Ron & Jen’s Great Escape, March 6, 2024 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien

by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, contributing writers, commentary

TOE CLEAVAGE

Recently… I was watching QVC (my mom got me into this after football season) and some lady was pimping her foot wear and saying, “don’t worry ladies! There’s no TOE CLEAVAGE in this shoe”. 

I said, “wait, WHAT? WHAT IN THE HELL IS TOE CLEAVAGE?!!!”  IT just sounds AWFUL! ALL WRONG! ALMOST like the name of a porno! TOE CLEAVAGE ! EWWW… gross, right? I literally had to look that up. I’m 55 years old and had no bleeping clue those 2 words were ever put together to make A NEW WORD. I saw a picture someone on Facebook posted after my OUT LOUD INQUIRY. Bunny, thanks for the visual aid. Much appreciated. I gotta say if you’ve never watched QVC, give it a whirl! What fascinates me about each host is their ability to take a regular ol’ green garden hose and talk it up for 2 hours with crazy word combinations that literally make you feel as though your life will be elevated with the purchase of it. Kim Gravel is one of my favorite designers on the show as she regularly goes on and pimps her “Belle” collection. She’s funny and real and entertaining. I wanna buy her stuff because she’s got such a great sales pitch! In summary… I suppose the moral of this column is:

And…

3.) An ESKIMO on QVC could SELL you FREE ice with the right word combinations.

Till next week where we tackle “Rectal Perspiration”…yup. That’s a real thing too.

Who knew?

Jen

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SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES?

A couple of weeks ago it was AT&T customers who experienced a cell outage across the United States. Tuesday, half a million Facebook, Messenger and Instagram users found themselves out in the cold for 3 hours. “Cyber attack?” was the question being asked when FACEBOOK returned. This presidential election could be a crap show.

SPRING FORWARD

It’s Daylight Savings Time this Sunday as we move the clocks forward an hour and lose an hour of sleep, but gain an hour of daylight, nine days before the arrival of Spring. Do you know anyone who actually stays up until 2am Sunday to reset their clocks?

LIFE’S SIMPLE PLEASURES

I still get a tiny buzz of joy at the Stop & Shop self-checkout when the voice asks – “how many paper bags did you use?” – and I enter ZERO again. I still can’t believe they’re charging 10 cents for a paper bag. Just to piss them off, I bring a DAVE’S reusable bag when I shop.

• Ron

SNAKE BITTEN SOX

Boston’s “biggest” off-season pick up, FA starting pitcher reclamation project Lucas Giolito appears to be headed for the knife for Tommy John surgery. Boston sent pitcher Chris Sale to the Atlanta Braves for promising infielder Vaughn Grissom and Sale has looked like the Sale in his heyday in Spring Training while Grissom has been on the shelf with a sore hammy and now a groin sprain. The projected second base starter hasn’t logged an inning this Spring and isn’t expected to be ready for opening day. Strap in for a LONG season.

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Ron St. Pierre is a veteran broadcaster whose career has spanned over four decades. Ron has programmed, performed on and managed WHJJ, WPRO, WWRX, 790 The Score in Providence, as well as WBZT and WKGR in West Palm Beach and WABC in New York City. Ron also anchored sports on WPRI Ch 12 in Providence. He is a member of both the Rhode Island Radio and Television and the City of Pawtucket Halls of Fame. He was born and raised in Pawtucket.

Jen Brien has over 20 years of radio broadcast experience having hosted shows on WPRO and WHJJ with Ron as well as her own shows on WRKO and WBZ in Boston, WXTK on Cape Cod and WHAM in Rochester, New York. Jen was born and raised in Woonsocket and served six years in the Army MP Canine Unit.

Hazel, Ron’s dog, makes regular appearances.

“Ron and Jen’s Great Escape” podcast, a more lighthearted look at the events happening around us, can be found on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts, with new episodes premiering each Wednesday!