Friday 11th September 2009
How amazing is this – last night – while I was doing the dishes (yes – I do dishes) – an incredible map of Australia (sans Tasmania) appeared!
On that note – Sonia and I are going to take a week off – standby for Jamie Malcolm, Angela Pulvirenti and Christo holding the fort – be nice to them, okay?
See you!
-Todd
(Download this week's Sonia & Toddcast HERE)
Wednesday 9th September 2009
Hey hey
There is such a long/bizarre/tedious reason as to why my face looks like this ... I don’t really want to go into it.
Moving onto this morning’s brain teaser –
Q: Imagine you are in the middle of a forest surrounded by tigers, you have nothing to defend yourself with, what do you do?
A: --> Stop imagining <--
See you!
-Todd
Tuesday 8th September 2009
Welcome to Tuesday! We all know that Tuesday’s the worst day of the week because on:
-Monday – you’re allowed to be slack due to it being the first day of the week
-Wednesday – half way celebrations ... you spend 3/4 of the day walking around saying “happy hump day”
-Thursday – it’s the day before the best day of the week (Friday)
-Friday – you’ve made it ... as long as you don’t get fired - you’re laughing like a tickled pirate
Talking about all things funny – I can’t get over how funny this clip is –
Today’s brain teaser is as follows
Q: There was a very young princess who was very beautiful. Her father thought it was time for her to marry. He held a series of competitions. All of the men dropped out, but one, a peasant. The King was very unhappy about this and he wanted to make sure the peasant could not marry his daughter. He placed 100 roses in a room. Only one rose was from their garden. The rest were fakes. They all looked and smelled the same. It was impossible to tell them apart. The peasant was very wise though, and picked out the correct rose. How did he do it?
A: --> He let a bee fly in through the window and the bee went to the only flower with pollen <--
Have a great day – if you need anything flick me through an email – Sonia@mix1065.com.au or Twitter me (twitter.com/soniaandtodd)
Bye!
-Sonia
Monday 7th September 2009
First things first – well done Adam Brand! :-)
Second things second – here’s a photo of our judging hut at Dancing With The Stars ... stylish isn’t it?
Mind you – it’s a palace compared to Sonia’s change room
Third things third – here’s this morning’s brain teaser:
Q: A man goes out drinking every night returning to his home in the wee hours of every morning. No matter how much he drinks, he never gets a hangover. This drink is very well known but is rarely consumed. It is served warm and taken straight from its source. The man is a sucker for a free drink, especially since he can't live without it. What is his favourite drink?
A: --> Blood... the man is a Vampire <--
-Todd
Friday 4th September 2009
Breaking news ... I can't run this month's marathon anymore.
A mysterious lump has appeared out of nowhere on my shoulder ... and my doctor has thrown the towl in for me.
That's not a particularly good shot (great photo of me - not the lump) - here's a close up
It's not like a fluidy lump - it's actual bone :-(
I'm shattered.
-Todd
Tuesday 1st September 2009
Poor Todd – we gave him a bit of a hard time this morning.
First up we threw his iPhone in the bin
Then we threw a glass of water at him
Why? Not sure – there wasn’t really a reason. Even if you don’t know Todd – you’d probably have the urge to do those things to him.
Here’s today’s brain teaser –
Q: Sally is travelling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little cabin with a bathroom but no window. Sally has no compass or other instruments. Just the general luggage one brings on board a long cruise. Yet without leaving her room or talking with anyone Sally will be able to tell when the ship has crossed the equator. How?
A: --> Sally can fill the sink and watch it drain. When the water reverses direction when going down the drain she will know they have crossed the equator <--
All the best :-)
-Sonia
Monday 31st August 2009
Welcome to Monday!
Last week you would have heard us speak with some burly fire fighters about their annual calendar launch. During the interview we revealed that one of the main reasons that our show was interested in having these fire fighters in studio was because one of our producers Brooke was particularly keen on attending the launch.
So fast forward a few days – the calendar launch happened and Brooke had a damn good time – here’s the photographic evidence
Here’s a few of the firies
And here’s the shirt that she was wearing today
Shameless, huh?
Moving on – here’s today’s brain teaser:
Q: What do these words have in common?-Banana- Dresser- Grammar- Potato- Revive- Uneven- Assess?
A: --> In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it
at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the
same word <--
-Todd
Thursday 27th August 2009
Here's a snap from our upcoming Sydney Weekdender story - here we are at Mantra Indian Restaurant in Ryde.
Would you like today’s brain teaser? Not a problem – here it is:
Q: One day a mute man walks into the store. He wants to buy a toothbrush. So he simply imitates brushing his teeth and he gets his toothbrush. Now a blind man walks into the store and wants to buy a pair of sunglasses. How will he get the purchase done successfully?
A: --> He is blind not mute so he can ask for the sunglasses <--
Bye,
-Todd
Wednesday 26th August 2009
Time for a shameless plug from Todd and me ... on Saturday at 5:30pm on Seven – we’re doing a couple of restaurant reviews on Sydney Weekender. We shot the story a few weeks back and had an absolute ball! (So hopefully the end product will be as good as we thought it went on the day). Here we are at Il Vicolo, North Ryde –
Alright – here’s the answer for this morning’s brain teaser:
Q: A husband and a wife go to the movies. During the movie the husband murders the wife. He gets the body home without attracting attention
A: --> they went to see a drive-in movie <--
-Sonia
Tuesday 25th August 2009
Hey there,
Not a whole lot to report today – except for the fact that somebody took a photo of me from the perspective of the floor ... here it is
Interesting isn’t it?
I’ll tell you what’s more interesting – this morning’s brain teaser.
Q: There is a submarine which will only operate with exactly 20 passengers. If the first 19 seats were taken by average size men, and the last seat was taken by a fat overweight lady, how come the submarine sank?
A: --> submarines are supposed to sink <--
-Todd
Monday 24th August 2009
Welcome to a new week!
I can hardly contain my excitement because on this Wednesday we’re catching up with a VERY talented woman who’s taught her budgies how to skateboard (this isn’t a joke). She’ll be coming into our studios with her birds and mini skateboards ... and will let these birds do their thing live!
Here’s a video to get you as equally excited as I am -
If you’re looking for today’s brain teaser – here it is:
(Note: The following brain teaser is considered to the hardest in the world ... 80 percent of pre-schoolers can answer this but 97 percent of Harvard students get this wrong)
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
Answer --> The answer is “NO”, look at the last line of the riddle <--
Take care,
-Sonia
Friday 21st August 2009
Friday, Friday, Friday ... I love typing that word because it’s associated with a pleasant thought.
I just realised – I was meant to do the blog update yesterday but I never got around to it. Before you go emailing me and calling me a slack arse, may I point out that yesterday I had a fantastic group of Mix listeners over at my place. We were doing a bit of training ahead of next month’s half marathon. Here’s a happy snap –
Are you a Sonia & Toddcast subscriber? They’re fantastic little weekly packages of audio joy. If you have iTunes click HERE ... if you just want to download it straight away without any of that technological stuff – click HERE
Do you want to know the past two brain teasers that we had on the show? No worries –here’s Thursdays:
Q: James bets Paul $1.00 that he could guess the score of the basketball game before it starts. Paul agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Paul lose the bet?
A: --> James said the score would be 0-0 and he was right. "Before" any basketball game starts, the score is always 0-0 <--
Here’s Fridays
Q: The Pope has it, but doesn’t use it. Your father has one, but your mother uses it. Nuns don’t need it. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one. Michael J Fox’s is quite short. What is it?
A: --> A surname <--
Allrighty – have a great weekend!
-Todd
Wednesday 19th August 2009
I know that this’ll sound particularly petty ... but with our maintenance guru Lou away on a well-deserved break – The Mix offices are looking worse for wear. Instead of Todd doing something about the rubbish (eg: putting it into the station’s main rubbish dumpster) he decided that he’d stack it all up into a tower and get a photo taken next to it.
Tsk, tsk, tsk ...
If you missed this morning’s brain teaser – then here it is:
What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
Answer --> bacon <--
Have a great Wednesday!
-Sonia
Tuesday 18th August 2009
I’m not exactly sure how to describe them – but the Star Burst below is my favourite –
Now that I’ve blown you away with some really interesting information – let me tell you what today’s brain teaser was:
A rich man's son was kidnapped. The ransom note told him to bring a valuable diamond to a phone booth in the middle of a public park. Plainclothes police officers surrounded the park, intending to follow the criminal or his messenger. The rich man arrived at the phone booth and followed instructions but the police were powerless to prevent the diamond from leaving the park and reaching the crafty villain. What did he do?
Highlight the follow bit to see the answer --> When the rich man reached the phone booth he found a carrier pigeon in a cage. It had a message attached telling the man to put the diamond in a small bag which was around the pigeon's neck and to release the bird. When the man did this the police were powerless to follow the bird as it returned across the city to its owner) <--
See you!
-Todd
Monday 17th August 2009
Welcome to Monday you poor souls!
If you’re a regular blog reader you’ll know that most of the time the entries that Sonia and I upload are usually pretty bland ... they involve a photo and some smart-arse commentary written around it. Well today I’m going to break that mould by giving you a lot of actual information and not just fluff.
First things first – I want more friends on Twitter ... so please – add me asap – my Twitter is twitter.com/SoniaAndTodd
Secondly, Sonia and I have both been sent emails asking that the question and answer to Captain Vegetable’s Cranium Stranium be posted up on the blog – no worries. Here’s today’s:
A horse travels the same distance every day.
Oddly, two of its legs travel 30 kilometres each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 kilometres.
Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?
Highlight the following text to see the answer --> The horse operates a mill and travels in a circular clockwise direction. The two outside legs will travel a greater distance than the two inside legs. <--
Thirdly, I want people to come over to my house for a free workout session THIS THURSDAY. I live at Bondi and I’ll be holding it at midday. Email me (todd@mix1065.com.au) if you’d like to come along (don’t make me feel like a total loner by not turning up).
Fourthly, do you know about the band Short Stack? I don’t – but I like the look of them so I put their poster up on office wall. Someone from our office faked some signatures on the poster so that it looked more authentic
Fifthly, this morning we caught up with the incredibly inspirational Erin Brokovich - I'm a huge, huge fan of hers - so it was such a thrill to catch up with her. She's doing some work with the Queensland-based Shine Lawyers at the moment - the full interview will be uploaded on Friday as part of the Sonia and Toddcast
See you Tuesday,
-Todd
Friday 13th August 2009
So if you've been reading the previous entries on the blog you'd notice that I've become pretty fitness obsessed.
On Thursday the 20th at midday I'm organising for my trainer Peter to do a group session with any Mix listeners that want to come on down. I'd love for YOU that's right - YOU - to swing by and do some training with me.
If you're keen - email me todd@mix1065.com.au and I'll send you my details etc..
I don't want to scare you but I'm really fit - so I may potentially make you look bad!
Also - if you're keen - download today's Sonia & Toddcast
-Todd
Thursday 12th August 2009
My training for the Marathon is going well - here's a recent training session with Paul from Unleashed Fitness. There's a great bit in the video below where I pull someone (get your mind out of the gutter).
I should use this opportunity to give my trainer Peter a shout out. He puts up with a lot of crap and bad behaviour from me - so if you need a personal trainer - don't go past Peter!
-Todd
Wednseday 11th August 2009
So here I was - enjoying my workout session with my personal trainer yesterday. when all of a sudden my mum Peta jumps in and decides to freeload off my session - not happy!
-Todd
Monday 10th August 2009
Captain Vegetable
Eating pumpkin soup...
-Sonia
Friday 7th August 2009
Spotted at yesterday's Digital Radio launch at Martin Place
What a champion!
Thursday 6th August 2009
Todd v Radio Robbie
