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Phil Hendrie's Voices

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Lately Phil Hendrie has been doing his signature voices on an regular on his KTLK 1150 show.

Well I wonder if he is trying to catch the ear of his former boss now at an reshaping KABC.

Hendrie was apart of the stellar mid-to-late 90s KFI lineup where he began "talking to himself."

After 9/11 he backed off the voices and attempted to become an regular talk show host, as well during this time his voiceover career seem to take precedent.

For whatever reason now he is back doing the voices.

Listening to it now memories of KFI's glory days come back, and Hendrie is as good now as he was then.
 
Hendrie is the greatest troll on radio.

Back on KFI when his show started to syndicate into new markets, it was a treat to hear him do his "bits" and the reactionary calls that would flood in. Like a worm on a hook he'd toy with each new market and get them to strike. The learning curve always seemed to be about a month until the new audiences caught on. Then the following week it was hello Cleveland or Boise or Podunk and it reset all over again.

Brilliant radio from a brilliant mind. Hendrie is a gem.
 
Phil Hendrie is a legend! What a brilliant guy!!
 
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Lately Phil Hendrie has been doing his signature voices on an regular on his KTLK 1150 show.

Well I wonder if he is trying to catch the ear of his former boss now at an reshaping KABC.

Hendrie was apart of the stellar mid-to-late 90s KFI lineup where he began "talking to himself."

After 9/11 he backed off the voices and attempted to become an regular talk show host, as well during this time his voiceover career seem to take precedent.

For whatever reason now he is back doing the voices.

Listening to it now memories of KFI's glory days come back, and Hendrie is as good now as he was then.
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It was after the war began. At 9/11 he was still pretty fresh to syndication. When the war started he turned into a straight talk show for a couple of months. He even did two shows a night for many weeks, using the 10 PM re-feed from Premiere Radio to do a live broadcast to the stations carrying that feed (KFI carried this feed too). Around summertime hitting he brought the voices back into the fold. The show then alternated commentary and bits by the hour. So Monday would be Bit-Commentary-Bit, Tuesday would be Commentary-Bit-Commentary, etc. Sometimes the commentary hours would contain a 1/4 hour bit like Joe ******** or Art Bell. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised he's giving the voices another try. He said many times that he felt he had peaked with his comedy show, but he also said he wouldn't return to radio after leaving Premiere.
 
Phil Hendrie is a genius but as dumb as they come. He had to have known that his voices were the key to his success. He had several years of radio with straigh talk without any sort of success. He then re-invented himself and that evening spot at KFI was killer. Everyone I knew talked about it. I didn't miss a single show. Even when the "trick" of him being the voices was revealed it was still was funny. But then he got the bright idea to go straight and go politcal and guess what - the show sucked and even I stopped listening.

Then success went to his head and he got the idea that he could make it as a TV star. As countless other washed up radio hosts could tell you, it doesn't work that way. If he has a winning formula with the voices then stick with it. Don't change the formula or don't change yourself. Phil, I felt sabotaged himself and has no one else to blame for the lack luster career since he left KFI.

But I do whole-heartedly think he should come back to either KFI or KABC (which would be great) and focus only on his voices.
 
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