I, like you, had to sit through an all staff company meeting. I work at a radio station with a lot of clever people — That equals the poor bastard trying to talk got creamed with very funny heckling. The meeting was about posting things to our website. In our case, that’s KZOK.com. The meeting was only about an hour but it felt like a lifetime. The reason it felt so long is that it was run by the bosses. As we all know, bosses are rarely entertaining.
There is one thing worth noting about a morning radio show: Every morning at 7 AM and then again at 8 AM, we bring up some topic we deem interesting and ask you guys to call in. (By the way, I really appreciate that you call me.) This is no exaggeration. The morning show would suck to biblical proportions if you didn't call us. For example, everyone is beside themselves because somebody got a photograph of Bigfoot that everyone believed was real. So imagine me saying, “I saw Bigfoot! Have you ever seen Bigfoot?” Without your calls, we would just look ridiculous. (So again, thank you.)
Today 7 o’clock, the topic was interesting mostly because I felt I could participate. It seems a girl went to her brother’s house who had created a homemade zip line. She hurt herself and sued her brother. The topic is not 'how terrible is this sister?’ but ‘have you ever had a fight with your family?’
People called in with things like, “My brother ate the last pop tart,” “My sister started dating my old boyfriend.” Those are not bad, but I offered this: My father and brother were, for some reason, discussing the Industrial Revolution. All this was happening in a Chinese restaurant. My father said, “I'm pretty sure the Industrial Revolution started when Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. Not a bad answer but my brother John's answer was even better (if not crazier). My brother said, “I think the Industrial Revolution started with the the discovery of fire.” I, being all of 10 years old, thought my crazy brother John's answer was the best. My father disagreed and he showed his displeasure by stabbing my brother in the chest with a fork. (A minor overreaction.) Unfortunately I think the callers that we need desperately thought this was some kind of contest and stabbing my brother in the chest was the big winner. I gotta be honest, John getting it in the chest with a fork was probably not even the weirdest thing that happened to a Bonaduce that day.
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