2005
JANUARY
1/1/05
Ring
in the New Year Dave and Dave style and see what happens when everyday
hobbies are taken to the extreme. Dave & Dave add a little rock & roll
to their bowling, crash a backgammon tournament, join Pittsburgh's
only traveling steel-tip dart league, and just when you though you
saw it all, they go lawn mower racing.
1/8/05
The boys take to the streets to see what
people think of our state slogan and the real meaning of St.
Patrick's Day. Also Dave & Dave cross
over into the psychic realm and try their hand at the Post-Gazette Spelling
Bee. And for the record, it's spelled D-A-V-E.
1/15/05
So you've got a few hours on your hands
and need something to do. Dave & Dave
visit not one, but two unique movie theaters totally unlike your area cineplex.
They also board a boat, or is it a bus, or is it a duck? Whatever it is,
it is a cool way to see Pittsburgh. Then they wrap things up with a tennis
challenge. Men vs. women... or should we say Daves vs. two women pros? Yikes!
1/19/05
So you think you know a lot about the Steelers? Do you know the original
name of the team? How about who caught Terry Bradshaw's longest TD pass?
The Daves quiz the Steelers nation to find out how much they know about
our favorite team.
1/22/05
Dave and Dave find out if they have the right stuff to become FBI agents.
Then they assume the positions of Private Investigators in order to spy
on each other. After that, the Daves get snippy as high maintenance hairdressers,
and finally earn their wings at 10,000 feet thanks to the Pittsburgh
Flight Training Center.
1/25/05
You may be familiar with the Cabela's catalog - the massive hunting/fishing/outdoor
company. Well, they're now opening up huge retail destinations around
the country and there's one in our area. The Daves take you on a tour
of Cabela's brand new 175,000 square foot retail center near Wheeling.
1/29/05
Dave and Dave join the largest bingo game
in Allegheny County, match wits in their own version of TV's "Survivor,"see what
it's like to be pampered at a day spa, and take the inaugural
ride on Kennywood Park's newest roller coaster, the Phantom's
Revenge.
FEBRUARY
2/5/05
Dave and Dave discover a little slice of Pittsburgh
in a Washington D.C. tiki bar, visit the Meadows racetrack to play the ponies,
tour the fresh
and tasty home of Iron City Beer and learn the finer points of cigar etiquette
with "WDVE Morning Show" host Jimmy Krenn.
2/12/05
Dave and Dave become Samurai Chefs at a Benihana Restaurant, learn old-school
pizza making, from an Italian master, invent, then taste-test their own
Bar-B-Q sauce, and take you to their favorite place to dine, famous for
Chicago-style hot dogs and a beer selection that numbers in the thousands.
2/19/05
Dave and Dave travel to Quantico, Virginia - home to the FBI's training academy.
Once outfitted in official FBI gear, the Daves experience crime scene investigations,
special driving maneuvers and hand-to-hand combat instruction. They also
get down and dirty at the shooting range, the famed, 3-mile obstacle course
called "Yellow Brick Road," and Hogan's Alley - a small town constructed
for training simulations.
2/26/05
Dave and Dave go totally ESPN-crazy with:
the Washington Wild Things minor-league baseball team, the pro
soccer-playing Pittsburgh Riverhounds, and some
of the craziest players from the world of professional indoor lacrosse.
And for good measure the Daves also invent their own sport. extreme
fencing!
MARCH
3/8/05
Did
you know that the state of Pennsylvania has only two NCAA division
1 Hockey programs? Well it does, and one of them is right here
in Pittsburgh and it's not Pitt or Duquesne. Dave & Dave
check out a hockey night at Robert
Morris!
3/13/05
Dave & Dave will be appearing LIVE and in person at the Pittsburgh Home & Garden
Show at the Convention Center, downtown. Please stop by the WQED booth and
say hi, and who knows…we may even fix your screen door.
3/23/05
Dave & Dave travel to the dark side of the moon and witness firsthand
the phenomenon known as "Laser Floyd."And if that wasn't
enough we hang around for "Laser Rush"and "Laser Creed."It
all happens at the Buhl
Planetarium inside the Carnegie Science Center. It's science, so
it must be good!
APRIL
4/2/05
Dave and Dave test the job market and try their hand, or hands, at some fresh
career choices. The new occupations run the gamut from male models and golf
pros to veterinarians and riverboat captains.
4/9/05
Dave and Dave show you 4 things you can do on a Friday Night Like the Western-PA
tradition that is high school football, a scary voyage aboard a haunted
ship, plenty of yuks for your buck at the Improv comedy club, and a whirlwind
taste-tour of area microbreweries! Sure that's a lot for one Friday night,
but there are two Daves!
4/11/05
Dave and Dave visit a local beer emporium like no other - the foamy and full-bodied Sharp
Edge.
4/12/05
The World-renowned Cirque du Soleil is
coming to Pittsburgh and is setting up camp on Pittsburgh's North Side from
April 9 to May 8. Dave and Dave take you behind the scenes to find out how
they pull off these amazing shows.
4/16/05
Dave and Dave offer up a few ideas of what to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
First up, fried-Oreo-eating at the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Then a
horseback ride, a trip to Carnegie Science Center's Sportsworks complex,
and finally, an educational and tasty tour of a family-owned winery in
West Deer Township called La Casa Narcisi.
4/23/05
Dave and Dave show you what to do on a Sunday afternoon...when the Steelers
aren't playing. First, the boys go off-road at the country's only Hummer
Club at swanky Nemacolin Woodlands. Next, it's a walking tour, highlighting
some of Washington D.C.'s lesser-known monuments. Then, two wheels take
over along Pittsburgh's downtown bike trails, and finally, it's up, up
and away as the Daves sail off in hot air balloons.
4/30/05
It's road trip time and someone lends Dave
and Dave a 35-foot Winnebago in hopes of finding Pennsylvania's "Little Grand Canyon." Stops
include a lumber museum, the Jersey Shore, an actual town called
Davidsville,
and oh yeah... the Grand Canyon!
MAY
5/7/05
Like the MTV show, Dave and Dave explore the digs of a few Pittsburgh
celebrities. Included are former WPXI meteorologist, Julie Bologna,
Pittsburgh "Tribune-Review" columnist,
Mike Seate, and WDVE afternoon DJ, Michele Michaels. Also included, a different
kind of house tour - a look inside Fitzgerald Field House - former home of
the basketball-playing Pittsburgh Panthers.
5/10/05
The boys invade a real, live card club. So what really goes on behind the
veil of secrecy? Dave and Dave expose their mothers'card clubs
in this hard-hitting expose.
5/14/05
Dave and Dave have their game faces on for a safari into the Oakland Zoo
- Pitt's wild student section who raise the roof at the state-of-the-art,
Petersen Events Center during hoops season. Then the Daves take the gloves
off for some head to head lawn bowling and curling action. And for a
finale, a peek behind the curtain at a live, FMX free-style motocross
event.
5/28/05
Dave and Dave find out if they have the right stuff to become FBI agents.
Then they assume the positions of Private Investigators in order to spy
on each other. After that, the Daves get snippy as high maintenance hairdressers,
and finally, Dave & Dave earn their wings at 10,000 feet thanks to
the Pittsburgh Flight Training Center.
JUNE
6/10/05
Join your two favorite Daves for a beer at Bark-n-Brew –a benefit that
helps out the cute little critters at Animal Friends. The boys will be "celebrity"bartenders
so you can expect the fur to start flying around 6:30pm.
6/13/05
The Daves travel to the last Drive-in Theatre left in Allegheny County - The Dependable
Drive-in in Moon Township. What happened to all the others and what's
it like at the drive-in now?
6/18/05
Dave & Dave offer three exclusive adventures, that for one reason or
another, never aired on "OnQ Magazine." First up it's behind the
scenes with Pittsburgh sports icons Stan & Guy and their long-running
Fox Sports show "Sportsbeat." Then with shotguns in hand, it's
off to the skeet range. And finally a trip to Pittsburgh's largest comic
book convention in search of superheroes.
6/25/05
Did you know that Allegheny County has a series of multi-colored belts that
surround the city of Pittsburgh. In this episode, Pittsburgh's next great
explorers, Dave & Dave attempt to conquer the yellow, blue, green
and the red belt. What will they find along the way? Will there be any
road rage incidents? Will they even make it?
JULY
7/2/05
Our region is bursting with a lot of great restaurants. And who better than
Dave & Dave to uncover three hidden gems and still have time left for
donuts? Forget no carb or even low carb... This is four-barrel carb-style
dining!
7/8/05
Snow tubing in July? It's just crazy enough to work. Whet your appetite for
the winter with a look at Wildwood
Highlands extreme snow tubing hill. It may be the only thing to make
you yearn for winter.
7/9/05
This episode is full of beer cans, pinball games, snow tubes and more! And
if that weren't enough, Dave & Dave meet their match in name and
game at Dave & Busters.
7/11/05
Take an exclusive look at what may soon become West Virginia's most popular
tourist attraction. Dave and Dave go inside Cabela's
mammoth new complex in Wheeling to experience all things outdoors.
7/12/05
The Daves become celebrity chefs at the 6 th Annual Dave Thomas Celebrity
Cookoff. Come out and let us serve you at the Benihana Restaurant in
Green Tree - proceeds benefit the 3
Rivers Adoption Council.
7/16/05
See what happens when everyday hobbies are taken to the extreme. Dave & Dave
add a little rock & roll to their bowling, crash a backgammon tournament,
join Pittsburgh's only traveling steel-tip dart league, and just when you
though you saw it all, they go lawn mower racing.
7/23/05
Finally a subject Dave & Dave excel at! See what people think of our
state slogan and the real meaning of St. Patrick's Day. Also Dave & Dave
cross over into the psychic realm and try their hand at the Post-Gazette
Spelling Bee. And for the record, it's spelled D-A-V-E.
7/30/05
So you've got a few hours on your hands and need something to do. Dave & Dave
visit not one, but two unique movie theaters totally unlike your area cineplex.
They also board a boat, or is it a bus, or is it a duck? Whatever it is,
it is a cool way to see Pittsburgh. Then they wrap things up with a tennis
challenge. Men vs. women... or should we say Daves vs. two women pros? Yikes!
AUGUST
8/8/05
The boys check out the only Division 1 college hockey program
around - Robert
Morris Hockey on Neville Island .
8/15/05
It's had a Pittsburgh cult following since the 70's - Laser Shows at the
Carnegie Science Center. And meet the men who make it work - the Laserist
and Star Pilot.
8/23/05
Travel to Belgium without ever leaving Pittsburgh. Sample tasty and exotic
suds at the Sharp Edge Beer Emporium.
8/24/05
Go behind the scenes of the World-Famous Cirque De Soliel and their traveling
show 'Varekai.'
SEPTEMBER
9/5
Our
show returns to the Saturday night schedule after a long time off
due to pledge.
9/17
Dave and Dave become Samurai Chefs at a Benihana Restaurant, learn old-school
pizza making, from an Italian master, invent, then taste-test their own
Bar-B-Q sauce, and take you to their favorite place to dine, famous for
Chicago-style hot dogs and a beer selection that numbers in the thousands.
9/24
Dave and Dave travel to Quantico, Virginia –home to the FBI's
training academy. Once outfitted in official FBI gear, the Daves experience
crime scene investigations, special driving maneuvers and hand-to-hand combat
instruction. They also get down and dirty at the shooting range, the famed,
3-mile obstacle course called "Yellow Brick Road,"and Hogan's
Alley –a small town constructed for training simulations.
 9/28
See the Daves magically transformed into pierogies. Yes, you read it correctly,
the Dave are becoming pierogies for the great Pittsburgh
Pirate tradition of pierogie racing. See what it takes to become
a top notch pierogie athlete and find out if there is any rookie-pierogie
hazing involved.
OCTOBER
10/1
It's the first of 3 NEW EPISODES! (INSERT CROWD NOISE AND FIREWORKS HERE) This show features three Pittsburgh Landmarks and hundreds of Allegheny County landmines. First, the Daves relax at the only remaining Drive-in Theater left in Allegheny County – the Dependable Drive-In. Then it's off to the Triangle Bar & Grille – home of the 27" "Battleship" hoagie. After that it's a sudsy look inside the Sharp Edge Beer Emporium. And finally, Dave and Dave meet a man who deals with landmines on a daily basis. He's a dogs best friend, the Doodle Scooper.
 10/6
The Daves go behind the scenes of Kennywood Park's Phantom Fright Nights. This is where they try to scare the pants off you without using roller coasters. But don't fret, if the scary costumes don't do it, they do have roller coasters on stand-by.
10/8
In this new episode, the Daves journey to the North Side of Pittsburgh and experience the bright and loud Laser shows at the Carnegie Science Center. Then it's an Avian adventure at the National Aviary. They peak behind the scenes of Cirque Du Soleil's traveling show Varekai. And finally, something that has nothing to do with the North Side – they visit the "Up-Side Down Mountain" at the Snowshoe Ski Resort in West Virginia.
10/15
And in the final new episode, Dave and Dave finally give you an episode where you will actually learn something. First off, it's a hard hitting expose of the 2004 Presidential election. Then it's a trip deep inside a woman's card club. And finally, learn unusual trivia about Thanksgiving and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
10/22
Dave & Dave offer three exclusive adventures, that for one reason or another, never aired on "OnQ Magazine." First up it's behind the scenes with Pittsburgh sports icons Stan & Guy and their long-running Fox Sports show, "Sportsbeat." Then with shotguns in hand, it's off to the skeet range. And finally a trip to Pittsburgh's largest comic book convention in search of superheroes.
10/29
Did you know that Allegheny County has a series of multi-colored belts that surround the city of Pittsburgh. In this episode, Pittsburgh's next great explorers, Dave & Dave attempt to conquer the yellow, blue, green and the red belt. What will they find along the way? Will there be any road rage incidents? Will they even make it?
10/31
Dave & Dave scare up some Halloween fun with the sounds of Pittsburgh's own Adam Evil & The Outside Royalty. Find out why this rock band has 7 members including a cello player and an electric violinist! But is that enough to make them evil? We dare you to tune in and find out!
NOVEMBER
11/5
Our region is bursting with a lot of great restaurants. And who
better than Dave & Dave to uncover three hidden gems and still
have time left for donuts? Forget no carb or even low carb... This
is four-barrel carb-style dining!
11/12
The theme this week – cans, balls and tubes. That's beer cans...
pinballs... and snow tubes. And if that weren't enough, Dave &
Dave travel to Dave & Busters at the Waterfront.
See what happens when everyday hobbies are taken to the extreme. Dave & Dave add a little rock & roll to their bowling, crash a backgammon tournament, join Pittsburgh's only traveling steel-tip dart league, and just when you though you saw it all, they go lawn mower racing.
See what upscale bowling looks like when the Daves visit Lucky Strike Lanes at the Pittsburgh Mills shopping megaplex.
Maybe you have a Ben Roethliesberger bobble head or even a Mario Lemiuex bobble head, but I'll bet you don't have Dave & Dave bobble heads! Meet the man with the local art studio who hand-sculpted the Daves into unique art treasures. Dave & Dave introduce you to Walt Srocki, definitely on the cutting edge of unique gift creations! Stay tuned to this web page for the first look at the prototypes of the Dave & Dave bobble head dolls and tune into OnQ for the unveiling!
Walt doesn't have a website, but his phone number is 412-782-5551 or you can email him.
Here's an episode that we're able to squeeze into the schedule between QED's pledge drive and the holidays…it's all about goofin' off. I know what you're thinking – a subject Dave & Dave excel at! See what people think of our state slogan and the real meaning of St. Patrick's Day. Also Dave & Dave cross over into the psychic realm and try their hand at the Post-Gazette Spelling Bee. And for the record, it's spelled D-A-V-E.
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