Radical Radio

On our S@Y radio Radical Radio page, we like to display fun, interesting stories that are occurring within or around the world of radio.  This can vary from insane contest, to huge promotions, or even just simple stories of what could go wrong.  As we all know, in order to be on the air in radio, you cannot swear.  No matter what the cause is, or what ever happens, if you throw out a bad word, it’s endless amounts of complaints your station has to deal with, and I imagine your bosses won’t be too happy either.  But when happens when a celebrity guest tarnishes your show with vulgarity?

WDCG-FM in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolinas morning show host, Bob Dumas had to deal with just that.  It was supposed to be a normal, enteric, promotional interview with the one and only controversial Paris Hilton in order to promote her new album that she is releasing.  It happened on October 25th, and has been leaked on the Internet all around the world.  With someone as crazy as Paris on your show, it must be evident that something bad is going to happen.

     While comparing Paris Hilton to that of other famous female recording artist these days, radio show host Bob Dumas brought up Paris Hiltons sex tape, and furthly asked how she feels about starting her career that way.  You can instantly tell by the automatic tone switch in Paris’s voice that she was not eager to respond, however, she seemed to blow it off and just claimed she was seeing a “very bad person” at the time.  However, the damage had been done.

THIS IS WHY DUMB CELEBRITIES SHOULDN’T BE ALOUD ON THE RADIO

     Paris finished up the show, however it is apparent she is not pleased with Bob and the crew.  When the morning show finish up and thank Paris for her time, she says your welcome, and all appears to end…..until about 5 seconds later when you hear that glamorous, sexy voice of Paris Hiltons go off.   “That guy was a f**king a**hole, I’m never doing that show again.  After about a 3 second pause, this is all you hear live on the air. 

Apparently Paris didn’t realize that her phone was still on the line with the radio station, and I promise you that she didn’t think her phone was still live to air, however these are cases you can’t have occurring on the radio.  It was totally awesome to hear Bob Dumas start cracking up in the background after the fact, but this is the problem with having famous celebrities on the radio……but it does make for entertaining radio.    

Both Paris Hilton and Bob Dumas have not speculated on the occurrence, and it is believed that they are to likely just move on and forget it ever happened.  But one thing is for sure, it makes for some pretty great audio.  Check out the voice clip at the website http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/10/paris-hilton-radio-rant-host-bob-shogram-raleigh-durham/

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