Dialing for Dingbats

Here's this morning's Torturing Telemarketers. This one is interesting because of how angry the telemarketer gets! Usually, they reach a point where they become so irate they hang up on us. For whatever reason, this guy sounds unable to hang up. You'll hear what I mean. Click on the jump link, below, for today's audio...

Today's Torturing Telemaketers  is a classic. Listen as the poor telemarketer in India someplace trying to explain why he can't meet up and have sex with John's elderly wife on St. Patrick's Day! To hear the audio from today's Torturing Telemarketers click on the jump link, below...

Today's Torturing Telemarketers features two very helpful Mumbaian operators and one very unhelpful customer. Click on the jump link, below, to hear the audio from today's call...

How long does it take a telemarketer to hang up on you if you keep saying ridiculous and offensive things to them? Way longer than you might think. Click below to listen to this audio gem...

As Alec Baldwin's character Blake said in Glengarry Glen Ross, the secret to being a salesman is A.B.C.  A-always. B-be. C-closing. A.B.C.. Always be closing. Listen to this week's Torturing Telemarketers and notice the guy's dedication to this sales ethos. He's not phased by anything. All he's focused on is A.B.C. Click the jump link, below, to hear the audio...

Here's another Torturing Telemarketers call. A couple things to note while listening to this one. 1.) The telemarketer puts his supervisor on to help and the supervisor's English is way worse than the first guy's. 2.) The supervisor ends the pitch by saying "All I can do is pray for you and your wife". Click on the jump, below, to listen to the audio....

This one only take about a minutes to listen to. It's crude, yet tasteless...

Here's the audio for our most recent Dialing for Dingbats in which we, once again, torture telemarketers. Click below to jump to the next page and hear the audio....

Tomorrow is my 20th Anniversary Morning Show which we'll be doing live at L& J Cafe at 3622 E. Missouri. Come watch us do the show and get the Best of the Morning Show 1992-2012 c.d for only $10. Here's one of our Dialing for Dingbats prank calls that I still get requests for...."The Dead Snake Blackmailer"....

When we want to get to the bottom of something, we often leave it up to one of our show correspondents, Mrs. Mamie Crawford, to make a call for us. Skip ahead on the jump to hear the audio...

Today's Dialing for Dingbats is a Screwing with Telemarketers.  The audio is on the following page, so just click on the prompt so you can listen....

Seriously. Usually, the humorous element of this is when our guy John/Hank/Mr. Spagnoli torments the poor telemarketer. In this one, it's the bizarre, hobo-sounding telemarketer that rattles us! Click on the jump to hear the audio for yourself....