"The sickness" just won't go away ... but Mayor Mike makes it more bearable, wrapping up the year with questions about downtown, the Flight of Five, and Winter Fun Fest, which apparently we have to save from the jaws of death. Hmm. Stay tuned for more details.

Tom Christy co-hosted to help talk about the year 2005 in review. Of course, we discussed Delphi ... plus local gas prices, the election and more. I was still pretty sick so it was mainly Tom and callers.

After six days, Scott continues to evade death. Tuesday's show he took a lot of phone calls - cause he didn't have the strength to talk much. I really appreciate those who called in and saved me. It's in interesting show to listen to if you like the sound of a talk show host choking to death ... which I'm sure many of you do. :)

James and I discussed his book, "God Rest ye Merry Soldiers," a tale about Christmas on the Civil War battlefield. It was - in my opinion - a very good interview. Hope you enjoy it ... and Merry Christmas.

This edition starting with the "did you run out of insults for our president" bit - and went downhill from there. Un-PC phrases included "fire the fatty" and a bit on incest. Enjoy ... if you can stomach it.

Avis is a local author who has written a number of books on local towns. She shared some litte-known and some well-known facts about the towns of Newfane & Olcott, Wilson, Medina and Albion. I was very sick so I sound like crap. Thank goodness Avis tried harder.

With me down for the count, Good Neighbor Dave Marmon filled in most graciously. The show was to be about Christmas hymns, but it changed with the breeze. Hope you enjoy.

Tuesday's show we discussed things that the Constitution allowed us to do but that the state has taken away. Our rights are eroding and they'll continue to as long as we continue to elect the same politicrats. Good show, IMHO.

The guys threw a shout out to "all my fans."

Our first musical guest for the Interview was quite entertaining. Unfortunately, they didn't perform live, but their songs spoke for themselves. :) "Band" members include Ryan "Berno" Bernardi, Luke Minderler, Joey "Small Fry" Verdonselli, and Eric "Modus" Brandt - who was unfortunately unable to attend.

We started with a "commercial" from our "new sponsor," and then led to a good discussion on the government tearing away at our freedoms - specifically the president signing an executive order calling for wire taps without warrants, a clear abridgement of our 4th Amendment rights. Oh, and Cheney Claus made an appearance or two. Overall, I thought it was a great show. Hope you enjoy.

I just think this gay cowboy movie is the funniest damn thing. So I talked about it - by myself - for an hour. We got several complaint calls during the show. People thought I was making it up. I'm not. A gay cowboy movie. Whoda Thunkit?

I had no real plan when starting the show, just throwing open the phone lines and seeing what the people wanted to talk about. Well, one guy wanted to talk about the Red Cross ... and other's did too. Lots of talk about the Red Cross vs. Salvation Army vs. FEMA vs. United Way. Interesting stuff. But, frankly, I thought it was a little hard to listen to. Not putting down the callers ... just keeping it real. Had I been more prepared, it woulda been a better show. Honesty.

I talked with Chris Faulkner, CEO of CI Host.com. He discussed internet shopping and security. A good show. The live airing cut short - here's the whole thing.

Niagara County Community College is thinking about adding a dorm, Newfane is hiding public information and Lockport's Bruce Fraser is leaving soon. It's a day for school stuff. And a good program to download, too.

I've had enough of the whining from the likes of Bill O'Reilly about the "war on Christmas." There's absolutely NOTHING offensive about "happy holidays." It's inclusionary - just like America is supposed to be. This is a great 42 minutes. Listen to it over an over again. For more on the topic, check my blog comments at MySpace.

WLVL is taking part in a "time capsule" thing with the new City Center. This show - as well as this day's episode of Tradio - are being preserved digitally for people to listen 50 years from now and figure out what we were all about. Scary that me and PC Tony will be the ambassadors from this generation to that one. But a good show overall. Worth keeping.

County Manager Greg Lewis seemed to get perturbed with certain lines of questioning. I'm not sure how it sounded out there in radio land, but it was mildly humorous from the comfort of my control room.

Bill Dutcher talked about his new book, Fictoids. It was a very funny book - at least what I've read of it so far.

Topics included Delphi on strike, John Kerry (yawn), and Biblical contradictions.

The show started with a letter from John Cleese about England "revoking our independence" since we've done a poor job of governing ourselves (i.e. electing Bush) and quickly moved to me talking about the New York State Lottery, which I morally oppose. Half way through the show, Tom Christy joined me to announce that he will be WLVL's new Scholastic Bowl host for the 2006 year. Now that's radio worth listening to. One caller was whining something about John Kerry. I didn't get it. He said I was "stupider" than he thought. It's an upgrade from what I was called yesterday, I guess.

Annmarie Reeb and Sara Siracuse were in studio talking about the ongoings at Starpoint. If you want to contact Annmaria, her email is fyt4rkids@adelphia.net.

We discussed a variety of issues - starting with capital punishment ... and special laws for police ... also Newfane School Board member Rick Ruhmel. And Delphi came up again. Plus some idiot swore. People, I tell ya.

Uncle Higgly talked about his book, Mr. Gonopolis and his 12 Holsteins - A Christmas Story. It's very funny. I have the audio version. As he said on the interview, if you order, use SCOTT as a coupon code and he'll take 20% off. So - ya got that goin' for ya. :)

The Mayor of Lockport was in talking about what's going on in the city. We talked about improvements downtown - including the City Center - the parking ramp - traffic light timing - show removal - and more. A lot of traffic related stuff: from one-way streets to speed limits to lights downtown. Good show overall.

Thursday we went back to a couple topics from earlier in the week. First, I played PC Tony's thoughts on Delphi from Wednesday's show and took phone calls on that. Then I read a couple letters on the Lockport Superintendent search and gave one of the subjects of one of the letters (Renee Knight) the opportunity to respond. Overall a great show.

The comment I've heard the most from Wednesday's show is how PC Tony's thoughts on the Delphi situation struck people. It was raw and it was real. So I took just that part of the show and made it available. Take these words to heart. They come from someone who knows.

Ken Davis talked about the mythological history of Christmas - where different stories originated from and how they got to what they are now. Very interesting story. Very good interview. For more, check Ken's web site.

PC Tony from Niagara Falls via Lockport was our guest. The phone calls were slow to come, but they flooded away once they started. At one point, Tony shared his thoughts for Delphi employees. A must listen. Click HERE for more music by "Horrible at Best"