Marino & the Morning Crew

Mike Marino is packing up his scooter and hitting the road for the next week or so. While he's gone, WHMI's Buzz Elliot will hold down the fort and do his very best to try and deal with Maureen and Jon. (Good luck Buzz!)

Here's the link to Jib Jab's latest creation. It's called "It's Time For Some Campaigning". Click Here

Actor Jeff Daniels joined Marino & the Morning Crew Thursday to discuss his latest project in which he'll perform July 26th with Sigourney Weaver at a special one night performance of A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play, “Love Letters”. It will benefit the Purple Rose Theatre and the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT). The performance will take place at the newly restored DFT in collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Flea Theater in New York, and presenting sponsor, Dow Automotive. For ticket information, contact the Purple Rose Theatre at 734.422.7782 or wilde@purplerosetheatre.org . Reserved tickets for $100, $75, $50 and $25 are available by contacting the Purple Rose Theatre Box Office at 734.433.7673 or info@purplerosetheatre.org

You can listen to Jeff's conversation with Mike, Mo & Jon by Clicking Here

July 14, 2008
Q: Princeton was the first college on record to use this now very common collegiate term.
A: Campus

July 16, 2008
Q: According to a recent poll, when it comes to communicating, 54% of Americans get fed up with this.
A: Multi-level voice mail systems

July 17, 2008
Q: Although we play this now, it first became popular back in the 1700s, when we were just 13 colonies.
A: The lottery

July 18, 2008
Q: According to a recent study, 25% of Americans over 50 admit to doing this for fun. Of those, 30% are women. What is it?
A: Playing video games

Here are some of the celebs that have basked in our limelight. From top left to right; Jeff Daniels, Three Men & A Tenor, Steve Lombardi (aka The Brooklyn Brawler), Heywood Banks, Ypsilanti's Justine Blazer and her guitarist B.J. Mason with the Crew, Jon King with Governor Granholm when she visited the WHMI studios, The Biggest Loser's Pete Thomas with the Morning Crew & last (but absolutely least) King's old high school band Nebula. Jon is the young lad on the right.

Brighton's "Red Echo" has taken the old 70's tune "Signs" and given it new life with their angst over spiraling gas prices. Take a listen to Gas Signs

When "Beer Seeker" heard the Howell Jaycees were eliminated the Melon Tent from the Howell Melon Festival, he created a song to the tune of Bob Seger's "Sunspot Baby". It's called Melon Tent Baby

Howell's Debi Drick sang a couple of tunes in our failed attempt to become Grand Marshal's of the Fantasy of Lights Parade. All They Wanna Do and Grand Marshal Fantasy

Justine Blazer rocked the studio with some tunes. The first was Me & Bobby McGee

Blazer also played her original song Red, White & Blue

Three Men & A Tenor brought their usual mayhem into our studios and sang "It's Allright"; Download Here

Heywood Banks joined us in the studio and performed an impromptu version of "I Love My A.D.D."; Download Here

An old lumberjack song from Neil Woodward, aka The Michigan Troubador, in the WHMI studios; Download Here

Listen to a sound clip of Jon King's old garage band "Nebula" as they rock Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"; Download Here

I Used To Be Good Looking, Now I Don't Look Good by Jeff Daniels live in the WHMI studios Download Here

The Marino & The Morning Crew Players Present: The Last Laugh Of Lorelei Sphere Download Here

Marino & The Morning Crew present their version of "Teacher, Teacher" in light of the controversy surrounding a contract for Brighton schools teachers Download Here

These are the only people to ever get all five answers correct in either Progressive Fact or Fiction or Which Came First;

John Ablett of Howell

Beth Hill of Brighton

Roger Kahle of Howell

George Watts of Howell

Ken Bendell of Howell

Pat Wilson of Howell (He actually got 6 in a row!)

Mark Honkala of Howell


These are the only people to ever get all five answers WRONG in Progressive Fact or Fiction:

Lynn Green

Jim Bigelow of Howell

Mike Marino - mmarino@whmi.com

Maureen Paraventi - mparaventi@whmi.com

Jon King - jking@whmi.com

Here are some online games to help you pass the time:

Pac Man

Pinboliada

Space Invaders

Extreme Farm