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Callers Are Not Songs

This guy called Mike McConnell's "Weekend" show several times promoting his "John Lennon Murder" website but haven't heard him in a quite a while.

Then in Cincy we have Jim Condit Junior who not only calls but runs for Congress every election cycle and buys the uncensored time he's legally allowed to promote his rants against the "Jewish conspiracy" and theories that 9/11 was perpretrated by the U.S. and Israeli government by flying planses by remote control into the WTC and having the inside of the towers wired with explosives...imagine how many thousands of people you would have to keep silent if that actually happened.
 
When listening to KTOK, Oklahoma City, which used to do real talk before filling up its time with mostly syndicated shows, the afternoon host got tired of taking calls from this older man who was always calling in and griping about something.

Once, when the host had that caller on, he took a call from someone wanting to challenge the grumpy caller and let the two spar. The host even said he was going to bow out for a while and let "Bill from Enid" challenge the grumpy caller.
Made it real interesting.

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On Larry King's old radio show, some caller from Milwaukee during open phones would always call in and say something like, "Here's some baseball trivia. Can you name the top 10 players on this season's Brewers?" or some kind of variation on trivia involving that team. Larry got fed up once and said how a real trivia question should have a surprise, not some recitation of a team's roster.
 
charles hobbs said:
In the Bay Area, the local hosts constantly get called by a "Steven Lightfoot",
whose main schtick is a conspiracy theory stating that Stephen King killed John Lennon.

He's been doing this for years. Most of the hosts now just dump him at the sound
of his voice, but one or two will try to talk to him.....

One of the hosts really chewed him out one night. I saved part of the archive; I'll
see if I can find it...
Click to expand...

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/jlg/ray&jlg20071016.wma

Sound quality is a bit rough, but gee, Ray blasts the guy for six whole minutes!
 
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