If you could advise Chicago radio hosts on how to treat callers... what would your advice be?

Sort of as an aside... if a caller says something stupid, should they say it's stupid? Let is pass? Ridicule them?

Punch them in the face.

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Ive always been partial to the laugh with them and encourage them sarcastically

Chop off their fucking heads.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

And then get a stern talking to.

And a talking to from Stern.

David, Daniel and Howard.

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The golden age of the Score used to play Hendricks when a person made a stupid call. It was fun and funny for everyone. It got the point across without really embarrassing the caller.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Exactly.

Radio is theatre of the mind.

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I really like that

Mike North was always cordial to callers.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

either people don't call anymore or they don't put them on.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Ozzie Smith might disagree ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Don't recall that one. Ozzie Smith was Don Kessinger with better publicity and that smooth astroturf carpet.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Too much condescension and disdain by sports hosts when dealing with callers. Callers provide content.
Les is a weirdo but the rare times I'm up late I enjoy listening when he gets into pretty lengthy debates/discussions with callers.

the callers provide fodder to masticate. duh.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Kyle?

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Silvy is pretty good with callers. And they do something similar to Hendrix, but they play the sound of a roulette ball rolling across the table, sometimes twice for the same caller if he is extremely bad.

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ESPN guys are waaaay to easy on callers. if somebody is a dumbass, you can actually laugh at them.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

It was faux outrage that got way more attention and airtime than it deserved. I couldn't tell you the specifics off the top of my head (thank Allah) but Ozzie was being a penis and North decided to double-down on the incident by playing the "don't disrespect me or my listeners" card and came off sounding more like the Caller Bob at Starbucks losing her shit over getting 2% instead of soy milk than Billy Blue Collar.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

That was Ozzie Guillen

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yes. And Ozzie is not a caller.

North's treatment of Isiah Thomas and Mike McCaskey is legendary and was the catalyst for the Score becoming THE sports station in town.

His calling Isiah out for walking off the floor without shaking hands is still one on the best moments in Chicago sports radio. Ever.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

My favorite was when the HFC would use the song clip "one toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line..."

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I think you and I may be the only two guys who read it that way though. The Score narrative is that Ozzie swore and North put him in his place. What a fucking joke.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yeah, and Isiah called North out for thinking he was a basketball player because he made free throws at Truman College.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

You and Score is Doomed are probably the only two people who remember that.

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Long time listeners!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I don't remember it.

I was glad someone finally called out Isiah for the three dollar bill that he is.

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Stupid callers also spawned Score buzz phrases like "See Ya"...but developing that kind of branding would actually take forethought and production

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Didn't B&B used to play "Ring of Fire" to denote bad calls?

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

They also had a cow on a diving board.

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