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"How In The World Are You Anyway?"

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Laurence Glavin

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If you've heard those annoying commercials by Andy Willoughby on sub-prime stations, the ones that begin with "how in the world are you, anyway" and wondered what they are about, today's (08/28) Boston Herald spelled it all out. AW calls his operation the "3 Step Program", and it turns out to be a so-called multi-level-marketing plan like Amway or Tupperware. Whether those companies provided useful products and a livable income for their retailers is another story, but Andy Willoughby promotes one product and one product only, a so-called health drink that's $25 for 25 ounces. Yeah, I can't wait to scoff up this juice that's more expensive than Dom Perignon, and I'm sure there are many other people in the same boat! I hope the radio industry is proud to use its facilities to promote a scheme like this (oh, and a preacher attempts to allay any concerns on the company's website because Andy is such a religious man.)
 
There was a posting within the last week--I believe on this very board--that Willoughby had been killed a few days earlier in, of all things, a hot-air balloon accident. The poster went on to say that, on Willoughby's death, his surviving family immediately stopped payment on all of the spots for which his company had contracted but that had not yet run and Salem Communications, whose stations (including WEZE, WROL, and WTTT locally) carried a large percentage of the ads, immediately pulled them off the air. If the family stopped payment for the spots, it's pretty clear that they did not want them to air after Andy's death, so Salem's promptness in pulling the spots should be commended, but it also completely fits my image of Salem as a company that would NEVER, NEVER, NEVER give away its product--air time.
 
;D The balloon acident was real in BC, however, unfortunatley....."Andy" wasn't onboard!....it's called comedy Pal! Just ONE of the "christian" scammers spot that pollute "Jimi's" airwaves all weekend long. Insufferable! :D
 
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