David Hall came on Phil's show after he hired Karel and Andrew (more swishilating talk radio) to the drive time slot. Hall said he had been in radio since he was 12 years old, on KFI since 1991 and truly understood "compelling radio". He said he was the sole reason KFI was so successful today. All other PD's in town were sucking his exhaust. He hired Bill Handel, Phil and Dr. Laura. As for his decision to replace John and Ken with the swishilators, Hall said he was only getting one complaint an hour, far less than when he hired Phil for Mr. KFI. Hall handles complaints by giving complainers a KFI t-shirt.
Hall is a firm believer in taking advantage of being on the radio. He lambasted Phil because Phil needed a new garage door and would not ask listeners to offer their free services. David demanded that he do that on the air. Hall said listeners would just be happy to be a part of a radio personality's life!!
David Hall's latest scheme is to do away with the present listening audience and become the 80th radio station in LA so in the fall they can seek out the kind of audience they really want, a younger, single, more mature and educated audience unlike the present audience.
Now that AMFM has bought KFI, David was thinking about changing the station to an all Spanish format. He felt that KFI could overdub Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh. He calls this new format, Spanalk or Spalk for Spanish Talk radio.
Raj Fineen is an Egyptian fellow who occasionally substitutes for Phil. He loves KTLA, Channel 5 in LA and the KTLA news team especially Stan Chambers. He thinks the other news teams suck especially John Beard who Raj describes as a "bastard"! But he thinks that Stan is a "god!" Raj is a huge Van halen fan.
Dave Oliva of Monterrey Park, CA is the lead vocalist with the LA band, The Boys R Back. The band is very similar to Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and 98 Degrees. In fact they are so similar that they basically take their songs and change it ever so slightly as many listeners pointed out. Their new CD is coming out in the fall called The Boys R Back - Chapter One. The band consists of Troy Powers and Chewy Valdoza and Dave Oliva and one other guy. Phil previewed some of their songs on the air like "Do It Your Way" "Cash Rebate" and other songs. The song previews only indicated that they had changed the songs of other boy bands for the worse!
Dave won a contest on KFI to be a talk show host for an hour on Phil's Show. He talked about how people who prepare for Y2K by getting money or food are pussies. He kept repeating it throughout the show. Many women called in to complain about his choice of vocabulary. Ironically, Dave does not find it to be "pussy" to be prepared for an earthquake.
Karl Mizla (or Misler)is a British reporter stationed in Belgrade, Yugoslavia who spoke with Phil via a shortwave radio or poor quality satellitephone live during the NATO bombing of Belgrade. His primary interest was telling Americans to forget about this little war and get on with rasing their kids. Mizla says", Bloody Americans!"
Jim Saddler also owns J. Saddler entertainment and wants Phil to do a game show for the physically challenged. The game show is called Pitfall for the blind where the contestants have to collect $1,000,000 from 7 stations - the contestant has two people helping - one who tells the truth, and one who lies. The lying person is trying to get the person to fall down two fights of metal stairs (where consolation prizes are waiting); they won't get hurt because blind people have loose muscles, because they wouldn't see the stairs so they wouldn't tense up. If the lying person succeeds, he gets $10,000. If contestant wins, the truth person gets $10,000 from the million. Also could have Deaf Star Search - play music and have deaf people dance on stage - the person who dances in time the best, wins. (you'll get some comic relief for those who don't). Other games might be “Alzheimer's Challenge" or "This Is Your Life, Do You Remember It"
Charlie LaFountain is an advertising marketing expert. He let Phil know that most people in the U.S. do things like listen to the Monica Lewinsky interview because the media tells them to. He is not like these people because he understands the advertising methods and through experiences with an Indian guru, he has learned to turn off the message. Charlie said he would not be watching the 20/20 interview. Charlie showed he never listens to the media messages although he owns a new VW Beetle and was in line to buy tickets to the new Star Wars movie.
He tried to get his teenage girls a Saturday talk show on KFI by offering to give $150,000 to Our Friend's Place.
Bob Bakian is a helicopter news reporter for KFI. He broke the story of McGruff the Crime Dog dying after chasing a car and being run over. Unfortunately McGruff has had this addiction of chasing cars and trucks all his life.
General Johnson Jameison is a frequent guest on Art Bell's Show, Coast To Coast Overnite. He is a survivalist living deep underground in Montana. His organization truly believes in extra terrestials and aliens. He recently discovered that his Mars explorer vehicle had its camera manually moved while on the surface of Mars. So he took a space ship to Mars to investigate while live on Bell's Show. Particularly interesting was his means of producing food while in space. He invented a chili machine that makes chili out of crap. Of course, it also doubled as a toilet for the trip. Art was very fascinated by this.
Art spoke with the general recently who was complaining that the governmment had stolen his means of being invisible. The general had also invented a new liquor-making machine similar to the chili maker. You pee'd into it and it made liquor. It is offered for sale on Art's show thru Peeman Industries. Peeman Industries is also selling the ass purse for people after Y2K comes as a purse to hide your valuables up your ass in a special purse.
Because of problems Jameison and Art had while being probed by aliens when they were in Area 51 in Nevada, the general had devised a special bronze ass shield to protect him while on Mars from the aliens. Certainly these two are some of Phil's most bizarre guests and that is really something!
Nick Cardale is an aspiring actor or accomplished actor on the verge of greatness, depending on if you believe Nick himself. He is very affected by himself, as many of Phil's guests are. He told Phil how distrubing autograph seekers are to actors and actresses. He has important things to do and fans only disturb him. Unfortunately, Nick says actors have an aura about them (that normal people do not have) that causes people to instantly recognize actors. He says a lot of that has to do with actor's posture. A more pompous ass has not graced Phil's show.
Warren Benman, 39, is in the Sales Dept of KFI radio. He firmly believes that young people should be introduced to substances like alcohol and tobacco at an early age under parental supervision so they develop proper usage habits. He likes to go to malls to distribute alcohol and cigarettes to children from a book mobile van. He pushed cherry-flavored cigarettes from a smoke wagen at his Cigarette Fair held in the South Coast Plaza. Warren is the only known cured victim of Altzheimer's Disease.
Warren also has a terrible fear of flying. He feels that his fear of flying should qualify him for the American Disabilities Act (ADA). As a travelling salesman, he is presently required to fly all over the Southwest and Southeast. His fear is so great that he vomits immediately after landing. Based on ADA he feels that the company should restrict his territory to an area he can do by driving. He also feels that the airlines should provide free booze to him and the other 20 million people who suffer from fear of flying. As one caller said,"This guest is the most preposterous and outrageous guest to ever be on the show."
Father Dwayne Poppick is a Catholic priest who called in to Phil with information on the maritme laws regarding death at sea. He was on a charter fishing trip to Monterey Bay when one of the guys in the aft part of the boat caught and brought on deck a live tiger shark! The shark proceeded to attack the guy unbeknownst to every one else on board. Poppick's friend Steve discovered the problem when he went back for a beer and could only find the guy's arm left as the shark had eaten most of the poor guy! Because they were in international waters without any refrigeration system, Father said a few words and they dropped the arm overboard followed by the shark where the rest of the guy was! Many callers pointed out the illegality of all that was done. Poppick argued that it was legal if the ship had no cold storage capability. (Father Poppick has the distinction of being the most protested guest ever on the Phil Hendrie Show)
George Milliken of Toluca Lake was a guest who called to discuss his preparations for Y2K. George is preparing for the problems of Y2K with his family of three and several neighbors. He has gotten all the canned food stuffs and botled water to last several months into the new millenium. He also has quite an arsenal of weapons and explosives to protect against the certain anarchy to follow. They have developed a security perimeter around their Shock Shelter with observation posts and even a tower in the back yard. He has plenty of explosives to create a secure environment. In reality, George is a survivalist waiting for an opportunity to really survive!!
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