November 9, 2004

• You ever try to call a radio talk show before?  For the first time
  ever, I actually tried.  The show I was going for was “the John and Jeff show,”
  which is a talk show specifically for the 3rd shift work hours. 
  The main topic of the show was commentary about this 29 year old woman
  who apparently molested an 8 year old boy, and the other main topic was game
  recommendations for the videogame systems xbox &
  playstation2 because the host Jeff just bought them.  What a combination of topics ey?  Considering
  my recent encounter with the hosts of xplay, I’m sure you can guess
  what I was calling for. 

  Originally I was reluctant to call and was acting overtly shy about
  doing it.  But then I started hearing calls from people who were
  handing out some unworthy information to the hosts of the show. 
  Considering the hosts admited that they don’t know anything about the
  video game world, it’s unfortunate that these were the kinds of calls
  they were getting. Callers would recommend some games but then would
  give them misleading
  information of what the games are about (I guess they just don’t know
  how to choose their words properly).  The topic about videogames
  and the military came up, but what was said was quite misguided from
  some callers.  Piracy of videogames came up, and some of the
  callers actually said that they don’t really exist, when considering
  that I know for a fact that they do.  There was also a strong push
  in recommending Halo 2, which was to be expected since November 9 is
  Halo TWOsday.  So after hearing all that, I was convinced that I
  had to call.

  The first couple of attempts were busy signals, but I did get a ring
  and got a hold of the screener.  He asked me what I was going to
  be talking about and then put me on hold.  So I started hearing
  the radio from my phone as I was on hold.  Next thing I know I got
  silence.  I checked my phone to see if I was still connected, and
  I was.  I turned on my radio again to hear what I couldn’t hear
  from the phone.  One minute goes by without sound and I checked my
  phone again to find that I was in fact disconnected.  I called
  back and told the screener that I was disconnected.  He then told
  me that he can’t put me on anyway because of the volume of calls they
  presently have on hold as it is.  He asked me what my game
  recommendations were to pass on the hosts, I told him and he thanked me
  for calling.

  wow, I was almost on the radio.  Maybe I will try this again in the near future.

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