Bryan Truta / JACK's Big Breakfast

This Thursday, the MDA is coming to the radio station to "arrest" me and keep me in "jail" until I can raise $1,600 for Muscular Dystrophy and Jerry's Kids. We all know and love the annual telethon that takes place every year at this time, but now's your time to help out this great charity and give to a local cause. If you feel so inclined, please click the link below and give what you can. I appreciate it, as do the thousands of kids you have a chance to help today!

CLICK HERE to donate and Thank You for your help!

Congratulations to Michael Phelps and US Olympic team! Phelps made history Saturday night by winning his eighth Gold medal, besting the seven Mark Spitz took home in 1972.

Due to this feat, JACK's Eight Tracks was "gold" today!

JACK's Eight Tracks Monday, August 18th: Gold

1. Golden Earring "Twilight Zone"
2. Sting "Fields Of Gold"
3. David Bowie "Golden Years"
4. Kanye West "Gold Digger"
5. Neil Young "Heart Of Gold"
6. Soul Asylum "Black Gold"
7. Fleetwood Mac "Gold Dust Woman"
8. America "Sister Golden Hair"

Last week we did a whole week of themed lists based around body parts as we gave away tickets to the "Bodies Revealed" exhbition at Union Station.


JACK's Eight Tracks Friday, August 15th: Butts!

1. KC & The Sunshine Band "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty"
2. 12 Gauge "Dunkie Butt"
3. Queen "Fat Bottomed Girls"
4. Sir Mix-A-Lot "Baby Got Back"
5. E.U. "Da Butt"
6. Spinal Tap "Big Bottom"
7. Wrecks-N-Effect "Rump Shaker"
8. 2 In A Room "Wiggle It"

This week JACK's Big Breakfast will commemorate the final weeks of the Bodies Revealed exhibition at Union Station by giving away tickets to see the show and qualifying you for dinner at the Melting Pot, passes to Worlds of Fun, and airfare on Midwest Airlines.

In addition, we'll concentrate JACK's Eight Tracks on body-related themes.

JACK's Eight Tracks Monday, August 11th: Hands

1. Bon Jovi "Lay Your Hands On Me"
2. Alanis Morrisette "Hand In My Pocket"
3. Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
4. Hootie And The Blowfish "Hold My Hand"
5. John Cougar Mellencamp "Hand To Hold On To"
6. Georgia Satellites "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"
7. Thompson Twins "Lay Your Hands On Me"
8. Jewel "Hands"

In Celebrity Crap news, JACK's Big Breakfast was stunned by the sudden passing of two stars; Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes both passed away this weekend. What we found strange was that both men just finished shooting a new movie called "Soul Men" that also stars Samuel L. Jackson.

Hmmm...if I were Samuel I'd lay low for a while!

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On Friday, GM and the Kansas City Chevy Dealers invited Steve-O and myself out to the GM Fairfax Plant to check out production on the new Chevy Malibu and test drive a car for myself! Thank you to my awesome tour guide George who drove me around the plant because I - like an idiot - wore flip-flops to an auto plant!

Check out the VIDEO BLOG of my experience at GM Fairfax:



What a great place and great people! Thanks and look out for me burning up the streets in my '09 Chevy Malibu... oh, and you might want to check out Malibu Days for yourself!

JACK's Eight Tracks Friday, August 8th: The "Days" List

1. U2 "Beautiful Day"
2. Led Zeppelin "Dancing Days"
3. Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days"
4. Citizen King "Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out...)"
5. Phil Collins "Another Day In Paradise"
6. matchbox twenty "Long Day"
7. Beatles "Day Tripper"
8. Dirty Vegas "Days Go By"


JACK's Eight Tracks Thursday, August 7th: Beach Songs
For the VIP Preview party of JACK's new hangout, Shark Bar in the Power And Light District

1. David Lee Roth "California Girls"
2. Sisqo "Thong Song"
3. B-52's "Love Shack"
4. Beach Boys "Kokomo"
5. Fat Boys f. The Beach Boys "Wipeout"
6. Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"
7. Billy Ocean "Caribbean Queen"
8. T-Spoon "Sex On The Beach"


JACK's Eight Tracks Wednesday, August 6th: The Worst Songs In The World
AOL and Spinner.com did a survey to find the Worst Songs In The World. This is 8 of the Top 10, in no particular order

1. Los Del Rio "Macarena"
2. Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
3. Aqua "Barbie Girl"
4. Ricky Martin "She Bangs"
5. Helen Reddy "I Am Woman"
6. Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy"
7. MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This"
8. Baha Man "Who Let The Dogs Out"


JACK's Eight Tracks Tuesday, August 5th: The 7 Deadly Sins + 1
Listener assisted by Rachel White of Mission, KS

1. Billy Joel "Only The Good Die Young"
2. Alanis Morrisette "You Oughta Know" (Wrath)
3. Pink Floyd "Money" (Greed)
4. Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl" (Envy)
5. Blind Melon "No Rain" (Sloth)
6. KC & The Sunshine Band "Get Down Tonight" (Lust)
7. Culture Beat "Mr. Vain" (Pride)
8. Weird Al Yankovic "Eat It" (Gluttony)

PS - for a little extra "Deadly Sins" entertainment, check out the movie "Seven"


JACK's Eight Tracks Monday, August 4th: The Heart

1. Deee-Lite "Groove Is In The Heart"
2. Yes "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
3. Phil Collins "Two Hearts"
4. Big Brother & The Holding Company "Piece Of My Heart"
5. Stacey Q "Two Of Hearts"
6. Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart"
7. Huey Lewis & The News "Heart Of Rock & Roll"
8. Wallflowers "Sixth Ave Heartache"


JACK's Eight Tracks Friday, August 1st: Birthdays, Birth, Babies, Being Born
For MY birthday, which is actually August 2nd, 19XX... ha!

1. Beatles "Birthday"
2. Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run"
3. No Doubt "Hey Baby"
4. Patrick Hernandez "Born To Be Alive"
5. Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild"
6. Huey Lewis & The News "Doin' It All For My Baby"
7. Fray "How To Save A Life"
8. Bruce Springsteen "Born In The U.S.A."


JACK's Eight Tracks Thursday, July 31st: Dreams
For the weird dreams I had last night...

1. Aerosmith "Dream On"
2. Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)"
3. Green Day "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
4. Moody Blues "Your Wildest Dreams"
5. Billy Ocean "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car"
6. Gary Wright "Dream Weaver"
7. Cranberries "Dreams"
8. REO Speedwagon "In My Dreams"


JACK's Eight Tracks Wednesday, July 30th: Fighting
Over the weekend, three Cubs fans jumped a lone White Sox fan at a kid's birthday party. Classy.

1. Beastie Boys "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right"
2. Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man"
3. Belle Stars "Iko Iko"
4. REO Speedwagon "Can't Fight This Feeling"
5. Pat Benatar "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
6. Sweet "Ballroom Blitz"
7. Elton John "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"
8. Carl Douglas "Kung Fu Fighting"


JACK's Eight Tracks Tuesday, July 29th: The Wanted List

1. Cheap Trick "I Want You To Want Me"
2. Toad The Wet Sprocket "All I Want"
3. Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
4. Bowling For Soup "Girl All The Bad Guys Want"
5. Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy"
6. Better Than Ezra "Desperately Wanting"
7. George Michael "I Want Your Sex"
8. Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"



JACK's Eight Tracks Monday, July 28th: The Long List
Listener assisted by Jose Hernandez

1. Billy Joel "The Longest Time"
2. Cake "Short Skirt/Long Jacket"
3. Hollies "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"
4. Kid Rock "All Summer Long"
5. Doobie Bros "Long Train Runnin'"
6. Cathy Dennis "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
7. matchbox twenty "Long Day"
8. Lionel Richie "All Night Long (All Night)"

JACK's Eight Tracks Friday, July 25th: The Cold List

1. Foreigner "Cold As Ice"
2. Paula Abdul "Cold Hearted"
3. Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
4. Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
5. Gwen Stefani "Cool"
6. Little River Band "Cool Change"
7. Van Halen "Ice Cream Man"
8. Tone-Loc "Funky Cold Medina"

JACK's Eight Tracks Thursday, July 24th: The Law!
For Craig Glazer's book The King Of Sting - available now at all major bookstores and Amazon.com

1. Clash "I Fought The Law"
2. Inner Circle "Bad Boys (Theme From "Cops")"
3. Judas Priest "Breaking The Law"
4. Elvis Costello "Watching The Detectives"
5. Cheap Trick "Dream Police"
6. Eric Clapton "I Shot The Sherriff"
7. Warren Zevon "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
8. Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man"

This week marked National Zookeeper Week, and to shed some light on these unsung heroes of our nation's animal havens, the Kansas City Zoo invited me out to play "Zookeeper For A Day" and experience a day in the life...

JACK's Eight Tracks Wednesday July 23rd: Animals/The Zoo

1. Scorpions "The Zoo"

2. Beatles "I Am The Walrus"

3. Duran Duran "Hungry Like The Wolf"

4. Survivor "Eye Of The Tiger"

5. Janet Jackson "Black Cat"

6. Warren Zevon "Werewolves Of London"

7. Elvis Presely "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"

8. Def Leppard "Animal"

Pictures from last night's Steve Winwood/Tom Petty pre-party at Shark Bar!