Although I am out of radio I do announcing for high school sports teams and recently a small local station has started broadcasting a few of the games. Don't want to say what sport, I'm trying to keep from identifying the guy. Anyways he rumbled into the press box and the smell from him was indescribable. Flies were beating on the door.....trying to get OUT of where he was at! Bad enough that it made me gag. Luckily the press box had sections and I was able to close the door to my section but after the game when we opened the door....WHOA! Spoke to the producer who was running the mobile unit for him and asked him how he could stand it. He went on a tirade for about 1/2 an hour just saying how horrible it was in the studio when they do the morning show and as soon as he leaves they light matches and wave them all over and spray Febreeze to try and eliminate the smell. Apparently he has been fired from every station he has worked at for his B.O. and when it's been brought up with him he flies off the handle and gets really irate and starts screaming that they're persecuting him. From what I've been told he's been left boxes of soap, cases of deodorant, industrial strength odor eliminators that fire departments use for smoke removal on his desks at every station he worked at and he just threw them in the trash. Anybody else work with someone like that and how did you handle it? I'd probably come in to work with a gas mask on if I had to work with him.
I had a friend who was a major market DJ with a 3 to 4 person morning team about 25 years ago. The news guy had gas so bad that they ended up building him a separate studio down at the end of the hall and stuffed him in there to do the news and interact with the rest of the show. Before they had built the news guy his own little studio they had came back from a break and my friend didn't know the mic was on and you could hear him just raving at the news guy for farting and how bad it smelled. After the next break he came back and apologized for the rant and I believe the producer who left the mic open was soon Gone With The Wind so to speak. When I saw him later that week, told him I laughed so hard I almost wet myself. Told me he was embarrassed by his "unprofessional-ism" and should have remembered the old teaching of "ALWAYS assume the mic is live when you're in the studio".
I had a friend who was a major market DJ with a 3 to 4 person morning team about 25 years ago. The news guy had gas so bad that they ended up building him a separate studio down at the end of the hall and stuffed him in there to do the news and interact with the rest of the show. Before they had built the news guy his own little studio they had came back from a break and my friend didn't know the mic was on and you could hear him just raving at the news guy for farting and how bad it smelled. After the next break he came back and apologized for the rant and I believe the producer who left the mic open was soon Gone With The Wind so to speak. When I saw him later that week, told him I laughed so hard I almost wet myself. Told me he was embarrassed by his "unprofessional-ism" and should have remembered the old teaching of "ALWAYS assume the mic is live when you're in the studio".
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