Mo’s message

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Mo dropped by the site today and he left some nice comments and also a bit of news for you guys which I thought deserved to be put front and center…

Here’s Mo’s message and I quote verbatim:

Hey everyone, its Mo…hope all is well. thanks Benj for continuing to blog the show daily, honestly ive been looking for someone to do this for us for a long time cuz there are many, many, many instances in the past when we were looking for clips and couldnt find them cuz we didnt know what date they were. so a blog like this is so damn helpful, i appreciate it.

sorry for the weak show today. since im leaving for paris on friday, ive been doing so much tv work these past few days that im getting home at ridiculously late hours with only an hour or two to write the next mornings show and it usually leaves me with nothing. its very difficult to write 3 hours of comedy (or an attempt at comedy) every single night. also, today we had a bunch of tv lights and cameras recording the entire program and that ALWAYS gets in the way of putting on a normal show, so again, my apologies for not being our best.

as some of you may know, i hate holidays because less people listen to the show. tomorrow is a holiday and thats a shame because we have manny villar on the program. he officially will be the highest ranking philippines government official to be on our show (manny is 3rd in command of our country). i like this guy…alot. and its unfortunate that less people will be on the road tomorrow but i guess i can grab clips and replay some of it on thursday. speaking of, thursday will be a big show cuz its grace’s birthday episode plus it also her first year on the program which is a big deal cuz it is the only time that a female co-host has lasted as whole year. (grace started on the program shortly after her birthday).

anyway, im in the middle of tv work so i decided to drop a message here. im just waiting for the start of family feud, a game show on gma-7 hosted by richard gomez. i love game shows, i love winning them. i’ll likely talk about it tomorrow on the program how much money im going to take home tonight after winning this thing. hehehe

good times =)

So don’t forget to indulge your Good times habit to the max this week coz there isn’t going to be any Good times for the whole of next week… Good grief, 4 days without Good times…

Hmmm, Manny Villar would be on the show tomorrow so it should be pretty interesting… C’mon guys, let’s show some support for the show tomorrow and burn the lines…

Advance Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary as well Grace! I admire your fortitude…

Good luck Mo and I hope you win some more “baon” for your trip to Paris!

Good times with Mo (Sept. 30, 2008)

Hanford Poster of Phil Younghusband

Today’s show was pretty laidback… Nothing too controversial and no fights between our favorite old married couple, Mo and Mojo…

On to the show’s highlights:

2nd chance at happiness

The first topic that I caught was the discussion on whether widows or widowers deserve a 2nd shot at happiness when their original spouse passes on…

My take on this is that everybody deserves a 2nd chance at happiness… I’ve read stories where the couple getting married are in their 70′s and it sounds sweet, hehe…

I just don’t want to imagine the geriatric Olympics that’ll happen after the wedding…  I’ll either burst out laughing or I’ll be grossed out, hehe…

But good times to them and I wish them a lot of Viagra-induced happiness and I hope they don’t manage to exchange dentures when they’re French kissing…

Famous celebrities you knew

Mo asked the callers to chime in with their stories about some famous celebrity that they knew when the said celeb wasn’t famous yet…

One of my favorites pertained to the runner-up, okay, okay, the loser of the recently concluded Hottest Celebrity Showdown on the Good times show, the luscious Anne Curtis.. Our caller narrated that they knew Anne when she was still in her pigtails and that she used to ask them for ice candy money… And she wasn’t that hot yet, hehe… Mo couldn’t believe that Anne wasn’t hot at any stage of her life, hehe…

Another nice story concerned everybody’s favorite closet queen suspect, hunky Piolo Pascual… According to our caller, he used to date Piolo’s older sister Pam and he allegedly saw Piolo, who was around 10 at the time, ask his sister to put curlers on his hair… Sounds like a load of crap to me…

Again guys, these are just stories from the callers, I’d probably take them with a very large pinch of salt… The only one that I believed was Grace Lee dating Ali Atienza…

Phil Younghusband

Fil-Brit soccer player and ex-Chelsea striker Phil Younghusband guested on the show to promote his stint on the GMA show, Celebrity Duets… Now, I posted a pic of this guy for my female readers and I have to admit the guy’s damned good looking and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy too… Made Mo want to kill him, hehe…

Mojo was all over him and even our normally conservative Maria Korea was all aflutter, hehe…

He’s planning on joining showbusiness in the future if his Mom decides to move back here to the motherland and so the girls and the gays will probably have a lot of Good times…

To vote for him, text DUETS PHIL and send to 367 for Smart/TNT and 2344 for Globe/TM and SUN Cellular. Catch Celebrity Duets every Saturday Night on GMA-7 after Pinoy Records.

Langhap Sarap

One of my favorite segments of the show made a comeback today… It seems that my man Mo is rehashing some of the classics and introducing them to Grace Lee for her delectation…

The premise of this segment is that whilst there are all sorts of measurements for nearly all the things you can think of like length, temperature, force, speed, acceleration, etc., there doesn’t seem to be a universally agreed upon measure for odor…

Of course being the scholarly person that I am (*ahem*) I did my research and came across some interesting theories being proposed to measure odor:

Olf – an empirical unit of indoor odor intensity introduced by the Danish environmental scientist P.O. Fanger in 1988. One olf is defined as the odor intensity produced by one ‘standard’ person (a standard person is also defined). The name comes from the Latin olfacere, to smell. Ventilation reduces pollution, and the resulting pollution in ventilated, enclosed spaces is measured in decipols.

Of course, what’s the fun in that?

Another interesting measurement being proposed in the Western nations is HOBO POWER with a similar scale to the Langhap Sarap concept of Mo Twister:

Hobo power is run on a very basic system of 1 to 100:

1-6 – Fine smelling to not so good.
7-10 – Fart with a little but not too much stink
11-25 – Mediocre stench to some skanky stink.
26-50 – Some really nasty stink to stench so bad you literally vomit.
51-79 – Past vomiting but stinks worse to old lady colon exam stench.
80-100 – Theoretical stink, stench this bad is yet to have been discovered or at least no one has lived to tell of it.

On to our Langhap Sarap stories:

1. Fart stories got a low score – 7 or 8
2. Expired blood being disposed in bins after having been in storage for months got a relatively low score of around 27.
3. Improperly preserved cats destined for dissection with maggots also got a relatively low score of 12.

Nothing even close to the previous classics of gangrene in the private parts or the lady being sprayed with fecal matter from a hobo on the street…

No good times next week

I couldn’t believe my ears when Mo said that there wouldn’t be Good times next week… Arrggghh, apparently it’s vacation time for our trio and they’re off for some R&R… Mo is going to Paris while the two ladies will also be out…

What am I going to blog about next week?

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Good times for now…

Good times with Mo (Sept. 29, 2008)

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Tiring show today, I agree with Grace, hehe… Mojo got all riled up and my man Mo Twister sure knows how to press all the right buttons to get him even more riled up!

Let’s find out what happened…

Nerd talk

The show began with some nerd talk about the latest gaming consoles and the callers’ preferences in these gadgets… I’m not really into gaming and it was early in the morning so I wasn’t on point so to speak…

I only have my ancient PS2 and my PC and laptop as my gaming platforms and I still don’t get to play all that often… But for hardcore gaming freaks out there, a caller had an excellent suggestion for you guys… Check out www.gamehopper.com.ph… For around 600 bucks a month, you can have your choice of games delivered to your doorstep… Sounds like a good deal to me… Anyway, check out the site for more details…

Ruffa Mae Quinto

I love it when Mo does interviews with celebrities and asks them the most basic questions that you’d think are absolutely no-brainers… Kind of like Jay Leno’s Jaywalking segment of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”…

I think my favorite guests over the past year were Katrina Halili and you guessed it, Ruffa Mae Quinto… Peachy, as she is also known is hilariously funny and with the right curves to boot… Check out her pic… Drool….
Unfortunately, she’s not exactly Einstein but her willingness to laugh at herself is really cool…

Anyway, the interview with Ruffa Mae was pre-taped and Mo asked her a series of questions and Grace, Mojo and Miguel have to guess if she answers the question correctly…

Question 1: Which superhero has retractable claws and the ability to heal himself quickly? Ruffa: X-men… Mo: Which one? Ruffa: Err… Wolverine? Tingtingtingting!

Question 2: Who is the husband of the Virgin Mary and is considered as Jesus’ stepfather? Ruffa: Our Father? Mo: What’s his name? Ruffa: Err… Jehovah? Or witness ba siya ni Jehova? Mo: It’s Joseph… Ruffa: Yun nga ang gusto kong sabihin…

Question 3: What movie featured two men named Sam and Frodo who had to go to a mountain to get rid of a ring? Ruffa: *thinks*… Err I don’t know the answer…

Question 4: What is the name of the black US Presidential candidate? Ruffa: Hmmm, di ko sure yung name niya eh… Mo: Barack Obama… Ruffa: Kay McCain kasi ako…

Question 5: What is 7X8? Ruffa: *thinks*…. Err… 56? Tingtingtingtingting!

Well at least she’s got the multiplication table down pat…

FWB

A caller phoned in and asked for advice from the Professor about his dilemma with a fairly hot friend of his who was giving him signs that she’d like their friendship to progress to something more than friendship… In other words she wanted to be an FWB or a Friend with benefits… I guess the other term FUBU wasn’t for primetime airing…

The guy was married plus the girl knew this so I guess that was the cause of the dilemma… If he was single, I’m sure the horndog would have been all over her, hehe…

Omniscient Professor Mo gave some cool advice as always… Go for it if you REALLY want to, but be prepared for the consequences… Like if his wife found out or if the girl fell in love with him and he broke up with her, she’s probably going to be pretty vindictive and let the wife know that the guy has been naughty…

Well, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, right?

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Lots of caller interaction today with a female caller asking for advice from the Professor about her husband who for various reasons had been emasculated (well not literally, thank God!) during their marriage… The husband is a pastor and the wife is very successful and earns tons more than the husband does…

I think this is a fairly common occurrence when the stereotype of the male provider and female homemaker is reversed… There is a loss of confidence and the husband defers most decisions to the wife as she is the one bringing home the bacon so to speak…

Unfortunately, the caller got cut off before Mo got the chance to give her his “Solomonic” wisdom… hehe

What’s your take on this guys?

Gays and toilets

Mo did a rehash of a former topic which they had before, pre-Grace Lee… It was the question of Gay toilets, to be or not to be? He asked for the opinions of the other hosts about what they thought of gays having their own toilets… The premise being that straight guys feel uncomfortable using the toilet if there are openly gay men using the same facility…

Mo and Miguel were on the same page on this one while Grace was, as usual, the voice of reason…

Mojo being the “gayminist” that he is, got a bit hot under the collar at Mo for even suggesting such an idea… He was so peeved that he even started arguing with Miguel, hehe… The callers who called and agreed with Mo that a separate facility for gays was in order heard an earful from Mojo, hehe… Truly, Hell hath no fury than a gay guy provoked, hehe…

Mo tried to lighten the mood by suggesting that gay facilities would be extraordinarily hygienic and fragrant places with gays being spritzed with Chanel no. 5 before entering and leaving the facility, hehe…

Based on experience, some gays (but definitely not all, Mojo)  do take advantage of the occasion to take a peek at your wang while you’re doing your thing… It’s happened to me several times with the worst occasion being when a gay co-worker stood on the toilet bowl in the adjoining stall just to take a peek… Nearly punched him out right then and there…

Hot lesbians and closet queens

A hot sounding lesbian called in to defend Mojo and argued that such a setup would be discriminatory and I would have to agree with her… Despite those incidents, I still would not want a separate facility for gays and lesbians or as Mo so eloquently put it, Mos and Bos…

Non-virgin indicators

My man Mo in keeping with the rehash theme brought out his list of non-virgin indicators, namely:

1. Permanent tattoos
2. Heavy smoking

Mo mentioned a new indicator for non-virginity… thumb rings… Yup, girls wearing thumb rings are supposed to be non-virgins… I know, I know, thumb rings?

Grace suggested an even better indicator for non-virginity… Breast implants…

Just my take on it, a good indicator would probably be piercings, like bellybutton or tongue piercings, that just screams non-virgin to me…

Lots more topics were discussed but this blog has passed the 1,000 word mark already and that’s a danger sign, hehe…

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Great times!

Good times on Studio 23 (Hong Kong Episode)

Good times on Studio 23 (Hong Kong)

This is my second rewrite of this episode… My first try wouldn’t publish and somehow got erased… Drat! I’m thinking of getting my own domain and publishing there…

The Hong Kong episode was a travelogue and a pretty interesting one at that…

Octopus card

The show began with Andi and Mojo espousing the wonders and benefits of the Octopus card… Basically a swipe card for all your public transportation needs, it works in buses, the MTR and other types of public transportation…

Singapore has one as well and it’s really convenient… I wonder when we’ll have something similar in the Philippines… Oh well, we still have the calesas and pedicabs and I doubt if they’ll hook them up to RFID cards anytime soon…

Mongkok shopping

Grace and Mo had their own segment with Mongkok shopping being the focus of their spiels… Grace Lee with her encyclopedic knowledge of bags and shoes naturally gravitating towards the Ladies’ Fashion Market. My man Mo Twister went shopping for what’s nearest and dearest to a man’s heart… Athletic apparel and electronics…

Grace showed off her bargaining skills by haggling down some “jade” bracelets from HK$230 down to HK$150… Not too shabby, Grace…

Mo checked out some rubber shoes from ADIDAS and other sporting apparel…

A visit to the BC Mall then followed… BC Mall is one of the largest electronics shopping malls in Hong Kong and Mo gave a nice tip to viewers planning to visit Hong Kong in future… Check out the mall outlets with the letter “Q” in their signages, this indicates “Quality” and the Hong Kong Tourism Board guarantees that they have vetted the outlet and all its products are genuine… That’s certainly a comforting thought what with China just spitting distance away, the probability of counterfeit electronic products have gone up considerably…

Food, food and more food

Of course no visit to Hong Kong would be complete without tasting its world famous Cantonese cuisine… Forget your diets and indulge yourselves… Oh and please skip on the McDonald’s and Jollibee’s whenever you’re in Hong Kong, we have enough of them in Manila…

Ironically though, Grace took some sushi preparation lessons from a Chinese chef at SUSHI ONE and learned the rudiments of making soft shelled crabs sushi…

Meanwhile, Andi learned the basics of making beef noodles at an oddly named place, Cucino… Cucino is Italian for Open Kitchen… Must be one of those fusion places… They also serve pizza??? Hmmm, Italian Chinese? Odd…

Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum

The gang had some fun at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum with Mojo and Grace hamming it up with the  eerily realistic likenesses of famous celebrities…

Aaron Kwok

Mojo had some fun with the likeness of Aaron Kwok, a famous Hong Kong singer, who’s renowned for his buff body and singing prowess… Mojo tried to look down his pants, hehe…

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Grace Lee embraced Brad’s wax figure and declared ardently, “I wouldn’t mind having a scandal with Brad Pitt! But only with Brad”… Careful Grace, Angelina’s wax figure might haunt you, hehe…

US Presidents

Ex-President Bill Clinton and George “Dubya” Bush also got some airtime…

Yao MIng

China’s walking Great Wall, Yao Ming was also immortalized with a wax statue and boy was he freakishly tall… I mean Grace barely reached up to his waist…

Wushu

The gang tried their hand at learning the ancient Chinese martial art of wushu with a certain Master Wong (not Wang) teaching them some sick moves with sword and spear… Crouching tiger, Hidden dragon type of moves…

Mojo showed off his version of gay-kun-do…  It was hilarious, hehe…

Mo and the ladies were really bad, hehe… Not very well coordinated, I must say…

But it was fun watching them try… Great times!

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Here are some screen caps of the action on the Hong Kong episode, click on the pics to enlarge:

Andi9 looking gorgeous	Grace displaying her expertise
Beef noodles, yummy!	Andi trying her hand at noodle making
Electronics haven - BC Mall	Grace Lee turning Japanese
Mo checking out some rubber shoes	Q is for quality
Grace Lee vs. Yao Ming	Mo taking on the Dragon

Good times!

Good times with Mo (Sept. 25, 2008)

Photo courtesy of http://manilatimes.net

There was a little too much information on the show today from deep dark secrets to breast implant procedures, but all in all an entertaining and informative edition of Good Times with Mo…

On to the show’s highlights:

Deep dark secrets

Mo had this brilliant idea of asking the callers to phone in incognito and reveal a deeply held secret that may have been bothering them for the longest time…

A few callers called in with fairly typical secrets, a man who’s been cheating on his wife… A male caller who had a crush on Vince Hizon when he was twelve and who “ungayed” himself by brushing up on FHM and watching straight porn…

There was a disturbing call from a girl who had 5 abortions! Damn, that girl gave me the creeps… Please, if you can’t be good, be careful… Don’t get me wrong here, sex is a wonderful thing, but let’s be responsible for Pete’s sake…. All those babies killed… arrrggghhh

I think Grace gave the best secret away, when she shared the story of an acquaintance of hers who had two boyfriends at the same time… BF#1 was so much older than the girl who was in her 20′s while BF#2 was around her age… Well, the girl got herself knocked up by BF#1 who didn’t want to do the honorable thing… So what does desperate girl do? She tells BF#2 that she was pregnant and the child was his! Poor schmuck fell for this ploy, hook, line and sinker… Now they’ve been married for 6 years and the guy still doesn’t have a clue…

Hottest Celebrity Showdown Finals

It was as anticlimactic an ending if ever there was one with the  Finals of the Hottest Celebrity Showdown featuring the Dyosa, Anne Curtis vs. the regal Ms. Iza Calzado duking it out… The win was surprising not only because of its lopsided nature but by the fact that my man Mo was thoroughly voted down by the callers, the guests (Dr. Belo and Kho) and by Mojo and Grace…

Despite some heavy lobbying by Mo, Iza won call after call and his in-studio poll was a whitewash as well with his lone vote for Anne being rendered insignificant by the tidal wave of votes for Ms. Iza Calzado…

Eventually, my man Mo had to acknowledge the inevitable and declare Iza Calzado as the official winner of the 2008 Hottest Celebrity Showdown by the Good times show…

Congratulations Iza, you deserve it! So who said the contest was rigged? 

Of liposuction and tummy tucks

Dr. Vicky Belo together with her boyfriend and business partner, Dr. Hayden Kho, were the special guests on today’s show… Not really my cup of tea as I’m not very vain by nature…

Anyway, I’ll try to encapsulate what I could from all the promotional things said on the show, hehe…

First the plug, the Belo Medical Group is celebrating its 18th year in the business and is offering circa 1990 prices for liposuction services… P30K for the first section and P15K for other areas thereafter… So if you’ve been craving to lop off that tub of lard on your tummy, give their hotline a call… Offer’s good only till Dec. 31 of this year…

Acne faces and scars

Mo swears by a procedure called Fraxel which basically lightens or totally cleans up scars left by acne or childhood accidents… I heard the price was fairly reasonable so if your face looks like the crater of the moon after a meteor shower or your legs have all the coin denominations minted since the Philippines became a republic, you might want to consider Fraxel…

Celebrities and boob jobs

Mo asked our cosmetic surgeons extraordinaire to confirm his theory that 80% of showbiz personalities have had boob jobs… Dr. Belo said that figure was too high and it’s probably around 60%… She confirmed that Anne and Iza’s were real though… What a nice comforting thought… Somewhere, Baby Jesus is smiling…:)

Sagging boobs and breastfeeding

Dr. Belo also clarified the misconception that having a boob job will affect a mother’s ability to breastfeed her baby… or her husband…  She also said that their procedure is superior in that they place the silicone behind the muscle and not under the skin… or something to that effect…hehe

Another interesting trivia is that nearly 80% of her boob job patients are mothers who want to push up their sagging breasts after giving birth… such good news for Grace Lee…

Penile lengthening and sex changes

Oh yeah, they don’t offer either procedure, you’d have to go to the Calayans for the first one and to Thailand for the sex change you’ve always wanted…

Well enough of that, I’m just plugging along as best as I could but if you have specific questions, please direct it to the Belo Medical Group…

Good luck and happy surgery!

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Good times!

Good times with Mo (Sept. 24, 2008)

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Wow! Great show today… Lots of interesting topics discussed and some controversy generated by Mo and Mojo, hehe… But I’m getting ahead of myself…

Read on…

Money Matters

It was early in the day and Mo raised an appropriate topic for all those kiddies on their way to school… The question of financial education (or the lack thereof) in the Philippine educational system…

Come to think of it, we do seem to have a dearth of financial management subjects in our school… Mo’s point being that 75% of the subjects we learn in school are rarely if ever are used in our daily lives… Subjects like Theology, PE, Home Economics and the dreaded Military Science are present but basic Financial management subjects are zilch… I’ve never taken one in all my years of schooling… Maybe that’s why we’re in such a financial state most of the time… Maybe subjects like Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance Management and Investing should be standard subjects…

What’s your take on this guys?

Pepsi vs. Coke

Mo had the ladies undertake a blind taste test of the leading soda brands, Coke and Pepsi, to see if they could identify which was which… It seems like a simple test, right? I mean we can taste both in our “heads” and differentiate them, right? Apparently, not so when you’re blindfolded…

Mojo got it right, whilst Grace who was oozing with confidence earlier on got it wrong, hehe…

Outrageous celebrity requests

My man Mo did some research and talked to some producers who’ve brought in some foreign artists and asked them about the most peculiar or outrageous requests that these superstars had… From Christina Aguilera’s request for some very expensive bubbly to Justin Timberlake’s request for an entire hotel floor reservation and doorknobs being wiped down with alcohol very hour, his list went from the extravagant to the bizarre… For more outrageous celebrity requests, check out this link…

However, there was one common request amongst the majority of the male superstars… Yup, you guessed it, women… I loved Grace Lee’s reaction, hehe… “What do they need the women for? Do they want them to dance for them or maybe to swim with them?” Oh come on, Grace! Seriously, I’ve watched my share of Korean porn and you guys can definitely get the jiggy on… I guess you truly are Filipina, our version of Maria Korea…

Mojo tried to slip a blind item on the listeners by telling a story about a famous R&B singer who was here in the Philippines recently and asked to be taken to Makati for some late night action… Apparently, the girl he liked refused to go with them… I’m just guessing here but maybe, just maybe, she was put off by the reputation of African American men… I mean he probably was a walking tripod…

Mo, irrespressible as always, said: “You’re talking about Brian McKnight, right?” Mojo invoked the Fifth Amendment, hehe…  I hope they don’t get into trouble for that.. Brian’s been a naughty boy, eh?

Hottest Celebrity Showdown KC Concepcion vs. Anne Curtis (ABS-CBN bracket)

And for the results of the contest that’s sweeping the nation… Top seeded KC Concepcion went toe to toe with powerhouse Anne Curtis… Now, I’m sure most of you guys thought that this would be a tight contest with Mo tipping the balance in favor of Anne as he’s never been shy in expressing his fantasies about the luscious Ms. Curtis…

But, surprise, surprise, the callers and the texters went for Anne Curtis with KC getting a single pathetic vote… Too bad, I would have wanted KC to have put up a good fight but this one was a whitewash…

I won’ t even tell you how our trio voted… They would have triggered a revolution if KC won, hehe…

Our resident Dyosa moves on to the finals to face the winner of the GMA bracket…

Iza and Rhiann call the show

The two lovely ladies competing for the final slot in the GMA bracket both called the show to lobby for some votes and I’d have to say both were very impressive… Classy and with just the appropriate humility to come off as sincere… Rhiann even voted for Iza… Mo said she was trying to play the sympathy card…

Oh and the website Mo was talking about was www.jailbait.com…

Hottest celebrity showdown Iza Calzado vs. Rhiann Ramos (GMA Bracket)

It’s the end of the line for one of these classy ladies and they certainly fought the good fight… It was a nip and tuck affair for both ladies with the horndogs voting for Rhiann and Iza surprisingly getting the vote of the DOM (Dirty old men) bloc…

In the end, it was Iza getting the nod of the trio and the listeners… It was really close and in total contrast to the KC vs. Anne tiff earlier…

Iza moves on to the finals to meet Anne Curtis… Congratulations!

Go Iza!

DOM impersonation

Speaking of DOM’s, Mo did a hilarious impersonation of a DOM calling the show, hehe… I was laughing like a hyena and I had my earphones on and I looked like a jackass!

Too funny, Mo!

Tomorrow’s show

Aside from the finals of the 2008 Hottest Celebrity Showdown, tomorrow’s show will have Dr. Vicky Belo and Dr. Hayden Kho as special guests of Good times with Mo… They’re celebrating the 18th year of the Belo Medical Group and they’re offering liposuction services at circa 1990 prices… Yup, P30,000.00 to suck off that flabby midsection or that hanging buttline…

Check them out, hehe… Free plugging, Mo!

Should be a good one tomorrow…

Till then… I’m out of here…

Good times!

Good times with Mo (Sept. 23, 2008)

Photo courtesy of http://mediatakeout.com

First of all, I’d like to apologize to my dear readers for the paucity of today’s update on the show… I was sicker than a dog and consequently I woke up late after having spent the night tossing and turning…

I gathered that the show today was excellent and in any event, I did manage to catch the latter part of the show and I’ll blog about what I caught as best as I can… I’ll try to update this blog later in the day as I’m hopeful on getting a recording from listener Jordan…

60th Annual Primetime Emmy awards

Yesterday’s Emmy Awards was pretty awful and I tuned out most of it… I did catch Josh Groban’s performance and it was one of the saving graces of the show… Josh performed a medley of theme songs from some of the most loved TV shows ever… He highlighted his versatility by singing such varied songs as the theme from the The Simpsons, The Golden Girls, Cops, The Jeffersons and even South Park.

Check out the Youtube video here…

Oprah and her awful red dress

The Queen of Talk, Oprah, seemed to have gained an extra child or two in equivalent weight and she seemed a pinprick away from bursting her tight red dress at the Emmy’s show… My man Mo dissed Oprah and the picture above is worth a thousand words… I mean, what was she thinking?

Buffets

Speaking of gaining weight, Mo argued that buffets are one of the worst things ever because it forces you to eat more in order to maximize the money you paid for the buffet meal… Psychologically,  I think it really does that… When normally you’d eat one plateful, you’d go back and fill your plate two or even three times… Now that’s really pigging out, hehe…

This is true for me, what about you?

X-rated dreams

Mo put forth his theory that men, being the visual creatures that we are, dream in full technicolor and with specific partners fleshed out in full high definition… Essentially saying that we dream about specific and identifiable persons whom we make love to in our dreams… I’d have to agree with him on this one (based on experience)… I guess this happens more often if you don’t have a steady partner or if you’re in your teens and it’s being powered by raging hormones (read: nocturnal emissions)…

Women on the other hand, his theory goes, dream less vividly but more emotionally when they have dreams of the same nature… Or as Mo so graphically puts it, “The guy doesn’t even have a head”… One caller did validate his theory, but interestingly enough she doesn’t dream of guys, she dreams of girls!

I’ll have to hear from our female readers about this one… Hmmm, what say you ladies?

Hottest Celebrity Showdown (Diana Zubiri vs. Rhiann Ramos) GMA Bracket

Finally, we have the penultimate edition of the hottest celebrity showdown for the GMA bracket with the winner advancing to meet Iza Calzado in the finals…

Diana Zubiri vs. Rhiann Ramos

The main selling point of Diana is her extremely voluptuous bod and her photos of full frontal nudity which every trueblooded horndog has feasted upon at one time or another… For those who’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, Diana had a series of photos taken during “sensuality training” exercises and as is the norm here in the Philippines, these photos somehow found their way to the internet and on to the harddrives and cellphones of every straight guy over the age of 7… Now, Diana’s face is not bad either, very typical Pinay looks as noted by Grace… I think the word “whore-hot” was mentioned a couple of times in connection with Diana…

Rhiann on the other hand is very innocent looking and also very young (turning 18 in a few weeks)… Typical mestiza beauty with long hair and tight body… GF material…

Mojo voted Rhiann but changed his vote to Diana after seeing her do the full monty…

Grace votes for Rhiann…

Callers were more or less split down the line…

Texters were nearly all for Diana…

Mo casts his vote for Rhiann and so Rhiann wins this one…

She advances to meet Iza in the finals… Betting odds are that the ABS-CBN winner will kick the butt of the GMA finalist…

Tomorrow, Anne Curtis vs. KC Concepcion…

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Good times!

Good times with Mo (Sept. 22, 2008)

Woohoo! My man Mo Twister is back and boy was he back with a vengeance… The show was hilarious, very entertaining and I had a good laugh listening to the show… Time just seems to fly when you’re having fun!

On to the show’s highlights:

Edward Cullen

As is normal during the early part of the show, most of the talk centered on rather “safe” topics… Mainly I think because of the younger callers listening to the show on their way to school…

I just noticed a recurring theme on the show, it seems that the trio keeps going back to the topic of the Twilight series and its devastatingly handsome but bloodthirsty hero, Edward Cullen… The movie version of this vampire novel aimed at young adults is set to be shown this November with Robert Pattinson playing the role of Edward Cullen… Coincidentally, Robert also played the role of another very handsome fictional character, Cedric Diggory of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire… Hmmm, Robert seems to be typecast in this “devastatingly handsome” roles… That must be a nice problem to have…

A caller chimed in that he thought Daniel Radcliffe or Shia LaBouf would be perfect for the role of Edward Cullen… Mojo and Mo disagreed, saying those two guys were “ugly”, hehe… I’m sure a lot of Harry Potter fans would disagree…

Adidas Jacket controversy

A rather unfortunate thing happened recently… Apparently, a government representative has asked Adidas to cease and desist from production of the much sought after Adidas Philippine flag jacket which I’ve been admiring for quite some time now… It’s been pretty much unavailable for quite a while now (sold out) and now its value has just risen sky high…

The reason cited by the Adidas representative interviewed by Mo was that there is a Philippine law regulating the use of the Philippine flag and other national heraldic symbols… And Adidas’ use of it in their clothing line wasn’t “approved”…

Mo raised a good point that in other countries like England, you pretty much see the Union Jack in all sorts of things like bikinis and thongs… I think the Adidas jacket was in very good taste and pretty much says “I’m proud to be Pinoy!”…

What’s your take on this?

Grace Lee, Filipino or Korean?

A caller named Grace, called in and expressed her dislike for her namesake’s use of the terms “we” or “us” when identifying herself with Filipinos… Grace Lee normally freely uses terms like “we Filipinos” to make a point or it just happens naturally in the course of conversation… Whilst being a full blooded Korean and being born in Korea, Grace has lived most of her life here in the Philippines…

Grace’s (the caller) premise for her argument was that legally, either one or both of your parents have to be a Filipino for you to be qualified as a Filipino… Well that argument just effectively deletes half of the Philippine population with pure Chinese, Japanese, Korean or whatever ancestry they may have who consider themselves as Filipinos…

Mojo is an American citizen (of Filipino parentage) and Mo is of half Indian, half Filipino descent… I believe that amongst the three Grace is the most Filipino in terms of traits, Filipino speaking skills and even mannerisms… Regardless, they’re all very proud of their Filipino heritage and are undoubtedly very patriotic…

Just my opinion, but I truly believe that being Filipino is what’s in your heart and not what a piece of paper says… Just my take…

What about you, my dear readers? Chime in with your opinions below…

Oh by the way, the gold medal winner of the last Beijing Olympics in the demonstration sport of wushu, is of pure Chinese descent and is unfortunately named Willie Wang… Mo just couldn’t resist getting that one in…

Hottest Celebrity Showdown (KC Concepcion vs. Angelica Panganiban)

I thought this match would be much tighter but KC just blew Angelica out of the water… Mo opined that while both these hotties are just one cheeseburger away from putting on 20 pounds, at this point they’re at the peak of their hotness and are both drop dead gorgeous…

Grace Lee went with Angelica, Mojo went with Angelica but later rescinded his vote and went with KC… Miguel went with Angelica but the callers and texters, almost 90% went with KC… My man Mo went with KC as well…

After a shaky start, KC runs away with this one…

Next up, the BIG ONE… KC vs. Anne… Yeah, I know what you’re thinking… this one’s rigged in favor of Anne, hehehe… We’ll see…

Marimar audition clip

The Youtube clip you’re seeing above is an old audition tape showing the biggest GMA stars auditioning for the role of Marimar after Angel Locsin left the station for rival ABS-CBN… It was apparently leaked by a GMA insider and posted on Youtube…

It’s amusing to see the two would-be mothers auditioning for the show, Jennylyn Mercado and Camille Pratts… All the big names were there, Rhiann Ramos, Nancy Castiglione, Katrina Halili and of course, eventual Marimar winner, Marian Rivera… Check it out…

Of sagging breasts and gays over 30

Mo proposed a theory that gays over 30 are officially useless and are basically over the hill, hehe… With Mojo’s 30th birthday coming up, he got some good natured ribbing from Mo about how his “whoring” life is over… Pretty harsh Mo, pretty harsh…

Oh and yeah, Mo’s predicting that Grace will have sagging breasts just like her Grandma who had to literally pick them up off the floor… Not with Dr. Vicky Belo just a phone call away, counters Grace… Too funny!

Accountants wanted in Africa

A caller phoned in with regards to job openings in Africa for accountants… So if you’re a CPA and want to earn in dollars, up to USD2,000.00 per month according to the caller… Dial this number 09178656534… By the way, you must have a valid passport and the offer is in the Republic of Congo and Mali…

Nope it’s not a joke, the company’s name is La Plata…

Look it up first before deciding… That’s my public service message for the day!

Till next time, I’m out of here…

Good times!

Good times on Studio 23 (Season Highlights) Part 1

Mo as the Hobbit King

With the 2nd season of Good times on Studio 23 nearing its end, the show’s producers decided to show a Good times special edition featuring highlights and lowlights from the show’s 2nd season…

Each host’s segment began with people being interviewed on their thoughts about each host…

Mo Twister highlights

1. Pretty girl: “Mo, Twister, when I think of him, I think of the cute boy next door…”
2. Guy1: “Ang cute…”
3. Girl: “Pogi…”
4. Mojo’s sista: “Cool siya”
5. Weird guy: “Malupit yun, maswerte sa lalaki” ???
6. Guy with glasses: “He’s kind of misunderstood because people find him too blunt…”

Mo’s Boracay highlights

During their Boracay episode, Mo plans something diabolical against Mojo… “I’m gonna henna a penis on Mojo’s back…” Too bad he didn’t get to do it, that would have been hilarious… Now that’s what I call a threesome! Get it? Nevermind, hehe…

As they were selecting designs for henna tattoos… Andi picks out a design of two pigs in a compromising position… Mo quips, “this one’s Mojo and the other one’s Uma Khouny…”

Shift to the Boracay hotel scene where Mojo and Grace try to convince Mo to take a dip in the pool but my man Mo was too busy watching NBA basketball in the room’s humongous LCD screen… Grace offers to take her robe off and show off the twins in her bikini…Well with an offer like that, how can I guy refuse?

Still in Boracay, the gang visits the “Hobbit House” branch in Boracay and the hobbit servers hail Mo as their “King”… King Mo, the Yao Ming of the Hobbit House bar tries his hand at singing a ditty… Hate to say this man, but you should really stick to your other talents, hehe…

Mo’s Ocean Adventure highlights

Well, I’m not really sure you can call this a highlight… I should say it’s more of a lowlight, hehe… You see, during Mo, Mojo and Grace’s tour of the aquariums in Subic’s Ocean Adventure, my man Mo lets a huge fart rip… It was so loud the microphones picked it up… I don’t know what Mo ate during the trip but the smell was so bad Mojo started tearing and gagging, hehe… It was too funny!

Mo: “Yeah, that’s my own kind of venom, just like a lionfish!” Good times!

Mo’s PNP misadventures

As I blogged in a previous episode, Mo and Mojo went to Crame and took a lie detector test and worked with some PNP sketch artists… I forgot to say then they both had their mug shots taken… I’ll give you five guesses what AKA’s they took and the “crimes” they were accused of…

Well for Mojo, it was “Gene A. Cole” and his crime? “Illegal entry”… I’ll let you make of that what you will, hehe…

Mo’s alias was “Michael Langot” and his crime was “Treason”… hmmm….

Uma and Mojo	Mo undergoes polygraph
Mo teasing Grace about the twins	The gang in Shanghai
The "ladies" in Zambales	Krav maga gropes

Next, Mojo, Grace’s and Andi’s highlights!

Good times!

Good times without Mo (Sept. 18, 2008)

Photo courtesy of http://www.nativeblend.net

My man Mo Twister was still in Hong Kong so it was Good times without Mo for the second straight day…

Still, I appreciate the efforts of Mojo and Grace Lee to keep the show as entertaining as possible… I know that they receive a lot of flak from the texters that the show sucks whenever Mo’s not around but from what I heard the past two days, they’re getting better at carrying the show whenever Mr. Twister isn’t around…

Admittedly, there are some stretches of the show wherein it does get quite droll but overall it has gotten better… Perhaps a little more preparation and research is all that’s needed on the part of Mojo and Grace to bring the show to a higher level…

Anyway, on to the show’s highlights…

Liposuction and Reductil

In a seeming continuation of the previous day’s discussions about Mojo threatening to blow up to elephantine proportions, there was quite an extensive discussion on the merits of liposuction and other weight reducing options like the slimming pill “Reductil”…

A number of callers chimed in with their prescriptions for weight loss including Chinese medications and Bangkok pills… Quite dangerous if you ask me… I’ve never seen Mojo in person but from what I’ve seen he’s really not even borderline obese… Although Mo loves to mess with him and we fans just lap it up, hehe…

Snatching

A caller who went to visit the station yesterday (For Top 5 at 5), had his necklace snatched along the same elevated walkway where a technician of one of Magic 89.9′s sister stations got killed last year…

Poor guy, one of the bystanders who happened to witness the incident even laughed at him… tsk tsk…

Maybe we’ve become too inured to crime that we just take it all in stride…

Of course, the police was basically useless in situations like these… Another thing we take in stride…

Lucifer calling

A caller who I think was trying to enliven the show called up and introduced himself as Lucifer or Lucio for short, hehe… Funny thing, he was trying to be funny but his parody of a demonic showbiz reporter wasn’t that funny… I think he was trying to channel Mo’s favorite showbiz reporter, Cristy F*ck*n Fermin…

His joke’s punchline depended on a word which both Mojo and Grace couldn’t understand… Sulsultant? The joke just went over Mojo and Grace’s head…

The only thing funny about the caller was his accent (which he claimed was Italian)… Mojo’s take on his accent? Count Dracula with a Visayan accent (think Annabelle Rama)…

Edward Cullen and Twilight

Speaking of vampires, Grace is currently obsessed with reading the Twilight series which we wrote about in a previous blog… Edward Cullen, the hero of the series is her dream boyfriend, hehe…

Mojo piped in that the good thing about having a vampire boyfriend for Grace is that she’ll get to stay out of the sun… another Grace Lee obsession…

Made up words

Mojo came up with words which he made up and I quote:

NEGA – defined as feeling negative about a certain situation… Example: Hay, the texters are all so nasty, I’m feeling NEGA na…

BELOFY - defined as enhancing or improving a person’s appearance through the cosmetic magic of Dr. Vicky Belo… Example: My tummy is so fat na from eating all that steak, I need to BELOFY my tummy na…

See? The show wasn’t that bad, right? At least you learned two new words, eh?

Up next, Tuesday’s episode of the Good Times show on Studio 23…

Till then, I’m out of here…

Good times!