Yellow Back

All callers have to be questioned about what they're going to say on the air. It works 99% of the time to make sure the crazies don't get on the air. Yesterday I asked a guy what he wanted to say in regards to a certain topic. He wanted to know why I needed to know that. I already have a short temper so I cut him off, and politely thanked him at the same time. About 5 minutes later I received another call from the same person, who said this:

"You're a fucking coward for not putting me on."

How that makes sense, I don't even know.

Classic comment #1

Before I started this little blog I had lots of people give me juicy little soundbites while asking them what they're going to say on the air. As I've stated I work for a large political talk show station, and it just so happens that we have an nationally known sports talk show station a floor below us in the same building. When the Giants won the Superbowl I got this gem of a phone call as our host began talking about Clinton and Obama's campaign (this may or may not give away where I work):

"What's your name and what do you want to say."

"Yeah, how come Eli Manning can win a Superbowl and Donovam Mcnabb still can't win a Superbowl...this city is doomed."

"Sir you've called the wrong station."

"No I didn't, I want to come on and talk about this."



What made it even better was my host wanted to talk to him before I hung up on him. Callers, please stay on topic. Idiots.

Oh, racism.

One of the cool things about working for a 50,000 watt station is that on good days we have the ability to reach 38 states and Canada. I personally have fielded calls from people as far out as Wisconsin that are picking up our signal loud and clear. Technology is an amazing thing.
Unfortunately, I sometimes am forced to deal with lovely angry people that are not as racially tolerable as others in my area. I should say that I do not care about a persons color, sex, age, and so on, only that they have good, intelligent comments to get put on the air. Hence my job. A lovely man from the South (I believe he said Tennessee) decided it would be a good idea to utter these words to me:

"I can't believe your station actually lets n*ggers on the air."

Good job Midwest America, way to live up to your racist stereotypes.

Beating your kids

"WAH WAH WAH WAH! You hear how your host is whining? This is what happens when parents dont beat their kids, the end up like your whiney little host."

Awesome.

These people make me want to blow my brains out:

"You are censoring people from what they can and cannot say on your station."

You're right, it's called Call Screening.

Race

I hate hate hate when race is brought up into a topic. It generally brings out the worst in my callers. A woman just tried for about 30 seconds (which is a long time in my job) to explain about how murders in her area are racially driven.

"A guy in my area had his brains blown out by a black guy and this IS a race issue."

I hung up on her. I just can't take it sometimes. At least she didn't say blowed out (re: emmit smith).

She did however call back and call me racist for hanging up on her.

Note To Self...

Don't ever tell caller that the host will get to them, or even that they are 3rd in line to be taken. A guy waited on hold for 20 minutes last night after I told him that he will be taken. He then hung up and called right back.

"Look you told me that I was going to get on and I know I had a good comment about the topic. You lied to me, thanks asshole. I'll never call this station again."

Whatever will we do...Oh, thats right, answer the other 1,000 people that call in every day. Thanks for sticking it to us by never calling again.