Vernon Dozier is with a group called “Friends of Frank Sinatra”. They are so protective of Ol’ Blue Eyes music and the way it’s performed that when Vernon heard Lloyd Bonafide singing “Say You Say Me”, he thought it was a messed up version of “My Way” and tazed him.
Kid shovels it down in the Joyful Union library before Bingham can divvy it up with teachers
Bobby Brown throwing a brick through his mothers car window was the subject of a Bud and Margaret argument with Margaret playing up the Oedipal angle…..
Justin MacElroy returned with more on his school video project: a reality show where they follow an old guy around until he dies. The old guy they were following around was Lloyd.
Clara Bingham, from Joyful Union Middle School, talked about making sure the kids are bringing nutritious lunches to school….and if their faces are too small for their heads (hence they are too fat) they have to share some of their food with the faculty. Clara got a hold of some cherry crumb cake and was going to give it to one of the janitors but flipped a coin in her office and she won.
I have taken this opportunity to close the chapter, as it were, because people have asked me to and because I’d like some of what really happened on the record.
In 2010, I was notified by FedEx in a letter from Mark Masters that his company, TRN, was picking up the option on my show for another three years. I was thrown into a depression that almost brought me to tears. The preceeding three years with TRN had been a nightmare. They had not effectively sold the show, affiliated it or, most glaring of all, supported the show properly from a technical standpoint. Masters, after promising me phone meetings and follow up calls, was MIA. I wanted out of his company and away from him. It was a joyless, uninspiring and unprofitable hell. I had to take work during the day, voice-over and acting gigs, to make ends meet and of course we pumped up our on line business. I was, in short, in emergency mode. And working a late night show from 10-1 pacific made work during the day debilitating and exhausting. I wound up in the hospital in December of 09. I emailed Masters and put it to him directly. Picking up my option for three more years was pointless as I didn’t like his company nor him personally. I articulated why and asked him why he would want to be in business with someone who had a professional and personal distaste for him. I received no answer and wound up angry and even more miserable. I had no choice. I had to put my head down and push on. And I did. Through horrid tech support, a lazy sales effort, no communication with the powers that be who had purposefully cut me off and money so insubstantial it’s shocking Masters could call himself a salesman. By the end of the run, true to form, Masters released his laughable statement that he had decided to end the relationship. Amusing. As amusing as him claiming he actually had something to do with rolling my show out in 2007 on 75 stations, a rollout that was the result of my name, not any effort of his. That was borne out in the ensuing years. And as amusing as his claim that he helped build our on-line presence. Mark Masters knows absolutely nothing about the digital business or new media. In fact when I visited his operation in 2008, he proudly showed me 1980’s photocopy technology that he’d used to print school books. Mark used to say that TRN ‘under promised and over delivered.’ In my case it was exactly the opposite.
Today, we see clearly in the industry news coming out of Medford, DC and elsewhere that what I suffered through was only a part of the unfolding TRN story. That company is now a shell of the already disintegrating entity it was. Mark Masters always impressed me as a man with a baffling inability to read events. Sounding cocksure, he put a horrid, straight out of the 70’s all-news format on the air, sued everyone in radio thus hastening the very disunion and infighting he complained about and alienated his talent, the hosts as he called us, the very people he needed to insure success. I am blessed that I survived that experienice and that today I have a thriving online business. Our brand was almost destroyed by TRN, something I knew was happening, but we’re bringing it back. I hope this statement clarifies some things. It’s all completely true.
Please don’t say anything on Facebook about this but quality material like the above photo will be limited to philhendrieshow.com from now on because we’re tired of wasting it on the wearying idiots they have over there.
Justin McElroy interviews some old guy he hopes will croak on camera
In the first hour of our show tonight we talked with Justin McElroy, a high school senior, who feels that reality shows are so crappy the Rob Ford reality show would’ve been fantastic in comparison. Justin said that he and his classmates are filming a reality show that they hope a network will pick up. They’re following an old man to see if and when he dies so can capture it on camera. In the second hour Bobbie Dooley came on the show to discuss these new fake teeth that one can insert. You purchase them at the pharmacy and they look like your own straightened, whitened teeth. Bobby suspects one of her “gal pals” of purchasing them and trying to whiten and straighten her teeth in an artificial way. Bobby yanked the teeth out of the woman’s mouth one night and realized they were wax teeth from a joke shop. In our last hour Joe Dickhead talked about he and the Professor going 7-7 this week in NFL picks and Steve Bozell cried at his pond about not being allowed to do the Game of the Week by April.
I want to make sure that there is a hard and fast (pardon the expression) time that I connect with the BSP’s so we’re designating every Friday, 3pm PST to be that time. I’ll be here to answer, ask, comment and guffaw. We’ll also make available BSP time on PhilTV from time to time. So please join me here Friday at 3pm PST for a general shoot around on issues important (or not) to our Backstage Pass Family. Thanks. Peace. (Fingers to lips, kiss blown, smile) I’m Phil Hendrie
Margaret Grey began the show as a replacement host for Phil. She wanted to talk about the Melissa Bachman/Hunteress African Lion photo and go on what she called ‘a slut hunt.’ Phil came back on in the next hour and talked about Geogre Zimmermans latest gun charge. And can the unborn child of a pregnant woman be influenced by a face made at that woman by some kid? Bobbie Dooley worries that Angela Waddenoff making a pig face at Barbara Nimitz will make the Nimitz baby come out with a turned up nose
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