Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the South Pole? I think they call it Antarctica? Well, I had the pleasure of speaking with a real life explorer who was nutty enough to live down there in the cold air not once, but twice! Weirdo for sure, but he did walk away with some interesting info about our lovely lil’ planet. Just click here to hear some Random Chat with Robert Swan, author of Antarctica 2041.

Can you detect the changes happening at Charlie? Does anyone even pay that much attention? Hell. I’m not even sure what goes on in my own life, much less the life of an animated character. As a tribute to those of you who have detected some changes, I’ve posted a lil’ video of me and my friends at Empty Noggin playin’ “Awesome Dectives”. Are we really awesome, or do you detect something different? Click here to see the video.

Leon and his baby was watching a movie one spooky night. When suddenly we hear a loud thud at da door. You should have see us  “holla ween”  as we jumped unda da couch! Ahh, see ya!

Charlie Squad member Mike Sant of chooselocal.com e-mailed me a super interesting video from Oxford about a group of scientists that have created an active model of the brain. It took them 15 years and 10,000 computers to recreate our noggin. How does the brain create “reality”? It’s facisnating. You can watch the video here. If you’re looking for something a little less heady, you can watch a man in a body suit turn a homemade water slide into a ramp and jeteson himself across a valley. How does he land? Click here to find out.

So is the swine flu a real problem or a fake problem? I know it sounds weird to ask, but I gotta. With some 40% of health care officials refusing to get vaccinated, there’s a compelling case for further debate. Click through to find out about recent studies on the virus by the American Medical Association. Plus, I’ve dug up some numbers on how much money drug companies are making off this. Finally, you can find out how to get the vaccine in Portland. Click here to hear the podcast.

I’m am so excited to go to Star Wars In Concert tonight! I had my mom iron my Jedi robe and my lightsaver has new batteries in it. This show is going to be so much fun and I can’t wait to see if other people dress up like me.

Last month I went to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Zing Zang Zoom show and I had front row seats. I got to go out on the floor when they were shooting people out of the cannons and I thought they were going to hit me! Of course they didn’t but they landed right in front of me. All the animals were so cool to see. That show was even better than last year.

Next weekend I’m going to Disney on Ice! This show has tickets as cheap as $12 and I really like Cars and The Lion King and they’re going to be in the show. There are some girly shows like The Little Mermaid and Tinkerbell but I don’t like those girly shows.

Such a busy month, I’m already tired just thinking about it.

Watch out man! I had swine flu! Don’t freak out like everyone else in the office. No, I wasn’t hospitalized and it wasn’t a near death experience. I wasn’t allowed back in the office until I got a note from my doctor and I had a 6-day weekend but it wasn’t all fun. I had a fever and cough. My doctor didn’t test me for H1N1 but if you have the symptoms they just tell you, you have it.

It was like a really bad hangover that wouldn’t go away. Well I’m all better now and I wash my hands all the time and I had to clean my house, whoa did my house need to be cleaned! The thing that took me the longest was cleaning all of my bo…uh….glassware.

Learn from my mistakes man, get your flu shot.

Anything “alien” has always fascinated me. Maybe it’s because my Father insists that our family is descended from a reptilian alien race, and that our DNA is perfect. Never mind that our family matriarch has Alzheimer’s and I’m getting wrinkles. Perfect DNA, huh? Well, there’s more “proof” that aliens do exist. We’ve got sightings in Russia and radio waves from Saturn. Click here to see the video and hear the podcast.

From our WTF department, it looks like the tune that the Jackson family estate released yesterday isn’t a new song at all! Seems it was written with another famous producer, and was even recorded by a no name R&B act in 1990. It wouldn’t be so bad if the family hadn’t tried to pawn it off as an original. It also wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t sound EXACTLY like the one done in 1990. It ALSO wouldn’t be so bad if the song weren’t SO BAD. Click through to listen to the story and both tunes.

So he’s dead, but we can expect Michael Jackson to continue to release new music until, well, we’re dead. There’s a whole vault of it, and I guess the family has decided to open it. The first song is called, “This Is It.” If he meant, “This is it. This is the last crappy sappy song I’ll ever record” then I love it. Otherwise, ICK! Why are we letting the musical memory of the King of Pop be desecrated by songs that’ll just give us all a mild case of the, “Oh God, won’t he please shut-up’s”? Just askin’. Click here to hear. And for those of you wondering if your microwave will kill you, there’s good news ahead.