Anybody else got a strange feeling? Don’t get me wrong, I still love that it’s Friday. It’s just an odd day.

Maybe I’m feeling like the kids heading back to school next week or something.

“Bet You Won’t Play It Friday” was awesome! This week we got more calls than we have lately and we really really worked on playing all the songs requested. It’s impossible to play them all in the 4 and a half hours they give us on the air, but this week I was really jammin’ them in. I hate to ever miss a single one.

If you’ve never called, do it next week! You don’t have to go on the air with us, but we would love for you to. Here’s the number: 336-373-0987.

Who knows what it is that makes this Friday feel just a little bit “off”? Perhaps my red meat level is dangerously low? Better go steak up.

Very expensive research tells us that most Simon listeners are “dog people”.  This is only to say that they own dogs more often than cats, not that they have any distaste for cats.  We didn’t research that part.  The facts show that most of us have at least one dog.  With this in mind, we often deal with pet related issues on the GET UP show. 

Today, we offered translations of dogs barking.  There’s a new product out called Bow Lingual. Here is the audio of our translations:  http://www2.987simon.com/listen/dog-tran…

Well, it turns out the original inventor of the “Bark Translator” was listening to Simon this morning and called to tell us about it. Unfortunately, she could not get a patent and the invention was sold to a Japanese company. She now produces a cat translator. Here is her website:  http://www.animalvoice.com/

What do you think?

When scientists taught a gorilla to speak in sign language, she eventually was able to communicate with her handlers. After she had become fluent in signing, she would sign the same message to the humans around her over and over. After spending so much time humanizing her, all she wanted to say on her own was, “Let me out!”

So, dogs aren’t gorillas. They need us…But, are they trying to tell us something? What do you think?