For 6/6/06 we interviewed the Devil in-studio. They'd already prepared questions and answers but asked if I might think of anything else.
A couple of theirs that I enjoyed:
Q: Should we be nervous about today?
A: Naw, it's kinda like my version of Cinco de Mayo.
Q: Do you talk to God?
A: We text each other, holiday cards.
My lame contributions that made it on-air:
If you and Superman were in a fight, who would win?
How's Miss Jones?
Have you ever worn a blue dress?
What do you think of Georgia? (with the answer being a play on the word "down," as in, the Devil's never actually been down to Georgia... inferring that he's gone down on... trying to straddle decency lines, but it's so convoluted that I don't think anyone got it anyway)
What didn't make it were the goofier things ("it's an Omen!") and the childish Devil/sin puns.
This didn't make it:
Q: How do you play 666 from early position?
Ah, just kidding. Here's the real one that didn't make it:
Q: What do you think about the new Maxim hotel-casino coming to Vegas?
A: I'm partial to Details magazine. The Devil's in the Details.
Yeah, yeah, groan all you want. But you try coming up with Devil jokes in the span of 15 minutes.
The show now starts right at 5 a.m., but I still don't need to be there until 5:30-5:40, when we first open the phones. I time my commute not by the clock but by the radio. If they're in sports by the time I get to Las Vegas Blvd./I-215, I'm in good shape. But if they then go directly to music (vs. commercial), I have three less minutes to get to the office. When running late, never before have I been so thankful to hear "Stairway to Heaven" or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (though playing either usually means we cut out another song).
I also now have a key to the building, so I no longer have to press my nose up to the glass asking to be let in.
Each morning we start the day with an early-morning poll contest, with the winner receiving tickets to a concert or something.
As hacky as it is, I thought it might be fun to pull clips from a song and make it the subject of one of our polls. Since I've been there, I haven't heard them do a mystery song, so we'll see what the hosts think about the idea.
In the meantime I thought I'd have a pokergrub contest of my own with the clips to reward you for reading this far into a non-poker post.
The first person to correctly guess the artist will win... a free haircut at SportsClips and a free burger/fries/soda at Fatburger! Ooooh, aaahhh. (Hey, I'm no radio station so this is all the swag you're gonna get.) If you don't have a SportsClips or Fatburger in your area, you can eat the coupons.
Here's
clip #1 (8 seconds long) and
clip #2 (15 seconds long).
Please don't cheat and Google the lyrics! That wouldn't be fair.
Click here and scroll down to enter your guess in the comments section (feel free to enter a Devil q&a and show how funny
you can be). I'll announce the winner on Friday. In the odd event no one guesses correctly, I'll pick one of the responses at random.
Go Ahead, Share Your Thoughts! .
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