South Beach Sessions - Phil Hendrie
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All right, bro.
What a magical thrill this is. There are so many things I want to say to you, and these people do not know how I feel about you, and I've never said them to you either. I've never met this man. He is a genuine hero of mine. PhilHenryShow.com is where you go if you want to understand why it is people think he's a genius. But I want to thank you for making me somebody who understood the possibility of radio. Because listening to you in Miami and discovering what you did, how you did it, opened up all the possibilities to me to transition from what had been a writing career to a radio career.
So thank you for that.
You're welcome, brother. I've never been able to say it to you, and you have been a genuine inspiration.
Oh, I appreciate it, man. You know, John Schroeder's a friend of mine. He's a writer on Bob's Burgers, and he sent me a text. He saw this doc they did on me. He goes, man, I was just like you. I was like this freaky kid, and I didn't want to let people know just how weird I was. And we all kind of keep it repressed. And maybe the same thing with you. But you finally just give yourself permission to just – because if you don't, you're going to – What are you going to do with your life?
Oh, I don't know that I've given myself permission to be as weird as I actually am.
You should try it.
Well, it took you forever. When did you break through on that discovery? Because you were bored before then.
I was 38, 39 years old. Yeah. And I read somewhere that that's kind of the age that happens, you know, in your late 30s. And I'd been a disc jockey for 17 years. And before that, I was just this kooky kid, you know. And every weird instinct I had, I shared with my friends, of course. And I wrote, but I didn't put it into my broadcasting career because I didn't want anybody to think I was. And I was raised to believe that you had to make people happy. You had to get people's admiration, you know. So don't do anything that's going to put them off. And so that's kind of what – and then I finally – I was 38 years old. I was going nowhere with my career and I was going nowhere in my life. And I said, well, I'm going to die having never really been – having been Phil Hendry.
So I made a promise to myself. I don't care where I wind up. I don't care if I'm in the smallest market making the smallest amount of money. I'm going to do the kind of work that I want to do. And so I sent out the goofiest tape I could think to send out. And Diane Rimm, the mother of Jennifer, Heard the tape at WCAU in Philly. Big station, big talk station. He goes, Phil, this is the funniest stuff I've ever heard. I can't hire you. And I took that to be a good thing, you know. It was like finally somebody was hearing who I was. So I wound up getting this little gig up at Ventura, California, KVEN. They said to me, just prep your show like you're not going to get one call. And so I did. And that's what, you know, I had to fill three hours, man, you know.
Well, for the uninitiated, okay, because I'm listening to you in Miami, and at the time I'm a Miami Herald writer, and what I'm hearing on AM radio, I don't know anything about radio, don't come from radio, haven't trained in radio, haven't listened to much radio. This is my first introduction, is hearing the way that WQAM is just crushing everything I'm writing, just destroying me, but there's this person who, Amid the sports lineup who is creating these characters and all he's looking for is one caller who can be a sucker so now he can entertain the audience with an assortment of characters, all of whom are you. What you offered me was the idea that radio could be a theater of the mind imagination and you can go anywhere with it.
Right.
I was on WIOD, by the way.
No, I know, but I was on QAM.
You were on QAM at the time.
No, I wasn't on QAM. I got it wrong because QAM became the sports radio station after WIOD.
That's it. Well, I wasn't really looking to do anything other than, you know, when I started just the instinct as a kid, because this all starts, I grew up in a home that was very volatile, you know, and crazy.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–6:00
2
How did Phil Hendrie decide to stop being a traditional DJ and finally 'be himself' on the air?
6:00–15:51
3
What happened the first time Phil introduced a Gulf War character and callers thought he was real?
15:51–19:38
4
How did Phil develop his method of performing multiple characters by himself in a radio 'theater of the mind'?
19:38–56:27
5
What does Phil say about the intimacy of radio and why laughter can be curative for listeners?
56:27–1:02:41
Speakers
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