Dan Laxer
About the show
You program the show. Anything you'd like to hear talked about on Laxer Live? Email me at: dan.laxer@cjad.com
Friday, May 16, 2008:
- Is Monday Victoria Day?... or is it Journee Nationale des Patriotes?
- Will you stop dining out because of the rising food costs and gas prices?
- Annika Sorrenstam is throwing it all away to be a mommy.
- Shania Twain is out there. Would you like to date her? If not her, than who?
- Do you need to join a gym or buy some expensive equipment? Or can you get yourself up off the couch?
- Keeping tabs on your driving teens.
Listen to Laxer Live with Dan Laxer weeknights after the 7:00 news on CJAD.
Here's what we talked about on previous shows:
Thursday, May 16:
The Cranbrooke, BC helicopter crash: were ear-buds to blame?
Ever ask a woman if she's preganant when she's not? Well, if she was wearing an Empire Line it was own fault.
Port Perry's own Jayde Nicole is the Playboy Playmate of the Year. Is that something to be proud of?
A man put his wife up for sale in eBay. Well? He thought she was cheating. Was that so wrong?
Wednesday, May 14:
Convicted serial killer Clifford Olson's alleged myspace page.
The Vatican says it's okay to believe in aliens.
American beer is now the best in the world. I'm sure that's got to be a mistake.
Tuesday, May 13:
It may be time to re-open Mirabel Airport.
Do you care how the animals are treated before they're slaughtered and brought to your dinner plate?
My 6-year old son runs afoul of the law... when he pees on a bush.
Designer babies.
Sex and the City.
Monday, May 12:
What's with all the perverts in churches, daycares, and schools? Maybe we should stop hiring heterosexual males as teachers.
A boy suffering from leukemia is taken away from his parents.
Will you vacation at home this summer... because of the gas prices and fuel surcharges?Is it time to leave the smokers alone? Have they had about as much as they can take?
Friday, May 9:
Would you share your parking metre with another driver?
Has Seinfeld stood the test of time? What is the best sit com ever?
Canadian young people are uncomfortable around old people. Are you?
Thursday, May 8:
Maxime Bernier's ex-girlfriend: if the nation has no business in the bedrooms of the nation, then we have no business in the bedrooms of the state.
Pictou, Nova Scotia says no to strip clubs... bunch o' prudes.
Quebec's 400th anniversary is a Canadian, not just a Quebecois, celebration.
Monday, May 5:
A Dairy Queen commercial that makes a little girl look like a slut.
Is it better to marry than to live in sin?
People who honk and swear at school crossing guards.
About Laxer Live:
The Ipsos-Reid polling firm recently found that Canadian dads identify more with Homer Simpson than they do with Dr. Phil. Dan's take on the issue? Here's a Canadian polling firm, trying to gauge the Canadian sense of humour, asking Canadian dads... which Americancultural icon they most resemble. Are there no Canadian cultural icons worth emulating? Mr. Dressup? The Friendly Giant? Red Green?...
This is the type of thing that crosses Dan's mind, the kind of topic you're most likely to hear on Laxer Live. The show is like a column that you contribute to. Not like writing a letter to the editor, mind you. More like you have a hand in the finished product, a culmination of our collective points of view. Your call to Laxer Live, your insight, is the thousandth word that completes the picture.
Dan Laxer was born and raised in Montreal, and has been a part of Montreal radio for just over a decade, getting his foot caught in the door of CJAD's sister station Mix 96. Since then he's limped around the building as a producer for almost every segment of the CJAD broadcast day, working with several announcers from the late Mark Rennie in the wee hours right on up to Andrew Carter in the morning. Along the way he's pocketed a master's degree in English (not like shoplifting or anything, he earned it.), published poetry, played music in bars, acted on stage, gotten married and fathered the two most beautiful and brilliant children on the face of the Earth.
Dan still hasn't figured out why these bios are always written in the 3rd person.
Laxer Live, with Dan Laxer, weeknights 7:00-10:00 on CJAD.
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