Waking Up in a Cold Sweat

Twice in the last 24 hours I've had dreams involving work, actually more like nightmares. The first hit me this morning when I had a nightmare that I kept playing the wrong returns (its happened before in real life) and playing the wrong audio clips and all kinds of other bad stuff. Plus it didn't help that in that dream my coworker came to relieve my shift only to screw up stuff while I was still there.
The next came when I was taking a nap before the start of my overnight shift and I woke up an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off because my dream involved me being late for my shift and not being able to get dressed and find the number for the studio to call and tell them I'd be late.
Waking up in a cold sweat is not a good way to start a shift.

Using Your Best Judgement, and Being Wrong

During a 3 hour show Friday night I had a man call from way up in Massachusetts (which was weird because my station is a 7 hour drive south) to speak about what else but Obama, Palin, and the economy, nothing unusual because its the hot topics and my host was talking about those things exactly.
Now it was a full night of callers, on average 8 of the 12 lines were filled at any given time, so it wasn't a surprise when his call didn't get on the air. He called back after being on hold for an hour to ask whether or not he was going to be able to get on, I politely explained that it's not my choice (lies, it is my choice most of the time but he seemed reasonable so I told him my host had the choice). The caller was put back on hold for a little while and still never got on, its rare but it happens. He then called back after being on hold for about 45 minutes and ended up explaining what he was going to say to me so I could pass it on to my host:

"You see, I believe that the entire world is run by 10 Jewish bankers..."

And that's all I needed to hear.

Getting tired of this

No, I'm not getting tired of my job...but this just happened:

Caller: "Yes, we would like to talk about what Native American's want to be called."
Me: "Well, we're not talking about that right now, we're talking about Paul Newman."
Caller: "Yes, but I thought the hosts were getting tired of talking about him."


FUCK.

Harry Kalas and Ned Yost

From a caller:
"Ned Yost was fired from the Brewers today."

Me: "ok..."

Caller: "I Just thought you'd like to know because Harry Kalas just called me."




I don't even know.

Jinx

Like many major stations in the US we get weather updates every few hours from The Weather Channel. They're good people and do a good job. A caller told me recently to "Tell the guy who does the weather updates to stop saying showers because everytime he says it we don't get any rain."
Bad jokes?

Let's talk about Chinese people! With their kung-fu and their silly ching-chang-chong talk! We can't understand you! Go back to yer country!

I'm not racist at all, I felt that a quote from the Dave Chapelle Show skit "The Black White Supremacist" when he was talking about how he hates Chinese people. I'd show you the clip but its been removed from every video website because of the copyrights, so buy Season 1 instead.

We just had a guest on about Asian Americans and how they are viewed for college screening (thank god it was previously recorded) decided to let me know that "This woman should be working in a massage parlor."
I'm glad to see racists call me constantly to tell me things like this when I'm at work. I also enjoy when I'm supposed to do something to appease these callers like kick the guest off the air. Is everyone in this world a moron?

Infomercials vs Regular Programming

We as call screeners/board ops/producers generally start out at the bottom of the barrel doing any kind of show available. Saturday's are generally my day for doing a multitude of different programming. I've done everything from a show about medical footwear (thank god for planned callers) to lawyers giving free advice. For some weird reason listeners hate change in their programming schedule for their weekend much like people who watch a lot of TV don't like it when their favorite show moves to a different day or hour. It's funny, I sit at work right now and it's the first Saturday of new programs and already I've had around 10 callers ask me when a certain show is going to be on and what happened to the old show that was on this time slot. It's almost funny to hear these people in a state of panic about what happened to the old show. Then again I feel the same way with my TV and the Simpsons get moved around.