Tricks of the Trade is a great idea.
A tip for listeners: when having a call-in contest, radio hosts prefer winners who sound excited. So if you call a station and sound fun, there’s a better chance of not only winning but getting on air as well. The whole “caller 9″ thing is mostly a filtering trick, allowing the host to tell boring-sounding people “you’re caller number 7, sorry.”
It’s run by everyone’s favorite defective yeti.
Ok, you just burst a big balloon being held in the hand of my childhood spirit. I used to call those contests all the time. I wish I didn’t know this, it is seriously depressing. I thought it was bad luck but now I know it was just like getting picked last for the kickball team.
Also depressing: I am unable to leave snarky comments (or any kind of comments for that matter) on the Corcoran Brothers site. Shay, what the heck?
Perhaps he needs to moderate one of your comments first…?
Hmm…maybe. But I’m getting a weird error message. Perhaps I’ve been banned :-).
Whoa, my name is linked to my website - did you do that? Or is it automated?
It’s automagic.
Really magic, or only if I put in my regular (fake) email addy?
I am testing as much as asking right now.
If you fill in the URL, you get linked up. That’s all there is to it.
Aha, that teamed with Firefox’s memory of my past visits here…I didn’t realize because I was at work where I have not filled in the URL.
Not as magic as I had hoped