Alt 949 Mornings

Knowing how to talk about the protests, and why they're happening with your kids can be challenging, so this morning Jack spoke with Dr. Jennica Paz, a nationally certified school psychologist and professor at San Diego State University about ways you can do just that. Check out the full extended conversation from this morning on Alt 949.

On what was anything but an ordinary Commercial Free Monday on Alt 949, Jack broke from the norm and business as usual to get some input, thoughts, and a few take aways from our very own Ciro Sepulveda, who was covering the local protests both on Saturday in La Mesa, and on Sunday in downtown San Diego. Check out the full coversation, and make sure you're following along on social media to see photos and videos that Ciro took all weekend long around San Diego. We are a San Diego radio stations, and these are your airwaves and social channels, so please share your feelings, thoughts, and experiences, as well as helping us to identifiy those who need help, and those who can help provide it.

On a rough morning for the Alt 949 family, and the San Diego music family, Jack took a few minutes to honor our friend Steve West, who we learned yesterday passed away at the age of 68. His enthusiasm for music was unmatched, his knowledge was unparalleled, and his lust for life was unequaled.

Anytime there is a crisis at hand, Jack knows to turn his eager eyes to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Cardi B. Okay, obviously that's not really the case, but as the entire world has gone topsy turvy with all this COVID-19 action, he at least finds it somewhat satisfying that celebrities are not immune to the problems facing regular Americans (and Austrians) everywhere. Armed with a tantalizing amount of audio, a pretty serviceable Schwarzenegger impression, and a positive outlook, this morning on Alt 949 he brought some insightful advice to the table, from some unusual sources. If all else fails, we're running for the chopper this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

Regardless of where your mind immediately went, we assure you this is a safe-for-work (or safe-for-working-from-home) segment. As part of his tazer-enforced 'Coronavirus Free Hour' on a Commercial Free Monday, Jack found a morsel of news that simply had to be shared, if only for the excuse to make a series of mildly racy, rim shot worthy jokes. A woman in Virginia is petitioning the folks at the Guinness Book of Records to recognize what she feels is a world record worthy collection. What exactly does she feel she has more of than any other human on earth? Why is Jack peeing on himself? We unfortunately found out this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

After a few days of completely avoiding the outside world, yesterday Jack had to venture out to his neighborhood grocery store for a few items. As a guy who gets made fun of by his girlfriend about all the stuff he always has stocked up at home, this wasn't a hording trip, just a quick pop in for some perishable items like milk, cereal, and a loaf of bread. While not totally surprised to find the bread aisle obliterated, he was shocked when he heard a random sweaty man being the guy NOBODY should be in the midst of a crisis. With the encounter still fresh on his mind, this morning on Alt 949 he asked YOU to help him complete this sentence: Don't be the guy who.... Some things should be a given, but Jack was taking nothing for granted this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

In this very strange time in the world, there are a lot of people who think they know the answers everyone is actively searching for. While store shelves are being picked clean, toilet paper is at a premium, and people are trying to stay safe and healthy, there are those in the world who feel they already have the answer to curing the Coronavirus, and this morning on Alt 949, Jack found one of the strangest yet. What is the latest homeopathic remedy to keep you immune from COVID-19? How far would you be willing to go to stay healthy? Why is the studio filled with farm animals? We got to the bottom of it all this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

Since you literally and figuratively can't escape it, this morning on Alt 949, Jack decided to create a Coronavirus-Free zone, at least for an hour. Knowing you're getting plenty of wall-to-wall coverage pretty much everywhere else you turn, he decided to create a sounding board and a safe space to vent about all the things bugging the people of San Diego, with the understanding that NONE of them would be COVID-19. Other than a shortage of toilet paper and a higher than normal water bill, what was grinding YOUR gears on a Commercial Free Monday? We found out this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

Try to forget that whole double murder thing for a second, and in 2020 O.J. Simpson is just an embarrassing boomer dad trying to do social media in the age of the Coronavirus. In case you missed his latest nugget of viral gold, The Juice took to his Twitter page with some help from his daughter, to take a few stabs at levity. Armed with the audio, more cringey moments than a Paul Shore movie, and a set of 3-day passes to the Ohana Festival, Jack wanted to find out who the most embarrassing member of your family is, and the latest way they proved it. Would your stories help Orenthal beat the rap as the most embarrassing dad on social media? We found out this morning on San Diego's Alternative.

We all find ourselves in a pretty unusual situation with so much Coronavirus news, information, and MISinformation swirling around, that it isn't a shock that some people are acting unusually. Generally, Jack tries to stay pretty level headed about this type of thing, and outside of a little social distancing and some frequent hand washing, his life hasn't been too impacted. Until this week. Due entirely to the COVID-19 epidemic, on Monday night at the big Alt 949 show with Tame Impala, Jack did something he has literally never done before in the hundreds of concerts and festivals he's been fortunate enough to go to, and this morning the realization hit him like a ton of bricks. What did Jack do that would have been unthinkable only days or weeks before? He came clean this morning on San Diego's Alternative.