First of all, thanks to everyone who participated! A Call FM panel of ice cream experts (which did not include me or Julio) sifted through hundreds of entries to come up with the top two ice cream flavors to match your favorite call fm DJs, and we put it to a listener vote. Thousands texted and emailed their votes, and the results are in!

CONGRATULATIONS GRACE & JACOB!!! This brother/sister duo wins a stack of CDs, a band T-shirt, an ice cream gift card, and the prestigious honor of being called Call FM CHAMPS! 

Here are the winning flavors:

Julio’s Ice cream: The Dark Bite - Mysterious dark chocolate ice cream, rich peanut butter cups, mini marshmallows, milk chocolate chips all topped with strawberry sauce and chopped peanuts.

Kelly’s Ice cream: The Uggla Ice Cream Mash up - Classic vanilla ice cream, gourmet chocolate covered coffee beans, with rich caramel swirls, and Belgian chocolate chunks, topped with a generous supply of whipped cream.

The Baskin Robbins presidential ice cream flavors we discussed on the morning show today really got me to thinking… I wonder what a “Call FM Kelly” or “Call FM Julio” ice cream would taste like??? Well, we’re about to find out!

It’s time for the Call FM Ice Cream Challenge, folks. To participate, simply send an email to kelly@callfm.com, giving me your names for both Julio and Kelly ice cream flavors, along with a description of what each ice cream flavor contains. You can be as creative as you want, and use our catch phrases and things you’ve heard us talk about on our shows as your inspiration (this should tell you right away that a coffee-flavored ice cream loaded with chunks of coconut, papaya, buckeye nuts and onion will get you zero votes from your afternoon guy).

As an example, if I were to make a Skeedo (host of Pit Noise) ice cream, here’s what my email would look like:

ICE CREAM NAME: Skeedo’s Bone-Crushing MOSHmallow Peanut
DESCRIPTION: Death by Chocolate ice cream with a jawbreaker swirl, chocolate-covered peanuts and marshmallow ear plugs.  

Next week Julio and I will pick our favorite Julio & Kelly flavors, and put them to a national vote to determine the winning ice cream! The grand prize winner(s) will receive a prize pack that includes CDs, an ice cream gift card, and other cool prizes!

If you tuned in to the afternoon show this week, you probably heard Julio mention the website faceyourmanga.com, where you can create your own avatar that looks exactly like YOU! You should try it. Um, right after you finish reading and commenting on this post.

Faceyourmanga is a fun site, however I do have to provide a bit of constructive criticism to its creators for the following reasons:

a) There are many facial features missing that could easily be added to the choices, including (but not limited to) double chins, triple chins, acne scars, sun spots, black eyes, and face-lift stitches.

b) There is only one type of jacket available for your avatar. It appears to be a blazer. And everyone knows that the only people nerdy enough to wear blazers in an avatar are people who don’t even know what an avatar is. (Plus, it was pretty difficult to make a mini Call FM Julio without a red zip-up jacket. I did what I could, people.)

c) There’s a sad lack of body type here, folks. I mean, we ladies do appreciate the fact that we all look like bikini models in our avatars, but what happened to variety (or better yet, reality)?

Aside from these few tiny issues, I have to say it’s a fun activity if you’ve got a lot of free time (which, if you’re into stuff like fiddling around online making mini cartoon versions of yourself, I’d say you do). 

I took a stab at Julio and I. Let us know what you think!

Why does it feel like we spent a good portion of our shows this week talking about food???

Um… probably because we did spend a good portion of our shows this week talking about food. If you missed anything, here’s a quick recap: On Wednesday, Julio introduced us to the World’s Unhealthiest Drink: the Baskin Robbins Heath Bar milkshake, which packs a whopping (not to mention belt-popping) 2,300 calories. (Share it with 25 people, and you’ll still get diabetes and heart disease.)

I decided to get in on the fun this morning, when I talked about the nutritionist who has kept a McDonalds hamburger for 12 years. Thanks to the chemical-packed meat, the burger looks exactly the same now as it did in 1996. Mmmmmm, yummy. Even worse, over at bionicburger.com they’ve got fast food burgers that have been on display in their old, crusty fast food burger museum for up to 19 years. They also provide a lovely tutorial on how to preserve your very own greasy drive-thru burgers for all eternity! Tasty.

This afternoon, I reported on Julio’s show that PETA has asked the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company to start using human breast milk in their ice cream instead of cows milk. (Question: would they have to start calling Chubby Hubby Chubby Mommy instead?) Crazy idea? Absolutely! But not as crazy as this Swiss chef who is actually paying women for their breast milk, which he will be using in place of cows milk in 75% of his restaurant’s menu items. Yeah. Feel free to throw up now.

So now you’re aware of a few food items you should probably be avoiding. But don’t go too far, and be like the folks Julio discussed this week who are so picky they have to have their own web community for support of their food phobias. Yikes.

To end on a happy note, check out this futuristic German restaurant that serves it’s customers Jetsons-style.

I read an article this morning about a man who is sewing the largest pair of pants in the world, and it has inspired me! I have decided that Call FM needs to get into the Guiness Book of World Records somehow. The question is, HOW? I mean, not to say that we at The Call are without talent, but seriously. How can we translate the talents we do have into a world record? World’s most obsessed Marlins fan? Worlds creepiest facial hair?

We clearly need some help with this. A few of our listeners called in this morning with suggestions:

Josh - Stay awake the longest

Todd - World’s longest belch

Leave a comment to let us know your personal suggestions, and help The Call set a Guinness World Record!!!