Doug Dannger, Orange County Courier entertainment reporter and self-described "gay man and gay journalist" told Phil he's surfing Surf Beach, near Lompoc, California, as soon as it's reopened. The beach was closed Friday due to a shark attack that killed a young man from Riverside. Doug said that if you get into the water and show "human authority and humaness" the shark will think tiwce about attacking not wanting to look bad. However Doug has also made sure he'll have spotter craft and look-outs on scene in case a "retarded shark" decides to make a run for him. We spent an hour with Raj Feneen as well this evening, an Egyptian-born businessman living in the States with his wife and son. Juan Williams saying he felt "skittish" when he saw people in Muslim garb felt like a betrayal to Raj since Mr. Williams is an African-American and "should know better." But Raj also said he too felt skittish but only because seeing Muslims in religious or traditional garb means you're seeing ones "just off the boat" and more likely to be fanatics.

West Virginia State Senators Curt Queedy and Guy Barton joined Phil to discuss a so-called Christian Flag flying over a North Carolina War Memorial. The city says it violates seperation of church and state. And the state senators agree. But a great many of Curt's constituents are veterans and they want that flag to stay. Says Curt: "I need to get re-elected so even though seeing that flag makes me want to puke the lining to my stomach up, I'll tell the veterans I'm with them til after the election." Says Guy, "A good-looking woman and a prize winning hen won't ever walk down the same street" or some such colloquial garbage. Later, it's Gregory Baugh, an ex-fire battalion chief trying to get his job back. Mr. Baugh was attending a Super Bowl party in February, 2002 when a call came in that an old brewery was burning. In minutes another call came in that the roof of the building had collapsed. And then finally a call that said two of his firemen were missing in the blaze. All the while Baugh told Phil and the audience that he was desperately trying to leave but because of "low blood sugar, I needed just a piece of ham and some potato salad." Then, when finally out the door he stopped for gas "because an Audi doesn't do well on a half a tank. It leaves carbon." At the gas station "the kid who takes the money was watching U2 during the half-time show and I sort of got mesmerized too because of the blood sugar." Baugh was fired.

Margret Grey was beside herself with rage and desperation tonight as she related to Phil that her brother, Ray, has moved in with a wealthy woman, scion of a prominent Pennsylvania family. Margaret is sure this means all family festivity will be moved back east and away from her and Frank. "I don't know why but when I think of this woman, I fantasize throwing her body parts around a room like in that one Jack the Ripper picture I saw." When Phil expresses shock, Margaret presses the point home. "If any member of my family chooses to head back east for Thanksgiving or Christmas, may God help them." Next up was Don Berman from Channel 19 News, on to talk about a special news segment debuting on Monday, "A House Is Not A Home." This feature will look at the foreclosure crisis and how some "foreclosure mills" are rubber stamping documents without reading them. Never mind the fact that Don took as a gift a watch and a weekend in Miami at a company condo from one of the firms he was imvestigating, he found nothing wrong with what they are doing. In fact, he thinks they are doing great work, "clearing these houses out so that REAL people can buy them."

It was Ted Bell tonight, president of the Beverly Hills Automoble Association, protesting the high number of tickets police seem to give to drivers in Mercedes and other "HPV" cars (High-performance vehicles) Ted feels that if a man drives an HPV (His is a 55 T-Bird, two-tone) he is more likely to drive safely. Why would he want to wreck a beautiful car while people that drive "Smart Cars and PT Cruisers probably can't wait to wreck them." Later it was Harvey Weirman, retired attorney. Phil discussed with Harvey the case of a firefighter putting the video of a fatality crash on YouTube and how the victims parents saw it. Harvey mentioned a case he's involved in. An old man drove his car into a "vegetable mart" while the man's grandson video-recorded the whole event, then later gave it a soundtrack and put it on YouTube. "That's different though" said Harvey. "The kid did that to reach out to anyone his grandfather hit so they could get their contact info. Not to pay for damages. Just to acknowledge they did in fact contact his grandfathers car in an unfortunate manner and he and his grandfather are sorry they did that."

A man in Pasadena got so blasted at a wedding over the weekend that he left his 3 year old son in his car while he staggered down a street, eventually getting arrested. The baby's mother was already at home asleep and when she awoke and found both her husband and son missing she called police. Luckily, a good Samaritan found the child, alerted police and the little boy was reunited with his mother. Well, Steve Bosell of Corona, Ca. was Phil's guest tonight because a similar thing happened to him 14 years ago when Steve Jr. was an 8 month old infant. Steve got wasted at a wedding he and April went to with their baby and he wound up taking the child next door to a strip bar and then leaving him sitting on a wall. Police found Steve's kid at 2:30 in the morning....and Steve sued them for taking so long! A man's going to get drunk at a wedding and he's going to black out and lose his kid. But the cops need to be on it and find that child in a reasonable amount of time.

On tonight's show, University of Washington engineering professor Don Micksa tells Phil that by accident, when calling a friend of his, he got on the line with his friends 20 year old daughter, a woman he had seen and admired on campus. Because he has a "Jack Friday-sounding voice" the young lady asked him if he was a cop. Don decided to lie and say he was, a "Faran Benton of the Seattle police." They are 8 months into their relationship now and Faran....I mean....Don wonders if he should tell her who he really is before they sleep together or after. He may be using her, yes, but she may be using him to get some parking tickets fixed. We then brought on the line Doug Dannger of the Orange County Courier. Doug, a "gay man and gay journalist" believes that Whoopi Goldberg walked off The View the other day because Bill O'Reilly provoked her into doing it. O'Reilly, says Doug, hates blacks because he's an Irish-American and Irish-Americans have carried around their resentment of blacks since Civil War days when the Irish didn't want to go to war to free black people. Doug says it's in O'Reilly's DNA to look in the mrror and see himself as a monkey wearing a derby and sipping from a whiskey bottle while Whoopi is "Abe Lincoln's own black woman."

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