Okay, so this isn't Turner Classics, but here's a few of our favorite video moments from 2008.
The World's Strongest Redneck appeared at a Joliet Jackhammers game. I think I needed a translator to get through his pronounced hillbilly drawl. I left the game in the third inning to walk a couple blocks to the Rialto Theater to hear my favorite country singer Merle Haggard sing some of the world's greatest redneck songs.
Velorexing down Route 66.....
The Velorex is a tiny three-wheel car made in Czechoslovakia from the late 1940s through 1971. The convertibles were built on a light frame of steel tubing with a vinyl fabric covering. During late summer 2008 I met Vera Synovcova of Prague in suburban Cicero. She was part of a group who drove four micro cars down Route 66 from Cicero to Los Angeles. They were on the road for 30 days.
The car is only 56 inches wide and 11 feet long.
Now if they had invited the World's Strongest Redneck, they would have been onto something....Here we are....
These are my pals at the Busy Beaver Button Company in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. On May 1, 2009 they are moving to a bigger and better location in the neighborhood.
I had been after former Cubs pitcher Rich Nye for a couple of years to talk to him about his exotic vet practice. He was a good sport and gave us this access. Of course he's a Cub. Great stuff from our video man Jon Sall.
Dave Hoekstra has been a 
