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FISHBOWL LA: Schizophrenic Radio Host Phil Hendrie Masters the Web

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Schizophrenic Radio Host Phil Hendrie Masters the Web

By Richard Horgan on June 10, 2011 11:30 AM

As far as FishbowlLA is concerned, no amount of praise for LA radio host Phil Hendrie is too much. His wacky cavalcade of characters is a supremely entertaining 21st century echo of everything from San Francisco’s Firesign Theater to UK’s The Goon Show.

 

The latest journalist to chime in with a Hendrie huzzah is OC Register radio beat columnistGary Lycan. In the spring LA Arbitron ratings, Hendrie’s KTLK 1150 AM weeknight show(with Saturday nights companion broadcast on KFI 640 AM) is the number one spoken word program among listeners ages 12 through 54. But it’s what Hendrie has done with his website in recent years that’s truly impressive:

Hendrie took matters into his own hands with his website. He’s doing podcasts, videocasts, webisodes, and making available his archived shows – all for a subscription fee. “I am exploiting new media, not relying on radio. It’s financially more profitable because people are paying me money. I am doing a better job selling “The Phil Hendrie Show” than anything Mel Karmazin (Sirius XM) has done.”

Hendrie also keeps busy with feature film and TV voiceover work. Listen for him in the 2012 Fox TV animated series version of Napoleon Dynamite.

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Radio For Patriots by Patriots Show Log For Friday, June 17, 2011

Robert Green of Frazier Foods hit a disabled child wearing a Superman costume one day while driving a brand new Humvee and rolling through a red light. The child “trying to lift off like Superman ran into my truck. Naturally, I took off but then a quarter of a mile later turned around and came back.” Bob is suing the family saying putting a Superman a cape on a child with autism is “like strapping lead boots on him and saying ‘go swim the English channel.'”

Straight guy before the civil war with gays and one year after

Doug Dannger, gay man and gay journalist, told Phil and his audience he is opposed to gay marriage because “gays will be so good at it that it will piss off straight people and a civil war between gays and straights will break out.” Doug says that as straights lose the war “they’ll retreat further and further up the canyon to the reserve meth lab with fewer and fewer teeth.”