildonan Place) 57:59 - Brent Bellamy, chairman of CentreVenture's board and the creative director at Number Ten Architectural Group -- Should Winnipeg alter its Downtown skywalk system? Brent wrote a column about skywalks and sidewalks for the Winnipeg Free Press, entitled "Downtown must embrace winter, not hide it" 78:02 - More on Sunrise Records / HMV / music industry blew it when they took too long to embrace digital 84:48 - More on skywalks and sidewalks 89:

00:00 - Bryan Young & Dara Hallock, co-chairs of the Breaking Barriers Summit on Mental Health happening this weekend at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg 18:02 - Camille - Animal Communicator 37:25 - Don't let your kids win! Josh Polgardi wrote a column explaining why he never lets kids win at anything 55:20 - Dr. Syras Derksen, psychologist with Dr. Syras Derksen & Associates -- Finding the courage to stand up for your convictions 74:20 - Michael Champagne, Meet Me At The Bell Tower, weekly community gathering in the North End 85:51 - Brett's "Hurt Locker" Pop Can story 93:42 - Richard Cloutier & Julie Buckingham tee up The News

00:00 - Nathan Fillion tweeted that it's kinda cold in Winnipeg -- Fillion is here to shoot the movie "Nomis" with Alexandra Daddario, Henry Cavill, Minka Kelly, and Sir Ben Kingsley. We are guessing they are not enjoying the weather. then What do you do about noisy dogs? Global News reporter Matt Carty reports on what a Winnipeg woman did after she couldn't take it anymore.   18:42 - Garth Pischke, coach of the University of Manitoba Bisons men's volleyball team -- Canada West men's volleyball coach of the year for the first time   30:26 - More on noisy dogs   37:12 - Third + Bird invades The Bay -- Chandra Kremski and Charla Smeall, operators of Third + Bird Markets, a pop-up marketplace that brings in thousands of shoppers, will be in Hudson's Bay Downtown on May 5th/6th 54:40 - Global News Reporter Keith McCullough with breaking news on Robin Milne -- His $118,000 medical bill is covered then 7 ways to practice emotional first aid -- Carolyn Klassen, therapist with Conexus Counselling, website

00:00 - If you had something on your face, would you want someone to tell you? Emma Watson recently halted an interview because her interviewer had some ink on her face, so Watson called over her makeup artist to fix it. Would you want someone to tell you? Would you tell someone if they had spinach in their teeth? Or if their fly was down? 17:42 - Ashley & Bryce Gobeil, along with their daughters Addysyn & Brynn, aged 8 & 6 -- Both girls spent time in the NICU at St. Boniface Hospital, and have become young philanthropists as a result, raising over $3,000 to give back to the NICU. 36:45 - NAILS FOR MALES -- Steven Zacharuk, owner of Blacksmith Parlour, a nail salon for men which opened a month ago at 289 Garry St 54:00 - Carmen Paterson-Payne, provincial coordinator for Manitoba for Dad Central; Brian Russell, provincial coordinator for Ontario for Dad Central -- The second Canadian National Fatherhood Conference was held in Winnipeg last week 72:21 - Susan Stratford, President, Board of Directors, Lymphe

Mackling & Megarry, Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 00:00 - Cam Adair, founder of GameQuitters.com, a community that supports those addicted to video games. Cam himself was addicted to them, and his addiction fueled his depression nearly to suicide. 19:15 - RoseMarie Pierce, B.Sc.Pharm, Canada's First Holistic Pharmarcist -- Hosting a seminar tonight called "Optimize Your Health While Taking Prescription Drugs" at the Caboto Centre at 1055 Wilkes Ave, presented by Prairie Naturals and Vita Health 35:55 - Monthly panel with the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba, with executive director Tara Brousseau-Snider, and Janelle DePeazer, whose mother Cathy Curtis died tragically last year at the age of 60 while a patient at the Grace Hospital. Janelle is developing a new program with MDAM for people around her mother's age who need support. 52:31 - Revisiting our chat about video game addiction 67:50 - Brian McInnes, great grandson of Francis Pegahmagabow, and author of "Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Peg