Talk Radio

How long have we had call-in shows on the radio? Now, I'm not up on the invention of certain technologies, but I'm thinking thousands of years.

So why is it, that without fail, anytime I'm listening to a call-in show on the radio, at least once an hour, the host has to tell the caller: Please Turn Down Your Radio? I mean, why can't people get the time-delay down in their heads? I know it's probably weird to hear the voice on your phone and not the radio (because that's the phone, and not the radio), but if you're not careful, you might get hit with a feedback loop that might explode your head Scanners style.

Granted, it's not an everyday thing for most folks to be calling into the radio. But even if it's your first time ever listening to a radio talk show, you should learn it when the first moron who's got his radio up in the background and gets told to turn it the hell down, that when when you finally get to talk to Bob and Tom, or G. Gordon Liddy, or Sean Hannity, or Art Bell, or Howard Stern, or the local jock who's taking stories about the best set of boobs you ever saw, that you should have your radio down, too.

But that's just me.