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Reid’s Rant – Bye Bye MOvember 2011

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 by Reid

Congrats to everyone who took part this year by either donating or raising awareness for prostate cancer.  You truly helped change the face of men’s health.  MOvember is such a good campaign for many reasons.  How often did you talk about the stache this month?  How many knew someone growing a moustache?  How many DID NOT spot one moustashe in November?  I’m pretty the answer to that last question is ZERO!!

Thanks to all our DRIVE MOs who supported our “70′s Porn Star” looks the last few weeks.  I’m gonna miss it…in fact I’m still waiting for the Village People to call in hopes they may need a firefighter to join in singing “Macho Man”.  Alas, all good things must come to an end.  This morning Jenn O took it off…she took it all off.  I may need to go to KGH.

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Movember Update

Monday, November 29th, 2010 by Reid

Thank God there are only two more days left of MOvember. This stache has been really starting to annoy me. It’s long and pretty ugly. However, I continue to be complimented by dudes…one guy last week said it was “epic”. Over the weekend a girl told me I looked BETTER with the stache. She said I looked like a real man. I think she was nuts, but I’ll take it. However, the biggest update for this week is a new donation. A listener who came in for the “Live @ THE DRIVE” last week gave me another $20!! Thank you sooo much Kim. I’m now at $40…almost a dollar per day to wear this thing! Any last minute donations for prostate cancer, send them here.  Reid’s Movember Page

Final Week:
Ok, here’s the point in the Movember campaign when I start begging.  It’s the final week, the final push, my final chance to say…”Please donate to my Movember Page“.  I’ve been ridiculed for over three weeks.  It’s time to put an end to the embarrassment and hope that I helped make a tiny little difference.  The stache has grown in quite nicely.  I think at some point in a past life I was a red head, because there is a lot of red in my stache.  I apologize to everyone who has had to look at me during Movember.  My friends, my girlfriend, my co-workers, and the poor cashier at Swiss Chalet.  With one week left, here’s the latest pic.

Week Three:
As I write this, we are half way through Movember. It’s November 15th and I look as creepy as ever. It is really funny hearing peoples’ reaction to my stache. The women hate it. Today I was told to “Get the hell outta here!”. Guys however say “Nice stache!” Some people have even told me they HATE the whole Movember thing. They don’t get it, too creepy, over blown, etc…That may be true, but people are talking about prostate cancer and we are raising money, kinda. Most dudes tell me they haven’t raised a cent. Oh well. I’m still at $20. If you’d like to help out, Reid’s Movember Page. Btw, you’ll notice the “flavour saver” is now gone!

Week Two:
Ok, things are starting to look really creepy. I raised my first $20 this week as well. I don’t really have a goal, but would love to raise as much as possible. It seems like everyone is doing Movember this year which is great for awareness.

Week One:

If you are taking part in Movember this year, you are doing it in the fine company of yours truly and The Man, The Legend, The Moustache…Hal Johnson from Body Break.  This year he is their spokesperson and after 5 years he’s bringing back the moustache, kinda…it’ll be a goatee this time around.  We chatted it up on Friday October 29th.  Have a listen.

Hal Johnson Interview

Mondays in MOvember

Monday, November 16th, 2009 by Reid

Movember is the month formerly known as November where men start clean shaven and commit to growing a Moustache for the entire month. That’s right, the guys are bringing back the Moustache to raise funds and awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer. The funds raised go directly to Prostate Cancer Canada; last year Movember raised 2.4 MILLION dollars IN CANADA and over 27 MILLION DOLLARS world wide.

What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men with 25,500 diagnosed and 4,400 dying from the disease each year.

Enter Michael Halfpenny, a local guy who’s taking part in Movember.  Each Monday he will join me @ 4:45pm to check out the progress of his stache (we’ll measure it on air), raise awareness for the campaign, and try and help him get donations.  To make a donation to Kevin’s campaign, click here

WEEK ONE: Mike’s stache measures an impressive 2 mm!

WEEK TWO: Mike’s stache is now up to 5 mm or 1/2 a CM.  Keep the donations pouring in.

To find out more about Movember

Good Luck all you Tom Selleck wannabes!

REID


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