Now I'm not of Asian descent in any form, but am I the only one who found this product a bit offensive? I mean, I'm not deeply or personally offended by it, but really?!? They couldn't come up with a better name to describe this type of moustache?! How about "The Handlebar Stache"? "The Confucius"? "The Overgrown Child Molester"? (Just as a note, this is the first sentence in this blog that isn't a question....or is it?) Seriously, anything would've been better than "China Man". I mean, am I just out of the loop on this? That is a really offenisve term, isn't it? Or at the very least it's an inappropriate racial slang term. I don't know. I do know that I like the company's name though. Freak & Easy. That's a little bit clever, right? It sounds like freakin' easy....which is how I often describe myself. I'm getting distracted now but long story short, if you'd like your own "China Man" moustache, I found this beauty at Party City. I bought 30 of them. And I'm wearing one right now.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Freak & Offensive?
Now I'm not of Asian descent in any form, but am I the only one who found this product a bit offensive? I mean, I'm not deeply or personally offended by it, but really?!? They couldn't come up with a better name to describe this type of moustache?! How about "The Handlebar Stache"? "The Confucius"? "The Overgrown Child Molester"? (Just as a note, this is the first sentence in this blog that isn't a question....or is it?) Seriously, anything would've been better than "China Man". I mean, am I just out of the loop on this? That is a really offenisve term, isn't it? Or at the very least it's an inappropriate racial slang term. I don't know. I do know that I like the company's name though. Freak & Easy. That's a little bit clever, right? It sounds like freakin' easy....which is how I often describe myself. I'm getting distracted now but long story short, if you'd like your own "China Man" moustache, I found this beauty at Party City. I bought 30 of them. And I'm wearing one right now.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sally Snizzle
This is part two in a series of blogs devoted to frequent callers I get on the request line at my job (KROQ-Los Angeles). For part one, scroll down and look for the blog titled "The Cure Guy". For now, I introduce you to:
Sally Snizzle
Now before you go and get all confused, Sally Snizzle is actually a guy. My first experience with Sally was last year during the weeks prior to Weenie Roast (KROQ’s annual summer show). He was calling quite frequently trying to win tickets and instead of just hanging up after I told him he didn’t win, he’d kind of give me a hard time and ask why I couldn’t just give him the tickets. I get this all the time, but this guy actually had a funny demeanor to him. So during one of our brief conversations, he asked if we could come up with a secret code so that I’d know it was him when I was looking for a winner. During each of our contests we look for caller 20 by picking up the first 19 calls saying “KROQ 1, KROQ 2, KROQ 3” and so forth until we reach 20. We never wait for a response from the first 19 callers, we just tell them what number they are and hang up on them. So Sally decided that I should answer the same way but instead of hanging up right away I should listen for a response. If it was him on the line he’d yell “SALLY SNIZZLE!” and I’d know to put him on hold and make him the winner after I answered the rest of the calls. Of course I wouldn’t actually make him the winner because that would be breaking our policy and if I got busted for that I’d lose my job. But I still told him I’d listen out for him. And I did, but sadly I never once heard a “SALLY SNIZZLE!” during my numerous contests. It was actually pretty fun for me as I’d answer each call and kind of smile in anticipation of hearing a grown man yell “SALLY SNIZZLE!” at me. But he’d generally call after the contests disappointed that he wasn’t one of the first 20 callers, but glad that I actually listened for him. But that’s the way the name Sally Snizzle came about and he continued to call at very random times even after Weenie Roast and has since become one of my regular callers.
If I had to guess, I’d say Sally is in his late 20s or early 30s. He could be a bit older though. It’s hard to tell because he’s a total stoner and usually calls me when he’s high, so he sounds like a young surfer dude. But he cracks me up every time he calls. He’s actually a pretty smart guy, very quick witted and he’s always very careful about telling me details on his life. All I really know about him is he has a girlfriend who used to work for a hotel (I know this because he offered to get me a job at this hotel) and he smokes a lot of pot. Oh, and I know music plays a pretty big role in his life because he’s sometimes playing guitar while he’s on the phone with me and he’s ALWAYS telling me about bands I should check out. It’s kind of funny because he’ll call to win tickets to KROQ shows, but then he’ll spend 10 minutes talking shit about the music we play and telling me how much better we used to be. Then he’ll tell me how we COULD be so much better if we played such and such a band. I’ve actually checked out a few of the bands that he told me to listen to and enjoyed them.
One of the most interesting on-going mysteries about him is his connection to KROQ. He’s able to name people who work for KROQ who really only people who work for KROQ or have some kind of inside connection to KROQ would know. The last time I talked to him he asked me if we were hiring or if I could get him a job. I told him we were looking for phone-ops and told him where to send his resume and he said, “Maybe I’ll apply…it might be cool to work for KROQ again….I mean, it might be cool to work for KROQ.” And when I called him out on the “again” and asked when he used to work for KROQ he said, “No, what? No I’ve never worked there.” But he said it in a kind of funny tone that sort of hinted he was lying but didn’t want to get into it. Personally I kind of like the mystery, but I’m still gonna bug him about it.
I always tell Sally that he needs to set up a blog because the stuff he says is too funny and just out there to be kept between me and him. (For the record though, he tells me that he calls a bunch of other radio stations and bugs them. So I’m not the only one who gets to hear his gems. But the other stations don’t give him the time of day like I do, so they’re missing out!) I’m still not sure whether his stories are all bull shit because he tells them with such conviction. But I’ve decided I don’t care because they’re entertaining regardless. It’s funny when he tells me that he’s looking through his guitar pic collection telling me where he got each pic from. He claims that he catches them from various guitarists when they throw them out into the crowd from the stage. This wouldn’t be that weird of a thing to hear if it was just a few pics, but he listed off all kinds of names for me. And it seems pretty unlikely that he’d be in just the right position at each of these shows to catch these tiny pieces of plastic. But it’s funny picturing him sitting there fishing through all these pics saying, “yeah this one was from Dave Mustaine when he was in Metallica…hang on, I also have one from him from a Megadeth show. Yeah, here it is. And this one is from Slash….” and so on and so forth. The last story he told me was when he ran into Dave Grohl (lead singer of Foo Fighters/former drummer of Nirvana) at a random show at the House Of Blues and ended up hanging out with him for the night. He claims Dave bought him drinks and they talked about some small Nirvana show that Sally was at years ago before Nirvana hit the main stream. Dave said he remembered the show and thought it was crazy that Sally was there. It’s just funny because any or ALL of that story could be false. Did Sally really see Dave Grohl at the House of Blues? Maybe, but did he actually talk to him or did he just make the story up? Or maybe he really did go up and say hi to him but didn’t really get into conversation with him. Or maybe they did hit it off and every single bit of the story is true. This is why I enjoy talking to Sally so much because there’s really NO way of knowing based on the way he tells his stories.
One of the funniest stories he told me was about a time he climbed a tree just outside of the Hollywood Bowl when Radiohead was doing a sound check. He claims he does this all the time because it’s close enough to see the shows without actually having to pay to get in. But he said he was singing along and making a bunch of noises from the tree, like hooting and cheering just because he could. He says that Thom Yorke (the lead singer of Radiohead) looked out in the direction of the tree and said in his thick, softly spoken-British accent, “sounds like we got a monkey in the trees there, huh?” and just left it at that. Seems like this story could have very well been made up but the way Sally tells it, I’m somewhat convinced it actually happened.
It’s almost always a bad idea to meet people who call the request line on a regular basis, but I almost feel like running into Sally on the street would not end badly. He really wanted me to use my KROQ connection and request tickets to one of the Metallica shows in LA last December to take him as my guest. I came close to considering it only because I’m sure it would’ve provided for some funny stories. But it would’ve totally ruined the mystery that is Sally Snizzle. That and, you know, he could actually be a serial killer who would’ve taken my life, so I probably made a good choice.
Sally Snizzle
Now before you go and get all confused, Sally Snizzle is actually a guy. My first experience with Sally was last year during the weeks prior to Weenie Roast (KROQ’s annual summer show). He was calling quite frequently trying to win tickets and instead of just hanging up after I told him he didn’t win, he’d kind of give me a hard time and ask why I couldn’t just give him the tickets. I get this all the time, but this guy actually had a funny demeanor to him. So during one of our brief conversations, he asked if we could come up with a secret code so that I’d know it was him when I was looking for a winner. During each of our contests we look for caller 20 by picking up the first 19 calls saying “KROQ 1, KROQ 2, KROQ 3” and so forth until we reach 20. We never wait for a response from the first 19 callers, we just tell them what number they are and hang up on them. So Sally decided that I should answer the same way but instead of hanging up right away I should listen for a response. If it was him on the line he’d yell “SALLY SNIZZLE!” and I’d know to put him on hold and make him the winner after I answered the rest of the calls. Of course I wouldn’t actually make him the winner because that would be breaking our policy and if I got busted for that I’d lose my job. But I still told him I’d listen out for him. And I did, but sadly I never once heard a “SALLY SNIZZLE!” during my numerous contests. It was actually pretty fun for me as I’d answer each call and kind of smile in anticipation of hearing a grown man yell “SALLY SNIZZLE!” at me. But he’d generally call after the contests disappointed that he wasn’t one of the first 20 callers, but glad that I actually listened for him. But that’s the way the name Sally Snizzle came about and he continued to call at very random times even after Weenie Roast and has since become one of my regular callers.
If I had to guess, I’d say Sally is in his late 20s or early 30s. He could be a bit older though. It’s hard to tell because he’s a total stoner and usually calls me when he’s high, so he sounds like a young surfer dude. But he cracks me up every time he calls. He’s actually a pretty smart guy, very quick witted and he’s always very careful about telling me details on his life. All I really know about him is he has a girlfriend who used to work for a hotel (I know this because he offered to get me a job at this hotel) and he smokes a lot of pot. Oh, and I know music plays a pretty big role in his life because he’s sometimes playing guitar while he’s on the phone with me and he’s ALWAYS telling me about bands I should check out. It’s kind of funny because he’ll call to win tickets to KROQ shows, but then he’ll spend 10 minutes talking shit about the music we play and telling me how much better we used to be. Then he’ll tell me how we COULD be so much better if we played such and such a band. I’ve actually checked out a few of the bands that he told me to listen to and enjoyed them.
One of the most interesting on-going mysteries about him is his connection to KROQ. He’s able to name people who work for KROQ who really only people who work for KROQ or have some kind of inside connection to KROQ would know. The last time I talked to him he asked me if we were hiring or if I could get him a job. I told him we were looking for phone-ops and told him where to send his resume and he said, “Maybe I’ll apply…it might be cool to work for KROQ again….I mean, it might be cool to work for KROQ.” And when I called him out on the “again” and asked when he used to work for KROQ he said, “No, what? No I’ve never worked there.” But he said it in a kind of funny tone that sort of hinted he was lying but didn’t want to get into it. Personally I kind of like the mystery, but I’m still gonna bug him about it.
I always tell Sally that he needs to set up a blog because the stuff he says is too funny and just out there to be kept between me and him. (For the record though, he tells me that he calls a bunch of other radio stations and bugs them. So I’m not the only one who gets to hear his gems. But the other stations don’t give him the time of day like I do, so they’re missing out!) I’m still not sure whether his stories are all bull shit because he tells them with such conviction. But I’ve decided I don’t care because they’re entertaining regardless. It’s funny when he tells me that he’s looking through his guitar pic collection telling me where he got each pic from. He claims that he catches them from various guitarists when they throw them out into the crowd from the stage. This wouldn’t be that weird of a thing to hear if it was just a few pics, but he listed off all kinds of names for me. And it seems pretty unlikely that he’d be in just the right position at each of these shows to catch these tiny pieces of plastic. But it’s funny picturing him sitting there fishing through all these pics saying, “yeah this one was from Dave Mustaine when he was in Metallica…hang on, I also have one from him from a Megadeth show. Yeah, here it is. And this one is from Slash….” and so on and so forth. The last story he told me was when he ran into Dave Grohl (lead singer of Foo Fighters/former drummer of Nirvana) at a random show at the House Of Blues and ended up hanging out with him for the night. He claims Dave bought him drinks and they talked about some small Nirvana show that Sally was at years ago before Nirvana hit the main stream. Dave said he remembered the show and thought it was crazy that Sally was there. It’s just funny because any or ALL of that story could be false. Did Sally really see Dave Grohl at the House of Blues? Maybe, but did he actually talk to him or did he just make the story up? Or maybe he really did go up and say hi to him but didn’t really get into conversation with him. Or maybe they did hit it off and every single bit of the story is true. This is why I enjoy talking to Sally so much because there’s really NO way of knowing based on the way he tells his stories.
One of the funniest stories he told me was about a time he climbed a tree just outside of the Hollywood Bowl when Radiohead was doing a sound check. He claims he does this all the time because it’s close enough to see the shows without actually having to pay to get in. But he said he was singing along and making a bunch of noises from the tree, like hooting and cheering just because he could. He says that Thom Yorke (the lead singer of Radiohead) looked out in the direction of the tree and said in his thick, softly spoken-British accent, “sounds like we got a monkey in the trees there, huh?” and just left it at that. Seems like this story could have very well been made up but the way Sally tells it, I’m somewhat convinced it actually happened.
It’s almost always a bad idea to meet people who call the request line on a regular basis, but I almost feel like running into Sally on the street would not end badly. He really wanted me to use my KROQ connection and request tickets to one of the Metallica shows in LA last December to take him as my guest. I came close to considering it only because I’m sure it would’ve provided for some funny stories. But it would’ve totally ruined the mystery that is Sally Snizzle. That and, you know, he could actually be a serial killer who would’ve taken my life, so I probably made a good choice.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Please Don't Make Me Laugh
This gem of a billboard caught my eye a week or two ago. It's probably the most hilarious billboard I’ve ever seen. I mean, where do I even begin? I guess I’ll start by saying I’m not trying to belittle those who suffer from the leakage known as Urinary Incontinence. I’m sure it’s a major inconvenience and if there’s something that can help that, I’m all for it. I just think there’s gotta be a better way to reach that audience. This billboard is located off the 110 Freeway in Torrance, CA (just off the Sepulveda Blvd exit for you local folks). But wouldn’t an advertisement like this be better suited at a comedy club or in the ads that they show at movie theatres before a funny movie? You know, places where these women will be laughing and “leaking urine.” Or places they sneeze like…..umm….pepper factories? Or what about putting this ad on water bottles? I mean, that water is quite literally going to turn into their leaks. Might as well get ‘em at the source! And, according to the billboard, this is something that happens to 1 in 3 women. But what percentage of men do you think this happens to? I know this is like a weekly occurrence for me personally, but I sure as hell don’t want to call this number if they’re clearly biased towards helping leaking women over leaking men. And is it just me, or does it seem like they could’ve come up with a MUCH better graphic than a leaking faucet?! Ok, so I know they can’t show an actual woman leaking, but really now, they might as well have like a fire hose or a waterfall or something lame like that. I actually think it would’ve been great if they had a before and after picture where there’s a woman laughing hysterically in the before and a woman looking reserved and embarrassed in the next one. Seriously, how many women would that hit home with?! (1 in 3?) It’d be like looking in a mirror for them! Or maybe it wouldn’t, who knows? Really, this billboard speaks for itself and I could’ve just posted it without the write up. But then you never would’ve known that I regularly pee my pants.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Cure Guy
So I get funny/crazy/random/stupid/embarassing/sexy/bogus calls on the request line on a regular basis. And usually they're from casual callers who don't even realize they're being the previously mentioned traits. But over the past 13-14 months that I've been answering phones for KROQ I've come to get to know a number of frequent callers. These are people who call on a semi-regular basis whom I have been able to learn a thing or two about. I thought it might be fun to share some of these people with you. So as I become motivated to write I will share my favorite frequent callers on this blog, and I'll start today with:
The Cure Guy aka The Bjork/Siouxsie and the Banshees/Dead Kennedys Guy
The Cure Guy is probably the most frequent caller of all the frequent callers. I wouldn’t say he calls everyday but, while he goes on hiatus from time to time, it is rare that a week goes by without hearing from him multiple times. You may be wondering why we refer to him as The Cure Guy. Well let me give you a run down of a typical conversation with him:
Me: Hello KROQ…
The Cure Guy: Hi.
Me: What’s going on man?
The Cure Guy: Do you have any news on The Cure?
Me: No, not a whole lot. Have you heard anything about them recently?
The Cure Guy: No.
Me: Yeah, well if anything happens with them you’ll definitely hear it from us.
The Cure Guy: Ok thanks. *click*
I couldn’t count how many times I’ve had that EXACT conversation with him. Now some answers vary from time to time. For example, when The Cure played Almost Acoustic Christmas (KROQ’s annual Christmas show) I did indeed have an update for him and I told him. But generally I will quickly Google or Wikipedia The Cure and tell him the most recent update on them. But regardless of what is said in the middle of our conversation, every single one begins with him saying “Hi” (this “Hi” is so distinguishable, as his voice is incredibly monotone, that we instantly know it’s him) and ends with him saying “Ok thanks” in a rushed voice, hanging up as fast as he can. I seriously get a visual of him saying “Ok thanks” and immediately throwing his phone to the floor as if it were hot or on fire or something like that.
Now every now and then The Cure Guy throws us for a loop and asks us about another group/artist. For me personally, Siouxsie and the Banshees is probably the band he asks about the second most, but some of the other phone-ops may have a different answer. He also commonly asks about Bjork and The Dead Kennedys. But it’s generally an 80s band. He REALLY threw me for a loop one time when he asked about Blink 182. That’s nowhere NEAR his typical genre. I asked him what his favorite Blink 182 album was and he said, “The one with Adam’s Song”. But wasn’t that every one’s favorite Blink album?
The Cure Guy is the most mysterious caller of all. He clearly has some sort of mental disability, or at least is just SEVERELY socially awkward. If he is not provoked into conversation, he simply sticks to his questions about The Cure. And while I enjoy the mystery, I have asked him a few questions about himself and have found he’s kind of pleasant to talk to. He always calls from a 210 area code, which a simple Google search reveals is the San Antonio, TX area. So I asked him if that’s where he calls from and sure enough it is. I asked how he knows about KROQ and he said he used to live in LA. It’s difficult to get details out of him, so I don’t know when or why he lived in LA. But I have asked him if he has plans to move back (because he says San Antonio is too hot) and he said no because he doesn’t like LA very much. I don’t remember exactly how it came up, but he one time referenced that he was going to school in Texas. I think he mentioned school because he told me was too lazy to go to class that morning and slept in instead. Turns out he goes to culinary school in San Antonio. I asked him what he likes to cook and he said, “I don’t know.” But he says he enjoys it and I told him he should cook us something and send it over to us. I’m not so sure how that would work out but he said he would.
The Cure Guy rarely shows any emotion, but that changed the time I told him that I met Robert Smith (The Cure’s lead singer). I got to help Kat Corbett (one of KROQ’s DJ’s, and a super fox) record a private interview with him in their dressing room backstage at Almost Acoustic Christmas. When I told this story to The Cure Guy, I heard more excitement in his voice than ever before. He let out a legitimately shocked “Really?!”. And as I told him the story, he actually had follow up questions and remarks like, “What was he like?”, “Who else was there?” and “That’s awesome!”. I couldn’t believe it. I was almost more excited to be getting this out of him than I was when I was sitting 5 feet away from Robert Smith. I felt rather accomplished after that conversation and I’ve noticed that he has been recognizing my voice ever since then. I actually asked him the other day if he recognizes my voice when he calls or if he just thought he was talking to different people every time and he told me he did recognize me. So I asked if he wanted to know my name or if he liked not knowing who I was and he said “sure”. I wasn’t sure which question the “sure” was answering, so I just told him my name (well, I told him my KROQ name at least, Gouda). He hasn’t called me by name once though, but I can still tell that he recognizes my voice by the way he talks to me. I honestly think he kind of likes when I answer and actually engage him in conversation because I doubt he is often engaged in conversation with people.
If I had one wish for The Cure Guy it would be that he gets to meet The Cure and have casual sexual intercourse with them. Dreams can come true.
***EDIT***
Today (2/13/09) I had what was undoubtedly the best conversation I've ever had with The Cure Guy, and it goes as follows:
Me: KROQ…
The Cure Guy: Hi.
Me: Whats going on today?
The Cure Guy: Nothin. So, Blink 182 are getting back together?
Me: Yeah, did you see them make that annoucnement on the Grammys?
The Cure Guy: No, I didn't watch the Grammy's.
Me: Oh, so how did you hear about it?
The Cure Guy: I called you guys. You told me.
Me: Haha, oh that's right! Sorry, I forgot I already told you about that.
The Cure Guy: Yeah. So are they putting out a new album?
Me: Yeah, their website says they're recording.
The Cure Guy: Cool.
(Tyler (fellow phone-op) in the background): Ask him to tell you a joke.
Me: Hey my friend wants to hear a joke, do you know any good ones?
The Cure Guy: Yeah. How long is a Chinaman?
Me: How long is a Chinaman…hmm….how long?
The Cure Guy: No, that's his name. How-long.
Me: (laughing hysterically not only because the joke was kind of funny but because I did not expect anything even remotely funny to come out of his mouth (though I wouldn't say I endorse the term 'Chinaman')) Wow, that’s actually really funny.
The Cure Guy: Yeah. Ok talk to you later.
The Cure Guy aka The Bjork/Siouxsie and the Banshees/Dead Kennedys Guy
The Cure Guy is probably the most frequent caller of all the frequent callers. I wouldn’t say he calls everyday but, while he goes on hiatus from time to time, it is rare that a week goes by without hearing from him multiple times. You may be wondering why we refer to him as The Cure Guy. Well let me give you a run down of a typical conversation with him:
Me: Hello KROQ…
The Cure Guy: Hi.
Me: What’s going on man?
The Cure Guy: Do you have any news on The Cure?
Me: No, not a whole lot. Have you heard anything about them recently?
The Cure Guy: No.
Me: Yeah, well if anything happens with them you’ll definitely hear it from us.
The Cure Guy: Ok thanks. *click*
I couldn’t count how many times I’ve had that EXACT conversation with him. Now some answers vary from time to time. For example, when The Cure played Almost Acoustic Christmas (KROQ’s annual Christmas show) I did indeed have an update for him and I told him. But generally I will quickly Google or Wikipedia The Cure and tell him the most recent update on them. But regardless of what is said in the middle of our conversation, every single one begins with him saying “Hi” (this “Hi” is so distinguishable, as his voice is incredibly monotone, that we instantly know it’s him) and ends with him saying “Ok thanks” in a rushed voice, hanging up as fast as he can. I seriously get a visual of him saying “Ok thanks” and immediately throwing his phone to the floor as if it were hot or on fire or something like that.
Now every now and then The Cure Guy throws us for a loop and asks us about another group/artist. For me personally, Siouxsie and the Banshees is probably the band he asks about the second most, but some of the other phone-ops may have a different answer. He also commonly asks about Bjork and The Dead Kennedys. But it’s generally an 80s band. He REALLY threw me for a loop one time when he asked about Blink 182. That’s nowhere NEAR his typical genre. I asked him what his favorite Blink 182 album was and he said, “The one with Adam’s Song”. But wasn’t that every one’s favorite Blink album?
The Cure Guy is the most mysterious caller of all. He clearly has some sort of mental disability, or at least is just SEVERELY socially awkward. If he is not provoked into conversation, he simply sticks to his questions about The Cure. And while I enjoy the mystery, I have asked him a few questions about himself and have found he’s kind of pleasant to talk to. He always calls from a 210 area code, which a simple Google search reveals is the San Antonio, TX area. So I asked him if that’s where he calls from and sure enough it is. I asked how he knows about KROQ and he said he used to live in LA. It’s difficult to get details out of him, so I don’t know when or why he lived in LA. But I have asked him if he has plans to move back (because he says San Antonio is too hot) and he said no because he doesn’t like LA very much. I don’t remember exactly how it came up, but he one time referenced that he was going to school in Texas. I think he mentioned school because he told me was too lazy to go to class that morning and slept in instead. Turns out he goes to culinary school in San Antonio. I asked him what he likes to cook and he said, “I don’t know.” But he says he enjoys it and I told him he should cook us something and send it over to us. I’m not so sure how that would work out but he said he would.
The Cure Guy rarely shows any emotion, but that changed the time I told him that I met Robert Smith (The Cure’s lead singer). I got to help Kat Corbett (one of KROQ’s DJ’s, and a super fox) record a private interview with him in their dressing room backstage at Almost Acoustic Christmas. When I told this story to The Cure Guy, I heard more excitement in his voice than ever before. He let out a legitimately shocked “Really?!”. And as I told him the story, he actually had follow up questions and remarks like, “What was he like?”, “Who else was there?” and “That’s awesome!”. I couldn’t believe it. I was almost more excited to be getting this out of him than I was when I was sitting 5 feet away from Robert Smith. I felt rather accomplished after that conversation and I’ve noticed that he has been recognizing my voice ever since then. I actually asked him the other day if he recognizes my voice when he calls or if he just thought he was talking to different people every time and he told me he did recognize me. So I asked if he wanted to know my name or if he liked not knowing who I was and he said “sure”. I wasn’t sure which question the “sure” was answering, so I just told him my name (well, I told him my KROQ name at least, Gouda). He hasn’t called me by name once though, but I can still tell that he recognizes my voice by the way he talks to me. I honestly think he kind of likes when I answer and actually engage him in conversation because I doubt he is often engaged in conversation with people.
If I had one wish for The Cure Guy it would be that he gets to meet The Cure and have casual sexual intercourse with them. Dreams can come true.
***EDIT***
Today (2/13/09) I had what was undoubtedly the best conversation I've ever had with The Cure Guy, and it goes as follows:
Me: KROQ…
The Cure Guy: Hi.
Me: Whats going on today?
The Cure Guy: Nothin. So, Blink 182 are getting back together?
Me: Yeah, did you see them make that annoucnement on the Grammys?
The Cure Guy: No, I didn't watch the Grammy's.
Me: Oh, so how did you hear about it?
The Cure Guy: I called you guys. You told me.
Me: Haha, oh that's right! Sorry, I forgot I already told you about that.
The Cure Guy: Yeah. So are they putting out a new album?
Me: Yeah, their website says they're recording.
The Cure Guy: Cool.
(Tyler (fellow phone-op) in the background): Ask him to tell you a joke.
Me: Hey my friend wants to hear a joke, do you know any good ones?
The Cure Guy: Yeah. How long is a Chinaman?
Me: How long is a Chinaman…hmm….how long?
The Cure Guy: No, that's his name. How-long.
Me: (laughing hysterically not only because the joke was kind of funny but because I did not expect anything even remotely funny to come out of his mouth (though I wouldn't say I endorse the term 'Chinaman')) Wow, that’s actually really funny.
The Cure Guy: Yeah. Ok talk to you later.
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