pHIL HENDRIE

[sdwulfdawg]

OK....I just heard a rebroadcast of Phil Hendrie's nightly show....and he confirmed that he does the show from a home studio.

Is this what the rest of the hosts on TRN do?

 

[livingfruitvirus]

This isn't an uncommon practice. It's not as expensive anymore to build a studio in one's home and install ISDN lines. Leo Laporte does his radio show from his home in Petaluma. Dave Ramsey did the same for a while. I think Rush Limbaugh has a studio in his Florida house.

 

[kaufcom]

I was a big fan of Phil Hendrie and always listened to his show when it was syndicated on Premiere. His TRN show, however, is awful. He's trying to make as a right-wing pundit and is just not pullling it off. He's still exhibits a sharp sense of humor and cutting sarcasm and occassionally brings on one of his old characters (usually to support a political issue.) but overall his new show pales in comparison to his old show.

 

[ajhenderson]

That's what TRN will do to you.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

I was a big fan of Phil Hendrie and always listened to his show when it was syndicated on Premiere. His TRN show, however, is awful. He's trying to make as a right-wing pundit and is just not pullling it off. He's still exhibits a sharp sense of humor and cutting sarcasm and occassionally brings on one of his old characters (usually to support a political issue.) but overall his new show pales in comparison to his old show.

I couldn't put it any better. Doesn't someone tell him that the current format is creaky?

 

[jcolletta275]

It wouldn't be that bad if he'd bring the callers on to talk to his characters again. That's all his new show needs to spruce it up.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

It wouldn't be that bad if he'd bring the callers on to talk to his characters again. That's all his new show needs to spruce it up.

I just have a sneaking suspicion that the reason Hendrie doesn't do real phone calls is that since he doing the show from his home and it is not technically feasible.

 

[jcolletta275]

No, it's feasible... it's just a matter of doing it. I'm guessing he has it set up so that all the call screening is done elsewhere, so all that needs to be done is... well, to just do it. My impression is that the reason he's not doing it is because for some reason, possibly "indecency"-related, TRN won't let him.

 

[B.B. Lean]

Either that or he suffers from Jerry Doyle-itis, whose main symptoms are a severe lack of live clears.

 

[jcolletta275]

Actually, he seems to be getting more and more large-market live slots than he had with PRN. That's why I'm thinking it's TRN's decision not to do it, because the technological capability isn't an issue and he should have plenty of callers to cull good arguments from (if he could do it on one station in L.A., he can do it on nearly 50 across the country).

 

[mred]

I think savage has a couple of studios. Doyle gets calls from SF, Vegas, Barstow, and somewhere in New England and Florida. It does seem to limit a show.

 

[jcolletta275]

Hendrie has taken calls on his new show, he just hasn't taken them while one of his "guests" is on the other line. That's why I'm sure it's something TRN doesn't want him to do, because there's no technical reason he couldn't do it.

Of course, I'd also like to see him run his "guests" through an outside line as opposed to the internal line he's using now. His characters' calls sound too clean.

 

[newhampshiredude]

I think savage has a couple of studios. Doyle gets calls from SF, Vegas, Barstow, and somewhere in New England and Florida. It does seem to limit a show.

I am suprised that Doyle doesn't have more live clearences. By the way, he takes calls from Naples, Florida (WGUF-FM), Fort Lauderdale, Florida (WFTL-AM), and Las Vegas (KDWN-AM). He recently lost his SF affiliate, KNEW-AM. He was actually doing well in SF though, but he was replaced with O'Reilly. Occassionally, someone will call in from his tape-deplayed largest staion, WBAP-AM in Dallas.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

Hendrie has taken calls on his new show, he just hasn't taken them while one of his "guests" is on the other line. That's why I'm sure it's something TRN doesn't want him to do, because there's no technical reason he couldn't do it.

Of course, I'd also like to see him run his "guests" through an outside line as opposed to the internal line he's using now. His characters' calls sound too clean.

Phil Hendrie needs a real producer/director to clean up the show. Going on for segment after segment with political diatribe is getting very tiresome. When I want to hear Phil Hendrie's show I want to hear comedy and humor, not more political talk.

 

[jcolletta275]

That's the difference. He said this wasn't going to be his old show, and that's a fact that's become pretty obvious. Personally, I don't think there's anything he needs to change other than keeping his "guests" on for a full hour and taking calls from the public to talk to them. The amount of political talk I have no problem with, but then again, I am quite politically-minded. But if you'll recall, the last couple of years on his Premiere show, he was doing more political commentary than he had in the past as well, so this isn't really a move that should have been unexpected. It's pretty hard to not have or express political views in this day and age, and I think he wanted a time and place to do that, along with the entertaining he does best. It's a lot like what Glenn Beck says he aims to do: fuse entertainment and enlightenment (though I'd argue that Phil does a better job on the entertainment side of it than Glenn does).

So Phil's new show isn't your cup of tea. Here's an idea: he generally does his characters in the second and occasionally third hour of his show. Don't listen to the first hour, and if he begins doing political talk in the third hour, don't listen to that hour either.

 

[kaufcom]

He said this wasn't going to be his old show, and that's a fact that's become pretty obvious. Personally, I don't think there's anything he needs to change other than keeping his "guests" on for a full hour and taking calls from the public to talk to them...the last couple of years on his Premiere show, he was doing more political commentary than he had in the past as well

That's not true. He rarely talked politics on his Premiere show and he almost always interacted with his fictional characters in all three hours of his show. Unless , you consider "Westridge Home Owners Association" and the "Kern County Republicans" to be political organizations.

So Phil's new show isn't your cup of tea. Here's an idea: he generally does his characters in the second and occasionally third hour of his show. Don't listen to the first hour, and if he begins doing political talk in the third hour, don't listen to that hour either.

...or don't listen at all.

 

[jcolletta275]

He said this wasn't going to be his old show, and that's a fact that's become pretty obvious. Personally, I don't think there's anything he needs to change other than keeping his "guests" on for a full hour and taking calls from the public to talk to them...the last couple of years on his Premiere show, he was doing more political commentary than he had in the past as well

That's not true. He rarely talked politics on his Premiere show and he almost always interacted with his fictional characters in all three hours of his show. Unless , you consider "Westridge Home Owners Association" and the "Kern County Republicans" to be political organizations.

No, he did talk politics quite a bit in the last couple of years. The comedy fans weren't too happy about it, and they certainly let him know about it, but he did spent at least part of his non-guest segments talking politics in the later period of his Premiere show. Go back and listen through the Backstage Pass archives... it's there.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

The show sorely needs a producer and director....not just Monsieur Hendrie.

 

[shaggy16]

So Phil's new show isn't your cup of tea. Here's an idea: he generally does his characters in the second and occasionally third hour of his show. Don't listen to the first hour, and if he begins doing political talk in the third hour, don't listen to that hour either.

Or you can download the mp3s at http://www.newphilhendrieshow.com and skip the parts that you don't like, he is still doing some killer comedy.

 

[jcolletta275]

Indeed! I've been downloading every episode to keep an archive myself.