Month: May 2010

….and later resigned after the truth came out once said, while being interviewd, “when you are experiencing that kind of pain you have no choice. You just have to ride it.” Those words “ride it” struck me as creepy when I found out the guy was a fraud. Anyway, I was thinking about how those words would sound if I said to BP “I don’t care how many hurricanes hit the gulf this summer. You’re just going to have to ride it.”Police photo of OC Smith who claimed he was tied up and tortured outside his Memphis office. Turned out to be bullshit.

An interview with the man many call the greatest radio personality of the last 50 years….

PHSWS: People dont generally know the difference between these various formats and methods of recording. All they know is “What’s taking so long for them to get these different archives up on the site.

PH: I’m not sure I know what all the nuances are. I do know that once upon a time you could not download certain material and now you can. So the material put on the site in an old format has to be reformatted. Now do you do that or do you get 2001 up there. And what about keywording everything for a search engine and, oh yeah, how about some show logs for people to know what’s in each hour. We do more than one thing at once but it’s not eveything all the time. It’ll all get done though.

PHSWS: Who in Jesus is Paul Dintino?

PH: Paul is like the Christ from the desert who decided he would listen to shows and log them. He’s just a listener, a guy that took it upon himself to help square shit away. What can I say? God love him.

PHSWS: You know the book “Misery?” About the superfan who thought a writer had ruined some of his characters and it in turn pissed her off. You ever worry about that?

PH: About being tied down and beaten?

PHSWS: No, about the audience rebelling against a decision you make concerning characters…

PH: Yeah and I know how they feel. If my instinct is off I’ll change the character back. One character change that people were split down the middle on was RC Collins. he finally grew up, was taken in by his father, enrolled in military school and is now officially “psycho.”

PHSWS: Whereas he used to be Goth and was missing a kidney?

PH: Well he was just a sick, arrogant, neglected Valley boy with, yeah, a kidney condition and a drunk for a mother. He still has the kidney thing but it’s not that serious. But now I feel like RC is growing beyond my grasp. He’s not a character I can keep young forever. I don’t know.

PHSWS: You characters Vernon, Herb and now RC..they have mother issues…

PH: Yeah they do and I don’t want to get into a discussion of my mother and how it relates. The saying is “if it’s not one thing it’s your mother.” Ted Bell on the other hand has father issues, competitive father issues and his dad has been dead for over 25 years. What’s that about?

PHSWS: I don’t know. What is that about?

PH: Ted is an alpha dog. So was his dad. His father engendered in Ted some fundamental hatred. Maybe he humilated him which is likely because Ted is a charming sadist. So Ted will never stop reminding the world he won where his father lost. It’s like he will forever be pissing on his own fathers grave.

PHSWS: Okay so….

PH: So..what?

PHSWS: Your father? How do you feel about him?

PH: I always go back to his war service because it’s the only thing he did that was worthy of praise. He was unfaithful to my mother, rageful, disloyal, dishonest, selfish as shit and childish. But he was funny as fuck, playful…such a sweet man when he wasn’t bi-polared out. All and all though he was a failure. Both my parenst I believe now were dealing with severe mental issues…so I can feel sorry for them but I have to also say they had responsibilities so fuck them.

PHSWS: Will people rememeber Phil Hendrie as a really funny guy and so forgive him his failings? Or the other way around?

PH: Good question. I have time now to master two things I never did. Humility and patience. Those are two areas of my life I never got a handle on and it hurt me. So today until the day I die I will always be fighting to achieve humility and patience.

PHSWS: well said

PH: Now get the fuck out of here….

We have located our 2001 archives and are readying them for our Classic Phil archives. What was the problem? Well, all of our shows from 1999 to around 2002-2003 were recorded on DAT, digital audio tape. This was state of the art for recording radio shows during that period but was replaced by direct to disc. So we have to begin transferring in real time (because it is tape) hour after hour after hour of show material from 2001 to our archives and it will take time. But the good news is and has always been the fact that our material, archived as well as live, is the absolute best quality recording and live feed available. Stay tuned as we put the final puzzle piece in place in our Classic Phil archives!!

…..the “chickie run” in “Rebel Without A Cause” using only hand puppets and no one gives a hot shit. Thanks so much.