Me too, Me too, Me too!
A little free radio consultant advice for 107 FM host Ian Insta-Punnit:
When you have someone of Lilek’s caliber (like Lileks himself) on your show for an hour,
SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET HIM TALK!
I tuned in this morning to find Punnit finishing Lileks’ sentences, jumping his punch lines and basically beboppin’ and skattin’ all over him. James is only on for an hour for chrissakes, you would think Punnit would just get out of the way and let the sonorously-piped and nothing-if-not-loquacious man do his thing.
Nope. He has to try to compete. “See, I’m funny and witty and offbeat too!” No, no you’re not, Ian. It has to say something about his show that one of today’s segment ideas was to have his wife call to discuss what they were going to do this weekend (!)
At first I thought they accidentally left the mike on during a break or something and this was just a typical conversation between man and wife, one you may have had this morning yourself. No. It was an entire segment. Perhaps next week she can call to discuss what she should get at Cub. Or what video they should rent at Blockbuster--oh, wait a minute, they did discuss that.
The few words Lileks did manage to squeeze in were quite entertaining. He brought along an amazing version of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” from the Mulholland Drive soundtrack that was just beautiful. And he played one of the more ridiculous song-poems from his disturbing collection.
But it was too little too late. In the entire hour, he probably spoke 2 uninterrupted sentences. Thanks, een.
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