Welcome to the Sound of Young America. I'm your host, Jesse Thorn. You know, I have been friends with the sketch comedy group Casper Houser.

For many years now, they've contributed podcasts to our website, MaximumFund.org. I've loved all three of their books.

I've seen their live shows many times. I think they're some of the funniest people in America. I'm very proud to know them.

It occurred to me recently, after they put out the most recent two of their books, that they hadn't been on the Sound of Young America except as sketch comedy performers in many years, like six or seven years, since the very early days of the Sound of Young America back when I was in college in Santa Cruz.

I invited them to come do a special episode of the Sound of Young America with some of the comedy that they produced for the show and for the Casper Houser comedy podcast and some discussion about their long career.

So we all headed into the studios of KLW in San Francisco right there at Philip Burton High School. It's literally in the high school.

It isn't even like a building on the campus of the high school. We recorded this in a sort of portable shack recording studio inside what appeared to be a French classroom.

Anyway, my conversation and a special program with Casper Houser, but before we get to my conversation with them, let's go to the news.

With your new six update, I'm Tom Donkley, our top story tonight. The future has come early for one San Francisco man. He's got a computer chip in his brain.

Last Saturday, Mark Manfield crashed his Honda Civic into the display window of the Apple store downtown. Authorities say alcohol was involved.

And dentists are reeling at the revelation today that the standard tooth names used throughout their industry are wrong.

That's right, molars should be called gatekeeper teeth. And the teeth known up until now as bicuspids actually should be called mouthhole fences.

And can a children's party drug actually help truck drivers? Probably say UCSF researchers building on previous studies that show children with bad diets and bad parenting get better grades while taking speed.

In this study, monkey drivers on riddle and actually drove trucks until they died. And Freemont's Darren and Danielle Robertson will attempt to be the first Siamese twins to climb Yosemites half-dome.

Funeral services are scheduled for next Friday. And can cancer have feet? Hope not. Hope so, says Dr. Irwin Chan. If cancer had feet, we could cut them off and study them, says the area oncologist.

Better to study the cancer's feet, says Chan, then get the body of the cancer mad.

And a blind Richmond man is suing Alameda County for denial of access to public facilities. After the man was prevented from entering a public library with his guide dog, Adolf Hitler the King.

Officials said that that dog's name was inflammatory and that the dog could be called something peaceful, like Gandhi or the Gandhi dog.

But this caused an uproar and the library was burned. And it may not be curtains yet for a litter of kittens and penal, if a Bay Area non-Hasser way, she would have the furry little demons baptized and used as rosary rats.

Sister Franchetta Des Moines believes that the six kittens can lead a productive existence, taped to a Nativity Jesus.

And finally the term wolf has been stricken from the phrase Peter and the Wolf by the California Supreme Court in a five-four decision the court found the phrase unconstitutional.

Since the wolf could be a man and if Peter were only separated from him by one word, the two could fall in love and try to have a gay marriage.

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