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“Even for a room full of radio people, it was amazing to watch as Talk Radio Networks syndicated host Phil Hendrie created several of his audio characters live on stage. He switched voices constantly in a fast-paced off-the-wall conversation involving several men and women – all of whom are actually Hendrie. And none of it was recorded as the characters talked and argued with each other and Hendrie.”

Wearing his usual leather jacket and looking like any jock going to work, the TRN-syndicated personality wordlessly sat down at a table on stage with a microphone and a specially filtered telephone and went to work — creating a theater-of-the-mind universe of characters including his famous “Bobbie Dooley” and a minister who wants Oprah’s TV gig (“just give me a shot”). There were probably a half-dozen characters conversing with and sometimes fighting with each other, being catty and sarcastic and egotistical — and funny. It was an amazing live-with-no notes demonstration of Hendrie’s imagination, and a special NAB show capsule of what he does every night on his Talk Radio Network syndicated show. You could either close your eyes and listen, the way a nighttime listener would, or you could be amazed at the sight of the dead-pan delivery of some pretty crazy lines of dialogue – after which Phil just walked off the stage, his “shift” over.

From RADIO INFO

TALK RADIO NETWORK syndicated satirist PHIL HENDRIE gave the audience a virtuoso sampling of his many characters in his keynote address, which took the form of his radio show rather than a formal speech. HENDRIE, seated at a makeshift console with a telephone, voiced producer/lackey BUD DICKMAN, writer and “singer” MARGARET GREY and her husband FRANK (“with the gender confusion”), fiery Pastor WILLIAM RENICK, restauranteur TED BELL (“TED’S of BEVERLY HILLS”), and suburbanite BOBBIE DOOLEY and her husband STEVE, interacting with each other as they directed their disdain towards the host himself.

Meanwhile, our moles attending the Sin City confab report that Talk Radio Network host Phil Hendrie brought the house down with a performance of his “cast of characters” during yesterday’s annual Radio Luncheon honoring new Hall of Fame inductee Ron Chapman.