One of the most hapless talk radio tragics is still polluting the airwaves (May 29, 2019)

1. 29 May 2019 at 11:53 am

   Horrifically, this corpse has risen from the grave to haunt us again. One of the most hapless talk radio tragics is still polluting the airwaves

   Peter Williams on Magic Talk, some time after 11 a.m., Wed. 29 May 2019

   I'm sorry to have to confess that, yes, I found myself listening this morning for five or so minutes to Magic Talk. The host Peter Williams wasn't talking much on this occasion; instead the air was filled with the whining, insistent drone of an elderly male caller. 

   As soon as I heard him, I instinctively shivered; I'd heard that voice somewhere before. Where was it? It was the captious, hectoring tone of a small town bore holding forth to some captive audience—the long-suffering "missus", perhaps, or a few extremely bored and indulgent "mates"— in some dying lounge bar in some small town, or lecturing a trapped nephew at some godforsaken family barbecue, or …. [insert your most hellish social situation here]. In a short time, he sounded off against teachers, commented, without any special insights, on the prospects of the Black Caps and then capped it off by calling Masterton a "bit of a hick town" and claiming that the CEO of Air New Zealand is Chris Liddell. Peter Williams, to his credit, corrected him: "Chris Luxon."

   I'd heard that caller's voice before, long in the past. Who WAS it? Thankfully, he was eventually stopped from talking any further, because the host intervened:

   PETER WILLIAMS: Okay, we've got to go for a break now. That was Kieran Smyth, "The Man in the Stand".

   The Man in the Stand!!?!?!? Oh, God, no! No, NO-O-O-O-O-O!!!

   Any sensible person who had been humiliated in public like he was in 2003 would not ever have raised his head above the parapet again. But "The Man in the Stand" is clearly not a sensible person….

   https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/did-any-of-you-see-this-ugly-violent.html

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2. greywarshark13.1

   29 May 2019 at 12:51 pm

   Very colourful evocative comment Morrissey.
   • Morrissey13.1.1

     29 May 2019 at 8:12 pm

     Thanks very much, Mr Shark. Keep an eye out for Part 2 of my Noelle McCarthy dissection (from last Saturday's show).

     http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/05/noelle-mccarthy-displays-her-ignorance.html
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