Operation Manatee #50: Warm-up to St. Patrick’s Day

 

Get your shamrocks and whiskey, it’s time for a ramp up to your St. Patrick’s Day weekend on Operation Manatee tonight! Yes, we know it’s almost a full week away, but this is the only night we can celebrate some great Irish musicians before the green puke washes away in the streets.

Beyond the obvious, I love St. Patrick’s Day for the music. There’s something about fiddles and pipes fused with guitars and drums that really blarney’s my stones… If you want to know what that actually means, tune in! 11:00 pm in Regina, 91.3 FM on your dials! Interwebs can stream from http://www.cjtr.ca.

Operation Manatee #47: A Prize for What Now?

 

Now you may just be wondering… what IS the Prism Prize? Why IS it even relevant? What is WITH these ACCents?!?

Well, I could tell you now… or you could look online for yourself… OR you could even just tune in with Chris and Cory tonight at 11:00 pm and we’ll tell you. And maybe we’ll wonder about the relevance FOR you… and seriously, what’s with these cap lock accents?

91.3 FM on terrestrial radio in the distance of Regina. Or even better, you can listen anywhere in the world by streaming online at http://www.cjtr.ca. Seriously… ANY… WHERE… IN THE……….. WOOOOOOOORLD!

1. RJD2 – Work It Out
2. Falty DL – Reassimilate
3. Deltron 3030 feat. Lonely Island – Back In The Day
4. Thundercat – Heartbreaks & Setbacks
5. Key N Crates – Dum Dee Dum
6. A Tribe Called Red – Look At This
7. Bloc Party – Prayer
8. How To Destroy Angels – How Long
9. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End
10. Ryan Hemsworth – Slurring (Bauer Remix)
11. Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde

Operation Manatee #45: Music is the Cure for the Plague Too!

The plague will not claim him… Death cannot keep him from coming back to the radio. That’s right, after a week of slow, painful, torturous plague-like symptoms, Chris will be back on tonight’s show! Although, Cory demands Purell and respiratory masks on everything with or without a pulse.

It’ll be a strange night for music… For some reason, music parodies have been making a big noise across the internet. We’ll see if Zombie Chris can determine what is real and what is fake. Plus the Juno nominees were announced just today. That might be… uh… interesting…

Tune in tonight at 11:00 pm! 91.3 FM in Regina or http://www.cjtr.ca from anywhere in the world… or afterworld… depending on your health status…

Operation Manatee #44: There Will Be Complaints

 

While not quite as intimidating as “There Will Be Blood…”, tonight’s episode of Operation Manatee is much more in your face about the foreshadowing than the movie. But this ain’t no Festivus ritual… just straight up, ol’ fashioned grumpiness.

Well… maybe half the grumpiness as normal. Chris is out, borderline dead, so Cory will be grumping on his own! Wait… if that’s 100% grumpiness, but with only half of the grumpers, does that make this week’s show more grumpy per minute? Some, quick tell me what the grump to minute ratio is going to be like… I’m going for the record!

11:00 pm tonight (“That’s so late…”) on 91.3 FM in Regina (“But I live out of town…”) or at http://www.cjtr.ca (“My internet speed sucks…”). TUNE IN!

Operation Manatee #40: The Cure for Holidays

 

I promise, this will be the last time I say anything about the holidays (for about 12 months). Frankly, Chris is getting sick of Cory mentioning it all the time and as such, has DEMANDED that we go on the air tonight and specifically NOT play Christmas music.

SO… (ho, ho)… We will be on the air later tonight, per schedule, mandated to stay away from the festive music. 11:00 pm to midnight, either terrestrially on 91.3 FM in Regina or anywhere in the world via http://www.cjtr.ca.

Tune in and see what kind of presents we can bestow upon you that don’t require breaking and entering… unless you want.

Operation Manatee #39: The Cure for Estrogen

 

It’s been discussed, ad nauseam, on Operation Manatee the benefits of a little facial sweater. Especially at this time of year, it acts as a wonderful buffer between the cold air and bare skin. But at this risk, I bring up again the sign of MANLINESS that a beard defines on any man lucky to be able to wear one.

In short summary… Cory is retaining his manliness, while swimming in estrogen that being surrounded with women entails. Now outnumbered 3 to 1, he realizes this is only the start of a life of dolls and tea parties and pop bands and bras… (sigh).

Tune in tonight!  Cory wants to crank up the rock and remember the manly times… lay a foundation for more manly times in the face of estrogen now and forever!

Operation Manatee #37: Snow-Mana-Tree (or one too many puns)

 

It’s there… if you look closely… once you see it, you’ll never UNSEE it…

I’ll just throw this out there – we all dodged a bullet this week. If you listen and believe weather reports, we should all be snowed under and NOTHING should be functioning. But let’s face it… as Saskatchewanians, we’d just dig our way out and what would halt all activity in somewhere like Toronto would be just flakes beneath our boots.

That being said… I prefer less snow in my city and more on my ski-hills any time of the year. Especially now.

Tune in tonight though, as Chris and Cory play music SO HOT, it’s guaranteed** to melt all snow within a block of your radio. 91.3 FM in Regina!

 

**ok, not REALLY a guarantee… so send your hate mail to Chris…

Operation Manatee #36: Cory Survived, Chris Flied

Wow… what a week!

Apologies all around, as we missed the show last week. Of course, we gave you all fair warning and hopefully you went and took in the show at the Exchange last week as well. Alestorm ROCKED (well… plundered maybe) and TrollfesT and Gypsyhawk were wonderful surprises as well. We’ll have music from them in case you did miss out.

Tune in tonight! 11:00 pm at 91.3 FM in Regina or online at http://www.cjtra.ca > Listen Live.

Operation Manatee #33: Oh! The BOO-MANATEE!!!!

(snicker) Boo-manatee…

(ahem) It’s the end of October… you know what that means! Spooks and ghosts, zombies and vampires, yessir, it’s HALLOWEEN!

Technically… it’s only October 29… but since I believe in celebrating BEFORE an event instead of after we’re doing it tonight. Chris and Cory have a great hour lined up with some of our favorite Halloween inspired music – spooky songs and maniacal musicians.

Tune in tonight, 11:00 pm on 91.3 FM or by streaming at http://www.cjtr.ca.

Operation Manatee #30: Save the Mana-tahtahs!

October is a special month, not just because we all get an excuse to load up on sugar over the course of it. October is widely associated as Breast Cancer Awareness month, where everywhere you look, you’ll see pink ribbons and various organizations raising awareness for Breast Cancer and funds for cancer testing.

While Breast Cancer can strike anyone, man or woman, as a man I’m much more concerned about the state of the women in my life. As such, we’re dedicating this episode of Operation Manatee entirely to women in music – all-women groups, women fronted groups, etc.

If you want more information about Breast Cancer or even just cancer in general, take a look at http://www.cancer.ca/en/?region=sk.