WRUW, How May I Help You?
I had a very odd call into the station during my radio show this morning. I'm a bit surprised I haven't had more, my show being from 6-8 am and all. Though I'm definitely glad this is the first I've had like this.
The call went a little something like this (paraphrased, of course):
[Four Tet "My Angel Rocks Back and Fourth" playing in the background]
Me: WRUW
Caller: I, I, I hear a harp and that sounds really nice, but there's that shhhww shhhww going on too. You need to cut that out. It sounds like there are two songs playing.
Me: [laughs, about to explain that the song has the rhythmic noise in one channel and the melody in another channel]
Caller: YOU LAUGH, BUT I CAN EASILY CHANGE BACK TO 90.5. . . [continues on about the radio station and how he can stop listening]
Me: [attempts to say that it's just one song and that there's nothing I can do to change it, and that I'm sorry he doesn't like it]
Caller: [yells LOUDER over me not allowing me to say anything, threatening not to donate to telethon, and that if I keep playing music like that I will clearly not get any money donated to my show]
By now, enough time has passed that I have about a minute before I have to go on air and talk.
Caller: [still yelling loudly. He was "as serious as a heart attack and a stroke combined" when he was saying I needed to stop the music, and that I just laughed. Etc. etc.]
Me: [finally bursting in, continuing to talk even though he was yelling over me for most of it] I'm sorry you don't like the song, but it is one song and there is nothing I can do about it. I have to go because I have to talk on air.
Caller: [just keeps yelling]
Me: I HAVE TO GO NOW!
Caller: [continues to talk for a long time, finally wrapping up his threats]
Me: [by this time, extremely annoyed, having 10 seconds to rush to the microphone] BYE.
I never thought I'd get callers threatening to change the station, to not donate to telethon, and just generally yelling at me because of one song I played. He even commented that he liked the song before that one! But apparently, the Four Tet was just too much.
I don't know if I should find this funny or sad or scary. I'm not sure what sort of conditions a person who makes a call to a radio station like that must have been in. But I really question his mental state. I'm just glad he wasn't making personal threats to me.
Either way, I've had my dose of being yelled at today, that's for sure.
The call went a little something like this (paraphrased, of course):
[Four Tet "My Angel Rocks Back and Fourth" playing in the background]
Me: WRUW
Caller: I, I, I hear a harp and that sounds really nice, but there's that shhhww shhhww going on too. You need to cut that out. It sounds like there are two songs playing.
Me: [laughs, about to explain that the song has the rhythmic noise in one channel and the melody in another channel]
Caller: YOU LAUGH, BUT I CAN EASILY CHANGE BACK TO 90.5. . . [continues on about the radio station and how he can stop listening]
Me: [attempts to say that it's just one song and that there's nothing I can do to change it, and that I'm sorry he doesn't like it]
Caller: [yells LOUDER over me not allowing me to say anything, threatening not to donate to telethon, and that if I keep playing music like that I will clearly not get any money donated to my show]
By now, enough time has passed that I have about a minute before I have to go on air and talk.
Caller: [still yelling loudly. He was "as serious as a heart attack and a stroke combined" when he was saying I needed to stop the music, and that I just laughed. Etc. etc.]
Me: [finally bursting in, continuing to talk even though he was yelling over me for most of it] I'm sorry you don't like the song, but it is one song and there is nothing I can do about it. I have to go because I have to talk on air.
Caller: [just keeps yelling]
Me: I HAVE TO GO NOW!
Caller: [continues to talk for a long time, finally wrapping up his threats]
Me: [by this time, extremely annoyed, having 10 seconds to rush to the microphone] BYE.
I never thought I'd get callers threatening to change the station, to not donate to telethon, and just generally yelling at me because of one song I played. He even commented that he liked the song before that one! But apparently, the Four Tet was just too much.
I don't know if I should find this funny or sad or scary. I'm not sure what sort of conditions a person who makes a call to a radio station like that must have been in. But I really question his mental state. I'm just glad he wasn't making personal threats to me.
Either way, I've had my dose of being yelled at today, that's for sure.
posted by Amy at 8:55 AM
1 Comments:
man that caller really was that awesome wasn't he?
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