Ron & Jen’s Great Escape, October 11, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien

by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary

I’LL TAKE ALIENS FOR ONE MILLION

Ring – you know, the camera thing a ma-jiggy, is offering 1 million dollars to anyone who can come up with EVIDENCE of aliens here on earth (some say giant ANT PEOPLE LIVE UNDER GROUND! WITH THE REPTILEANS… GOOGLE THAT MADNESS!) or OUT THERE by Nov. 3rd that has been caught directly on one of their devices… meaning… they want you to catch it on THEIR camera. IDK… it’s not that far-fetched to believe there are aliens out there. Ask Travis Walton, Betty, and Barney Hill, 3/4 of the guests on “COAST TO COAST” at night who say they have been abducted and “anally probed”… and why not? THE GALAXY is vast, and the idea that we are the only living creatures inhabiting this planet is kinda prideful.

Frankly, if I were an alien whizzing by Earth I def wouldn’t make a pit stop… I’d keep on whizzing by. But hey… maybe they are as intrigued with US as we seem to be with them. So, go ahead gang… get you alien hunting on. Oh, and by the way, if you don’t win the top prize of 1 MILLION DOLLARS… the folks at “Ring” say there’s plenty of  “out of this world” runner up prizes that might interest you. Get it… “OUT OF THIS WORLD”.

HA.HA.HA. I’m lame. What can I say? Happy alien hunting (PS… look out for those anal probes. I heard they are unpleasant)

Till next week my friends, 

Jen

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GET OFF MY LAWN

There seems to be an all out “can you top this” competition for Halloween displays around Chez St. Pierre in East Greenwich. One house looks like “Halloween” LaSalette with giant blow ups, animated figures, and lights on seemingly every square inch of their lawn. And this stuff isn’t cheap. There’s one catalogue called GRANDIN ROAD that specializes in outdoor Halloween decorations. I checked some of the prices… hoochie mama! A life size female vampire from something called “Katherine’s Collection” sells for $1,500. An animated Haunted Librarian lists for $250…the Two Headed Skeleton Dog is priced at $980 bucks (obviously, two heads are better than one, even in the canine world), and a Deluxe Headless Couple is $560. Even Home Depot has an 8 foot animated skeleton for $500. What happened to the simply carving of a pumpkin into a Jack O Lantern? There are even special designer kits for that. You need a kit to carve a pumpkin? I hope these “can you top this?” houses are at least giving out the full candy bars. That leads me to this question… why are the smaller bars called FUN SIZE?  Aren’t the bigger candy bars a lot more fun? Just asking.

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FAVE CANDY

A recent survey lists Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups as the top Halloween candy but not here in Little Rhody. That honor goes to M&M’s. We favor the plain M&M’s at Ron & Jen’s Great Escape. It’s not that we don’t like peanuts… it’s just that THOSE peanuts can take a tad funky as though they’ve been around way too long, encased in chocolate or not. In The Bay State the favorite candy is the Butterfinger.

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THE HEAT IS ON

We finally gave in at Chez St. Pierre this morning. Let it be known we turned the heat on on the morning of 10/10/23.

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THE VIEW FROM MY SNOUT

Hazel the dog here… Ron’s best pal. I see him toiling away each week to write pithy articles for you all, so I figured I’d add my 2 cents… and why not! At doggie day care I often hear people saying, “oh how I wish Fifi the Poodle, or Roscoe the Golden could talk”… well, here I am! Hazel the Yellow Lab reporting from this side of life!

Let me just say, I am fat. I KNOW I’m fat. There’s no shame in my game. Let me also say though I understand you find it appalling that we K9’s greet each other with a little “backside sniff”… to quote your failing Patriots Head Coach at 1 and 4 “it is what it is”. It’s what we do! So, let’s get straight to the meat and potatoes this week (which I WOULD REALLY LOVE SOME OF, RIGHT THIS SECOND!) which has to do with poop patrol. You know, it’s not my fault, I can’t use the commode… I’d much rather sit and do things THAT WAY, but that’s not how it works.

We have to go out there and do what we do, so why don’t you be good to others and pick up my number 2! Hey! A rhyme! I am a self-proclaimed genius and why wouldn’t I be? My last name is St. PIERRE!

My dad picks up all my poop. He’s a good dad. Be a good dad too. Pick up your poop. 

Woof! 

Hazel the Dog

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Read all of Ron & Jen’s columns, here: https://rinewstoday.com/ron-st-pierre-jen-brien/

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 and listen to Ron and Jen’s Great Escape on NewsRadio 920 and 104-7 FM, Saturday morning, 7am!