I stopped by the Newnan stations a couple of weeks back to talk with the few staff memebers who are left. I was talking to one of the sales guys who's been there forever and he wanted to know if I remembered the infamous burping blooper that occured on 85 South with John Scott. I can't live it down...even three years later. Here's what happened:
It was a couple of days before Christmas '04. I want to say the 23 of Decemeber. I had spent the night before putting some christmas beds and sound bytes into the computor for the show. One of them wasthe burp from the Will Ferrell movie elf..yeah the 12 second burp. John and I had been on the air for about 6 weeks so we were still learning on how to do a show. We just had started the program at 3:06 pm. I was racing to put some bumper music into the rotation. The way he stuio was set up, I had two keyboards on my side of the wall, one of which I moved. this caused a chain reaction I moved the keyboard...which hitthe mouse...which was on the burp sound bite..that fired off when John scott was doing the intro. he made it to "live in Mid-West Georg..." and the burp fires off. An accident perfectly timed. We both are looking at each other like deer in headlights and i hitthe sound bite again to cut it off. John Scott is a pretty straight guy and he begins to laugh and replies..that wasn't me." I don;t think many people heard it, but all I was thinking was..."Josh, today you got your walking papers."
We went on the aircheck machine and pulled it off. The sales guy was laughin his ass off. The operations manager, chris east, was rolling on the floor after we played it for him.
Joe not sure if you knew this sptry but I guess you do now.
It was a couple of days before Christmas '04. I want to say the 23 of Decemeber. I had spent the night before putting some christmas beds and sound bytes into the computor for the show. One of them wasthe burp from the Will Ferrell movie elf..yeah the 12 second burp. John and I had been on the air for about 6 weeks so we were still learning on how to do a show. We just had started the program at 3:06 pm. I was racing to put some bumper music into the rotation. The way he stuio was set up, I had two keyboards on my side of the wall, one of which I moved. this caused a chain reaction I moved the keyboard...which hitthe mouse...which was on the burp sound bite..that fired off when John scott was doing the intro. he made it to "live in Mid-West Georg..." and the burp fires off. An accident perfectly timed. We both are looking at each other like deer in headlights and i hitthe sound bite again to cut it off. John Scott is a pretty straight guy and he begins to laugh and replies..that wasn't me." I don;t think many people heard it, but all I was thinking was..."Josh, today you got your walking papers."
We went on the aircheck machine and pulled it off. The sales guy was laughin his ass off. The operations manager, chris east, was rolling on the floor after we played it for him.
Joe not sure if you knew this sptry but I guess you do now.