2 days until Halloween!

Our 12 listeners called in today and shared stories of the haunted houses they live in and just plain scary things that have happened to them! Here are a few.....

Two days after my mother-in-law passed away in 2005. To set the scene for you, my father-in-law was asleep in his bedroom, my spouse and I were occupying the hide-a-bed and my brother and sister-in-law were on an airbed on the floor nearby. At around 1:15 in the morning, I awakened, and when I opened my eyes was facing the television (which was turned off). In the reflection of the TV, I could see the small hallway leading to the bedroom my in-laws had shared - which was lit by a dimmable overhead light (this was normal) and my late mother-in-law standing there with her hand against the wall. Startled, I sat up and looked into the hallway where I had just seen her, but there was no one there. About ten minutes later, as I lay attempting to go back to sleep, I heard footsteps and the creak then of an area of the floor that indicated weight had been put on it. Again, I sat up and peered towards the area of the creak and found that my sister-in-law was doing the same. She had awakened earlier to the feeling of someone brushing the hair out of her face only to discover that her husband was still asleep and was (obviously) awake to hear the footfalls and the creak of the floor. The two of us spent the remainder of the evening drinking coffee and talking in the garage.

After my father died in my house in 1996, every night at approximately 11 pm, the wind chimes in my living room would ring, and there was no open window, fan or furnace vent near them. Then in 2000, my 24 year old nephew died in an auto accident and my lamp in the living room started turning on and off at random times. It still does this nearly every day and sometimes in the middle of the night, I'll wake up and see the light on. He has also turned the stereo and TV on at his parents house many times. This never happened before he passed away.
I went to see a psychic after they died and he said I have a lot of dead people around me......

One evening after work (around 6:00ish), I was lying on my bed reading the paper, the lights and the t.v. were on. All of a sudden the room got a little chilly and I with my sober eyes, saw the end of the bed sink in as if someone sat on it?? My ego took over as opposed to fear and I simply said "get the f%^ out of here" out of amazement more than anything. The end of the bed rose (as if whatever it was got up and left) and the room returned to its normal temperature?????

I had a boyfriend commit suicide on April 10 and there for a while every time I started my car the clock would say 4:10. I would also wake up every morning at 4:10 for a year after he died. Also, there was one time I came into work (our clinic was closed so I was the only one there) to do some work and it happened to be my dead boyfriend's birthday. I heard the door that I had propped open close and then the alarm started going off. There are only certain doors that trigger the alarm and the one I had open isn't one of them. The only way the alarm is tripped is if a door leading to the outside is actually all the way opened....and of course they were all locked! I grabbed my pepperspray and went to investigate and found I was still the only one in the building! Have fun at the haunted house on Friday....happy Halloween!!!!

So I had just moved into this rental with my boyfriend who was working out of town. It was a large 2 story home, very nice. There was nobody in the house, just me and my cat. I was almost asleep when I heard the sound of someone running up the stairs and then my cat sunk her claws in to me, hair up, eyes dilated staring at the bedroom door (which was at the top of the stairs). I got up thinking maybe my boyfriend was there. NOPE! The house was empty. So I tried going back to sleep when my shower turned on and off 2 times. It was an awesome night.Over the next few months living there my radio downstairs would come on blasting at 2 or 3 in the morning. Our fire alarms ALWAYS went off and I don't know how many times I replaced the batteries in those things just to make sure that wasn't why. That house was horrid!

Happy Halloween

I ran the Prison Break 10k race on Saturday! And I set a new Kate McGwire world record of 6.2 miles in 56 minutes!! I was so excited! I have run in quite a few races and this was by the far the neatest start to a race. Obviously the race was at the Idaho State Penitentiary. As we were all lined up at the start line, the prison riot squad came marching through the crowd in full gear. It was kind of scary. Then there was a patriotic fly over. The riot squad lit off flares and off we go as the prison escape siren sounded. The first part of the race was through the prison grounds. We ran by a bunch of prisoners out in the yard. That was kind of creepy especially since one of them yelled my name! I was all decked out in Mix 106 gear so I wasn't hard to miss. Then out in the Kunaridean desert we go and 56 minutes later I crossed the finish line!


My day was anything but over after the race. After a quick stop at Zoo Boise for Boo at the Zoo, I was off to one of my favorite events of the year....my Dive Bar Tour! Me and 29 of my closest friends rent a Boise Shuttle Bus and we pick a street and hit all the dive bars on it. This time we picked the dive bars of Nampa/Caldwell. We hit the Airport Lounge, Barbs(loved it), Rockin Rooster(they have karaoke and great jell-O shots), The Monkey Bar (no live monkeys anymore), and Victors Hogs and Horns in Caldwell. We had so much fun! We made some new friends along the way, as you can tell from the pictures and caused as much trouble as we could in one night. Check out the pictures on our myspace page

Faith Hill gave herself a 41st birthday present by posing for Shape Magazine! You go girl! She looks amazing! It was tough keeping Mike and Tommy focused today. Kate may need to put a picture of Faith on the wall behind her. That is the only way she can get Mike's attention. Already on the wall....Jessica Simpson and Pam Anderson.

Congratulations to Sandi Stevenson of Meridian!
She guessed 5:02AM Wednesday morning for the time Mickey Mouse would be completely melted. She won a VIP Party for 10 to see Disney on Ice at Taco Bell Arena!! Check out the melt HERE

1 day to go!! Friday here we come!

Mike and Kate could not believe the story they found this morning on KTVB.com We want to know what you think.
FROM KTVB.COM
BOISE - Congressman Bill Sali and his campaign staff disrupted a NewsChannel 7 reporter and a representative for his opponent during an interview Tuesday in Downtown Boise. KTVB reporter Ysabel Bilbao was interviewing Walt Minnick's campaign director John Foster Wednesday afternoon. During the interview, someone loudly yelled and was laughing during the interview at the Grove plaza. Bilbao and Foster initially ignored the intrusion, but quickly noticed the source of the heckling -- Sali and members of his staff. Foster stopped the interview and noted the commotion. “I am sorry I was a little bit distracted,” Foster said. “I think at some point you even have to question his maturity.” Foster said he saw Sali making faces at him and holding up “bunny ears.” Later, Bilbao interviewed Sali about his actions. “Look, I think that the Minnick campaign needs to take an approach like we have,” he said. “I wish they would be a little more light hearted instead of so mean spirited.” Foster said his candidate thinks the race should be about serious issues in serious times. After this story first appeared, a representative for Sali's campaign challenged the characterization of the incident as heckling. “I sincerely apologize if you took it as heckling. That’s absurd," spokesperson Wayne Hoffman said via e-mail. “If we can’t laugh at ourselves, then what have we become?”

What do you think?? Is this no big deal? Should the Minnick camp be more light hearted? Or should Sali be more professional at these events?

Debate Day

Tonight is the final Presidential Debate before the big election. This morning Mike and Kate shared 26 things you might not know about Barack Obama and John McCain....

Barack Obama
1. His high school basketball team nicknamed him "O'Bomber" and he was favored a left-hand, double pump shot.
2. While living in Indonesia, his mother would wake him up at 4Am for three hours of English lessons before he went to school
3. While as a student at Harvard Law, he applied to be in the black pride pinup calendar. He was rejected by an all female committe .
4. On his first date with his wife, they had ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago.
5. His favorite movies: Casablanca, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
6.He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Havard Law, but got a D in eighth grade French.
7. He is a good but cautious poker player who played with a group called The Committee.
8. His favorite music: Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Bringsteen, Jay-Z, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.
9. His good luck charms: gamblers lucky chit, a tiny Madonna and child and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq.
10. He has a framed original program from 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I have a Dream Speach.
11. He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.
12. He has promised his daughters a dog win or lose the White House.
13. He was born in Hawaii.
John McCain
1. He has a stuffed hamster on display in his Senate Office.
2. His favorite book is For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Earnest Hemingway
3. He was addicted to the TV Show "24"
4. He carries a lucky penny in his pocket
5. Favorite Movies: Casablanca, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and Mamma Mia.
6. His parents eloped to Tijuana, Mexico
7. At Christmas Time he supervises the lighting of 1000 luminaria candles on his property in Sedona, AZ.
8. His kids call a vacation with him, Camp McCain.
9. He is an early bird.
10. He is into fruit trees and bird watching. He keeps binoculars and bird books at the ready at his home.
11. His pet collection: two dogs, two turtles, a cat, a ferret, three parakeets and 13 saltwater fish.
12. His wife is super rich. They have a prenuptial agreement.
13. He was born in Panama.

See you tonight at Working Women's Wednesday at the Bulls Head Pub in Meridian on Eagle Road. Party starts at 6PM.

Columbus Day!

Happy Columbus Day! The Post Office and the banks are closed today. Lucky you if you get the day off! We are jealous :)

Kate had a weekend full of baby showers. She survived though. One was a the Cheesecake Factory and the other was at a bar! Food and beer, of course Kate survived. She learned a lot this weekend. The hot item for new moms is a hooter hider! It hides the hooters while mom is breast feeding, yet it wont fall off like a normal blanket and it allows mom to see the baby. Someone is making millions of an item called the Hotter Hider! You have to love that!


Looking for a new club to join? Mike and Kate found one, but this club sounds like it might suck the life out of you!
http://www.fangclub.com/


EARLY VOTING STARTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 14!!
You can vote early in Ada County at the Public Safety Building on Barrister.
In Canyon County you can vote at the Elections Office on Chicago Street
If you still need to register to vote you can do so by bringing a photo ID and a utlity bill.

Don't forget to stop by the Mix 106 booth at Taco Bell Arena tonight at the Reba/Kelly show! Sign up to get upgraded to the front row!

What is the average woman spending on her big day? Are you average? Above Average or below average? We found out this morning that Kate's sister who is getting married next March is below average.....so far.



According to Women's Health Magazine this is the average wedding:
27 is the average age the average bride says "I Do."
29 is the average age for the average groom
250 hours spent organizing the wedding
15 percent of weddings get called off.
The average woman's top 3 wedding day worries are zits, rain and embarrassing relatives.
10-20 pounds is the amount of weight the average bride wants to lose.
The average wedding dress costs $1505
The average cost to be a bridesmaid $1400
The average cost to attend to a wedding is $500
The average bill for the big day is $27, 852
30% of the weddings are paid for by the bride's parents
32% of the weddings paid for by the couple
The top gift on the average bride's wish list is money
The average value of all the gifts received by the couple is $14,000

Hump Day!

Welcome to the middle of the week!

How bad is your job?
You have to watch this video to believe what this man has been hired to do! He was hired by a train station in India to scare away the monkeys. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adb_1222802681

See you tonight at Working Women's Wednesdays at the Bulls Head Pub! We have tickets to Reba and Kelly for you to win!

3 days to Go!

Gas Prices are dropping and AAA expects them to continue to drop! Here is what our 12 listeners found around the valley:

$3.46 @ Flying J in Caldwell
$3.51 @ Albertsons on Federal Way. Also the Maverick on Federal Way
$3.46 @ Costco in Nampa
$3.47 @ Sams Club in Nampa
$3.51@ Maverick on Victory and Cole
The lowest we heard this morning......$3.04 in Lewiston!


Our own little Kate McGwire is extremely passionate about getting people to vote. She doesn't care who you vote for, put she believes that ever person 18 and older in this country should be a registered voter and exercise that right. In case you are curious about how to get registered to vote here are the details:

• Last Day to register to vote is Friday October 10th. Get a voter registration form at IDVoters.com
• You can register to vote on Election Day (Tuesday Nov. 4th) but they are expecting very long lines so why wait.
• You can request an absentee ballott at idahovotes.gov The last day to request an absentee ballot is October 29th.
• You can vote early in Idaho. Find out where to vote in your county at IDVoters.com

Forget something??
According to Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory Book, here is how you remember something:

• Lie Down on a Flat Surface
• Close your eyes
• With eyes closed look straight up, moving your eyes as far back as they can go toward your forehead
• Picture yourself going down an escalator
• Count out loud backward 50-1
• Picture Yourself stepping off the escalator into the most beautiful perfect place you can.
• By speaking out loud, command your mind to remember whatever info you are trying to recall.

Seriously, who can remember all those steps??

TOMORROW: The Countdown to Reba and Kelly continues!

Smells Like.....PIG

Kate broke the Mix 106 World record today in the annual Maize Pig Chase! She caught David Letterham in 1 minute 21 seconds!

Keep checking our photopage for this morning pictures of Kate's Greased Pig Chase at the Maze

Really? You get arrested for chasing kids around in a cow costume and for urinating on your neighbor's porch! Your crime is bad enough, but the mug shot is the icing on the cake!


Tomorrow: We have LOTS of Gavin DeGraw concert tickets to giveaway!
Listen in for your chance to win!